On 7 June 2024, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) introduced the new accredited official statistics badge, to denote official statistics that have been independently reviewed by the OSR.

Background Despite several intensive interventions, HIV remains a major public health challenge affecting many individuals worldwide and highlighting ongoing gaps in HIV testing. Objectives To assess ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. PAN Ding, Associate Professor from the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and Dr. LI Shuo-Hui, Research Assistant Professor from the Department of Physics at the Hong ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Introduction: Skin microecology significantly affects health, with the microbiome being a complex community of microorganisms. Different niche preferences of microorganisms raise concerns about the ...

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Abstract: Imbalanced data remains a challenge in classification research and significantly influences classifier performance. The strategy that is widely used to address this issue is the data-level ...

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