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Predicting hospital admissions from individual patient data (IPD): an applied example to explore key elements driving external validity

Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Kym I E Snell, Joerg J Meerpohl et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045572

The epidemiology of theileriosis in Africa

R. A. I. Norval, Brian D. Perry, Alan S. Young • CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (1992)

The title of this book does not adequately reflect the comprehensive treatment of a complex and important parasitic disease of domestic cattle. Despite the passing of 100 years, East Coast fever (ECF) remains an economically and environment...

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Epidemiology: An introduction

Kenneth Jay Rothman (2016)

1. Introduction to Epidemiologic Thinking 2. Pioneers in Epidemiology and Public Health 3. What is Causation? 4. Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects 5. Types of Epidemiologic Studies 6. Infectious Disease Epidemiology 7. Dealing...

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The M235T polymorphism in the angiotensinogen gene is not a major risk factor for diabetic nephropathy; a meta-analysis

Bhuneshwar Sahu, Shashikant Swarnakar, Henu Kumar Verma, Thavanati Parvathi Kumara Reddy et al. • Journal of Preventive Epidemiology (2022)

Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease in diabetes patients. The angiotensin AGT M235T gene polymorphism, which is linked to the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), has been extensive...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.34172/jpe.2022.15

Associations of carotid flow velocity with cerebral perfusion and cerebral small vessel disease: a community-based prospective study

Peipei Yang, Xiaoshuai Li, Yuqing Huang, Xinyu Zhao et al. • European Journal of Medical Research (2025)

Abstract Objectives To explore the associations of carotid artery hemodynamic parameters with cerebral perfusion and cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) in a healthy population. Methods A total of 654 participants from the Kailuan communit...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40001-025-03238-3

Metabolic perturbations underlying the associations of endocrine-disrupting chemical mixtures with muscle mass and strength in adults: A repeated-measures study

Kun Huang, Shuoshuo Hu, Yilin Zhou, Qingqing Cao et al. • Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (2025)

Introduction: Adult exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may reduce muscle mass and strength; however, few studies considered EDC mixtures and their potential mechanisms. Objectives: We aimed to explore associations of EDC mixt...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2025.08.019

Impact of early life exposure to heat and cold on linguistic development in two-year-old children: findings from the ELFE cohort study

Guillaume Barbalat, Ariane Guilbert, Lucie Adelaïde, Marie-Aline Charles et al. • Environmental Health (2025)

Abstract Background A number of negative developmental outcomes in response to extreme temperature have been documented. Yet, to our knowledge, environmental research has left the question of the effect of temperature on human neurodevelopm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12940-025-01173-8

Estimates for Lyme borreliosis infections based on models using sentinel canine and human seroprevalence data

Michael J. Cook, Basant K. Puri • Infectious Disease Modelling (2020)

Two models were developed to estimate Lyme borreliosis (LB) cases. One was based on the seroprevalence of Borrelia infections in human samples. This model used corrections for false negative and false positive results from published test se...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2020.10.004

I Can See It in Your Eyes: Gaze as an Implicit Cue of Uncanniness and Task Performance in Repeated Interactions With Robots

Giulia Perugia, Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Madelene Alanenpää, Ginevra Castellano • Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021)

Over the past years, extensive research has been dedicated to developing robust platforms and data-driven dialog models to support long-term human-robot interactions. However, little is known about how people's perception of robots and enga...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.645956

Marine Robots Mapping the Present and the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of the Deep

Nadir Kapetanović, Antonio Vasilijević, Đula Nađ, Krunoslav Zubčić et al. • Remote Sensing (2020)

Underwater cultural heritage sites are subject to constant change, whether due to natural forces such as sediments, waves, currents or human intervention. Until a few decades ago, the documentation and research of these sites was mostly don...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs12233902

LPMP: A Bio-Inspired Model for Visual Localization in Challenging Environments

Sylvain Colomer, Sylvain Colomer, Nicolas Cuperlier, Guillaume Bresson et al. • Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2022)

Autonomous vehicles require precise and reliable self-localization to cope with dynamic environments. The field of visual place recognition (VPR) aims to solve this challenge by relying on the visual modality to recognize a place despite ch...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.703811

Comparative Analysis of Deep Natural Networks and Large Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Nimra Mughal, Ghulam Mujtaba, Sarang Shaikh, Aveenash Kumar et al. • IEEE Access (2024)

Sentiment analysis is essential for comprehending public opinion, particularly when considering e-commerce and the expansion of online businesses. Early approaches treated sentiment analysis as a document or sentence-level classification pr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3386969

Developmental Robotics

Angelo Cangelosi, Matthew Schlesinger • The MIT Press eBooks (2015)

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's cognitive development. Developmental robotics is a collaborative and in...

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Optimizing Post-Curing Protocols for 3D-Printed Dental Models: A Long-Term Evaluation of Mechanical and Physical Properties

Irina Besliu Bancescu, Roxana Gheorghita, Alexandru Nemtoi • Engineering Proceedings (2026)

This study evaluated the influence of post-polymerization duration and a 14-day aging period on the mechanical and physical properties of 3D-printed standard resin models. Methods: Specimens were printed using Anycubic resin (50 µm layers) ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/engproc2026148002

Interaction with LLM-Based Systems: A Structured Review and Taxonomy of Mechanisms and Autonomy

Dino Nejašmić, Saša Mladenović, Andrina Granić • Applied Sciences (2026)

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into interactive systems across domains such as software development, robotics, and education. As these systems evolve from simple chat interfaces to autonomous, tool-using agents, th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app16105001

Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities

Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti • Science Robotics (2016)

The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such achievements are reviewed here in terms of the abilitie...

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Generalized Task‐Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced‐Order Finite Element Method‐Based Surrogate Modeling

Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino • Advanced Intelligent Systems (2026)

Task‐driven design of soft robots requires models that are physically accurate and computationally efficient, while remaining transferable across actuator designs and task scenarios. However, existing modeling approaches typically face a fu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/aisy.70406

A Novel Passive Implantable Differential Mechanism to Restore Individuated Finger Flexion during Grasping following Tendon Transfer Surgery: A Pilot Study

Suraj Chakravarthi Raja, Won Suk You, Kian Jalaleddini, Justin C. Casebier et al. • Applied Sciences (2023)

Tendon transfer surgery is often used to restore hand grasp function following high median-ulnar nerve palsy. This surgery typically reroutes and sutures the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) muscle to all four flexor digi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app13095804