Health Status Measurement Instruments in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Yves Lacasse, Eric Wong, Gordon Guyatt, Roger S Goldstein

“…Generic questionnaires should not be used alone in clinical trials as evaluative instruments because of their inability to detect change over time. Further validation and improved interpretability of existing instruments would be of greater benefit to clinicians and scientists than the development of new questionnaires.…”
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Feasibility Study on the Use of a Portable NIR Spectrometer and Multivariate Data Analysis to Discriminate and Quantify Adulteration in Fertilizer by Ernest Teye, Charles L. Y. Amuah, Kofi Atiah, Ransford Opoku Darko, Kwadwo Kusi Amoah, Emmanuel Afutu, Rebecca Owusu

“…In this current study, a rapid on-site detection technique was developed by using portable NIR spectroscopy in the wavelength range of 740–1070 nm together with optimum multivariate algorithms to identify fertilizer integrity (unexpired, expired, and adulterated) as well as quantify the levels (10–50%) of adulteration. …”
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Intraventricular Hemorrhage after Epidural Blood Patching: An Unusual Complication by Mohammad Sorour, Khaled M. Krisht, William T. Couldwell

“…In the event that IVH is detected, signs and symptoms of hydrocephalus should be closely monitored with the consideration for a future workup if warranted by the clinical picture.…”
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Malocclusion Caused by Facial Multiple Fracture by Daishi Arai, Akihiro Yasue, Shinya Horiuchi, Eiji Tanaka

“…In the mandible, midline and left body fractures were detected. The patient underwent open reduction and rigid fixation of the fractured left zygoma, comminuted LeFort I and II fractures, and midline and left body of the mandible with intermaxillary fixation by multibracket appliance; maxillary osteotomy with iliac bone grafting; orthognathic two-jaw surgery with coronoid process grafts onto the depressed zygoma; and onlay graft of hydroxyapatite block on mandible. …”
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Identification of the Causative Disease of Intermittent Claudication through Walking Motion Analysis: Feature Analysis and Differentiation by Tetsuyou Watanabe, Takeshi Yoneyama, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Yasumitsu Toribatake

“…We analyzed the obtained gait patterns and derived input parameters for SVM that are also visually detectable and medically meaningful/consistent differentiation features. …”
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Improving Diabetic Patients Monitoring System Using (NCA-CNN) Algorithm based on loT by Ayas Talib Mohammad, Jaber Parchami

“…In the system that has been suggested, improvements have been made to both the precision of the detection and the swiftness of the data processing. …”
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Characterization of Various Honey Samples from Different Regions of Morocco Using Physicochemical Parameters, Minerals Content, Antioxidant Properties, and Honey-Specific Protein P... by Badiaa Lyoussi, Meryem Bakour, Redouan El-Haskoury, Hamada Imtara, Christophe Hano, Katarína Bíliková

“…The content of honey samples in total protein and apalbumin 1 ranged between 212 μg/g and 4121.2 μg/g and between 27.4 μg/g and 790.82 μg/g, respectively. Overall, the detection of apalbumin 1 in all honey samples and the results of physicochemical parameters, minerals, bioactive compounds, and antioxidant activities confirm the authenticity and no adulteration of Moroccan honey.…”
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The information gain of explicitly provided over self-generated contextual knowledge for behavioral control. by Lukas Magnaguagno, Stephan Zahno, Ernst-Joachim Hossner

“…However, an explicit-knowledge test showed no differences regarding pattern detection between the acquisition conditions, implying that the performance enhancement of the self-generated groups was not due to explicit-knowledge accumulation. …”
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Differential Grey Wolf Load-Balanced Stochastic Bellman Deep Reinforced Resource Allocation in Fog Environment by S. V. Nethaji, M. Chidambaram

“…In the event of an overutilized VM pool, a grey wolf optimization strategy based on differential evolution can detect both under and overutilized VMs, allowing for smooth transit between fogs. …”
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Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…Whereas traditional ethnographic approaches may help to identify some of this variation, more fine-scaled quantification of manipulative actions may be required to detect such behavioral variation in a more systematic and detailed manner. …”
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Problems of Criminal and Legal Qualification of Domestic Violence by Yu. V. Orlov

“…When there are sufficient grounds to believe that domestic violence is systematic, the use of prior administrative response procedures should be avoided after the first report or personal detection by the police officer. Special attention has been paid to the criteria for distinguishing between the legal components of domestic violence and criminal offenses against life and health, sexual freedom and sexual integrity, as well as those provided by the Articles 164 and 165 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.…”
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Apprehension-Based Training: A Novel Treatment Concept for Anterior Shoulder Dislocation – A Case Report by Alon Rabin, Livneh Noyman, Noa Yaakobi, Efi Kazum

“…Kinesiophobia decreased, SMAT and shoulder internal rotator strength increased beyond their respective minimal detectable change. Four months after treatment, quality of life and shoulder function remained improved, and the subject reported a reduced rate of ASD…”
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Serum Transthyretin Level as a Plausible Marker for Diagnosis of Child Acute Malnutrition by Behailu Tsegaye, Amha Mekasha, Solomon Genet

“…The method is more sensitive and reliable for detection of acute malnutrition, along with anthropometric methods. …”
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Relevant SMS Spam Feature Selection Using Wrapper Approach and XGBoost Algorithm by Diyari Jalal Mussa, Noor Ghazi M. Jameel

“…According to this paper, XGBoost algorithm used for handling SMS spam detection problem. Number of structural features was collected from previous studies. 15 structural features were extracted from Tiago’s dataset, which is the most frequently used dataset by researchers. …”
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Physiological-Social Scores in Predicting Outcomes of Prehospital Internal Patients by Abbasali Ebrahimian, Hesam Seyedin, Roohangiz Jamshidi-Orak, Gholamreza Masoumi

“…This instrument was used as a measure to detect critical illness in patients hospitalised in internal wards. …”
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A Review of Fish Anomalies in Türkiye’s Waters by İsmail Reis, Sercan Yapıcı, Hasan Cerim, Özgen Yılmaz

“…In these studies, 62 individuals from 38 species and 20 families from different water bodies were detected to have at least one anomaly type that is included in this review. …”
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Stress intensity factors for mixed-mode crack growth in imitation models under biaxial loading by R.R. Yarullin, V.N. Shlyannikov, I.S. Ishtyriakov, M.M. Yakovlev

“…In this paper, a procedure to calculate stress intensity factors for imitation models of titanium alloys is proposed. Fatigue cracks are detected in a disk and blade dovetail type attachment in service. …”
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Simultaneous HPLC Determination of Chlordiazepoxide and Mebeverine HCl in the Presence of Their Degradation Products and Impurities by Rania N. El-Shaheny, Fathalla F. Belal

“…The pH of the mobile phase was adjusted to 4.5 with orthophosphoric acid and UV detection was set at 260 nm. A complete validation procedure was conducted. …”
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Protracted Clonal Trajectory of a JAK2 V617F-Positive Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Developing during Long-Term Remission from Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Stephen E. Langabeer, Karl Haslam, Maria Anne Smyth, John Quinn, Philip T. Murphy

“…Retrospective evaluation of the JAK2 V617F detected a low allele burden at AML diagnosis and following one course of induction chemotherapy. …”
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The Role of In-Store Consumer Movements in Purchase Decision by Selim Çam, Murat Fatih Tuna

“…While differences were detected according to gender, no significant differences were found according to age in the findings. …”
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