Predictive Modeling of Yoga's Impact on Venous Clinical Severity Scoring Using Gaussian Process Classification and Advanced Optimization Algorithms by Yazdan Ashgevari, Faranak Kazemi

“…The study focuses on individuals diagnosed with VCSS, using machine learning to analyze complex patterns in their clinical severity ratings before and during yoga practice. …”
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Benchmarking Mentorship: Creating and Validating a Quality Scale for ELT Mentors by Ali Kondori, Mitra Zeraatpishe, Hamid Ashraf, Khalil Motallebzadeh

“…The results of the Rasch rating scale model and Cronbach’s alpha indicated that the developed questionnaire had satisfactory validity and reliability indices. …”
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The impact of teaching materials on instructional design and teacher development by Lola Garay Abad, John Hattie

“…Teacher-created materials were rated as most useful (90.1%), and teachers reported high autonomy (94.1%) in selecting and adapting materials — a factor closely tied to increased classroom confidence. …”
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User Preferences of Airbnb Accommodation Spatially in The Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Azis Musthofa, Arief Wicaksono, Raden Rijanta

“…Spatially, it shows that Airbnb accommodations in the Jetis and Kraton sub-districts achieve the most favorable ratings for amenities, location, hygiene, host and staff performance, as well as room and toilet conditions. …”
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Consumer preference and food values: can consumers in Tanzania play part in driving a sustainable food system? by Roselyne Alphonce, Yun Yun Gong, Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Lise Korsten

“…A mixed-method approach was employed, including interviews with six key food system actors, two focus group discussions with 16 consumers, and a survey of 750 consumers from urban and rural towns across three regions in Tanzania. Participants rated the importance of 16 food values such as hygiene, nutrition, taste, and price—using the Best-Worst Scaling method. …”
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The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self. by Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Stephanie Grehl, Manos Tsakiris

“…Finally, synchronous, as compared to asynchronous, IMS resulted in significant differences in participants' ratings of their experience, but unlike other bodily illusions, positive changes in subjective experience were related to the perceived physical similarity between the two faces, and not to identification.…”
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Enhancing Education with Machine Learning: Predicting Student Readability Scores by Claire Bell

“…The research leverages a dataset of 1,000 English texts to evaluate and compare the performance of RFC, the Sooty Tern Optimization Algorithm (STOA), and the Gold Rush Optimizer (GRO) in predicting readability ratings. Key metrics, including accuracy, precision, and F1-score, are employed to assess and benchmark the models. …”
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Googling Patients by Emily Beer

“…Numerous wearable devices collect data on consumers’ heart rates, exercise patterns and sleep patterns. In-home smart devices can track when users are active and what they are doing in their homes. …”
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Mitigation of Optical Interference Noise by Optical Carrier Cancelation in Self-Coherent Reflective PON Uplink Transmission by Soo-Min Kang, Kyoung-Hak Mun, Sang-Min Jung, Sang-Kook Han

“…Under the conditions of higher fiber input power and longer transmission distance, a remarkable improvement in transmission performance in terms of the eye-pattern and bit-error-rate was achieved.…”
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Modern Percutaneous Hallux Valgus Surgery for Revision of Recurrent Hallux Valgus by Andreas Kurt Toepfer MD PhD, Pawel Chomej MD, Pablo Mococain MD, Henryk Liszka MD PhD, Robbie Ray MBChB, ChM(TO), FRCSed(Tr&Orth), FEBOT, Tom Lewis MBChB (Hons) BSc. (Hons) MFSTEd FRCS(Tr&Orth), Peter Lam MBBS (Hons), FRACS, FAOA, David Gordon MB ChB, MRCS, MD, FRCS (Tr&Orth)

“…Results: The complication rate was 21%. Most complications could be managed non-surgically. …”
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Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes and Its Predictors among Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Tefera Hailu Memorial General Hospital, Sekota Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A Seven-Year R... by Habtu Debash, Jemberu Nega, Habtye Bisetegn, Gebru Tesfaw, Daniel Getacher Feleke, Hussen Ebrahim, Alemu Gedefie, Mihret Tilahun, Ousman Mohammed, Ermiyas Alemayehu, Melaku Ashagrie Belete, Abdurahaman Seid, Agumas Shibabaw

“…The overall treatment success rate among TB patients was 93.8%. The maximum number of successful treatment outcomes was 94.9% in 2021, while the lowest was 86.7% in 2020. …”
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Combining Hepatic Arterial Interventional Therapies with Lenvatinib and Programmed Cell Death-1 Inhibitors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis: A Single-... by Shen X, Shao T, Yu J, Zhang Z

“…After PSM, there were 74 patients per group, the H-L-P group showed significantly better median OS (19 months vs 14 months, p < 0.001) and median PFS (10 months vs 4 months, p < 0.001) than L-P group; higher objective response rate (ORR) (37.8% vs 16.2%, p < 0.001) and disease control rate (DCR) (78.4% vs 47.3%, p < 0.001) were observed in the H-L-P group. …”
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Geochemical Characteristics and Thermal Evolution History of Jurassic Tamulangou Formation Source Rocks in the Hongqi Depression, Hailar Basin by Junping Cui, Wei Jin, Zhanli Ren, Hua Tao, Haoyu Song, Wei Guo

“…During the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, the Hongqi Depression experienced significant fault-controlled subsidence and sedimentation, with a maximum sedimentation rate of 340 m/Ma, accompanied by intense volcanic activity that created a high-temperature geothermal gradient of 40–65 °C/km, with paleotemperatures exceeding 140 °C and a heating rate of 1.38–2.02 °C/Ma. …”
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A ten-year trend analysis of malaria prevalence at Sunyani Municipal Hospital, Ghana by Antwi Joseph Barimah, Rebecca Dorcas Commey, Nyantakyiwaa Duah Salomey, James Dumba, Yaw Boakye Nketiah, Bernard Opoku Amoah, Larry Agyemang, Tweneboah Yvonne Ofosua, Deborah Arhinful, Gyamfi Opoku Sandra

“…Although there is a mixed but decreased trend, the region’s confirmed malaria case rate is nevertheless concerning and indicates a substantial public health burden. …”
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The Role of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients With Residual Nodal Disease After Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Kristina Shaffer, Lilian Harris, Lori Gentile, Amelia Merrill, Lori Kellam, Michelle Fillion, Peter Turk

“…Conversely, there was a significantly increased rate of lymphedema in the ALND, 57.9%, vs the SLNB group, 35.3% ( P  = 0.03). …”
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Wide Field-of-View Air-to-Water Rolling Shutter-Based Optical Camera Communication (OCC) Using CUDA Deep-Neural-Network Long-Short-Term-Memory (CuDNNLSTM) by Yung-Jie Chen, Yu-Han Lin, Guo-Liang Shih, Chi-Wai Chow, Chien-Hung Yeh

“…Results revealed that the proposed air-to-water OCC system can support a transmission rate of 7.2 kbit/s through a still water surface, and 6.6 kbit/s through a wavy water surface; this satisfies the hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) bit-error-rate (BER).…”
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Mechanism of atrazine migration and diffusion control in soil by clay matrix composites by Xiangyu Wang, Qiang Fu, Tianxiao Li, Renjie Hou, Mo Li, Dong Liu, Fanying Kong, Mingxuan Liu, Shuqi Dong

“…Sep/BC increased the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil by 42.89 % and porosity by 2.81 %, which resulted in a reduction of the ATZ leaching rate by 49 %. The composites had a maximum adsorption capacity of 160.08 mg/g after FC activation, combining iron-catalyzed degradation with competitive resistance to organic matter. …”
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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…Additionally, natural population growth—encompassing births, improvements in healthcare, and reduced mortality rates—had a factor loading of 0.74, further impacting the urbanization process. …”
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Increasing population growth by asymmetric segregation of a limiting resource during cell division by Nurit Avraham, Ilya Soifer, Miri Carmi, Naama Barkai

“…Abstract We report that when budding yeast are transferred to low‐metal environment, they adopt a proliferation pattern in which division is restricted to the subpopulation of mother cells which were born in rich conditions, before the shift. …”
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The Gaseous Blowout of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region in the LMC by Suraj Poudel, April Horton, Jo Vazquez, Kathleen A. Barger, Frances H. Cashman, Andrew J. Fox, Nicolas Lehner, Scott Lucchini, Dhanesh Krishnarao, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Elena D’Onghia, Jason Tumlinson, Ananya Goon Tuli, Lauren Sdun, Stone Gebhart, Katherine Anthony, Bryce Cole, Jacco Th. van Loon, Julia Roman-Duval, Yik Ki Ma, Callum Lynn, Min-Young Lee, Denis Leahy

“…We estimate an outflow mass of M _outflow, Si _ii  ≈ (5.7–8.6)  × 10 ^5 M _⊙ , outflow rate of ${\dot{M}}_{{\rm{outflow}}}\gtrsim 0.02{M}_{\odot }\,{\,\rm{yr}\,}^{-1}$ , and mass loading factor of η  ≳ 0.10 within Δ θ  ≲ 0 $\mathop{.}…”
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