Optimizing security and energy efficiency in IoT-Based health monitoring systems for wireless body area networks by Mohammed Naif Alatawi

“…Additionally, a trust aggregation engine is implemented to quantify the trustworthiness of nodes using both global and local ratings. The healthcare provider assigns global ratings, while local ratings are crowdsourced from remote users or monitoring agents. …”
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Assessing Patients with Chronic Pain Using the Basic Personality Inventory as a Complement to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory by Howard J Burton, Stephen A Kline, Robin Hargadon, Barry S Cooper, Roger D Shick, May C Ong-Lam

“…It was anticipated that this pattern would be independent of sex. In addition, validity of the BPI as a measure of psychological distress among patients with pain was examined using psychiatric diagnostic ratings as independent criteria.…”
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The impact of spatial placement on valence judgments of images: a comparative analysis between right-handed and left-handed individuals by Maisto Marta, Actis-Grosso Rossana

“…Thirty participants (15 right-handed, 15 left-handed) rated neutral images displayed in the center, right, or left visual field using a 9-point Likert scale. …”
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Evaluating the Effects of Mitigating Urban Heat Islands of Green Infrastructure on Increasing the Productivity of Light and Heavy Work (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolitan) by Mahdi Herischian, Hassan Mahmoudzadeh, Rasoul Ghorbani

“…The primary inputs for the model included a land use/land cover raster map, a reference evapotranspiration (ET0) raster map, a biophysical table containing details about each land use/land cover class, a vector map of city buildings, and an energy consumption rate table categorized by building type and air temperature. …”
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Improved chaotic fruit fly optimization with elman neural network based data-driven approach on product reviews classification by Mohammed Alghamdi, Najla I. Al-shathry, Yahia Said, Hasan Beyari, Shaymaa Sorour, Khalid Nazim Abdul Sattar, Fouad Shoie Alallah, Abdulrhman Alshareef

“…Customer satisfaction is effectively enhanced by performing a Sentiment Analysis (SA) of many customer ratings on E-commerce platforms. Yet, predicting the correct sentiment difference in customer feedback is challenging due to complicated logic, sequence length, and text pattern adjustments. …”
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Post-marketing safety concerns with dolutegravir: a pharmacovigilance study based on the FDA adverse event reporting system database by Juan Su, Long He, Menglei Wang

“…Notably, subgroup analyses revealed that progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 9) in males, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 6) and deafness neurosensory (n = 3) in the 18–45 age group, and hepatic necrosis (n = 4) in the 46–65 age group were rated as high clinical priority. The overall onset time for all AEs exhibited an early failure pattern, with a median onset time of 74 days (IQR 19–310.5), whereas the median onset time for designated medical events (DMEs) was 59 days (IQR 12–186).ConclusionThe long-term safety of DTG requires reassessing its risk-benefit ratio. …”
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Workbench in the Teaching of Optics to Junior High School by Emerson B. Cuzzamu

“…The study determined the status of textbooks in Physics of Optics in terms of availability, relevance of content, scope of subject-matter, and suitability; the degree of need for workbench in Optics; the validity of the proposed developed workbench in Optics as rated by Physics experts in terms of introduction, learning competencies, presentation of concepts, and exercises. …”
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Modern methods of studying of human gastro-intestinal microflora by Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Lyashenko, O. S. Shifrin, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…From the middle of XX century bacteriological method of investigation based on obtaining of pure culture was widely applied in rating of microflora pattern. However, during the last decade modern methods of diagnostics which allow to investigate structure and functions of microorganisms at a genetic level, even at the presence of single bacterial cell in a sample.Conclusion. …”
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Voters’ Attributions of Psychopathic Traits to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2020 Trump Impeachment Trial by Paul E. Jose, Ira J. Roseman, Anna Geiserman, Taylor Winter, Boris Bizumic

“…The sample, 159 Trump voters and 154 Clinton voters, rated their own authoritarian beliefs and their perceptions of psychopathic tendencies in both candidates, and reported their vote. …”
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Methods in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers: A Unified Index and Comparative Reviews by Thanh-Lam Nguyen

“…To date, numerous indices have been established; however, counterintuition, less discrimination, and/or inconsistency on their fuzzy-number rating outcomes have prohibited their comprehensive implementation. …”
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Shape of You: Eye-Tracking and Social Perceptions of the Human Body by Edward Morrison, Marianne Lanigan

“…Dependent variables were the number and duration of fixations, and Likert ratings. Most visual attention was paid to the chest and midriff, but this pattern differed slightly depending on the judgement being made, and on the BMI of the body. …”
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Daily activities and self-esteem among university students with and without ADHD by Eryn H. Turner, Seth C. Harty

“…Differences between students with and without ADHD were observed both in momentary self-esteem ratings and the frequencies of endorsed activities. …”
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Cognitive and emotional disturbances in adult patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 by E. K. Erokhina, K. V. Shamtieva, E. A. Melnik, D. O. Kazakov, S. A. Kurbatov, E. P. Pavlikova, O. A. Tikhonova, E. A. Mershina, V. E. Sinitsyn, D. V. Vlodavets

“…All patients underwent neuropsychological testing using the Montreal Cognitive RatingScale, Mini‑Mental State Examination, Addenbrooke’s III, Wechsler tests, pathfinding, symbolic and numeric modalities, Luria’s 10 Words, Frontal Dysfunction Battery; assessment of emotional disturbances using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Rating Scale and the Apathy Scale; quality of life assessment –  36‑Item Short‑Form Medical Outcomes Study. …”
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Appetitive and Dietary Effects of Consuming an Energy-Dense Food (Peanuts) with or between Meals by Snackers and Nonsnackers by A. A. Devitt, A. Kuevi, S. B. Coelho, A. Lartey, P. Lokko, N. Costa, J. Bressan, R. D. Mattes

“…Objective. Assess intake pattern and food properties on acute appetitive ratings (AR) and EI. …”
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN BEHCHET’S DISEASE by P. S. Ovcharov, T. A. Lisitsyna, D. Yu. Veltishchev, O. F. Seravina, O. B. Kovalevskaya, S. I. Glukhova, Z. S. Alekberova, E. L. Nasonov

“…ADSDs were diagnosed by a psychiatrist according to the ICD-10 during semi-structured interviews using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). …”
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Severe Brain Injury by Yu. A. Churlyaev, M. Yu. Verein, S. L. Kan, Ye. V. Grigoryev, N. N. Yepifantseva, T. P. Aikina

“…Their general condition was rated as very critical. The patients were divided into three groups: 1) non-ARDS; 2) Stage 1 ARDS; and 3) Stage 2 ARDS. …”
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Slope Stability Assessment along Qalachwalan-Suraqalat Main Road, Sulaimani, NE-Iraq by Ghafor A. Hamasur, Nzho M. Qadir

“…The slope stations were chosen on the basis of difference in discontinuities pattern, variation in slope morphology and difference in the type of failure and the data were analyzed for their potential degree of stability by kinematic analysis, using DIPS v6.008 software and slope mass rating system [discrete-SMR and continuous-SMR (CSMR)], using SMR Tool - v205 software. …”
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A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans. by Samuel Planton, Timo van Kerkoerle, Leïla Abbih, Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Mariano Sigman, Liping Wang, Santiago Figueira, Sergio Romano, Stanislas Dehaene

“…Both subjective complexity ratings and objective violation detection performance were well predicted by our theoretical measure of complexity, which simply reflects a weighted sum of the number of elementary instructions and digits in the shortest formula that captures the sequence in our language. …”
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Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience by Nicholas A. Coles, Bartosz Perz, Maciej Behnke, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Soo Hyung Kim, Tu N. Vu, Chirag Raman, Julian Tejada, Van-Thong Huynh, Guangyi Zhang, Tanming Cui, Sharanyak Podder, Rushi Chavda, Shubham Pandey, Arpit Upadhyay, Jorge I. Padilla-Buritica, Carlos J. Barrera Causil, Linying Ji, Felix Dollack, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Huakun Liu, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Xin Wei, Houwei Cao, Ziqing Yang, Alessia Iancarelli, Kieran McVeigh, Yiyu Wang, Isabel M. Berwian, Jamie C. Chiu, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Erik C. Nook, Henna I. Vartiainen, Claire Whiting, Young Won Cho, Sy-Miin Chow, Zachary F. Fisher, Yanling Li, Xiaoyue Xiong, Yuqi Shen, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leandro A. Bugnon, Raydonal Ospina, Nicolas M. Bruno, Tomas A. D'Amelio, Federico Zamberlan, Luis R. Mercado Diaz, Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas, Hugo F. Posada-Quintero, Maneesh Bilalpur, Saurabh Hinduja, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Shaun Canavan, Liza Jivnani, Stanisław Saganowski

“…In 46% of tests, teams also outperformed baseline models that relied on the simple average of ratings from training datasets. More notably, results uncovered a methodological challenge: multiplicative constraints on generalizability. …”
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Factors associated with chronotype in individuals with bipolar disorder in remission by Ravneet Singh, Raman Deep, Vaibhav Patil, Rachna Bhargava, Ashwani Kumar Mishra

“…Participants were assessed using the validated Hindi version of Composite Scale of Morningness-Eveningness (CSM), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-Life Chart Method, IGLSI (International Group for Study of Lithium) Scale for typical/atypical features, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Cognitive complaints in BD Rating Assessment, Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire, Bipolar Eating Disorder Scale, Internet Disorder Scale, and Functioning Assessment Short Test. …”
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