How Do Diabetes Models Measure Up? A Review of Diabetes Economic Models and ADA Guidelines by Lindsay Govan, Olivia Wu, Robert Lindsay, Andrew Briggs

“…Studies were included in the review if they estimated lifetime outcomes for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. …”
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A probabilistic model-based approach to assess and minimize scaling in geothermal plants by Pejman Shoeibi Omrani, Jonah Poort, Eduardo G. D. Barros, Hidde de Zwart, Cintia Gonçalves Machado, Laura Wasch, Aris Twerda, Huub H. M. Rijnaarts, Shahab Shariat Torbaghan

“…The proposed modelling framework to demonstrate the optimization under uncertainty workflow consists of a multiphase flow solver coupled with a geochemistry model and an uncertainty quantification workflow to locally estimate the probability of precipitation potential, including its impact on the hydraulic efficiency of the geothermal plant by increasing the roughness and/or decreasing the diameter of the casings and pipelines. …”
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Vaccine-induced reduction of COVID-19 clusters in school settings in Japan during the epidemic wave caused by B.1.1.529 (Omicron) BA.2, 2022 by Yuta Okada, Hiroshi Nishiura

“…Given this background and considering that vaccine effectiveness against school transmission has not been intensively studied, this paper proposes a mathematical model that links the occurrence of clustering to the case count among populations aged 0–19, 20–59, and 60+ years of age. We first estimated the protected (immune) fraction of each age group either by infection or vaccination and then linked the case count in each age group to the number of clusters via a time series regression model that accounts for the time-varying hazard of clustering per infector. …”
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Descriptive study of the role of ultrasound in the evaluation of patients with interstitial lung disease associated with autoimmune connective tissue disorders by Varghese Koshy, Kiran Patel, Deep Yadav, Puneet Saxena, R A George, Vandana Gangadharan, George Koshy

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of LUS were estimated considering HRCT as the reference method. …”
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Forest Carbon Storage in the Western United States: Distribution, Drivers, and Trends by Jazlynn Hall, Manette E. Sandor, Brian J. Harvey, Sean A. Parks, Anna T. Trugman, A. Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen

“…How these factors shape spatial patterns of carbon storage and carbon change over time is poorly resolved. Here, we estimate live and dead forest carbon density in 19 forested western US ecoregions with national inventory data (2005–2019) to determine: (a) current carbon distributions, (b) underpinning drivers, and (c) recent trends. …”
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Exploring the potential cost-effectiveness and societal burden implications of screening for fracture risk in a UK general radiography setting by E. Söreskog, B. Lopez, T. Bean, P. Lewis, N. Ashley, J. Da Palma Lopes, R. Meertens, A. Ratcliffe

“…Widespread adoption of IBEX BH in the NHS was estimated to save 8,066 QALYs and £65,930,555 in healthcare costs over the lifetime of patients visiting hospitals for wrist radiographs each year. …”
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Using Milk Urea Nitrogen to Evaluate Diet Formulation and Environmental Impact on Dairy Farms by J.S. Jonker, R.A. Kohn

“…N loading to the Chesapeake Bay from overfeeding protein to lactating dairy cattle was estimated to be 7.6 million kg/year. MUN is a useful tool to measure diet adequacy and environmental impact from dairy farms.…”
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Measuring Passenger Car Equivalents (PCE) for Heavy Vehicle on Two Lane Highway Segments Operating Under Various Traffic Conditions by Pan Lu, Zijian Zheng, Denver Tolliver, Danguang Pan

“…This study introduces an analytical model, combining a headway-based and a delay-based algorithms, for estimating PCEs of HV on a TLTW highway. This study contributes to the literature by providing relationships among PCE, the traffic volume level (TVL) of both lanes, and the TVL duration on a TLTW highway. …”
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Development of New Chip Products from Brewer’s Spent Grain by Reann Garrett, Danielle Bellmer, William McGlynn, Patricia Rayas-Duarte

“…Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is a processing waste generated in large quantities by the brewing industry. It is estimated that over 38 million tons of BSG is produced worldwide each year and is usually used as animal feed, composted, or thrown into landfills. …”
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Total Organic Carbon Content Prediction in Lacustrine Shale Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine Learning Based on Bayesian Optimization by Xingzhou Liu, Zhi Tian, Chang Chen

“…The total organic carbon (TOC) content is a critical parameter for estimating shale oil resources. However, common TOC prediction methods rely on empirical formulas, and their applicability varies widely from region to region. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Extracted Bacteriocin and Lytic Bacteriophage on the Expression of Biofilm Associated Genes in Streptococcus mutans by Zahra Rajabi, Mohammad Mehdi Soltan Dallal, Mohammad Reza Afradi, Yousef Erfani, Donya Alinejad, Reza Ranjbar, Rouha Kasra-Kermanshahi

“…For bacteriocin extraction, at first two probiotic lactobacilli were isolated from traditional foods, then bacteriocin was extracted by partial purification method, and SDS-PAGE was used for estimation of its molecular weight. The previously extracted lytic bacteriophage from raw urban sewage was used against Streptococcus mutans. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Different Interpolation Methods in Modeling Spatial Distribution of Monthly Precipitation by Yılmaz İçağa, Emin Taş

“…For many water resources planning and management studies such as water budget and hydrological modeling, it is very important to estimate areal precipitation from point observation stations. …”
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Recognition and Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage by Tasabih Ali EL Hassan Mohamed, Edwin Chandraharan, Yang Pan

“…PPH is a major contributor to maternal deaths worldwide, and it is estimated that a person dies because of PPH approximately every 5 minutes. …”
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Determining Planetary Boundary Layer Height by Micro-pulse Lidar with Validation by UAV Measurements by Yueh-Chen Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Jasper R. Lewis, Shuenn-Chin Chang, Stephen M. Griffith

“…In this study, four PBLH determination methods (Gradient, δ–threshold, Haar wavelet transform, and hybrid image processing) are applied to estimate the PBLH from lidar observations over an urban area in East Asia, and one—the Gradient method—relied on potential temperature measurements from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights to validate our results. …”
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Tissue-specific effects of benzo[a]pyrene and DDT on microRNA expression profile in female rats by D. S. Ushakov, T. S. Kalinina, A. S. Dorozhkova, V. Y. Ovchinnikov, L. F. Gulyaeva

“…To confirm the effects of xenobiotics on the microRNA expression, we also estimated the mRNA level of PTPN6, EIF3F, Cbx7, and Dicer1 genes potentially targeting miR-193b, -207, and -3577. …”
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COMPASSION-FOCUSED THERAPY WITH VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CALLOUSUNEMOTIONAL YOUTH: A CLINICAL CASE STUDY ON THE THERAPY PROCESS OF A YOUNG OFFENDER by MIRVA HEIKKILÄ, JENNI KAUNOMÄKI, NINA LINDBERG, JARI LAHTI, MAURI MARTTUNEN, KLAUS RANTA, MARKO MANNINEN, DIANA RIBEIRO DA SILVA

“…He filled out the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory Short Version at three measurement points: pre-treatment (T0), after the 10th CFT meeting (T1), after the last meeting (T2). Estimated with the Reliable Change Index (RCI), our results indicate that during the intervention his callous and unemotional traits decreased (RCI<-1.96) between T0 and T1 (RCI=-3.53), and between T0 and T2 (RCI=-2.83), as did his total psychopathic traits between T0 and T1 (RCI=-2.42), and T0 and T2 (RCI=-3.03). …”
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Circle chaotic map tuna swarm optimization (CCMTSO) based feature selection and deep learning approach for air quality prediction by Aradhyamatada Swamy, Rohitha U.M.

“…Circle Chaotic Map Tuna Swarm Optimization (CCMTSO) and FCNN-LSTM (Fully Convolutional Neural Network - Long short-term term Memory) based DL (Deep Learning) have been used to select features and estimate air quality prediction. The FCNN-LSTM algorithm is generated by CCMTSO using previous information from the target station and nearby stations with chosen attributes. …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid metabolites as potential biomarkers for epilepsy: Insights from genome‐wide association studies by Zhenxiang Zhao, Na Xing, Lin Hou

“…Causality was primarily estimated through inverse variance weighted (IVW) analysis, complemented by a range of sensitivity analyses to ensure result stability. …”
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Long-term results of surgical treatment of a locally advanced rectal cancer using extrafascial principle of dissection by P. V. Tsarkov, I. A. Tulina, D. N. Fedorov, A. Yu. Kravchenko, O. Yu. Samofalova

“…Aim of investigation. To estimate efficacy of extrafascial surgical interventions in patients with locally advanced cancer of rectum.Material and methods. …”
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Effect of Increasing Running Cadence on Peak Impact Force in an Outdoor Environment by Taylor Musgjerd, Jacob Anason, Drew Rutherford, Thomas W Kernozek

“…# Background An estimated 56% of recreational runners sustain a running-related injury related to the high impact forces in running. …”
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