The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Cognitive Functions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study by Pablo Cruz Gonzalez, Kenneth N. K. Fong, Ted Brown

“…A single-subject study of A-B-C-A design was used. After the baseline with the administration of CS (phase A), a sham treatment with CS was applied (B). …”
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Joint embedding–classifier learning for interpretable collaborative filtering by Clémence Réda, Jill-Jênn Vie, Olaf Wolkenhauer

“…Finally, JELI induces a restriction in the number of parameters compared to baselines in synthetic and drug-repurposing data sets.…”
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The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Program in Reducing the Aggressive Behavior of Children with Mild Mental Disabilities at the Mu'tah Center for Special Education by Sameer Alremawi, Ahmed A. Arabiyat

“…The list of aggressive behavior was applied to the study sample in three stages: The first stage was a baseline (pre-test) and lasted a week, and the second stage was a stage after the completion of the application of the guidance program (post-test), where it lasted for six weeks, while the third stage was the (follow-up measurement) phase, which was carried out two months after stopping the implementation of the program, the repetitions of aggressive behavior were counted. …”
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IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH SEMANTIC MAPPING STRATEGY FOR INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS by Adelia Puspa, Syahrial .

“…The students who passed the test improved from 43.75% at the baseline data to 87.5% at the end of cycle II. This improvement mostly influenced by the second and the third phase of semantic mapping strategy, which are brainstorming categorization. …”
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Understanding perspective-taking in multiparty conversations: insights from Mandarin nouns by Xiaobei Zheng, Chao Sun

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Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning by Zhaohui Liu, Sainan Liu, Weifeng Gu

“…Experiments on three real-world datasets show that our model outperforms baseline models.…”
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Dupilumab in children with eosinophilic esophagitis: a retrospective multicenter study by Mohammed Hasosah, Ghassan Sukkar, Asharf AlSahafi, Ali Zaidan, Nouf Ghous, Abdulmajed Alshahrani, Ziyad Al Zahrani, Naif Hasosah, Mansour Qurashi, Loie Goronfolah, Ali Alsharief, Nagla Kamal

“…The mean EoE endoscopic reference scoring system scores changed from a baseline of 6.9 (before dupilumab) to 0.3 (after dupilumab). …”
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C-Peptide Levels Predict the Effectiveness of Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor Therapy by Sevin Demir, Sule Temizkan, Mehmet Sargin

“…These effects depend on baseline C-peptide levels.…”
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An Improved Stochastic Configuration Networks With Compact Structure and Parameter Adaptation by Sanyi Li, Hongyu Guan, Peng Liu, Weichao Yue, Qian Wang

“…There are two key improvements: First, the stopping condition for generating neurons is optimized to improve the effectiveness of new neurons. Second, the regularization parameter r is adjusted dynamically to speed up the learning process. …”
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Improving Traffic State Prediction Model for Variable Speed Limit Control by Introducing Stochastic Supply and Demand by Yuwei Bie, Mudasser Seraj, Can Zhang, Tony Z. Qiu

“…In this study, the traffic state prediction model is a second-order traffic flow model named METANET, while the VSL control is model predictive control (MPC) based, and the VSL decision is discrete optimized choice. …”
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An Approach of Community Search with Minimum Spanning Tree Based on Node Embedding by Jinglian Liu, Daling Wang, Shi Feng, Yifei Zhang

“…The experimental results show that our algorithm is more effective for community search than baselines.…”
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Study of Sweep and Induced Dihedral Effects in Subsonic Axial Flow Compressor Passages—Part I: Design Considerations—Changes in Incidence, Deflection, and Streamline Curvature by P. V. Ramakrishna, M. Govardhan

“…This article presents the study of Tip Chordline Sweeping (TCS) and Axial Sweeping (AXS) of low-speed axial compressor rotor blades against the performance of baseline unswept rotor (UNS) for different tip clearance levels. …”
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FAST ADAPTIVE GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR SYSTEMS WITH VARIABLE PARAMETERS by S. B. ROVEA, RODOLFO FLESCH

“…Even though the proposed controller needs to solve two optimization problems at each sampling instant, it can run about 60 times in a second in the microcontroller used in this study …”
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Implications of Spatiotemporal Data Aggregation on Short-Term Traffic Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Rivindu Weerasekera, Mohan Sridharan, Prakash Ranjitkar

“…The models learned using high-resolution 30-second input data outperformed the corresponding baseline ARIMA models by 8%. …”
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Dynamic changes in large-scale functional connectivity prior to stimulation determine performance in a multisensory task by Edgar E. Galindo-Leon, Karl J. Hollensteiner, Florian Pieper, Gerhard Engler, Guido Nolte, Andreas K. Engel

“…Furthermore, we observed that long-range coupling became more predominant during the task period compared to the pre-stimulus baseline. Taken together, our results show that fluctuations in the network state, as reflected in large-scale coupling, are key determinants of the animals’ behavior.…”
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Locality preserving binary face representations using auto‐encoders by Mohamed Amine Hmani, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz, Bernadette Dorizzi

“…The proposed binary embeddings give a state‐of‐the‐art performance on both databases with almost negligible degradation compared to the baseline. The representations' length can be controlled. …”
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Medical and Psychological Risk Factors for Incident Hypertension in Type 1 Diabetic African-Americans by Monique S. Roy, Malvin N. Janal, Alec Roy

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Hypofractionated radiotherapy combined with a PD-1 inhibitor, granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor, and thymosin-α1 in advanced metastatic solid tumors: a multicenter P... by Jiamin Yu, Li Yin, Wenjie Guo, Qiang Wang, Juying Liu, Lansheng Zhang, Hongxun Ye, Jianhong Xia, Youyou Xia, Jianfeng Wu, Wanwei Wang, Yanguang Yang, Dan Zong, Xia He, Lijun Wang, Hong Jiang

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Long-Term Consequences of Hepatitis C Viral Clearance on the CD4 (+) T Cell Lymphocyte Course in HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients by J. Dazley, R. Sison, J. Slim

“…During a follow-up of 24 months, the SVR group showed a mean annual increase in CD4 + T cell from baseline of 84 cells/ll at 1 year and of a further 38 cells/ll within the second year (P=0.01, 0.001, resp.). …”
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Algorithm Selection for Allocating Pods Within Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A Hyper-Heuristic Approach by Maria Torcoroma Benavides-Robles, Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Jose Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Ivan Amaya

“…We analyze the performance of 20 hyper-heuristic models over 60 instances and compare them against a baseline of six low-level heuristics. Our data revealed three key insights. …”
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