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An essential role of the FAMOS international cooperation project is to obtain new marine gravity observations over the Baltic Sea for improving gravimetric geoid modelling. To... -
Pricing methods in outcome-based contracting: δ2: Willingness-to-pay-based pr...
Aims: Six Delta is a six-dimensional independent platform for outcome-based pricing/contracting. The second dimension (δ2) estimates prices on the basis of four... -
Burden Sharing in CSDP Military Operations
Military burden sharing has been a subject of repeated debates in NATO and the UN. Despite more modest goals, the European Union’s (EU) Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP)... -
Multirater Validation of Peripapillary Hyperreflective Ovoid Mass-like Struct...
Peripapillary hyperreflective ovoid mass-like structures (PHOMS) are a new retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding. The Optic Disc Drusen Studies Consortium had made... -
Multiple regression model averaging and the focused information criterion wit...
We consider multiple regression (MR) model averaging using the Focused Informati on Criterion (FIC). Our approach is motivated by the problem of implementing a mean-variance... -
Proof of concept study for paper discrimination and age estimation through it...
This study proposed a proof-of-concept methodology for the investigation of paper samples by utilizing ATR-FTIR spectroscopy supported by chemometric methods. An attempt on the... -
An appraisal of pivotal evaluation designs in validating noninvasive biomarke...
An appraisal of pivotal evaluation designs in validating noninvasive biomarkers for head and neck cancer detection -
Statistical considerations for medication adherence research
OBJECTIVE Medication non-adherence is a widespread problem and has been known to be associated with worse health outcomes and increased healthcare costs. Although many measures... -
Testing for correlation between two time series using a parametric bootstrap
We study the problem of determining if two time series are correlated in the mean and variance. Several test statistics, originally designed for determining the correlation... -
Handgrip strength improves prediction of type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohor...
We aimed to determine whether handgrip strength (HGS)improves type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk prediction beyond conventional risk factors. Handgrip strength was assessed at baseline... -
Association of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate exposure with chronic kidney dis...
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-based regimens have been associated with impaired kidney function and loss of bone mineral density among patients living with HIV (PLWH). We... -
Knowledge and awareness toward menopause and hormone therapy among premenopau...
Menopause is a natural important transition in women’s life. Having adequate knowledge and perception about menopause at a young age is critical for women to cope better with... -
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This paper shows that the level of municipal transparency influences the level of efficiency, which is measured by parametric and non-parametric techniques. More concretely, the... -
E-waste legislation in the US: An analysis of the disparate design and result...
Electronic waste management in the US has been characterized as ‘inconsistent’, ‘disparate’, and a ‘patchwork’. While there is currently no federal leadership on the regulation... -
Renal complications in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Emerging data suggest that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has extrapulmonary manifestations but its renal manifestations are not clearly defined. We aimed to evaluate renal... -
Reliability analysis of multicomponent stress–strength reliability from a bat...
In this paper, inference for a multicomponent stress–strength model is studied. When latent strength and stress random variables follow a bathtub-shaped distribution and the... -
Vehicle safety characteristics in vulnerable driver populations
National data suggest drivers who are younger, older, and have lower socioeconomic status (SES) have heightened crash-related injury rates. Ensuring vulnerable drivers are in... -
Financial and risk management in agricultural cooperatives with application t...
This paper studies the financial and risk management specific to agricultural cooperatives (co-ops). In order to acquire the necessary risk capital to implement competitive... -
Association between cotinine-verified smoking status and hypertension in 167,...
Purpose: Previous studies showed inconsistent results concerning the relationship between chronic smoking and blood pressure. Most of the studies involved self-reported smoking... -
Age at puberty and accelerometer-measured physical activity: Findings from tw...
It is unclear if puberty timing influences future physical activity (PA). To investigate the association of puberty timing with PA across adolescence and adulthood. Data were...
