Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

Abstract: With the preferable efficiency in storage and computation, hashing has shown potential application in large-scale multimedia retrieval. Compared with traditional hashing algorithms using ...

Non-probability sampling design can be used in ethnobotanical surveys of medicinal plants. However, this method does not allow statistical inferences to be made from the data generated. The aim of ...

ABSTRACT: The study investigated the influence of corporate governance (CG), including board independence, size, and diversity, on market power, with a focus on the mediating role of corporate social ...

Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...

ABSTRACT: Numerous developing nations are grappling with high unemployment rates, as exemplified by South Africa’s 32.1% unemployment rate. This has resulted in a surge in youth unemployment, with ...

The WeightedRandomItemSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, with replacement allowed between samples. In other words, an ...

Researchers are struggling with the challenge of causal discovery in heterogeneous time-series data, where a single causal model cannot capture diverse causal mechanisms. Traditional methods for ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Introduction: The global prevalence of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is about 25% worldwide making it an actual health disaster. This study aimed to assess non-alcoholic fatty liver ...