Multiple entropy fusion predicts driver fatigue using forehead EEG by Renyu Yang, Ling Zhang, Renhuan Yang, Lixing Hou, Donglong Zhu, Boming Zhong

“…The leave-one-out cross-validation method was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.ResultsOur proposed method yields stronger robustness and better recognition for detecting driver fatigue, demonstrating its potential to enhance current approaches for detecting driver fatigue.ConclusionThe proposed method can provide a more effective way to detect driver fatigue.…”
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A Qualitative Study on Development of Enriching Performance Management System at a Pharma-Company by Muhammad A. Khan, Muhammad A. Hanif, Tehzeeb Sakina Amir

“… This case study aimed to develop a sample of enriching the performance management system using qualitative method. …”
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RNA Amplification Results in Reproducible Microarray Data with Slight Ratio Bias by László G. Puskás, Ágnes Zvara, László Hackler, Paul Van Hummelen

“…Twelve genes that exhibited inconsistent or contradictory expression ratios among the three methods were verified by quantitative RT-PCR. The amplification methods showed slightly more discrepancies in the expression ratios when compared to quantitative RT-PCR results but were more sensitive in terms of detecting expressed genes. …”
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The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway by Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Rosa Cheesman, Ziada Ayorech, Arno Van Hootegem, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Eivind Ystrom

“…Our results show that genetic variation consistently explains more for educational attainment and occupational prestige. …”
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Diversification and banks’ funding costs in Africa: The role of financial regulations by Simon Kamau, Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

“…Method: This study employs fixed effects model as the main estimation approach, along with two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalised method of moments (GMM) estimation technique for robustness test. …”
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The Role of Women in Social Development: Field Research in Erbil by Sozan Taha Rasool, Aram Ibrahem Hussen

“… The main objective of this study is to understand the role of women in social development. The research method used is descriptive, employing the social survey method. …”
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The Effect of CEOs' Financial Knowledge on Unsystematic Risk, Considering the Moderating Effect of Managerial Ability by Bahram Ghanizadeh, Mohsen Dastgir, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…The statistical population of this study is the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange and the statistical sample size includes 147 companies for the years 2011 to 2020, which have been selected by the systematic elimination method.­ …”
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3F-PT technique in improving the spelling and vocabulary skills of grade 2 pupils at Sta. Rita Elementary School by Ivy Hipolito Casupanan, Lady Grace FabeliÑa Madriaga

“…The research focused on 138 Grade 2 pupils during the academic year 2020 - 2021 and investigated the level of spelling and vocabulary skills on the pre-test and post-test of the experimental group taught using the 3F-PT technique and the control group taught using the traditional method. Mean scores, standard deviations, paired t-test and t-test for independent samples were used as statistical tools for analysis. …”
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Partial Discharge Pattern Recognition of Switchgear Based on Residual Convolutional Neural Network by Xueyou HUANG, Jun XIONG, Yu ZHANG, Hui LIU, Lu CHEN, Xianglin MENG, Xiuchen JIANG

“…The experimental results show that the recognition correct rate of the proposed method reaches 96.06%, at least 20.22% higher than that of the traditional recognition methods, and the recognition rate can be improved more with the increase of the number of samples in the training set. …”
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Hydroelectric Unit Fault Diagnosis Based on Modified Fractional Hierarchical Fluctuation Dispersion Entropy and AdaBoost-SCN by Xing Xiong, Zhexi Xu, Rende Lu, Yisheng Li, Bingyan Li, Fengjiao Wu, Bin Wang

“…The results show that this method is more robust and effective compared with other methods in the anti-noise experiment and the feature extraction experiment. …”
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Antibiogram of bacterial isolates obtained from infants and children at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH). by Emmanuel Onyekachukwu Ibeneme , Zenoh Danjuma Ali * , Glory Philemon Bebia , Joy Chinweokwu Ezema , JosephusBoniface.

“…Isolates susceptibility was tested on gentamicin, erythromycin, Zithromax, ampicillin, amoxicillin and penicillin using disc diffusion method by Kirby-Bauer. Of the 50 subjects examined, a total of 39 bacterial isolates were obtained from the 36(72%) culture positive samples. …”
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Incorporating 16S gene copy number information improves estimates of microbial diversity and abundance. by Steven W Kembel, Martin Wu, Jonathan A Eisen, Jessica L Green

“…We use theory and simulations to demonstrate that 16S genomic copy number can be accurately estimated from the short reads typically obtained from high-throughput environmental sequencing of the 16S gene, and that organismal abundances in microbial communities are more strongly correlated with estimated abundances obtained from our method than with gene abundances. …”
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Dealing with AFLP genotyping errors to reveal genetic structure in Plukenetia volubilis (Euphorbiaceae) in the Peruvian Amazon. by Jakub Vašek, Petra Hlásná Čepková, Iva Viehmannová, Martin Ocelák, Danter Cachique Huansi, Pavel Vejl

“…Thus, a complex analysis of genotyping error was carried out with the AFLP method in 169 samples of the oil seed plant Plukenetia volubilis L. from small isolated subpopulations in the Peruvian Amazon. …”
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Gamma and Neutron Shielding with High-performance Ultra-heavy Cement Composite by Mohammadreza Alipoor, Mahdi Eshghi, Ramazan Sever

“…Purpose: As the applications of nuclear technology increase in today’s world, radiation protection becomes even more important. Radiation protection is important in medical imaging applications and radiotherapy rooms. …”
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Content Analysis of the Book of Payāmhāye Āsemāni in the 1st Grade of High School Based on Consideration for Religious Sentiment by Abolfazl Nikounazar

“…In order to choose the research sample, the survey method was used; therefore, the sample size was selected based on the statistical population. …”
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Detection of differential item functioning with latent class analysis: PISA 2018 mathematical literacy test by Tuncay Öğretmen, Selim Daşçıoğlu

“…It is seen that the effect and size of DIF in non-homogeneous groups differ between groups and these effects can be examined in more detail with the LCA method.…”
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Evaluation of the multiplex PCR combined with capillary electrophoresis technique for detecting pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in bone infections by Junye Liu, Yan Yu, Wei Feng, Zhihao He, Mengfei Wang, Weikun Hou, Yannan Zhao, Yi Liu, Yuzhu Yan, Heping Zhao

“…The detection rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by the mPCR-CE method is relatively high. The traditional drug-sensitive culture method is more inclined to detect extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs). …”
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Label credibility correction based on cell morphological differences for cervical cells classification by Wenbo Pang, Yue Qiu, Shu Jin, Huiyan Jiang, Yi Ma

“…Firstly, a contrastive learning network is used to extract discriminative features from cell images to obtain more similar intra-class sample features. Subsequently, these features are fed into an unsupervised method for clustering, resulting in unsupervised class labels. …”
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Outdoor Clothing Design for Traffic Safety Based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence by Ya Zhou, Yun Shi

“…With the development of technologies in various fields, more and more technologies have been applied to safety clothing, which has led to the rapid development of safety clothing. …”
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Review of polarization-based technology for biomedical applications by Caizhong Guan, Nan Zeng, Honghui He

“…Polarimetry is a powerful optical tool in the biomedical field, providing more comprehensive information on the sub-wavelength micro-physical structure of a sample than traditional light intensity measurement techniques. …”
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