A Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Method Combining Spectral, Terrain, and Texture Features for Landslide Mapping by Yi He, Hesheng Chen, Qing Zhu, Qing Zhang, Lifeng Zhang, Tao Liu, Wende Li, Huaiyuan Chen

“…Specifically, compared with using only spectral bands, integrating spectral bands, spectral indexes, terrain factors, and texture indexes achieves the highest Recall, Kappa, F1-score, and MIoU in testing areas, and missed alarm (MA) is reduced by 15.56%. …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…Two radiologists (R1: 4 years and R2: 3 years of experience) independently assigned PI-RADS scores (PI-RADS v2.1) and assessed image quality (mPI-QUAL score) in two blinded study readouts. Weighted Cohen’s Kappa (κ) was calculated to evaluate inter-reader agreement. …”
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Curcumin nanoparticles alleviate brain mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular senescence in γ-irradiated rats by Omnia A. Moselhy, Nahed Abdel-Aziz, Azza El-bahkery, Said S. Moselhy, Ehab A. Ibrahim

“…In irradiated rats, CNPs also showed anti-neuroinflammatory effects by reducing brain interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-ĸB) levels (P < 0.05). …”
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Anesthetic Isoflurane Posttreatment Attenuates Experimental Lung Injury by Inhibiting Inflammation and Apoptosis by Jun-tang Li, Hui Wang, Wei Li, Li-feng Wang, Li-chao Hou, Jing-lan Mu, Xin Liu, Hui-juan Chen, Ke-lang Xie, Nan-lin Li, Chun-fang Gao

“…ISO also inhibited ZY-induced expression and activation of nuclear factor-kappaB p65 and inducible nitric oxide synthase in pulmonary tissue. …”
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Patient and Physician Satisfaction with Analgesic Treatment: Findings from the Analgesic Treatment for Cancer Pain in Southeast Asia (ACE) Study by Dang Huy Quoc Thinh, Wimonrat Sriraj, Marzida Mansor, Kian Hian Tan, Cosphiadi Irawan, Johan Kurnianda, Yen Phi Nguyen, Annielyn Ong-Cornel, Yacine Hadjiat, Hanlim Moon, Francis O. Javier

“…Concordance of patient-physician satisfaction was low (weighted kappa 0.36; 95% CI 0.03–0.24). Most physicians (71.2%) found analgesics to be adequate for pain control. …”
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Supramolecular prodrug inspiried by the Rhizoma Coptidis-Fructus Mume herbal pair alleviated inflammatory diseases by inhibiting pyroptosis by Wenhui Qian, Bei Zhang, Ming Gao, Yuting Wang, Jiachen Shen, Dongbing Liang, Chao Wang, Wei Wei, Xing Pan, Qiuying Yan, Dongdong Sun, Dong Zhu, Haibo Cheng

“…Its anti-inflammatory mechanism is closely related to the inhibition of intracellular nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) p65 phosphorylation and the noncanonical pyroptosis signalling pathway mediated by caspase-11.…”
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Semi-standardized evaluation of extraprostatic extension and seminal vesicle invasion with [18F]PSMA-1007 PET/CT: a comparison to MRI using histopathology as reference by Erland Hvittfeldt, Fredrik Hedeer, Erik Thimansson, Kevin Sandeman, David Minarik, Jacob Ingvar, Anders Bjartell, Elin Trägårdh

“…The intraclass correlation coefficient for the PET LCC measurement was 0.68, the kappa values for the visual Likert scales for PET were 0.53 for EPE and 0.63 for SVI. …”
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Koordinuoti veiksmai sprendžiant DI sugeneruotus sintetinių medijų keliamus iššūkius by Vaiva Šalaševičiūtė

“…Tyrimo rezultatai rodo, kad kompleksiški koordinuoti veiksmai turi potencialo, siekiant užkirsti kelią neigiamoms DI sugeneruotoms problemoms ir iššūkiams.…”
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lncRNA SNHG15 as a ceRNA modulates Osteoclast Differentiation, Proliferation, and Metastasis by Sponging miR-381-3p/NEK2 Axis by YiFan Wang, GuanYin Zhu, Fang Pei, ZhiHe Zhao

“…The expression of SNHG15 was increased in THP-1 cells stimulated by macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF)/receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL). Overexpression of SNHG15 significantly promoted the proliferation, migration, osteoclast differentiation, and expression of osteoclast markers CTSK, MMP9, NFAT2, and TRAP of THP-1 cells induced by M-CSF/RANKL. …”
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Gene Expression Signatures of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells during the Early Post-Transplant Period in Patients Developing Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy by Khurram Shahzad, Martin Cadeiras, Sarfaraz Memon, Barry Zeeberg, Tod Klingler, Anshu Sinha, Esteban G. Tabak, Sreevalsa Unniachan, Mario C. Deng

“…Over 300 genes were differentially expressed (FDR < 5%), and 18 GO-categories including “macrophage activation”, “Interleukin-6 pathway”, “NF-KappaB cascade”, and “response to virus” were enriched by these genes (FDR < 5%). …”
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Sosyal Medya Platformlarında Dijital Detoks: Deneysel Bir Araştırma by Eda Sezerer Albayrak

“…Yeniliklerden ve gelişmelerden sürekli haberdar olma arzuları sonucunda birtakım kazanımlar elde ettiklerini düşünseler de aslında sürekli maruz kalma beraberinde olumsuzluklar da getirmektedir. …”
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Exploratory Investigation of Intestinal Structure and Function after Stroke in Mice by Diya Ye, Yuting Hu, Ning Zhu, Weizhong Gu, Gao Long, Enfu Tao, Marong Fang, Mizu Jiang

“…Myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity and inflammatory proteins (nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)) in the small intestine were significantly increased in mice after stroke. …”
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Feasibility of screening for cognitive impairment among older persons and referral by community health workers in Wakiso district, Uganda by Racheal Alinaitwe, Seggane Musisi, David Mukunya, Yvette Wibabara, Byamah B Mutamba, Noeline Nakasujja

“…Psychiatric clinical officers (PCOs) administered the AD8 to the older persons after assessment by the CHWs who then referred them for appropriate clinical care. We conducted Kappa statistic for agreement between the CHWs and PCOs and compared raw scores of the CHWs to Experts scores using Bland Altman and pair plots and corresponding analyses. …”
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Effects of Tert-Butylhydroquinone on Intestinal Inflammatory Response and Apoptosis following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice by Wei Jin, Hongbin Ni, Yuxiang Dai, Handong Wang, Tianyu Lu, Jun Wu, Jian Jiang, Weibang Liang

“…Intestinal mucosa apoptosis and inflammatory-related factors, such as nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), were investigated at 24 h after TBI. …”
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Three anti-inflammatory polysaccharides from Lonicera japonica Thunb.: insights into the structure-function relationships by Yu Liu, Hongjing Dong, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Wenwen Li, Bin Zhang, Jinqian Yu, Zhichang Qiu, Zhenjia Zheng

“…LJP-2 consisted mainly of →5)-α-L-Araf (1→, →4)-α-L-GalpA (1→ and →2)-α-L-Rhap (1→ residues with terminal T-β-D-Glcp. …”
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Dental and oral health assessments in the German National Cohort (NAKO) by Stefanie Samietz, Katrin Borof, Katrin Hertrampf, Ghazal Aarabi, Antonio Ciardo, Hannah Finke, Daniel Hagenfeld, Jan Kühnisch, Maurice Rütters, Sebastian-Edgar Baumeister, Stefan Lars Reckelkamm, Ti-Sun Kim, Thomas Kocher, Wolfgang Ahrens, Hermann Brenner, Carina Emmel, Beate Fischer, Amand Führer, Karin Halina Greiser, Jasmin Grischke, Kathrin Günther, Volker Harth, Stefanie Jaskulski, André Karch, Thomas Keil, Yvonne Kemmling, Alexander Kluttig, Lilian Krist, Oliver Kuss, Michael Leitzmann, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Karin B. Michels, Nadia Obi, Anette Peters, Nicole Pischon, Tobias Pischon, Sabine Schipf, Börge Schmidt, Henning Teismann, Stefan Rupf, Birte Holtfreter

“…In addition, a reliability study was conducted among 794 Level 1 and 359 Level 2 participants, reporting intra class correlation and kappa coefficients. Results Intra class correlation and kappa coefficients for observer agreement and reliability were consistently above 0.7, indicating good to excellent reliability of all dental measurements. …”
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Enhancement of the Mechanical Properties of Hydroxyapatite/Sulphonated Poly Ether Ether Ketone Treated Layer for Orthopaedic and Dental Implant Application by Roohollah Sharifi, Davood Almasi, Izman Bin Sudin, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Ladan Jamshidy, Seyed Mojtaba Amiri, Hamid Reza Mozaffari, Maliheh Sadeghi, Fatemeh Roozbahani, Nida Iqbal

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Performance of emergency triage prediction of an open access natural language processing based chatbot application (ChatGPT): A preliminary, scenario-based cross-sectional study by İbrahim Sarbay, Göksu Bozdereli Berikol, İbrahim Ulaş Özturan

“…Reliability analysis showed a fair agreement between EM specialists and ChatGPT (Cohen’s Kappa: 0.341). Eleven cases (22%) were over triaged and 9 (18%) cases were under triaged by ChatGPT. …”
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Experimental Thermal Assessment of a Trombe Wall Under a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Climate of Mexico by Iván Hernández-Pérez, Álan Rodriguez-Ake, Daniel Sauceda-Carvajal, Irving Hernández-López, Balaji Kumar, Ivett Zavala-Guillén

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Classification and Statistical Trend Analysis in Detecting Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression by Cristiana Valente, Elisa D’Alessandro, Michele Iester

“…The agreement between methods, based on statistical analysis and classification, was evaluated using a weighted kappa statistic. Results. Thirty-eight visual field series were analyzed. …”
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