Synthetic data as external control arms in scarce single-arm clinical trials. by Severin Elvatun, Daan Knoors, Simon Brant, Christian Jonasson, Jan F Nygård

“…In this retrospective study, we compare various synthetic data generation algorithms in numerical experiments, focusing on the utility of the synthetic data to support the conclusions drawn from the empirical data, and analysing the risk of sensitive information disclosure. …”
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COMMUNITY POLICING AS A PANACEA FOR MITIGATING ARMED BANDITARY IN CENTRAL NIGERIA by Fidelis Achoba, Peace Oluwatoyin Irefin

“…Although studies on community policing in the area are equally rare, with the current global security challenges, a lot of lessons can be drawn from Ankpa’s present community policing architecture comprising the neigbourhood watch, the village committee level headed by the king and council of chiefs as well as all the other local government organised levels. …”
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Investigating the role of iron status in the development of coeliac disease: a Mendelian randomisation study by Isabel A Hujoel, Margaux Louise Anna Hujoel

“…We aimed to evaluate this possible association with Mendelian randomisation (MR), which under certain assumptions can suggest a causal relationship.Design We conducted a two-sample MR study examining the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with iron status and the presence of coeliac disease. The SNPs were drawn from a meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies (GWAS). …”
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Medication stewardship in the operating theatre in Malaysia: A quality improvement project by Siti Nadzrah Yunus, Nur Haryanti Izumi Suhaimi, Ka Ting Ng, Ili Syazana Jamal Azmi, Noorjahan Haneem Md Hashim, Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin

“…The incidence of medication errors, including near misses, was assessed for root causes. Unused drugs drawn or diluted in syringes were recorded daily in each OT. …”
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Analysis of Risk Bus Driver Characteristics and Research on Risk Level Evaluation Methods for Bus Drivers by Tongqiang Ding, Huijuan Yin, Zhiqiang Li, Xinyu He, Lili Zheng, Jianfeng Xi

“…It was found that 94.94% of bus drivers are in the second and third risk levels, 4.93% in the first and fourth risk levels, and only 0.12% of bus drivers are in the highest fifth risk level. The conclusions drawn in this study, along with the proposed method for evaluating risk levels of bus drivers, will contribute to the evaluation and management of bus drivers by bus companies and transportation authorities, thereby reducing crashes in public transportation.…”
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Management of restrictive and obstructive lung disease in intensive care unit: a review by Dian Ayu Listiarini, Akhmad Yun Jufan, Calcarina Fitriani Retno Wisudarti

“…This review aims to discuss the management of restrictive and obstructive lung disease in intensive care unit It is drawn upon various sources, including case reports, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses, to provide an overview of the difference between RLD and OLD to help clinicians differentiate between RLD and OLD and provide appropriate therapeutic management. …”
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Concentration Kinetics of Serum MMP-9 and TIMP-1 after Blunt Multiple Injuries in the Early Posttraumatic Period by M. Brumann, T. Kusmenkov, L. Ney, K.-G. Kanz, B. A. Leidel, P. Biberthaler, W. Mutschler, V. Bogner

“…The aim of this paper was now to evaluate the posttraumatic serum levels and the time course of both proteins depending on distinct clinical parameters. 60 multiple traumatized patients (ISS > 16) were included. Blood samples were drawn on admission and 6 h, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h after trauma. …”
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Body image of men and women with congenital heart disease over a 15 years observational period by Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas, Elmar Brähler, Johannes Beller

“…The control group consisted of the same number of cases matched by age, gender and education drawn from a national survey designed to examine body image in the general population. …”
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Field Determination of Phosphate in Environmental Water by Using a Hand-Powered Paper Centrifuge for Preconcentration and Digital Image Colorimetric Sensing by Zhen Pan, Xiaozhan Nong, Yajing Xie, Yan Li, Hui Zeng, Ying Liang, Min Zhang

“…Then, the reacted sample is drawn into a CT using an autopipette before the CT bottom is sealed by glue. …”
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Sweets and other sugary foods – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 by Henna Vepsäläinen, Emily Sonestedt

“…In the EFSA review, conclusions were not drawn for other sugar sources than sugar-sweetened beverages. …”
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Modeling of investment attractiveness of countries using entropy analysis of regional stock markets by H. Danylchuk, N. Chebanova, N. Reznik, Y. Vitkovskyi

“…The behavior of the permutation entropy and stock markets is analyzed and conclusions about the possibility of rapid monitoring of the investment attractiveness of countries by classifying the states of the stock markets of these countries are drawn. Particular attention is paid to crisis periods. …”
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Innovative business activity in process of implementing «triple helix» model of Henry Itskovich by Yu. I. Rastova, D. A. Stepanenko

“…The study of the interaction of the state, universities and business is carried out, the specifics of the interaction of the elements of the “triple helix” in Russia are revealed. Conclusions are drawn about the weak development of the business spiral and the uncertain role of universities in the model of innovative activity. …”
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Secondary School Learners’ Transition to the University: A Qualitative Research Approach by Mbulaheni Paul Tshisikhawe, Buyisani Dube

“…The study adopted a purposive sampling technique to select two lecturers and ten first-year learners, who were interviewed using face-to-face and focus group interviews. The sample was drawn from the lecturers who taught first-year modules and all first-year learners in the school of education. …”
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Electromagnetic signal modulation recognition technology based on lightweight deep neural network by Sicheng ZHANG, Yun LIN, Ya TU, Shiwen Mao

“…In response to the trend that in the 6th generation wireless (6G) era,mobile communications and artificial intelligence will be closely integrated,and a huge number of edge intelligent signal processing nodes will be deployed,an efficient and intelligent electromagnetic signal recognition model was proposed,which could be deployed on resource-constrained edge devices.The constellation diagram of electromagnetic signal was firstly drawn to visualize electromagnetic signal as a two-dimensional image,and color the constellation diagram according to the normalized point density to achieve feature enhancement.Then,a binary deep neural network was adopted to recognize the colored constellation diagrams.It was shown that the approach can guarantee a high recognition accuracy,which significantly reduced the model storage and calculation costs.For verification,the proposed approach was applied to the problem of electromagnetic signal modulation recognition.The experiment uses eight commonly used digital modulation signals and selects additive white Gaussian noise as the channel environment.The experimental results show that the scheme can achieve a comprehensive recognition rate of 96.1% under the noise condition of -6～6 dB,while the size of the network model is only 166 KB.Further,the execution time,when executed on a Raspberry Pi 4B,is only 290 ms.Compared to a full-precision network of the same scale,the accuracy is increased by 0.6%,the model is reduced to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mfrac> <mtext>1</mtext> <mrow> <mtext>26</mtext><mo>.…”
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Optimal downlink power allocation schemes for OFDM-NOMA-based Internet of things by Ya Gao, Fei Yu, Haoran Zhang, Yongpeng Shi, Yujie Xia

“…In the Internet of Things networks, ultra-dense networks and non-orthogonal multiple access technology have drawn extensive attention in recent years, because they can achieve multiplexing from the space domain and power domain. …”
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The First Report of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) Occurrence in Tomato Greenhouses of Lorestan Province by Farzaneh Rostami, Samira Pakbaz, Mostafa Darvishnia

“…These results were identical to what was seen in the drawn phylogeny tree using Mega11. This was the first report of widespread occurrence of TYLCV in tomato greenhouses of Lorestan province.…”
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Acoustic Emission Simulation on Coal Specimen Subjected to Cyclic Loading by Huiqiang Duan, Depeng Ma

“…From the numerical simulation tests, the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) The final cycle number of coal specimen subjected to cyclic loading is significantly influenced by the confining pressure, followed the valley stress. …”
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Сoronavirus Zigzags of Electronic Distance Learning by A. V. Solovov, A. A. Menshikova

“…The coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which has led to a massive and urgent transition to remote forms of learning, has drawn the attention of almost all of humanity to the issue of e-distance learning (EDL). …”
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Performance Analysis of 3D Massive MIMO Cellular Systems with Collaborative Base Station by Xingwang Li, Lihua Li, Ling Xie, Xin Su, Ping Zhang

“…Massive MIMO have drawn considerable attention as they enable significant capacity and coverage improvement in wireless cellular network. …”
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Are Anxiety Disorders Associated with Accelerated Aging? A Focus on Neuroprogression by Giampaolo Perna, Giuseppe Iannone, Alessandra Alciati, Daniela Caldirola

“…No conclusions about causality or directionality between anxiety and accelerated aging can be drawn. Potential mechanisms of this association, limitations of the current research, and implications for treatments and future studies are discussed.…”
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