An external validation of the QCovid risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in adults: a national validation cohort study in England by Nafilyan, V, Humberstone, B, Mehta, N, Diamond, I, Coupland, C, Lorenzi, L, Pawelek, P, Schofield, R, Morgan, J, Brown, P, Lyons, R, Sheikh, A, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…<p><strong>Findings</strong></p> We included 34 897 648 adults aged 19–100 years resident in England. 26 985 (0·08%) COVID-19 deaths occurred during the first period and 13 177 (0·04%) during the second. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…&lt;h4&gt;Methods&lt;/h4&gt;Using forecasts of major drivers of health such as the Socio-demographic Index (SDI; a composite measure of lag-distributed income per capita, mean years of education, and total fertility under 25 years of age) and the full set of risk factor exposures captured by GBD, we provide cause-specific forecasts of mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age and sex from 2022 to 2050 for 204 countries and territories, 21 GBD regions, seven super-regions, and the world. …”

Marketing Research with R and Python / by Lam, Howard Pong-Yuen, author 656302, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…A number of marketing research textbooks have been using SPSS or SAS for many years. R and Python are free to download and install in a personal computer. …”
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Living Together Across Borders : Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families / by Arnold, Lynnette, author 656202, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family over the years despite ongoing separation.…”
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DTM Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on and by the Design Theory and Methodology Research Community by Toh, Christine, Cagan, Jonathan, Fu, Kate, McAdams, Dan A., McComb, Christopher, Seering, Warren, Thurston, Deborah, Wood, Kristin

“…While the state of design research in engineering design has advanced tremendously in the last thirty-five years since the formation of the DTM community, reflecting on the successes and challenges faced by this community revealed several key directions and opportunities that this community is well positioned to take. …”
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Searching for beyond the Standard Model physics using the improved description of 100Mo 2𝜈𝛽𝛽 decay spectral shape with CUPID-Mo by Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K.

“…We demonstrate the potential of the dual read-out bolometric technique exploiting a 100Mo exposure of 1.47 kg × years, acquired in the CUPID-Mo experiment at the Modane underground laboratory (France). …”
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An Energy and Area Estimation Plugin for Accelerator Architecture Simulation by Wu, Wendy

“…Development of domain-specific hardware accelerators has been an important focus for high performance computing research in recent years, enabling significant gains in a variety of practical applications. …”
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Engineering of In Vitro 3D Capillary Beds by Self-Directed Angiogenic Sprouting by Chan, Juliana Maria, Zervantonakis, Ioannis K., Rimchala, Tharathorn, Polacheck, William Joseph, Whisler, Jordan, Kamm, Roger Dale

“…In recent years, microfluidic systems have been used to study fundamental aspects of angiogenesis through the patterning of single-layered, linear or geometric vascular channels. …”
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Quantitative analysis of choriocapillaris in non-human primates using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) by Tan, Bingyao, Chua, Jacqueline, Barathi, Veluchamy Amutha, Baskaran, Mani, Chan, Anita, Lin, Emily, Ang, Marcus, Klose, Gerd, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…The choriocapillaris is a unique vascular plexus located posterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. In recent years, there is an increasing interest in the examination of the interrelationship between the choriocapillaris and eye diseases. …”
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Visual food recognition using few-shot learning by Liu, Tianyi

“…In recent years, smart food logging is becoming more popular. …”
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Image-based social relation recognition using graph neural network by Gao, Jianjun

“…Meantime, the advancement of computing infrastructure and computer vision research in recent years has made it possible for computers to process these kinds of data to recognize social relations in our life. …”
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Mechanical design and performance evaluation of active thermosiphon beam terminal units by Ji, Ke, Cai, Wenjian, Wu, Bingjie, Ou, Xianhua

“…The active chilled beam (ACB) system has evolved for more than twenty years, but its limitations in chilled water temperature control, initial cost and condensation stand as the major obstacles for applications especially in tropical regions. …”
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Power- and area-efficient analog-to-digital conversion for in-memory computing by Wu, Yiheng

“…In-Memory Computation has received a lot of attention in recent years as a method to solve the von Neumann bottleneck. …”
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Exploring translation strategies for didactic literature by Liao, Shuyan

“…In recent years, the topic of self-love has gained much momentum around the world. …”
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Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…Benefiting from the powerful discriminative feature learning capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable performance improvement for the task of salient object detection (SOD) in recent years. However, most existing deep SOD models do not fully exploit informative contextual features, which often leads to suboptimal detection performance in the presence of a cluttered background. …”
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Two dimensional materials-based multi gated devices and simulation by An, Yicheng

“…In recent years, more and more research on the potential of two dimensional(2D) material based transistor have been published and widely studied. …”
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The incidence of perfect moments: acoustic eloquence and narrative terroir in modern fiction by Tan, Ignatius Lu Wei

“…An exact definition of music is difficult to lay a finger on. Over the many years, the meaning of the term has shifted many times over to be construed and considered through many different conjectures of it. …”
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Foundation design of single-span arch bridges in China by Zhang, Zhitong, Leong, Eng Choon, Gong, Weiming, Dai, Guoliang, Li, Jian

“…Arch bridges have been constructed in China more than 1400 years ago. This study collated the details of 120 single-span arch bridges with spans of more than 100 m that have been constructed or undergoing construction in China over the recent three decades. …”
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Three-dimensional Softmax mechanism guided bidirectional GRU networks for hyperspectral remote sensing image classification by Wu, Guoqiang, Ning, Xin, Hou, Luyang, He, Feng, Zhang, Hengmin, Shankar, Achyut

“…However, to enhance the classification accuracy of hyperspectral image features, it is crucial to capture the spatial spectral features of image elements. The recent years have witnessed the potentials of deep learning methods have shown great promise in the hyperspectral image classification due to their ability to model complex structures and extract multiple features in an end-to-end fashion. …”
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Charting the path forward in Southeast Asia: Learning from the COVID-19 vaccination challenges in six ASEAN countries by Fu, Jolene Yin Ling, Pukhari, Muhammad Harith, Cruz, Kristine Alvarado-Dela, Soebandrio, Amin, Tan, Le Van, Jantarabenjakul, Watsamon, Sawitri, Anak Agung Sagung, Chantasrisawad, Napaporn, Yee, Sidney, Weng, Ruifen, Sundar, Raghav, Tan, Chee Wah, Wang, Lin-Fa, Sam, I-Ching, Young, Barnaby Edward, Sutarsa, I Nyoman, Chan, Yoke Fun

“…The actual figures are certain to be at least several-fold higher, with estimates suggesting an excess mortality of 1.2 million in the first two years of the pandemic. Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 4 May 2023 declaration that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is no longer a public health emergency, it remains a global threat. …”
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