PERFORMANCE REFINEMENT OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES FOR SOLVING BIG DATA PROBLEMS by Saud Aljaloud

“…Therefore, two of the most well-liked neural network frameworks, Theano and TensorFlow, were compared in this study for how well they performed on a given problem. …”
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Characterizing the services provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada: A retrospective study using administrative billing data. by David W Savage, Arunim Garg, Salimur Choudhury, Roger Strasser, Robert Ohle, Vijay Mago

“…Physicians in urban southern Ontario and those at a more advanced career stage were more likely to provide a narrower range of services. Overall, our findings have the potential to shape HHRP, medical education curriculum development, and clinical services planning in Ontario and elsewhere. …”
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Fractures and Chronic Recurrence are Commonly Associated with Ankle Sprains: a 5-year Population-level Cohort of Patients Seen in the U.S. Military Health System by Daniel I Rhon, Tina A Greenlee, Chad E Cook, Richard B Westrick, Jon A Umlauf, John J Fraser

“…Sprains with fractures were ~2-4 times more likely to have surgery within one year following injury (36.2% with fractures; 9.7% with unspecified sprains) and had the highest ankle-related downstream costs…”
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Bridging the theory and practice divide in pre-service language teacher education: A focus on teacher educators’ expertise from in-service teachers' vantage point by George E.K. Whitehead, Sezen Arslan

“…Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and were thematically coded using NVivo 14 software. Participants commonly mentioned that language teacher educators in South Korea often lack current classroom experience, leading to an emphasis on outdated theories irrelevant to contemporary teaching needs. …”
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The Roman Microlensing Survey: Confirmation or Refutation of Gas Giant Exoplanet Formation Theories by Alan P. Boss

“…Previous Enzo models have shown that a robust GDGI is able to form enough gas giants in a single system to result in the ejection of a significant fraction within ∼2000 yr, a likely source of free-floating exoplanets. The present models investigate the GDGI outcomes for a larger range of initial protoplanetary disk masses and outer disk temperatures than in the previous work of A. …”
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Agentive linguistic framing affects responsibility assignments toward AIs and their creators by Dawson Petersen, Amit Almor, Amit Almor

“…., The Google Blog claims that, “Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code,”). Psycholinguistic research has shown that violating animacy hierarchies by putting a nonhuman in this agentive subject position (i.e., grammatical metaphor) influences readers to perceive it as a causal agent. …”
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An assessment of non-communicable disease mortality among adults in Eastern Uganda, 2010-2016. by Davis Natukwatsa, Adaeze C Wosu, Donald Bruce Ndyomugyenyi, Musa Waibi, Dan Kajungu

“…Information on cause of death was obtained through verbal autopsies using a structured questionnaire to conduct face-face interviews with carers or close relatives of the deceased. Physicians assigned likely cause of death using ICD-10 codes. Age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated using direct method, with the average population across the seven years of the study (2010 to 2016) as the standard. …”
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Gonadal axis hormones heterogeneity in obese adolescent boys by I. L. Nikitina, I. A. Kelmanson, N. I. Vtornikova, E. Yu. Vasilyeva

“…Adolescents are more vulnerable to external risk factors and are more likely to be obese. The incidence of obesity is growing worldwide. …”
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Progression of Heart Failure in People with Type 2 Diabetes in Germany: An Analysis Using German Health Insurance Claims Data by Keni Cheng-Siang Lee, Tobias Wagner, Adee Kennedy, Michael Wilke

“…A high number of patients may likely not survive a 5-year period. Validation of the model with German data is highly desirable. …”
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Accuracy of routinely-collected healthcare data for identifying motor neurone disease cases: A systematic review. by Sophie Horrocks, Tim Wilkinson, Christian Schnier, Amanda Ly, Rebecca Woodfield, Kristiina Rannikmäe, Terence J Quinn, Cathie L M Sudlow

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Diagnostic accuracy of routinely-collected health datasets is likely to be sufficient for identifying cases of MND in large-scale prospective epidemiological studies in high income country settings. …”
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The first photometric investigation of two short-period Algol-type eclipsing binaries: IW UMa and V367 Gem by Xiao-Man Tian, Lin-Qiao Jiang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Jing-Jing Wang

“…Using O−C analysis, we found that the period of IW UMa is likely increasing over the long term, superposed with cyclic variation. …”
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A mixed methods exploration of the origin of dental anxiety and coping strategies among participants in a behavioral intervention for dental anxiety by Elizabeth Konneker, Devon Singh, Marisol Tellez, Amid I. Ismail, Eugene M. Dunne

“…Qualitative data were coded in NVivo.ResultsThe three identified origins for dental anxiety were: “traumatic dental visit in childhood,” “traumatic dental visit in adulthood,” and “anxiety has always been present.” …”
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A nationwide population-based study on epidemiologic characteristics and treatment patterns of dry eye disease in South Korea by Joon Bo Lee, Jiu Lee, Yeo Kyoung Won, Dong Hui Lim

“…Older patients were more likely to receive bottled formulations than single-use medication. …”
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Demographic and Treatment Analysis of Periosteal Osteosarcoma by Michael C. Larkins

“…Younger patients were more likely to be diagnosed with PO of the appendicular skeleton compared to the axial skeleton (p = 0.038). …”
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Over-employment and the success of combining work and parenthood by N. V. Tonkikh, T. A. Kamarova, T. I. Markova

“…Working fathers show no significant difference in the estimated proportions, although overemployed male respondents are 1.6 times less likely to rate the success of their work-children balance as high. …”
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New Clox Systems for rapid and efficient gene disruption in Candida albicans. by Shahida Shahana, Delma S Childers, Elizabeth R Ballou, Iryna Bohovych, Frank C Odds, Neil A R Gow, Alistair J P Brown

“…The accelerated gene disruption strategies afforded by this new Clox system are likely to have a profound impact on the speed with which C. albicans pathobiology can be dissected.…”
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Using a survey, analyzing the current situation of allergic March in elementary and junior high school students of oyama and tochigi cities, Japan by Hamid Abid, Yusuke Ando, Manabu Miyamoto, Shigemi Yoshihara

“…Conclusions: Children who are diagnosed with either Atopic Dermatitis or a Food Allergy will likely be affected by other allergies later in life. …”
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What do people with aphasia want to be able to say? A content analysis of words identified as personally relevant by people with aphasia. by Rebecca Palmer, Helen Hughes, Tim Chater

“…<h4>Discussion</h4>Personally relevant vocabulary is unique to each individual and is likely to contain specific or specialist words for which material needs to be individually prepared. …”
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The effect of six weeks hamstring eccentric exercises on the postural control ability and knee joint proprioception in adolescent football players. by Azita Mohamadi, Amir Letafatkar, Seyed Hosein Hosseini, Safoura Heshmati

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Use of varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy in people with and without general practitioner-recorded dementia: retrospective cohort study of routine electronic medical reco... by Amy Taylor, Tim Jones, Taha Itani, Richard Martin, Gemma Taylor, Kyla Thomas, Neil Davies

“…Smokers with GP-recorded dementia were 74% less likely (95% CI 64% to 82%) to be prescribed varenicline than NRT, compared with smokers without GP-recorded dementia. …”
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