Reducing postoperative blood product usage and costs in cardiothoracic surgery: the implementation of a multispecialty perioperative care model incorporating a haemostasis checklis... by Krishnaswamy Sundararajan, Peter Hibbert, Christopher Daniel Smith, Adrian De Luca

“…This resulted in an estimated cost saving of AU$36 928 per 100 patients. …”
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Examining spatiotemporal dynamics of CO2 emission at multiscale based on nighttime light data by Binbin Zhang, Zongzheng Liang, Wenru Guo, Zhanyou Cui, Deguang Li

“…The nighttime light data could be used to effectively estimate the total CO2 emission at the provincial and municipal levels in China. …”
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Wavelet Transform-Based Damage Identification in Bladed Disks and Rotating Blades by P. Rajendran, N. Jamia, S. El-Borgi, M. I. Friswell

“…The Lipschitz exponent is derived from the wavelet packet coefficients and used to estimate the severity of the damage. In this study, experiments were conducted to obtain BTT measurements on rotating blades at 100 rpm using three different sensors: an active eddy current sensor, a passive eddy current sensor, and an optical sensor. …”
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Defensive responses of most antioxidant genes in the freshwater dinoflagellate Palatinus apiculatus to cadmium stress and their implications by Quynh Thi Nhu Bui, Taehee Kim, Han-Sol Kim, Jang-Seu Ki

“…The cell number of P. apiculatus decreased significantly at Cd concentrations above 0.25 mg/L after 72 h, with an estimated EC50 value of 1.35 mg/L. In addition, we constructed 87,207 transcriptomic contigs from the P. apiculatus cells exposed to the Cd. …”
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An algorithm of unordered wavefront propagation in terahertz phase retrieval with dense multiplane data acquisition by E.G. Tsiplakova, A. Chopard, N.S. Balbekin, O.A. Smolyanskaya, J.-B. Perraud, J.-P. Guillet, P. Mounaix, N.V. Petrov

“…Unlike a number of conventional phase retrieval algorithms, which may require a series of numerical experiments for determining optimal intensity distributions from a large dataset, disordered propagation of the estimation wavefront guarantees the high-contrast and high-resolution image reconstruction without pre-setting the parameters. …”
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A Study of Serum Adiponectin Levels in Patients with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and its Correlation with Various Cardiometabolic Risk Markers by G. Surendra Prasad, Uma Kaimal Saikia, Ashok Krishna Bhuyan, Abhamoni Baro

“…Aims: The aim of the present study was to estimate the circulating levels of serum adiponectin in patients with PCOS compared to controls and to find its correlation with markers of cardiovascular risk, with special emphasis on circulating levels of oxidised low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL). …”
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The Use of Noninvasive Velacur® for Discriminating between Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: A Feasibility Study by Michael P. Curry, Edward Tam, Caitlin Schneider, Noha Abdelgelil, Tarek Hassanien, Nezam H. Afdhal

“…We evaluated the feasibility of a novel shear wave absolute vibroelastography (S-WAVE) modality called Velacur® for assessing liver stiffness measurement (LSM) for fibrosis and attenuation coefficient estimation (ACE) in differentiating patients with chronic liver disease from normal healthy controls. …”
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Exploration of Muscle Fatigue Effects in Bioinspired Robot Learning from sEMG Signals by Ning Wang, Yang Xu, Hongbin Ma, Xiaofeng Liu

“…The time-varying amplitude and frequency sequences determining the subband sEMG signals have been estimated and their dominant values over short time intervals have been explored as fatigue-indicating features. …”
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Prevalence of Squamous and Basal Cell Carcinomas in African Albino Skin Cancer Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Proportion by Nnaemeka T. Onyishi, Samuel R. Ohayi

“…While some studies report a preponderance of SCC over BCC in African albinos, congruent with the situation in pigmented Africans, other reports have found BCCs to be more frequent and consistent with the pattern in Caucasians. Objective. To estimate the prevalence of cutaneous SCC and BCC in all histologically confirmed skin cancer lesions in African albinos.The following five databases are as follows: African Journals Online (AJOL), PubMed, Europe PMC, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant articles. …”
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The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region: A Scoping Review. by Jamie Chan, Georgia Dominguez, Antonia Hua, Melissa Garabiles, Carl A Latkin, Brian J Hall

“…Future population representative epidemiological and respondent driven sampling studies are needed to estimate population health burdens. In addition, randomized control trials and public health intervention studies are needed to improve women's health outcomes and address proximal health determinants to reduce health inequalities. …”
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Quality-related and Quality-irrelevant Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Batch Fermentation Process Based on NSSAE by Zhong LIU, Zheng ZHANG, Xuyang LOU, Jinlin ZHU

“…Upon which, kernel density estimation was used to calculate the thresholds for the indicators. …”
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Measurement of population agglomeration, dynamic change characteristics, and motivations in metropolitan agglomerations-A case study of the Xi'an metropolitan area. by Ke Liu, Xu Bo, Wang Zhaoping, Ran Du, Chen Heng

“…The kernel density estimation method and Markov chain model were used to conduct the study. …”
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Treatment outcomes among children and adolescents with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pre-XDR tuberculosis: Systematic review and meta-analysis. by Jayadeep Patra, Hyacinth Irving, Pranshu Maini, Jady Liang, Anwesh Patra, Mandar Paradkar, Jurgen Rehm

“…Treatment durations ranged from 6 to 27 months; follow-up after treatment completion ranged from 2 months to 4 years. The pooled estimate for treatment success in XDR-and pre-XDR-TB was 88·9% (95%CI: 59·7-100%) and 65·4% (95%CI: 27·7-100%), respectively. …”
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Changes in urinary concentrations of contemporary and emerging chemicals in commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcom... by Megan E Romano, Jessie P Buckley, Xiuhong Li, Julie B Herbstman, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Sunmi Lee, Susan L Schantz, Leo Trasande, Margaret R Karagas, Frederica Perera, ECHO Cohort Consortium

“…Multivariable linear mixed models accounting for key covariates and clustering within cohort and across repeated samples were used to estimate the change in urinary analyte concentrations across time points. …”
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CHANGES IN SHEEP TRANSHUMANCE IN ROMANIA. A CASE-STUDY FROM MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI – SOUTHERN CARPATHIANS by SHIGERU SHIRASAKA, KAZUKO URUSHIBARA–YOSHINO

“…Land degradation, which was very obvious, can be estimated from the geo-ecological conditions. All of the sheep flocks moved from the mother village (Jina) to the summer range (top of mountains), and the winter range in the Banat Plain or in the Danube Delta. …”
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Du mythe de l’efficience des marchés au krach by David Bourghelle, Pauline Hyme

“…Far from favouring a fundamentals-based rationality, where every participant of the market seeks to estimate the objective value of assets by rationally calculate the discounted stream of future expected rewards and risks, market prices and, more generally, the agents ability to resell assets, completely dominate the traders’ mindset and compel them to adopt a self-referential rationality. …”
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The Role of Oral Fusobacterium nucleatum in Female Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fariah I. Gaba, Raquel Carcelén González, Raquel González Martïnez

“…Authors extracted data independently, and a meta-analysis of risk estimations measuring associations between oral Fusobacterium nucleatum species and female-specific breast cancer was elucidated via calculated relative risks and 95% confidence intervals. …”
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Multiple Group Testing Procedures for Analysis of High-Dimensional Genomic Data by Hyoseok Ko, Kipoong Kim, Hokeun Sun

“…In this reason regularization procedures, where a phenotype outcome regresses on all genomic markers and then regression coefficients are estimated based on a penalized likelihood, have been considered as a good alternative approach to analysis of high-dimensional genomic data. …”
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Decade-Long Changes in Disparity and Distribution of Transit Opportunity in Shenzhen China: A Transportation Equity Perspective by Qingfeng Zhou, Donghui Dai, Yaowu Wang, Jianshuang Fan

“…Third, we used the Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition and kernel density estimation method to explore the fair distribution of transit opportunity among groups and districts from 2011 to 2020. …”
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Investigation on Pomegranate (Punica granatum) Skin as a Potentially Effective Natural Food Preservative by Mohammad Lokman Hossain, Md. Nazim Uddin, Tania Nowreen Orchy, Shamsun Naher, Mohajira Begum, Md. Zahurul Haque

“…The study is aimed at estimating the possibility of using pomegranate peel extracts as a natural food preservative which was investigated in fish samples. …”
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