Healthcare Providers’ Adherence to COVID-19 Prevention and Control Practices in Health Records and Information Management, Ghana by Richard Okyere Boadu, Kwame Adu Okyere Boadu, Nathan Kumasenu Mensah, Godwin Adzakpah, Fortune Afaglo, Rosemary Bermaa Abrefa, Emmanuella Aryee, Nancy Gyamena Botwe, Dinah Baiden-Amissah, Dennis Bless Ashiavor, Larry Lee Mensah, Lovemond Kojo Asamoah, Judith Obiri-Yeboah

“…Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient was used to examine the statistical reliability of the variables in the dataset. …”
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Integrated Analysis Reveals Genetic Basis of Growth Curve Parameters in an F₂ Designed Pig Population Based on Genome and Transcriptome Data by Zhaoxuan Che, Jiakun Qiao, Fangjun Xu, Xinyun Li, Yunxia Zhao, Mengjin Zhu

“…Appropriate growth curves can reflect more sophisticated growth patterns of animals than body weight, and thus, the identification of genes and variants related to the growth curve parameter traits contributes to revealing the fine growth and development characteristics of livestock. However, the ability of single genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) and transcriptome analyses to identify valuable genes and variants is limited. …”
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Genetic and phenotypic associations of frailty with cardiovascular indicators and behavioral characteristics by Yihan Chen, Siying Lin, Shuangyu Yang, Mengling Qi, Yu Ren, Chong Tian, Shitian Wang, Yuedong Yang, Jianzhao Gao, Huiying Zhao

“…The genetic and phenotypic relationships of FI with cardiovascular indicators (CIs) and behavioral characteristics (BCs) are unclear, which has hampered ability to monitor FI using easily collected data. …”
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Validation of CRU TS v4.08, ERA5-Land, IMERG v07B, and MSWEP v2.8 Precipitation Estimates Against Observed Values over Pakistan by Haider Abbas, Wenlong Song, Yicheng Wang, Kaizheng Xiang, Long Chen, Tianshi Feng, Shaobo Linghu, Muneer Alam

“…The monthly and seasonal precipitation estimations of each product were validated against in situ observations using statistical matrices, including the correlation coefficient (CC), root mean square error (RMSE), percent of bias (PBias), and Kling–Gupta efficiency (KGE). …”
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CatSkill: Artificial Intelligence-Based Metrics for the Assessment of Surgical Skill Level from Intraoperative Cataract Surgery Video Recordings by Binh Duong Giap, PhD, Dena Ballouz, MD, Karthik Srinivasan, MD, MS, Jefferson Lustre, BS, Keely Likosky, BS, Ossama Mahmoud, MD, Shahzad I. Mian, MD, Bradford L. Tannen, MD, JD, Nambi Nallasamy, MD

“…Results: The CatSkill system using FPN (VGG16) achieved a Dice coefficient of 94.03% for segmentation of palpebral fissure, limbus, and Purkinje image 1. …”
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Leveraging Grain Boundary Effects for Nanostructured Electrode Layers in Symmetric Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Federico Baiutti, Francesco Chiabrera, Marlene Anzengruber, Kosova Kreka, Juande Sirvent, Lluis Yedra, Fjorelo Buzi, Macej Oskar Liedke, Andrea Cavallaro, Albert Carmona Zuazo, Sonia Estradé, Maik Butterling, Eric Hirschmann, Andreas Wagner, Ainara Aguadero, Francisca Peiró, Albert Tarancon

“…A four‐orders‐of‐magnitude increase in the oxygen diffusion coefficient at grain boundaries is observed, and related  to local chemical changes. …”
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Applying ionic liquids as oil additives for gearboxes: Going beyond the state of the art by bridging the nano-scale and component level by Azhaarudeen Anifa Mohamed Faruck, Philipp G. Grützmacher, Chia-Jui Hsu, Dominik Dworschak, Hsiu-Wei Cheng, Markus Valtiner, Kristof Stagel, Philipp Mikšovsky, Apurba Ranjan Sahoo, Aitor Sainz Martinez, Katharina Bica-Schröder, Michael Weigand, Carsten Gachot

“…Similarly, IL blends demonstrate a very stable coefficient of friction (COF) of around 0.16, which even decreases with increasing test temperatures ranging from 40 to 120 °C. …”
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Comparative analysis of the performance of the large language models ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4 and Open AI-o1 in the field of Programmed Cell Death in myeloma by Wu Kun, Tao Bo, Li Yuntao, Cheng Shenju, Li Yanhong, Luo Shan, Zeng Yun, Nie Bo, Shi Mingxia

“…The highest Cohen’s Kappa coefficient among the models indicated greater consistency in evaluations by clinical experts. …”
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Characteristics of occurrence and distribution rule of deep coalbed methane in supercritical state by Lihong ZHOU, Xia YAN, Xianyue XIONG, Feng WANG, Wenchao LIU, Yuejie YANG, Zhaobiao YANG, Yanqing FENG

“…The results show that: ① Under high temperature and high pressure, methane viscosity, density, compression factor, volume coefficient and other high pressure physical property parameters do not change linearly with temperature and pressure. …”
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Association between daily living activities and quality of life in post-COVID-19 patients: a cross-sectional study by Shameem Ahammad, Ruksana Akter, Md. Abdul Koddus, Md. Kabir Hossain, Ehsanur Rahman, Tofajjal Hossain, Mohammad Mohinul Islam, Khin Nyein Yin, Md. Feroz Kabir, Md. Iqbal Kabir Jahid

“…Pearson correlation coefficient analysis was applied to the association between four WHOQOL-BREF domains with a total MBI score. …”
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Prediction of the Calorific Value and Moisture Content of <i>Caragana korshinskii</i> Fuel Using Hyperspectral Imaging Technology and Various Stoichiometric Methods by Xuehong De, Haoming Li, Jianchao Zhang, Nanding Li, Huimeng Wan, Yanhua Ma

“…This has seriously hindered the ability of large-scale, rapid detection of fuel particles in industrial production lines. …”
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Studies on wear resistance of the radial bearing design taking into account rheological properties of micropolar lubricant by M. A. Mukutadze, H. N. Abdulrahman, V. E. Shvedova, G. A. Badakhov, N. V. Zinoviev

“…The novelty of the work lies in the concretization of the technique of engineering calculations for the design of an effective radial bearing with an antifriction polymer coating with an axial groove on the bearing surface of the bearing bush, taking into account the dependence of the rheological properties of a micropolar lubricant on pressure and temperature in a turbulent mode, which makes it possible to estimate the value of the main operational characteristics: hydrodynamic pressure, load ability and coefficient of friction, as well as to expand the scope of practical application of models for engineering calculations. …”
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Noninvasive prediction of meningioma brain invasion via multiparametric MRI⁃based brain⁃tumor interface radiomics by CHENG Xing, WANG Zhi⁃chao, LI Hua⁃ning, WANG Xie⁃feng, YOU Yong⁃ping

“…The training set was used for model construction and optimization, and the testing set for evaluating generalization ability. All patients underwent preoperative MRI examination including axial T1WI, enhanced T1WI and T2WI. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence visions on incident duration using eXtreme Gradient Boosting and SHapley Additive exPlanations by Khaled Hamad, Emran Alotaibi, Waleed Zeiada, Ghazi Al-Khateeb, Saleh Abu Dabous, Maher Omar, Bharadwaj R.K. Mantha, Mohamed G. Arab, Tarek Merabtene

“…The XGBoost algorithm's ability to handle multi-dimensional datasets was employed to identify crucial variables affecting incident durations. …”
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hybrid model to improve reference evapotranspiration prediction: Integrating ANN and PSO by Hadeel Essa, Salah L. Zubaidi

“…The outcomes showed that the model, with a coefficient of determination of 0.93, is effective and has good simulation levels.     …”
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Identification of a Surface Marine Vessel Using LS-SVM by David Moreno-Salinas, Dictino Chaos, Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Joaquín Aranda

“…Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have shown a great performance in pattern recognition and classification research areas having an inherent potential ability for linear and nonlinear system identification. …”
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Effects of UV-B radiation on the photosystem performance and fruit quality of strawberry in greenhouse by CHEN Yanrong, DING Shanming, LIU Zhen, SHI Huimei, XIAO Wei, CHEN Xiude, LI Ling, LI Dongmei

“…The actual photochemical quantum yield of PSⅡ in T1, T2, and T3, as well as the effective photochemical efficiency Fv'/Fm', photochemical quenching coefficient qP, and non photochemical quenching coefficient qN of PSⅡ, were significantly higher than those in CK in most periods. …”
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Validity and Responsiveness of a Modified Balance Error Scoring System Assessment Using a Mobile Device Application in Patients Recovering from Ankle Sprain by Michael S Crowell, Eliot Thomasma, Erin Florkiewicz, Richard Brindle, Megan Roach, Donald Goss, Will Pitt

“…# Background Static balance is often impaired in patients after ankle sprains. The ability to identify static balance impairments is dependent on an effective balance assessment tool. …”
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A Comprehensive Approach to Synthetic Distribution Grid Generation: Erdős–Rényi to Barabási-Albert by Mohammad Shahraeini

“…Additionally, a detailed examination of degree-based parameters and Pearson coefficients for SDGs of sizes from 20 to 1000 uncovers significant patterns. …”
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End-to-end throughput evaluation model and optimization method for dual-mode mesh network by SU Zhan, WEN Bo, ZHU Xiaorong

“…By improving the network concurrency ability and the receiving ability of the master node, a significant gain in network load capacity can be achieved.…”
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