Early warning systems (EWSs) for chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, and Zika outbreaks: What is the evidence? A scoping review. by Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Tatiana Rivera Ramírez, Axel Kroeger, Ernesto Gozzer, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger

“…A scoping review has been undertaken for all 5 diseases to summarize existing evidence of EWS tools in terms of their structural and statistical designs, feasibility of integration and implementation into national surveillance programs, and the users' perspective of their applications.…”
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Dual anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in metastatic basal cell carcinoma by Sandip P. Patel, Eleanor Cano-Linson, Young Kwang Chae, Shiruyeh Schokrpur, Christopher D. Lao, Benjamin C. Powers, Adrienne I. Victor, Adedayo A. Onitilo, Sarah Shin, Naoko Takebe, Sara Threlkel, Christine M. McLeod, Helen X. Chen, Elad Sharon, Megan Othus, Christopher W. Ryan, Charles D. Blanke, Razelle Kurzrock

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Long-Term Oncological Outcomes Related to Lymphadenectomy in Clinical Stage I NSCLC: A Multicenter Retrospective Experience by Beatrice Manfredini, Carmelina Cristina Zirafa, Alessandro Stefani, Gaetano Romano, Greta Alì, Riccardo Morganti, Ilaria Ceccarelli, Federico Davini, Pier Luigi Filosso, Franca Melfi

“…Results: During the period under review, 323 patients with stage cI lung cancer underwent lobectomy with lymphadenectomy. Statistical analysis showed that the evaluated lymph nodal factors (mean number of lymph nodes removed and number and type of lymph node station explored) did not statistically significantly impact OS, CSS, and DFS at a median follow-up of 59 months (IQR 45–71). …”
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Resilience Project Interventions and its Effect on Vulnerable Household’s Standards of Living in Uganda: An Empirical Evidence from USAID ICAN Project in Kigezi Sub-Region. by Sunday, Dismus

“…Data was analyzed using Stata software to determine descriptive statistics (mean, average, frequencies) and the relationship between variables using Chi-square whereas Inferential analysis for a two-sample test of proportions for livelihood, nutrition, and governance interventions as well as adoptions at baseline and end line of the project, was conducted to determine whether the difference or change created by the project was statistically significant. …”
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Stakeholder-Identified Barriers, Challenges, and Obstacles in Community Gardens by Susan Webb, John M. Diaz

“… Florida Extension agents play a vital role in assisting community members to start and sustain community gardens through site visits, workshops, and educational events. …”
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Stakeholder-Identified Barriers, Challenges, and Obstacles in Community Gardens by Susan Webb, John M. Diaz

“… Florida Extension agents play a vital role in assisting community members to start and sustain community gardens through site visits, workshops, and educational events. …”
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Detecting Different Road Infrastructural Elements Based on the Stochastic Characterization of Speed Patterns by Mario Muñoz-Organero, Ramona Ruiz-Blázquez

“…A new algorithm is developed that uses the total variation distance instead of the statistical moments to improve the classification accuracy. …”
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Evaluation of the Endothelial Cell Density and the Central Corneal Thickness in Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome and Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma by Bożydar T. Tomaszewski, Renata Zalewska, Zofia Mariak

“…In patients with PEXG, CCT was statistically significantly thinner than in the PEX syndrome and control group.…”
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Corneal Backscatter Analysis by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy: Fellow Eye Comparison of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and Femtosecond Laser-Assisted LASIK by Alper Agca, Engin Bilge Ozgurhan, Yusuf Yildirim, Kadir Ilker Cankaya, Nimet Burcu Guleryuz, Zeynep Alkin, Abdullah Ozkaya, Ahmet Demirok, Omer Faruk Yilmaz

“…LI differences at 1 week and 1- and 3-month visits were statistically significant (P<0,05). LI differences at 6 months were not statistically significant. …”
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Evaluation of Histopathological Changes in Control Biopsies Which Taken 48 Sessions after NBUVB Phototherapy for Early-Stage Mycosis Fungoides by Ebru Zemheri, Seyma Ozkanli, Ilkin Zindanci, Serkan Senol, Ozge Akbulak, Elvan Turfanda, Mehtap Toprak, Duygu Kosemetin, Abdullah Aydin

“…Alleviation in epidermotropism, increases in parakeratosis and normal keratosis, perivascular infiltration, and melanophages, decrease in the lichenoid/patchy lichenoid infiltration pattern after the treatment was statistically significant. Comparing by response, normalization of stratum corneum and epidermis, orthohyperkeratosis, decrease in linearly arranged cells, the lichenoid/patchy lichenoid infiltration, the loss of inflammation were statistically significant in responders group. …”
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Causal Relationships Between the Use of AI, Therapeutic Alliance, and Job Engagement Among Psychological Service Practitioners by Boshra A. Arnout, Sami M. Alshehri

“…The study also found a strong positive overall statistically significant effect (<i>p</i> < 0.05) of the use of AI on therapeutic alliance (0.941) and job engagement (0.930) and a positive overall average statistically significant effect (<i>p</i> < 0.05) of the therapeutic alliance on job engagement (0.694). …”
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Steppe and the Volga-Kama Finns and Ugrians: issues of contacts in the second half of the I millennium AD in archaeological interpretation (using the example of belt sets) by Vladimir A. Ivanov

“…In the X–XI centuries “statistical leadership” in the use of intact belts goes to the Volga Finns – the Mari. …”
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Evaluation of Finger Prints in Relation to Academic Performance of Students in Anatomy at Islam Medical and Dental College, Sialkot by Muhammad Junaid, Riaz Ahmad, Naureen Waseem, Aftab Ahmad, Aaqiba Rasheed, Rana Muhammad Zeeshan, Ayesha Riaz

“…A P value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The most common pattern observed among students was loops. …”
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Further Analysis of Non-Gaussian Wind Pressure Peak Factor Calculation by Tao Ye, Ledong Zhu, Zhongxu Tan, Lanlan Li

“…Based on the basic theory of fractal, the R/S analysis of wind pressure time series is made, and the fractal characteristics of wind pressure coefficient time series are explained. Based on the statistical theory, the relationship characteristics between high-order statistics and peak factors are studied. …”
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Bipartisanship Breakdown, Functional Networks, and Forensic Analysis in Spanish 2015 and 2016 National Elections by Juan Fernández-Gracia, Lucas Lacasa

“…Finally, we explore to which extent vote data are faithful by applying forensic techniques to vote statistics. Results based on deviation from Benford’s law are mixed and vary across different levels of aggregation. …”
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Evaluation of Minnesota Score in the Allocation of Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation During Resource Scarcity by Jillian K. Wothe, Zachary R. Bergman, Arianna E. Lofrano, Melissa Doucette, Ramiro Saavedra-Romero, Matthew E. Prekker, Elizabeth R. Lusczek, Melissa E. Brunsvold

“…Priority groups were established statistically by maximizing the sum of sensitivity and specificity and compared to the previous qualitatively established priority groups. …”
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A study on the assessment of learner ability based on the combination of auto-encoder and quadratic k-means clustering algorithm by Junfeng Man, Rongke Zeng, Xiangyang He, Hua Jiang

“…Currently, most existing studies are based on traditional statistical methods to rank and evaluate students’ achievement, but this will lead to problems of single type of data and the inability of intra-class evaluation. …”
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Long-Term Changes in Sarcopenia and Body Composition in Diabetes Patients with and without Charcot Osteoarthropathy by Michael Zaucha Sørensen, Rasmus Bo Jansen, Tomas Møller Christensen, Per E. Holstein, Ole Lander Svendsen

“…None of the groups had statistically significant changes of android fat distribution. …”
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Effectiveness of Onion Extract Gel on Surgical Scars in Asians by Kumutnart Chanprapaph, Somsak Tanrattanakorn, Penpun Wattanakrai, Pranee Wongkitisophon, Vasanop Vachiramon

“…There was no statistically significant difference in scar redness, scar pliability, and overall cosmetic appearance between two sides. …”
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PROFITABILITY AND TURNOVER APPRAISAL OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Terry Keme Zuode Odogu, Amapamo Stephen Koroye

“…Appropriately, the ex-post facto/casual comparative research design was adopted to obtain relevant and desirable secondary data from the Annual Bulletins of the Central Bank of Nigeria and E-payment Statistics Platforms from 2012 to 2020, to empirically appraise the profitability and turnover of all the 15 Nigerian deposit money banks quoted as at January 1, 2021, in the light of the non-bank led theory. …”
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