Small-island interactions: pottery from Roman Malta by Anastasi, M

“…The opportunity to quantify identifiable imports and compare them with local products—the first of its kind for fine, cooking and coarse wares—provided valuable proxy data for comparing Malta with neighbouring islands and centres, and demonstrated what proportion of ceramic vessels were locally supplied, and how these changed over time. …”

Meta-reinforcement learning in quantitative trading by Wong, Wei Jie

“…One technique used together with reinforcement learning to train an agent to adapt to new variations of tasks is deep meta-reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) (Wang, et al., 2017). …”
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Meta-cognitive learning algorithm for neuro-fuzzy inference systems by Kartick Subramanian

“…The statistical performance study clearly indicates the emotion recognition ability of McFIS based classifier over other results reported in the literature. In the future, meta-cognitive learning mechanism will be extended to Type-2 neuro-fuzzy inference systems. …”
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MISE: meta-knowledge inheritance for social media-based stressor estimation by Wang, X, Feng, L, Zhang, H, Cao, L, Zeng, K, Li, Q, Ding, Y, Dai, Y, Clifton, D

“…To this end, we cast the stressor estimation problem within a practical scenario few-shot learning setting, and propose a novel meta-learning based stressor estimation framework that is enhanced by a meta-knowledge inheritance mechanism. …”

Quantitative Oculomotor and Vestibular Profile in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 – Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Tarnutzer, AA, Garces, P, Antoniades, CA

Enteral and parenteral nutrition in patients with cancer: complication rates compared—updated systematic review and meta-analysis by Chow, R, Im, JHB, Arends, J, Del Fabbro, E, Mortensen-Truscott, L, Qeska, D, Balaji, S, Walsh, C, Watson, G, Lock, M, Prsic, E, Eng, L, Zimmermann, C, Bruera, E

“…Among children, there were no differences in all four endpoints. On cumulative meta-analysis, EN was overall marginally superior to PN for infection, although results fluctuated over time between superiority and no difference. …”

An update of a systematic review and meta-analyses exploring flavours in intervention studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Livingstone-Banks, J, Butler, A, Levy, D, Barnett, P, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, N, Chen, Y, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Subgroup meta-analyses showed no clear associations between e-liquid flavours provided and smoking cessation or study product use. …”

Meta-analysis indicates better climate adaptation and mitigation performance of hybrid engineering-natural coastal defence measures by Huynh, Lam Thi Mai, Su, Jie, Wang, Quanli, Stringer, Lindsay C., Switzer, Adam D., Gasparatos, Alexandros

“…All coastal defence measures have a positive economic return over a 20-year period. Mindful of risk context, our results provide strong an evidence-base for integrating and upscaling nature-based components into coastal defences in lower risk areas.…”
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Health professions digital education on antibiotic management : systematic review and meta-analysis by the Digital Health Education Collaboration by Kyaw, Bhone Myint, Tudor Car, Lorainne, van Galen, Louise Sandra, van Agtmael, Michiel A., Costelloe, Céire E., Ajuebor, Onyema, Campbell, James, Car, Josip

“…We also searched the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform Search Portal and metaRegister of Controlled Trials to identify unpublished trials and checked the reference lists of included studies and relevant systematic reviews for study eligibility. …”
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Association between COVID-19 infection and new-onset dementia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shan, D, Wang, C, Crawford, T, Holland, C

“…Across a median observation period of 12 months post-COVID, the overall incidence of NOD was about 1.82% in the COVID-infected group, compared to 0.35% in the non-COVID-infected group. The overall pooled meta-analysis showed a significantly increased NOD risk among COVID-19 older adult survivors compared to non-COVID-19 controls (RR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.21–2.08). …”

"Meta-atomless" architecture based on an irregular continuous fabric of coupling-tuned identical nanopillars enables highly efficient and achromatic metasurfaces by Yaǧcl, H. Bilge, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…However, to date, a pending and fundamental problem of this approach has been the low device efficiency that such resulting metasurface components suffer, an unwanted side effect of large lattice constants that are used for preventing intercoupling of their meta-atoms. Although the use of near-field coupling for tuning electromagnetic resonances found its use in constructing efficient narrow-band designs, such structures fell short of providing high efficiency over a broad spectrum. …”
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Effective dietary interventions during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavior change techniques to promote healthy eating by O’Connor, H, Meloncelli, N, Wilkinson, SA, Scott, AM, Vincze, L, Rushton, A, Dawson, S, Hollis, J, Whiteoak, B, Gauci, S, de Jersey, S

“…Six databases were searched to identify randomised control trials (RCTs) reporting on dietary intake in pregnant women over the age of sixteen, with an active intervention group compared to a control group receiving usual care or less intensive interventions. …”

Longitudinal patterns in smoking abstinence in trials of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: secondary analysis of data from a systematic review, with meta-analyses by Hartmann-Boyce, J, Chan, J, Zhitnik, E, Pesola, F, Hajek, P, Lindson, N

“…Absolute continuous abstinence rates tended to decline over time, but varying slopes. For absolute point prevalence abstinence, three studies demonstrated a shallow decline over time, two a steep decline, and three the opposite—an increase in abstinence over time. …”

Do dual-mobility cups reduce revision risk in femoral neck fractures compared with conventional tha designs? An international meta-analysis of arthroplasty registries by Farey, JE, Masters, J, Cuthbert, AR, Iversen, P, van Steenbergen, LN, Prentice, HA, Adie, S, Sayers, A, Whitehouse, MR, Paxton, EW, Costa, ML, Overgaard, S, Rogmark, C, Rolfson, O, Harris, IA

“…We did not demonstrate a lower risk of all-cause revision for patients receiving dual-mobility over conventional THA designs for hip fracture in the meta-analysis once between-registry differences were adjusted for (HR 0.96 [95% CI 0.86 to 1.06]). …”

Community responses to a novel house design: A qualitative study of “Star Homes” in Mtwara, southeastern Tanzania by Mshamu, S, Meta, J, Adhikari, B, Halifa, S, Mmbando, A, Wood, HS, Wood, OS, Bøjstrup, TC, Day, NPJ, Lindsay, SW, Knudsen, J, Deen, J, Seidlein, LV, Pell, C

Wideband circularly polarized metasurface backed aperture antenna by Agarwal, Kush

“…The measured results of the octagonal-aperture antenna prototype over the single layered meta-surface are 26.7 % (5.30-6.90 GHz) for 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth and 36.2% (4.97-7.14 GHz) for VSWR<2 impedance bandwidth. …”
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Exploring Greek-Cypriot female academics' experiences of precarity through a postcolonial lens: challenges, hopes and the reality of neoliberal universities in Europe by Meletiadou, Eleni

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Adverse health events associated with antipsychotic use: an umbrella review by Chow, RTS

“…The methodological quality of included meta-analyses was assessed with the AMSTAR 2 tool.…”

Electricity load forecasting for smart home by Lin, James Rizhong

“…Due to expanding global human population, the demand for electricity is ever increasing. Energy is difficult and expensive to store in bulk, so to ensure the demand can be met by energy suppliers, it is important to be able to forecast electricity load with high accuracy. …”
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Self-reported weight changes in 1st year university students in England: an analysis of social and physical environment by Vadeboncoeur, C

“…</p> <p>Results: The meta-analysis and literature review indicated that 60% of FYUS gained weight with an average gain of 3.38kg over 7-8 months. …”