Over the past few decades, we have seen an increase in the popularity of organised sports among youth, especially gymnastics. Along with this increase in the popularity of organised sports, sports ...

The R package rcssci offers an intuitive solution for visualizing Restricted Cubic Splines (RCS) in regression analyses. It automates the generation of spline plots for outcomes like odds ratios (OR), ...

Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

Researchers from the University of Campinas (Campinas, Brazil) and the Waters Research Center (Budapest, Hungary) introduced ...

This research highlights the association between AMY1 gene copy number and salivary enzyme activity, with implications for ...

Introduction Previous interactive education interventions for child injury prevention are suboptimal for implementation in rural areas. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a standardised ...

A pre-planned secondary analysis was performed in which the primary outcome was the dependent variable and treatment allocation, centre, type of surgery and age were included as covariates in a ...

This study investigates the relationship between price negotiation and the performance of public health facilities in Homa Bay County, Kenya. Price negotiation plays a pivotal role in the ...

Objective This study aimed to assess the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalisation costs and its associated factors on Nepalese households during the second wave of the pandemic, within the ...

In this article, switching model predictive control (MPC) is proposed for a perturbed max-plus linear system with a reference signal. The lack of stability guarantee for MPC brings difficulties in ...

This study aimed to explore the impact of digital transformation on the innovation ability of enterprises to help enterprises improve their innovation capabilities in digital transformation. Using an ...

Objective Long-term azithromycin treatment effectively prevents acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, patients would benefit from better identification of ...