A Multi-Target Threat Assessment Method Based on Objective Three-Way Decision by Humberto Baldessarini Pires, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimaraes, Sergio Reboucas

“…An objective analysis of attribute uncertainties revealed that the compared methods applied overly high-risk avoidance coefficients, leading to inaccurate decisions, a finding also supported by the second case. …”
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Comparative reducing and carbohydrate enzyme inhibitory activities of the root, leaf, and seed of Picralima nitida by Erwin Osiele Onyekachukwu, Aishat Mary Osagie, Sylvia Oghogho Omage, Kingsley Omage, Marshall Arebojie Azeke

“…Purpose: In this study, the antioxidant and total reducing power, as well as the carbohydrate hydrolysing enzymes’ inhibition potentials of the root, leaf, and seed of P. nitida were compared. Methods: The antioxidant reducing power of P. nitida as well as its ability to inhibit selected enzymes of carbohydrate hydrolysis were evaluated using standard experimental methods. …”
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Zero-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification Based on Automatic Knowledge Graph and Dual-Branch Semantic Correlation Supervision by Chao Wang, Jiajun Yang, Tanvir Ahmed, Yang Zhao, Tong Zhang, Bing Sun, Tao Xie, Jie Wang, Tianyu Chen

“…Extensive experiments on the UCM, AID, and NWPU datasets demonstrate that AKG-DBSS achieves class average accuracy and overall accuracy of up to 98%, and 59.56%, respectively, for the classification of unseen class scenes, with standard deviations below 6.91%, significantly outperforming four other advanced comparative methods. Furthermore, additional experiments prove that ASLG-KG and DBSS are feasible, necessary, and effective, with an accuracy improvement in overall accuracy of over 8.98%.…”
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Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries and Their Effects on Perioperative Parameters and Mortality of Children with Tetralogy of Fallot: A Case-control Study by Mohammadreza Edraki, Amir Naghshzan, Hamid Amoozgar, Kambiz Keshavarz, Nima Mehdizadegan, Hamid Mohammadi

“…Besides, perioperative parameters and mortality rates of our TOF patients with and without MAPCA were compared. Methods: This retrospective case-control study was conducted from 2011 to 2020 at Namazi and Shahid Faghihi Hospitals, affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. …”
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RBMDC-Net: Effective Jaw Cyst Segmentation Network Using Residual Bottleneck and Multiscale Dilated Convolution by Huixia Zheng, Xiaoliang Jiang, Xu Xu, Zhenfei Yuan

“…The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed RBMDC-Net significantly outperforms other comparable methods in the task of image segmentation. Specifically, when applied to the original jaw cyst dataset, RBMDC-Net achieved F1 of 93.13%, Mcc of 93.08% and Jaccard of 87.17%. …”
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Cultivation of Siberian Motherwort Plants (<i>Leonurus sibiricus</i> L.) in In Vitro Culture by Anna Figas, Magdalena Tomaszewska-Sowa, Zofia Gruszka

“…The aim of this study was to compare methods of sterilization of seeds, which served as a source of initial explants to induce in vitro culture and to multiply shoots from explants isolated from them. …”
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Health Economic Evaluation of Patients With Colorectal Liver Metastases Randomized to ALPPS or TSH: Analysis From the LIGRO Trial by Kristina Hasselgren, MD, PhD, Martin Henriksson, PhD, Bård I. Røsok, MD, PhD, Peter N. Larsen, MD, PhD, Ernesto Sparrelid, MD, PhD, Gert Lindell, MD, PhD, Nicolai A. Schultz, MD, PhD, Bjorn A. Bjørnbeth, MD, PhD, Bengt Isaksson, MD, PhD, Magnus Rizell, MD, PhD, Anna Lindhoff Larsson, RN, Per Sandström, MD, PhD, Bergthor Björnsson, MD, PhD

“…The health care costs and health outcomes, combining health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and survival into quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), of ALPPS and TSH have not previously been evaluated and compared. Methods:. Costs and QALYs were compared from treatment start up to 2 years. …”
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Multi-task aquatic toxicity prediction model based on multi-level features fusion by Xin Yang, Jianqiang Sun, Bingyu Jin, Yuer Lu, Jinyan Cheng, Jiaju Jiang, Qi Zhao, Jianwei Shuai

“…Furthermore, in comparison with previous algorithms, ATFPGT-multi outperforms comparative methods, emphasizing that our approach exhibits higher accuracy and reliability in predicting aquatic toxicity. …”
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Evolocumab safety and efficacy in hypercholesteremia patients with or without diabetes: a retrospective real-world analysis by Sultan Ibrahim Alraddadi, Hind Almodaimegh, Abdullah Kharbosh, Hadeel Alharbi, Ahmed Ibrahim Fathelrahman, Mona Yaser Alsheikh, Lama Alfehaid

“…Data analysis included descriptive and comparative methods, with significance set at p < 0.05. …”
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Comparison of two in vitro methods progressed in a computer-controlled simulated digestion system to determine amino acid digestibility of feed ingredients for yellow-feathered roo... by Yao Yu, Yuming Wang, Kaijing Ge, Jiang Chen, Jingjing Xie, Yi Zou, Songbai Liu, Huize Tan, Feng Zhao

“…The relative deviation was within 5% comparing methods 1, 2 and in vivo method for 87.5% and 92.0% of all AA digestibility measured of 7 samples, respectively. …”
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A prospective multi-site study to evaluate the performance and usability of an oral fluid-based HIV self-test in Canada by Richard A. Galli, Darshanand Maraj, Kristin McBain, Jason M. Lo Hog Tian, Abbey McFarland, Wangari Tharao, Nontobeko P. Nkala, Arlene Chan, Mark da Silva, Rejean Thomas, Anne-Fanny Vassal, Martin Lepage, Laurie Ireland, Mike Payne, Jared Starr, Chris Fraser, Marion Selfridge, Mona Loutfy, Roberta Halpenny, Nirubini Jeyarajah, Vanessa Tran, Tony Mazzulli, Sean B. Rourke

“…Primary efficacy analysis on the 911 who completed HIV-ST revealed a single confirmed positive participant and a negative percent agreement of 100% (880/880, 95% CI: 99.9–100%) with the comparator method. For usability determination, the average success rate for “critical” steps for completing the test was 94.1%. …”
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