Prediction of Voice Therapy Outcomes Using Machine Learning Approaches and SHAP Analysis: A K-VRQOL-Based Analysis by Ji Hye Park, Ah Ra Jung, Ji-Na Lee, Ji-Yeoun Lee

“…The emotional domain shows relatively low predictive power across the models. SHAP analysis reveals interpretable patterns, highlighting jitter and speaking fundamental frequency (SFF) as key contributors in high-performing models. …”
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Green human resource management and Sustainable Development Goals in non-profit organisations by Shanitha Singh, Ana Martins, Orthodox Tefera

“…Motivation for the study: Non-profit organisations can be found to work across most, if not all, of the 17 United Nations’ SDGs. …”
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Living with, managing and minimising treatment burden in long term conditions: a systematic review of qualitative research. by Sara Demain, Ana-Carolina Gonçalves, Carlos Areia, Rúben Oliveira, Ana Jorge Marcos, Alda Marques, Ranj Parmar, Katherine Hunt

“…<h4>Background</h4>'Treatment burden', defined as both the workload and impact of treatment regimens on function and well-being, has been associated with poor adherence and unfavourable outcomes. …”
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Strategies to scale up the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of major millet growing farmers in India – A primal system approach by Kannan Thomas Felix, K.B. Ramappa, Padma Lakshmi Govindarajan

“…Employing primal Cobb-Douglas production function showed that human labor, seed quantity, and fertilizers positively impact millet cultivation. …”
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Geographical accessibility of emergency neonatal care services in Ethiopia: analysis using the 2016 Ethiopian Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Survey by Andrew Hayen, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Daniel Demant

“…Accessibility to health services is a function of the distribution and location of services, including distance, travel time, cost and convenience. …”
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Towards a novel framework for identifying commonalities and differences in older people’s end-of-life trajectories: aims and interdisciplinary mixed-methods approach of the ERC-fun... by Khyati Tripathi, Emma Gobiet, Lieve Van den Block, Casper Van den Bossche, Lara Pivodic

“…Our understanding of these end-of-life trajectories is very limited, focuses predominantly on physical function and clinical predictors and neglects inter-individual differences. …”
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Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Chronic Pain Management: A Narrative Review by Mohammed Albesher, Mohammed AlKhalifah, Abdulaziz Hazazi, Ghassan Hakeem, Bader Almogbel

“…Methods: A systematic search was conducted across PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, and Web of Science databases for studies published in English between 2000 and 2024. …”
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More than a Bundle? Developing Adaptive Guidance for Task Selection in an Online, Semantic-Based Cognitive Stimulation Program by Ana Rita Batista, Vasiliki Folia, Susana Silva

“…This study examined users’ performance accuracy across the eight tasks that comprise the BOX semantic-based program, adapted for the Cerup/CQ online platforms. …”
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SARS-Cov-2 Incidence Monitoring and Statistical Estimation of the Basic and Time-Varying Reproduction Number at the Early Onset of the Pandemic in 45 Sub-Saharan African Countries. by Oduro, Michael Safo, Arhin‐Donkor, Seth, Asiedu, Louis, Kadengye, Damazo T., Iddi, Samuel

“…An accurate assessment of the transmissibility of the coronavirus remained a public health priority for many countries across the world to fight this pandemic, especially at its early onset. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…Furthermore, a perception similarity loss function, designed to align with the human visual system, was incorporated into the overall loss function. …”
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Associating prenatal phthalate exposure with childhood autistic traits: Investigating potential adverse outcome pathways and the modifying effects of maternal vitamin D by Hui Gao, Cheng Zhang, Beibei Zhu, Menglong Geng, Juan Tong, Zixiang Zhan, Yi Zhang, De Wu, Kun Huang, Fangbiao Tao

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A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Cooperative Guidance Strategy Under Uncontrollable Velocity Conditions by Hao Cui, Ke Zhang, Minghu Tan, Jingyu Wang

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed deep reinforcement learning-based guidance law can successfully achieve cooperative attacks across a range of randomized initial conditions.…”
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Bounds on the bubble wall velocity by Wen-Yuan Ai, Benoit Laurent, Jorinde van de Vis

“…For the ballistic approximation, we argue that the inhomogeneous plasma temperature and velocity distributions across the bubble wall should be taken into account. …”
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Protein-protein interaction prediction using bidirectional GRUs with explicit ensemble. by Qiuhong Lan, Zhongtuan Zheng, Zhen Tang, Xuehua Qiu, Zhixiang Yin

“…The accurate in-silico identification of these interactions is a significant area of research in biology-related fields, which is crucial for protein function prediction and drug design. Protein sequence data serves as the primary source for computational protein prediction. …”
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Controlling noise with self-organized resetting by Felix J. Meigel, Steffen Rulands

“…Abstract Biological systems often consist of a small number of constituents and are therefore inherently noisy. To function effectively, these systems must employ mechanisms to constrain the accumulation of noise. …”
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Direct Conditional Score Modeling for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction by Hongki Lim

“…This paper presents a novel approach called Direct Conditional Score (DCS) modeling that directly models the conditional score function, eliminating the need for separate likelihood terms. …”
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Macroscopic-Microscopic Fission Yields by Mumpower Matthew, Sprouse Trevor, Verriere Marc, Vassh Nicole, Randrup Jorgen

“…Assuming strongly damped shape motion, we run many iterations of a Metropolis random walk across nuclear potential-energy surfaces to obtain sufficient scission statistics. …”
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Active assessment of fitness and performance in a general population by Brent Winslow, Aravind Natarajan, Samantha Mravca, Justin Julian Duong, Salahuddin Choudhary, Tracy Norman Giest

“…Improving body composition, strength, endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with increased longevity and function, but current fitness assessments are largely qualitative and episodic. …”
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A Study on Mandatory Disclosure Requirement of Genetic Resources by Youngmo Kim

“…For the purpose, ⓐthe provisions of the legal instrument have been drafted to function as part of the existing patent system; ⓑThe disclosure requirement must be clear and reasonable to allow patent offices to implement the system easily and without undue burden, and to ensure that applicants are able to meet its requirements; ⓒSanctions must be balanced and take account of the underlying objectives of the instrument to ensure that the system is used appropriately while avoiding chilling effects on innovation; ⓓThis disclosure requirement is required to enhance the efficacy, transparency, and quality of the patent system, and to bring consistency and predictability to disclosure requirements across jurisdictions.…”
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Attack traffic allocation and load balancing mechanism for SDN by LI Man, ZHOU Huachun, XU Qi, DENG Shuangxing, ZOU Tao, ZHANG Ruyun

“…The traffic allocation problem was modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP), where the reward function included both resource consumption and delay. …”
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