Control of a Clonal Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Hospital of the Basque Country after the Introduction of Environmental Cleaning Led by the Systemat... by Jesús Delgado Naranjo, José Ignacio Villate Navarro, Mercedes Sota Busselo, Alberto Martínez Ruíz, José María Hernández Hernández, María Pilar Torres Garmendia, María Isabel Urcelay López

“…The risk ratio (RR) of infection was estimated with Poisson regression. Results. The risk increased significantly with the number of positive samples in common areas (RR = 1.40; 95%CI = 0.99–1.94) and positive samples in boxes (RR = 1.19; 95%CI = 1.01–1.40). …”
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Association between perception of COVID-19 risk, confidence in health services and avoidance of emergency department visits: results from a community-based survey in Portugal by Silvia Lopes, Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Pedro Laires, Carla Nunes, Patrícia Soares, Ana Rita Pedro, Marta Moniz, Ana Rita Goes

“…Of those, 242 reported avoiding ED visits.Outcome measures Logistic regression models for ED avoidance were conducted to estimate the effect of risk perception and confidence in health services, adjusted for sociodemographics, health status and time.Results The adjusted odds for ED avoidance were higher for participants lacking confidence in health service response to non-COVID-19 conditions (adjusted OR: 6.39; 95% CI 3.19 to 12.82) and COVID-19 (1.81; 1.19 to 2.77) and lower for those perceiving a low risk of being infected at a health provider (0.16; 0.07 to 0.38).Conclusion In our sample, confidence in health services and risk perception of infection at a health provider were associated with the decision to avoid the ED. …”
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Baryon Pasting the Uchuu Light-cone Simulation by Erwin T. Lau, Daisuke Nagai, Arya Farahi, Tomoaki Ishiyama, Hironao Miyatake, Ken Osato, Masato Shirasaki

“…Additionally, scatter in the thermal pressure and gas density profiles of halos enhances the X-ray and SZ power spectra, leading to biases in cosmological parameter estimates. These findings are statistically robust due to the extensive sky coverage and large halo sample in the BP-Uchuu maps. …”
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An Intelligent Big Data Security Framework Based on AEFS-KENN Algorithms for the Detection of Cyber-Attacks from Smart Grid Systems by Sankaramoorthy Muthubalaji, Naresh Kumar Muniyaraj, Sarvade Pedda Venkata Subba Rao, Kavitha Thandapani, Pasupuleti Rama Mohan, Thangam Somasundaram, Yousef Farhaoui

“…The Polar Bear Optimization (PBO) algorithm is used to efficiently determine the parameters for the estimate of radial basis function. Moreover, several types of smart grid network datasets are employed during analysis in order to examine the outcomes and efficiency of the proposed AdaBelief Exponential Feature Selection- Kernel based Extreme Neural Network (AEFS-KENN) big data security framework. …”
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Residual Effects of Biosolids Application on Forage Production of Semiarid Grassland in Jalisco, Mexico by Pedro Jurado-Guerra, Miguel Luna-Luna, Ernesto Flores-Ancira, Ruben Saucedo-Teran

“…Forage production was estimated by clipping at the end of the growing season during five years. …”
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Influence of Disc Size on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Cirrus Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Glaucoma by Shino Sato, Kaori Ukegawa, Eri Nitta, Kazuyuki Hirooka

“…We also examined the coefficients of variation (CoV) for sensitivity estimates, as these have been used to test and quantify the influence of optic disc size on diagnostic accuracy. …”
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The Impact of Cinema and Film Screening Places on Improving the Art Cinema Market and Cultural Promotion of Urban Spaces (Case Study: District 6 of Tehran) by Farzin Nematbakhsh Abkenar, Mansoureh Aligholi, Hossein Safarzadeh, Seyed Kamran Nourbakhsh

“…The sample size was estimated to be 384 using the Cochran's formula. The library-field method was used to collect data. …”
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Investigation of Anaplasma marginale Seroprevalence in a Traditionally Managed Large California Beef Herd by Thomas R. Tucker, Sharif S. Aly, John Maas, Josh S. Davy, Janet E. Foley

“…The objective of this prospective cohort study was to estimate the incidence of Anaplasma marginale infection using seroconversion in a northern California beef cattle herd. …”
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Predicting Energy and Emissions in Residential Building Stocks: National UBEM with Energy Performance Certificates and Artificial Intelligence by Carlos Beltrán-Velamazán, Marta Monzón-Chavarrías, Belinda López-Mesa

“…Our findings indicate that the XGBoost algorithm outperforms other techniques estimating building-level energy consumption and emissions. …”
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Adhesion Testing of Direct-Write Printed Ink on Metallic Structural Components by Timothy L. Phero, Amey R. Khanolkar, James A. Smith, Bradley C. Benefiel, Shaun P. Evans, Michael D. McMurtrey, David Estrada, Brian J. Jaques

“…In this work, a noncontact laser-induced spallation technique has been used to estimate the adhesion of silver-printed films on aluminum alloy substrates. …”
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Comparison of Clinical Trajectories before Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy between Diabetic Nephropathy and Nephrosclerosis on the KDIGO Guidelines Heat Map by Masanori Abe, Kazuyoshi Okada, Noriaki Maruyama, Hiroyuki Takashima, Osamu Oikawa, Masayoshi Soma

“…This single-center, retrospective study enrolled 100 patients whose estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was ≥45 mL/min/1.73 m2 at their first visit and who were initiated on RRT. …”
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EEG in neonates: Forward modeling and sensitivity analysis with respect to variations of the conductivity by Hamed Azizollahi, Marion Darbas, Mohamadou M. Diallo, Abdellatif El Badia, Stephanie Lohrengel

“…Discretization is performed with 3D Finite Elements of type P1 and error estimates are proved in the energy norm ($H^1$-norm). …”
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Gis tools and numeric model to forecast the floods extend along the Rhouireg river, city of Taza, Morocco by Layan Badr, Zemzami Mahmoud, Benaabidate Lahcen, Ben Abbou Mohamed

“…We fed the model with peak flows calculated using the Rational method, estimated variables using standard tables (Manning's coefficient), and other field-measured parameters. …”
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A Sustained Reduction in Serum Cholinesterase Enzyme Activity Predicts Patient Outcome following Sepsis by Aleksandar R. Zivkovic, Sebastian O. Decker, Anne C. Zirnstein, Annette Sigl, Karsten Schmidt, Markus A. Weigand, Stefan Hofer, Thorsten Brenner

“…Reduced BChE activity when measured at the ICU admission effectively differentiated between the 90-day survivor and the nonsurvivor patient groups. We estimated a critical BChE level of 1.661 kU/L (CI 0.5–0.8, 94% sensitivity, 48% specificity, AUC 0.7) to best predict patient outcome providing a benchmark criterion for early detection of potentially fatal sepsis measured at the admission. …”
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The protective effect of dietary flavonoid fraction from Acanthophora spicifera on streptozotocin induced oxidative stress in diabetic rats by Lavakumar Vuppalapati, Ravichandiran Velayudam, K.F.H. Nazeer Ahamed, Sowmya Cherukuri, Bhaskar Reddy Kesavan

“…The antioxidant consequences of FRF on STZ-induced diabetic rats were determined by the estimations of the oxidative stress marker like malonyldialdehyde and antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione in tissue homogenates of heart, liver and kidney. …”
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Application of the Correlation Velocity Measurements for Hydrodynamic Investigations of Turbulent Coolant Flow in Nuclear Reactor Elements by I. A. Konovalov, A. E. Khrobostov, M. A. Legchanov, D. N. Solncev, A. A. Barinov, A. V. Ryazanov, A. A. Chesnokov, M. A. Makarov

“…The paper presents the methodology of the tests, test facility description, signalto-noise ratio estimation, the results of digital signal processing and comparison of the measured velocities in the model with the flowrate‒averaged velocity determined by the use of flowmeters. …”
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Assessment of the Body Composition and the Loss of Fat-Free Mass through Bioelectric Impedance Analysis in Patients Who Underwent Open Gastric Bypass by Wilson Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, Elias Jirjoss Ilias, Paulo Kassab, Roberto Cordts, Paulo Gustavo Porto, Francisco Cesar Martins Rodrigues, Mohamed Ibrahim Ali Taha, Paulo Carrara, Isabella de Carvalho Aguiar, Luis Vicente Franco de Oliveira, Osvaldo Castro, Carlos Alberto Malheiros

“…The use of bioelectric impedance analysis resulted in an appropriate estimation of the total weight components in individuals subjected to bariatric surgery allowing a more real analysis of the variation of weight after the surgery.…”
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HDSA-Net: Haze Density and Semantic Awareness Network for Hyperspectral Image Dehazing by Qianru Liu, Tiecheng Song, Anyong Qin, Yin Liu, Feng Yang, Chenqiang Gao

“…Our dual-awareness network not only provides low-level physical information guidance but also high-level semantic guidance for haze removal. Specifically, we estimate the haze density by considering both internal spectral characteristics and external dehazing effects. …”
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Sliding Mode Backstepping Control of Excavator Bucket Trajectory Synovial in Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Neural Network Disturbance Observer by Xiangfei Tao, Kailei Liu, Jing Yang, Yu Chen, Jiayuan Chen, Haoran Zhu

“…Meanwhile, the complex disturbance was estimated online and compensated for by the system control input by the universal approximation property of the neural network disturbance observer (NNDO). …”
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Mapping the Structure-Function Relationship in Glaucoma and Healthy Patients Measured with Spectralis OCT and Humphrey Perimetry by Laia Jaumandreu, Francisco J. Muñoz–Negrete, Noelia Oblanca, Gema Rebolleda

“…The strongest correlation with visual fields was observed in the peripheral nasal region of both superior and inferior hemigrids (r=0.602 and r=0.458, resp.). The estimated functions obtained with the nonparametric regressions provided the mean sensitivity that corresponds to each given macular thickness. …”
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