Beyond MELD Score: Association of Machine Learning-derived CT Body Composition with 90-Day Mortality Post Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement by Elhakim, Tarig, Mansur, Arian, Kondo, Jordan, Omar, Omar M. F., Ahmed, Khalid, Tabari, Azadeh, Brea, Allison, Ndakwah, Gabriel, Iqbal, Shams, Allegretti, Andrew S., Fintelmann, Florian J., Wehrenberg-Klee, Eric, Bridge, Christopher, Daye, Dania

“…Materials and Methods This retrospective multi-center cohort study included patients who underwent TIPS from 1995 to 2018 and had a contrast-enhanced CT abdomen within 9 months prior to TIPS and at least 90 days of post-procedural clinical follow-up. …”
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Enhanced kernel methods for pattern classification by Tang, Ke

“…A kernel method named least squares support vector machine is investigated in sub-topics of the pattern classification area.…”
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Thermal characteristics of non-conventional refrigerants and coolants by Tso, Chih Ping., Leong, Kai Choong.

“…The objective of this present project is to focus on pool film boiling; which is also one of the least understood aspects of the boiling process. …”
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Food safety controls during bulk food preparation-an observational analysis by Hartantyo, Sri Harminda Pahm, Selvaraj, Renuka, Ho, Jiaying, Oh, Jia Quan, Er, Jun Cheng, Li, Angela, Aung, Kyaw Thu

“…Past infringements did not negatively impact the current execution of food safety measures nor the microbial quality of food. …”
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Acquiring cultural knowledge through passive exposure. by Lee, Sau-Lai.

“…Past research has shown that people register frequency of occurrence of events automatically and they have very accurate knowledge about the relative social distribution of knowledge in their own community. …”
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Fibre Bragg grating based system for real-time railway monitoring by Li Jing

“…Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensor technology has created considerable interest in both academic institutions and industrial sectors over the past few years. In particular, there are potentially huge benefits to transportation industry especially the railways. …”
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Average velocity of grains moving over a channel bed by Song, Chengwei

“…This report is aimed to study the velocities of different sizes particle grains in several channel conditions varied in flow volume, angles of the slopes. In the past century, there were many excellent and precise experiments around the relationship between shear velocity and grain velocity. …”
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Seeing god makes me feel immoral : the role of anthropomorphic god concepts in moral emotions by Yap, Yu Xiang

“…Past studies have shown that people have a tendency to imbue supernatural entities like God with human mental capacities such as intentions, emotions, goals, and desires. …”
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Self-harm-related mental imagery: a content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services by Susi, K, Stewart, A, Knowles Bevis, R, Hawton, K

“…All but one participant (98.2%) reported images related to self-harm, with 53 (96.4%) reporting future-oriented self-harm images, 53 (96.4%) reporting past-oriented images, and 52 (94.5%) reporting both. …”

Morocco’s shifting identity – Africa’s new kid on the block is making waves​ by Gopaldas, Ronak

“…Culturally it aligns more to the Middle East, while desirously identifying itself with Europe. …”
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[Maritime] The impact of port disruptions on supply chains by Lin, Jason Jiesheng.

“…A drastic contrast of the East Asian’s relatively conservative culture as to that of the West, it is unexpected but nevertheless explainable. …”
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Implementation of a novel distributed traffic light scheduling strategy in a large scale urban traffic network simulated by VISSIM by Yeo, Terence Zhen Hong

“…This report presents a large scale urban traffic simulation model that was based on Jurong East and Jurong West areas of the Jurong Lake District. …”
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Expression of self-assembly protein from egg capsules and bundling protein in pugilina cochlidium by Sim, Jing Wei

“…The Pugilina cochlidium can be found on the sea shores of South-East Asia. The marine snail lays a long string of egg capsules that developing embryos are held inside. …”
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Carlibration parameters of social force model (SFM) for customized personal mobility devices (PMD) by Yuan, Liqiang

“…Nowadays, PMDs (personal mobility device) are widely used in all over the world, especially in east Asia, as it is very eco-friendly and convenient for people to go to work or travel around the city. …”
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The internet in Indonesia : development and impact of radical websites by Yang, Jennifer Hui

“…It also highlights some characteristics of the radical websites, which serves to distinguish them from radical websites from elsewhere such as the Middle East.…”
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Current biosecurity education within the agribusiness sector and its implications by Shang, Lijun, Ibbotson, Olivia

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Sutton Hoo and Syria: the Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine Army? by Gittos, H

“…The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the most famous examples of a group of lavishly furnished graves of the late sixth and early seventh centuries in south-east England. The discovery in 2003 of another, at Prittlewell (in Southend, Essex), and its publication in 2019, has brought our knowledge of them into sharper focus. …”

Technology Factors, ERP System and Organization Performance in Developing Countries by Egdair, Ibrahim Mohammed Massoud, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal, S.R. Nadarajan, Santhirasegaran

“…This provides knowledge of their impact on ERP adoption and organizational performance, because it is considered a starting point for further studies in the Middle East and North Africa, especially in the context of Libya. …”
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Measurements of the Higgs boson production cross section and couplings in the W boson pair decay channel in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F. M., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Templ, S.

“…Candidate events are required to have at least two charged leptons and moderate missing transverse momentum, targeting events with at least one leptonically decaying W boson originating from the Higgs boson. …”
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Distributions for Compositionally Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities by Michel, Jesse, Mu, Kevin, Yang, Xuanda, Bangaru, Sai Praveen, Collins, Elias Rojas, Bernstein, Gilbert, Ragan-Kelley, Jonathan, Carbin, Michael, Li, Tzu-Mao

“…This is incorrect for <jats:italic>parametric discontinuities</jats:italic> —conditionals containing at least one real-valued parameter and at least one variable of integration. …”
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