Utilization of Radiographic Imaging for Infant Hydronephrosis over the First 12 Months of Life by Anthony J. Schaeffer, Patrick C. Cartwright, Glen A. Lau, Mark D. Ebert, Nora F. Fino, Flory L. Nkoy, Rachel Hess

“…Inclusion criteria: (1) birth between 1/1/2005 and 12/31/2013, (2) CPT code for HN, and (3) ultrasound (U/S) confirmed HN within four months of birth. …”
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IECO: an improved educational competition optimizer for state-of-the-art engineering optimization by Xiaojie Tang, Junbo Jacob Lian, Ling Ma, Xincan Wu, Rui Zhong, Yujun Zhang, Huiling Chen

“…These findings position IECO as a new state-of-the-art optimizer in single-objective optimization. The source code for IECO can be accessed at https://github.com/junbolian/IECO .…”
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Ketamine and melatonin for the prevention of postoperative delirium in patients with colorectal cancer: a feasibility study by Kousha Farhadi, Mojgan Rahimi, Hesam Varpaei, Erta Rajabi, Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Tayebi Tafreshi, Parsa Mohammadi, Mostafa Mohammadi

“…Trial regsitration IR.TUMS.IKHC.REC.1401.374, registration date: 14 February 2023 and IRCT code: IRCT20120527009886N2, registration date: 07/03/2023.…”
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Comparison Between SAW and TOPSIS Methods in Selection of Broiler Chicken Meat Quality by Pungky Tri Kisworo Adi, Endang Sugiharti, Alamsyah Alamsyah

“…That is analyze the user needs on the system, do the database design, by doing a coding and testing the system whether it is what is expected. …”
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INDEPENDENCE AND FINANCIAL EXPERTISE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Saidu MUSA, Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Paul B. Ogunwole

“…The study therefore recommends that government and regulatory agencies should mandate the addition of accounting experts on the board of audit committees rather than the openness of financial expertise covering all fields of management stated in the Nigerian code of Corporate Governance (2016). …”
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Parametric study of MHD mixed convection heat transfer in a trapezoidal cavity with NEPCM suspension and rotating star-shaped heat source by Aissa Abderrahmane, Houssem Laidoudi, Abdeldjalil Belazreg, Obai Younis, Hamoud A. Al-Nehari, Riadh Marzouki

“…Grid independence and code verification against benchmark solutions are demonstrated. …”
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Civil Servants and Political Leaders’ Performance in Service Delivery in Kisoro District Local Government, Uganda. by Zigira Sam, Niyonzima

“…In conducting the study, the researcher employed descriptive research design which was backed up by qualitative and quantitative research approaches. …”
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Creating a Featured Book Display When Most of the Books are E-books by Patricia E. Reese

“… The Discovery Park Library of the University of North Texas designed a physical featured book display which incorporated both print and electronic books. …”
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NeuroMorse: a temporally structured dataset for neuromorphic computing by Ben Walters, Yeshwanth Bethi, Taylor Kergan, Binh Nguyen, Amirali Amirsoleimani, Jason K Eshraghian, Saeed Afshar, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

“…In this paper, we present NeuroMorse, a temporally structured dataset designed for benchmarking spiking learning algorithms. …”
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Understanding for whom, under which circumstances and how sedentary behaviour interventions for older adults work: a realist review by Greet Cardon, Sofie Compernolle, Geert Crombez, Sebastian Chastin, Delfien Van Dyck, Emelien Lauwerier, Laura Van de Velde, Femke De Meester, Fientje Mertens, Sanne Stegen

“…The present realist review aims to identify the working mechanisms and contextual preconditions to guide the development of future interventions.Design A realist review was conducted following the iterative process of Pawson and Tilley and reported following the RAMESES publication standards.Data sources Evidence was searched in four databases: EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus, and in the grey literature.Eligibility criteria All study types and designs were included. …”
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A Flexible Smart Healthcare Platform Conjugated with Artificial Epidermis Assembled by Three-Dimensionally Conductive MOF Network for Gas and Pressure Sensing by Qingqing Zhou, Qihang Ding, Zixun Geng, Chencheng Hu, Long Yang, Zitong Kan, Biao Dong, Miae Won, Hongwei Song, Lin Xu, Jong Seung Kim

“…Meticulously building bionic-sensitive moieties is vital for designing efficient electronic skin with advanced cognitive functionalities to pluralistically capture external stimuli. …”
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Assessing laboratory specimen losses for the city of Johannesburg, South Africa by Naseem Cassim, Ernest P. Buthelezi, Somayya Sarang, Sadhaseevan Moodly, Lucia Hans, Lindi-Marie Coetzee

“…The analysis was stratified according to sub-district, health facility type and test code. Results: The dataset analysed included 33 867 barcodes with 121 697 test codes, equating to 3.59 tests per barcode. …”
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Multi-Head Graph Attention Adversarial Autoencoder Network for Unsupervised Change Detection Using Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images by Meng Jia, Xiangyu Lou, Zhiqiang Zhao, Xiaofeng Lu, Zhenghao Shi

“…To address this issue, we propose the Multi-Head Graph Attention Mechanism (MHGAN), designed to achieve accurate detection of surface changes in heterogeneous remote sensing images. …”
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A Deep Learning Enabled Chest X-Ray Abnormality Detection Model for Radiology Assistance. by Ssempeebwa, Phillip, Ainembabazi, Patience

“…Through this methodology, this research is designed to improve the radiologist's workload and enhance the accuracy of chest X-ray diagnosis. …”
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A Dynamic Unit Test Method of Ada Language Software Based on VectorCAST and Its Application by ZENG Xianfu, XIE Xiang, XU Jin, XIA Tao

“…Test work allocation and total test work time of thousand-line codes were adopted as the measurement metrics. Analysis result indicates that twenty-three hours of test time can be saved in a thousand-line code test, which implies an improvement of twenty-two percent of test efficiency.…”
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Labor companionship utilization and healthcare providers perceptions in Gondar public health facilities: a mixed method study by Fasika Alemu Mekonen, Melaku Hunie Asratie, Negalgn Byadgie Gelaw, Bayew Kelkay Rade

“…Methods A mixed study design was conducted from December 1/2022 to January 30, 2023. …”
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LiDGS: An efficient 3D reconstruction framework integrating lidar point clouds and multi-view images for enhanced geometric fidelity by Li Yan, Jiang Song, Hong Xie, Pengcheng Wei, Gang Li, Longze Zhu, Zhongli Fan, Shucheng Gong

“…The experimental results show that the method achieves superior performance in both the new view synthesis task and the 3D reconstruction task, outperforming other classical methods. Our source code will be published at https://github.com/SongJiang-WHU/LiDGS.…”
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Semi-physical Simulation of Adaptive Cruise Control for Electric Vehicle Based on xPC by DING Xiying, WANG Chunqiang, ZHANG Hongyue, WANG Yanan, LIU Xipeng

“…Furthermore, it was translated into C code and then downloaded to the target model machine for simulating the real vehicle. …”
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Environmental Impact Assessment as a social process: The case of nuclear waste storage in Sweden by E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Annika Nordlund, Urban Lindgren

“…The process underlying the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for large developments is often designed to allow opportunities for members of the public and NGOs to voice their opinions. …”
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Structural behavior of window laminated glass plies using new interlayer materials by Mostafa El-Shami, Sayed Mahmoud

“…In most cases for the structural design of architectural glazing systems under a wide range of environmental conditions, the designers follow procedures provided by model building codes to design window glass. …”
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