Inequity in access to medications among communities in Eastern Ethiopia: a decomposition analysis by Dumessa Edessa, Fekede Asefa Kumsa, Girmaye Dinsa, Lemessa Oljira

“…Finally, we used RIF’s regression decomposition method to identify the significant contributors to the inequity. …”
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Automatic Recognition of Authors Identity in Persian based on Systemic Functional Grammar by Fatemeh Soltanzadeh, Azadeh Mirzaei, Mohammad Bahrani, Shahram Modarres Khiabani

“…However, the simultaneous use of both methods improved effectiveness compared to using either method alone. …”
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Effect of prophylactic abdominal drainage on postoperative pain in laparoscopic hemicolectomy for colon cancer: a single-center observational study in Korea by Sung Seo Hwang, Heung-Kwon Oh, Hye-Rim Shin, Tae-Gyun Lee, Mi Jeong Choi, Min Hyeong Jo, Hong-min Ahn, Hyeonjeong Park, Hyun Hee Sim, Eunjeong Ji, Anuj Naresh Singhi, Duck-Woo Kim, Sung-Bum Kang

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Relationship between personal anxiety and genes associated with eating disorders in women aged 45-64 by V. V. Gafarov, E. A. Gromova, I. V. Gagulin, V. N. Maksimov, A. V. Gafarova

“…The sample for the HAPIEE program was formed at the program data processing center in Prague for each of the collaborating centers in such a way that each respondent was random. …”
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The Giant Leap in the Development of Higher Engineering Education in China by Zhengyang Wu (邬正阳)

“…Additionally, probable future development scenarios are identified based on the current situation. …”
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Voting in online surveys on open government policies in Moldova and Ukraine by Dmytro Khutkyy, Olga Matveieva, Diana Mirza-Grisco

“…This article applies mixed methods of data collection and analysis: analysis of applied reports, policy analysis of documentation, manual qualitative content analysis of social media posts and of digital voting tools and semi-structured expert interviews of stakeholders. …”
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A phenomenological study of knowledge concealment in country water and sewage engineering company by Gholamreza Moghadasi, Hamidreza Rezaei Kelidbari, Mohammad Doostar

“…The statistical population of the research included 18 managers, senior experts and experts of the water and sewage department who have more than 20 years of experience in the company environment and at different levels. The sampling method in this research is stratified sampling. In order to collect data, semi-structured, in-depth, collaborative and long-term interviews were used. …”
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A network meta-analysis of maintenance therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. by Cho-Hao Lee, Po-Huang Chen, Chin Lin, Chieh-Yung Wang, Ching-Liang Ho

“…The relative effect on disease control and safety between different maintenance therapies were unclear.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a systematic literature review and network meta-analysis to evaluate relative effect on disease control and safety of current available maintenance therapies. …”
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Research on cognitive reliability model considering crew influence in main control room of digital nuclear power plant by Xueyang Liu, Jianqiao Liu, Zhaoxu Meng, Jianjun Jiang

“…For each cognitive process, corresponding calculation methods were presented based on Bayesian networks. …”
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Providing a Robust Dynamic Pricing Model and Comparing It with Static Pricing in Multi-level Supply Chains Using a Game Theory Approach by Sara Mehrjoo, Hanan Amoozad Mahdirji, Jalil Heidary Dahoei, Seyyed Hossein Razavi Haji Agha, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh

“…In addition, many sources, including Chen et al, 2018, have indicated that dynamic pricing is being used in many innovative businesses, that 60% of market development managers around the world are familiar with dynamic pricing methods, and that 35% of CEOs and business managers plan to base all their pricing models on dynamic pricing methods in the next three years. …”
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Acupuncture as an independent or adjuvant therapy to standard management for menopausal insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Xiaoni Zhang, Chengyong Liu, Shan Qin, Chaoming Chen, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Wenzhong Wu

“…The methodological quality was assessed by the Cochrane Collaboration, and meta-analyses were conducted to calculate comparative effects using Rev Man software.…”
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Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia, and Distress among Health-Care Workers Posted in COVID-19 Care by Kamlesh Kumari Sharma, Muthuvenkatachalam Srinivasan, Siddarth Sarkar, Ravneet Kaur, Yamya Sharma, Latha Venkatesan, Sandhya Gupta, Ambili Venugopal

“…Addressing the concerns of health-care professionals is important and probably needs effective collaboration of mental health-care professionals and administrators.…”
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Next-generation nanotechnology: Exploring the potential of In2S3-based perovskite solar cells by Soumya Ranjan Mishra, Vishal Gadore, Md. Ahmaruzzaman

“…Collaboration between scientists working on solar energy, devices, and materials will probably lead to new discoveries and test the limits of In2S3-based ETLs. …”
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Public participatory GIS in community-based disaster risk reduction by Randall B. Kemp

“…DRR is the process and engagement of a local community to explore factors of risk and implement methods, practices, and even cultural change, which will reduce the probability that a natural hazard will result in a severe disaster. …”
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Comparative efficacy of robot-assisted therapy associated with other different interventions on upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: A protocol for a network meta-analysis. by Qian Liu, Zuoyan Liu, Yang Xu, Li Liu, Fang Wang, Fanyu Zhao, Hong Cheng, Xiuying Hu

“…The risk of bias will be evaluated based on the Cochrane Collaboration's risk of bias tool. The evidence quality will be measured according to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation. …”
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Evolutionary biology and life histories by C. R. Brown, D. L. Thomson

“…(in press) examined the assumption of homogeneous survival probabilities when estimating recruitment to breeding status. …”
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Falciparum malaria transmission in Masvingo district, Zimbabwe: a mathematical model with varying human and mosquito populations by Taremba Chirigo, Esther Chigidi, Herbert Tafadzwa Kazonda

“…Fewer humans were infected at any given moment due to intervention efforts and there was a lower probability of transmission from a recovered compared to an infected human. …”
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Integrating a trauma recovery center into an urban hospital setting serving multiply marginalized patients in the Southeastern United States by Emma C. Lathan, Iurii Davydenko, Christyn R. Hosking, Diana Cortina Rodriguez, Tamara Haynes, Abigail Powers

“…This study describes the initial adoption, implementation, and reach of the first TRC in the southeastern USA. Methods Funding was awarded to support the adoption of the Grady TRC within an urban safety net hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and interdisciplinary collaboration was leveraged to support implementation. …”
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Health care providers’ experiences with genetic testing in patients at risk for hereditary angioedema by Dawn A. Laney, MS, Tricia D. Lee, MD, Jared Druss, BS, Ruth L. O’Keefe, BA, Patti Engel, RN, Marc Riedl, MD, MS

“…Objective: The objective of this study was to assess health care providers’ (HCPs’) current experiences, practices, and comfort level with genetic testing in patients at risk for HAE. Methods: A self-administered electronic questionnaire targeting HCPs working with HAE was distributed across the United States. …”
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MEFA-Net: Multilevel Feature Extraction and Fusion Attention Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection by Jingcui Ma, Nian Pan, Dengyu Yin, Di Wang, Jin Zhou

“…The experimental results confirm that the proposed algorithm model surpasses most existing recent methods. Compared with the baseline, the intersection over union (IoU) and probability of detection <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of MEFA-Net on the IRSTD-1k dataset are increased by 2.25% and 3.05%, respectively, achieving better detection performance and a lower false alarm rate in complex scenarios.…”
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