User-centred design of ChestCare: mHealth app for pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD; a mixed-methods sequential approach by Suad J. Ghaben, Arimi Fitri Mat Ludin, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh

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Cognitive weaknesses or impairments on the NIH toolbox cognition battery in children and adolescents: base rates in a normative sample and proposed methods for classification by Nathan E. Cook, Nathan E. Cook, Nathan E. Cook, Grant L. Iverson, Grant L. Iverson, Grant L. Iverson, Grant L. Iverson, Justin E. Karr

“…., vocabulary and word reading) and fluid cognition (i.e., working memory, visual episodic memory, processing speed, and executive functions). …”
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Among Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Methods, Automated Gradient-Boosting Models Accurately Score Intraoral Plaque in Non-Standardized Images by Eric Coy, William Santo, Bonnie Jue, Helen Betts, Francisco Ramos-Gomez, Stuart A. Gansky

“…The objectives were to develop and test automated image selection and intraoral plaque-scoring (primary outcome measure in a prevention trial for preschoolers).Methods Evaluating 1650 plaque-disclosed primary teeth (teeth D, E, F, G) from 435 photographs from UCSF/UCLA clinical trials, data were cleaned, transformed, and modeled with statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms; data visualizations utilized Jupyter Notebooks, Python, OpenCV, and Sci-kit Learn libraries, with Laplacian filter preprocessing. …”
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Development of an Online Scenario-Based Tool to Enable Research Participation and Public Engagement in Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening: Mixed Methods Study by Louise Moody, Samantha Clarke, Matt Compton, Rachael Hughson-Gill, Felicity Boardman, Corinna Clark, Pru Holder, James R Bonham, Jane Chudleigh

“…Stakeholders were recruited to take part in the development workshops via purposeful and snowball sampling methods to achieve a diversity of views across roles and organizations, with email invitations sent to representative individuals with lived, clinical, and academic experience related to CF and screening. …”
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A Method for Selecting the Appropriate Source Domain Buildings for Building Energy Prediction in Transfer Learning: Using the Euclidean Distance and Pearson Coefficient by Chuyi Luo, Liang Xia, Sung-Hugh Hong

“…This study proposes a novel, easy-to-understand, statistics-based visualization method that combines the Euclidean distance and Pearson correlation coefficient for selecting source buildings in TL for target building electricity prediction. …”
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Rolling Bearing Degradation Identification Method Based on Improved Monopulse Feature Extraction and 1D Dilated Residual Convolutional Neural Network by Chang Liu, Haiyang Wu, Gang Cheng, Hui Zhou, Yusong Pang

“…To address the challenges of extracting rolling bearing degradation information and the insufficient performance of conventional convolutional networks, this paper proposes a rolling bearing degradation state identification method based on the improved monopulse feature extraction and a one-dimensional dilated residual convolutional neural network (1D-DRCNN). …”
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Molecular Fish Sexing on Taisho Sanshoku Koi (Cyprinus carpio) Based on ArS.9-15 Gene Amplification using PCR Method by Balqis Bahiya Milan Novindasari, Isti Ananda Nurrahmi, Krisna Noli Andrian, Aris Haryanto

“…This study aimed to determine the sex of the Taisho Sanshoku Koi fish by molecular sexing using the PCR method to amplify the ArS.9-15 gene. This study was initiated by rearing a 4–6 month-old of 10 Taisho Sanshoku Koi fish in a fish tank with a filter and oxygen aeration. …”
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Preliminary application of a cervical vertebra segmentation method based on Transformer and diffusion model for lateral cephalometric radiographs in orthodontic clinical practice by LIU Yang, WU Mengyi, HU Yao, QI Kun, WANG Yubin, ZHAO Yue, SONG Jinlin

“…The segmentation performance was quantitatively evaluated by two metrics, Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) and Intersection over Union (IoU), and also qualitatively assessed through physicians' manual annotations and model visualization results.Results·The cervical vertebra segmentation method based on Transformer and diffusion models achieved DSC and IoU scores of 93.3% and 87.5%, respectively, significantly outperforming the U-Net and SOLOv2 methods (with improvements of 3.0% and 4.1% in DSC, and 5.2% and 7.1% in loU, respectively). …”
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Effective budgeting as a priority of the company›s development by S. B. Kashkimbayev, A. N. Zhakupov

“…The article uses complex and systematic approaches to the processes and phenomena under study, which is achieved through the methods of analysis and synthesis, review and collection of information, statistical analysis, scientific abstraction and visualization.In the conclusion of the article, the conclusions are made, that a properly formed concept of budgeting, improvement of methods and elements of the budget process will make it possible to manage the capital, as well as a single commercial, and the company as a whole, establishing the sequence of business types, terms and trends of restructuring. …”
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Simulation-Based Assessment of Evacuation Efficiency in Sports Stadiums: Insights from Case Studies by Chieh-Hsiung Yang, Ching-Yuan Lin, Tzu-Wen Kuo

“…This study uses a case study approach to analyze the evacuation of spectators in a 40,000-seat stadium, comparing the practical application of three performance verification methods. The results indicate that Simulex’s visual dynamic simulation effectively reflects how walking speeds decrease in crowded conditions and how bottlenecks form along evacuation routes. …”
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Analysis of the Indicators Based on the DS/FH TT&C System by Youyou Xi, Jianhua Hao, Naiping Cheng, Maoguo Liu

“…At 1ast，a variety of visualization technologies were studied. The analysis and simulation results show that the indicators can describe the phenomenon effectively in the system，the methods can accurately complete the test and the visualization scheme can show the test results from different visions.…”
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Discrete Element Analysis of Grouting Reinforcement and Slurry Diffusion in Overburden Strata by Pengfei Guo, Weiquan Zhao, Yahui Ma, Huiling Gen

“…The discrete element analysis method proposed in this study elucidates the mechanical mechanisms of overburden grouting reinforcement at the particle scale and provides theoretical support for visual evaluation of concealed structures and optimization of grouting design.…”
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Book Review: Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research With Girls: Transnational Approaches (Vol. 2) by Nicole Brown

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Advanced Visualization Techniques for Assessing Business Imbalances in Construction and Transport Infrastructure Management by Marian-Valentin Popescu, Andreea Ion Raluca, Mădălina Stoian Mirela

“…This paper represents an addition to the methodology described in previous research, introducing new methods of visualizing the results obtained through applying the integrated management analysis. …”
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Combining and congruence evaluation of phylogenetic signals from different genes based on geometric approach by V. M. Efimov, V. Yu. Kovaleva, Yu. N. Litvinov

“…Joint genetic space for all species is built by principal coordinate method from the joint matrix. Several variability directions reflecting evolutionary events of different scale are visualized in a joint genetic space. …”
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Enhanced Landslide Visualization and Trace Identification Using LiDAR-Derived DEM by Jie Lv, Chengzhuo Lu, Minjun Ye, Yuting Long, Wenbing Li, Minglong Yang

“…Firstly, a high-precision LiDAR-DEM is constructed using preprocessed LiDAR point cloud data, and visual images are generated using visualization methods, including hillshade, slope, openness, and Sky View Factor (SVF). …”
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EXPERT LIGHT SOURCES AS AN INSTRUMENTAL METHOD FOR DETECTING HUMAN TEETH AND BONE REMAINS: FEATURES AND PROBLEMS OF APPLICATION IN THE PRODUCTION OF ACCIDENT SCENE EXAMINATION by LESSARD Alek Bryan

“…In order to avoid difficulties in interpreting the results of the search for human teeth and bone remains and to exclude potentially inconclusive seizures, the article proposes a set of methods for preliminary examination of objects suspected to be human teeth or bone remains detected by expert light sour ces.…”
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Loss Function Optimization Method and Unsupervised Extraction Approach D-DBSCAN for Improving the Moving Target Perception of 3D Imaging Sonar by Jingfeng Yu, Aigen Huang, Zhongju Sun, Rui Huang, Gao Huang, Qianchuan Zhao

“…This method simulates human visual sensitivity to moving targets in water and uses a joint D-DBSCAN spatial clustering approach with single-frame and inter-frame superposition, achieving an improvement of 21.3 points in mAP. …”
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Le projet Magic Ring : expérimentation d’une méthode de recueil de données quali-quantitatives dans Second Life by Jean-François LUCAS

“…The virtual world of Second Life can be considered as an online experimentation laboratory that allows to design and test research methods. This article focuses on and the genesis of a tracking tool, the Magic Ring, developed for a research study on spatial practices of avatars in Second Life. …”
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Thermodynamics and solar radiative analysis in Jeffery-Hamel flow through non-parallel channel by novel improved residual power series method by Mohamed Bouzidi, Mohsin Ul Haq, Ikram Ullah, Saira Shukat, Hijaz Ahmad, Mohammad Mahtab Alam, Hamid Khan, Marouan Kouki

“…Validation of current method is made with other techniques and shows a reasonable correspondence. …”
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