Sex differences and trends in managing cardiovascular risk factors in primary care: a dynamic cohort study by Geert Smits, Michiel L Bots, Monika Hollander, Sander van Doorn

“…Results: The number of participants increased from 24,889 to 38,067, mean age increased from 67.3 years to 71.5 years, with around 52 % women each year. The average of seven risk factors on target increased significantly from 4.6 to 4.9 in women, and from 4.7 to 5.0 in men, with no statistical difference between women and men. …”
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The cost of sleeping sickness vector control in Yasa Bonga, a health district in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. by Rian Snijders, Alexandra P M Shaw, Richard Selby, Inaki Tirados, Paul R Bessell, Alain Fukinsia, Erick Miaka, Fabrizio Tediosi, Epco Hasker, Marina Antillon

“…Economic and financial costs, collected from the provider's perspective, were used to estimate the average cost of tsetse control expressed as cost (i) per target used, (ii) per target deployed, (iii) per linear kilometre of river controlled, and (iv) per square kilometre protected by vector control. …”
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Femoral resection accuracy and precision in manual caliper‐verified kinematic alignment total knee arthroplasty by David Forrest Scott, Emma N. Horton

“…We hypothesised that this technique would achieve high accuracy and precision, with an average absolute difference between actual and target distal and posterior femoral resection measurements of ≤ 0.5 mm. …”
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A systematic review of behaviour change interventions to improve maternal health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. by Francis G Muriithi, Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Gillian Forbes, Ruth W Gakuo, Eleanor Thomas, Ioannis D Gallos, Adam Devall, Arri Coomarasamy, Fabiana Lorencatto

“…As per the most recent evidence, an average maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 223 deaths per 100,000 live births has been estimated globally, with sub-Saharan Africa's average MMR at 536 per 100,000 live births-more than twice the global average. …”
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Comparative analysis of 3D CT values for different lumbar pedicle screw trajectories by Yuanpeng Yue, Ce Dong, Anhang Zhang, Zhenyu Wang

“…Using Mimics 21.0 software, cylindrical models were constructed to simulate three types of pedicle screws, and the average CT values of the target cylindrical area (TCA) were measured. …”
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Comparison of Modeling with Fuzzy Logic Method and Mixture Design in Predicting the Formulation of Ziziphora Essential Oil Nanoemulsion Production by Reza Beigzadeh, Omid Ahmadi

“…The analysis of the fuzzy logic model demonstrated its effectiveness as a powerful method for estimating the characteristics of the produced nanoemulsion in the studied system. The average relative errors of the proposed fuzzy method compared to the target data for average particle size and antioxidant property were found to be 1.84% and 5.82%, respectively. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of SRS Similarity for Aerospace Testing Applications by Ibukun O. Adebolu, Hirokazu Masui, Mengu Cho

“…The similarity between a shock response spectrum (SRS) and a target shock specification is essential in evaluating the success of a qualification test of a space component. …”
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Development and validation of a multidisciplinary educational booklet for kidney transplant recipients by Juliane Custodio de Andrade, Andressa Santos Ferreira Brito, Kelly Aparecida Vieria dos Santos, Ariane Polidoro Dini, Angélica Gonçalves Silva Belasco, Renata Cristina Gasparino

“…The target audience evaluation reached a 99.7% agreement rate. …”
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A PERCEPTUAL CUE ON A MOVING OPPONENT IMPROVES THE LEARNING OF A MOTOR SKILL FROM AIKIDO by Estefan Gemas Neto, Sergio Roberto Silveira, Marcos Antônio Mattos dos Reis, Umberto Cesar Corrêa

“…Sixty participants from both sexes with an average age of 14 practiced choku tsuki task, which consisted of hitting a target on the chest of an attacking opponent with a stick. …”
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Infrared Ship Detection in Complex Nearshore Scenes Based on Improved YOLOv5s by Xiuwen Liu, Mingchen Liu, Yong Yin

“…Three key improvements are introduced: (1) Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization integrated with Gaussian Filtering enhances target edge sharpness; (2) Replacement of the feature pyramid network’s C3 module with a Swin Transformer-based C3STR module reduces multi-scale false detections; and (3) Implementation of an Efficient Channel Attention mechanism amplifies critical target features. …”
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Research Infographic: An Innovative Instructional System Design Teaching Steps In Writing a Research Paper by Kristin Anne Corcega

“…An additional criterion of the ISD module effectivity was contributed by the reported performance evaluation of the target learners. Their final research outputs scored 85% - 93% as an average rating.…”
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Real-time measurement of spatial distance to external breakage hazards of transmission pole tower based on monocular vision. by Ruchao Liao, Duanjiao Li, Changyu Li, Wenxing Sun, Gao Liu, Cong Wang

“…In addition, this study introduced a foreground target depth optimization method based on a 2D target detector and geometric constraints, which further improved the accuracy of 3D target detection. …”
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Designing Randomized Experiments to Predict Unit-Specific Treatment Effects by Elizabeth Tipton, Michalis Mamakos

“…When evaluating a program or policy, a randomized experiment is typically designed to test a single confirmatory hypothesis about the average treatment effect, although subgroup and moderator effects may also be explored. …”
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Robust Initialization of Active Shape Models for Lung Segmentation in CT Scans: A Feature-Based Atlas Approach by Gurman Gill, Matthew Toews, Reinhard R. Beichel

“…Our method constructs an atlas consisting of a set of representative lung features and an average lung shape. The ASM pose parameters are found by transforming the average lung shape based on an affine transform computed from matching features between the new image and representative lung features. …”
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PENERAPAN METODE PROJECT-BASED LEARNING DALAM PEMBELAJARAN AL-QUR'AN SURAH AL-FALAQ by Utia Lina Anggriani, Irja Putra Pratama

“…In Cycle I, there was an increase in the average score to 62, with some students showing better participation, but the results still did not meet the expected target. …”
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Purity control of simulated moving bed based on advanced fuzzy II controller. by Chao-Fan Xie, Ting Lin, Hong Zhang

“…In steady-state conditions, error acceleration is typically slightly less than the target value. Introducing the acceleration term, albeit non-fuzzy, in a proactive fuzzy I-type controller often leads to an increase in steady-state values. …”
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Distributed Voronoi coverage algorithm in wireless sensor networks by XU Peng-fei1, CHEN Zhi-gang1, DENG Xiao-heng1

“…On the hypothesis conditions that wireless sensor networks only covered partial target region and the commu-nication radius was no less than twice of the sensing radius,a coverage-preserved and connected distributed Voronoi cov-erage algorithm was presented.Firstly,a method of detecting coverage redundancy sensors based on the local Voronoi re-gions was proposed,whose computational complexity was unconcerned with the density of sensors.Then,an en-ergy-prior self-scheduling strategy based on local Voronoi neighbors was proposed,where those sensors that were com-munication neighbors but not local Voronoi neighbors could synchronously execute self-scheduling,which improved the astringency of distributed scheduling.The simulation results show that the average number and coverage-degree of active sensors produced by the proposed algorithm are close to the centralized algorithm and smaller than the general distributed algorithm,while the proposed algorithm has more advantages in terms of active sensors’ average energy,scheduling as-tringency and runtime.…”
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE TOURIST TRAFFIC - AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TERRITORY PLANNING OF THE TOURISM by Adelaida Cristina HONTUŞ

“…Concerning the proposed target for tourism organization is the analysis of tourist traffic on tourism demand and supply at a guesthouse in ”Doftana Valley”, calculating, processing and interpretating the most representative tourism indicators: average daily number of tourists, number of overnight stays, average length of stay, tourist traffic density and the coefficient of utilization of the accommodation capacity and other indicators features. …”
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Robust UAV Tracking via Information Synergy Fusion and Multi-Dimensional Spatial Perception by Yong Lin, Mingfeng Yin, Yingjie Zhang, Xiaoteng Guo

“…In the field of UAV tracking, existing trackers based on Siamese networks fails to fully exploit the context of the target and capture the correlations between the template and search images. …”
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Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Cross-Modality Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation Challenges by Xiyu Zhang, Xu Chen, Yang Wang, Dongliang Liu, Yifeng Hong

“…These synthesized images preserve the anatomical structure of the target, enabling segmentation predictions from the pre-trained model. …”
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