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Background: The gastrointestinal symptom score (GIS) is used in a standardized form to ascertain dyspeptic symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia in clinical practice. As a criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment, the change...

(1) Background: The aim of this project was to develop a short, HIV-specific, health-related quality of life measure with a scoring system based on patient preferences for the different dimensions of the Preference-Based HIV Index (PB-HIV). (2) Metho...

Few studies currently examine the effect of different disaster informational programmes because conducting such intervention studies is challenging. By providing two types of online disaster learning programmes, this intervention study measured chang...

Background: Cost-utility analysis (CUA) is frequently used by reimbursement agencies and national advisory bodies to make informed decisions on whether or not to reimburse surgical interventions. Health state preferences (utilities) are a key compone...

Background and objectives: Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) presents two interrelated challenges: the general problem of assessing model performance across diverse tasks and the specific problem of using LLMs themselves as evaluators in pedago...

Little is known about the impact of bilateral permanent childhood hearing loss (PCHL) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective of this study was to describe preference-based and non-preference based HRQoL outcomes in adolescence, from...

Background Daytime sleepiness can be assessed by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), which is widely used in the field of sleep medicine as a subjective measure of a patient’s sleepiness. Also, health utility assessed by the mean Short-Form Six...

This study compares the empirical performance of a commonly used functional-status measure, the Barthel Index (BI), to that of a widely used generic preference-based instrument, the EuroQoL-5-Dimensions 3 Level (EQ-5D-3L), in older people. Data from...

The link between post-migration stressors and mental ill health is well documented in refugees resettled in high-income host countries, but the consequences of these stressors on refugees’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are less known....

Conducting economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is an efficient way to collect cost-effectiveness data. Generic preference-based measures, such as EQ-5D, are often used alongside clinical data measures in RCTs. However,...

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general conversational capabilities, yet their deployment in domain-specific service environments such as hospitality remains limited by the absence of emotionally grounded datasets and validated end-to-end...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is evolving from a conventional waste-to-energy technology toward a multiproduct biorefinery platform capable of producing bioenergy and value-added bioproducts. However, production pathways compete for organic carbon and ene...

The wide-spread dissemination of evidence-based programs that can improve health outcomes among older populations often requires an understanding of factors influencing community adoption of such programs. One such program is Texercise Select, a comm...

Background/Objectives: Psychological barriers, particularly kinesiophobia and diminished psychological readiness, represent critical yet undertreated obstacles to a successful return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR)...

Assessing preferences for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) sounds is important for improving comfort in living spaces. Recently, preference assessments using neurophysiological measurements have gained attention. However, association...

During the decision-making process, evaluation information may be given in different formats based on the decision makers’ research fields or personal customs. To address the situation that alternatives are evaluated by both intuitionistic fuzzy pref...

High-quality synthetic text can mitigate annotation scarcity in text classification. However, standard preference optimization often produces samples that are fluent but weakly label-specific. We present Utility-weighted Direct Preference Optimizatio...

Top-k spatial preference queries rank objects based on the score of feature objects in their spatial neighborhood. Top-k preference queries are crucial for a wide range of location based services such as hotel browsing and apartment searching. In rec...

Background and Objectives: To compare the effectiveness, durability, and patient-reported outcomes of hysteroscopic endometrial resection (ER) and the 52 mg levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) in women with medically refractory hea...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education assessment has prompted growing interest in how students perceive and prefer AI involvement in scoring and feedback. While prior research has largely focused on technical performan...

Personalized itinerary recommendations are essential as many people choose traveling as their primary leisure pursuit. Unlike model-based and optimization-based methods, sequential-pattern-mining-based methods, which are based on the users’ pre...

User preferences are important for electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) recommendations, but they have not been deeply analyzed. Therefore, in this study, user charging preferences are identified and applied to EVCS recommendations using a hybrid...

Through field perception in winter and summer, people’s preferences for vegetation types in green spaces with various structures (single-layer woodland, tree-shrub-grass composite woodland, tree-grass composite woodland, and single-layer grassl...

Food preferences are among the strongest predictors of the food choices of adolescents. These are associated with appetitive traits (food approach and avoidance) to some extent. However, no research has been conducted so far analyzing the association...

Existing travel planning systems lack user participation in itinerary scoring and apply coarse, binary weather treatment that risks excluding high-quality outdoor attractions under mild precipitation. This paper presents a multi-objective genetic alg...

Known for its ability to improve fitness and health, high-intensity functional training (HIFT) focuses on functional movements completed at high intensities, often yielding outcomes superior to repetitive aerobic workouts. Preference for and toleranc...

This study proposes a novel fuzzy framework for eliciting and organizing the preference information of the negotiator to allow for the evaluation of negotiation offers. The approach is based on verbal evaluation of negotiation options that operates w...

Understanding the preferred place of death may assist to organize and deliver palliative health care services. The study aims to assess preference for place of death among cancer patients in receipt of home-based palliative care, and to determine the...

The purpose of POI group recommendation is to generate a recommendation list of locations for a group of users. Most of the current studies first conduct personal recommendation and then use recommendation strategies to integrate individual recommend...

Infancy is a time of plasticity in development of taste preference. Complementary feeding (CF) may be a “sensitive period” for learning new taste preferences and establishing healthy dietary behaviors that may track later in life. Among 1...

In small and medium-sized cities of China, walking plays an important role as a green and healthy way to travel. However, the intensification of motorized travel and poor planning of pedestrian transportation systems have resulted in poor travel expe...

Risk preference theory states that religiosity positively correlates with risk aversion. Based on data from the 2018 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study tested risk preference theory in the Chinese mainland. A binary logistic re...

Although sexuality education is delivered in schools, Chinese adolescents’ preferred sources may still be inconsistent with where they currently receive sex education. Based on two theories (Objectivism and Sex-Positivity) that emphasize the us...

The process of time-series forecasting such as predicting trajectories of silicon content in blast furnaces is a difficult task. Most time-series approaches today focus on scalar-type MSE loss optimization. This optimization approach, while widely co...

Osaka’s public high school admissions system uses a common score-based priority order and schools’ preferences, while restricting each student to reporting a single school. We show that the Osaka mechanism is neither priority-stable nor p...

To examine whether gaze behavior on the rating scale can complement conventional self-report, twenty-four volunteers evaluated three red bean and coix seed water beverages on sensory attributes, EsSense-based emotional terms, and preference, while th...

In recent years, hybrid recommendation techniques based on feature fusion have gained extensive attention in the field of list ranking. Most of them fuse linear and nonlinear models to simultaneously learn the linear and nonlinear features of entitie...

With the rapid development of video streaming services, adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms have become a core technology for ensuring optimal viewing experiences. Traditional ABR strategies, predominantly rule-based or reinforcement learning-driven, t...

Background: Biomechanical changes in individuals with pes planus may lead to unusual gait and increased muscle activity. This study aimed to investigate and compare walking oxygen consumption in individuals with pes planus and control participants. M...

Deciding which film is the best or which portfolio is the best for investment are examples of decisions made by people every day. Decision-making systems aim to help people make such choices. In general, a decision-making system processes and analyse...

Plant-based products are gaining increasing popularity, making a vegetarian diet a fundamental part of nutrition among many social groups. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of selected vegetarian products available on the Polish market...

This article discusses the need for standards for the assignment of importance to criteria and the measurement of interaction between them in multiple criteria analyses of complex systems. A strategy for criteria evaluation is considered that is suit...

Background/Objectives: The trainer–doctor model (TDM) is a participatory paradigm in which the physician acts as a mentor and educator. Effective health communication and patient engagement are key determinants of treatment adherence and health...

Sparkling wine represents a small but significant proportion of the Australian wine industry’s total production. Yet, Australia remains a significant importer of French Champagne. This study investigated consumer preferences for Australian sparkling...

In this paper, a new approach is adopted to update the user preference profile by seeking users with similar interests based on the context obtainable for a mobile network instead of from desktop networks. The trust degree between mobile users is cal...

One of the well-known recommendation systems is memory-based collaborative filtering that utilizes similarity metrics. Recently, the similarity metrics have taken into account the user rating and user behavior scores. The user behavior score indicate...

In the traditional decision-making process for product form design, designers and experts often prioritize schemes based on their own knowledge and experience. This approach can lead to an oversight of user preferences, ultimately affecting decision...

Introduction: Maintenance therapy is crucial in managing and preventing symptom relapse in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), with continuous and on-demand therapy being the common approaches. However, maintenance therapy using potassium-competi...

Background/Objectives: Existing patient information leaflets (ePILs), mandated by the FDA to accompany new prescriptions, are difficult to read and understand due to their complexity and poor visual design, especially for populations with low health...

Evaluating and optimising human comfort within the built environment is challenging due to the large number of physiological, psychological and environmental variables that affect occupant comfort preference. Human perception could be helpful to capt...