Frontal assessment battery in a Brazilian sample of healthy controls: normative data Bateria de avaliação frontal em uma amostra brasileira de controles saudáveis: dados normativos... by Rogério Beato, Viviane Amaral-Carvalho, Henrique Cerqueira Guimarães, Vitor Tumas, Carolina Pinto Souza, Guiomar Nascimento de Oliveira, Paulo Caramelli

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Increased rates of dysphagia, longer length of stay, nonroutine discharge, and higher hospital costs in patients over 65 undergoing single-level cervical disc arthroplasty: A prope... by Paul G. Mastrokostas, Leonidas E. Mastrokostas, Ahmed K. Emara, Ian J. Wellington, Elizabeth Ginalis, Jonathan Dalton, Amrit S. Khalsa, Jad Bou Monsef, Afshin E. Razi, Mitchell K. Ng

“…Subjects and Methods: Patients undergoing single-level CDA from 2016 to 2020 were identified. …”
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PLC-Fusion: Perspective-Based Hierarchical and Deep LiDAR Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles by Husnain Mushtaq, Xiaoheng Deng, Fizza Azhar, Mubashir Ali, Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi

“…This efficient, multi-modal 3D object detection framework integrates LiDAR and camera data for improved performance. First, our method enhances LiDAR data by projecting them onto a 2D plane, enabling the extraction of object perspective features from a probability map via the Object Perspective Sampling (OPS) module. …”
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Impact of sol mixture composition on organosilica coatings formation on glass substrates by A. O. Mosendz, M. F. Zui

“…The coatings have sufficient stability to be used in the hybrid methods of analysis. …”
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Modeling Spatial Data with Heteroscedasticity Using PLVCSAR Model: A Bayesian Quantile Regression Approach by Rongshang Chen, Zhiyong Chen

“…The simulation results demonstrate that our estimator exhibits robustness to alternative spatial weight matrices and outperforms both quantile regression (QR) and instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) in a finite sample at different quantiles. The effectiveness of the proposed model and estimation method is demonstrated by the use of real data from the Boston median house price.…”
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Tetanus vaccine coverage in recommended and more than recommended doses among mothers in a West Cameroon health district: a cross sectional study [version 2; peer review: 1 approve... by Trevor Anyambod Mboh, Linda Evans Eba Ze, Ruth Noutakdie Fossi, Dominique Majoric Omokolo, Jerome Ateudjieu, Etienne Guenou, Martin Nguetsop, Igor Nguemouo Nguegang

“…The recruitment, two and five doses completeness rates were 99.9% (569/570), 95.8% (546/570) and 65.3% (372/570), respectively. Conclusion: More than half of mothers received more doses of tetanus toxoid vaccine than necessary in FHD. …”
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Noise-Based Frequency Spectrum Correction Method Using Interior Point Approach by Guichun Yang, Shengyou Zhou, Han Chen, Huiyue Yang, Weixing Hua, Zhaojie Wu, Yan Chen

“…More importantly, the method exhibits superior estimation accuracy. …”
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Building reliable evidence from real-world data: methods, cautiousness and recommendations by Giovanni Corrao

“…Second, methods for controlling outcome and exposure misclassifications will be described. …”
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Innovative chips for coral cultivation: Enhanced flexibility and experimental applications by Po‐Shun Chuang, Wei‐Chen Kao, Zhao‐Rong Yu, Tzu‐Cheng Lin, Kai‐Ning Shih, Wen‐Yuan Yang, Yuen‐Yi Leung, Ming‐Tsung Hsu, Tsai‐Yen Chen, Shinya Shikina, Sen‐Lin Tang, Ji‐Yen Cheng

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A CNN-LSTM model for road surface recognition of electric balance vehicles by Feifei Yu, Yongxian Huang, Canyi Du, Feng Li, Yongkang Gong, Guoyan Chen

“…During the operation of intelligent devices, accurate environmental perception is of great importance. To provide more accurate electric balance vehicle instructions, we collect the vibration signal data in different driving environments, and machine learning (ML) methods are adopted to extract and analyse the characteristics of the signal. …”
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Cells Grouping Detection and Confusing Labels Correction on Cervical Pathology Images by Wenbo Pang, Yi Ma, Huiyan Jiang, Qiming Yu

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A spatial clustering-based approach to design monitoring networks of infectious diseases: a case study of hand, foot, and mouth disease by Shuting Li, Yuanhua Liu, Ke Li, Zengliang Wang, Michael P. Ward, Wei Tu, Jiayao Xu, Rui Yuan, Lele Zhang, Na Wang, Jidan Zhang, Yu Zhao, Henry S. Lynn, Zhaorui Chang, Zhijie Zhang

“…Conclusions SCSS proved to be more accurate and stable than traditional methods, which overlook spatial information. …”
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Consistent trends from different methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in urban wastewater during a 29-month longitudinal study by Janine McCalder, Janine McCalder, Jangwoo Lee, Jangwoo Lee, Judy Qiu, Qiaozhi Li, Linnet Immaraj, Nicole Acosta, María A. Bautista, Melissa Wilson, Barbara Waddell, Kristine Du, Aito Ueno, Rhonda Clark, Rhonda Clark, Alexander Krusina, Danielle A. Southern, Tyler Williamson, Tyler Williamson, Chloe Papparis, Paul Montesclaros, Lance Non, September Stefani, Gail Visser, Puja Pradhan, Norma Ruecker, John Conly, John Conly, John Conly, John Conly, John Conly, John Conly, Steve Hrudey, Kevin Frankowski, Bonita Lee, Bonita Lee, Michael D. Parkins, Michael D. Parkins, Michael D. Parkins, Xiaoli Pang, Xiaoli Pang, Casey R. J. Hubert

“…As this emerging technology is used more routinely, investigators should prioritize consistent application of a given workflow to a high-quality standard over time, whereas focusing on all testing programs adopting identical workflows and methods may be unnecessary.…”
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Incidence and risk factors of pulmonary complications after lumbar spine surgery, 2010–2019 by Liping Huang, Linglu Hu, Yiting Huang, Qinfeng Yang, Jian Wang, Huirong Chen, Xiaodan Li

“…Nevertheless, there is a dearth of documentation examining the occurrence rate of pulmonary complications and related hazard factors following lumbar spine surgery by using a large-scale national database. Methods We conducted a retrospective database analysis from 2010 to 2019 by using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). …”
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A composite Feature Selection Method to improve Classifying Imbalanced Big Data by Shaymaa Razoqi, Ghayda Al-Talib

“…Feature selection is one of the methods used to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms, especially when classifying the big data. the fined of new method was be more needed when dealing with the imbalanced big data. …”
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Characterization of bleeding in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in the precaplacizumab era: a retrospective nationwide analysis by Amir A. Mahmoud, Mariam Mostafa, Ali Abdelhay, Mouhamed Yazan Abou-Ismail, Shruti Chaturvedi

“…Objectives: To describe the incidence, patterns, and predictors of bleeding in hospitalized iTTP patients independent of caplacizumab use. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the National Inpatient Sample database (2012-2019) and identified adult patients with a diagnosis of iTTP. …”
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Mechanical safety assessment method for transmission towers based on improved reliability theory by Zhengdao Zhou, Linfeng Zhang, Zhiyu Shang, Wang Zhang, Qianwen Wang, Zhengfa Li

“…It can be considered that the method of this paper is more realistic than the traditional mechanical safety assessment methods for transmission towers.…”
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Modern vs Traditional: Comparative Study of Efficacious Arabic Language Learning Methods by Budi Pratama, Haerani Kadar, Busyro Husaini, Muslih Abdul Aziz, Dimas Adi Saputra

“…Hence, it can be concluded that the results after modern learning methods implementation are considered more effective to apply in the Arabic language learning process. …”
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Reasons Associated With Common Contraceptive Methods Used among Women in Qaladze District by Parzhin Abdulla Ibrahim, Sanna Hassan Abdulsahib

“…Conclusion More than half of them in Qaladze chose healthiness and safety as a reason for using their current contraceptive method, while easiness in using a contraceptive method was the second most chosen reason for using their method, common contraceptive method used in the area was coitus interruptus which holds more than half of the participants, following by condom users, least methods used by them were lactational amenorrhea and injectable contraceptives   …”
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PERCEIVED CAUSES OF CONFLICT AND METHODS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION AMONG NURSES IN NIGERIAN HOSPITALS by Oseni Rukayat, Ekpoanwan Esienumoh, Fakeye Grace, Emmanson Emmanson

“…The sample was 90 nurses on permanent appointment with the hospital drawn using convenient sampling technique. …”
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