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Tottenham show interest in £50m-rated Premier League winger

Tottenham Hotspur have joined a host of top clubs in the race for one of the Premier League’s most consistent attackers – Bryan Mbeumo. Brentford... The post Tottenham show interest in £50m-rated Premier League winger appeared first on Spurs Web.

Archdaily.com 

SJ House/ ME Arquitetura

CASA SJ was designed as a weekend country house. Built entirely out of concrete, the parti of a minimalist aesthetic was reinforced in the reduced palette of materials.

Plos.org 

Short-term forecasting of solar irradiance using decision tree-based models and non-parametric quantile regression

by Amon Masache, Precious Mdlongwa, Daniel Maposa, Caston Sigauke

The renewable energy industry requires accurate forecasts of intermittent solar irradiance (SI) to effectively manage solar power generation and supply. Introducing the random forests (RFs) model and its hybridisation with quantile regression modelling, the quantile regression random forest (QRRF), can help improve the forecasts’ accuracy. This paper assesses the RFs and QRRF models against the quantile generalised additive... Читать дальше...

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Happiness in US military veterans: Results from a nationally representative study

by Hun Kang, Ian C. Fischer, Peter J. Na, Robert H. Pietrzak

In line with the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ adoption of a Whole Health approach to healthcare, there has been growing interest in factors linked to veterans’ perceptions of well-being. To date, no known study has examined levels and correlates of perceived happiness in this population. To examine this question, we analyzed data from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 4,069 US military veterans. Читать дальше...

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ICRA: A study of highly accurate course recommendation models incorporating false review filtering and ERNIE 3.0

by Bing Li, Yuqi Hou, Jiangtao Dong, Biao Yang, Xile Wang

The rapid expansion of online education platforms has led to an influx of false reviews, complicating users’ ability to identify suitable courses promptly. Addressing these challenges, this paper introduces ICRA (Intelligent Course Review Analysis), a novel model that identifies and filters false reviews using a custom sentiment lexicon and a pre-trained ERNIE 3.0 model. ICRA enhances data quality by analyzing user reviews and course... Читать дальше...

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Effects of tattoos on the aesthetic appreciation of human stimuli as influenced by expertise, tattoo status, and age reflecting internalized social norms

by Selina M. Weiler, Christian Duer, Dustin Krämer, Thomas Jacobsen

Scientific interest in body modifications continues to grow, and tattoos have recently become a subject of empirical aesthetics. While conceptual structures of tattoo aesthetics have been studied, the question of how tattoos are aesthetically appreciated has not yet been studied. In this study, we examined how tattoos influence the aesthetic appreciation of human stimuli and uncovered differences in beauty perceived by individuals older and younger than 50... Читать дальше...

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Twin home birth: Outcomes of 100 sets of twins in the care of a single practitioner

by Stuart J. Fischbein, Rixa Freeze

Background

Research on community (home or birth center) twin birth is scarce. This study evaluates outcomes of twin pregnancies entering care with a single community practitioner.

Methods

This is a retrospective observational cohort study of 100 consecutive twin pregnancies planning community births during a 12-year period. Outcomes measured included mode of birth; birth weights; Apgar scores; ante-, intra-, and post-partum transports; perineal... Читать дальше...

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Widespread loss of safe lake ice access in response to a warming climate

by Joshua Culpepper, Lei Huang, R. Iestyn Woolway, Sapna Sharma

Millions of people rely on lake ice for safe winter recreation. Warming air temperatures impact the phenology (timing of formation and breakup) and quality (ratio of black to white ice) of lake ice cover, both critical components of ice safety. Later formation and earlier breakup of lake ice lead to overall shorter periods of use. However, greater proportions of white ice may further inhibit safe ice use owing to its lower weight-bearing capacity. Читать дальше...

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Quality of education, ageing and labor productivity

by Fange Meng, Xin Wen

With the decrease in fertility rate and the extension of life expectancy, China’s ageing degree is deepening, and there is a decrease in the number of labor force individuals, leading to an increase in the burden of old-age care and constraining economic growth. The improvement of human capital can promote economic growth. Research is rquired to determine whether factors such as the teacher-student ratio (quality of education) and the average number of years of schooling... Читать дальше...

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The influence of observation sequence features on the performance of the Bayesian hidden Markov model: A Monte Carlo simulation study

by Jan-Willem Simons, Bart-Jan Boverhof, Emmeke Aarts

The hidden Markov model is a popular modeling strategy for describing and explaining latent process dynamics. There is a lack of information on the estimation performance of the Bayesian hidden Markov model when applied to categorical, one-level data. We conducted a simulation study to assess the effect of the 1) number of observations (250—8.000), 2) number of levels in the categorical outcome variable (3—7), and 3) state distinctiveness... Читать дальше...

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Study on visual matching cognition of automobile interior and exterior

by Yingjie Huang, Bofan Zhang, Jiayu Liu

This work aims to study the visual matching cognition of people with different professional backgrounds for automobile interiors and exteriors, using gasoline-powered automobiles and electric automobiles as the research objects. First, three classes of automobiles, B-class, C-class, and sport-type class automobiles, of different brands, with large differences in styling and styles, were taken as the experimental sample sources, and high-definition... Читать дальше...