Assessing the role of socioeconomic factors-income, education, broadband access, and healthy foods on location-wise disparities in COVID-19 cases by Aindrila Chakraborty, Jaymeen Shah

“…Results Higher income, education level, and broadband speed reduce the probability of violating recommended preventive measures, promote health awareness among individuals, and lower COVID-19 cases. …”
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Predicting infection with COVID-19 disease using logistic regression model in Karak City, Jordan [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Lina AlTamimi, Liana Dalaeen, Anas Khaleel, Wael Abu Dayyih, Abdallah Ahmed Elbakkoush, Mohammad Niazi, Baker Albadareen, Zainab Zakaraya, Alhareth Ahmad

“…Methods Based on data collected by Google sheet of COVID-19 infected and non-infected persons in Karak city, analysis was applied to predict COVID-19 infection probability using a binary logistic regression model. …”
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Seasonal movement behavior of domestic goats in response to environmental variability and time of day using Hidden Markov Models by Hua Cheng, Kasper Johansen, Baocheng Jin, Guojun Sun, Matthew F. McCabe

“…The percentage of time allocated to foraging increases hourly from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm across various seasons. …”
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Determination of critical period of weeds control in French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by Mohammad Jahanbakhshi, Saeed Saeedipour

“…Decreasing trend of pod yield can be attributed to weeds shade, flowers fall due to the presence of competition and more allocation of photosynthesis materials to growth. Therefore, French bean yield was decreased by increasing interference periods of weeds (Table 8). …”
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The impact of financial support for older adult care services on life satisfaction: evidence from China reform pilot by Yu Cheng, Fengting Wang

“…Methods Based on the gradual expansion of the pilot, this study uses CHARLS 2013–2018 micro data and the difference-in-differences method to empirically test the impact of the first batch (2016) and the second batch (2017) of pilots on older adults’ life satisfaction. …”
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Preoperative identification of low-risk patients for major complications after acute hip fracture surgery in geriatric patients: an observational cohort study by Eveline de Haan, Anna de Ronde, Louis de Jong, Veronique. A. J. I. M. van Rijckevorsel, DHFR, Gert R. Roukema

“…Patients with a low risk of complications may probably not require extensive geriatric care, enabling more efficient allocation of healthcare resources and contributing to cost reduction.…”
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The clinical performance of an office-based risk scoring system for fatal cardiovascular diseases in North-East of Iran. by Sadaf G Sepanlou, Reza Malekzadeh, Hossein Poustchi, Maryam Sharafkhah, Saeed Ghodsi, Fatemeh Malekzadeh, Arash Etemadi, Akram Pourshams, Paul D Pharoah, Christian C Abnet, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Sanford M Dawsey, Farin Kamangar

“…Risk scoring systems for CVD are needed to prioritize allocation of limited resources. Most of these risk score algorithms have been based on a long array of risk factors including blood markers of lipids. …”
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Low carbohydrate versus isoenergetic balanced diets for reducing weight and cardiovascular risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Celeste E Naude, Anel Schoonees, Marjanne Senekal, Taryn Young, Paul Garner, Jimmy Volmink

“…<h4>Background</h4>Some popular weight loss diets restricting carbohydrates (CHO) claim to be more effective, and have additional health benefits in preventing cardiovascular disease compared to balanced weight loss diets.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We compared the effects of low CHO and isoenergetic balanced weight loss diets in overweight and obese adults assessed in randomised controlled trials (minimum follow-up of 12 weeks), and summarised the effects on weight, as well as cardiovascular and diabetes risk. …”
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Predicting the Likelihood of Operational Risk Occurrence in the Banking Industry Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Hamed Naderi, Mohammad Ali Rastegar Sorkhe, Bakhtiar Ostadi, Mehrdad Kargari

“…The AMA employs both quantitative and qualitative methods for operational risk modeling, leveraging databases to collect statistical data and utilizing the loss distribution approach (LDA) to model frequency and severity distributions. …”
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Effects of a nutrition education intervention on food-provision managerial decisions in Catalan old age nursing homes. by Beatriz Rodríguez-Sánchez, Isaac Aranda-Reneo, Toni Mora

“…<h4>Results</h4>From the 238 nursing homes that responded to the initial survey, 176 were followed-up; 56 were allocated to the intervention group and 120 to the control group. …”
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Effectiveness of a tailored rehabilitation versus standard strengthening programme for patients with shoulder pain: a protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (the Ot... by J Haxby Abbott, Daniel C Ribeiro, Zohreh Jafarian Tangrood, Gisela Sole

“…Participants will be randomly allocated into one of the interventions group: tailored or standardised rehabilitation. …”
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Challenges faced by older women in Botswana in accessing services that address sexual and reproductive health, and family planning needs, in Botswana by N.O. Ama, E. Ngome

“…A statistically determined sample of 454 older women was allocated to the different districts (strata), using probability proportional to size. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of vision impairment in Kandahar by Mohammad Essa Amirzada, Zarghoon Tareen, Qudratullah Ahmady, Najibullah Rafiqi

“…The calculated sample size was 301, allocated to urban and rural strata using the probability proportional to size method. …”
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Performance analysis of transmit antenna selection and maximum-ratio combining in overlay networks powered by harvested energy by Khuong Ho-Van

“…The performance of the proposed method is determined by multiple specifications and optimized by allocating the times for energy harvesting and information processing.…”
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Potential Associations Between Anthropometric Characteristics, Biomarkers, and Sports Performance in Regional Ultra-Marathon Swimmers: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Iasonas Zompanakis, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Koutlianos

“…Although pacing and nutritional strategies were not directly examined, observational data—such as consistent swimming rhythm, time allocation for active recovery (AR), and structured carbohydrate intake—suggest these factors may have contributed to performance maintenance and probably the lack of body composition differences after the ultra-marathon effort. …”
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Two years of precision livestock management: harnessing ear tag device behavioral data for pregnancy detection in free-range dairy cattle on silage/hay-mix ration by Damiano Cavallini, Melania Giammarco, Giovanni Buonaiuto, Giorgio Vignola, Julio De Matos Vettori, Martina Lamanna, Paraskevi Prasinou, Riccardo Colleluori, Andrea Formigoni, Isa Fusaro

“…This finding highlights the potential for developing a system alert to identify “probable pregnant” and “probable non-pregnant” animals.…”
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Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and pooled analysis. by Ilona Carneiro, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, Jamie T Griffin, Lucy Smith, Marcel Tanner, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Brian Greenwood, David Schellenberg

“…Maximum likelihood methods were used to fit five continuous probability distributions to the percentage of each outcome by age for each of the six transmission scenarios. …”
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The evaluation of patient blood management in lung resection under thoracotomy by Suleyman Anil Akboga, Kadir Baturhan Ciflik, Busra Ozdemir Ciflik, Anil Gokce, Yucel Akkas, Bulent Kocer

“…The cross-match / transfusion rate was 3.88, the transfusion index was 0.78, and the transfusion probability was 36.7%. There is a positive and statistically significant correlation between the amount of blood allocated (r = 0.591, p = 0.00) and the duration of intensive care and hospital stay (r = 0.266, p = 0.013). …”
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Development and validation of a web-based nomogram for acute kidney injury in acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding patients by Chaolian Wei, Honghua Cao, Lina Huang, Lu-Huai Feng

“…Patients were randomly allocated into training and validation cohorts for further analysis. …”
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The impact of a multicomponent‐functional training with postural correction on functional balance in the elderly with a history of falling by Parisa Sedaghati, Maryam Goudarzian, Somayeh Ahmadabadi, Seyed Mojtaba Tabatabai‐Asl

“…Subjects (n = 28, mean age = 70 years) with a history of falling were selected and randomly allocated to either a multicomponent functional training (n = 14) or a control group (n = 14). …”
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