Comparing the Relative Efficacy of Generalized Estimating Equations, Latent Growth Curve Modeling, and Area Under the Curve with a Repeated Measures Discrete Ordinal Outcome Variab... by Daniel Rodriguez, Ryan Verma, Juliana Upchurch

“…Results suggest AUC performed equally well with both methods, although missing data management is an issue with both AUC and GEE.…”
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Sentimental and Behavioral Strategies for Show-off Treatment in the Moral Education of the Holy Quran by omid Qorbankhani, Seyyed Mahmud Tayyeb Hoseyni, Mohsen Rafat

“…According to the findings of the study, the sentimental strategies of Quran for show-off treatment can be divided into two parts: warning and encouragement, the former includes two methods of instruction and threat, and the latter includes the three methods of encouragement, patterning and speed and overtaking. …”
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Clinic, diagnostics, treatment and results of acute lung accesses in HIV-infected patients by P. M. Ionov, А. V. Elikin, I. V. Deinega, G. A. Yakovlev

“…General surgical methods for treating lung abscess are equally effective in patients with HIV-negative status and HIV-positive status. …”
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Comparative analysis and application of rockburst prediction model based on secretary bird optimization algorithm by Tengjie Yang, Tengjie Yang, Xinqiang Gao, Xinqiang Gao, Lichuan Wang, Yongqing Xue, Haobo Fan, Zhengguo Zhu, Zhengguo Zhu, Jingbo Zhao, Beiyi Dong, Beiyi Dong

“…The initial database was equalized and visualized using the Adasyn and t-SNE algorithms. …”
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Grading Ornamental Fish by Tina C. Crosby, Jeffrey E. Hill, Carlos V. Martinez, Craig A. Watson, Roy P. Yanong

“…Yanong, describes how fish can be visually inspected for quality during and after harvest. …”
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Simulating clinical features on chest radiographs for medical image exploration and CNN explainability using a style-based generative adversarial autoencoder by Kyle A. Hasenstab, Lewis Hahn, Nick Chao, Albert Hsiao

“…Visual analysis of changes in these sequences then facilitates the interpretation of features, thereby improving explainability. …”
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SOPROLIFE System: An Accurate Diagnostic Enhancer by Mona Zeitouny, Mireille Feghali, Assaad Nasr, Philippe Abou-Samra, Nadine Saleh, Denis Bourgeois, Pierre Farge

“…Compared to the most used visual method in the diagnosis of occlusal caries lesions, the finding from this study suggests that SOPROLIFE can be used as a reproducible and reliable assessment tool. …”
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Correlation of Coronary Calcium Measured on Conventional Computed Tomography with Coronary Angiography Findings in Lung Transplant Patients by Sergio Tapia Concha, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Pedro Muñoz Cacho, José Manuel Cifrian Martínez, Javier Zueco Gil, José Antonio Parra Blanco

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The visual assessment method yielded results similar to the other two quantification methods. …”
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Multiple Instance Learning With Instance-Level Positive-Unlabeled Learning in Anomaly Detection by Ryosuke Matsuo, Shinya Yasuda, Hiroshi Yoshida

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EMHANet: Lightweight Salient Object Detection for Remote Sensing Images via Edge-Aware Multiscale Feature Fusion by Qian Tang, Zhen Wang, Xuqi Wang, Shan-Wen Zhang

“…Salient object detection in remote sensing images (RSI-SOD) aims to identify visually prominent objects by mimicking human visual perception. …”
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Pterygium excision followed by sutureless and gluefree infero-temporal conjunctival autograft by Poonam Bhargava, Anju Kochar, Rashmi Joshi

“…Introduction: There are various methods available at present to reduce the recurrence after pterygium excision and the one in the trend is the sutureless and gluefree conjunctival autografting which is gaining popularity for it’s ease and better results than other methods. …”
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The Impact of Animated Videos on Student Awareness of Bullying by Baharuddin Condeng, Mohammad Novrian Hasanuddin, Azizah Saleh

“…This educational strategy not only improves knowledge but also engages students more effectively than traditional methods. The broader implications of this study suggest that incorporating such dynamic visual content into school curriculums or anti-bullying programs can play a critical role in mitigating bullying behavior. …”
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Delving into Underwater Image Utility: Benchmark Dataset and Prediction Model by Jiapeng Liu, Yi Liu, Qiuping Jiang

“…Although significant progress has been achieved in Underwater Image Quality Assessment (UIQA), almost all existing UIQA methods focus on the visual perception-oriented image quality issue and cannot be used to gauge the utility of underwater images for the use in machine vision applications. …”
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SGANet: A Siamese Geometry-Aware Network for Remote Sensing Change Detection by Jiangwei Chen, Sijun Dong, Xiaoliang Meng

“…However, we noticed that previous methods still rely on the single visual modality and cannot effectively utilize other prior information, such as elevation or depth maps. …”
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Effects of an 8-Week Exercise and Manual Therapy Programme Versus Exercise Alone on Knee Pain and Joint Function in Postmenopausal Women With Knee Osteoarthritis by Seyed Ehsan Hosseini, Vilma Dudonienė

“…This study aims to evaluate and compare the effects of exercise and manual therapy versus exercise alone on knee pain and functional outcomes in postmenopausal women with KOA. Methods. This randomised controlled trial recruited 40 participants divided into two equal groups. …”
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Surgeon’s perceptions and preferences in the management of idiopathic macular hole by Devesh Kumawat, Vivek Pravin Dave, Pradeep Venkatesh, Mahesh P Shanmugam, Manish Nagpal, Vishali Gupta, Pramod S Bhende, Naresh Babu, Raja Narayanan, Daraius Shroff, The Macular Hole Survey Study Group

“…The three most important visual prognostic factors were duration, preoperative vision, and MH size. …”
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Application of Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise in Ship Automatic Identification System Trajectory-Cluster Analysis by Shih-Ming Wang, Wen-Rong Yang, Qian-Yi Zhuang, Wei-Hong Lin, Mau-Yi Tian, Te-Jen Su, Jui-Chuan Cheng

“…These results provided a more nuanced analysis compared to human visual observation. This study also utilized O notation and execution time to represent the performance of various methods, with the literature review indicating that HDBSCAN has the same time complexity as DBSCAN but outperforms K-means and other methods. …”
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Using the Lecturer’s Training Site with a Conscious Approach to Learning Russian as a Foreign Language by S. V. Marchuk

“…Systematic use of lecturer’s web-site in educational process shows that most effective methods and techniques are audio-visual, textual exercises from simple to complex with further audio dubbing, audio method of teaching phonetics and literacy, “lively dialogue” as a new technique in teaching Russian for foreigners, vocabulary works and differentiated approach. …”
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An evaluation methodology for machine learning-based tandem mass spectra similarity prediction by Michael Strobel, Alberto Gil-de-la-Fuente, Mohammad Reza Zare Shahneh, Yasin El Abiead, Roman Bushuiev, Anton Bushuiev, Tomáš Pluskal, Mingxun Wang

“…Machine learning (ML) approaches have emerged as a promising technique to predict structural similarity from MS/MS that may surpass the current state-of-the-art algorithmic methods. However, the comparison between these different ML methods remains a challenge because there is a lack of standardization to benchmark, evaluate, and compare MS/MS similarity methods, and there are no methods that address data leakage between training and test data in order to analyze model generalizability. …”
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Exploring the Applications of Explainability in Wearable Data Analytics: Systematic Literature Review by Yasmin Abdelaal, Michaël Aupetit, Abdelkader Baggag, Dena Al-Thani

“…The outputs of explainability methods are commonly presented visually, often in the form of graphs or user-friendly reports. …”
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