Enhancing Fall Detection Accuracy: The Ground-Face Coordinate System for 3D Accelerometer Data by Abdullah Talha Sözer

“…Detailed analysis was conducted using frequently preferred features in FD studies, and fall detection was performed with various classifiers. …”
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Beliefs about Pedophilia and the Attribution of Punishment for Child Sexual Abusers by Gabriela GROZA, Codruța Anamaria RÎNDAȘU

“…The results of this study have shown that chemical castration is the most preferred punishment for persons who sexually abuse children. …”
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Robust Two-Stage Location Allocation for Emergency Temporary Blood Supply in Postdisaster by Dongqing Luan, Along Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Yanxi Xie, Zhong Wu

“…Decision-makers can select different combinations of uncertainty levels and demand disturbance ratios and necessary time constraints to obtain the optimal location-allocation solution according to risk preference and actual conditions.…”
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W-Index: An Index for Evaluating Link Prediction considering Only the Role of Wins by Yun Yuan, Jingwei Wang, Yunlong Ma, Min Liu

“…Since AUC was first used for link prediction evaluation in 2008, it is arguably the most preferred metric because it well balances the role of wins (the testing link has a higher score than the unobserved link) and the role of draws (they have the same score). …”
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Le jardin, lieu esthétique d’un (dés)ordre humain : la naturalisation du politique et du littéraire chez Claude Simon et Patrick Chamoiseau by Hannes De Vriese

“…The garden appears in fine as the preferred lever for “naturalising” a literary aesthetic at the inception of a bio-heritage which is not simply the ekphrasis resulting from a planned representation but the execution of a gesture in the situational urgency of the kairos. …”
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Framework for churches’ response to pandemics: based on a case study on impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Christians in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe by F. Matsveru, D. Matsveru

“…Participants failed to access physical support from the church, especially when their family members died or fell ill. Most participants preferred a church building to other church settings. …”
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Topical Rifamycin Prophylaxis in Gynecological and Obstetric Surgery by Nahit Ata, Mehmet Kulhan, Nur Gozde Kulhan, Can Turkler, Ahmet Bilgi, Cetin Celik

“…These patients (n=100) were divided into two groups according to their antibiotic use; 50 patients who received only 1 g cefazolin constituted Group 1, 50 patients who received only 250 mg topical rifamycin over the incision line based on surgeon’s preference constituted Group 2. RESULTS: The use of prophylactic topical rifamycin reduced the incidence of wound infection. compared with cefazolin. …”
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Evaluation Model of Highway Reconstruction and Expansion Scheme Based on Multiple Attribute Decision Making by Xinhao Pan, Man Xu, Jie Jia, Yifeng Xia, Qian Chen

“…Then, technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) method was optimized by grey relational analysis (GRA) method. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Manganese Ferrite Aluminates by R. L. Dhiman, S. P. Taneja, V. R. Reddy

“…This change in the site preference reflects an abrupt change in magnetic hyperfine fields at A- and B-sites as aluminum concentration increases, which has been explained on the basis of supertransferred hyperfine field. …”
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STEAM-ME: A Novel Model for Successful Kaizen Implementation and Sustainable Performance of SMEs in Vietnam by Thanh-Lam Nguyen

“…And Kaizen has been a preferable approach in practice. Due to the special role of SMEs in the Vietnam economy, improving their competitiveness is critical. …”
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WILL TO TRUTH IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAGMATISM by D. Y. Snitko

“…That is precisely the result of the man's will to truth: the existence of man is determined by the fact that a person prefers to know how to act.…”
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Motivations for a Career in Dentistry among Dental Students and Dental Interns in Kenya by Ochiba M. Lukandu, Lilian C. Koskei, Elizabeth O. Dimba

“…Overall, 59.5% of the respondents had selected dentistry as their preferred career at the end of high school. Majority (76.1%) of the respondents agreed that personal interest in dentistry was an important motivating factor for them. …”
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The Origins of the Idea of “Civilizational” Multipolarity in Russian Religious Thought (from 19^th to First Half of 20^th Century) by M. M. Medovarov

“…Religious ideas and rhetoric, including the trope of «Babylonian confusion», played a significant role in the Eurasianists' justification of their preferred international order.…”
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Evaluation of Athletic Identity in Elite Fencers by Yusuf Barsbuğa

“…Since data showed a normal distribution, independence group t-test for pair comparisons, One Way Variance Analysis (anova) for multiple comparisons were preferred. In this study, scale reliability coefficient was calculated as .74. …”
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Virtual consulting in the times of COVID-19 by Latika Gupta, Supriya Sharma, Rajat Kharbanda, Shelley Aggarwal, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal

“…Among the 54 patients who were asked to rate their teleconsultation experience, the voice and consultation quality were rated and average of 9.9 each, and 88.9' (48/54) said they would prefer teleconsultations until the pandemic is over. …”
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Relieving popularity bias in recommendation via debiasing representation enhancement by Junsan Zhang, Sini Wu, Te Wang, Fengmei Ding, Jie Zhu

“…However, it lacks consideration of the significant disparity in popularity between items and may even introduce false negatives during the data augmentation, misleading user preference prediction. To address this issue, we combine contrastive learning with a weighted model for negative validation. …”
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The effect of positive interspike interval correlations on neuronal information transmission by Sven Blankenburg, Benjamin Lindner

“…Experimentally it is known that some neurons encode preferentially information about low-frequency (slow) components of a time-dependent stimulus while others prefer intermediate or high-frequency (fast) components. …”
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Towards the praxis of a sustainable knowledge‑based economy by Agnieszka Klimska

“…Implementation of the preferred directions of development, requires not so much efficient, but proper management, i.e. one which would translate itself onto the plane of decision-making and, subsequently, that of application. …”
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Development of the Voluntary Accreditation for Study Programmes in Russia by O. A. Matveeva

“…The paper dwells on the following trends in the development of independent accreditation procedures: 1) during the current decade the accreditation process is gaining momentum, which is characterized by the growth of number of accreditation organizations as well as educational institutions interested in obtaining accreditation; 2) the state supports and encourages the development of the independent accreditation system for quality assurance in higher education; 3) the voluntary accreditation enables educational organizations to get an independent assessment of study programmes and thus to receive “a bonus” before a state accreditation procedure; 4) the database of External Quality Assurance Reports (DEQAR) becomes a preferred instrument for higher education institutions, whereas they are interested in raising their transparency related to the quality of study programmes and their competitiveness in the global educational space.…”
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Machining effects and multi-objective optimization in Inconel 718 turning with unitary and hybrid nanofluids under MQL by Paresh Kulkarni, Satish Chinchanikar

“…The cutting parameters were optimized by combining the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and genetic algorithm. …”
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