Predicting ixodid tick distribution in Tamil Nadu domestic mammals using ensemble species distribution models by Ayyanar Elango, Hari Kishan Raju, Ananganallur Nagarajan Shriram, Ashwani Kumar, Manju Rahi

“…Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus was predicted across India using the generalized linear model (GLM). Identifying the tick vectors in transmitting the infection through conventional survey and identification methods is cumbersome due to the less number of experienced persons available. …”
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Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans by N Peer, L Kotzé-Hörstmann, J Hill, A-P Kengne

“…Sociodemographic and cardiovascular disease risk factors were generally not associated with hypertension or dyslipidaemia management. …”
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Combined characterization of pore structurein deep medium-rank coal using mercury intrusion and liquid nitrogen adsorption methods and its pore fractal characteristics by Qi LI, Yong WU, Lei QIAO

“…The fractal dimensions based on the Menger sponge model ranged from 2.6 to 3.0, indicating irregular pore shapes, complex pore structures, and generally rough pore surfaces. (2) The effective pore size tested using liquid nitrogen adsorption method ranged from 3 to 177 nm with significant differences in total pore volume and specific surface area among the mining areas. …”
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The Effects of Presenting AI Uncertainty Information on Pharmacists’ Trust in Automated Pill Recognition Technology: Exploratory Mixed Subjects Study by Jin Yong Kim, Vincent D Marshall, Brigid Rowell, Qiyuan Chen, Yifan Zheng, John D Lee, Raed Al Kontar, Corey Lester, Xi Jessie Yang

“…Participants’ trust in the AI system was measured. Mixed model (generalized linear models) tests were conducted with 2-tailed t tests to compare the means between the 2 AI aid types for each verification outcome. …”
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Long-term safety of tofacitinib up to 9.5 years: a comprehensive integrated analysis of the rheumatoid arthritis clinical development programme by Peter Nash, Yoshiya Tanaka, Kevin L Winthrop, Eun Bong Lee, Xavier Mariette, Jeffrey R Curtis, Kenneth Kwok, Connie Chen, Pinaki Biswas, Lisy Wang, Christina Charles-Schoeman, Ann Madsen, Stanley B Cohen, Andrea Shapiro, Jürgen Wollenhaupt

“…IR (95% CI) for mortality was 0.3 (0.2 to 0.3). IRs generally remained consistent across 6-month intervals to >78 months.Conclusion This represents the largest clinical dataset for a JAK inhibitor in RA to date. …”
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Assessing the quality of life among African medical and health science students using the WHOQOL-BREF tool by Fatima Alzahra Galgam, Adil Abdalla, Mahmoud Shahin, Magda Yousif, Nahla Abdulrahman, Fatmah Alamoudi, Mehrunnisha Ahmad, Amira Yahia, Mohammad Sidiq, Aksh Chahal, Fuzail Ahmad, Mohammad Abu Shaphe, Gopal Nambi, Moattar Raza Rizvi, Faizan Kashoo

“…The findings indicate that dentistry students generally experience higher QoL across multiple domains, which contrasts with students from other disciplines, such as pharmacy and nursing. …”
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The impact of nationality status and place of residency on health-related social needs and quality of life among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Hamza Alduraidi, Rahaf Issam Abu Zayid, Noor Mahmoud Jaber, Bassam Saleh Hijazi, Sa'ed Radwan Khamis, Hasan Fahed Awad, Marah Al-Khateeb, Saif alnour Mahmoud Aldhirat, Ahmad Amjed Toubasi

“…Conclusion: Health-related quality of life scores are generally low across all Palestinian refugee communities. …”
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Estimation of blue carbon stock in the Liaohe Estuary wetland based on soil thickness and multi-scenario modeling by Lina Ke, Nan Lei, Shilin Zhang, Changkun Yin, Yao Lu, Lei Wang, Qin Tan, Yu Zhao, Quanming Wang

“…The results indicate that: (1) The soil thickness in the study area is generally distributed between 40 and 60 cm, with less distribution in the 60–80 cm and 20–40 cm intervals and the least in the 0–20 cm interval. …”
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Validation Indicator Identification and Customer Ranking in Microloans: A Study at Middle East Bank in Iran by Azadeh Ahmadi Kousha, Faegh Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein Ranjbar, Hamidreza Kordlouie

“…Because these customers generally have limited access to financial and credit information and cannot provide guarantors or good credit records, it is very challenging to determine correct and reliable indicators. …”
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Research status and future prospect of carbon capture technology using steel slag in the context of carbon neutrality by Lei AN, Xiaoyuan ZHANG, Yu LIU

“…Steel slag-based carbon capture is generally categorized into direct and indirect methods. …”
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Sistem Rekomendasi Dua Arah untuk Pemilihan Dosen Pembimbing Menggunakan Data Histori dan Skyline View Queries by Global Ilham Sampurno, Annisa Annisa, Sony Hartono Wijaya

“…This selection process typically also makes one supervisor is proposed by many student while other supervisor is proposed by less student, even though both supervisor has similar scientific background. At the same time, generally the thesis supervisor has never been asked his/her student preferences related to the supervisor’s research topics. …”
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Kajian Strategi Pendidikan Vokasi Bidang Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi Menghadapi Bonus Demografi by Faizatul Amalia, Waras Kamdi, R. Machmud Sugandi

“…This study uses a Systematic Review (SR) or what is generally called a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). …”
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Analisis Kinerja Jaringan Sensor Nirkabel untuk Edge Computing Menggunakan LORA SX1278 by Mochammad Hannats Hanafi Ichsan

“…Where each node of the WSN has the ability to sensing, computation until the process of sending data. Data processing is generally done on the Cloud or other nodes, this causes the workload of other nodes or the Cloud to be quite heavy. …”
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Novel Procedures for Evaluating Autism Online in a Culturally Diverse Population of Children: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pathway Development Study by Venus Mirzaei, Jeanne Wolstencroft, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Eleanor Buckley, Shermina Sayani, Panos Katakis, Reena Anand, Tessa Squire, Eleanor Short, Paige Frankson, David Skuse, Michelle Heys

“…The procedures developed are expected to be generalized to other populations nationwide. …”
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Advances in machine learning applications to resource technology for organic solid waste by Hongzhi MA, Yichan LIU, Jihua ZHAO, Fan FEI, Ming GAO, Qunhui WANG

“…These include issues related to data quality, such as missing or incomplete datasets, and the generalization ability of ML models across different treatment scenarios. …”
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Consecutive prediction of adverse maternal outcomes of preeclampsia, using the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models: A multicountry prospective observational study. by Guiyou Yang, Tünde Montgomery-Csobán, Wessel Ganzevoort, Sanne J Gordijn, Kimberley Kavanagh, Paul Murray, Laura A Magee, Henk Groen, Peter von Dadelszen

“…When categorizing women into multiple risk groups, the PIERS-ML model generally showed good rule-in capacity for the "very high" risk group, with positive likelihood ratio values ranging from 70.99 to infinity, and good rule-out capacity for the "very low" risk group where most negative likelihood ratio values were 0. …”
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Pengelompokan Hasil Pencarian Skripsi Berbahasa Indonesia Menggunakan Metode DBSCAN dengan Pembobotan BM25 by Rangga Adi Satria, Indriati Indriati, Sutrisno Sutrisno

“…Search engines used for searching thesis documents stored in libraries or digital storage generally use a simple method by returning documents that contain a snippet of the word or are identical to the keywords, so the obtained documents become less relevant. …”
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Assessment of Types, Factors Contributing to Violence Against Women and its Effects on the Health Seeking Behaviour of Women in Rubanda Town Council Rubanda District. by Byumvuhore, Stephen

“…Measures in place to curb VAW included the majority reported seeking health care outside the home area (54.8%) although over half found it hard to share VAW experiences (62.9%) and forgot to visit health facilities for help (68.6%). VAW was generally high in Rubanda district, mostly reporting physical and emotional VAW with being not being married (single), alcoholism, and expectations not met protective against VAW yet VAW adversely affected ANC without husbands and delay to seek health care due to disagreements from the husband with minimal measures to curb VAW as victims preferred seeking health care outside home area of residence, hard to share VAW experiences and forgot to visit health facility for help. …”
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Kombinasi Intent Classification dan Named Entity Recognition pada Data Berbahasa Indonesia dengan Metode Dual Intent and Entity Transformer by Zahra Asma Annisa, Rizal Setya Perdana, Putra Pandu Adikara

“…Despite using similar training data and model architecture, the models may produce different numerical representations in the featurization stage, potentially reducing the generalization ability of the model. To overcome this problem, intent and NER classification can be combined using a multi-task learning mechanism in the form of a Dual Intent and Entity Transformer (DIET) model. …”
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Optimasi Convolutional Neural Network Untuk Deteksi Covid-19 pada X-ray Thorax Berbasis Dropout by I Gede Totok Suryawan, I Putu Agus Eka Darma Udayana

“…The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which has proved to be one of the methods that can use to screen patients and detect COVID-19.also have its own problem because it requires enormous computing power and generally a long training rate. Therefore, this study aimed to tackle that problem by creating a leaner network. …”
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