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Measuring financial sector efficiency in China: A study based on an enhanced neoclassical production function
This paper develops an approach for quantitatively assessing financial sector efficiency of a nation (hereinafter referred to as financial efficiency). Drawing upon the principles of general equilibri...
The short-term economic influence analysis of government regulation on railway freight transport in continuous time
Regulatory impact analysis, a crucial aspect of the development of railway transportation in China, has faced increasing challenges due to the complex nature of the transportation system and various i...
Holt-Laury as a gumball machine
The Holt and Laury [1] task is arguably the most widely employed method for eliciting individual risk attitudes in economics. However, although around 15% of standard experimental subjects fail to com...
Prevalence of HIV and willingness to uptake preventive services among female sex workers in Kano State, Nigeria
Background HIV remains a critical global health issue, significantly affecting key populations, particularly female sex workers who face socio-economic hardships amidst limited healthcare access and h...
Spatio-temporal dynamics of urban medical system carrying capacity and their obstacle factors: A case study of Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration
The frequent occurrence of various urban disasters poses risks to human survival and welfare, and it is of great significance to evaluate the urban medical system carrying capacity (UMSCC), monitor th...
The potential of evaluating shape drawing using machine learning for predicting high autistic traits
Background Children with high autistic traits often exhibit deficits in drawing, an important skill for social adaptability. Machine learning is a powerful technique for learning predictive models fro...
Retraction: Deep learning in public health: Comparative predictive models for COVID-19 case forecasting
CoHet4Rec: A recommendation for collaborative heterogeneous information networks
Recommender Systems (RS) aim to predict users’ latent interests in items by learning embeddings from user-item graphs. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced RS by enabling the embed...
Barriers and limitations to the development of a telemental health service for workers in Peru- A user-centered approach
Introduction Over the past decade, the surge in digital healthcare services has transformed traditional healthcare, requiring multidisciplinary engagement to adapt to the digital realm. The rise of te...
When all is unequal, the rich get dominant: Inequality leads to expectations of dominant leadership among those high in SES
People of higher SES have been found to behave more dominantly than people of lower SES. We tested the hypothesis that this difference is exacerbated under conditions of high economic inequality, when...
Retraction: Harnessing the power of AI: Advanced deep learning models optimization for accurate SARS-CoV-2 forecasting
Retraction: Applying Internet information technology combined with deep learning to tourism collaborative recommendation system
Gender and medication use in Turkey: Evidence from a general population survey
Gender differences in health behaviors and outcomes were commonly documented by researchers. The focus of this study was the analysis of gender differences in medication use for a general population i...
Retraction: Ecopolitical discourse: Authoritarianism or democracy? — Evidence from China
Multiplexed cytokine profiling identifies diagnostic signatures for latent tuberculosis and reactivation risk stratification
Active tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria and is characterized by multiple phases of infection, leading to difficulty in diagnosing and treating infected individu...
Estimation of the prevalence of substance use by wastewater-based epidemiology study in four cities of Guangdong, China
Introduction The widespread use of illegal drugs and their associated problems have emerged as a significant public health concern. This study was conducted to estimate the consumption and prevalence...
Psychometric validation of the Hospital Stress Questionnaire
Background Psychological stress experienced by inpatients has been shown to be associated with poorer post-hospital outcomes. Research that explores and intervenes to address in-hospital stress and am...
Retraction: Single image super-resolution via image quality assessment-guided deep learning network
Investigating influential factors through crash frequency models considering excess zeros and heterogeneity: New insights into mountain freeway safety
The use of statistical modeling methods to quantify crash causation on mountain freeways is limited by crash data availability and technical challenges posed by excess zeros and heterogeneity, resulti...
Phase I study on the pharmacokinetics of intravaginal, self-administered artesunate vaginal pessaries among women in Kenya
Cervical cancer remains a significant global health issue, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to prevention and treatment is limited and women are at a higher risk of...
Effectiveness and satisfaction of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children on anxiety, depression, and internet addiction in adolescents: Study protocol for a randomized control trial
Adolescents with Internet addiction (IA) frequently encounter elevated levels of anxiety and depression, which subsequently results in the perpetuation of their addiction behaviors. Mindfulness-based...
Causal mediation analysis for time-to-event outcomes on the Restricted Mean Survival Time scale: A pseudo-value approach
Causal mediation analysis decomposes the total effect of an exposure on an outcome into: 1. the indirect effect through a mediator and 2. the remaining “direct" effect through all other pathways. When...
Retraction: Simulation and prediction of geologic hazards and the impacts on homestay buildings in scenery spots through BIM
Watching sports and happiness among older adults in Japan: The JAGES cohort study
Objective While watching sports may enhance older adults’ happiness, the relationship between sports spectatorship and happiness may vary depending on on-site or TV/Internet. This study examined assoc...
Energy aware stable path ad hoc on-demand distance vector algorithm for extending network lifetime of mobile ad hoc networks
Traditional routing protocols in MANETs, such as AODV, do not take energy consumption into account, which leads to inefficient utilization of the limited battery resources. In such networks, nodes dep...