Global analysis links ambient fine particulate matter to bacterial antimicrobial resistance based on 110,000 + genomes by Wenyong Zhou, Zexuan Wen, Bowen Sun, Renjie Chen, Haiyan Xiong, Weibing Wang

“…The PM2.5-AMR association might be highest at cumulative exposure during the past 12 months, and modified by bacterial species, sample sources, environmental factors, and other national-level economic, medical, and social factors. …”
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Social determinants of health in relation to firearm-related homicides in the United States: A nationwide multilevel cross-sectional study. by Daniel Kim

“…The study population consisted of all 74,134 CTs as defined for the 2010 Census in the 48 states of the contiguous US. The final sample spanned 70,579 CTs, containing an estimated 314,247,908 individuals, or 98% of the total US population in 2015. …”
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Association Between Fixed-Dose Combination Use and Medication Adherence, Health Care Utilization, and Costs Among Medicaid Beneficiaries by Donglan Zhang, PhD, Jun Soo Lee, PhD, Nicole L. Therrien, PharmD, MPH, Lisa M. Pollack, PhD, MPH, MPT, Sandra L. Jackson, PhD, MPH, Xiaobei Dong, PhD, Anand Rajan, MS, Kai Hong, PhD, Andrew E. Moran, MD, MPH, Feijun Luo, PhD

“…Logistic models were used for medication adherence (defined as medication possession ratio [MPR] ≥80%), linear models for continuous MPRs, negative binomial models for health care utilization, and generalized linear models for costs. …”
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Associations between multimorbidity and adverse health outcomes in UK Biobank and the SAIL Databank: A comparison of longitudinal cohort studies. by Peter Hanlon, Bhautesh D Jani, Barbara Nicholl, Jim Lewsey, David A McAllister, Frances S Mair

“…Associations with all-cause mortality, unscheduled hospitalisation, and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) were assessed using Weibull or negative binomial models adjusted for age, sex, and socioeconomic status, over 7.5 years follow-up for both datasets. …”
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The Impact of Critical, Creative, Metacognitive, and Empathic Thinking Skills on High and Low Academic Achievements of Pre-Service Teachers by Hatice Kumandaş-Öztürk, Özlem Ulu-Kalın

“…The study was conducted using the predictive model. The case sampling method, a purposive sampling method, was used in the study. …”
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Pathology of Measuring and Managing Customer Satisfaction in B2B Companies by Gholamreza Tavakoli, Omid Heidari, Majid Feyz Arefi

“…Descriptive statistics, binomial, and Friedman tests were used to analyze the research data.Findings: The results of the qualitative research indicated that 30 sub-themes were identified in the form of 9 main themes. …”
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Schistosoma mansoni infection risk for school-aged children clusters within households and is modified by distance to freshwater bodies. by Olimpia Lamberti, Narcis B Kabatereine, Edridah M Tukahebwa, Goylette F Chami

“…Future research should investigate the sampling of households within communities as a means of progressing towards precision mapping of S. mansoni infections.…”
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Access Is Progress: Understanding Rural Secondary Student Access and Outcomes of Advanced Placement Courses by Phillip D. Grant, Ali Jahanaray, T. Logan Arrington

“…Moreover, this study confirms that previous research using sampled datasets underestimates the disparity of AP access.…”
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Prediction of Outcomes in Sports Under Probability in Kigezi Region. by Masereka, Jairus

“…The Poisson distribution is also the limit of a binomial distribution, for which the probability of success for each trial equals λ divided by the number of trials, as the number of trials approaches infinity. …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of the Council for Reviewing Books and Text in the Developing the Culture of Critique of Texts and Books of the Humanities Based on Upstream Documents... by Hossein Moghiseh, Esmail Kavoosi, Abdalrahim Rahimi

“…The statistical population included all experts and reviewed books in council as well as other institutions and publications in the 1390s. The samples of the study were: I) Almost all articles and critiques, II) 24 experts and practitioners, and III) 10 interviews published in the book of the Re-Reading Council that were selected by purposeful sampling method. …”
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Modelling distributions of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus using climate, host density and interspecies competition. by Bingyi Yang, Brooke A Borgert, Barry W Alto, Carl K Boohene, Joe Brew, Kelly Deutsch, James T DeValerio, Rhoel R Dinglasan, Daniel Dixon, Joseph M Faella, Sandra L Fisher-Grainger, Gregory E Glass, Reginald Hayes, David F Hoel, Austin Horton, Agne Janusauskaite, Bill Kellner, Moritz U G Kraemer, Keira J Lucas, Johana Medina, Rachel Morreale, William Petrie, Robert C Reiner, Michael T Riles, Henrik Salje, David L Smith, John P Smith, Amy Solis, Jason Stuck, Chalmers Vasquez, Katie F Williams, Rui-De Xue, Derek A T Cummings

“…We found an asymmetrical competitive interaction between adult populations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus for the sampled sites. Wind speed was negatively associated with the occurrence and abundance of both vectors. …”
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Brazilian version of the Diabetic Foot Self-Care Questionnaire of the University of Malaga, Spain: cross-cultural adaptation by Amelina de Brito Belchior, Rhanna Emanuela Fontenele Lima de Carvalho, Florência Gamileira Nascimento, Carla Cristina de Sordi, Raquel Rodrigues da Costa Brilhante, Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira, Sherida Karanini Paz de Oliveira

“…The Content Validity Index was calculated to assess the objectivity of the content validity. Kappa and Exact Binomial Distribution Test, indicated for small samples, were used to assess the reliability of agreement between the experts. …”
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Spatial targeting of Screening + Eave tubes (SET), a house-based malaria control intervention, in Côte d'Ivoire: A geostatistical modelling study. by Tiago Canelas, Edward Thomsen, Daniel McDermott, Eleanore Sternberg, Matthew B Thomas, Eve Worrall

“…We fitted a Bayesian beta-binomial logistic model using the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) to predict suitability of SET and to define priority locations for ground-truthing and to calculate the potential population coverage and costs. …”
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Identifikasi Jenis Pohon Riparian di Sumber Mata Air Desa Merbaun Kecamatan Amarasi Barat by Chatarina Gradict Semiun, Yulita Iryani Mamulak

“…Pengenalan nama tumbuhan menggunakan nama lokal, yang dirujuk ke nama ilmiah atau nama binomial. Analisis data terdiri dari status endemisme, indeks kekayaan jenis (Dmg), indeks keanekaragaman Shanon- Wiener (H’), dan indeks dominansi (D). …”
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The integrated ice sheet response to stochastic iceberg calving by Aminat A. Ambelorun, Alexander A. Robel

“…We show that for glaciers where calving occurs more frequently than the typical model time steps (days-months), stochastic calving schemes sampling a binomial distribution accurately simulate the probabilistic distribution of glacier state. …”
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Weather and Exposure Period Affect Coyote Detection at Camera Traps by Anastasia E. Madsen, Lucia Corral, Joseph J. Fontaine

“…Our findings suggest that to achieve accurate population indices, camera‐trap studies need to incorporate effects of weather conditions and sampling duration into population models to account for detection bias in estimates. © 2020 The Wildlife Society.…”
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Solar and Wind 24 H Sequenced Prediction Using L-Transform Component and Deep LSTM Learning in Representation of Spatial Pattern Correlation by Ladislav Zjavka

“…This hybrid approach is based on the optimal determination of partial differential equations (PDEs) composed at the nodes of gradually expanded binomial trees. It allows for modelling of highly uncertain weather-related physical systems using unstable RE. …”
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Frequent detection of HPV before and after initiation of antiretroviral therapy among HIV/HSV-2 co-infected women in Uganda. by Anne F Rositch, Patti E Gravitt, Aaron A R Tobian, Kevin Newell, Thomas C Quinn, David Serwadda, Paschal Ssebbowa, Valerian Kiggundu, Ronald H Gray, Steven J Reynolds

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>Most data on HPV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) come from high-resource countries with infrequent sampling for HPV pre- and post-ART initiation. Therefore, we examined the frequency of cervical HPV DNA detection among HIV/HSV-2 co-infected women followed monthly for 6 months both before and after initiation of ART in Rakai, Uganda.…”
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Determinants of rice consumer lexicographic preferences in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia by Natsir Mohammad, Mardiyati Sri, Syafiuddin Syafiuddin

“…This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the hedonic price of rice and analyze the factors that determine the lexicographic preferences of rice consumers. Sampling is carried out using the cluster sampling method for urban and rural areas, with a total of 200 observations. …”
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Association between serum mineral concentrations and gastrointestinal parasite burden in zebu cattle accessing 'hora' mineral water in southwestern Ethiopia. by Ashenafi Miresa, Taye Tolemariam, Belay Duguma, Ellen S Dierenfeld, Abebe Nigussie, Feyissa Begna

“…Concurrently, blood samples were collected to evaluate serum mineral concentrations. …”
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