Five year mortality in an RCT of a lung cancer biomarker to select people for low dose CT screening. by Francis Michael Sullivan, Frances S Mair, William Anderson, Cindy Chew, Alistair Dorward, John Haughney, Fiona Hogarth, Denise Kendrick, Roberta Littleford, Alex McConnachie, Colin McCowan, Nicola McMeekin, Manish Patel, Petra Rauchhaus, Fergus Daly, Lewis Ritchie, John Robertson, Joseph Sarvesvaran, Herbert Sewell, Thomas Taylor, Shaun Treweek, Kavita Vedhara, Stuart Schembri

“…Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the hazard ratio of the rate of deaths from all causes and lung cancer. …”
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CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT AND PROFITABILITY OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Alade Ayodeji ADEMOKOYA, Mubarak Olajide SALAMI, Halimat Bukola ISAU, Habeeb Abiola IBRAHIM

“…Data obtained was subjected to fixed and random effects regression estimations for the various models in this study using the Hausman test. …”
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Design and validation of a new Healthcare Systems Usability Scale (HSUS) for clinical decision support systems: a mixed-methods approach by Peter J Watkinson, Abir Ghorayeb, Julie L Darbyshire, Marta W Wronikowska

“…Pilot testing established construct validity using factor analysis and facilitated estimates for reliability and internal consistency using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient.Setting Two hospitals within a single National Health Service Trust.Participants We recruited a panel of 7 experts in usability and questionnaire writing for health purposes to test content validity; 10 participants to assess face validity and 78 participants for the pilot testing. …”
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Detection of Mycotoxins and Aflatoxigenic Fungi Associated with Compound Poultry Feedstuffs in Saudi Arabia by Youssuf A. Gherbawy, Karima E. Abdel Fattah, Abdullah Altalhi, Pet Ioan, Mohamed A. Hussein

“…The levels of different mycotoxins were estimated by the HPLC technique. One hundred percent of the compound poultry feedstuff samples were contaminated by mycotoxins such as AFB1, AFB2, AFG1, AFG2, FB1, DON, T2, OTA, and ZEN. …”
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Oral health-related conditions in Ecuador: A temporal trend analysis of hospital discharges from 2000-2023. by Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia, Alejandro Rodriguez

“…We identified oral conditions using hospital discharge records, which were classified according to the International Classification of Diseases. We estimated crude and age-standardized rates per 100,000 inhabitants for the entire population and crude rates by sex, age, region, and the diagnosis. …”
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Early Diabetic Nephropathy and Retinopathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Attending Sudan Childhood Diabetes Centre by Hana Ahmed, Tayseer Elshaikh, Mohamed Abdullah

“…The patients were screened for DN and DR using urinary microalbumin estimation and fundus photography, respectively. Results. …”
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Caesarean sections and private insurance: systematic review and meta-analysis by Ilir Hoxha, Medina Braha, Lamprini Syrogiannouli, David C Goodman, Peter Jüni, Bruno R da Costa

“…The meta-analysis of crude estimates from 12 studies revealed a somewhat more pronounced association (pooled OR 1.35, 95% CI 1.27 to 1.44) with no relevant heterogeneity between studies (τ2=0.011).Conclusions Caesarean sections are more likely to be performed in privately insured women as compared with women using public health insurance coverage. …”
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Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes among Children Aged 11-14 Years Old in Vietnam by Duong H. Phan, Vuong V. Do, Long Q. Khuong, Hung T. Nguyen, Hoang V. Minh

“…This study is aimed at estimating the prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and prediabetes among children in Vietnam and examining factors associated with the conditions. …”
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Observer-Based H∞ Fuzzy Synchronization and Output Tracking Control of Time-Varying Delayed Chaotic Systems by Kuan-Yi Lin, Tung-Sheng Chiang, Chian-Song Chiu, Wen-Fong Hu, Peter Liu

“…Third, combining both a fuzzy observer for state estimation and a controller (solved from generalized kinematic constraints) output tracking can be achieved. …”
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Impacts of Livestock Grazing on Wild Ungulate Habitat in the Khata Corridor, Bardiya, Nepal by Usha Dahal, Nirjala Raut, Anubhav Dhital, Suruchi Mainali, Deepak Gautam, Shankar Tripathi

“…We followed livestock herds from the early morning to their return for consecutive days in each sample village to estimate the grazing circuits. We individually recorded a total number of grazing cattle in five different habitats while following the cattle grazing path by direct and indirect observation. …”
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The Renal and Liver Complications Development among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Kirkuk City by Wasan Talib Abed, Walaa Esmael Jassim, Emad Mohamed Rasheed

“…T2DM reveal significant differences in the mean value (32.51± 8.96) of ALT which was more than the control (20.59± 4.38). The estimation of GFR as soon as possible with testing of urea and creatinine confirms the diagnosis of renal disease and staging of the renal disease. …”
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Vertical Characteristics of Potential PM2.5 Sources in the Urban Environment by Ho-Tang Liao, Yu-Chi Lai, Hsing Jasmine Chao, Chang-Fu Wu

“…These findings help estimate the realistic exposure at different residential heights, consequently facilitating control strategy development.…”
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Pengaruh Project Based Learning Terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Peserta Didik: Studi Meta Analisis by Rahmadini Darwas, Rina Sepriana, Asmar Yulastri, Dedy Irfan, Nizwardi Jalinus

“…Findings – The results of the meta-analysis showed that the effect size analyzed comprehensively in all articles obtained a value of 0.223, with a confidence interval value determined at 95%, the estimated upper value of the effect size obtained was 0.377 and the lower limit value was 0.069. …”
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The incidence of eating disorders in the UK in 2000–2009: findings from the General Practice Research Database by Irene Petersen, Nadia Micali, Janet L Treasure, Katrina W Hagberg

“…The aim of this study was to estimate the annual (age-specific, gender-specific and subtype-specific) incidence of diagnosed ED: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) in primary care over a 10-year period in the UK (2000–2009); to examine the changes within the study period; and to describe peak age at diagnosis.Design Register-based study.Setting Primary care. …”
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Preferences for public health insurance coverage of new anticancer drugs: a discrete choice experiment among non-small cell lung cancer patients in China by Jingyi Meng, Feifei Yan, Maochun Chen, Yuchen Ding, Zhe Feng, Wenzhang Lu, Jinsong Geng

“…The mixed logit regression model was used to estimate patient-reported preferences for each attribute. …”
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IAR 2.0: An Algorithm for Refining Inconsistent Annotations for Time-Series Data Using Discriminative Classifiers by Einari Vaaras, Manu Airaksinen, Okko Rasanen

“…IAR 2.0 uses a procedure that utilizes discriminative classifiers to iteratively combine original annotations with increasingly accurate posterior estimates of classes present in the data. Unlike most existing label refinement approaches, IAR 2.0 offers a simpler yet effective solution for resolving ambiguities in training labels, working with real label noise on time-series data instead of synthetic label noise on image data. …”
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Population genetic structure of Phaedranassa cinerea Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae) and conservation implications by María Belén Buenaño, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Javier Francisco-Ortega, Alan W. Meerow, Nora H. Oleas

“…This study seeks to determine whether there is genetic structure among and within Phaedranassa cinerea populations, estimate the timing of their genetic divergence, and recommend conservation strategies based on these genetic structure findings. …”
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Antioxidant Response as a Candidate Prognostic Factor for Dengue Hypotensive and Hemorrhagic Complications: Results from a Nested Case-Control Study in Colombia by Anyela Lozano-Parra, Víctor Herrera, Luis Ángel Villar

“…The association between each biomarker and complications was evaluated by estimating adjusted odds ratios (ORs) using logistic regression. …”
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Rectal application of a highly osmolar personal lubricant in a macaque model induces acute cytotoxicity but does not increase risk of SHIV infection. by Sundaram A Vishwanathan, Monica R Morris, Richard J Wolitski, Wei Luo, Charles E Rose, Dianna M Blau, Theodros Tsegaye, Sherif R Zaki, David A Garber, Leecresia T Jenkins, Tara C Henning, Dorothy L Patton, R Michael Hendry, Janet M McNicholl, Ellen N Kersh

“…<h4>Results</h4>Lubricant increased pro-inflammatory cytokines and tissue sloughing while control buffer (phosphate buffered saline; PBS) did not. However, the estimated AID50 (50% animal infectious dose) was not different in lubricant- and control buffer-treated macaques (p = 0.4467; logistic regression models).…”
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Antiseizure medication prescribing in people with Dravet syndrome: An analysis of real‐time administrative data by Kevin Y. Xu, Binx Yezhe Lin, M. Scott Perry, Fábio A. Nascimento

“…We use new ICD‐10 codes for DS (implemented in 2020) to estimate ASM receipt in patients with DS. We analyzed the TriNetX Network, a real‐time electronic health record‐based dataset linked to prescription data encompassing all 50 states of the U.S. …”
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