Selective mortality during famine and plague events in medieval London by K. Godde, Sharon N. DeWitte, Julia Beaumont, Brittany S. Walter, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena J. Bekvalac

“…For this study, we apply a novel approach integrating dietary isotope, pathological, and demographic data into multinomial logistic regression analyses of mortality differentials during famine and plague events in medieval London, while controlling for missing data. …”
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Machine learning-based strategies for improving healthcare data quality: an evaluation of accuracy, completeness, and reusability by Agate Jarmakovica

“…This study addresses key challenges such as missing values and anomalies in healthcare datasets, which can result in misdiagnoses and inefficient resource use. …”
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Predicting Emergency Severity Index (ESI) level, hospital admission, and admitting ward in an emergency department using data-driven machine learning by Steve Agius, Vincent Cassar, Caroline Magri, Wasiq Khan, Dhiya Al-Jumeily Obe, Godwin Caruana, Luke Topham

“…Key steps in data preprocessing, such as handling missing values, balancing class distributions with SMOTE, and feature encoding, are discussed. …”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis by Adriana Liliana Vlad, Corina Popazu, Alina-Maria Lescai, Doina Carina Voinescu, Alexia Anastasia Ștefania Baltă

“…Data visualisation and multiple imputations addressed missing values, ensuring accuracy. Statistical significance was set at <i>p</i> < 0.05 for hypothesis testing. …”
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Reliable Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis for Pediatrics Using Machine Learning and Explainable AI by Insu Jeon, Minjoong Kim, Dayeong So, Eun Young Kim, Yunyoung Nam, Seungsoo Kim, Sehoon Shim, Joungmin Kim, Jihoon Moon

“…Our preprocessing pipeline included outlier removal, missing data handling, and selecting pertinent features based on clinical expert advice. …”
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Adaptive evolution and functional significance of the PPARGC1A gene across diverse animal species by Seyed Mahdi Hosseini, Farman Ullah, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ahmad, Majid Pasandideh, Aixin Liang, Guohua Hua, Liguo Yang

“…Employing maximum likelihood assessments through MEGA, we scrutinized 447 codon positions addressing the entire coding region, excluding positions mired by gaps or missing data. Distinct codons manifested variance in selection pressures, particularly codons 4, 11, 66, and 123, which exhibited positive dN‐dS values suggestive of positive selection. …”
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Canine-assisted therapy in reducing stress and anxiety levels of university students: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Shu Qing Sim, Zhiwei Liu, Zishuo Wu, Sian Wang, Claudia Nisa

“…Trim‑and‑fill analysis imputed two missing studies, adjusting the pooled effect to g = -0.59, indicating the findings remain robust. …”
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Music intervention as a strategy to reduce preoperative anxiety: an umbrella review by Ke-Lu Yang, Elke Detroyer, Ming-Ming Niu, Danny Feike Hoogma, Jin-Hui Tian, Steffen Rex, Koen Milisen

“…However, to optimize the integration of music intervention into routine clinical practice, high-quality evidence and especially clearer reporting on the implementation methods are required. …”
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Severe mental illness diagnosis in English general hospitals 2006-2017: A registry linkage study. by Hassan Mansour, Christoph Mueller, Katrina A S Davis, Alexandra Burton, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Hotopf, David Osborn, Robert Stewart, Andrew Sommerlad

“…<h4>Background</h4>The higher mortality rates in people with severe mental illness (SMI) may be partly due to inadequate integration of physical and mental healthcare. Accurate recording of SMI during hospital admissions has the potential to facilitate integrated care including tailoring of treatment to account for comorbidities. …”
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Delta-catenin is required for cell proliferation in virus-positive Merkel cell carcinoma cell lines but not in human fibroblasts by Joselyn Landazuri Vinueza, Nicholas J. H. Salisbury, Kristine N. Dye, Ann Roman, Denise A. Galloway

“…ABSTRACT Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a highly aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer often driven by the integration of Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) into the host genome and the persistent expression of its viral oncoproteins, small tumor (ST) antigen, and truncated large tumor (t-LT) antigen. …”
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Diagnostic Stratification of Prostate Cancer Through Blood-Based Biochemical and Inflammatory Markers by Donatella Coradduzza, Leonardo Sibono, Alessandro Tedde, Sonia Marra, Maria Rosaria De Miglio, Angelo Zinellu, Serenella Medici, Arduino A. Mangoni, Massimiliano Grosso, Massimo Madonia, Ciriaco Carru

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The integration of multivariate modeling with reconstructed clinical data enabled the identification of blood-based biomarkers with strong diagnostic potential. …”
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Combined stochastic modelling of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by Nikola Maciejewska, Constantine‐Richard Stefanou, Leonardos Stathas, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis

“…Plenty of risk assessments have been carried out for pathogens in different RTE foods. What is missing is the integration of the two approaches into a single model that can estimate the risk of illness, factoring in the variability of consumer responses to spoilage. …”
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Text classification using SVD, BERT, and GRU optimized by improved Seagull optimization (ISO) algorithm by Yuanyuan Chen, Nan Sun, Yuanbang Li, Rong Peng, Abbas Habibi

“…Preprocessing was an essential phase, which included addressing missing data, special character and punctuation removal, handling contractions, text normalization, noise removal, and stopword removal. …”
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Xiao’er Fengreqing oral liquid versus Xiao’er Yanbian granules for pediatric acute pharyngitis/tonsillitis (external wind heat syndrome): protocol and statistical analysis plan for... by Kai Liu, Lei Shi, Yi-Ke Song, Yu Du, Yi Yuan, Ze-Yang Shi, Jian-Ping Liu, Hui-Lan Liu, Zhao-Lan Liu

“…Statistical analyses will follow a pre-specified plan, employing non-inferiority testing, survival analysis for time-to-event endpoints, and generalized estimating equations for repeated measures. Missing data will be handled using the last observation carried forward (LOCF) method for effectiveness endpoints, while safety analyses will rely on observed cases.ConclusionThis trial will provide rigorous evidence on the non-inferiority and safety profile of Fengreqing Oral Liquid, supporting its integration into pediatric care for acute upper respiratory infections. …”
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Synchronous Recovery of Waveforms From Dynamic Phasors Models of LCC-HVDC Links by Leonardo Pinto de Almeida, Sergio Gomes, Thiago J. Masseran A. Parreiras

“…However, when using dynamic phasors, the full harmonic contents of the HVDC variables are missing, which may worsen the accuracy of commutation failure simulations. …”
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XGBoost models based on non imaging features for the prediction of mild cognitive impairment in older adults by Miguel A. Fernández-Blázquez, José M. Ruiz-Sánchez de León, Rubén Sanz-Blasco, Emilio Verche, Marina Ávila-Villanueva, María José Gil-Moreno, Mercedes Montenegro-Peña, Carmen Terrón, Cristina Fernández-García, Jaime Gómez-Ramírez

“…Future research should focus on validating these models in different populations and examining their integration with personalized intervention strategies to reduce dementia risk.…”
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Research on Traffic Accident Severity Level Prediction Model Based on Improved Machine Learning by Jiming Tang, Yao Huang, Dingli Liu, Liuyuan Xiong, Rongwei Bu

“…The machine learning method is improved through integration for the accident level prediction. In the experiment, effective preprocessing measures were taken for problems such as data imbalance, missing values, the encoding of categorical variables, and the standardization of numerical features. …”
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Criminal Trajectory Reconstruction Method Based on a Mobile Reference System by Zhengyan Ding, Yan Lin, Xin Wei Li, Cheng Rui Gu, Qi Yan Ying

“…The goal is to dynamically balance safety and danger perception anchor points, integrating travel distance to reconstruct trajectories that align with the anti-surveillance behavior of criminals. …”
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Study on Groundwater-Recharge Test for Deep Excavation of Subway Station in Water-Rich Sandy Strata by LI Weihua; LIU Tianren; HONG Xiaoxing; JING Xucheng; TAN Yong

“…Especially in the water-rich and sandy strata where the aquitard is missing, the dewatering of excavation is more likely to trigger engineering disasters, which is a difficult problem in the field of underground engineering. …”
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Reconstruction of Highway Vehicle Paths Using a Two-Stage Model by Weifeng Yin, Junyong Zhai, Yongbo Yu

“…To address the challenge of multiple possible paths due to missing trajectory data, this study proposes a novel two-stage model for vehicle path reconstruction. …”
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