Detecting low frequency cycles in rainfall series from Colombian coffee-growing area by using descriptive methods by Peña Q Andrés J, Jaramillo R. Álvaro, Paternina Q. María J

“…Descriptive statistical methods were used for improving climatic variability scenarios regarding rainfall using time series from five representative pluviometric stations (Miguel Valencia, Naranjal, Cenicafé, La Bella and Paraguaicito); such scenarios are used to make decisions regarding coffee-growing. …”
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Newly graduated nurses’ experiences of moral distress during transition process: a convergent mixed methods study by Mustafa Sabri Kovanci, Azize Atli Özbaş

“…Methods A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used. …”
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Ouvrir la chambre noire de la photographie d’art : méthodes visuelles et analyse du travail artistique by Michaël Meyer, Natalie Schwarz

“…We show that visual methods not only offer technical tools to “suspend” the flow of artistic work and gestures, but also permit to follow and highlight how artists make sense of what they are doing in moments of decision-making and creation, which lead to an art piece. …”
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DEVELOPMENT AND CHOICE OF METHODS OF IMPROVEMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONTINUOUS POURING AND CONSTRUCTIVE PARAMETERS OF MODERN MNLZ ON THE BASIS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING by V. I. Timoshpolskij, S. M. Kabishov, I. A. Trusova, A. V. Matochkin

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Prevalence and factors associated with the use of long-acting reversible and permanent contraceptive methods among women who desire no more children in Bangladesh by Swapna Akter, Md. Mehedi Hasan Khan, Abu Hasanat Mohammad Kishowar Hossain, M. Sheikh Giash Uddin, Md. Aminul Haque

“…Women aged 25–34 (aOR = 1.52, 95% CI: 1.10–2.09) and 35 years and above (aOR = 1.99, 95% CI: 1.41–2.81), women from Rangpur (aOR = 2.27, 95% CI = 1.57–3.28), Rajshahi (aOR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.49–3.11), Khulna (aOR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.48–3.17), Sylhet (aOR = 1.66, 95% CI = 1.07–2.58) and Dhaka (aOR = 1.97, 95% CI = 1.37–2.83) divisions, who were non-Muslims (aOR = 1.72, 95% CI = 1.40–2.11), having a desired number of children (2+) (aOR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.08–1.49), whose contraceptive decision solely made by husband (aOR = 3.61, 95% CI = 2.73–1.77) or jointly (aOR = 1.59, 95% CI = 1.32–1.92) were more likely to use LARC/PM. …”
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Secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary children’s hospital in Canada: a mixed-methods study by Catherine Diskin, Annie Fecteau, Eyal Cohen, Arpita Parmar, Jeremy Friedman, Blossom Dharmaraj, Tanvi Agarwal, Kelly McNaughton, Alia Sunderji, David Faraoni, Jason Fischer, Jason Maynes

“…Objectives Decisions to pause all non-essential paediatric hospital activities during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to significant delays, deferrals and disruptions in medical care. …”
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Comparison of Airway Ultrasound and Conventional Methods in Airway Management: Effectiveness and Temporal Efficiency in Traumatic Patients in Emergency Department by Vijay Kumar SS, Pranup Roshan Quadras, Sofiya Crastha, Anila Jose

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Optimization of Cocoa Pods Maturity Classification Using Stacking and Voting with Ensemble Learning Methods in RGB and LAB Spaces by Kacoutchy Jean Ayikpa, Abou Bakary Ballo, Diarra Mamadou, Pierre Gouton

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A multi-user multi-operator computing pricing method for Internet of things based on bi-level optimization by Wei Jiang, Huiqiang Wang, Bingyang Li, Haibin Lv, Qingchuan Meng

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Beyond Global Metrics: The U-Smile Method for Explainable, Interpretable, and Transparent Variable Selection in Risk Prediction Models by Katarzyna B. Kubiak, Agata Konieczna, Anna Tyranska-Fobke, Barbara Więckowska

“…The U-smile method produces three families of interpretable BA-RB-I coefficients at three levels of generality and a standardized graphical summary through U-smile and prediction improvement–worsening (PIW) plots, enabling transparent, interpretable, and explainable VS. …”
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Development of quality indicators for the diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections in general practice: a RAND appropriateness method by Volkert Dirk Siersma, Malene Plejdrup Hansen, Lars Bjerrum, Laura Trolle Saust

“…Agreement was defined as: no more than one expert rated the indicator outside the three-point region (1–3, 4–6 and 7–9) containing the median.Results A total of 23 of the 27 proposed quality indicators attained consensus. …”
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A robust method for bridge safety risk assessment using improved multi-state fuzzy Bayesian network by Zhong Cao, Weicong He, Kaihong Chen, Rui Rao, Zhaohui Chen

“…Application to two urban bridges demonstrates the method’s effectiveness and robustness, positioning it as a valuable decision-making tool for bridge safety risk management.…”
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A Method for Assessing the Potential of Multifunctional Retrofitting of Rural Roofs Based on GF-2 Remote Sensing Imagery by Junqi Wang, Linlin Cheng, Yang Zheng, Huizhen Cui, Mengyao Zhu

“…Here, this study proposes a new method for assessing the potential of multifunctional retrofitting of rural roofs. …”
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Web-Based Intern Admission System At The ATR / BPN Office Of Medan City Using Weighted Product Method by Rizki Ikhwansyah Purba, Muhamad Alda

“…To achieve this, the Weighted Product (WP) method was implemented as a decision support system. …”
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DVGEDR: a drug repositioning method based on dual-view fusion and graph enhancement mechanism in heterogeneous networks by Dongjiang Niu, Lianwei Zhang, Beiyi Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Shanyang Ding, Hai Wei, Zhen Li

“…Abstract Drug repositioning, the discovery of new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, is increasingly gaining attention as a cost-effective and high-yield drug discovery strategy. Existing methods integrate diverse biological information into heterogeneous networks, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding complex drug–disease associations, which also will introduces noise into the data and affect the performance of the model. …”
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Multi-UAV Cooperative Air Combat Target Assignment Method Based on VNS-IBPSO in Complex Dynamic Environment by Yiyuan Li, Weiyi Chen, Shukan Liu, Guang Yang, Fan He

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Classification Of Direction Using Naive Bayes Classifier Method (Case Study Of Hidayatul Islam Leces Vocational School) by Dwi Yanto, Heri Susanto, Ninanesia Rusdiana, Kiky Zulkifli

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On Decision-Making Algorithms in Discrete Optimization Problems by Yulia Terentyeva

“…Among all the schemes, the leading ones were the scheme of three predictors with the majority vote “voting” scheme and the scheme consisting of one predictor, which is one of three in the leading scheme and has the highest probability of making the correct decision of the three. …”
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Bio-Inspired Observability Enhancement Method for UAV Target Localization and Sensor Bias Estimation with Bearing-Only Measurement by Qianshuai Wang, Zeyuan Li, Jicheng Peng, Kelin Lu

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An AI method to predict pregnancy loss by extracting biological indicators from embryo ultrasound recordings in early pregnancy by Lijue Liu, Yuan Zang, Huimu Zheng, Siya Li, Yu Song, Xue Feng, Xiyuan Zhang, Yaoxu Li, Lulu Cao, Guanglin Zhou, Tingting Dong, Qi Huang, Teng Pan, Jinhai Deng, Danling Cheng

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