Prognostic value of the pre-treatment SUVmax of 18F-FDG PET/CT combined with peripheral absolute lymphocyte in patients with newly diagnosed extranodal natural killer/T-cell lympho... by Xingmei Lu, Kate Huang, Peng Li, Yida Li, Xiuhuan Ji, Suidan Chen, Jianmin Li

“…Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test, while independent prognostic factors were identified through Cox regression analysis. …”
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The Non‐Linear Effects of Urban Green Space on Promoting Physical Activity of Old Adults at Different Obesity Status in Semi‐Arid Area: A Case Study of Lanzhou, China by Hualong Qiu, Haoran Tang, Yiyang Yang

“…By using the XGBoost method, we analyze how green spaces and the 5D built environment affect physical activity levels among the obese and standard‐weight elderly populations in Lanzhou. …”
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Bridging Augmented Reality Experience and Purchase Intention: Integrating Attitudinal Ambivalence into an Extended TAM by Cynthia Jessica, Rifelly Dewi Astuti

“…PU also directly fosters positive PI, while PEOU does not. Importantly, AA negatively affects PI, underscoring its critical role in consumer decision-making. …”
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Patterns of Behavior of State Civil Apparatus in The Implementation of E-Government (Case Study in The Regional Secretariat of Bantul District, Indonesia) by Denny Ardiansyah Pribadi, Suswanta Suswanta

“…This study uses a qualitative method. The informants were leaders at the Regional Secretariat of Bantul Regency who were taken using a purposive sampling technique. …”
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Economic and Environmental Sustainability Performance Improvements in the Outdoor Wood Furniture Industry Through a Lean-Infused FMEA-Supported Fuzzy QFD Approach by Melike Nur Ince, Emrecan Arpaci, Cagatay Tasdemir, Rado Gazo

“…Eighteen lean tools were ranked using the Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (Fuzzy QFD) method. A total of eight improvement propositions, namely, Kaizen and continuous improvement, upgrade machinery for energy efficiency, Just-In-Time (JIT), optimize production processes with lean methodologies, implement cost reduction strategies, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Investing in Automation, and Andon were implemented. …”
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Optometrists’ perceptions of vision impairment services in public hospitals of Limpopo province by Modjadji M. Leshabane, Nishanee Rampersad, Khathutshelo P. Mashige

“…The majority of participants (54%) reported referring patients with VI to a hospital multidisciplinary team, while less than 50% provided optimal spectacle correction. …”
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Experimental Research on Polymers for the Restoration of Cultural Relic Buildings by Xinyu Wang, Jianwei Yue, Tuo Huang

“…Based on the principle of changing the permeability coefficient of cultural relic buildings by “water blocking water” and considering the characteristics of magnesium acrylate polymer and the requirement of extending the curing time, a method of modifying magnesium acrylate polymer with glycerol and sodium methyl silicate is proposed. …”
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Valorization of various lignocellulosic wastes to Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst (Reishi Mushroom) cultivation and their FT-IR assessments. by Caglar Akcay, Recai Arslan, Faik Ceylan

“…Karst (Reishi) has significant pharmacological benefits, and optimizing its cultivation on diverse substrates enhances its commercial viability. …”
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The role of career development, technostress, and organisational commitment in shaping the work performance of elementary school teachers: Insights from Partial Least Squares Struc... by Ipong Dekawanti, ikin Asikin, Nunik Yudaningsih, Badrud Tamam, Rizki Satria Nugraha, Diding Nurdin

“…A quantitative approach was used by a survey method of 162 respondents selected through the proportionate stratified random sampling technique. …”
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Dynamics of kerosene-based nanofluid in the core region of curved pipe surrounded by a peripheral region containing water-based nanofluid by H. Shahzad, Z. Abbas, M.Y. Rafiq

“…By employing a perturbation method and non-dimensional analysis, we derived analytical solutions to the modified Navier-Stokes equations to examine the velocity and temperature distributions. …”
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The Moderating Role of CEO Characteristics in the Relationship between Financial Conditions and Corporate Debt Policy by Heriyanto Heriyanto, Novita Febriany, Mischella Engel

“… Purpose: This study investigates the influence of firm financial characteristics—reflecting asymmetric information—on corporate debt policy, while also examining the moderating role of CEO characteristics within the framework of upper echelon theory. …”
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Machine Learning Unveils the Impacts of Key Elements and Their Interaction on the Ambient-Temperature Tensile Properties of Cast Titanium Aluminides Employing SHAP Analysis by Shiqiu Liu, Li Liang

“…This study facilitates the data-driven design of novel cast TiAl alloys by systematically investigating the critical elements and their interactions affecting room-temperature (RT) tensile properties by the machine learning method based on SHAP analysis. Comparative analysis of three algorithms within the training dataset proved the random forest regression (RFR) as the optimal modeling approach. …”
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Income Inequality in the Expanded BRICS: A Panel Analysis with Indonesia as a New Entrant by Ayuningtyas Puri Octavidya, Sotya Fevriera

“…Results: The findings indicate that GDP per capita has a significant negative influence on income inequality, while government expenditure has a significant positive impact on income inequality. …”
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Review on eye-hand span in sight-reading of music by Joris Perra, Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat, Thierry Baccino, Véronique Drai-Zerbib

“…The eye-hand span (EHS) corresponds to this offset between the eye and the hand and measures the distance or latency between an eye fixation on the score and the production of the note on the instrument. While EHS is mostly quite short, the variation in its size can depend on multiple factors. …”
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Conceptual and Simulated Semi-Automatic Urban Waste Management System using Global Systems for Mobile Communication and Customer Reliability Indices by L. Ogunwolu, A.D. Omiyale, O.O.E. Ajibola

“…Waste Collection Vehicles are routed based on the responses while an updatable Reporting Reliability Index (RRI) is computed for each user based on estimate of actual level of waste collected as against the reported level to factor future reporting. …”
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Evaluating Urban Park Utility in Seoul: A Distance-to-Area Discounting Model by Gyoungju Lee, Youngeun Kang

“…Simulation analyses of 30 candidate sites demonstrate that strategic park placement can yield substantial utility improvements (maximum gain: 493,436 m), while indiscriminate expansion may not. These findings offer spatial decision support for optimizing limited public resources in urban green infrastructure planning and underscore the need to consider both park scale and user-specific walking behavior in evaluating accessibility.…”
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HIGH-EFFICIENCY INFRARED RECEIVER by A. K. Esman, V. I. Kostenko, N. I. Mukhurov, G. L. Zykov, V. A. Potachits

“…Simulation of the electromagnetic characteristics of the proposed receiver by using the software package HFSS with the basic algorithm of a finite element method which implemented to calculate the behavior of electromagnetic fields on an arbitrary geometry with a predetermined material properties have shown that when the inner parts of the electrodes of the low-barrier Schottky diode is performed in the concentric elliptical convex-concave shape, it can be reduce the reflection losses to -57.75 dB and the standing wave ratio to 1.003 while increasing the directivity up to 23 at a wavelength of 6.09 μm. …”
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A retrospective cohort study using machine learning to predict coronary artery lesions in children with Kawasaki disease by Yanan Duan, Aiping Chen, Xuedi Cheng

“…The ROC curve in the training queue showed good discriminative ability (AUC: 0.879), while the ROC curve in the validation queue showed good discriminative ability (AUC: 0.859). …”
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Effect of Dissolved Oxygen and Chemical Scarification on Andrographis paniculata Seed Germination in Macrobubble Conditions by Athakorn Promwee, Shams Shaila Islam, Thanet Khomphet

“…An easily applied and inexpensive method for farmers to develop mass plantings to stimulate germination is by using macrobubble conditions by aerating seeds in sterile water in collaboration with chemical scarification, which is the idea of creating a hard seed coat that causes seed dormancy to break while root germination occurs at 25°C. …”
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Graph representation learning via enhanced GNNs and transformers by Hongrui Mu, Chengchen Zhou, Qiancheng Yu, Qunyue Mu

“…To address the prevalent deficiencies in local feature learning and edge information utilization inherent to GTs, we propose EHDGT, a novel graph representation learning method based on enhanced graph neural networks (GNNs) and Transformers. …”
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