Abstract Objective Exploring the predictive value of NLR, PLR, MLR, and SII for the severity of cervical cancer screening abnormalities in patients.Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the data of 324 patients suspected of cervical lesions due to abnormal Hookah TCT and/or HPV in our hospital from January 2023 to December 2023, who und
Identifying Collapsed Buildings Using Post-Earthquake Satellite Imagery and Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Earthquake is one of the most devastating natural disasters that threaten human life.It is vital to retrieve the building damage status for planning rescue and reconstruction after an earthquake.In cases when the number of completely collapsed buildings is far less than intact or less-affected buildings (e.g., the 2010 Haiti earthquake), it is diff
Considering sex and gender in Epidemiology: a challenge beyond terminology. From conceptual analysis to methodological strategies
Highlights A pragmatic individual measure of individual gender would correspond to the level at which an individual complies with a set of elements constituting femininity or masculinity in a given population, place and time Comparing outcomes by sex and Spin Bike Pedals gender is not sufficient, and even misleading, to understand the mechanisms un
The Role of Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference Based on Independence of Cause and Mechanism
Causal inference methods based on conditional independence construct Markov equivalent graphs and cannot be applied to bivariate cases.The approaches based on independence of cause and mechanism state, on the contrary, that causal discovery can be inferred for two observations.In our Lemon Balm contribution, we pose a challenge to reconcile these t
Media Framing of Pandemics: A Case Study of the Coverage of COVID-19 in Elite Newspapers of Pakistan
Considering the outbreak of Corona pandemic as a case study the article explores the dominant frames used in the coverage of COVID-19 pandemic by the Pakistani English e papers.The media framing is analyzed through qualitative inductive content analysis of the COVID-19 related Avocado news stories published in the e papers of Dawn and Express Tribu