Roof-Breaking Characteristics and Ground Pressure Behavior in Deep Jurassic Coal Seams: A Thick-Plate Model and Field Measurements by Wei Zhang, Yandong Zhang, Weisheng Zhang, Liang Chen, Fanjia Li, Kaidi Xie

“…The roof failure occurred in the tensile mode, was controlled by the internal stress σx in the rock strata, and started from the center of the long side with the fixed support in the goaf. …”
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Critical information quality dimensions of conversational agents for healthcare by Caihua Liu, Guochao Peng, Shufeng Kong, Chaowang Lan, Haoliang Zhu

“…Conversational agents start to be applied in public to support information seeking and decision making and provide a variety of services to users such as healthcare education and consultation. …”
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Assessment of symptoms of temporomandibular dysfunction in patients undergoing orthodontic treatment using occlusal lift by Isabella Avelar Santos, Gracia Lopes Costa, Rodrigo Bernardes Pereira, Thiago Bezerra Leite, António Sérgio Guimarães, Luciane Lacerda Franco Rocha Rodrigues

“…They were evaluated: before the start of orthodontic treatment (T0), 24 hours (T1) and 30 days (T2) after installation of the occlusal elevator. …”
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Comparative assessment of results of D2 and D3 lymph node dissections in term of colon cancer surgery by O. I. Kit, E. A. Dzhenkova, E. A. Mirzoyan, Yu. A. Gevorkyan, E. N. Kolesnikov, A. V. Snezhko

“…No statistically significant difference was found in the overall survival in patients of the two groups (p = 0.918).Conclusion. …”
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Entropic imprints on bioinformatics by Ismail Mageed

“…The entropic framework is a crucial method in statistical inference that helps scientists create models to describe and predict biological systems, particularly complex networks like gene interactions. …”
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Circulation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Poland Between Seasons of 2009/2010 and 2022/2023 Based on SENTINEL System by Karol Szymański, Anna Poznańska, Katarzyna Kondratiuk, Ewelina Hallmann, Katarzyna Łuniewska, Aleksander Masny, Lidia B. Brydak

“…Before the pandemic, the period of heightened RSV infection risk typically commenced in the 51st week or later, with a statistically significant correlation indicating that a later start was associated with a shorter season duration (<i>p</i> = 0.034). …”
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Innovation Facilitated by Universities: Balancing Enterprise and Regional Demands by Qi Wang, Ling-Na Zhang, Qi Lian

“…With the differences in the two-dimensional cooperation between universities, the government, and enterprises in the mode featuring “triple helix” as a starting point, this article has compared the features of the influence of differences in the quality of higher education on enterprise and regional innovation by adopting the data of listed companies and provincial-level macro-statistical data from 2013 to 2020 to construct the count panel data model. …”
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Social and Institutional Status of Area Exclosure in North Wollo and Waghemira Zones, Northeastern Ethiopia by Melkamu Kassaye Mekonen, Abrham Abiyu Hailu, Asmamaw Alemu Abitew

“…Required data were collected and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics and then compared against the best practices of Ostrom’s design principles (ODPs). …”
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Novel loci for triglyceride/HDL-C ratio longitudinal change among subjects without T2D by Lihua Wang, Siyu Wang, Jason A. Anema, Vaha A. Moghaddam, Yanli Lu, Shiow Lin, E. Warwick Daw, Allison L. Kuipers, Iva Miljkovic, Michael Brent, Gary J. Patti, Bharat Thygarajan, Joseph M. Zmuda, Michael A. Province, Ping An

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Reduced functional independence and multimorbidity increases the risk of severe infection among older patients with Omicron: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Wan Yu, Runnian Huang, Shuning Sun, Li Bu, Xin Chen, Yunhua Di, Shuwu Lin, Qian Li, Yang Yang, Xingyue Ye, Wenxu Wang, Rui Ren, Linze Xi, Ru Zhang, Yi Li, Xin Li, Tianbo Hou, Zibo Ning, Yang Peng, Difei Wang

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Evaluation of Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Orthopantomogram in Detecting and Classifying Radiolucent Lesions by Sheetal Singar, Ajay Parihar, Prashanthi Reddy

“…The evaluation of the performance of both CNN by new data consisting (60 OPG images) 30 benign and 30 malignant lesions. Statistical Analysis: Performed using SPSS (Statistical package for social science) 20.0 version. …”
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Correlation Of Psychosomatic Factors And Personality Traits With The Severity Of Hidradenitis Suppurativa by Konstantinos Kontoangelos, Foteini Dionysia Foulou, Sofia Tsiori, Charalabos Papageorgiou, Alexander Stratigos, Aikaterini I Liakou

“…Results: According to statistical analyses, there was no statistically significant relationship between disease severity, psychosomatic burden, and personality. …”
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EFFICACY OF TAX PAYERS’ PERCEPTION ON TAX COMPLIANCE LEVEL AMONG SMEs IN ILORIN METROPOLIS by Daud Omotosho Saheed, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Majeed Ajibola Ibrahim, Ifedolapo Oluwasolape Omotosho

“…A closed ended questionnaire was used for data collection while analyses was done through descriptive as well as inferential statistics with Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). …”
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Body Mass Index Trajectories during 6–18 Years Old and the Risk of Hypertension in Young Adult: A Longitudinal Study in Chinese Population by Haoyue Teng, Jia Hu, Wenxin Ge, Qiling Dai, Ji Liu, Chengqi Xiao, Jieyun Yin, Xiaoyan Zhu

“…Compared with the low slow-increasing group, another three increasing groups had gradually elevated risk of hypertension, yielding maximally adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) (OR (95% CI)) of 2.48 (1.39–4.42), 3.24 (1.66–6.31), and 3.28 (1.19–9.08), respectively, whereas the elevated-decreasing group reversed overweight/obesity to normal weight in childhood, rendering its association with hypertension as not statistically significant (OR (95% CI) = 2.74 (0.98–7.65)). …”
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Associations of cachexia and frailty with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Tracy L. Peters, Weihong Qiu, Haomin Yang, Wuqing Huang, Yizhen Hu, Zhangyu Zou, Weimin Ye

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Proposal for modifying procedures for declaring significant trends in TIMSS by Henry Isaiah Braun, Matthias von Davier, Jihang Chen

“…Score changes are evaluated using a two-sided z-statistic, with statistical significance declared if the statistic exceeds 1.96 in absolute value. …”
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Prevent Osteoporosis: Catch the Silent Thief by Linda B. Bobroff

“…FCS-8145, a 10-page factsheet by Linda Bobroff, provides statistics and facts about osteoporosis and information about how to stop this "silent thief" of bone density. …”
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Prevent Osteoporosis: Catch the Silent Thief by Linda B. Bobroff

“…FCS-8145, a 10-page factsheet by Linda Bobroff, provides statistics and facts about osteoporosis and information about how to stop this "silent thief" of bone density. …”
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Coverage Properties of a Neural Network Estimator of Finite Population Total in High-Dimensional Space by Festus A. Were, George O. Orwa, Romanus O. Otieno, Nicholas Makumi, Ramy Aldallal

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