Objectives To develop predictive models for early and overall tuberculosis (TB) deaths for prospective use at TB diagnosis in resource-constrained TB programme settings. Design Statewide cohort study ...

Introduction To ensure financial protection (FP), a key component of achieving Universal Health Coverage, it is important to identify the most vulnerable populations to financial hardship; however, ...

Regulatory approval of the first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system provides patients an alternative to conventional transvenous pacemakers. The study objective was to quantify the preferences of ...

R2MLwiN is an R command interface to the MLwiN multilevel modelling software package, allowing users to fit multilevel models using MLwiN from within the R environment. R2MLwiN can also be used to run ...

Despite the importance of livelihood diversification as a transformation strategy in small-scale fisheries facing climate change, empirical evidence on this complex phenomenon is scarce. This work ...

Abstract: In spite of the dominant performances of deep neural networks, recent works have shown that they are poorly calibrated, resulting in over-confident predictions. Miscalibration can be ...

Improving farmers’ green production behavior can guarantee food safety at the source. In recent years, a rising number of studies have focused on food safety management and have provided general ...

Consider a bipartite network where N consumers choose to buy or not to buy M different products. This paper considers the properties of the logit fit of the N ×M array of “i-buys-j” purchase decisions ...

In ischemic stroke, baseline renal impairment is present in 20 to 35% of patients and may increase the risk of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI). We aimed to determine whether ...