Selection ability and market timing skills of mutual fund and unit trust managers in a developing economy: evidence from Ghana by Richard Danquah, Baorong Yu

“…Design/methodology/approach – The study uses an improved survivorship bias-free dataset of yearly after-fee returns of all mutual funds and unit trusts operating in Ghana from January 2011 to December 2019, cumulating in nine years of quantitative fund data. …”
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Machine learning-enabled prediction of bone metastasis in esophageal cancer by Liqiang Liu, Wanshi Duan, Tao She, Shouzheng Ma, Haihui Wang, Jiakuan Chen

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified age, T stage, N stage, and histological type as independent risk factors for bone metastasis. …”
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A financeirização do circuito imobiliário como rearranjo escalar do processo de urbanização by Daniel de Mello Sanfelici

“…In the second part, based on a set of interviews conducted between 2011 and 2012 and on data collected about the sector, we have brought attention to the types of articulation between agents operating at different socio-spatial scales. …”
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Positive association of triglyceride glucose index and gestational diabetes mellitus: a retrospective cohort study by Jie Zhang, Xia Fang, Zhan Song, Xue-ke Guo, Dong-mei Lin, Fei-na Jiang, Lin Lin, Zhu-hua Cai

“…Research objectives were validated using logistic regression analysis and Receiver Operating Characteristic curves.ResultsWe found an independent correlation between TyG index and increased risk of GDM, with an odds ratio (OR) of 3.11 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.09-4.63, P<0.001). …”
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Associations of aged neutrophils with disease activity in primary Sjögren's syndrome by Lei Han, Chunyuan Xiao, Tianlin Lu, Xinfang Huang

“…ROC analysis showed an area under the curve of 0.8036, with a p‐value of 0.0002. …”
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Effects of Air Pollution and the Introduction of the London Low Emission Zone on the Prevalence of Respiratory and Allergic Symptoms in Schoolchildren in East London: A Sequential... by Helen E Wood, Nadine Marlin, Ian S Mudway, Stephen A Bremner, Louise Cross, Isobel Dundas, Andrew Grieve, Jonathan Grigg, Jeenath B Jamaludin, Frank J Kelly, Tak Lee, Aziz Sheikh, Robert Walton, Christopher J Griffiths

“…The LEZ did not reduce ambient air pollution levels, or affect the prevalence of respiratory/allergic symptoms over the period studied. These data confirm the previous association between traffic-related air pollutant exposures and symptoms of current rhinitis. …”
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The experiences of hospital staff with decision-making concerning patient enrolment in hospital at home services: A complex and dynamic process. by Lillian Karlsen, Bente Prytz Mjølstad, Bjarte Bye Løfaldli, Anne-Sofie Helvik

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In total, 22 semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with hospital staff members between January and May 2022 at the participants' workplace or in a public office depending on their preferences. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.…”
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The application of the motivation-opportunity-ability model in predicting green entrepreneurial behavior of farmers by Zobeyde Kouchaky, Fatemeh Razzaghi Borkhani, Taher Azizi-Khalkheili, Fatemeh Ghorbani Piralidehi

“…The research involved a complete survey of 70 vegetable greenhouse units in the region. Data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling through the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method with Smart PLS3 software. …”
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Utility of Toll-Free Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) Helpline under National Oral Health Program (NOHP) - A Cross-Sectional Hospital Based Study by Utkal K. Mohanty, Swapna Sarit, Gaurav Sharma, Jayanta K. Dash

“…The toll-free Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) with contact number 1800112032, was initiated to deliver oral health-related information to users and guide them for proper treatment on World Oral Health Day on 20th March 2017. There is scarcity of data regarding the utility and perception of users about IVRS. …”
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Enhancing Traffic Accident Severity Prediction: Feature Identification Using Explainable AI by Jamal Alotaibi

“…The analysis identified critical features, including sources, descriptions of weather conditions, time of day (weather timestamp, start time, end time), distance, crossing, and traffic signals, as significant predictors of the probability of an accident occurring. …”
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Research on economic crimes involving accountants: classification issues by O.A. Lagovska, I.L. Hrabchuk, A.V. Trofimov

“…It is suggested that the classification of economic crimes involving accountants should be carried out according to the following characteristics: areas of economic crimes (frauds with calculation and payment of wages; concealment of income to reduce taxes; participation in operations to launder funds obtained illegally; embezzlement, theft); methods of committing economic crimes (entering unreliable data into reporting; forging documents); composition of participants in the economic crime (economic crimes committed by an accountant; economic crimes committed by several persons, including an accountant); pressure on the accountant (economic crimes committed by the accountant under duress; economic crimes committed by the accountant on his own initiative); use of information and computer technologies (economic crimes committed with the use of information and computer technologies; economic crimes for which information and computer technologies were not used). …”
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The Impact of the Built Environment on Resident Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Multidimensional Life Satisfaction by Tunan Deng, Chun-Ming Hsieh, Anan Guan, Xueying Wu

“…Based on questionnaire data collected from 22 statistical districts in Macau, with a sample size of 1313 individuals, a multilevel linear regression model and mediation analysis were applied (model R² ≈ 47%). …”
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Short-Term Prediction of the Solar Photovoltaic Power Output Using Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Inputs and Artificial Neural Network Techniques Under Different Weather Condit... by Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad, Wisam A. M. Al-Shohani

“…This goal was achieved based on an experimental dataset for the power output of a PV module obtained during the sunny days in summer and cloudy days in winter, and using the data in the algorithm models of NARX and ANN. In addition, the analysis results of the NARX model were compared with those of the static ANN model to measure the accuracy and superiority of the nonlinear model. …”
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The Metabolic Score for Visceral Fat (METS-VF) as a predictor of diabetes mellitus: Evidence from the 2011-2018 NHANES study. by Harshita Tripathi, Amandeep Singh, Farheen, Bindu Prakash, Dharmendra Kumar Dubey, Prayas Sethi, Ranveer Singh Jadon, Piyush Ranjan, Naval K Vikram

“…Multivariate logistic regression and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis assessed the association between METS-VF and DM. …”
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Assessing climate risks to Net Zero power system in Great Britain by Jaise Kuriakose, Eduardo A. Martínez Ceseña, Ruth Wood

“…It reviews seasonal climate risks to Net Zero supply and demand technologies and introduces a framework for climate impact analysis, focusing on windstorms. Under a high-emission scenario, increased cooling demand combined with reduced wind energy supply during summers presents a risk, particularly during heat waves, necessitating careful planning of network capacity for system operation. …”
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Numerical Simulation of the Unsteady Airwake of the Liaoning Carrier Based on the DDES Model Coupled with Overset Grid by Xiaoxi Yang, Baokuan Li, Zhibo Ren, Fangchao Tian

“…The validity of two turbulence models was verified through comparison with the existing data from the literature. The upturned bow take-off deck and the right-hand island were the main areas where flow separation occurred. …”
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The role of ChatGPT in junior high school physics education: Insights from teachers and students and guidelines for optimal use by Nikos Bessas, Eleni Tzanaki, Denis Vavougios, Vassilis P. Plagianakos

“…ChatGPT is a relatively recent application, available to the public since late November 2022, rooted in Artificial Intelligence. Operating in a chatbot environment and drawing from a vast data pool, it is capable of answering user queries across a wide range of subjects. …”
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PREVALENCE OF CARDIAC RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM by V. S. Arakelyan, A. R. Jane, N. A. Gidaspov, P. P. Kulichkov, N. V. Bortnikova

“…A retrospective analysis of case histories of 100 patients hospitalized in our clinic diagnosed with «abdominal aortic aneurysm» for examination. …”
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Mental health services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in high-income countries: protocol for a rapid review by Yu Fu, Dawn Craig, Ge Yu

“…Studies reporting views of the general public, letters of opinion to peer-review journals, editorial or commentaries will be excluded. Study selection and data extraction will be undertaken independently by two reviewers. …”
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Enhancing Grid Stability Through Physics-Informed Machine Learning Integrated-Model Predictive Control for Electric Vehicle Disturbance Management by Bilal Khan, Zahid Ullah, Giambattista Gruosso

“…A comprehensive convergence and stability analysis of the proposed MPC formulation uses Lyapunov-based proofs. …”
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