An annual cropland extent dataset for Africa at 30 m spatial resolution from 2000 to 2022 by Z. Lou, Z. Lou, D. Peng, D. Peng, Z. Shi, Z. Shi, H. Wang, K. Liu, Y. Zhang, X. Yan, X. Yan, Z. Chen, Z. Chen, S. Ye, S. Ye, L. Yu, J. Hu, J. Hu, J. Hu, Y. Lv, Y. Lv, Y. Lv, H. Peng, H. Peng, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, B. Zhang, B. Zhang

“…Independent validation samples from numerous third-party sources confirm that the map's accuracy is 0.86 <span class="inline-formula">±</span> 0.01. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Financialization and Long-Term Use of Short-Term Debt by Seyed Reza Seyed Nezhad Fahim

“…Firms with a financial cost-to-total debt ratio exceeding the median are classified as facing resource acquisition restrictions and assigned a value of one; otherwise, they are assigned a value of zero. The sample includes active firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). …”
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SDSS-V Milky Way Mapper (MWM): ASPCAP Stellar Parameters and Abundances in SDSS-V Data Release 19 by Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré, Jennifer A. Johnson, Jonathan C. Bird, Jo Bovy, Andrew R. Casey, Julio Chanamé, Katia Cunha, Nathan De Lee, Peter Frinchaboy, Guillaume Guiglion, Viola Hegedűs, Alex P. Ji, Juna A. Kollmeier, Melissa K. Ness, Jonah Otto, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Andrew Saydjari, Amaya Sinha, Ying-Yi Song, Guy S. Stringfellow, Keivan G. Stassun, Jamie Tayar, Andrew Tkachenko, Marica Valentini, Zachary Way, Jörg Weingrill

“…We also test the zero-point calibration of the v _rad derived by the APOGEE Data Reduction Pipeline. …”
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The Ecosystem Services Assessment of Wetlands based on the Classification of Hydrological-ecological Structures and Functions (Case study: Shadegan Wetland) by leila Rahimi, Bahram Malekmohammadi, Ahmad reza Yavari

“…The results indicate that the average temperature during the year varies from 11°C in the winter to 36°C in the summer, and the average precipitation varies from zero to 200 mm; therefore, the rainfall regime is a Mediterranean in which the main part of rainfall occurs during the winter and autumn seasons. …”
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The Role of Landscape Metrics and Spatial Processes in Performance Evaluation of GEOMOD (Case Study: Neka River Basin) by Shrif Joorabian Shooshtari, Kamran Shayesteh, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Mahmood Azari, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

“…The area under forest showed a decreasing trend from 2001 to 2010, and the model showed a good consistency between the forest areas of reference and simulated maps with a relative error value of zero. Observed maps depicted a decreasing trend for patch density during 1984–2010 (from 1.5 to 1.3). …”
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Synthesizing the Academic Administrators&rsquo; Competencies: Developing of a Model by Homa Rahmani, Asadollah Khadivi

“…The value of the Holstein index also fluctuates between zero and one. In this study, coding was done in two stages, in the first stage, 102 codes were identified and in the second stage, coding was done by another expert and 90 codes were extracted. …”
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Enhanced recovery pathway for older people with hip fracture and cognitive impairment in acute hospitals: the PERFECTED research programme including an RCT by Chris Fox, Simon P Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Fiona Poland, Catherine Henderson, Tamara Backhouse, Bridget Penhale, Simon Donell, Martin Knapp, Douglas Lewins, Alasdair MacLullich, Martyn Patel, Opinder Sahota, Toby O Smith, Justin Waring, Jane L Cross

“…The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) applies to the data made available in this article unless otherwise stated. …”
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Global Carbon Budget 2024 by P. Friedlingstein, P. Friedlingstein, M. O'Sullivan, M. W. Jones, R. M. Andrew, J. Hauck, J. Hauck, P. Landschützer, C. Le Quéré, H. Li, H. Li, I. T. Luijkx, A. Olsen, A. Olsen, G. P. Peters, W. Peters, W. Peters, J. Pongratz, J. Pongratz, C. Schwingshackl, S. Sitch, J. G. Canadell, P. Ciais, R. B. Jackson, R. B. Jackson, S. R. Alin, A. Arneth, V. Arora, N. R. Bates, M. Becker, M. Becker, N. Bellouin, C. F. Berghoff, H. C. Bittig, L. Bopp, P. Cadule, K. Campbell, M. A. Chamberlain, N. Chandra, F. Chevallier, L. P. Chini, T. Colligan, J. Decayeux, L. M. Djeutchouang, L. M. Djeutchouang, X. Dou, C. Duran Rojas, K. Enyo, W. Evans, A. R. Fay, R. A. Feely, D. J. Ford, A. Foster, T. Gasser, M. Gehlen, T. Gkritzalis, G. Grassi, L. Gregor, N. Gruber, Ö. Gürses, I. Harris, M. Hefner, M. Hefner, J. Heinke, G. C. Hurtt, Y. Iida, T. Ilyina, T. Ilyina, T. Ilyina, A. R. Jacobson, A. R. Jacobson, A. K. Jain, T. Jarníková, A. Jersild, F. Jiang, Z. Jin, Z. Jin, E. Kato, R. F. Keeling, K. Klein Goldewijk, J. Knauer, J. Knauer, J. I. Korsbakken, X. Lan, X. Lan, S. K. Lauvset, S. K. Lauvset, N. Lefèvre, Z. Liu, J. Liu, J. Liu, L. Ma, S. Maksyutov, G. Marland, G. Marland, N. Mayot, P. C. McGuire, N. Metzl, N. M. Monacci, E. J. Morgan, S.-I. Nakaoka, C. Neill, Y. Niwa, T. Nützel, L. Olivier, L. Olivier, T. Ono, P. I. Palmer, P. I. Palmer, D. Pierrot, Z. Qin, L. Resplandy, L. Resplandy, A. Roobaert, T. M. Rosan, C. Rödenbeck, J. Schwinger, J. Schwinger, T. L. Smallman, T. L. Smallman, S. M. Smith, R. Sospedra-Alfonso, T. Steinhoff, T. Steinhoff, Q. Sun, A. J. Sutton, R. Séférian, S. Takao, H. Tatebe, H. Tatebe, H. Tian, B. Tilbrook, B. Tilbrook, O. Torres, E. Tourigny, H. Tsujino, F. Tubiello, G. van der Werf, R. Wanninkhof, X. Wang, D. Yang, X. Yang, Z. Yu, W. Yuan, X. Yue, S. Zaehle, N. Zeng, N. Zeng, J. Zeng

“…Overall, the mean of and trend in the components of the global carbon budget are consistently estimated over the period 1959–2023, with a near-zero overall budget imbalance, although discrepancies of up to around 1 GtC yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> persist for the representation of annual to semi-decadal variability in CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> fluxes. …”
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Accompaniment, Silence, or Tolerance of the Islamic Legislator with the Conduct of the Wise by Mahdi Montazerqaem

“…This paper, however, zeroes in on the third perspective within the Imamiyyah tradition, which posits that the moral value of actions like justice and injustice is recognized by the wise and is a product of societal conventions rather than an inherent or divinely assigned characteristic.     …”
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Early detection to improve outcome in people with undiagnosed psoriatic arthritis: the PROMPT research programme including RCT by Neil McHugh, Laura Bojke, Mel Brooke Turfrey, Rachel Charlton, Myka Ransom, Laura C Coates, Howard Collier, Claire Davies, Emma Dures, Philip Helliwell, Jana James, Anya Lissina, Vishnu B Madhok, Alison L Nightingale, Jonathan Packham, Catherine Smith, Eldon Spackman, Cerys Tassinari, William Tillett, Sarah T Brown

“…Moreover, the adjusted odds of achieving a higher (non-zero) HAQ-DI score at 24 months post registration were 12% higher in the ES arm compared to the SC arm [OR 1.12 (95% CI 0.67 to 1.86)], suggesting that physical function at 24 months was observed to be lower in ES arm. …”
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Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT by Madeleine Clout, Amanda L Lewis, Madeleine Cochrane, Grace J Young, Paul Abrams, Peter S Blair, Christopher Chapple, Gordon T Taylor, Sian Noble, Tom Steuart-Feilding, Jodi Taylor, J Athene Lane, Marcus J Drake

“…For all estimates, the 95% CIs were wide and crossed zero which indicated there is uncertainty in our results. …”
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Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT by Madeleine Clout, Amanda L Lewis, Madeleine Cochrane, Grace J Young, Paul Abrams, Peter S Blair, Christopher Chapple, Gordon T Taylor, Sian Noble, Tom Steuart-Feilding, Jodi Taylor, J Athene Lane, Marcus J Drake

“…For all estimates, the 95% CIs were wide and crossed zero which indicated there is uncertainty in our results. …”
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An accessible method for implementing hierarchical models with spatio-temporal abundance data. by Beth E Ross, Mevin B Hooten, David N Koons

“…We present a case study using two important game species in North America, the lesser and greater scaup, to demonstrate how INLA can be used to estimate the parameters in a hierarchical model that decouples observation error from process variation, and accounts for unknown sources of excess zeros as well as spatial and temporal dependence in the data. …”
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Versatile graceful degradation framework for bio-inspired proprioception with redundant soft sensors by Taku Sugiyama, Kyo Kutsuzawa, Dai Owaki, Elijah Almanzor, Fumiya Iida, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

“…Then, statistically abnormal readings are zeroed out. The TDFNN receives the processed sensor readings to perform proprioception. …”
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Using implementation strategies to promote the maintenance of Kids SIPsmartER in rural Appalachian middle schools: a process evaluation by Kathleen J. Porter, Annie L. Reid, Theresa Markwalter, Brittany M. Kirkpatrick, Hannah G. Walters, Cheyanne E. Helms, Lee Salyers, Jamie M. Zoellner

“…Average fidelity among returned checklists was 94% (SD = 5.0%), which decreased to 66% (SD = 40%) when missing forms were counted as zeros. All continuing schools modified the delivery timeline. …”
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