Modeling count data using generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) is a common practice in ecological research. However, datasets such as bird vocalization counts often display overdispersion, where the variance exceeds the mean, violating Poisson ass...
Relative humidity (RH) is an important meteorological factor that affects both the climate system and human activities. However, the existing observational station data are insufficient to meet the requirements of regional scale research. Machine lea...
Categorical data derived from qualitative classifications or countable quantitative data are common in biological scientific work and crop breeding. Categorical data analyses are important for drawing correct inferences from experiments. However, cat...
Cultured epithelial autografts (CEA) with highly expanded mesh skin grafts were used for extensive adult burns covering more than 30% of the total body surface area. A prospective study on eight patients assessed subjective and objective findings up...
Pruning is a regular and essential urban tree maintenance practice aimed at sustaining overall health, ecosystem services, and public safety. However, knowledge of post-pruning recovery dynamics remains limited, which in turn hinders accurate assessm...
Strong communication is central to the translation of breast cancer screening availability into uptake. This experiment tests the role of design features of screening advertisements in directing visual attention in screening-eligible women (≥40 ye...
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents is distinct from both childhood and adult TB, particularly in terms of risk factors; however, national-level data assessing these factors in adolescents remain limited despite growing attention to the issu...
The active effect of natural regeneration on understory vegetation and diversity on clear-cut forestlands, in contrast to conifer reforestation, is still controversial. Here we investigated differences in understory vegetation by comparing naturally...
Additional information and borrowing strength from the related sites and other sources will improve estimation in small areas. Generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMMs) have been frequently used in small area estimation; however, the relationsh...
The Asian Emerald Ash Borer beetle (EAB, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) can cause damage to all species of Ash trees (Fraxinus), and rampant, unchecked infestations of this insect can cause significant damage to forests. It is thus critical to assess...
Many parts of big data, such as web documents, online posts, papers, patents, and articles, are in text form. So, the analysis of text data in the big data domain is an important task. Many methods based on statistics or machine learning algorithms h...
27 April 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants influencing the costs of cardiovascular disease in the regional health service in Italy’s Apulia region from 2014 to 2016. Data for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart fa...
2 December 2021
When investigating disease etiology, twin data provide a unique opportunity to control for confounding and disentangling the role of the human genome and exposome. However, using appropriate statistical methods is fundamental for exploiting such pote...
Fusarium oxysporum exhibits insect pathogenicity—however, generalized concerns of releasing phytopathogens within agroecosystems marred its entomopathogenicity-related investigations. In a previous study, soils were sampled from Douro vineyards...
27 September 2017
Gene-environment (GE) interaction has important implications in the etiology of complex diseases that are caused by a combination of genetic factors and environment variables. Several authors have developed GE analysis in the context of independent s...
Stillbirth remains a major cause of piglet loss in hyperprolific sow herds. This observational study investigated the effects of farrowing kinetics, including birth weight (BW), birth order (BO), and expulsion interval (EI), on stillbirth risk. Data...
Atypical visual attention to aversive or threatening stimuli is a clinically relevant feature of aggressive behavior. However, the developmental dissociation between sustained visual allocation and early orienting remains unclear. This study examined...
Catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) standardization in fisheries is a critical foundation for conducting stock assessment and fishery conservation. The Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) is one of the economically important fish species in the Northwest Paci...
Conventional descriptive statistical approaches in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) environmental forensics often fail under small-sample, ecosystem-level complexity, challenging the optimization of sampling, monitoring, and remediation stra...
Territory risk analysis has played an important role in auto insurance rate regulation. It aims to design rating territories from a set of basic rating units so that their respective risk relativities can be estimated to reflect the regional risk of...
Vaccination has been a cornerstone of the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in protecting older and frail populations. A detailed characterization of antibody titer dynamics and their determinants represents a crucial step...
Wood supply predictions from forest inventories involve two steps. First, it is predicted whether harvests occur on a plot in a given time period. Second, for plots on which harvests are predicted to occur, the harvested volume is predicted. This res...
The development of stem heartwood and the factors that control it play an important role in tree physiology, thereby impacting demographic and ecological processes of woody species. We investigated the relationships of stem heartwood with site- and t...
Generating an unbiased inventory of mass movements is challenging, particularly in a large region such as China. However, due to the enormous threat to human life and property caused by the increasing number of mass movements, it is imperative to dev...
I. ricinus and D. reticulatus are among the most important vectors of pathogens causing tick-borne diseases in humans and animals. This study investigated their seasonal activity in Eastern Poland, a region with one of the highest incidence rates of...
Meta-analysis of proportions requires a rigorous transformation model due to the inherent mathematical constraints of proportional data (boundedness and non-constant variance). This study compared four proportions (Untransformed, Freeman–Tukey,...
26 August 2021
The correlation of the public’s perception of drug problems with neighborhood characteristics has rarely been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate factors that correlate with public perceptions in London boroughs using the Mayor’s Office...
Progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) is an emerging subset of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILD), defined by progressive fibrosis despite standard treatment in patients with other than idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The international guideline...
Habitat suitability analysis is essential in habitat and species conservation. Anatidae are known for their migratory behaviour, high population density, and wide distribution range. Understanding their habitat utilzation and influencing factors is c...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key indicator for assessing carbon fixation capacity. Understanding the mechanisms of carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems is critical in the context of global climate change. Research on the influenc...
Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have reshaped the treatment landscape of metastatic melanoma. While combination regimens often demonstrate improved response and survival compared to monotherapy, they are also associated with a higher...
15 May 2021
The objective of this study is to measure the effectiveness of a program on improving inhibitory and emotional control among children. In addition, it is assessed whether the improvement of these skills has an effect on the reduction of aggressive be...
Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) are a cornerstone data analysis strategy in behavioral research because of their robustness in handling non-normally distributed variables. Recently, their integration with ordered beta regression (OBR), a nove...
Previous studies in urban desert ecosystems have reported a decline in avian diversity. Herein, we expand and improve these studies by disentangling the effect of land-use and land-cover (LULC) types (desert, riparian desert, urban, riparian urban, a...
This article presents the results of the implementation of a forecasting model, to predict the relief materials needed for assisting in decisions prior to natural disasters, thus filling a gap in the exploration of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GL...
Marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) is a species with obligatory cainism, in which hatching asynchrony creates a pronounced size hierarchy in nestlings. The size-related competitive advantage of older nestlings means that they tend to dominate the you...
The financial difficulties of parents have a negative impact on the health of their children. This problem is more pronounced in single mother families. There is limited research on low-income, single mothers and how interventions to help them addres...
Nowadays, the sustainability risks and opportunities start to affect strongly insurance companies in regard to the resulting additional variability of future values of variables taken into account in the decision processes. This is important especial...
Background/Objectives: This study presents Co.Ge. a Cognitive Generative digital platform for cognitive testing. We describe its architecture and report a pilot study. Methods: Co.Ge. is modular and web-based (Laravel-PHP, MySQL). It can be used to a...
Self-driving vehicle (SDV) safety and reliability are becoming critical design parameters as SDVs increase their market share. This paper examines public preferences for key SDV safety features (system reliability, sensor resilience, failure behavior...
Mosquito and arbovirus surveillance is essential to the protection of public health. A majority of surveys are undertaken at ground level. However, mosquitoes shelter, breed, and quest for hosts across vertical strata, thus limiting our ability to fu...
Soil nitrogen and phosphorus are commonly limiting elements affecting plant species richness in temperate zones. Our species richness-ecological study was performed in alder-dominated forests representing temperate floodplains (streamside alder fores...
Pesticides have been extensively used in agriculture, forestry, and veterinary medicine under intensive production systems. Unfortunately, pesticide pollution resulted in a significant decline in non-target organisms, for instance, in detritivores su...
Wheat exhibits moderate tolerance to salinity. The increasing salinization of arable land poses a significant risk to future wheat production. Therefore, it is imperative to expedite the genetic breeding of wheat for enhanced salt tolerance. This stu...
Dietary management is of paramount importance in the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effect of dietary management tools on the dietary skills of patient...
Background: Warfarin remains widely used in specific clinical situations. Its management is complicated by multiple factors that affect anticoagulant response, particularly during the early period after hospital discharge. This study examined the pre...
Background/Objectives: This study examined the effects of a computerized naming intervention combined with either cerebellar anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation (A-tDCS) or sham (S-tDCS) on noun and verb naming in Cantonese-speaking person...
To explore the possible relationship between diseased trees and wildfires, we assessed the flammability of canker-resistant and susceptible common cypress clones that were artificially infected with Seiridium cardinale compared to healthy trees. This...
The spatial aggregation patterns of wildlife-vehicle collisions are used to inform where mitigation measures are most needed. Based on 10 years of observations of vertebrate roadkill on the Ring Changbai Mountain Scenic Road, the spatial distribution...
Polylepis woodlands, endemic to the Andean Mountains, are critical for biodiversity and ecosystem services but face threats from anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. This study employed sonic tomography (ST) to assess the structural integri...
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