Background Adults with Tourette syndrome (ATS) face increased risks of self-injury behaviours (SIBs) and suicidality, yet research has largely focused on biological factors. Despite stigma being a ...

ABSTRACT: This article has two objectives. The first is to develop an R script that performs Mardia’s K2 test for assessing multivariate normality (MVN), using both its original asymptotic formulation ...

Virtues such as compassion, patience and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according to new research my team and I published in the Journal of Personality in ...

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a classical algorithm for random sampling of permutations, drawing inspiration from the Steinhaus-Johnson-Trotter algorithm. Our approach takes a comprehensive ...

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the primary cause of cervical cancer, and HPV self-sampling has emerged as a novel screening method with the potential to increase screening ...

Abstract: Exploratory Landscape Analysis characterizes fitness landscapes of various optimization problems to categorize them and reveal relationships with different metaheuristic algorithms. It uses ...

There are many methods available to fit random-effects meta-analysis. However, until 2024, the only option available in RevMan has been the DerSimonian and Laird random-effects method. This method is ...

Methods and procedures for measuring greenhouse gases vary in different aspects, which could dictate most of the decisions. Even within the same context of measurements, there are different techniques ...

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have gained great attention in adversarial purification. Current diffusion-based works focus on designing effective condition-guided mechanisms while ...

TITLE: Barriers to Utilization of Modern Contraceptive Methods Used by Females Aged 15 - 24 Years: A Case Study of Moyo District in Uganda ...