Allergic rhinitis: Review of the diagnosis and management: South African Allergic Rhinitis Working Group by Guy A. Richards, Marinda McDonald, Claudia L. Gray, Pieter de Waal, Ray Friedman, Maurice Hockman, Sarah J. Karabus, Cornelia M. Lodder, Tshegofatso Mabelane, Sylvia M. Mosito, Ashen Nanan, Jonny G. Peter, Traugott H.C. Quitter, Riaz Seedat, Sylvia van den Berg, Andre van Niekerk, Eftyhia Vardas, Charles Feldman

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Primary healthcare expansion and mortality in Brazil's urban poor: A cohort analysis of 1.2 million adults. by Thomas Hone, Valeria Saraceni, Claudia Medina Coeli, Anete Trajman, Davide Rasella, Christopher Millett, Betina Durovni

“…Key limitations in this study are potential unobserved confounding through selection into the program and linkage errors, although analytical approaches have minimized the potential for bias.…”
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The tug of war: will regulatory quality and green innovation outpace carbon emissions? by Raphael Ampedu, Xiongyuan Wang, Kihumuro Jotham, Richmond Mensah

“…The factors influencing emissions reduction in the region are investigated using PMG, GEE, Quantile regression, Panel Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE), and Two Step System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) for robustness. …”
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Increasing R&D effectiveness: planning as a tool for reducing technological risk in engine development by A. D. Kondryakov, A. V. Sartori, E. Ju. Marchukov, A. V. Solovieva, S. V. Chuklinov

“…This approach simplifies early identification of potential issues and reduces the risk of errors during the design phase. A new lean planning method is introduced, including assessing the readiness of the designed product at the design stage based on a roadmap. …”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…In secondary care settings, there could also be reductions in ED attendances, hospital admissions and outpatient appointments. …”
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Parenteral administration medicines: recommendations of preparation, administration and stability by M. Gaspar Carreño, F. Torrico Martín, L. Novajarque Sala, M. Batista Cruz, P. Ribeiro Gonçalves, B. Porta Oltra, J. C. Sánchez Santos

“…The information provided will contribute to a reduction of errors associated with the preparation and administration of MAP.…”
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Identification and modelling of applicable wear conditions for stir cast Al-composite by Santanu Sardar, Santanu Kumar Karmakar, Debdulal Das

“…Predictive models correlating the superiority of tribological performance of composite with abrasion conditions have been developed, and these are found to be accurate (errors <10%), as determined by confirmatory experiment.…”
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Torsional Vibration Suppression in Multi-Condition Electric Propulsion Systems Through Harmonic Current Modulation by Hanjie Jia, Guanghong Hu, Xiangyang Xu, Dong Liang, Changzhao Liu

“…This study proposes an active torsional vibration suppression method for EPS that explicitly incorporates electromechanical coupling characteristics. …”
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Model Predictive Control-Based Energy Management System for Cooperative Optimization of Grid-Connected Microgrids by Sungmin Lim, Jaekyu Lee, Sangyub Lee

“…The effectiveness of the proposed method was validated through a series of case studies. …”
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Multiresponse Optimization of Wire Electrical Discharge Machining Parameters for Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo (α-β) Alloy Using Taguchi-Grey Relational Approach by A. Perumal, C. Kailasanathan, Balasubramaniam Stalin, S. Suresh Kumar, P. R. Rajkumar, T. Gangadharan, G. Venkatesan, N. Nagaprasad, V. Dhinakaran, Ramaswamy Krishnaraj

“…The Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo alloy was machined using the wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) method in this research. The consequences of input values like pulse on duration, wire tension, and wire feed on metal removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (SR) have indeed been observed. …”
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Analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of technology transformation through the introduction of ADC in the Emergency Department: a Taiwanese case study by Valerio Brescia, Yafang Tsai, Sue-Ting Chung, Cheng-Chieh Lin, Federico Chmet, Ginevra Degregori, Ying-Chun Lai

“…However, challenges such as manual errors in medication dispensing and system limitations were identified. …”
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HIDRA3: a deep-learning model for multipoint ensemble sea level forecasting in the presence of tide gauge sensor failures by M. Rus, M. Rus, H. Mihanović, M. Ličer, M. Ličer, M. Kristan

“…Results show that HIDRA3 outperforms HIDRA2 and the Mediterranean basin Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) setup of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) by <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 15 % and <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 13 % mean absolute error (MAE) reductions at high SSH values, creating a solid new state of the art. …”
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GPS/VIO integrated navigation system based on factor graph and fuzzy logic by M. M. Karimi, M. R. Mosavi

“…Moreover, when integrated with the Inertial Navigation System (INS), the GPS/INS system could not provide a long-term solution for outage problems due to its accumulated errors. This article introduces a novel graph-based method that utilizes a dynamically adjustable fuzzy window to improve navigation and positioning accuracy. …”
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Implementation of an Advanced Macroelement Beam Model under Moving Load (Case Study: Iranian Railroad Projects) by Hamid Reza Vaziri, Mohammad Reza Mansoori, Fereydoon Arbabi, Armin Aziminejad

“…In the moving element method, with a sufficient number of elements, no end condition effect exists. …”
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Comparison of treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy techniques with 2.5mm and 5mm multileaf collimator (MLC): A pilot study [vers... by Senthil Manikandan, Krishna Sharan, Shirley Lewis, Suresh Sukumar, Umesh V, Srinidhi G Chandraguthi, Shreekripa Rao, Rechal Nisha Dsouza, Sneha Ravichandran

“…Background The Elekta micro-multileaf collimator (mMLC) known as apex for planning stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)/stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)/stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provides excellent dose distribution; however, it offers disadvantages such as prolonged treatment duration and technical errors in terms of mMLC and gantry calibration, which adds to the total treatment duration. …”
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Characteristics prediction and optimization for fan duct surface heat exchanger using regional heat transfer correlation and NSWOA aided by Sobol’ by Zhe Xu, Zongling Yu, Xin Ning, Changyin Zhao, Zhihua Zhu, Zhibin Feng

“…Compared to experimental data, the average relative errors of heat transfer capacity and oil-side pressure drop prediction are 9.39 % and 8.39 %, respectively, which indicates that this method is feasible and reliable. …”
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Research on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Ultrahigh-speed Elevator During the Staggering Process Between the Car and Counterweight by B. Liu, J. C. Ma, J. Zhang, M. Z. Li, Z. X. Tian, M. M. Liu, H. Zhang, L. Xu

“…Additionally, the simulation and test errors are within 10%, confirming the accuracy of the numerical calculation method.…”
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An efficient multiscale simulation framework integrating dynamic heterogeneity for accurate waterflooding prediction by Li Wu, Junqiang Wang, Deli Jia, Jiqun Zhang, Ruichao Zhang, Yiqun Yan, Yanfang Yin, Shuoliang Wang

“…SPE10 benchmark validation shows 95.07% reduction in total simulation time and 98.19% in linear solver time versus the fully implicit method, with errors < 5%. …”
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Integrating Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Principles in Modular Home Construction: A Comprehensive Framework for Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability by Sadaf Montazeri, Nicole Odo, Syed Abdul Wasey Naqvi, Zhen Lei

“…The findings indicated that implementing design for manufacturing and assembly principles led to a 40% reduction in design phase duration and a 48% decrease in production errors. …”
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Differential Positioning with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for UAS Indoor Operations: Analysis and Results by Salvatore Ponte, Gennaro Ariante, Alberto Greco, Giuseppe Del Core

“…Position estimation was achieved by trilateration, and the extended Kalman filter (EKF) was applied, considering the nonlinear propriety of beacon signals to correct data from noise, drift, and bias errors. Experimental results and system performance analysis show the feasibility of this methodology, as well as the reduction of position uncertainty obtained by the DCC technique.…”
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