In today’s society, mobile applications are becoming more popular and providing several advantages. However, users will resist using a product regardless of how well-tested or solid it is if the wrong requirements are implemented. Understanding...
Background/Objectives: This work introduces accuracy- and precision-ROC curves in addition to SS– and PV–ROC curves and shows a novel means of profiling biomarker characteristics for validation of optimal cutoffs in clinical diagnostics a...
In 2016, the safety issues of humidifier disinfectants and some other safety incidents in personal cares caused chemical phobia syndrome in the Korean society. This series of events has created a trend for cosmetic consumers to undermine brand confid...
Development projects on interventions to reduce postharvest losses (PHL) are often implemented largely independently of the specific context and without sufficient adaptation to the needs of people who are supposed to use them. An approach is needed...
Specific emitter identification (SEI) refers to distinguishing emitters using individual features extracted from wireless signals. The current SEI methods have proven to be accurate in tackling large labeled data sets at a high signal-to-noise ratio...
Much research has focused on classification within a closed set of emitters, while emitters outside this closed set are misclassified. This paper proposes an open-set recognition model based on prototypical networks and extreme value theory to solve...
Urban air mobility (UAM) is the idea of creating a future mobility market through the introduction of a new mode of aerial transport with substantial travel time advantages. A key factor diminishing travel time savings is vertiport processes. So far,...
Employees’ green voice behavior (GVB), as a specific category of extra-role green behavior, plays a vital role in promoting a firm’s sustainable development. However, its underlying mechanism has not been sufficiently explored. Drawing on...
This research investigates the characterization of bituminous mixes utilizing microwave imaging and non-destructive testing. We studied the electromagnetic characteristics of various samples, including bituminous concrete (BC) and open-grade friction...
This study was designed to evaluate the effect of hybrid type on the fermentation and nutritional parameters of whole-plant corn silage (dual-purpose and silage-specific corn). For this purpose, the two corn hybrid types were harvested at the one-hal...
This study interprets the development of various flow types of the Transdanubian Mountains. For this, pressure was calculated at different depths and along some profiles the horizontal, specific temperature was calculated based on geoisotherms. This...
This study aims to examine how the bilateral matching decision making of manufacturing enterprises that are seeking partners in the manufacturing supply chain can be improved by taking into consideration evaluation criteria for organizational quality...
The predictive receiver operating characteristic (PROC) curve differs from the more well-known receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve in that it provides a basis for the evaluation of binary diagnostic tests using metrics defined conditionally...
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) holds great promise as an advanced technology for accurately predicting anti-TB drug resistance. The development of a relia...
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the concordance between depression and anxiety case definitions derived from algorithms based on medico-administrative data and structured interviews aligned with the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statist...
The diagnosis of obesity is conventionally determined by the Body Mass Index (BMI), with a threshold of 30 being extensively accepted. However, the validity of this cutoff point is subject to variation due to ethnic differences, and its accuracy in t...
Consumers include pumpkin seeds in their diet as a snack in raw form or minimally processed by roasting. This process enables the seeds to develop a characteristic aroma and color. Herbs and spices are also distinguished by a pleasant and delicate ar...
Maternal influenza immunisation (MII) is recommended for protecting pregnant women and infants under six months of age from severe disease related to influenza. However, few low-income countries have introduced this vaccine. Existing cost-effectivene...
When all of the one-sided specification indices of each quality characteristic reach the requirements of the process quality level, they can ensure that the process capability of the product meets the requirements of the process quality level. This s...
Research has revealed that both cognitive factors, such as knowledge, problem solving strategies and affective factors, such as motivation and emotions, strongly influence mathematical problem solving. However, few studies have examined the content s...
Background: Accurate prognostic prediction is crucial for managing Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ISSHL). Previous studies developing ISSHL prognosis models often overlooked individual variability in hearing damage by relying on fixed...
The Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) instrument is an internationally validated patient-reported outcome measure for assessing disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in individuals after traumatic brain injury (...
The intelligent innovation of child safety seats has brought new impacts and challenges to the Chinese market. Researchers in the car seat industry have been focusing on industry regulations and the abuse of car seats, but there is a lack of consumer...
Malaria remains a major public health challenge worldwide. In order to ensure a prompt and accurate malaria diagnosis, the World Health Organization recommended the confirmatory parasitological diagnosis of malaria by microscopy and malaria rapid dia...
India is renowned for its rich medico-cultural heritage. The chemical constituents of medicinally significant plants form the basis of host plant identification by butterflies. The documentation of such therapeutically significant food plants of nymp...
23 March 2022
Background: Real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (real time RT-PCR) testing is the gold standard for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, to expand the testing capacity, new SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests (Ag-RDTs) ha...
We aimed to retrospectively analyze consecutive prostate cancer patients diagnosed with biochemical or clinical recurrence after local treatment with curative intent, with no evidence of distant metastases, who underwent positron emission tomography/...
Diagnosis-specific survival scores including a new score developed in 157 patients with brain metastases from small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) receiving whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) with 30 Gy in 10 fractions (WBRT-30-SCLC) were compared. Three progn...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may affect the lives of the individuals concerned and their relatives negatively in many dimensions. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a comprehensive and complex concept that can assess one’s satisfaction w...
24 November 2021
People with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD) have an increased risk for falls and near falls. They have particular difficulties with maintaining balance against an external perturbation, and several retropulsion tests exist. The Unified PD Rating Sca...
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the cutoff scores for sexual dysfunction in disease-specific Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire—IUGA Revised (PISQ-IR) for women with pelvic floor disorders (PFD). Medi...
Background: Vasospastic angina (VSA) is characterized by chest pain at rest with transient ischemic electrocardiographic changes in the ST segment, and a prompt response to nitrates. Vasospastic angina is among the most frequent of the coronary arter...
This study examined the complex relationships among task complexity, task-specific emotions, and learners’ L2 writing performance. Sixty-one Chinese EFL learners were divided into two groups and completed two writing tasks in a counterbalanced...
The prediction and pre-evaluation of the thermal properties and combustion-related problems (e.g., emissions and ash-related problems) are critical to reducing emissions and improving combustion efficiency during the agricultural crop residues combus...
Background: Urine cytology remains widely used for surveillance of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer despite well-known limitations in sensitivity, especially for low-grade tumors. Uromonitor®, a molecular assay detecting TERT promoter, FGFR3, a...
With the help of specific emitter identification (SEI), the control efficiency of the satellite communication systems can be effectively improved by discriminating the individual satellite. In recent years, deep learning has been introduced into SEI...
This paper investigates the effects of using 10% v/v (E10) and 30% v/v (E30) ethanol–gasoline blends on spark ignition (SI) engine fuel consumption, brake-specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency, combustion parameters and exhaust ga...
Dimensional comparison theory holds that achievement in one school subject is positively associated with self-concept in that subject and negatively associated with self-concept in dissimilar subjects. Applications within the science domain have char...
Georgian forests are very valuable natural resources, but due to the lack of affordable alternatives to firewood, people are forced to use forest resources illegally and unsustainably. The aim of this study was to determine the productivity and bioma...
Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of subspecialised head and neck versus general surgical pathologists on the reliability of the histopathologic evaluation during intraoperative consultation. Materials and Methods: The me...
Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a highly active research area in physical layer security. In this paper, we propose a SEI scheme based on time-frequency domain channel, spatial, and self-attention mechanisms (TF-CSS) for deep networks with f...
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) have been developed for the detection of antibodies against contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP), the causative agent of which is Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. Capripneumoniae (Mccp). The currently avai...
Forests and the forest-based sector play important roles in mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration and storage in living biomass and soil. In Europe, the forest sector is the only sector that positively affects atmospheric carbon bala...
Policymakers are implementing a combination of various travel demand management (TDM) policies to effectively reduce carbon emissions. Widespread acceptance of these policy mixes by residents plays a pivotal role in ensuring their successful implemen...
Harmful cyanobacterial bloom (HCB) is problematic for drinking water treatment, and some of its strains can produce toxins that significantly affect human health. To better control eutrophication and HCB, catchment managers need to continuously keep...
Background: Parametrial tumor involvement is an important prognostic factor in cervical cancer and is used to guide management. Here, we investigate the diagnostic value of clinical examination under general anesthesia (EUA) and magnetic resonance im...
Open set recognition (OSR) aims at dealing with unknown classes that are not included in the train set. However, existing OSR methods rely on deep learning networks that perform supervised learning on known classes in the train set, resulting in poor...
The characterization of urinary metabolome, which provides a fingerprint for each individual, is an important step to reach personalized medicine. It is influenced by exogenous and endogenous factors; among them, we investigated sex influences on 72...
Mangoes (Mangifera indica L.) are wildly cultivated in China with different commercial varieties; however, characterization of their aromatic profiles is limited. To better understand the aromatic compounds in different mango fruits, the characterist...
One of the most serious diseases affecting dairy cattle, causing significant losses both in breeding and economy, is mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary gland. Due to the economic importance of this issue, many research teams are striving to dev...
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