Content of a wound care mobile application for newly graduated nurses: an e-Delphi study by Julie Gagnon, Julie Chartrand, Sebastian Probst, Michelle Lalonde

“…We calculated the weighted kappa to determine the individual stability of responses within-subjects between the quantitative rounds. …”
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Moringa oleifera Flower Extract Suppresses the Activation of Inflammatory Mediators in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated RAW 264.7 Macrophages via NF-κB Pathway by Woan Sean Tan, Palanisamy Arulselvan, Govindarajan Karthivashan, Sharida Fakurazi

“…Hydroethanolic extract of M. oleifera flower significantly suppressed the secretion and expression of NO, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), interleukin- (IL-) 6, IL-1β, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB), inducible NO synthase (iNOS), and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). …”
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The Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Scale—Bilingual Cultural Adaptation: Validity and Reliability Pilot Study in Nursing Students by Maria José Nogueira, Síria Sas, Lucía Rodríguez, Andrea Carbonero, Uxía Bello, Leandro Nascimento, Susana Mendonça, Delfina Teixeira

“…Content validity was performed by Content Validity Index and Modified Kappa statistic. Construct validity and reliability tests were performed. …”
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Preterm Bebeğin Yoğun Bakım Ünitesi Taburculuğu Öncesi Ebeveynlerin Öğrenim Gereksinimlerinin Belirlenmesi by Emine Eşref, Funda Büyükyılmaz

“…Bebeklerin cinsiyetleri, hastanede kalış süresi, bebek ve ebeveynin ayrı kalma süresi, ebeveyn türü, bakıma ilişkin eğitim/kurs alma durumları ile öğrenim gereksinimi toplam puan ortalaması arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark belirlendi (p lt; 0,05).Sonuç: Ebeveynlerin taburculuk öncesi öğrenim gereksinimlerinin yüksek düzeyde olduğu belirlendi. …”
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Detecting the Early Stage of Phaeosphaeria Leaf Spot Infestations in Maize Crop Using In Situ Hyperspectral Data and Guided Regularized Random Forest Algorithm by Elhadi Adam, Houtao Deng, John Odindi, Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, Onisimo Mutanga

“…Using these variables (n=6), a random forest classifier was able to discriminate between the healthy maize and maize at an early stage of PLS infestation with an overall accuracy of 88% and a kappa value of 0.75. Overall, our study showed potential application of hyperspectral data, GRRF feature selection, and RF classifiers in detecting the early stage of PLS infestation in tropical maize.…”
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Tomographic Aspects of Advanced Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Evaluation of Sequelae following Treatment by Rafael Barcelos Capone, Domenico Capone, Thiago Mafort, Roberto Mogami, Rosana de Souza Rodrigues, Miriam Menna Barreto, Rogerio Rufino

“…The study established a tomographic pattern for diagnosis of active TB characterized by the presence of airway nodules, consolidation, architectural distortion, and cavitary lesions, and an almost complete degree of agreement (Kappa) was observed among the radiologists (0.85). …”
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A Study Comparing Immunohistochemistry, Fluorescence in situ hybridization, GeneXpert® Breast Cancer STRAT4 Assay for Determining Hormone Receptor, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Re... by Rajaa El Aje, Abdellah Naya, Ayoub Khoaja, Younes Zaid, Mounia Oudghiri, Jodi Weidler, Mehdi Karkouri

“…The Xpert® Breast Cancer STRAT4, an RT-qPCR based system, can be used to classify invasive breast carcinomas based on the assessment of these four biomarkers; Methods: We evaluated ESR1, PGR, ERBB2, and MKi67 mRNA expression by Xpert Breast Cancer STRAT4 and ER, PR, HER2 and Ki67 by IHC (FISH for HER2 IHC 2+) in 200 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks with invasive breast cancer, collected from the Pathology Department of Casablanca Ibn Rochd University Hospital; Results: Concordance between Xpert ® Breast Cancer STRAT4 and IHC was 93.5% for ER, 83.51% for PR, 95% for HER2 (92% for IHC+FISH), and 81.20% for Ki67 (excluding intermediate IHC Staining 10 ≤ %IHC <20). The simple Kappa coefficient was, for ER, 0.830 (P < 0.0001), 0.565 (P < 0.0001) for PR, 0.838 (P < 0.0001) for HER2-IHC, 0.771 (P < 0.0001) for HER2 IHC+FISH and, for, Ki67, 0.458 (P < 0.0001); Conclusions: We demonstrated globally a high concordance between centrally assessed IHC, IHC+FISH and mRNA measurements of ER/ESR1 and HER2/ERBB2, and a moderate agreement between PR/PGR and Ki67/MKi67. …”
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Neuroprotective Effects of Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Matrix Implantation following Surgical Brain Injury by Jia-Hui Chen, Wei-Cherng Hsu, Kuo-Feng Huang, Chih-Huang Hung

“…Proinflammatory (tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and NF-κB (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells)) and anti-inflammatory (IL-10 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GMCSF)) cytokine expression was evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. …”
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Bone‐Targeted Fluoropeptide Nanoparticle Inhibits NF‐κB Signaling to Treat Osteosarcoma and Tumor‐Induced Bone Destruction by Lin Li, Guangyu Rong, Xin Gao, Yiyun Cheng, Zhengwang Sun, Xiaopan Cai, Jianru Xiao

“…Here, a bone‐targeted fluoropeptide nanoparticle that can inhibit the nuclear factor kappa B (NF‐κB) signaling in both osteoclasts and osteosarcoma to address the above issue is developed. …”
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CT 在婴幼儿先天性肺畸形的诊断价值 by 郑海莲, 唐文艳, 陈永露, 陈庭威, 董天发, 温美青

“…US 和 CT 诊断 CLM 结果一致性一般（Kappa 值＝0.465，P < 0.05），CT 诊断准确率为 85.5%，高于US 诊断（69.7%），McNemar 检验结果为P = 0.001，差异具有统计学意义。…”
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Land Use Mapping of the Guangdong&#x2013;Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Based on a New Approach at 30 m Resolution for the Years 1976 to 2020 by Yu Gu, Yangbo Chen, Jun Liu

“…The OA of interannual classification models ranged from 83.9&#x0025; to 93.9&#x0025;, and the kappa coefficients from 0.805 to 0.923. These results indicate that the LUC-GBA dataset effectively reflects the surface cover distribution and interannual dynamic evolution of the land area in the GBA at a 30 m spatial resolution, thus providing reliable data support for land surface process research and related applications.…”
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Diabetic Polyneuropathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Mitochondrial Function by Luis Miguel Román-Pintos, Geannyne Villegas-Rivera, Adolfo Daniel Rodríguez-Carrizalez, Alejandra Guillermina Miranda-Díaz, Ernesto Germán Cardona-Muñoz

“…Inflammation induces activation of nuclear factor kappa B, activator protein 1, and mitogen-activated protein kinases. …”
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Gazneliler Dönemine Ait Pirinç Tepsi Üzerindeki Taht Sahnesi by Arslan Durdu

“…Gazneliler döneminden kalma pirinç bir tepsi üzerindeki taht sahnesi devrin sanat anlayışı ve saray hayatı hakkında önemli bilgiler sunmaktadır. …”
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Evaluation of the location of posterior superior alveolar artery and infraorbital foramen originating from the same source by using cone beam computed tomography by Kübra Çam, Ayse Zeynep Zengin

“…For statistical analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk tests, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, and Kappa Test were used. Results The incidence rate of PSAA on CBCT was found as 56.2%. …”
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Mapping the forests and their spatiotemporal changes in the Yellow River Basin (Gansu section) in China from 2008 to 2018 by Quanfu Niu, Mingzhi Liu, Bo Liu, Gang Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Xiujie Liu, Weiming Cheng, Kegong Li

“…Our findings are as follows: The forest/non-forest data extracted from PALSAR and Landsat aligns more closely with publicly available forest data, achieving an overall accuracy of 95.4% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.87, which demonstrates the reliability and accuracy of our extraction method. …”
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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The cycle thresholds of the TaqMan Triplex® commercial kit and the in-house assay for the detection of plasma ZIKV RNA isolated with the standard protocol showed a strong association (r = 0.93, P<0.0001) and a Cohen Kappa index of 0.98 when all 249 samples were analyzed. …”
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Quantifying Liver Cirrhosis by Extracting Significant Features from MRI T2 Image by Ming-Hong Hshiao, Po-Chou Chen, Jo-Chi Jao, Yung-Hui Huang, Chen-Chang Lee, Shih-Yu Chao, Li-Wei Lin, Tai-Been Chen

“…The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve, 95% confidence intervals, and kappa statistics were used to test the significance and agreement. …”
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Comparison of Preoperative Assessment of Patient’s Metabolic Equivalents (METs) Estimated from History versus Measured by Exercise Cardiac Stress Testing by Adam S. Weinstein, Martin I. Sigurdsson, Angela M. Bader

“…The METs of the patient estimated by history and the METs quantified by the exercise cardiac stress test were compared using a Bland–Altman plot and Cohen’s kappa. Results. Exercise cardiac stress test quantified METs were on average 3.3 METS higher than the METs estimated by the preoperative evaluation history. …”
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Risk of General Anesthesia in Pediatric Skin Procedures with Projection on Tumescent Anesthesia by Abdulmajeed Alajlan, Bader M. Alhabeeb, Ali M. Alhazmi, Osama A. Alobaid, Ahmed A. Alharthi, Nada I. Al-Habib, Ahmed M. El-Malky

“…No adverse events related to anaesthesia were recognized, apart from minor complications noticed in twelve patients. The kappa value range is between 0.78 and 1.00 (95% C.I., 0.46809 to 1.00). …”
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Identification of the Role of Mume fructus in Treating Nocturnal Asthma Based on Network Pharmacology and In vitro Investigation by Ling-Ling Tang, Yan-Qiu Xu, Ying Yang, Xian-Hong Sun, Bo-Han Wang, Xiao-Lu Shi, Li Liu

“…Results: Network pharmacology analyses were mainly enriched in nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, and interleukin (IL)-6. …”
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