A Characterisation and Profiling of District Health Indicators in Zimbabwe: An Application of Principal Component Analysis in a Data Limited Setting by Shepherd Shamu, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Charles Hongoro

“…**Conclusion:** The composite indices exhibited internal consistency and construct validity to be regarded as true representations of the cross variation of the 57 districts in Zimbabwe; hence these indices could be used to characterise the behaviour and assess the performance of these districts. …”
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Numerical and experimental study of the behavior of a protective structure under impact by D. A. Tarasov

“…A full-scale experiment was carried out in order to determine the true distribution of deformations over the structural elements of the test object under impact.Results. …”
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Christ's crucifixion as a medico-historical event by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…He was probably crucified on a short Tau-cross, and died within 6 hours (probably even within 3 hours). …”
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Policy Learning Through Transfer - Individuals, Organisations and Network in the Making of Ethiopia’s Industrial Park Programme by Jing Zhang

“…Nevertheless, little is known about the actual practices through which learning takes place at both the individual and collective levels. This is particularly true in the case of South-South policy learning which, despite its growing popularity, has remained less explored in mainstream discussions. …”
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City Educational Environment in Terms of Anthropopractices of Care. The Idea of a Configurator by S. A. Smirnov

“…The article continues the author’s series of publications aimed at building an educational cultural configurator which ties three themes into a single knot – the sphere of education, the City and the Person. A cross-cutting cultural “glue” of this bundle is the experience of anthropological practitioners of human care for themselves, through which, doing which, a person is becoming his true self. …”
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Tracéologie du bois d’époque médiévale by Manuel Porcheron

“…Across scientific study, the clarification of terms allows a precise and shared understanding of concepts and words. This holds true for the categorisation of physical markings on wood, for example: cupules/cup markings, torn grain, cross cut markings, gouging, chipping and so on. …”
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Multifocal Head and Neck Neurofibromas with Osseous Abnormalities and Muscular Hypoplasia in a Child with Neurofibromatosis: Type I by Rachna Rath, Sheetal Kaur, Shadab Ali Baig, Punyashlok Pati, Sonalisa Sahoo

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) helped to identify the solid nature of the lesion and true extent of the soft tissue mass.…”
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The Oscillating Component of the Internal Jugular Vein Flow: The Overlooked Element of Cerebral Circulation by Francesco Sisini, Eleuterio Toro, Mauro Gambaccini, Paolo Zamboni

“…Recently it has been proven that JVP can be obtained by measuring the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the IJV on each sonogram of an ultrasound B-mode sonogram sequence. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CONTRAST–ENHANCED HIGHRESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) FORTHE DETECTION OF RETINOBLASTOMA by Muhammad Faisal

“…Methodology A total of 50 cases were collected in this comparative cross-sectional study. The sample was taken through non-probability consecutive sampling. …”
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DC algorithm for estimation of sparse Gaussian graphical models. by Tomokaze Shiratori, Yuichi Takano

“…Our method is particularly advantageous for selecting true edges when cross-validation is used to determine the number of edges. …”
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Frequency Of Post-Partum Haemorrhage In Obese Patients by Rakhshanda Aslam, Ayesha Shahid, Noreen Tahir, Ammarah Nadeem, Tahira Nasreen, Anisa Saleem

“…The duration of this study was 6 months, from Dec 2022 to June 2023. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study; the sample size was 100 patients. …”
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Ferritin in Adult-Onset Still’s Disease: Just a Useful Innocent Bystander? by Bella Mehta, Petros Efthimiou

“…The key terms “ferritin” and “hyperferritinemia” were used to search PubMed and Medline and were cross-referenced with “Still’s Disease.” Results. …”
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The Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs, Knowledge Levels and Attitudes regarding Organ Transplantation and Donation by Gulsah Gurkan, Sibel Kahraman

“…Having positive attitude and true knowledge to the OTD are essential for teachers that affected students the future attitude toward this topic. …”
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A Comparison of Patient and Provider Perspectives on an Electronic Health Record–Based Discharge Communication Tool: Survey Study by Dorothy Yingxuan Wang, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Annie Wai-Ling Cheung, Kam-Shing Tang, Eng-Kiong Yeoh

“…MethodsThis study comprised a cross-sectional self-administered staff survey and a pre-post cross-sectional patient survey. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosing Pituitary Micro-Adenoma, Taking Histopathology as Gold Standard by Sehar Sarfraz, Tayyaba Ali, Pakeeza Shafiq, Zartashia Khan, Waqar Azeem, Ghazala Rasool, Ehsan Ul Haq

“…The objective of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of pituitary microadenomas using histopathology as a gold standard. Methods: This cross-sectional validation study (IRB Approval No. …”
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Auxiliary clitics in Polish by Dorota Jagódzka

“… Polish auxiliary clitics constitute an interesting set of data which draws attention to cross-linguistic differences among Slavic languages. …”
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Automatic Detection of 2D and 3D Lung Nodules in Chest Spiral CT Scans by Ayman El-Baz, Ahmed Elnakib, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Georgy Gimel'farb, Robert Falk, Aly Farag

“…The detection combines the normalized cross-correlation template matching and a genetic optimization algorithm. …”
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Implementation of Standard setting in the Assessment of Examinations in a Postgraduate Medical College: Opinions, Experiences and Prospects by Oyenike Oyeronke Ekekezie, Titilope Oyinlola Charles-Eromosele, Foluke Adenike Olatona, Emmanuel Nwabueze Aguwa

“…Conclusion: Standard setting is more appropriate in determining true competence than using arbitrary pass scores. …”
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Effect of Scraper Geometry on Scraping HAP/ZrO2 Slurry in Digital Light Processing by Hai Gu, Jie Zhang, Jianhua Sun, Tiancheng Huang, Jie Jiang, Bin Li, Weiwei Wu

“…A modified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is proposed to conduct the numerical simulations according to the non-Newtonian behavior of the slurry. The Cross behavior of the slurry is viewed as a special external force; then, the traditional LBM including the true external force can be utilized effectively. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF GENOME-WIDE SELECTION IN WHEAT by G. Charmet, E. Storlie

“…The prediction coefficients obtained by cross-validation techniques are encouraging, given the small size of the training population.…”
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