Sobre fogones y semáforos: Percepciones y analogías de dos geografías desencontradas. El caso del volcán Callaqui en la geografía ancestral pehuenche de Alto Biobío by Claudio Contreras Véliz

“…The volcano has recently been monitored by the country's volcanological institutions (SERNAGEOMIN and Universities), that generates plans and actions that seek to manage the alarm of a possible eruption and warn through a traffic light and risk scales the danger that represents for the local population. …”
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Efficacy of drugs most commonly prescribed at functional gastrointestinal diseases (functional dyspepsia syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome) observational study results by V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. A. Poluektova, D. V. Reykhart, O. S. Shifrin, A. G. Beniashvili, O. S. Lyashenko, A. V. Belostotsky

“…Overall 502 patients aged 18 to 65 with symptoms complying to the «Rome-III» criteria and absence of «alarm symptoms» with the preliminary diagnosis of the functional gastrointestinal disorder: IBS, FD or combination of these diseases were started. …”
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2-Heptanone Produces Sensorial-Emotional Changes, Depending on Length of Exposure / La 2-heptanona produce cambios sensorio-emocionales, dependiendo del tiempo de exposición by Ana Gloria Gutiérrez-García, Carlos M. Contreras, María Remedios Mendoza-López

“… Abstract: 2-Heptanone is an alarm pheromone contained in some human fluids, but its role is unknown in chemical communication. …”
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A Hospital-Based, Single-Center, Cross-Sectional Study to Investigate the Status Quo of Hyperuricaemia in a Booming Seaside City with Young Population from 2020 to 2021 in China by Li C, Sun J, Wei Q, Yue J, Wang X, Zhang Q, Peng S, Liao X, Zeng H, Asakawa T

“…Moreover, great HUA-related gender difference was found in terms of age-related variation trends of HUA prevalence (P < 0.001), indices of laboratory examination (P < 0.01) and influence factors (P < 0.001).Conclusion: These results raise alarm bells for the HUA problem in the booming seaside city with young population like Shenzhen in China (2020– 2021). …”
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Validity, Accuracy, and Safety Assessment of an Aerobic Interval Training Using an App-Based Prehabilitation Program (PROTEGO MAXIMA Trial) Before Major Surgery: Prospective, Inter... by Sara Fatima Faqar Uz Zaman, Svenja Sliwinski, Lisa Mohr-Wetzel, Julia Dreilich, Natalie Filmann, Charlotte Detemble, Dora Zmuc, Felix Chun, Wojciech Derwich, Waldemar Schreiner, Wolf Bechstein, Johannes Fleckenstein, Andreas A Schnitzbauer

“…Safety, accuracy, and usability assessments included testing alarm signals, while the occurrence of adverse events served as the primary and secondary outcome measures. …”
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The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update by A Adam, A Badenhorst, F Claassen, T de Maayer, M Fockema, J Fredericks, E Gottlich, J John, N Lala, J Lazarus, S Leahy, H N Lourens, S Maharaj, K M Mathabe, E M Moshokoa, S B A Mutambirwa, K L Petersen, M B Radzuma, A van der Merwe, I van Heerden, C A Zietsman, F Alyami, A Deshpande, G H H Smith

“…These options include behavioural modification, urotherapy, pharmaceutical therapy, alarm therapy, alternative therapies, neuromodulation, psychological support and biofeedback. …”
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Evaluating the controlled reopening of nightlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: a matched cohort study in Sitges, Spain, in May 2021 (Reobrim Sitges) by Mercè Marzo-Castillejo, Joan Colom, Betlem Salvador-González, Josep Basora, Oriol Cunillera Puértolas, Sara Contreras-Martos, Darío López Gallegos, Mateo Acedo Anta, Jesús Almeda Ortega

“…Objectives To assess the impact of relaxing the state of alarm restrictions on SARS-CoV-2 infections at 14 days among people attending reopened nightclub venues.Design Matched cohort study with a paired control group (1:5 ratio).Setting Five small nightclubs with indoor areas and outdoor terraces, in a nightlife-restricted area in Sitges, Spain, on 20 May 2021. …”
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Data recording and use of data tools for pig health management: perspectives of stakeholders in pig farming by Xiao Zhou, Andrea Knörr, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Carla Correia-Gomes, Lucia Dieste Pérez, Joaquim Segalés, Joaquim Segalés, Joaquim Segalés, Marina Sibila, Marina Sibila, Marina Sibila, Carles Vilalta, Carles Vilalta, Carles Vilalta, Alison Burrell, Tijs Tobias, Michael Siegrist, Angela Bearth

“…Particularly, “benchmarking tool” was designed to visualize individual farm’s pig mortality, targeting the management of infectious respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases; and “early-warning tool” was designed to generate an alarm through monitoring coughs in pigs, targeting the management of infectious respiratory diseases.ResultsResults showed that respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases and aggressive behaviors were the most frequently mentioned health challenge and welfare challenge, respectively. …”
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Cutting-Edge Advances in Anticancer Therapies: Insights from the Third Edition of the Special Issue “Novel Anticancer Strategies” by Hassan Bousbaa

“…Cancer incidence and mortality continue to rise at an alarming rate worldwide, underscoring the urgent need for more effective therapeutic interventions [...]…”
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Retracted: Function Matching of Terminal Modules of Intelligent Furniture for Elderly Based on Wireless Sensor Network by Chengmin Zhou, Xin Luo, Ting Huang, Tao Zhou

“…The research results show that the number of frontal fall tests is 50, the number of alarms is 48, and the accuracy rate is 96&#x0025;; the number of back fall tests is 50, the number of alarms is 48, and the accuracy rate is 100&#x0025;; The accuracy rate is 100&#x0025;; the number of right side fall tests is 50 times and the number of alarms is 50 times, and the accuracy rate is 100&#x0025;. …”
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Feature Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization in Intrusion Detection by Iftikhar Ahmad

“…Excessive work is done on intrusion detection systems but still these are not powerful due to high number of false alarms. One of the leading causes of false alarms is due to the usage of a raw dataset that contains redundancy. …”
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Edge Computing in an IoT Base Station System: Reprogramming and Real-Time Tasks by Huifeng Wu, Junjie Hu, Jiexiang Sun, Danfeng Sun

“…These analyses indicate a possible 60% reduction in the number of alarms, an edge response time of less than 0.1s, and an average downtime ratio of 0.66%.…”
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Overview of Feature Extraction and Recognition Methods for Fiber Optic Vibration Signals by QIAN Junxia, GUO Jiaxing

“…However, this method can be challenging to distinguish between different types of intrusion behaviors and is prone to false alarms triggered by various environmental interferences. …”
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Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“… In November 2022, ChatGPT was released into the public domain and took the world by storm, causing a variety of responses ranging from alarming scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI) posing an existential threat to humanity to more optimistic views that it opens immense new possibilities for advancement in various fields including healthcare and education. …”
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Dynamic Collision Alert System for Collaboration of Construction Equipment and Workers by Ren-Jye Dzeng, Binghui Fan, Tian-Lin Hsieh

“…Two experiments were conducted, and the results show that the system successfully reduced a large number of false near-collision alarms for the collaboration scenarios. Although the accuracy of object recognition and image-based distance estimation is feasible for practical use, it is also easily degraded in the self-obstruction scenario or for equipment with large and movable parts due to incorrect recognition of the bounding boxes of the target objects.…”
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Trigonometric Regression for Analysis of Public Health Surveillance Data by Steven E. Rigdon, George Turabelidze, Ehsan Jahanpour

“…Specifically, we estimate the probability of detection (POD), the average number of weeks to signal given that a signal has occurred (conditional expected delay, or CED), and the false-positive rate (FPR, the average number of false-alarms per year).…”
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The Value of CME Arrival Time Forecasts for Space Weather Mitigation by M. J. Owens, M. Lockwood, L. A. Barnard

“…This can help discriminate between geoeffective and nongeoeffective CMEs, reducing false alarms and expanding the range of operational scenarios under which a forecast provides value. …”
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Empowering Deaf Children Through KatakLarita in Sexual Safety Education by Ni Luh Putu Yunianti Suntari Cakera, I Ketut Labir, Ni Putu Dessy Parmitha Sari, Ni Made Tariani, Dewa Gede Nata Raditya

“…In the depth topic of child protection, the alarming prevalence of sexual violence remains a dark thread that permeates every layer of society. …”
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European Uunion Energy Security and Russia by N. A. Simonia, A. V. Torkunov

“…This is so far the first "alarming bell" tolling for the EU.…”
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STIDNet: Spatiotemporally Integrated Detection Network for Infrared Dim and Small Targets by Liuwei Zhang, Zhitao Zhou, Yuyang Xi, Fanjiao Tan, Qingyu Hou

“…However, for infrared dim and small targets with low signal-to-clutter ratios (SCRs), the detection difficulty lies in the fact that their poor local spatial saliency will lead to missed detections and false alarms. In this work, a spatiotemporally integrated detection network (STIDNet) is proposed for IRDSTD. …”
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