Capitalising on shared goals for family planning: a concordance assessment of two global initiatives using longitudinal statistical models by Qingfeng Li, Saifuddin Ahmed, Jose G Rimon

“…Closer coordination between major stakeholders in international family planning may stimulate more efficient mobilisation and utilisation of global sources, which is urgently needed to accelerate the progress toward satisfying women’s need for family planning.…”
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Modeling Mechanical Properties of Industrial C-Mn Cast Steels Using Artificial Neural Networks by Saurabh Tiwari, Seongjun Heo, Nokeun Park, Nagireddy Gari S. Reddy

“…The model provides an efficient alternative to costly experimental trials for optimizing C-Mn steels, with prediction errors consistently below 6% compared with 8–20% for traditional empirical methods. …”
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Current strategies in the farm practices and post-harvest pesticidal defence by Luciano Suss, Fabio Molinari

“…In both cases, they deal with production methods characterized by a particular attention to the reduction of the environmental impact of all the farm practices used, especially for defence from adversities, being the element of major concern for environment and consumers’ health.Farm practice evolution, especially those about pest defence, is based on important conceptual change, accurate scientific analysis and organization of technical assistance, rationalization of agri-pharmaceutical product use is one of the main objective of Integrated Production Specifications (IPS). The quantitative reduction is the first objective, obtained by various means such as the use of efficient equipment and the qualitative selection based on the priority use of minor impact means, effectiveness being equal. …”
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Intervention to systematize fall risk assessment and prevention in older hospitalized adults: a mixed methods study by Johann Stuby, Pascal Leist, Noël Hauri, Sanjana Jeevanji, Marie Méan, Carole E. Aubert

“…Abstract Background Fall-prevention interventions are efficient but resource-requiring and should target persons at higher risk of falls. …”
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Oxidative stress and neurotoxicity in Scolelepis goodbodyi (Polychaeta, Spionidae) after an experimental oil spill in a dissipative sandy beach by Carla Penna Ozorio, Izonete C. Guiloski, Helena C. Silva de Assis, César C. Martins, Leonardo Sandrini-Neto, Paulo C. Lana

“… Biomarkers of environmental contamination have been frequently used in the assessment of marine ecosystem quality because they provide quantitative measures of biological changes in organisms exposed to pollutants such as hydrocarbons from oil spills. …”
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Chinese Paper-Cutting Style Transfer via Vision Transformer by Chao Wu, Yao Ren, Yuying Zhou, Ming Lou, Qing Zhang

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for Chinese paper-cutting style transformation based on the Transformer, aiming at realizing the efficient transformation of Chinese paper-cutting art styles. …”
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Invalidation of mitophagy by FBP1-mediated repression promotes apoptosis in breast cancer by Yifeng Liu, Yulin Jiang, Nian Wang, Qianni Jin, Feihu Ji, Changli Zhong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Junhong Yang, Xiangsen Ye, Tingmei Chen

“…Finally, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase 1 limited the efficient removal of diseased mitochondria and reduced the messenger RNA and protein expressions of HIF-1α, BNIP3L/NIX, and BNIP3. …”
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Selection of Optimized Diagnostic Approach for Cardiovascular Diseases Leveraging Dynamic Linguistic Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision‐Making Technique by M. Ameer, Walid Emam, Awais Yousaf, Muhammad Younis

“…The information is often in qualitative form which needs a qualitative approach for decision‐making rather than a quantitative one. The linguistic term sets are the mathematical tools to collect the qualitative data from experts of the fields and the conversion of linguistic data in the form linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy data is the more efficient and reliable for the process of decision making. …”
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Unveiling Technological Innovation in Construction Waste Recycling: Insights from Text Mining by Mengqi Yuan, Sijin Chen, Mai Liu, Long Li

“…Technological innovation underpins efficient waste reduction, reuse, and recycling, but existing research often overlooks systematic and quantitative measurements of innovation initiatives. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to physicians' telemedicine uptake during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. by Jack D Watson, Bridget Xia, Mia E Dini, Alexandra L Silverman, Bradford S Pierce, Chi-Ning Chang, Paul B Perrin

“…The top five reported facilitators were: better access to care (75.4%), increased safety (70.6%), efficient use of time (60.5%), lower cost for patients (43%), and effectiveness (28.9%). …”
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Efeitos de extratos alcoólicos de plantas sobre o caruncho do feijão vigna (Callosobruchus maculatus) Effect of alcoholic extract of plants on weevil of cowpea (Callosobruchus macu... by Francisco de A. C. Almeida, Silvana A. de Almeida, Nilene R. dos Santos, Josivanda P. Gomes, Maria E. R. Araújo

“…From the results obtained, it was concluded that the mortality of the insects is related to the extract type, the application methods and the applied dose, being the extracts of Callopogonium caeruleum and Piper nigrum the most efficient in the control of the weevil of cowpea.…”
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Algorithmic Classification of Psychiatric Disorder–Related Spontaneous Communication Using Large Language Model Embeddings: Algorithm Development and Validation by Ryan Allen Shewcraft, John Schwarz, Mariann Micsinai Balan

“…The findings highlight the capability of LLMs to offer valuable insights into the linguistic patterns unique to various conditions, paving the way for more efficient, patient-focused diagnostic and monitoring strategies. …”
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Structural Analysis of Factors Influencing the Resilience of the Hospital Medical Equipment Supply Chain Using Fuzzy MICMAC by farokhlegha mohammadi, mandana sahebzadeh, Yahya Hematyar Tabatabaei

“…Strengthening supply chain resilience is a key strategy to mitigate these challenges and ensure the continued delivery of efficient and effective hospital services during crises. …”
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EFEKTIVITAS METODE P2R UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KECEPATAN EFEKTIF MEMBACA (KEM) MAHASISWA CALON GURU BAHASA INDONESIA by Nurmina

“…The P2R method consists of stages pra-peninjauan, membaca, dan meninjau that commonly used by the most of quick reader / scanner and efficient. This research is done to obtain data about the effective reading speed of student as Indonesian language teacher candidate and the effort of its increasing through the P2R method. …”
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The influencing factors of newly employed nurses’ adaptation in Malaysia: a structural equation modelling assessment by Hafidza Baharum, Aniza Ismail, Zainudin Awang, Lisa McKenna, Roszita Ibrahim, Zainah Mohamed, Nor Haty Hassan, Abdul Haniff Mohamad Yahaya

“…Furthermore, academic institution and work organisation collaboration should be encouraged to develop improvement cycles that facilitate newly employed nurses’ prompt and efficient adaptation at MOH hospitals during transition.…”
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The vulnerability of regional agriculture regarding irrigation water from the Tagus-Segura transfer by José Daniel Buendía Azorín, Rubén Martínez Alpañez, María del Mar Sánchez de la Vega

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Smart technique for calculating fault current model parameters using short circuit current measurements by R. A. Mahmoud, O. P. Malik, W. M. Fayek

“…The difference concept can be utilized to obtain precise mathematical formulas for evaluating the parameters of the fault current model. This is for efficient implementation of multiple functions that include digital protective relay, fault locator, digital filter, CT saturation detector and compensator. …”
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HiImp-SMI: an implicit transformer framework with high-frequency adapter for medical image segmentation by Lianchao Huang, Feng Peng, Binghao Huang, Yinghong Cao

“…A Multi-Branch Cross-Attention Block facilitates efficient hierarchical feature fusion, addressing challenges in multi-scale representation.Additionally, a ViT-Conv Fusion Block adaptively integrates global contextual awareness from Transformer features with local structural details, thereby significantly boosting cross-domain generalization. …”
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A novel antibody against human properdin inhibits the alternative complement system and specifically detects properdin from blood samples. by Diana Pauly, Benedikt M Nagel, Jörg Reinders, Tobias Killian, Matthias Wulf, Susanne Ackermann, Boris Ehrenstein, Peter F Zipfel, Christine Skerka, Bernhard H F Weber

“…Thus, in vitro anti-properdin mAb 1340 was up to fifteen times more efficient in blocking the complement system as compared to anti-C5 or anti-Ba antibodies. …”
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Effectiveness of Reso-Pac in enhancing wound healing after third molar surgery: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Savitha Lakshmi Raghavan, Gowardhan Sivakumar, Sasidharan Sivakumar

“…Conclusions Reso-Pac significantly reduces postoperative pain and promotes efficient wound healing in patients undergoing surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars. …”
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