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Mi-Sook Kim, Seong Huan Choi, Jang-Whan Bae et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE
Introduction Inter-hospital transfer (IHT) and primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are preferred over onsite thrombolysis when provided expeditiously. On the other hand, its benefit has not been evaluated in a real-world…
View details →Woo‐yeol Lee, Sun‐Joo Cho · 2017 · Journal of Educational Measurement
Cross‐level invariance in a multilevel item response model can be investigated by testing whether the within‐level item discriminations are equal to the between‐level item discriminations. Testing the cross‐level invariance assumption is…
View details →Eijun Sueyoshi, Tomonori Murakami, Xi He et al. · 2022 · Medicine
Abstract The differences between the pathologies of cases of type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) that did and did not result in prehospital death (PHD) have not been fully elucidated. This study aimed to compare the CT findings and…
View details →Sascha Hoffmann, Marina Ott, Franziska Bobbert et al. · 2024 · DIGITAL HEALTH
Objective Internet-based healthcare is a crucial facet of telemedicine. Here, we examine telemedicine methods in perioperative care for gynecological surgery from a patient's perspective. We aim to understand the patients’ needs during…
View details →Theodore Anton, Timothy Clifton · 2024 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Abstract We consider the form of Hubble diagrams that would be constructed by observers in universes that are homogeneous but anisotropic, when averaged over suitably large length-scales. This is achieved by ray-tracing in different…
View details →Mekala Sundaram, Nicole L Gottdenker, Patrick R Stephens · 2025 · BioScience
Abstract An enduring mystery in Ebolavirus research is what host species maintain the virus in the wild. Despite the efforts of multiple research groups over decades, no primary reservoir has ever been identified. To the contrary, finding…
View details →Charlie Curtsinger, Emery D. Berger · 2013 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Researchers and software developers require effective performance evaluation. Researchers must evaluate optimizations or measure overhead. Software developers use automatic performance regression tests to discover when changes improve or…
View details →Rossalina Christanti, Andreas Ari Sukoco · 2022 · Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
What the job market demanded in the last few decades is overwhelming. Universities are working hard to meet the quality required by the job markets and it took a lot of effort, physically and mentally. Recently, the Minister of Education…
View details →Gillianne Bowman, Thierry Huber, Vanessa Burg · 2023 · Energies
Today, an energy transition is underway to tackle the problems of climate change and energy sufficiency. For this transition to succeed, it is essential to use all available renewable energy resources most efficiently. However, renewable…
View details →Guoqing Diao, Dan-yu Lin · 2020 · BMC Genetics
Abstract Background Associations between haplotypes and quantitative traits provide valuable information about the genetic basis of complex human diseases. Haplotypes also provide an effective way to deal with untyped SNPs. Two major…
View details →Marcelo Boareto, Nestor Caticha · 2014 · Microarrays
Microarray data analysis typically consists in identifying a list of differentially expressed genes (DEG), i.e., the genes that are differentially expressed between two experimental conditions. Variance shrinkage methods have been…
View details →Şeyma Çağlar‐Özhan, Perihan Tekeli, Selay Arkün‐Kocadere · 2025 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
ABSTRACT Background Feedback is an essential part of the educational process as it enriches students' learning experiences, provides information about their current performance, shows them what is lacking in achieving goals, and provides…
View details →Sarvnaz Karimi, Jie Yin, Jiri Baum · 2015 · Computational Linguistics
In recent years, many studies have been published on data collected from social media, especially microblogs such as Twitter. However, rather few of these studies have considered evaluation methodologies that take into account the…
View details →G. Annie Mailloux, Mazvita Chikomo, Ying Fan · 2025 · Ecography
Plant roots have been observed up to 70 m in depth – what would compel a plant to root so deeply? Earlier work shows that the climate, soil and drainage all affect rooting depth, but with conflicting results. For example, both the deepest…
View details →Karolina Cyll, Sven Löffeler, Birgitte Carlsen et al. · 2022 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Active surveillance (AS) is standard of care for patients with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa), but its feasibility in intermediate-risk patients is controversial. We compared outcomes of low- and intermediate-risk patients managed…
View details →Huijun Tang, Jiangbo Qian, Yangguang Liu et al. · 2022 · International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Abstract Statistically significant pattern mining (SSPM) is to mine patterns with significance based on hypothesis test. Under the constraint of statistical significance, our study aims to introduce a new preference relation into high…
View details →Ann Oakley · 2012 · Evidence & Policy
The contrasting careers of two government-sponsored commissions of inquiry in the late 1960s are the focus of this paper, which examines what can be learnt from them about the impact, or lack of impact, of such bodies on policy making. The…
View details →Andrea Montanari, Yuchen Wu · 2024 · Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA
Abstract We consider a class of statistical estimation problems in which we are given a random data matrix ${\boldsymbol{X}}\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n\times d}$ (and possibly some labels ${\boldsymbol{y}}\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n}$) and would like to…
View details →Sreeram V Ramagopalan, Andrew P. Skingsley, Lahiru Handunnetthi et al. · 2015 · F1000Research
Background : We and others have shown a significant proportion of interventional trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov have their primary outcomes altered after the listed study start and completion dates. The objectives of this study…
View details →Katsuo Yamanaka, Naoya Todo, Mutsumi Yoshizawa et al. · 2020 · Brain and Behavior
Abstract Objectives Decreasing discrimination and stigma of dementia is an international issue. In 2004, the Japanese government changed the previous Japanese stigmatic term of dementia (“Chiho”) to the present one (“Ninchi‐sho”) a meaning…
View details →Haijiao Jin, Yuehan Wei, Yongbing Qian et al. · 2022 · BMC Nephrology
Abstract Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common complication after liver transplantation and is traditionally considered to be secondary to calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs). However, several studies have reported that the…
View details →Samuel V. J. Robinson, Timothy Schwinghamer, Hector Cárcamo et al. · 2023 · Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Abstract Ecosystem services can maintain or increase crop yield in agricultural systems, but data to support management decisions are expensive and time‐consuming to collect. Furthermore, relationships derived from small‐scale plot data…
View details →Nikolaus Pfisterer, Michael Schwarz, Caroline Schwarz et al. · 2024 · PLOS ONE
Background Previous experimental and clinical studies suggested a beneficial effect of statins, metformin, angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (RASi) on portal hypertension. Still, their effects on…
View details →Daniel Angerhausen, Amedeo Balbi, Andjelka B. Kovačević et al. · 2025 · The Astronomical Journal
Abstract Future telescopes will survey temperate, terrestrial exoplanets to estimate the frequency of habitable ( η Hab ) or inhabited ( η Life ) planets. This study aims to determine the minimum number of planets ( N ) required to draw…
View details →Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Maha Elgarf, Giulia Perugia et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
In educational scenarios involving social robots, understanding the way robot behaviors affect children’s motivation to achieve their learning goals is of vital importance. It is crucial for the formation of a trust relationship between…
View details →Ling Luo, Yang Fu, Hui Li · 2023 · Sustainability
The Chinese government launched the Pilot Scheme of National Innovative Cities in 2008, and it has continued to expand the scope of the program in order to achieve more high-quality and sustainable development. This pilot scheme encourages…
View details →Aasis Unnanuntana, Chirathit Anusitviwat, Vasu Lertsiripatarajit et al. · 2024 · Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation
Introduction The comparative results of early hip fracture surgery including mortality and postoperative complications in Thailand were not reported. Therefore, we conducted this study to compare the outcomes between patients who received…
View details →Nicolas Delfosse, Matthew B. Hastings · 2021 · Quantum
Homological product codes are a class of codes that can have improved distance while retaining relatively low stabilizer weight. We show how to build union-find decoders for these codes, using a union-find decoder for one of the codes in…
View details →Scott Kulm, Lior Kofman, Jason Mezey et al. · 2022 · JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
PURPOSE The ability to accurately predict an individual's risk for cancer is critical to the implementation of precision prevention measures. Current cancer risk predictions are frequently made with simple models that use a few proven risk…
View details →Rasha Tawfiq Abadi, Florinda Silva · 2019 · International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Purpose This study aims to investigate the performance of fundamental weighted portfolios (using sales, cash flows, dividends, book values and a composite of all these variables), an equal weighted portfolio and a smoothed cap-weighted…
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