Sexual harassment complaints across BSE100 companies: a longitudinal dataset (2013–2023) by Divya R., Gopi Ranga Nath V

“…This dataset can be utilised by the Indian Ministry of Women & Child Development and related stakeholders as a foundation for studying the impact of previous interventions and policy changes on complaint reporting rates. Additionally, it can also be used to analyse patterns and trends and give way to revisions to existing legal frameworks and improvements to grievance redressal mechanisms for sexual harassment complaints. …”
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Simultaneous water uptake from shallow groundwater and drip irrigation: Lysimeter experiments with ceramic cups by Ben Cohen, Ido Nitsan, Ilan Ben‐Noah, Shmulik P. Friedman

“…Results reveal that while plants can effectively utilize shallow groundwater even with limited root systems, higher irrigation rates diminish groundwater contribution to water uptake. …”
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Rapid radiations underlie most of the known diversity of life by John J. Wiens, Daniel S. Moen

“…Specifically, we quantify how much of Earth’s species richness is contained within rapid radiations (clades with high net diversification rates). We find that among the major clades of living organisms and among land plant phyla and animal phyla, >80% of known species richness is contained within the few clades in the upper 90th percentile for diversification rates in each group. …”
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Regional Demographic History of Shaanxi Province from the Founding of the People’s Republic of China to the Beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1949–1966) by Svetlana B. Makeeva

“…The author considers positive demographic changes in the province, among which are increased birth rates and decreased mortality rates, growth of population in general, and an influx of internal migrants from other Chinese regions into the province. …”
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Urban Green Space Inequity, Socioeconomic Disparities, and Potential Health Implications in Metropolitan Melbourne by Parian Hoseini, Pooriya Mohseni, Piret Veeroja, Greg Foliente

“…This study utilizes the Kernel Density tool as an innovative method to measure UGS inequities and their relationship with cardiovascular disease (CVD) rates. Next, the UGS patterns and their potential implications for CVD are examined across suburbs with a range of SES levels in Melbourne, Australia. …”
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Prevalence of autoimmune diseases is strongly associated with average annual temperatures: systematic review and linear regression analysis by Konstantinos Voskarides, Sofia Philippou, Mariam Hamam, Konstantinos Parperis

“…Methods Linear regression analysis was performed for 201 countries by analyzing average annual temperatures and age-standardized rates (prevalence) of five autoimmune diseases: alopecia areata, diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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Function Delivery Network: A Spatial-Temporal Execution Orchestrator for Optimizing Serverless Computing by Joel R. Corporan, Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay K. Madisetti

“…Our results demonstrate significant improvements in resource utilization, execution time, and request completion rates. The FDN reduces function instance allocation by up to 97.82%, improves median response times by 45.45%, and maintains higher request completion rates at high concurrency levels compared to native FaaS execution. …”
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Interest groups in Lithuania: dynamics of development and characteristics of institutionalization by Alvidas Lukošaitis

“…Author concludes that the rate of transformation and democratization of the political system in Lithuania determined that the dispersion of the interests in society has been carried very dynamically. …”
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Examining perinatal regionalization in practice: a network analysis of maternal transport in Georgia by Jingyu Li, Stephanie M. Radke, Lauren N. Steimle

“…Elevated transport rates suggest a lack of access to risk-appropriate care in rural regions. …”
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Assessing vaccine coverage and delivery strategies for influenza and COVID-19 among Italian healthcare workers: A 2015–2023 case study by Domenico Pascucci, Alberto Lontano, Eleonora Marziali, Giuseppe Vetrugno, Umberto Moscato, Patrizia Laurenti

“…A retrospective cohort study analyzed vaccination data from 6,341 hCWs between 2015 and 2023, examining acceptance rates across different vaccination delivery models. …”
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A longitudinal investigation of school absenteeism and mental health challenges among Canadian children and youth in the COVID-19 context by Amanda Krause, Maria Rogers, Yuanyuan Jiang, Emma A. Climie, Penny Corkum, Janet W. T. Mah, Natasha McBrearty, J. David Smith, Jess Whitley

“…As well, research demonstrates that children and youth who experience mental health challenges are at greater risk of increased school absenteeism rates. The present study investigated the school attendance patterns of Canadian children and youth and the longitudinal and bidirectional links with mental health challenges within the COVID-19 pandemic context. …”
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Global surge: exploring cryptocurrency adoption with evidence from spatial models by Ivan Sergio, Jan Wedemeier

“…Our findings reveal that cryptocurrency adoption is significantly influenced by economic instability, infrastructure availability, and spatial dynamics, with higher adoption rates in countries with limited access to traditional financial systems.…”
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Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance Analysis of Blood Culture Isolates at a Chinese National Cardiovascular Regional Medical Center: A 7-Year Retrospective Study by Wang Q, Wu F, Li T

“…Among Staphylococcus isolates, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococci (MRCNS) were identified at rates of 51.6% and 88.7%, respectively. The carbapenem resistance rates of K. pneumoniae and E. coli were 28.8% and 4.0%, respectively. …”
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Attachment Theory and Physical Well-Being by Mikhail Yu. Kozlov

“…Unsafe internal attachment patterns have a negative impact on the development of a wide range of somatic pathologies, primarily cardiovascular and immune systems, and impaired functioning of the HPA axis, mediated by associative anxiety. …”
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Clinical and survival differences between second primary and first primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a retrospective study by Xin Huang, Ying Kong, Tianyu Wu, Zhen Meng, Min Kang

“…Therapeutically, 2nd NPC patients showed significantly lower rates of curative-intent treatment (75.6% vs. 91.3%, p = 0.010), lower rates of good treatment tolerance (86.7% vs. 96.1%, p = 0.068), reduced chemotherapy utilization (73.3% vs. 89.3%, p = 0.014), and less frequent cisplatin use during concurrent chemotherapy (66.7% vs. 84.4%, p = 0.034). …”
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Maternal asthma and newborn DNA methylation by Casper-Emil Tingskov Pedersen, Thanh T. Hoang, Jianping Jin, Anna Starnawska, Raquel Granell, Hannah R. Elliott, Anke Huels, Heather J. Zar, Dan J. Stein, Yining Zhang, Herman T. den Dekker, Liesbeth Duijts, Janine F. Felix, Júlia Sangüesa, Mariona Bustamante, Maribel Casas, Martine Vrijheid, Latha Kadalayil, Faisal I. Rezwan, Hasan Arshad, John W. Holloway, Stefan Röder, Ana C. Zenclussen, Gunda Herberth, Nicklas Heine Staunstrup, Henriette Thisted Horsdal, Jonathan Mill, Eilis Hannon, iPSYCH-MINERvA Group, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Giancarlo Pesce, Nour Baïz, Barbara Heude, Sahra Hosseinian-Mohazzab, Carrie V. Breton, Sophia Harlid, Justin Harbs, Magnus Domellof, Christina West, Edwina Yeung, Xuehuo Zeng, Wenche Nystad, Siri E. Håberg, Maria C. Magnus, Diana Schendel, Stephanie J. London, Klaus Bønnelykke

“…Results We identified 27 CpGs associated with maternal asthma during pregnancy at False Discovery Rate < 0.05 but none for maternal asthma ever. Two distinct CpGs were associated with paternal asthma. …”
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Censoring Sensitivity Analysis for Benchmarking Survival Machine Learning Methods by János Báskay, Tamás Mezei, Péter Banczerowski, Anna Horváth, Tamás Joó, Péter Pollner

“…The framework systematically reduced observation periods and increased censoring rates while measuring performance through multiple metrics following Bayesian hyperparameter optimization. (3) Results: Model performance showed greater sensitivity to increased censoring rates than to reduced observation periods. …”
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Socioeconomic and locational disparities in primary education completion in Burkina Faso by Lazarus Obed Livingstone Banda

“…Design/methodology/approach – Using a quantitative, non-experimental approach, the study analyzes nationally representative secondary data using hierarchical linear modeling, binary logistic regression and propensity score matching (PSM) to assess correlational patterns in completion rates. Findings – The results indicate significant regional and urban-rural disparities in completion rates, with urban students showing markedly higher odds of completing primary education than their rural peers. …”
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Patient Adherence for Oral Combination Therapies in Diabetes Management: A Scoping Review by Maryam Zarrinkamar, Mojgan Geran, Mohammad Geran

“…Dual therapy regimens demonstrated adherence rates ranging from 49% to 80.8%, while FDC therapies showed adherence rates ranging from 60.3% to 98.9%. …”
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The major risk factor of stroke across Indonesia; a nationwide geospatial analysis of universal health coverage program by Andi Alfian Zainuddin, Rais Reskiawan A. Kadir, Hedi Kuswanto, Jumraini Tammasse, Nurul Qalby, Andi Afdal Abdullah, Ari Andini Junaidi, Al Asyary

“…Methods The data were collected from the Social Health Insurance Administration Body, which manages Indonesia’s universal health coverage, between 2017 and 2022. Crude incidence rates for the diseases were calculated and spatial distribution patterns were analyzed using Global and local Moran analysis. …”
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