Pooled prevalence and multilevel determinants of stillbirths in sub-Saharan African countries: implications for achieving sustainable development goal by Bewuketu Terefe, Mahlet Moges Jembere, Nega Nigussie Abrha, Dejen Kahsay Asgedom, Solomon Keflie Assefa, Nega Tezera Assimamaw

“…Descriptive data, such as frequencies, were performed. Stillbirth prevalence was visualized using a forest plot. …”
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Multilevel modelling of determinants of perinatal mortality in East Africa: a pooled analysis of National health survey data by Bewuketu Terefe, Fentahun Bikale Kebede, Nega Nigussie Abrha, Yalelet Fentaw Shiferaw, Dejen Kahsay Asgedom, Solomon Keflie Assefa, Nega Tezera Assimamaw

“…Descriptive data, including frequencies and texts, were performed. A multilevel modeling analysis was employed to analyze perinatal mortality, considering both individual-level factors and contextual factors. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on SCNN and Optimized HKELM by Yulin Wang, Xianjun Du

“…Experimental validation was performed using bearing data from Paderborn University. …”
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A dual encoder network with multiscale feature fusion and multiple pooling channel spatial attention for skin scar image segmentation by Weiyuan Yang, Xiaolin Wang, Guangwei Chen, Jianming Wen, Dexing Kong, Jianfeng Zhang, Xinyang Ge, Hao Xu, Jianhua Qin

“…Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the model’s superior performance in scar segmentation, achieving metrics of 96.01% Accuracy, 77.43% Precision, 90.17% Recall, 71.38% Jaccard Index, and 83.21% Dice Coefficient, which compare favorably with mainstream methods, and our model performs well in all metrics, highlighting its potential for clinical adoption in scar analysis.…”
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Pooling sputum for Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert Ultra testing during the Covid-19 pandemic in Lao People's Democratic Republic. by Vibol Iem, Phonenaly Chittamany, Sakhone Suthepmany, Souvimone Siphanthong, Silaphet Somphavong, Konstantina Kontogianni, James Dodd, Jahangir Akber Mahmud Khan, Jose Dominguez, Tom Wingfield, Jacob Creswell, Luis Eduardo Cuevas

“…The pooling method with Xpert-MTB/RIF and Xpert-Ultra has similar performance to individual testing and can reduce the number of cartridges needed. …”
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Quantity of within-sport distance variety – what can pool swimmers and track runners learn from each other? by Dennis-Peter Born, Dennis-Peter Born, Dennis-Peter Born, Jenny Lorentzen, Glenn Björklund, Jesús J. Ruiz-Navarro

“…ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between success at peak performance age and quantity of within-sport distance variety and compare the dose-time-effect between swimming and track running by determining probability of becoming an international-class female athlete based on the number of different race distances the athletes compete in each year throughout their development process.MethodsRace times of female Tier 2 to Tier 5 freestyle pool swimmers (n = 2,778) and track runners (n = 9,945) were included in the present study. …”
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Enhanced Pool Boiling via Binder-Jetting 3D-Printed Porous Copper Structures: CHF and HTC Investigation by Lilian Aketch Okwiri, Takeshi Mochizuki, Kairi Koito, Noriaki Fukui, Koji Enoki

“…This approach enables a reliable utilization of phenomena like capillarity for improved performance. Three types of porous copper structures, namely Large Lattice, Small Lattice, and Staggered, were fabricated on pure copper substrates and tested via pool boiling of de-ionized and de-gassed water at atmospheric pressure. …”
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The Data-Driven Optimization of Parcel Locker Locations in a Transit Co-Modal System with Ride-Pooling Last-Mile Delivery by Zhanxuan Li, Baicheng Li

“…This paper proposes a data-driven optimization framework on parcel locker locations in a transit co-modal system, where last-mile delivery is realized via a ride-pooling service that pools passengers and parcels using the same fleet of vehicles. …”
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Needle‐Plug/Piston‐Based Modular Mesoscopic Design Paradigm Coupled With Microfluidic Device for Point‐of‐Care Pooled Testing by Baobao Lin, Bao Li, Wu Zeng, Yulan Zhao, Huiping Li, Yin Gu, Peng Liu

“…This system efficiently conducts large‐scale pooled testing from 50 pharyngeal swabs in a tube with an uncompromised sensitivity, enabling a truly “sample‐in‐answer‐out” microsystem with exceptional performance.…”
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Pooled screening for CAR function identifies novel IL-13Rα2-targeted CARs for treatment of glioblastoma by Douglas A Lauffenburger, Khloe S Gordon, Caleb R Perez, Andrea Garmilla, Maxine S Y Lam, Joey J Y Aw, Anisha Datta, Andrea Pavesi, Michael E Birnbaum

“…We performed selections in primary human T cells expressing a library of 1.3×106 third generation CARs targeting IL-13Rα2, a cancer testis antigen commonly expressed in glioblastoma. …”
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SIMMER-III Analyses of Local Fuel-Coolant Interactions in a Simulated Molten Fuel Pool: Effect of Coolant Quantity by Songbai Cheng, Ken-ichi Matsuba, Mikio Isozaki, Kenji Kamiyama, Tohru Suzuki, Yoshiharu Tobita

“…It is found that the SIMMER-III code not only reasonably simulates the transient pressure and temperature variations during local FCIs, but also supports the limited tendency of pressurization and resultant mechanical energy release as observed from experiments when the volume of water delivered into the pool increases. The performed analyses also suggest that the most probable reason leading to such limited tendency should be primarily due to an isolation effect of vapor bubbles generated at the water-melt interface.…”
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Complicated Relationship between Genetic Mutations and Phenotypic Characteristics in Transient and Permanent Congenital Hypothyroidism: Analysis of Pooled Literature Data by Wei Long, Lingna Zhou, Ying Wang, Jiaxuan Liu, Huaiyan Wang, Bin Yu

“…Eligible studies and data extraction were performed. We estimated the relationship between mutations and phenotypic characteristics in pooled patients with CH. …”
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Diet-related awareness and behaviours in cancer survivors compared with non-cancer individuals: a pooled analysis of the HINTS study by Hemangi Mavadiya, Yunxia Lu

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The role of early weight bearing in the aftertreatment of unilateral displaced intraarticular calcaneal fractures: a systematic review and pooled analysis by Coen Verstappen, Mitchell L. S. Driessen, Lloyd Brandts, Michael J. R. Edwards, Martijn Poeze, Erik Hermans, Pishtiwan H. S. Kalmet

“…Methods A systematic literature search was performed across PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library up to January 2025. …”
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Characterizing sexual function in patients with generalized anxiety disorder: a pooled analysis of three vilazodone studies by Clayton A, Durgam S, Tang X, Chen C, Ruth A, Gommoll C

“…Materials and methods: Data were pooled from one fixed-dose trial of vilazodone 20 and 40 mg/day (NCT01629966) and two flexible-dose studies of vilazodone 20–40 mg/day (NCT01766401, NCT01844115) in adults with GAD. …”
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A Multi-Branch-Based Capsule Network With Structural Reparameterization by Kun Sun, Yuqi Bai, Huishi Yin

“…In addition, we utilize the pooling operation based on the attention mechanism to suppress non-important capsules and improve model performance. …”
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Improving the accuracy of the information retrieval evaluation process by considering unjudged document lists from the relevant judgment sets by Minnu Helen Joseph, SriDevi Ravana

“…Kendall Tau Correlation Coefficient, Mean Average Precision (MAP), Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG), and Rank Biased Precision (Rbp) have been used to evaluate the performance of the methodologies. Results. The proposed methodologies outperformed the baseline works and enhanced the quality of the judgment sets, achieving a better result even with lesser pool depth. …”
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XAI-FruitNet: An explainable deep model for accurate fruit classification by Shirin Sultana, Md All Moon Tasir, S.M. Nuruzzaman Nobel, Md Mohsin Kabir, M.F. Mridha

“…Despite their impressive performance, traditional deep learning models suffer from a lack of interpretability, which hampers their transparency and trustworthiness in practical applications. …”
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High-accuracy classification of invasive weed seeds with highly similar morphologies: Utilizing hierarchical bilinear pooling for fine-grained image classification by Lianghai Yang, Jing Yan, Xinyue Cao, Huiru Li, Binjie Ge, JiaXin He, Zhechen Qi, Xiaoling Yan

“…Our evaluation encompassed overall benchmark performance, classification for similar species within the genus, and the classification of species of different sizes. …”
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A DR Detection Method Incorporating Multi-scale Techniques and Parallel Networks by CHEN Yu, XU Shibao

“… A PM-Net model ( Parallel Multi-scale Network) has been constructed to solve the problems of loss of key information and poor model robustness in the downsampling process of diabetic retinopathy ( DR) detection models. Multi-scale maximum pooling and multi-scale convolution modules have been designed and improved on ResNet-50 using information augmentation in the downsampling process. …”
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