Ono Academic College

Enhancing short-term predictions of mortality risk for liver transplant candidates through random survival forests

MELD-based scores do not fully account for systemic and metabolic risk in liver transplant candidates, with notable gaps for those with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). In this retrospective, outcome-anchored, single-center proof-of-concept study,...

Individualized Prediction of Recurrence Following Uterine-Preserving Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair Using Internally Validated Machine Learning Models

Background/Objectives: Approximately 11–20% of women affected by pelvic organ prolapse (POP) will undergo surgical intervention during their lifetime and nearly one-third of these women will require an additional procedure due to recurrence or failure of the initial repair. This...

The dynamics of ‘limited hybridity’ in migration: the case of Zera Beta Israel from Ethiopia

This article develops the concept of limited hybridity to analyze how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes. Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic research (2005–2011; 2021–2023), it traces their journeys from Ethiopian villages...