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Medication adherence is a priority for health systems worldwide and is widely recognised as a key component of quality of care for disease management. Adherence-related indicators were rarely explicitly included in national health policy agendas. One...

The number and size of China’s commercial retirement Fund of Funds (FOFs) have exploded since 2018, reflecting a dearth of Chinese retirement products and widespread retirement anxiety among individual investors. Therefore, the performance of r...

Pasture systems dominate the landscape of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and are an integral component of sustainable and resilient livestock production. Predicting the response, performance, and dynamics of pasture species and adapting management practices...

It is generally accepted that relatively more permanent (i.e., more temporally persistent) traits are more valuable for biometric performance than less permanent traits. Although this finding is intuitive, there is no current work identifying exactly...

Although more scholars have studied the economic consequences of ESG, no conclusive results have been reached yet. In addition, there is a lack of research on the relationship between corporate ESG performance and surplus persistence. This paper adop...

The FKBP5 gene, a glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-regulating co-chaperone of stress proteins, is of special interest because of its role in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis regulation. However, studies finding a genetic relationship between pos...

Optical tracking of unknown space objects requires both spatial accuracy and temporal stability to enable high-resolution identification through narrow field-of-view sensors. Traditional performance indices such as RMS error and persistence time (PT)...

This paper empirically compares the market timing, the stock selection and the performance persistence of Islamic and conventional HSBC Saudi mutual funds by using monthly returns from April 2011 to December 2018. The data was grouped into five portf...

Background: An important aspect of achievement goals is the persistence and determination that the person possesses in order to achieve it. Spain does not have an adequate instrument for its measurement. First, this article had the aim of adapt and v...

The performance of hedge funds is of interest to investors looking for ways of generating value over passive strategies, particularly in bad times. This study used the Hedge Index database with over 9500 hedge funds to analyse, in depth, the performa...

In this paper, for the first time, a simultaneous design of a model predictive control plan and persistent dwell-time switching signal utilizing the conventional multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional is proposed for linear delayed switched sy...

The problem of forecasting hourly solar irradiance over a multi-step horizon is dealt with by using three kinds of predictor structures. Two approaches are introduced: Multi-Model (MM) and Multi-Output (MO). Model parameters are identified for two ki...

The aim of this study was to evaluate secondary clinical disease, milk production efficiency and reproductive performance of heifers and cows persistently infected (PI) with bovine viral diarrhea virus type 2 (BVDV type 2). PI animals (n = 25) were i...

The role of databases is to allow for the persistence of data, no matter if they are of the SQL or NoSQL type. In SQL databases, data are structured in a set of tables in the relational database model, grouped in rows and columns. CRUD operations (cr...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the favorable characteristics of novel digital PET/CT (dPET) scanners compared to analog systems (aPET) could translate into an improved disease localization in prostate cancer (PCa) patients with earl...

In recent decades, container stock has become the preferred plant material to regenerate longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) forests in the southeastern United States. We evaluated the effects of container nursery treatments on early and long-term...

Improving the filtration efficiency of air filter materials is an ongoing research goal. This study conducted in-depth research on a new reduced graphene oxide air filter material, and the differences in its performance and conductivity durability be...

The explosive growth of massive data makes shingled magnetic recording (SMR) disks a promising candidate for balancing capacity and cost. SMR disks are typically configured with a persistent buffer to reduce the read–modify–write (RMW) ov...

Applications for intelligent cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are rapidly expanding. Efficient and reliable communication is critical for realizing this swarm intelligence, especially in remote areas lacking infrastructure where ad ho...

Deep-red persistent luminescence (PersL) materials have promising applications in fluorescence labeling and tracking. PersL spectral range and PersL duration are considered to be the key factors driving the development of high-performance deep-red Pe...

This study explored innovative methods for teaching mathematics to seventh-grade students with persistently low performance by using an AI-driven neural network approach, specifically focusing on solving first-degree inequalities. Guided by the Respo...

Persistent bacteria (PB) are a subpopulation of dormant cells that tolerate high antibiotic concentrations and cause chronic, hard-to-treat infections, posing a serious global health threat. In this study, the antibacterial efficacy of six cationic p...

This work introduces an identification scheme capable of obtaining the unknown dynamics of a nonlinear plant process. The proposed method employs an iterative algorithm that prevents confinement to a sole trajectory by fitting a neural network over a...

This paper examined a large sample of equity SMAs (separately managed accounts, hereafter) from 1999 to 2023. This paper found that separate accounts have much higher expenses than ETFs and may outperform or underperform ETFs in terms of gross return...

Neonatal pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a major cause of illness and death in newborns. Neonatologist-performed echocardiography (NPE) is increasingly used as a bedside tool to assess heart function, shunt patterns, and pulmonary blood flow in real t...

In this paper, two kinds of pumice particles with different diameters and water absorption rates are employed to substitute the corresponding size of river sands by volume fraction, and their effects on the hydration characteristics and persistent sh...

Long COVID, a condition characterized by symptom and/or sign persistence following an acute COVID-19 episode, is associated with reduced physical performance and endothelial dysfunction. Supplementation of l-arginine may improve endothelial and muscl...

In its broadest meaning, salutogenesis denotes an orientation toward the origins and assets for positive health, as opposed to the origins and risk factors associated with disease (i.e., pathogenesis). While salutogenesis continues to inspire health...

This study aimed to estimate the diagnostic performance of patient symptoms and to describe the clinical course of RT-PCR-positive compared with RT-PCR-negative patients in primary care. Symptomatic COVID-19 suspects were assessed clinically at the i...

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus infection is over 621 million. Post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as long COVID or long-haul COVID, refers to a persistent condition where individuals experience symptoms and...

As more and more devices are being deployed across networks to gather data and use them to perform intelligent tasks, it is vital to have a tool to perform real-time data analysis. Data are the backbone of Machine Learning models, the core of intelli...

The development of inventor networks is characterized by the addition of a significant number of new inventors, while a considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimated the persistence of knowledge in the inventor networks of nine...

This paper presents a controlled comparative evaluation of SQL and NoSQL persistence mechanisms in containerized microservice architectures under variable workload conditions. Three persistence configurations—SQL with indexing, SQL without inde...

Background/Objectives: Sport persistence, defined as an athlete’s behavioural commitment to sport, is influenced by various psychological, social, and environmental factors. This study examines sport persistence using an ecological framework, i...

The reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be greatly affected by failures of sensor nodes due to energy exhaustion or the influence of brutal external environment conditions. Such failures seriously affect the data persistence and collec...

Electrical isolation of pulmonary veins (PVI) is the cornerstone of invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, arrhythmia-free survival of a PVI only approach is suboptimal in patients with persistent and long-term persistent AF. Hybrid...

In this work, we develop a pipeline that associates Persistence Diagrams to digital data via the most appropriate filtration for the type of data considered. Using a grid search approach, this pipeline determines optimal representation methods and pa...

Persistent topological Laplacians constitute a new class of tools in topological data analysis (TDA). They are motivated by the necessity to address challenges encountered in persistent homology when handling complex data. These Laplacians combine mu...

In education, several studies have tried to track student persistence (i.e., students’ ability to keep on working on the assigned tasks) using different definitions and self-reported data. However, self-reported metrics may be limited, and currently,...

We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the prognostic value of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) persistence 4–8 weeks after radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients with prostate cancer, using studies from Medline, Scopus, and Coch...

The intensive use of pesticides has raised environmental concerns due to their persistence and slow degradation, posing ecotoxicological risks. Despite regulatory measures, pesticide application remains high, leading to soil and water contamination....

Chronic infections with Staphylococcus aureus such as septicemia, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, and biofilm infections are difficult to treat because of persisters. Despite many efforts in understanding bacterial persistence, the mechanisms of persist...

The appearance of persister cells with low metabolic rates are key factors leading to antibiotic treatment failure. Such persisters are multidrug tolerant and play a key role in the recalcitrance of biofilm-based chronic infections. Here, we present...

Based on several studies, after exiting higher education there are serious gender differences in the labor market, and disadvantages of people with worse social background also exist. Research question of this study is whether such inequalities in st...

Persistent stifle instability is a recognized complication following tibial tuberosity advancement techniques (TTAT). The aim of this study is to report the feasibility and outcome of tibial plateau leveling techniques (TPLT) to treat dogs with persi...

The objective of this study was to analyse persistence to lipid-lowering drug use for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a new users cohort, to explore all-cause and cardiovascular related morbidity, comorbidity and mortality in th...

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a major complication of diabetes mellitus and a public health concern worldwide. The ability of P. aeruginosa to form biofilms is a key factor responsible for the chronicity of diabetic foot infections (DFIs) and freque...

Superconducting techniques are applied to a superconducting magnetic suspension system. A superconducting coil, copper coils, a magnetically suspended object, a photo sensor, a PID controller, and power amplifiers are the main components of the suspe...

Persisters are a small fraction of growth-arrested phenotypic variants that can survive lethal concentrations of antibiotics but are able to resume growth once antibiotics are stopped. Their formation can be a stochastic process or one triggered by e...

Background: Although many adverse reactions after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have been reported, there have been few comprehensive studies on persistent symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteri...