The Triad of Influence: How Price, Payment, and Trust Shape Online Purchase Behavior by Adzirah Muzaffirah, Abdul Wahib Muhaimmin, Kliwon Hidayat, Heptari Elita Dewi, Rita Zulbetti, Muhammad Daffa Dezar

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European stakeholders’ perspectives on achieving more sustainable wheat cultivation across different pedoclimatic zones by Alicia Morugán-Coronado, Javier Calatrava, Laura Meno, Laura Meno, Flora Alonso-Vega, Flora Alonso-Vega, Eija Pouta, Annika Tienhaara, Stefan Schrader, David-Alexander Bind, Hilde Wustenberghs, Sander Fleerakkers, David Fernández-Calviño, David Fernández-Calviño, María Dolores Gómez-López

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Integrating Personalized Thermal Comfort Devices for Energy-Efficient and Occupant-Centric Buildings by Cihan Turhan, Cristina Carpino

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Evaluation of the effect of manual lymphatic drainage method on edema, pain and trismus after impacted bilateral mandibular third molar surgery: a randomized clinical trial by Murat Ulu, Nuri Ünal, Onur Şahin, Yasemin Kayalı

“…Swelling was evaluated using the 3dMD FACE SYSTEM (3dMD, Atlanta, GA). To assess pain, the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used and trismus was measured using with a digital caliper. …”
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Consciência situacional, tomada de decisão e modos de controle cognitivo em ambientes complexos Situation awareness, decision making, and cognitive control in complex environments... by Éder Henriqson, Guido César Carim Júnior, Tarcísio Abreu Saurin, Fernando Gonçalves Amaral

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A matter of choice: a cross-sectional study examining the impact of the overturning of Roe v Wade on U.S. medical students’ perceptions and career decisions [version 2; peer review... by Zeb Saeed, Alissa Conklin, Sacha Sharp

“…Results Our survey found that four-fifths of medical students in Indiana disagreed with the Dobbs decision. While most students (71.4%) had not considered state abortion laws when selecting a medical school, since the Dobbs decision, 66.3% of third-year and 40.3% of fourth-year students indicated that they would take abortion laws into account when choosing a residency program. 47.5% of women students stated that they will be seeking residency in a state where abortion is legal and 55.3% of single students were more likely to leave Indiana to practice medicine. …”
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Co‐design of the EMBED‐Care Framework as an intervention to enhance shared decision‐making for people affected by dementia and practitioners, comprising holistic assessment, linked... by Jesutofunmi Aworinde, Catherine J. Evans, Juliet Gillam, Christina Ramsenthaler, Nathan Davies, Clare Ellis‐Smith, EMBED‐Care Programme

“…Results Five co‐design workshops were undertaken with participants comprising people affected by dementia (n = 18) and practitioners (n = 36). Three themes were generated, comprising: (1) ‘knowing the person and personalisation of care’, involving the person with dementia and/or family carer identifying the needs of the person using a holistic assessment. (2) ‘engaging and considering the perspectives of all involved in decision‐making’ required listening to the person and the family to understand their priorities, and to manage multiple preferences. (3) ‘Training and support activities’ to use the Framework through use of animated videos to convey information, such as to understand the outcome measure used to assess symptoms. …”
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Investigation of Toy Parts Produced Using Injection Molding and FDM and Selection of the Best Manufacturing Method: A Multi-Criteria Approach by Şeyda Değirmenci, Ali Osman Er

“…Three-dimensional (3D) printing has become a promising alternative to conventional methods in plastic part production, particularly for customized or low-volume applications such as toys. …”
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Twelve Tips for Engaging Medical Students in Rural-Focused Research [version 3; peer review: 3 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Aaron Johnston, Grace Perez, Jose Uriel Perez

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PREDICTION OF PROSPECTIVE NEW STUDENTS USING DECISION TREE, RANDOM FOREST, AND NAIVE BAYES by Yulrio Brianorman, Sucipto Sucipto

“…This research's data originated from the 2020 new student admissions at a prominent private university in Pontianak city. The three chosen classification methods are the decision tree, random forest, and naïve-bayes. …”
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Model Predictive Control of Adaptive Irrigation Decisions Incorporating Rainfall Intensity and Soil Properties by Ao Liu, Dongbao Zhao, Yichang Wei

“…As soil infiltration capability decreases and rainfall intensity increases, the MERU gap between RISPMPC and the other three methods widens significantly, underscoring RISPMPC’s robustness in environments where rainwater utilization is challenging. …”
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Implicit versus explicit Bayesian priors for epistemic uncertainty estimation in clinical decision support. by Malte Blattmann, Adrian Lindenmeyer, Stefan Franke, Thomas Neumuth, Daniel Schneider

“…In this work, we compare three such methods on the task of predicting prostate cancer-specific mortality for treatment planning, using data from the PLCO cancer screening trial. …”
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Decision-Making Amid Economic Uncertainty: Exploring the Key Considerations of Commercial Property Investors by Albert Agbeko Ahiadu, Rotimi Boluwatife Abidoye, Tak Wing Yiu

“…Acknowledging that uncertainty further complicates investment decision-making, a mixed-methods research approach was adopted to examine the perspectives of 5 experts and 412 property investors. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling by Muktar H Aliyu, Hafsat U Ibrahim, Rayyan M Garba, Jameel I Ahmad, Kabiru Abdulsalam, Yasir N Jibril, Faisal S Dankishiya, Abdullahi Ibrahim, Ibrahim U Garzali, Aisha A Galadanci, Abdullahi K Suleiman, Abdulgafar L Olawumi, Umar F Abdullahi, Fatima M Mahmud, Amina A Umar, Olive Asafu- Adjaye, Lukman F Owolabi, Baba M Musa

“…Recent diagnostic innovations, including the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra, TB lipoarabinomannan (TB-LAM) and TB loop-mediated isothermal amplification (TB-LAMP) tests, offer improved sensitivity and specificity, but their cost-effectiveness in resource-limited settings remains unclear.Methods In this economic evaluation, we combined a decision tree with cost-effectiveness analysis to compare three TB diagnostic algorithms tailored for PLWH in Nigeria: (1) Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra following chest radiography (chest X-ray; CXR), (2) TB-LAM following CXR and (3) TB-LAMP following CXR. …”
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Investigating the impact of user perception and gamification elements on repurchase decisions in game live broadcasting by Guihua Zhang, Guihua Zhang, Junwei Cao, Mengli Huang, Shang Meng

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How animal ethics committees make decisions - a scoping review of empirical studies. by Aoife Milford, Eva De Clercq, Edwin Louis-Maerten, Lester D Geneviève, Bernice S Elger

“…<h4>Results</h4>Twelve papers were included in the final results, four of which were quantitative, five qualitative, and three were mixed methods. Qualitative content analysis revealed deficits in the assessment of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction or Refinement) or the weighing of harms and benefits. …”
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Safety Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles Integrating Passenger Physiological States by fNIRS by Xiaofei Zhang, Haoyi Zheng, Jun Li, Zongsheng Xie, Huamu Sun, Hong Wang

“…In recent years, several serious traffic accidents have exposed the severity of safety issues in autonomous driving technology. Traditional decision-making methods are unable to address potential risky behaviors caused by the functional insufficiencies or machine performance limitations, and human intervention is still needed. …”
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The Effect of Clinical Decision Support System on the Success of Respirative Syncytial Virus (RSV) Prophylaxis by Gizem Karkın Tozlu, İpek Bozkurt, Serdar Kula

“…Methods: In October 2023, a CDSS was defined in HIS following the RSV prophylaxis indication protocol. …”
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Markov decision process for current density optimization to improve hydrogen production by water electrolysis by Purnami Purnami, Willy Satrio Nugroho, Wresti L. Anggayasti, Yepy Komaril Sofi'i, I.N.G. Wardana

“…The MDP algorithm dynamically adjusts current release timings from three capacitors connected to the cathode based on feedback from hydrogen concentration levels. …”
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An Automated Decision Support System for Portfolio Allocation Based on Mutual Information and Financial Criteria by Massimiliano Kaucic, Renato Pelessoni, Filippo Piccotto

“…Firstly, the approach employs a stock-picking procedure based on an interactive multi-criteria decision-making method (the so-called TODIM method). …”
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