Predicting wealth score from remote sensing satellite images and household survey data using deep learning by Shekhar, Shashank, Singh, Pratibha, Mishra, Rashmi, Kumar, Sunil

“…The most exigent call of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable goals is to end poverty everywhere by 2030. Unlike in the past, when poverty was measured based on data collected through ground-level surveys, the new technology adopted by many developing and developed countries is to estimate the poverty index using remote sensing satellite images with the help of machine learning techniques. …”
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Very small effects of an imagery-based randomised trial to promote adherence to wearing face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic and identification of future intervention target... by Conroy, Dom, Smith, Debbie M., Armitage, Christopher J.

“…Our findings suggest that interventions should target men and disrupt habitual past behaviour.…”
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A renewal-equation approach to estimating Rt and infectious disease case counts in the presence of reporting delays by Bajaj, S, Thompson, R, Lambert, B

“…This means that real-time estimates of the time-varying reproduction number, <i>R_t</i>, are often made using a time series of cases only up until a time period sufficiently far in the past that there is some confidence in the case counts. …”

Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Western gray squirrels (Sciurus griseus) are native to the west coast of North America, principally California and western Oregon. Over the past several decades, Western Gray Squirrel populations have declined in human-dominated areas, with increased competition from introduced congeneric species native to eastern North America cited as a primary driver. …”

The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…Despite the learnings from the recent pandemic, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the diagnosis of acute respiratory viral infections and their sequelae, the modes of transmission, and how to effectively synthesise the existing evidence from the past 70 years of research on respiratory viruses. …”

Multidecadal Morphodynamic evolution of shorelines and coral reefs along the Arabian Sea Coast of Oman: Bar Al Hikman Peninsula by Teillet, T, Bois, P, Homewood, P, Mettraux, M, Samimi-Namin, K, Vahrenkamp, V

“…This study examines the morphodynamic evolution of the shoreline and coral reef coverage along the Arabian Sea coast of Oman over the past five decades (1972–2022). The Peninsula of Bar Al Hikman, the largest low-lying coastal area in Oman (550 km2; elevations &lt; 10 m), hosts unique, monospecific coral reefs developing under a monsoon climate. …”

Wannier-function software ecosystem for materials simulations by Marrazzo, A, Beck, S, Margine, ER, Marzari, N, Mostofi, AA, Qiao, J, Souza, I, Tsirkin, SS, Yates, JR, Pizzi, G

“…Over the past two decades, following the early developments on maximally localized Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software packages leveraging the Wannier representation has flourished. …”

Those swans, remember: Graeco-Celtic relations in the work of J.M. Synge by Currie, A

“…Classical antiquity, and particularly its Greek variety, was a vital coordinate in this navigation of the past. This thesis explores the history of these Graeco-Celtic negotiations. …”

The afterlife of site-specific sculpture: a self-referential study through practice by Kim, M

“…The work explores what has been done in the past and pursues the next phase by reflecting previous attempts in stages, therefore, occasionally bringing in the concept of a meta-structure. …”

The unintended consequences of information system change on organizational memory: remembering and forgetting in English and Ontarian child protection services by Vogl, TM

“…Information technology change in this sector is ostensibly aimed at addressing key challenges exposed by child death reviews, performance audits, and research into child outcomes, such as the issue of past information not being available for front-line or policy decision making. …”

Perceptions of meteorological phenomena in ancient Egypt by Jensen, CL

“…While historical climatology has reconstructed past climates using quantitative methods, limited research has been done on the impact of weather phenomena, both mundane and extraordinary, on cultural experience and expression. …”

The sound of metal: amateur brass bands in southern Benin by Hoh, LM

“…Beninese musicians’ experience of fanfare is entangled within (at times contradictory) ideas of the past, imaginings of the outside, emotions in the present, and expectations for the future. …”

Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: a case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory by Gandy, CA, Kang, X, Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE

“…Department of Transportation (DOT)'s National Bridge Inventory (NBI) dataset at a national level via a method that is less computationally or manually intensive than past approaches. Phase 1 focuses on assessing the quality of existing NBI locational data using a geospatially-driven method. …”

Mapping tissue magnetic susceptibility and its biological correlates in the human brain by Wang, C

“…</p> <p>Interest in quantification of tissue χ distribution has thus led to quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), a technique that quantifies tissue χ distributions through sophisticated postprocessing of phase images. The past decade has witnessed great progress in QSM. …”

The Urgency Numeric Rating Scale: Psychometric Evaluation in Adults with Crohn’s Disease by Dubinsky, M, Vadhariya, A, Su, S, Zhou, X, Durand, F, Clucas, C, Stassek, L, Kawata, AK, Travis, S

“…The Urgency NRS is a single-item patient-reported outcome measure assessing bowel urgency severity in the past 24 h (0–10 scale). We aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Urgency Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) in adults with moderately to severely active CD and to estimate thresholds for meaningful improvement and bowel urgency remission. …”

Quantifying conformational changes in the TCR:pMHC-I binding interface by McMaster, B, Thorpe, CJ, Rossjohn, J, Deane, CM, Koohy, H

“…Finally, we show that the presented peptides can undergo conformational changes when engaged by TCRs, as has been reported in past literature, but novelly show these changes depend on how the peptides are anchored in the MHC binding groove. …”

Recent progress in benzimidazole and quinoxaline dyes based on dye-sensitized solar cell: a comprehensive overview by Nassar, Maadh F., Abdulmalek, Emilia, Ismail, Mohd F., Alang Ahmad, Shahrul Ainliah, Abdulkreem-Alsultan, G.

“…Due to their benefits like low cost, simple processing, mass production, and effective conversion of solar energy into electrical energy, dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) devices have garnered a lot of attention in the scientific community over the past few years. It is well known that the architecture and composition of the photosensitizers play a key role in improving the functioning of the DSSC. …”

The utility of anatomy assessment in preclinical undergraduate medical curriculum: a scoping review protocol by Alias, Aspalilah, Abas, Razif, Choy, Ker Woon, Wong, Kah Hui, Hadie, Siti Nurma Hanim

“…This scoping review will be conducted using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review guideline, and its protocol is outlined to systematically map the utility of anatomy assessments in preclinical undergraduate medical curricula over the past 20 years. Primary data will be searched from relevant studies, review articles, and grey literature sources between 2002 and 2023. …”
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Do institutional pressures impact voluntary environment information disclosure? by Fan, Jing, Muhamad, Haslinah, Mohd Said, Ridzwana, Daud, Zaidi Mat

“…Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth has mainly come at the expense of excessive energy consumption, resulting in significant carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental challenges. …”
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Strategies to encourage women workers to sign up and remain in trade unions by Ismail, Fadillah, Abdul Kadir, Adibah, Mohamad Azmi, Nur Azia Hazida, Mohd Yusof, Halimah

“…Although trade unions have been in this country, but there have been a number of withdrawals of women’s membership in the past few years, from 2018 to 2021. The objective of the study is to discuss why women refuse to join trade unions, the reasons behind it, and how to encourage women to join and stay in trade unions. …”
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