Incidence and Predictors of Antiretroviral Treatment Modification in HIV-Infected Adults: A Brazilian Historical Cohort from 2001 to 2010 by Letícia Penna Braga, Cássia Cristina Pinto Mendicino, Edna Afonso Reis, Ricardo Andrade Carmo, Cristiane Menezes de Pádua

“…Kaplan-Meier inverse survival curves were employed to describe the probability of ART modification and Cox proportional hazard regression was used to estimate the adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) of ART modification. …”
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Binding Mode Investigation of Polyphenols from Scrophularia Targeting Human Aldose Reductase Using Molecular Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Abinaya Manivannan, Prabhakaran Soundararajan, Yoo Gyeong Park, Sugunadevi Sakkiah, Byoung Ryong Jeong

“…Interestingly, the biological activity predictions also ranked acacetin with higher probability score for aldose reductase inhibition activity. …”
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On Using a Mobile Application to Support Teledermatology: A Case Study in an Underprivileged Area in Colombia by Juan Pablo Sáenz, Mónica Paola Novoa, Darío Correal, Bell Raj Eapen

“…The results showed that the probability of obtaining a correct diagnosis was between 64.4% and 85.6% with a confidence interval of 95%. …”
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Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) Enteric Fever in Children by Sana Ashraf, Mehtab Hussain, Asma Noreen, Falak Abro, Nadeem Noor, Ramla Rehman

“…A total of 122 children aged between 2-12 years with an axillary body temperature >38.4 oC for at least 4 days were analyzed. Non-probability convenient sampling method was adopted. …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of alcohol use disorder and alcoholic liver disease by Oluwatofunmi A. Abiola, Collin M. Lehmann, Khaled Moussawi, Hawre Jalal

“…We also carried out a threshold analysis to determine the probability of success necessary for DBS to be cost-effective. …”
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Distinguishing glioblastoma from brain metastasis; a systematic review and meta-analysis on the performance of machine learning by Mohammad Amin Habibi, Reza Omid, Shafaq Asgarzade, Sadaf Derakhshandeh, Ali Soltani Farsani, Zohreh Tajabadi

“…The positive likelihood ratio was 6.2, and the negative likelihood ratio was 0.20, providing helpful information on how test results modified pretest probability. Conclusion ML applied to routine neuroimaging shows high diagnostic potential for glioblastoma detection. …”
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The Significant Effects of Threshold Selection for Advancing Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Whole Genome of Bread Wheat by Mohammad Bahman Sadeqi, Agim Ballvora, Said Dadshani, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Ahossi Patrice Koua, Jens Léon

“…By incorporating the neural network algorithm, it is possible to improve the reliability of FDR threshold and increase the probability of identifying true genetic associations while minimizing the risk of false positives in GWAS results.…”
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Static and Dynamic Routing, Fiber, Modulation Format, and Spectrum Allocation in Hybrid ULL Fiber-SSMF Elastic Optical Networks by Kangao Ouyang, Fengxian Tang, Zhilin Yuan, Jun Li, Yongcheng Li

“…Moreover, in the dynamic traffic demand scenario, the SU strategy remarkably surpasses the other strategies in terms of the lightpath blocking probability.…”
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Relationship between Neovascular Density in Swept Source-Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and Signs of Activity in Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Martin Stattin, Julia Forster, Ahmed Daniel, Alexandra Graf, Katharina Krepler, Siamak Ansari-Shahrezaei

“…A borderline significant difference in the probability of neovascular activity for predominantly hyperdense lesions compared to hypodense lesions was detected (p=0.05). …”
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Numerical Investigation of Relationship between Bursting Proneness and Mechanical Parameters of Coal by Hongwei Wang, Jiaqi Song, Zeliang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shaozhen Zhang, Yaodong Jiang

“…By taking into account the coal heterogeneity, eight probability distribution functions are employed to assignment nonuniform cohesion to the numerical model and to study the influence of heterogeneity on bursting proneness. …”
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A spatiotemporal distribution prediction model for electric vehicles charging load in transportation power coupled network by Xiaolong Yang, Jingwen Yun, Shuai Zhou, Tek Tjing Lie, Jieping Han, Xiaomin Xu, Qian Wang, Zeqi Ge

“…First, path planning is performed separately using the Dijkstra algorithm and refined origin-destination (OD) probability matrix based on the travel characteristics of various vehicle types. …”
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Deep learning-based skin lesion analysis using hybrid ResUNet++ and modified AlexNet-Random Forest for enhanced segmentation and classification. by Saleem Mustafa, Arfan Jaffar, Muhammad Rashid, Sheeraz Akram, Sohail Masood Bhatti

“…This method takes advantage of ResUNet++ strong classification skill and modified AlexNet-Random Forest robustness for more accurate segmentation. There is a high probability that ResUNet++, which is highly proficient at medical image segmentation, can produce better segmentation of lesions than the simpler models. …”
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Multi-Dimensional Markov Chains of M/G/1 Type by Valeriy Naumov, Konstantin Samouylov

“…We assume that for a vector <b>k</b> ≥ <b>1</b>, the one-step transition probability from a state (<b><i>k</i></b><i>, i</i>) to a state (<b><i>n</i></b>, <i>j</i>) may depend on <i>i, j</i>, and <b><i>n</i></b> − <i><b>k</b></i>, but not on the specific values of <b><i>k</i></b> and <b><i>n</i></b>. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION AND TRANSHUMANISM: EXPLICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by O. V. Marchenko, P. V. Kretov

“…A comparative consideration of the worldviews in the information philosophy and transhumanism projects, made on the basis of a study of current scientific literature, provided an opportunity to assume the probability of implicit elimination of the problems of philosophical anthropology from the horizon of meanings of modern science through the blurring of essentially anthropological analytics. …”
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Wind Energy Resource Prediction and Optimal Storage Sizing to Guarantee Dispatchability: A Case Study in the Kenyan Power Grid by Hampfrey Odero, Cyrus Wekesa, George Irungu

“…BESS optimization with neural prediction reduces the BESS capacity and investment costs by 59.82%, while the overall dispatchability of LTWPP is increased from 73.36% to 90.14%, hence enabling the farm to meet its allowable loss of power supply probability (LPSP) index of 0.1 while guaranteeing its dispatchability.…”
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Prediction of miRNA-circRNA Associations Based on k-NN Multi-Label with Random Walk Restart on a Heterogeneous Network by Zengqiang Fang, Xiujuan Lei

“…First, in the conventional Random Walk Restart Heterogeneous (RWRH) algorithm, the computational method simply converts the circRNA/miRNA similarity network into the transition probability matrix; in contrast, we take the influence of the neighbor of the node in the network into account, which can suggest or stress some potential associations. …”
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Uptake, safety and effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccine in inflammatory bowel disease: a UK-wide study by Abhishek Abhishek, Christian D Mallen, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Tim Card, Jonathan S Nguyen Van-Tam

“…To investigate vaccine effectiveness, we calculated the propensity score (PS) for vaccination and conducted Cox proportional hazard regression with inverse-probability treatment weighting on PS. We employed self-controlled case series analysis to investigate the association between vaccination and IBD flare.Results Data for 13 631 people with IBD (50.4% male, mean age 52.9 years) were included. …”
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Characteristics of CTEV Patients at Orthopedic and Traumatology Outpatient Clinic in Datu Beru General Hospital Takengon Central Aceh Period August 2018-July 2022 by Ongko Setunggal Wibowo, Subhan Thaib

“…Sampling was carried out by non-probability sampling and using the purposive sampling technique. …”
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Determinants of Seed Distribution System: The Case of Womberma District, North West Ethiopia by Gizachew Wosene Minwagaw, Wubalem Gobie Ejigu

“…The study was based on the data collected from 150 households by using the multistage probability sampling method. The survey result shows that the contribution of public companies for supplying improved bread wheat seed was only 33% whereas 100% of producers confirmed that sources of bread wheat seed were from farm saved and local market which were uncertified leading to production deterioration. …”
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Economic Evaluation of Boceprevir for the Treatment of Patients with Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Hungary by Raymond Odhiambo, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Shannon Allen Ferrante, Antoine El Khoury, Elamin Elbasha

“…Disease progression rates and health state utilities used in the model were obtained from published studies. Estimates of probability of liver transplantation and cost were based on an analysis of the Hungarian Sick Fund database. …”
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