Advancing Sika deer detection and distance estimation through comprehensive camera calibration and distortion analysis by Sandhya Sharma, Stefan Baar, Bishnu P. Gautam, Shinya Watanabe, Satoshi Kondo, Kazuhiko Sato

“…Lens distortion coefficients were derived by analysing checkerboard pattern images taken at different distances and angles. …”
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Autonomous Search of Real-Life Environments Combining Dynamical System-Based Path Planning and Unsupervised Learning by Uyiosa Philip Amadasun, Patrick Mcnamee, Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi, Peiman Naseradinmousavi

“…However, an interesting pattern emerged when analyzing the relative performance degradation. …”
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Trends in Total Hip Arthroplasty Length of Stay and Coding Status From 2018 to 2021: Two-Year Impact of the Removal From the Inpatient-Only List by Joshua G. Sanchez, BA, Meera M. Dhodapkar, MD, Scott J. Halperin, MD, Will M. Jiang, BS, Jonathan N. Grauer, MD, Lee E. Rubin, MD

“…Analogously, average LOS decreased from 1.91-1.75 to 1.50-1.35 d (P < .0001). This pattern of decreased LOS was seen in patients aged ≥65 y (traditional Medicare eligibility, P < .0001) and those <65. …”
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Loneliness and all cause mortality in Australian women aged 45 years and older: causal inference analysis of longitudinal data by Ding Ding, Dafna Merom, Ben J Smith, Philip Clare, Neta Hagani

“…Acknowledging loneliness as an independent health risk underscores the importance of screening for loneliness and incorporating public health interventions into healthcare practices.…”
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Indonesian Banking Stock Portfolio Optimization Based on Ridge Regression Prediction by Moch Panji Agung Saputra, Deva Putra Setyawan, Alim Jaizul Wahid

“…Ridge Regression is proven to be effective in capturing the return pattern of Indonesian banking stocks and enables superior portfolio performance when integrated with modern portfolio theory, providing investors with a robust and data-driven approach to portfolio optimization in emerging markets.…”
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Influence of spin-off decision on financing risk: Empirical insight from Indonesian Islamic banks [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Abdul Hakim, Akhsyim Affandi, Jaka Sriyana, Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko

“…Furthermore, a noteworthy pattern emerges that spin-off Islamic banks with substantial assets demonstrate greater risk in comparison to their counterparts with more modest assets. …”
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Flexural Strength and Stress Analysis of CAD-CAM Milled Glass Fiber Post and Core by Sergio Eduardo Ramos dos Santos, Klíssia Romero Felizardo, Ricardo Danil Guiraldo, Sandrine Bittencourt Berger, Murilo Baena Lopes

“…The objective of this work was to compare the stress pattern generated on the root by a computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) milled fiberglass post under occlusal load in a photoelastic simulation and to compare its flexural strength (FS) to other types of posts. …”
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Nonlinear relationship between fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio and mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Daishan Jiang, Xiaoyu Yuan, Yanbo Shen, Tingting Bian

“…By 90 days, these HRs adjusted to 1.25 (1.07–1.46) for Q1, 1.21 (1.04–1.41) for Q3, and 1.21 (1.03–1.42) for Q4. This pattern persisted at 1-year mortality, with HRs of 1.16 (1.00–1.33) for Q1, 1.22 (1.06–1.39) for Q3, and 1.24 (1.07–1.43) for Q4.ConclusionFAR exhibited a nonlinear, U-shaped association with mortality risk at 28 days, 90 days, and 1 year in patients with sepsis. …”
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Computational thinking in the context of higher education: Analytical review by E. K. Khenner

“…In computational thinking, cognitive skills include abstraction, decomposition, pattern recognition, algorithmisation, visualisation, logical thinking, communicative competence, the ability to present, structure and analyse data, and some others skills. …”
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Pilot-Based Codebook Non-Orthogonal Artificial Noise Schemes for Physical Layer Security: Secrecy Capacity Optimization Under Unknown Eavesdropper Channels by Yi Zhang, Yebo Gu, Tao Zhao, Bo Wang

“…Considering the eavesdropper as an illegitimate user, whose channel state information matrix is unknown to the legitimate receiver and does not follow a simple distribution pattern, this study employs random matrix theory to model the channel of an unknown eavesdropper. …”
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Characteristics and Evaluation of Living Shorelines: A Case Study from Fujian, China by Xingfan Li, Shihui Lin, Libing Qian, Zhe Wang, Chao Cao, Qi Gao, Jiwen Cai

“…Results indicate that coastal vitality initially exhibited a spatial pattern of “low in the north, high in the center, and low in the south,” with vitality values ranging from 0.20 to 0.67 (higher values indicate stronger vitality). …”
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Cracking process of surrounding rock with preset cracks after excavating a circular cavern based on a continuum-discontinuum method by Xueyuan Bai, Xuebin Wang, Bei Jiang

“…For the engineering model, the pattern of cracking zone obtained by the numerical simulation is consistent with the failure profile in practical engineering.…”
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Applicability of the Online Short Spatial Ability Battery to university students testing by K. V. Bartseva, M. V. Likhanov, E. L. Soldatova, E. S. Tsigeman, E. A. Alenina, Y. Kovas

“…The battery includes mechanical reasoning, paper folding, pattern assembly, and shape rotation tests. The battery has shown good psychometric characteristics (high reliability and validity, low redundancy, discriminative power), and is available in open access and free to use.Aim. …”
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A Clinical and Pathological Comparison of Different Immunomorphological Subvariants of Nodular Lymphocyte-Predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at Initial Diagnosis by IA Shupletsova, AM Kovrigina, TN Moiseeva, EI Dorokhina, SM Kulikov

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Paddy Field Scale Evapotranspiration Estimation Based on Two-Source Energy Balance Model with Energy Flux Constraints and UAV Multimodal Data by Tian’ao Wu, Kaihua Liu, Minghan Cheng, Zhe Gu, Weihua Guo, Xiyun Jiao

“…The results indicated that the energy flux in rice paddies followed a single-peak diurnal pattern dominated by net radiation (<i>Rn</i>). The diurnal variation in the ratio of soil heat flux (<i>G</i>) to <i>Rn</i> could be well fitted by the cosine function with a max value and peak time (R² > 0.90). …”
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The impact of land use transition on ecosystem service value in Lixiahe area: Multi-scenario simulation based on Markov-FLUS model by CHEN Xinwei, LI Hongbo, ZHANG Wenbo, GE Xiaoping

“…The main form of land use type transformation was from cultivated land to wetland or construction land, and the active transformation areas were concentrated in the central and eastern and western boundary areas. (2) The ecosystem service value of the study area in 1990, 2005 and 2020 showed a year-on-year increasing trend, and the spatial pattern was relatively stable. Overall, it presented a distribution feature of “low on the periphery and high in the center”. (3) The Markov-FLUS model has strong applicability in the region. …”
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Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County? by Morgan Kousser

“…Holder that the problems of 2013 were much less grave than the “pervasive . . . flagrant . . . widespread . . . rampant” voting discrimination of 1965 and that the coverage formula was outmoded because “today’s statistics tell an entirely different story.”1Neither the Chief Justice nor any scholars or civil rights proponents or opponents have systematically examined the evidence on the entire pattern of proven voting rights violations over time and space. …”
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Streamlining cVEP Paradigms: Effects of a Minimized Electrode Montage on Brain–Computer Interface Performance by Milán András Fodor, Atilla Cantürk, Gernot Heisenberg, Ivan Volosyak

“…Code-modulated visual evoked potential (cVEP)-based BCIs employ code-pattern-based stimulation to evoke neural responses, which can then be classified to infer user intent. …”
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STATISTICAL PROCESSING OF RESULTS OF TESTING OF STUDENTS by Yulia V. Gumennikova, Elena N. Ryabinova, Ruzilya N. Chernitsina

“…Selection of the normal distribution curve also allows you to build a scale of success of training, that is practiced standard estimates.…”
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Analysis of the therapeutic effect of Midrimax® on accommodation overstrain in patients with orthokeratological correction by M. V. Makhova

“…After 6 months of using OK lenses, the accommodation pattern changed: 33.5 % of patients retained normal accommodation function, in 15.5 % of cases accommodation insufficiency decreased, but the number of patients (51.0 %) with accommodation overstrain of varying degrees increased. …”
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