General practice database on mortality in adults on methylphenidate: cohort study by Bruno Stricker, Katia Verhamme, Kiki Cheung

“…The unadjusted risk of overall mortality was strongly increased, but this lowered to a significant 30% risk increase (HR 1.3; 95% CI 1.1 to 1.6) after full adjustment.Conclusion There is an increased risk of suicide attempts in adults up to 40 years of age after starting methylphenidate and this risk should be carefully considered before prescribing to this group.…”
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CARBON EMISSIONS, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA by Yusuf Olatunji Oyedeko, Olusola Segun Kolawole, Babajide Olumuyiwa Owoniya, Samuel Lanrewaju Adetula

“…The study used secondary data and it is sourced from World Bank Development Indicator database for the period of 2000 to 2022. The descriptive statistics was used to describe the feature of the data and Panel VAR used as the estimating technique. …”
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Error fields: personalized robotic movement training that augments one’s more likely mistakes by Naveed Reza Aghamohammadi, Moria Fisher Bittmann, Verena Klamroth-Marganska, Robert Riener, Felix C. Huang, James L. Patton

“…These robotic training enhancements should be further explored in combination to optimally leverage error statistics to teach people how to move better. This study reports results from a clinical trial registered on ClinicalTrials.gov with ID: NCT02720341.…”
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Organic versus Conventional Agriculture: Comparison of Economic and Environmental Sustainability by Balode Lauma, Pakere Ieva, Luksta Ilze, Blumberga Dagnija

“…The core element of the sustainability assessment is the construction of the composite sustainability index using data from scientific literature, reports, and statistics. The comparison between organic dairy farming and conventional dairy farming based on sustainability indexes provides valuable insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each system. …”
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Biofeedback treatment of proctogenic constipation in adults by A. Yu. Titov, O. M. Birukov, O. Yu. Fomenko, M. A. Voynov

“…According to subjective assessment of rectal evacuatory function by questioning before and after BFT statistically significant reduction of proctogenic constipation symptoms was revealed. …”
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Synthetic augmentation of cancer cell line multi-omic datasets using unsupervised deep learning by Zhaoxiang Cai, Sofia Apolinário, Ana R. Baião, Clare Pacini, Miguel D. Sousa, Susana Vinga, Roger R. Reddel, Phillip J. Robinson, Mathew J. Garnett, Qing Zhong, Emanuel Gonçalves

“…The synthetically enhanced data increases statistical power, uncovering less studied mechanisms associated with drug resistance, and refines the identification of genetic associations and clustering of cancer cell lines. …”
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Phenotypes of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Different Regions of the Russian Federation, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach in Clinical Practice by V. T. Ivashkin, M. S. Zharkova, N. V. Korochanskaya, I. B. Khlynov, Yu. P. Uspensky

“…Information on the situation in the Ural, Privolzhsky, Southern, Central and North-western Federal Districts was obtained. Regional statistics on the prevalence of NAFLD and its certain phenotypes (steatosis, steatohepatitis, cirrhosis), diagnostic instruments and treatment approaches which are used in clinical practice, as well as on the most common associated conditions was presented.Conclusions. …”
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF FIRMS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA by Kayode David KOLAWOLE

“…The results indicate that educational accountability has a positive, statistically significant effect on service delivery at the 1% significance level. …”
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Testing the Strength of Chaotic Systems as Seeds in a Pseudo Random Bit Generator by Lazaros Moysis, Marcin Lawnik, Christos Volos, Murilo S. Baptista, Sotirios K. Goudos, George F. Fragulis

“…The performance of the generator though will be heavily affected by the chaotic system that is chosen. The statistical performance, key space size, operations per bit ratio, and speed, are all aspects affected by the chosen system. …”
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Correlation of Body Condition Score and Parity in Dairy Cows that Experienced Repeated Breeding in Sendang, Tulungagung by Pristian Devon Martyas Wahyuningrum, Pudji Srianto, Budiarto, Tita Damayanti Lestari, Herry Agoes Hermadi, Erma Safitri

“…Data were analyzed using correlate statistics followed by Spearmann Test. The result of the research indicated that no significant difference (P>0,05) in body condition score and parity.…”
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Short-term results of ileal pouch anastomosis in early and late terms after urgent surgery for complicated ulcerative colitis by Yu. E. Kitsenko, S. K. Yefetov, I. A. Tulina, P. V. Tsarkov

“…In the first group of patients ileal pouch was created in less than 12 month after primary resection operation, in the second - in more than 12 months. Results. No statistically significant differences between groups were found by any of short-term result scores (p>0.05), including operation time (p=0.48) and volume of blood loss (p=0.88). …”
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A crossover operator for objective functions defined over graph neighborhoods with interdependent and related variables by Jaume Jordan, Javier Palanca, Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Vicente Julian

“…The results suggest that the new crossover operator is statistically better or at least as good as the best-performing crossover in 75% of the families of problems tested.…”
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Earthquake-based multi-hazard resilience assessment: a case study of Istanbul, Turkey (neighborhood level) by Saman Ghaffarian, Mahyat Shafapourtehrany, Umut Lagap, Maryna Batur, Haluk Özener, Rıza Evren Kılcı, Himmet Karaman

“…The resilience assessment uses the Bayesian Best-Worst Method, a multi-criteria decision-making framework that combines expert knowledge and statistical assessments. The results reveal that Istanbul’s overall Resilience Score (RS) is 0.48, on a 0-1 scale, suggesting a moderate capacity to endure and recover from seismic events. …”
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The occupational roles of hospitalized people due to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome by Natália Augusto Nunes Gil, Marysia Mara Rodrigues do Prado De Carlo

“…We observed that the persons of the group of study presented more losses in occupational roles than those in the control group, and we identified a statistically significant difference for the role of “worker”. …”
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Morbidity and Mortality Rates from Digestive Diseases in the RF Northwestern Federal District (NWFD) and Measures to Reduce Them by Andrey Yu. Baranovsky, Alexey M. Belyaev, Elina A. Kondrashina

“…Aim: to analyze the dynamics of morbidity and mortality from digestive diseases, as well as their causes, in the RF Northwestern Federal District (NWFD).Materials and methods. A statistical analysis was carried out on the basis of the 2007–2017 annual reports of the Medical Information and Analytical Center (MIAC) in St. …”
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Employment in the modern era through understanding business social networks by Knežević Snežana, Vukolić Dragan, Gajić Tamara, Zrnić Miloš

“…SPSS software was used, 26.00, and the obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. To determine the structure of the questionnaire and the percentage of variance, an exploratory factor analysis was performed together with a higher order factor analysis, in order to obtain the desired number of factors. …”
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Portal-splenic-mesenteric venous thrombosis in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review by Ricardo Zanetti Gomes, Matheus Von Jelita Salina, Vitor Hugo Moro Pironatto, Julia Kapp Lepinski, Tiago Daniel Gueiber, Beatriz Moreira Salles Juliatto, Milena Zadra Prestes, Camila Marinelli Martins

“…Males were more prevalent (n=27; 65.85%), mean age was 51.54 years, and 19.57% had a previous history of endocrine diseases. Statistically significant relationships (p<0.05) were found between patient death and tachypnea at hospital admission (p=0.043) and between patient death and age (p=0.019). …”
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Employing Data Mining Techniques and Machine Learning Models in Classification of Students’ Academic Performance. by Hussein, Alkattan, Alhumaima, Ali Subhi, Oluwaseun, Adelaja A., Abotaleb, Mostafa, Mijwil, Maad M., Pradeep, Mishra, Sekiwu, Denis, Bamwerinde, Wilson, Turyasingura, Benson

“…The cruel outright mistakes, RMS errors, and relative supreme mistakes all showed 0% whereas the kappa esteem obtained from the analysis extended between 0.991 and 1.00 which significantly concurs with most statistical values.…”
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Rapid estimation method of lithium battery state of health based on novel health feature by DONG Xiaohong, DONG Jinbo, WANG Mingshen, ZENG Fei, PAN Yi

“…Next, by analyzing the oxford battery aging dataset and the random usage dataset of lithium ion batteries used by NASA, the method traverses the constant current charging voltage range in steps of 0.01 V and determines the optimal starting voltage of the lithium battery by maximizing the Pearson correlation coefficient. …”
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“JUGGLE” FOR CLARINET AND PIANO BY CRISTIAN MARINA – CHANGING THE SEMANTICS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL CREATION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF VARIOUS INSTRUMENTAL VERSIONS by Cristian BENCE-MUK

“… Juggle (2005) for clarinet and piano by Cristian Marina represents the starting point for another of the composer’s works, Intorno (2006) for clarinet, violin and piano. …”
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