Global urban and rural settlement dataset from 2000 to 2020 by Zhitao Liu, Sheng Huang, Chuanglin Fang, Luotong Guan, Menghang Liu

“…An accuracy assessment of 44,474 independent samples showed that GURS achieved an overall accuracy of 91.22% with a kappa coefficient of 0.85, outperforming nine multi-scale reference datasets in delineating global urban and rural settlements. …”
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A Novel Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique for Multiclass Imbalance Problems by Jiao Wang, Norhashidah Awang

“…On average, the OCH-SMOTE algorithm improves <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$P_{macro}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>by 8.19%, MAVA by 9.19%, MG by 30.68%, MFM by 8.78%, and Kappa coefficient by 0.0462 across all datasets compared to the baseline methods. …”
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Prenatal Tarama Testi Uygulanan Gebelerin Kaygı Düzeyi ve İlişkili Faktörler by Emel Ege, Vesile Koçak

“…Gebelikte enfeksiyon hastalığına maruz kalma durumu ile durumluk ve sürekli kaygı puanları arasında anlamlı farklılık bulunmuştur p…”
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Radiographic interpretation using high-resolution Cbct to diagnose degenerative temporomandibular joint disease. by Jonas Bianchi, João Roberto Gonçalves, Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Ruellas, Júlia Vieira Pastana Bianchi, Lawrence M Ashman, Marilia Yatabe, Erika Benavides, Fabiana Naomi Soki, Lucia Helena Soares Cevidanes

“…The two radiologists presented a high agreement (Cohen's Kappa ranging from 0.80 to 0.87) for all radiographic findings (osteophyte, erosion, cysts, flattening, and sclerosis). …”
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Low Frequency of Asymptomatic and Submicroscopic Plasmodial Infections in Urabá Region in Colombia by Carolina Rodríguez Vásquez, Sebastián Barrera Escobar, Alberto Tobón-Castaño

“…The best agreement between diagnoses was found between the RDT and thick blood smears (Kappa = 0.75). Conclusion. Plasmodial afebrile infection was found in 2% of the studied population, by three diagnostic methods, in residents from a low endemic malaria region in Colombia.…”
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¿Son válidos los métodos manuales modificados para determinar la Velocidad de Eritrosedimentación Globular (VSG) en laboratorios clínicos? by Andrey Payán González, Diana Maritza Jurado Orejuela, Luz Myriam Garzón Lancheros

“…Los resultados de S, E, VPP, VPN y C fueron: 93,8%, 93,6, 98,8%, 72,8% y 71% en el de WB; 86,3%, 85,7%, 97,2%, 52,4% y 54% en el de WI; 94,6%, 66,6%, 94,1%, 71,4% y 54% para MM y 91,9%, 72,4%, 94,8%, 60,8% y 55% para MMI. El índice kappa mostró una concordancia “buena” entre el método de Westergren y el método de Wintrobe y “moderada” con los métodos de WBI, MM y MMI. …”
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Investigating Rotor Conditions on Wind Turbines Using Integrating Tree Classifiers by Bikash Chandra Saha, Joshuva Arockia Dhanraj, M. Sujatha, R. Vallikannu, Mohana Alanazi, Ahmad Almadhor, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy, Kuma Gowwomsa Erko, V. Sugumaran

“…Among the classifiers, the least absolute deviation tree performed better with the classification percentage of 90% (Kappa statistics=0.88, MAE=0.0362, and RMSE=0.1704) with a computational time of 0.06 s.…”
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Protective Effects of Gemigliptin, a Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor, against Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity in Mice by Seung Hee Choi, Jaechan Leem, In-Kyu Lee

“…Gemigliptin also decreased the plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-α and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and attenuated nuclear staining of nuclear factor kappa-B p65 in the kidneys. In addition, gemigliptin increased the protein expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) in the kidneys of cisplatin-treated mice. …”
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Radiographic localization of supernumerary teeth: a narrative review by Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni, Robert Prashanth Anthonappa, Jayakumar Jayaraman, Nigel Martyn King

“…The citation lists from the included articles were examined to identify additional reports and a hand search was also conducted. Kappa statistics were used for intra-examiner reliability.ResultsThe initial search yielded 4,864 citations, subsequently examined and supplemented by a hand search to find additional studies. …”
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Contrafaction in Lithuanian book publishing during the first half of the XIX century by Aušra Navickienė

“…Serija A Knygos lietuvių kalba). These are the repeated editions of the publication About Teetotalers' Brotherhood (Apej brostwą blaiwistes) by Bishop Motiejus Valančius. …”
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Evaluation of Land Use Changes before and after Iraq and Iran's War (Case Study: Ilam Watershed) by Norodin Rostami, Batol Navrouzi, Taherh Jafari

“…Classification was made by supervised classification method with 96.5, 92.3 and 97.8% kappa coefficient respectively for the various studied periods. …”
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A data pipeline for secure extraction and sharing of social determinants of health. by Tyler Schappe, Lisa M McElroy, Moronke Ogundolie, Roland Matsouaka, Ursula Rogers, Nrupen A Bhavsar

“…We calculated Cohen's Kappa and percent disagreement at census block group and tract levels, and by Area Deprivation Index, urbanicity, and year.…”
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Optimizing SVM for argan tree classification using Sentinel-2 data: A case study in the Sous-Massa Region, Morocco by Abdelhak El Kharki, Jamila Mechbouh, Miriam Wahbi, Otmane Yazidi Alaoui, Hakim Boulaassal, Mustapha Maatouk, Omar El Kharki

“…The results are validated using the cross-validation method and by the following scores: accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and Cohen’s Kappa. The experiments were conducted using the Earth Engine Python API in Google Colab (Google Collaboratory). …”
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Lawsonia intracellularis T3SS effector LI0758, an Rce1 ortholog, activates MAPK and NF-κB signaling in mammalian cells by Yuanxiu Zhong, Yiyun Duan, Fenju Lai, Jinhua Zhang, Yimin Dai

“…In this study, we identify that LI0758 can be secreted by the Yersinia T3SS, which suppresses yeast growth and activates mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) signaling pathway in mammalian cells. …”
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Human values in Bachelor's degree in Nursing’s students by Héctor Cabrera Rodríguez, Zenia Tamara Sánchez García, Ivette Mullens Ramos, Liumys Zayas Alzamora, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares, Isys Leyva Betancourt

“…A survey was applied to the students and an observation guide; In addition, an interview was carried out with the professors who teach in said academic year, the Kappa value was used as a statistical procedure.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> 86.5% of the students consider that they have developed the value solidarity, humanism is present in 84.6%, while the least identified values were anti-imperialism indicated by 57.6% and internationalism, only by 50.0% of the sample studied. 80 % of teachers consider that students' values are poorly developed.…”
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Low agreement and frequent invalid controls in two SARS-CoV-2 T-cell assays in people with compromised immune function. by Annette Audigé, Alain Amstutz, Macé M Schuurmans, Patrizia Amico, Dominique L Braun, Marcel P Stoeckle, Barbara Hasse, René Hage, Dominik Damm, Michael Tamm, Nicolas J Mueller, Huldrych F Günthard, Michael T Koller, Christof M Schönenberger, Alexandra Griessbach, Niklaus D Labhardt, Roger D Kouyos, Alexandra Trkola, Michael Huber, Katharina Kusejko, Heiner C Bucher, Irene A Abela, Matthias Briel, Frédérique Chammartin, Benjamin Speich, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, and the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study

“…The reliability between the tests was judged as low (Cohen's kappa [κ] = 0.20; overall percent agreement [OPA] = 66%). …”
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Bauman gibi Düşünmek: Wellness ile Ölümün Yapısökümünün Haberler Üzerinden İncelenmesi by Beris Artan Özoran, Aytuğ Mermer

“…21.yüzyılın önemli sosyologlarından biri olan Zygmunt Bauman, insan hareketlerinin temelinde “ölümden kaçma” ve “ölümsüzlüğe ulaşma” olduğunu söylemektedir. …”
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The effects of the antecedents of ewom on tourists' decision-making: Perceived trust as a mediator by Saad AL-SAAD, Yahya A. ALZGHOUL, Ayman HARB

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Grape Seed Proanthocyanidins Exert a Neuroprotective Effect by Regulating Microglial M1/M2 Polarisation in Rats with Spinal Cord Injury by Wen-zhao Liu, Zhan-jun Ma, Ji-he Kang, Ai-xin Lin, Zhao-heng Wang, Hai-wei Chen, Xu-dong Guo, Xue-gang He, Xue-wen Kang

“…We found that GSP regulated microglial polarisation and inhibited apoptosis in PC12 cells induced by M1-BV2 cells through the Toll-like receptor 4- (TLR4-) mediated nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/serine threonine kinase (PI3K/AKT) signaling pathways. …”
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Approximal Caries Detection by DIFOTI: In Vitro Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy/Efficacy with Film and Digital Radiography by Á. Ástvaldsdóttir, K. Åhlund, W. P. Holbrook, B. de Verdier, S. Tranæus

“…Compared with the radiographs, DIFOTI showed closer agreement, expressed as weighted kappa values, with the reference standard. The results show that under in vitro conditions, the diagnostic accuracy of DIFOTI in detecting early approximal enamel lesions is greater than that of film and digital radiography, while the potential for detecting lesions in dentin is similar for all three methods.…”
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