Color coding is an algorithmic technique used in parameterized complexity theory to detect “small” structures inside graphs. The idea is to derandomize algorithms that first randomly color a graph and then search for an easily-detectable, small color...
Rate distortion theory was developed for optimizing lossy compression of data, but it also has applications in statistics. In this paper, we illustrate how rate distortion theory can be used to analyze various datasets. The analysis involves testing,...
Lunar impact craters are important for studying lunar surface morphology because they are the most typical morphological units of the Moon. Impact crater descriptive indices can be used to describe morphological features and thus provide direct evide...
The study evaluated the effect of peach juice sweetened with sucrose, widely used non-nutritive sweeteners, the artificial sucralose, neotame blend, and the natural stevia extract with different rebaudioside A concentrations on the temporal and quant...
One of the most common causes of maternal death during pregnancy is preeclampsia. A deeper understanding of the patient’s features can aid in the hospital’s clinical care distribution. However, at the IESS Los Ceibos Hospital, these types...
Technologies came to revolutionize the teaching of technical design; they brought resources that enabled 3D and 2D graphic simulation. The objective of this research is to understand how the implementation of the dynamic software GeoGebra on the topi...
21 June 2023
There is a lack of rigorous methodological development for descriptive epidemiology, where the goal is to describe and identify the most important associations with an outcome given a large set of potential predictors. This has often led to the Table...
Successful sugar reduction in food products mimics the sensory and functional properties of the full sugar counterpart. The initial step of sugar reduction is to determine how the absence of sugar affects these properties. Descriptive analysis was co...
Background: The popularity of peas (Pisum sativum L.) and pea-derived products is constantly growing globally and is estimated to continue to do so at an average annual rate of 12%. This is partially stimulated by the increase in the consumption of m...
Background/Objectives: Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services are critical for supporting children with developmental needs and their families. Despite an established legislative framework, challenges related to accessibility, equity, resources,...
In many countries, assessment and curriculum reforms came into being in recent decades. In Iran, an important educational assessment reform took place called Descriptive Assessment (DA). In this reform, the focus of student assessment was moved from...
Sensory science provides objective information about the consumer understanding of a product, the acceptance or rejection of stimuli, and the description of the emotions evoked. It is possible to answer how consumers perceive a product through discri...
Industrial process automation has long been the main goal in production lines that seek to decrease human involvement. However, it is broadly agreed that a collaboration between humans and technologies must still exist as human capital is required to...
This paper investigates how much Italian farms are involved in the so-called “Agriculture 4.0” (Agri 4.0) journey. The paper focuses on analyzing the knowledge and adoption levels of specific 4.0-enabling technologies while also consideri...
The primary distinction between technical design and engineering design lies in the role of analysis and optimization. From its inception, descriptive geometry has supported military and engineering applications, and its graphical rules inherently re...
Computer-extended Descriptive Geometry (CeDG) is a new approach to solving and building computer models of three-dimensional (3D) geometrical systems through descriptive geometry procedures (thus inheriting invariant-symmetry properties from projecti...
Trends in new food products focus on low-carbohydrate ingredients rich in healthy fats, proteins, and micronutrients; thus, avocado has gained worldwide attention. This study aimed to use predictive modeling to identify the potential sensory drivers...
Background: Telemedicine represents a rapidly evolving tool for delivering specialist healthcare in structurally constrained environments. Correctional facilities face significant barriers to in-person specialist care, and telemedicine offers a scala...
As globalization progresses, consumers are readily exposed to many foods from various cultures. The need for studying specialty and unique food products, sometimes known as traditional, authentic, ethnic, exotic, or artisanal foods, is increasing to...
The focus of this study, and the subject of this article, resides in the conceptually funded usability evaluation of an application of descriptive models to a specific dataset obtained from the East Slovak Institute of Heart and Vascular Diseases tar...
We surveyed 297 STEM undergraduates at a single English-medium Sino–UK joint institution to document perceptions of AI chatbots for learning. Students reported high willingness to adopt AI chatbots (78%; 95% CI: 73.1–82.4) alongside conce...
Gender-disaggregated sensory evaluation has become an essential element that could enhance breeding activities by increasing the adoption of new varieties. The effect of age, sex and geographical location on descriptor preferences for boiled and poun...
This paper presents a measurement procedure for analyzing the dielectric properties of cells using descriptive statistics. The study focuses on four cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer, SaOS-2, and 143B osteosarcoma) and DMEM cultur...
Improving the energy efficiency of chemical industries and increasing their environmental friendliness requires an assessment of the parameters of consumption and losses of energy resources. The aim of the study is to develop and test a method for so...
The emergence of computer-aided design (CAD) has propelled the evolution of the sheet metal engineering field. Sheet metal design software tools include parameters associated to the part’s forming process during the pattern drawing calculation. Curre...
Descriptive geometry plays a fundamental role in developing spatial reasoning and geometric problem-solving skills in engineering education. This study investigates the comparative effectiveness of two instructional methodologies—Monge’s...
This paper focusses on the analysis of female political participation in the decision-making processes at the local level. We analyse women’s descriptive representation in Czechia on a very detailed spatial structure and an extended yearly time...
Background and Objectives: Twin pregnancies carry a high risk of preterm birth, and cerclage for a short or dilated cervix is typically placed before 24 weeks. Its use at or after 24 weeks is less well characterized in twins. Materials and Methods: W...
Sensory evaluation is essential to understand consumer perception. This study compared three descriptive methods (Check-All-That-Apply (CATA), Flash Profile, and Pivot Profile) to characterize muffins formulated with alternative flours (purple corn a...
Understanding how clinical pathways evolve over time is essential for characterizing care processes. It also helps identify potential shifts in diagnostic and organizational practices. This study provides a descriptive analysis of patient trajectorie...
This paper presents a partial differential equation (PDE)-based auto-aggregation model for simulating descriptive norm dynamics in autonomous multi-agent systems, capturing convergence and violation through nonlocal perception kernels and external po...
This part of the review aims to reduce the start-up burden of data collection and descriptive analytics for statistical modeling and route optimization of risk associated with motor vehicles. From a data-driven bibliometric analysis, we show that the...
9 April 2022
A central issue in modern cities is providing inclusive transportation services for people with reduced mobility. In particular, Barcelona is offering a public door-to-door pickup transportation service complementary to the adapted regular public tra...
Classification using the rich information provided by time-series and polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has attracted much attention. The key point is to effectively reveal the correlation between different dimensions of information...
Background/Objectives: This retrospective descriptive real-world study aimed to characterize clinical features and factors associated with recoarctation in children with coarctation of the aorta (CoA) and develop a composite metric to quantify postop...
Young Black males (YBM), ages 15–17, experience disproportionately high rates of firearm violence and related structural disadvantages, shaping both their psychological and practical responses to violence-related stressors. These intersecting e...
Texture anomaly segmentation aims to localize irregularities on textured surfaces, a task critical for industrial quality control. Supervised methods require extensive labeled data, while unsupervised approaches often struggle to generalize to unseen...
16 July 2020
Many adolescents with type 1 diabetes experience challenges in achieving good glycemic control and have insufficient understanding in executing interventions for glycemic control. This study aimed to understand self-management experiences of adolesce...
In solving descriptive geometry (DG) problems, board (i.e., hand drawing) methods are frequently used, despite this discipline is still very important to enhance spatial vision. These methods are very different from CAD tools which are used in the fi...
21 June 2021
Moderate to late preterm infants are at risk of developing problems later in life. To support attachment and infants’ development, high quality parent-infant interaction is important. Parent-infant interaction is known to improve through intervention...
In recent years, non-alcoholic beers have presented a growth considered satisfactory and exciting for the brewing industry. Such growth is allied to a change in the consumer profile, in addition to changes in traffic laws. However, the consumer seeks...
Background/Objectives: Transition from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to home involves emotional adjustment and increasing parental responsibility for infant care. This study explored parents’ experiences of this transition, focusing o...
Rakı is a traditional and Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) alcoholic beverage that is distilled from grape distillate with Pimpinella anisum L. in copper pot stills in Turkey. This study focused on the development of a sensory lexicon, a sensory...
This paper presents an initial study of teachers’ perspectives and practices on students’ assessment methods regarding the subject of Geology-Geography taught in junior secondary education in Greece. While the application of descriptive a...
23 August 2017
Associations between local-area residential features and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) may be mediated by individual-level health behaviors. Such indirect effects have rarely been tested. This study assessed whether individual-level self-reported p...
Drought is a recurring agricultural hazard in Northeast Thailand’s floodplain environments, yet the actual values of remote sensing indices at confirmed drought locations remain poorly characterized. This study characterized six remote sensing...
This study aimed to determine clinical instructors’ perceptions of the assessments used to evaluate the clinical knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach. Purposive sampling was used t...
The present study used descriptive sensory analysis (DSA) to compare Pizza cheeses prepared from various combinations of fresh Mozzarella and semi-ripened Cheddar cheeses and cooked under conventional and microwave cooking methods. A cheese sensory l...
Background/Objectives: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often supported by structured safety screening and preparation, yet first-time patients may still experience anxiety, claustrophobic distress, loss of control and non-completion. This study a...
Recently, awareness has been raised concerning the importance of sustainable energy use. Nevertheless, many obstacles must be overcome to change individuals’ energy consumption habits. This study examines how a message should be framed to convi...
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