Survey of Indoor Air Pollution Health Literacy among Community-dwelling Adults in Taiwan by Jia-Ling Wu, Yu-Han Huang, Yi-Chin Huang, Chien-Cheng Jung, Pei-Chen Lee, Ming-Yeng Lin, Wen-Hsuan Hou, Chung-Yi Li

“…The weighted sample size was 616 subjects aged between 20 and 88 years old (mean: 45.8 years, standard deviation: 18.1). Generally, adult residents of Taiwan showed only a moderate level of overall IAPHL, with the highest and lowest matric-specific score for “understanding” and “appraisi ng,” respectively. …”
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(Pseudo) sluicing in Preposition Stranding Contexts: The Case of Ta'izzi Arabic by Mustafa Ahmed Al-humari

“…The Arabic dialect under study seems to allow sluicing with preposition stranding, thus constituting, in principle, counterevidence to Preposition Stranding Generalization (PSG) proposed by Merchant (2001). That is, Arabic permits a preposition to be stranded under sluicing, though this is not allowed in regular wh-movements. …”
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Comparative use of different AI methods for the prediction of concrete compressive strength by Mouhamadou Amar

“…The simulations used artificial neural networks or deep learning, generalized linear, decision tree, random forest, support vector machine, and gradient-boosted tree models to predict the compressive strength of 8 concrete mix designs containing different SCMs. …”
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Mekanisme Survival dan Kesejahteraan Guru Sekolah Dasar: Studi Kualitatif di SDN Campaka by Nadiyah Aulia Safira, Rahma Nur Labah, Razi Fauziah Asri, Arkan Abhirama Ersakta, Aprilia Salsabila, Nadya Kharima

“…However, the study is limited to a small sample in one school, requiring further research for broader generalization. …”
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Robust adaptive optimization for sustainable water demand prediction in water distribution systems by Ke Wang, Jiayang Meng, Zhangquan Wang, Kehua Zhao, Banteng Liu

“…To further enhance the model’s robustness, an innovative optimization algorithm is incorporated within the CEEMD process to minimize the variance in multi-scale arrangement entropy among the decomposed components, thereby improving the model’s generalization capabilities. The predictive power of the proposed model is harnessed through the construction of deep neural networks that utilize the decomposed data to forecast minutely water demand. …”
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On the assessment and reliability of political and ideological education in colleges using deep learning methods by Yongsheng Ma, Xianhui Sun, Aiqun Ma

“…The ANN exhibited the highest errors, with a training RMSE (root mean squares error) of 14.13 and test RMSE of 13.55, indicating weak generalization. The CNN showed substantial improvement, with a training RMSE of 9.31 and test RMSE of 9.32, reflecting moderate but consistent performance. …”
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A Semi-portable Enclosure to Measure Emission Rates from Small Fugitive Sources: Leaf Blower Dust Example by Dennis Fitz, David Pankratz, Sally Pederson, James Bristow

“…The EPA addresses some fugitive emission rates in their AP-42 document and these generally were developed from upwind-downwind sampling. …”
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Log-Driven Behavior Discrimination of Process Robots Using Entropy Similarity by Lu Li, Huan Fang

“…Finally, a series of experiments are conducted on a set of publicly available datasets, validating the feasibility, generality, and effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Intestinal Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Patients with Bronchial Asthma by O. Yu. Zolnikova, N. D. Potskhverashvili, N. I. Kokina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…All participants underwent a generally accepted range of clinical and laboratory studies, as well as functional respiratory tests. …”
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Nonlinear vibration analysis of a 3DOF double pendulum system near resonance by Asmaa Amer, W. Zhang, T.S. Amer, H. Li

“…Lagrangian equations are employed to derive the differential governing equations of motion (GEOM) based on the system generalized coordinates. The approximate solutions (AS) of these equations are generated through the utilization of the multiple scales technique (MST) at the third-order level of approximation. …”
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Utilization of spatial technology in making land suitability class map for mango (Mangivera indica L.) plants in south langowan district, Minahasa East Coast by Pakasi Sandra, Rotinsulu Wiske, Todingan Melisa

“…While the criteria for temperature and rooting media are included in the land suitability class S2 (Moderately suitable) and for the criteria for water availability and the level of erosion hazard are generally included in class S3 (Marginally suitable). …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

“…Two-stage treatment including multicomponent therapy (nutritional support, infection generalization control, local wound treatment) and reconstructive surgery allowed to reduce mortality rates to 3.4 %, which proves the effectiveness of this method.…”
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Disrupting effects of neonicotinoids and their interaction with metals on thyroid hormone, an evidence of children in a rural area, South China by Ling-Chuan Guo, Pan Zhu, Chunyan Gui, Jing Deng, Yanhong Gao, Chaoyang Long, Han Zhang, Zhanlu Lv, Shengbing Yu

“…Based on linear regression, generalized additive model, and Bayesian kernel machine regression, neonicotinoids levels were found to be correlated with TH, TBG, and TSH levels, with stronger effects for metabolites than parent compounds in most cases. …”
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Phantom-based investigation of block sequential regularised expectation maximisation (BSREM) reconstruction for zirconium-89 PET-CT for varied count levels by Lara M. Bonney, Matthew D. Walker, Daniel R. McGowan

“…The effect of varying beta on several measures of image quality was characterised for the case of a phantom, with the results indicating that the value of beta for optimal Zr-89 quantitation is lower than what is generally used for optimal visualisation. This work demonstrates the need for careful attention to the reconstruction methods used for quantitative imaging studies, such as those required for theragnostic imaging.…”
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Temporal Probability Analysis of Flood Occurrence Using Peak Over Threshold Method for Extreme Rainfall Events by Oktaviana Pratnya Paramitha, Syafei Arie Dipareza, Kuswanto Heri, Hermana Joni

“…Mean Residual Life Plot (MRLP) was used to determine thresholds for extreme rainfall, resulting in thresholds of 122 mm/day for Central Jakarta and 126 mm/day for North Jakarta. Using Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) modeling, the probability of flooding due to extreme rainfall exceeding these thresholds was calculated for various time frames. …”
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Peculiar index relations, 2D TQFT, and universality of SUSY enhancement by Matthew Buican, Linfeng Li, Takahiro Nishinaka

“…., the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6 theory and various generalizations). We then reinterpret the TQFT expressions for the indices of our AD theories in terms of the topology of the corresponding 3D mirror quivers, and we show that our isolated AD theories generically admit renormalization group (RG) flows to interacting superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with thirty-two (Poincaré plus special) supercharges. …”
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Convolutional neural networks for diabetic retinopathy detection by Darwin Patiño-Pérez, Luis Armijos-Valarezo, Luis Chóez-Acosta, Freddy Burgos-Robalino

“…The findings reveal significant differences in the models' ability to learn and generalize. The non-pretrained CNN consistently outperformed the pretrained ResNet-18 and ResNet-50 models, achieving an accuracy of 91% and demonstrating notable classification stability. …”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY BANKS IN NIGERIA by S.L ADAM, I. A MUHAMMED, Eunice T OLUGANNA, H.K.K ABDULKAREEM

“…The study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) for a period of seven years (2012-2018). …”
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L-shaped association between ankle-brachial index and coronary heart disease in Chinese adults with hypertension by Wei Zhou, Yumeng Shi, Chao Yu, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis involving 10,900 hypertensive patients, with CHD as the primary outcome. A generalized additive model (GAM) and fitted smoothing curve were employed to assess linearity and delineate the dose–response association between ABI and CHD. …”
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Carboxypeptidase B1 in dialyzed chronic kidney disease patients by Matej Stančík, Marián Grendár, Marián Mokáň

“…The mean Carboxypeptidase B1 concentration was significantly higher in the target arm compared to the control arm (77.60 ± 11.81 ng/mL and 1.22 ± 0.41 ng/mL, respectively; p < 0.001). Generalized linear mixed regression revealed that affiliation with the control arm was the only significant contributor of this finding. …”
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