Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values by L. Mae Lacey, Justin P. Suraci, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Blake S. Busse, Brett G. Dickson

“…By examining overlap between our refined focal areas and U.S. Forest Service top ranked firesheds (a prominent existing wildfire prioritization scheme), we show that our analysis can help to target wildfire mitigation efforts within firesheds to areas with particularly high social vulnerability and/or ecological value, providing an important compliment to a prioritization scheme based largely on risk to structures. …”
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Early childhood caries and their association with serum iron, serum ferritin, serum albumin, and Vitamin D by Vasundhara Megha, Jeevendra Nath Shukla, Rajat Kumar Singh, Chitrita Gupta Mukherjee, Siddharth Anand, Aparna Singh

“…The data was statistically analyzed using the Mann–Whitney U test, and P value 0.05 was considered significant. …”
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Ultrasound Presentation of a Disseminated Fetal and Neonatal Rhabdoid Tumor by Yolaine Joueidi, Aline Rousselin, Céline Rozel, Philippe Loget, Dominique Ranchere Vince, Sylvie Odent, Franck Bourdeaut, Vincent Lavoue, Maela Le Lous

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Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…For instance, PointNet++ and PointMetaBase enhanced with HOPE achieved mIoU gains of 2.1% and 1.3% on the large-scale indoor dataset S3DIS area-5, 2.5% and 1.1% on S3DIS 6-fold, and 1.5% and 0.6% on ScanNet, respectively. …”
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A deep learning analysis for dual healthcare system users and risk of opioid use disorder by Ying Yin, Elizabeth Workman, Phillip Ma, Yan Cheng, Yijun Shao, Joseph L. Goulet, Friedhelm Sandbrink, Cynthia Brandt, Christopher Spevak, Jacob T. Kean, William Becker, Alexander Libin, Nawar Shara, Helen M. Sheriff, Jorie Butler, Rajeev M. Agrawal, Joel Kupersmith, Qing Zeng-Trietler

“…Abstract The opioid crisis has disproportionately affected U.S. veterans, leading the Veterans Health Administration to implement opioid prescribing guidelines. …”
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Prácticas para la formación democrática en la escuela: ¿Utopía o realidad? by Edgar Mario Vergara, Nidia Montaño, Rosalba Becerra, Oswald Uriel León-Enríquez, Catalina Arboleda

“…Las prácticas pedagógicas como oportunidad u obstáculo para la participación democrática; y 5. …”
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Comparative Pitching Biomechanics Among Adolescent Baseball Athletes: Are There Fundamental Differences Between Pitchers and Non-pitchers? by Garrett Bullock, Tessa C Hulburt, Gary Collins, Brian R Waterman, Kristen F Nicholson

“… # Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional study # Methods Baseball players were designated as pitchers or non-pitchers, who then threw fastballs (FB), breaking balls (BB), and change-ups (CH) during a biomechanical assessment. T-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, and ANOVAs with Bonferroni correction, and effect sizes (ES) were performed…”
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Micro-Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT) With Multihead Attention Mechanism by Hafiz Khizer Bin Talib, Kaiwei Xu, Yanlong Cao, Yuan Ping Xu, Zhijie Xu, Muhammad Zaman, Adnan Akhunzada

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Estado nutricional según características demográficas de adultos mayores peruanos by José Ander Asenjo Alarcón

“…El análisis univariado se realizó mediante frecuencias absolutas y relativas e intervalos de confianza para proporciones al 95 % y para el análisis bivariado se utilizó la U de Mann-Whitney y la H de Kruskal-Wallis, con una significancia estadística de p < 0,05. …”
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The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated declines in cancer incidence by race/ethnicity and census‐tract level SES, rurality, and persistent poverty status by Benmei Liu, Mandi Yu, Jeffrey Byrne, Katheen A. Cronin, Eric J. Feuer

“…Conclusions The COVID‐19 pandemic coincided with reduction in incidence rates in the U.S. in 2020 and was associated with worsening disparities among groups, including race/ethnicity, SES, rurality, and PP groups, across most cancer sites. …”
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Antioxidant and anti–inflammatory effects of Helichrysum plicatum DC. subsp. plicatum extract in an experimental model of acute urolithiasis by Selvinaz Yakan, Kıvılcım Eren Erdoğan, Yusuf Kenan Dağlıoğlu, Tuba Aydın, Ahmet Çakır

“… This study aimed to view the antioxidant and anti–inflammatory properties of Helichrysum plicatum DC. subsp. plicatum (HP) methanol extract on the urinary tract using an experimentally induced urolithiasis (U) model. The study included four groups: Group 1 was given a standard diet, Group 2 was given a diet added with HP, Group 3 was given a standard diet with induced urolithiasis, and Group 4 received an HP–supplemented diet with induced urolithiasis. …”
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Cochlear Implantation: Predicting Round Window Niche Visibility Using One Measurement in High-Resolution Temporal Bone Computed Tomography by Laila Telmesani, Mona Al-Ramah, Yassin Abdelsamad, Lena Telmesani

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6-12 yaş arası okul çağı çocuklarda travmatik dental yaralanmaların görülme sıklığı by Mine Koruyucu, Ceren İlisulu, Esra Parmaksız, Figen Seymen

“…Travmaya maruz kalmış dişlerin %48.4’ü tedaviden yararlanmıştır. Travmadan etkilenen çocukların %48.3’de normal okluzyon, %45.1 sınıf II, %6.4 sınıf III okluzyon bulunmaktadır. …”
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Inteligencia artificial aplicada a la oftalmología: ResNet-50 y VGG-19 en el diagnóstico de catarata y glaucoma by Leonardo Paul Sanchez Davila, Ruth Evelyn Rogel Rivera, Joofre Antonio Honores Tapia, Wilmer Braulio Rivas Asanza

“…En esta investigación se rediseñaron veinticuatro algoritmos a partir de las estructuras ResNet-50 y VGG-19, modificando las entradas (conjuntos de 15, 25 y 35 imágenes) y los ciclos de propagación (20 y 25 épocas), con el objetivo de optimizar el nivel de precisión en el diagnóstico de catarata y glaucoma; además, se utilizó el estadístico U de Mann Whitney para comparar los valores medios de los parámetros pérdida, precisión, rendimiento y tiempo, logrando identificar que solamente en este último las diferencias son estadísticamente significativas. …”
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Comparing Prednisone and Methotrexate to Off-label Biologic Infliximab for Management of Ocular Uveitis: A Cost-minimization Analysis by William V. Padula, Miguel Cordero-Coma, Taygan Yilmaz, William V. Padula, Michéal J. Gallagher, Jonathan D. Campbell

“…The model followed patients’ therapy from the onset of posterior uveitis or panuveitis using the U.S. societal perspective. The lifetime model simulated health states that could lead to successful reversal of uveitis with standard or intensified treatment with prednisone, methotrexate, or infliximab. …”
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Penalized landmark supermodels (penLM) for dynamic prediction for time-to-event outcomes in high-dimensional data by Anya H. Fries, Eunji Choi, Summer S. Han

“…We applied penLM to predict the updated 5-year risk of lung cancer mortality at diagnosis and for subsequent years by combining data from SEER registries (2007–2018), Medicare claims (2007–2018), Medicare Health Outcome Survey (2006–2018), and U.S. Census (1990–2010). Results The simulations confirmed valid coverage (~ 95%) of the confidence intervals of the proposed summary metrics. …”
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Risk Factors for Prolonged Length of Stay of Older Patients in an Academic Emergency Department: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Özcan Sir, Gijs Hesselink, Mara Van Den Bogaert, Reinier P. Akkermans, Yvonne Schoon

“…Risk factors for prolonged LOS of older patients at the ED were follows: higher number (more than one) of consultations (OR [odds ratio] 2.4, CI [confidence interval] 2.0-2.91), or diagnostic interventions (OR 1.5, CI 1.4-1.7); presenting complaints of a neurological (OR 2.2, CI 1.0-4.5) or internal medicine focus (OR 2.6, CI 1.4-4.6); patients with an altered consciousness (OR 3.3, CI 1.6-6.6); treatment by physicians of the departments of surgery (OR 3.4, CI 2.2-5.2), internal medicine (OR 2.6, CI 1.9-3.7), or pulmonology (OR 2.2, CI 1.4-3.6); and urgency category of ≥ U1. Awareness of factors associated with prolonged LOS of older patients presenting at the ED is essential. …”
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Comparative evaluation of specimen type and processing conditions for studying oyster microbiomes by Esam Almuhaideb, Nur A. Hasan, Nur A. Hasan, Christopher Grim, Shah Manzur Rashed, Salina Parveen

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The Potential of Night Jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) Flower Extract as a Functional Ingredient in Yogurt Production: The Effects on Fermentation, Rheology, Sensory, and Antiox... by Pal Anil Kumar, Agarwal Aparna, Tripathi Abhishek Dutt, Khosravi-Darani Kianoush, Nandan Alisha, Tripathi Arunima, Hooda Ankita

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Intrusion Detection for Wireless Sensor Network Using Particle Swarm Optimization Based Explainable Ensemble Machine Learning Approach by Shaikh Afnan Birahim, Avijit Paul, Fahmida Rahman, Yamina Islam, Tonmoy Roy, Mohammad Asif Hasan, Fariha Haque, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

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