Designing Fuzzy Inference System by Learning from Training Samples to Measure the Participation of Operational Staff in the Health of Workplace by Saeed Malekinejad, Ahmad Tavakoli, Naser Motahari

“…This research aimed to design a system for measuring employee participation in workplace health regardless of the estimation of non-linear relationships between the effective variables. …”
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Aqueous Two-Phase Systems: A New Approach for the Determination of Brilliant Blue FCF in Water and Food Samples by Sabah Shiri, Tahere Khezeli, Shahram Lotfi, Sina Shiri

“…The target analyte in the water sample was extracted into the polyethylene glycol phase. …”
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The impact of fractional cover distribution in training samples on the accuracy of fractional cover estimation: a model-based evaluation by Rujia Wang, Chen Shi

“…While some studies have descriptively compared the accuracies of machine learning-based estimations across training sets derived from different sampling methods, a significant gap remains in quantitatively analyzing how the fractional cover distribution in training samples affects accuracy. …”
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Designing an innovative, eco-conscious optode for spectrophoto-metric detection of copper across various biological and environmental samples by Abdullah H. Alluhayb, Alaa M. Younis, Alaa S. Amin, Naglaa Mohamed

“…The optode demonstrated a linear response to copper(II) ions within the concentration range of 10 to 130 ng mL–1, achieving a high correlation coefficient of 0.9990. …”
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An ensemble learning approach for predicting nanoparticle dispersion properties in cutting fluids using a small sample dataset by Abhishek Shrotriya, Vinay Vakharia, Himanshu Borade, Rakesh Chaudhari, Jay Vora

“…This study demonstrates machine learning's effectiveness in capturing non-linear correlations in small sample datasets using grid search optimization and accurate predictions. …”
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Measurement invariance of a brief disordered eating scale in a large sample of secondary school students in Canada by Lin Zheng, William Pickett, Jian Liu, Scott T. Leatherdale, Karen A. Patte

“…Methods We used student-level survey data collected during the 2021/2022 school year in the COMPASS study. The sample included 24,639 students in grades 9–12 from 69 secondary schools in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, Canada. …”
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Urinary Glyphosate Concentrations and Serum Sex Hormones in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample: NHANES 2017–2018 by Wen-Yang Wu, Du-Sheng Wang, Hsuan-Cheng Lin, Chikang Wang, Chien-Yu Lin

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Work-Related Quality of Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender Perspectives Among a Brazilian Sample by Patricia Silva, Felipe Alckmin-Carvalho, António Oliveira, Jóni Ledo, Verônica Silva, Henrique Pereira

“…Pearson correlation tested the association between the variables. Linear regressions assessed the predictive factors of WRQoL. …”
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Psychosocial stress and central adiposity: A Brazilian study with a representative sample of the public health system users. by Flávia Vitorino Freitas, Wagner Miranda Barbosa, Laíz Aparecida Azevedo Silva, Marianna Junger de Oliveira Garozi, Júlia de Assis Pinheiro, Aline Ribeiro Borçoi, Catarine Lima Conti, Juliana Krüger Arpini, Heberth de Paula, Mayara Mota de Oliveira, Anderson Barros Archanjo, Érika Aparecida Silva de Freitas, Daniela Rodrigues de Oliveira, Elizeu Batista Borloti, Iuri Drumond Louro, Adriana Madeira Alvares-da-Silva

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This cross-sectional study was conducted with 384 adults (20 to 59 years old) from the city of Alegre, Southeastern Brazil. The simple random sample represented the population using the public health system of the municipality. …”
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The Monthly Cycling of Food Insecurity in Latinas at Risk for Diabetes: Methods, Retention, and Sample Characteristics for a Microlongitudinal Design by Angela Bermúdez-Millán, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Sofia Segura-Pérez, James Grady, Richard S Feinn VI, Hanako Agresta, Dean Kim, Julie Ann Wagner

“…To assess the relationship between monthly cycling of FI with diabetes risk markers, we used repeated measures general linear mixed models. To assess the role of mediators, we performed a causal pathway analysis. …”
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Electrochemical aptamer sensor for detection of SARS-CoV-2 S1 protein in real pharyngeal swab samples by Yi Wang, Rui Bao, Xin Zhang, Chao Wang, Chunxia Song, Min Song, Hongjuan Jiang, Tan Wang, Xiangwei Wu, Zhaofeng Luo, Ying Lu

“…Furthermore, the sensor's sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility were validated, and the results showed a linear relationship with the logarithm of the S1 protein concentration, which ranged from 10 fM to 100 nM (ΔIp = 0.11 log CS1 protein / fM - 0.021, R2 = 0.99), with a LOD (limit of detection) of 1 fM (S/N = 3). …”
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Physical activity is associated with low-level stress among a sample of seniors during COVID-19 outbreak? by Chellsea Hortêncio Alcântara, Rafael Martins da Costa, Elorides de Brito, Maira Mendes dos Santos Marques, Euler Esteves Ribeiro, Elisa Brosina de Leon

“… This study aimed to verify the association of physical activity, behaviors, and health conditions with stress among a sample of older adults from Manaus, Brazil, during the COVID-19 outbreak. …”
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Research on A Lattice-Based Fuzzy Signature and Bimodal Gaussian by Jinxin Huang, Jie Cai, Fenghe Wang, Junquan Wang

“…Additionally, in response to the linear sketch proposed by the authors, we provide a proof of the collision resistance of the mapping h, which further enhances the correctness of the scheme.…”
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Association between psychiatric symptoms with multiple peripheral blood sample test: a 10-year retrospective study by Jianqing Qiu, Cheng Yu, Yalan Kuang, Yao Hu, Ting Zhu, Ting Zhu, Ke Qin, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang

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Fear of Relapse Scale: Spanish version and psychometric characteristics in a sample of patients with Relapsing-Remitting multiple sclerosis by Y. Broche-Pérez, R.M. Jiménez-Morales, L.O. Monasterio-Ramos, L.A. Vázquez-Gómez, Z. Fernández-Fleites

“…In this study we first explored the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Fear of Relapse Scale (FoR) in a sample of patients with RRMS. Besides, we explored the relationship between the Fear of Relapse Scale with fatigue and cognitive perceived deficits in our PwMS sample. …”
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Human lachrymal fluid preparation methodology eVol®MEPS – Green analytical approach in clinical and forensic analysis by Renata Wietecha-Posłuszny, Agnieszka Moos-Matysik, Agnieszka Bocheńska

“…As the LF samples were only centrifuged prior to the MEPS extraction; the procedure was short, simple and performed with limited sample and solvents consumption.The Vol®MEPS/UHPLC-MS-TOF method was validated. …”
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Generalized cross-entropy benchmarking for random circuits with ergodicity by Bin Cheng, Fei Meng, Zhi-Jiong Zhang, Man-Hong Yung

“…For a quadratic postprocessing function, our framework recovered Google's result on estimating the circuit fidelity via linear cross-entropy benchmarking (XEB), and we gave a sufficient condition on the noise model characterizing when such estimation is valid. …”
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The association between one’s social life and symptoms of prolonged grief following a traumatic loss: an ecological momentary assessment study by Philippa Specker, Justina Pociūnaitė-Ott, Ariela Lev Rosenblum, Sofia Marcolini, Pascale Waschnig, Christopher Magoon, Annie-Lori Joseph, Lieke C. J. Nijborg, Xi Pan, Lonneke I. M. Lenferink

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Evaluating stillborn and litter size as indicators of PRRSV detection in live piglets and the use of stillborn tongue fluids as risk-based samples for PRRSV monitoring by Isadora F. Machado, Peng Li, Jinnan Xiao, Thomas Petznick, Ana Paula P. Silva, Onyekachukwu H. Osemeke, Lucina Galina Pantoja, Phillip Gauger, Giovani Trevisan, Gustavo S. Silva, Daniel C. L. Linhares

“…IntroductionA risk-based approach to animal selection for sampling enhances pathogen detection by increasing the probability of selecting an animal harboring the pathogen while requiring a smaller sample size. …”
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Determination of Some Phenolic Compounds from Commercial Wine Vinegar Samples in Turkey by High Performance Liquid Chromatography by Kadriye Özlem Saygi

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