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Risk factors for Q fever incidence in Korea: a comparative analysis using frequentist and Bayesian methods [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health
OBJECTIVES This study investigated the principal determinants of human Q fever incidence and explored regional variation between metropolitan cities and provinces in Korea.
Ji-Hyun Son, Sung-Dae Park
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Indexing Inefficacy of Efforts to Stop Escalation of COVID Mortality

Mathematics, 2022
Background: COVID-19 efforts were often ineffective in controlling the spread of the pandemic. Thus, identifying ineffective controls during a pandemic is vital.
Ramalingam Shanmugam, Lawrence Fulton, Jose Betancourt, Gerardo J. Pacheco   +3 more
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A Bayesian Approach to Modeling Risk of Hospital Admissions Associated With Schizophrenia Accounting for Underdiagnosis of the Disorder in Administrative Records

Computational Psychiatry, 2018
Schizophrenia is a debilitating serious mental illness characterized by a complex array of symptoms with varying severity and duration. Patients may seek treatment only intermittently, contributing to challenges diagnosing the disorder.
Eileen M. Stock, James D. Stamey, John E. Zeber, Alexander W. Thompson, Laurel A. Copeland   +4 more
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Digital Skills Influencing Factor of Financial Performance in the Medical Sector in Romania [PDF]

Revista de Studii Financiare
The research paper addresses the contemporary topic of digitalization through both its structure and content. The case study focuses on the medical sector, where a sample of 20 companies with an average of 105 employees was analysed.
Silviu Cârstina, Gabriela Badareu, Radu Buziernescu, Stelian Selesteanu, Yamina Sosa   +4 more
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Post-processing climate projections of precipitation for the Po river basin: will Italy's North become water-constrained?

Hydrology Research, 2022
Surface and groundwater resource availability depends on precipitation patterns. Climatic change may alter not only future annual totals of precipitation but also its temporal distribution.
Oleksiy Boyko, Paolo Reggiani, Ezio Todini   +2 more
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Model selection for fish growth patterns based on a Bayesian approach: A case study of five freshwater fish species

Aquatic Living Resources, 2020
Selecting an appropriate growth pattern for individual fish is a meaningful but complex topic in fishery research. We model four growth functions − the commonly used von Bertalanffy growth model (VBGM), and the Gompertz growth model (GGM), Schnute ...
Zhang Kui, Zhang Jun, Li Jiajun, Liao Baochao   +3 more
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices on Tomato Leaf Miner, Tuta absoluta on Tomato and Potential Demand for Integrated Pest Management among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya and Uganda

Agriculture, 2021
Agricultural growth and food security are a priority in many developing countries. This has led to increased attention to effective pest management. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy is a sustainable and recommended alternative to the use of ...
Fridah Chepchirchir, Beatrice W. Muriithi, Jackson Langat, Samira A. Mohamed, Shepard Ndlela, Fathiya M. Khamis   +5 more
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Non-destructive shoot biomass evaluation using a handheld NDVI sensor for field-grown staking Yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.)

Plant Production Science, 2019
Crop phenotyping is a key process used to accelerate breeding programs in the era of high-throughput genotyping. However, most rapid phenotyping methods developed to date have focused on major cereals or legumes, and their application to minor crops has ...
Kohtaro Iseki, Ryo Matsumoto
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Reporting Standards for Bayesian Network Modelling

Entropy
Reproducibility is a key measure of the veracity of a modelling result or finding. In other research areas, notably in medicine, reproducibility is supported by mandating the inclusion of an agreed set of details into every research publication ...
Martine J. Barons, Anca M. Hanea, Steven Mascaro, Owen Woodberry   +3 more
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The Econometrics of Factor Loadings and Implications for Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy (2005- 2020) – Sierra Leone

İktisat Politikası Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
In this paper, the authors explored the interaction of macroeconomic variables with some form of vague interrelationships. The relevance of factor analysis has demonstrated an existing association between manifest and latent variables in helping the ...
Christopher E. S. Warburton, Emerson Abraham Jackson   +1 more
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