Relative Performance of Model Selection Criteria for Cox Proportional Hazards Regression Based on Kullback’s Symmetric Divergence by Clarisse Houénafa Dete, Bruno Enagnon Lokonon, Kossi Essona Gneyou, Marcel Senou, Romain Glèlè Kakaï

“…For this purpose, we compared the Kullback information criterion (KIC) and the corrected KICKICc with other information criteria such as the Akaike information criterion AIC, corrected AICAICc, and Bayesian information criterion BIC using a Monte Carlo experiment. Simulations were run using scenarios resulting from the combination of sample size n=30,50,100,200,300, censoring percentage C=5%,10%,15%,20%,25%,and 30%, and censoring distribution (uniform or exponential). …”
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Understanding barriers and facilitators to non-pharmaceutical chronic pain research engagement among people living with chronic pain in the UK: a two-phase mixed-methods approach by Daniel Baker, Kirralise Hansford, Anna E Crossland, Catherine Preston, Kirsten J McKenzie

“…Online focus groups were run in phase 1, generating qualitative data, while phase 2 used the themes identified within phase 1 to assess agreement and disagreement.Setting Participants consisted of people with chronic pain across the UK.Participants 36 participants with chronic pain conditions (defined as any pain lasting or recurring for more than 3 months) were recruited for phase 1. …”
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Impacts of climate change on the suitable habitat of Angelica sinensis and analysis of its drivers in China by Shaoyang Xi, Xudong Guo, Xiaohui Ma, Ling Jin

“…The optimal model exhibited a pROC value of 0, an OR of 0.0196, and an AICc score of 9,287.133. The model, run ten times for robustness, showed an average AUC of 0.980, indicating high accuracy and reliability. …”
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Computer-aided diagnosis of hepatic cystic echinococcosis based on deep transfer learning features from ultrasound images by Miao Wu, Chuanbo Yan, Gan Sen

“…The experiments followed 10 runs of the five-fold cross-validation process on a total of 1820 ultrasound images and the results were compared using Wilcoxon signed-rank test. …”
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Phase-transition-induced Collapse of Proto-compact Stars and Its Implication for Supernova Explosions by Xu-Run Huang, Shuai Zha, Ming-chung Chu, Evan P. O’Connor, Lie-Wen Chen

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Study on Key Influencing Factors of Carbon Emissions from Farmland Resource Utilization in Northeast China Under the Background of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction by Mulin Sun, Yuhao Fu, Mingyao Sun, Run Huang, Yun Teng

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Cancer odds among Ohio firefighters: data from the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System (OCISS) 1996–2019 by Robert Hood, Olorunfemi Adetona, Susan Elizabeth Olivo-Marston, Shashank Singh

“…Logistic regression models were run to calculate ORs to determine the odds of being a firefighter compared with police or the general population across different cancer types. …”
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Breathing time: a longue-durée multidisciplinary study of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases in Switzerland (16th–21st century CE) by Tobias Hofstetter, Aude Fauvel, Silke Grabherr, Negahnaz Moghaddam

“…This research is the first of its kind to assess of the impact of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases (acronymized as “RIAD” hereafter) on Swiss mortality in the long run, between the 16th and the 21st century CE. It reviews historical, demographical, statistical, medical, and bioarchaeological, primary and secondary data originating from archive material or previously published specific analyses into the topic (n = 55). …”
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Disability weights for environmental noise-related health states: results of a disability weights measurement study in Europe by Juanita A Haagsma, Periklis Charalampous, Carolien C H M Maas

“…Comparison of the regression results from paired comparison responses for each country-specific dataset with those run on the pooled dataset showed high linear correlations (0.96–0.98, p<0.001). …”
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Relationship between upper extremity fat mass and race time in triathlete by Ebru Cetın, Ulviye Bılgın, Mergul Colak, İmdat Yarım, Halil Taskın

“…At 40 ° C air temperature, athletes firstly swam for 1.5 km, which was followed by cycling on 40 km track and finally 10 kilometers track run. SPSS 16.0 statistical software was utilized for data calculation and evaluation. …”
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Use of computerised adaptive testing to reduce the number of items in patient-reported hip and knee outcome scores: an analysis of the NHS England National Patient-Reported Outcome... by Jose Maria Valderas, Andrew D Toms, Jonathan Peter Evans, Christopher Gibbons

“…We used parameters from the IRT model with data from 2017/2018 to simulate CAT assessments. Two simulations were run until a prespecified SE of measurement was met (SE=0.32 and SE=0.45). …”
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Comparison of remineralizing efficacy of two novel preparation of arginine and theobromine on white spot lesion - an in vitro SEM analysis by Shifo Savio F, Nivethigaa Balakrishnan, Aravind Kumar Subramanian

“…Group 1 (control, treated with merely a remineralization solution), Group 2 (0.05% arginine in 10 ml distilled water), and Group 3 (2% theobromine in 10 ml distilled water) were the three groups to which the slabs were randomly allocated (n = 7 per group). The pH cycle was run for 14 days, starting with a 72-h demineralization period and ending with 11 days of remineralization in the corresponding solutions. …”
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Incidence of Surgical Site Infection and Factors Associated among Cesarean Deliveries in Selected Government Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 by Hana Lijaemiro, Semarya Berhe Lemlem, Jembere Tesfaye Deressa

“…Descriptive statistics were run for determining the rate of cesarean delivery surgical site infection. …”
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Targeting the IKZF1/BCL-2 axis as a novel therapeutic strategy for treating acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia by Juan Li, Chunmei Ye, Hui Li, Jun Li

“…This study explores the role of IKZF1 in regulating BCL-2 expression in T-ALL.Methods CUT&Tag and CUT&Run assays were employed to assess IKZF1 binding to the BCL-2 promoter. …”
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Implementasi Teknik Enkripsi dan Dekripsi dI File Video Menggunakan Algoritma Blowfish by Nuniek Fahriani, Harunur Rosyid

“…Being a user need to avoid 'third parties' who can change, retrieve or delete data physically or run program functions that interfere with the system. …”
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Current teaching mode for nursing master's degree education in China (国内护理专业学位硕士研究生教学模式现状) by YAO Qianqian (姚芡芡), LI Run (李润), DENG Shuxia (邓淑霞), OU Min (欧敏), LIANG Min (梁敏)

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From gut to liver: Exploring the crosstalk between gut-liver axis and oxidative stress in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease by Mi Zhou, Jianyu Lv, Xinli Chen, Yujie Shi, Guanqun Chao, Shuo Zhang

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Stable antivortices in multiferroic ε-Fe2O3 with the coalescence of misaligned grains by Wuhong Xue, Tao Wang, Huali Yang, Huanhuan Zhang, Guohong Dai, Sheng Zhang, Ruilong Yang, Zhiyong Quan, Run-Wei Li, Jin Tang, Cheng Song, Xiaohong Xu

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A Massively Parallel SMC Sampler for Decision Trees by Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Alessandro Varsi, Alexander M. Phillips, Simon Maskell, Paul G. Spirakis

“…For both computer architectures, the experimental results show that our approach has comparable or better accuracy than MCMC but runs up to 51 times faster on SM and 640 times faster on DM. …”
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Trend of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ethiopian Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2000-2018) by Getaneh Alemu, Feleke Mekonnen, Mezgebu Nega, Chalachew Muluneh

“…Comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA 2.0) was used to calculate the pooled prevalence, and metaregression was run to assess the trend of parasite prevalence over time. …”
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