Orbital-Radar v1.0.0: a tool to transform suborbital radar observations to synthetic EarthCARE cloud radar data by L. Pfitzenmaier, P. Kollias, P. Kollias, N. Risse, I. Schirmacher, B. Puigdomenech Treserras, K. Lamer

“…Nevertheless, an evaluation of synthetic CPR output data to accurate EarthCARE CPR data is missing.</p>…”
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Risk Factors Associated with False Positive HIV Test Results in a Low-Risk Urban Obstetric Population by Tamara T. Chao, Jeanne S. Sheffield, George D. Wendel, M. Qasim Ansari, Donald D. McIntire, Scott W. Roberts

“…Of 47,794 patients, 47,391 (99%) tested negative, 145 (0.3%) falsely positive, 172 (0.4%) positive, and 86 (0.2%) equivocal or missing HIV results. The positive predictive value of EIA was 54.3%. …”
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Assessing Knowledge and Attitude of Dental Patients regarding the Use of Dental Implants: A Survey-Based Research by Abdulrahman Alajlan, Aryaf Alhoumaidan, Abeer Ettesh, Mazen Doumani

“…The survey concluded that an acceptable level of awareness regarding using dental implants as a treatment option for replacing missing teeth, with friends being the main source of information.…”
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Time to pregnancy recognition among users of an FDA-cleared fertility application by Agathe van Lamsweerde, Jack T. Pearson, Rachel Urrutia, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Helena Kopp Kallner, Anita Nelson, Eleonora Benhar, Carlotta Favaro, Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Raoul Scherwitzl

“…Most participants (with non-missing information) identified as Non-Hispanic White, and one-third reported obtaining a university degree. …”
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FUZZY REGION MERGING WITH HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING TO FIND OPTIMAL INITIALIZATION OF FUZZY REGION IN IMAGE SEGMENTATION by Wawan GUNAWAN

“…However, in the fuzzy region initialization stage after obtaining values from the marker process, there is a possibility of missing or suboptimal determination of fuzzy regions. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Silent Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Patients with Hypertension by He Suyu, Yijun Liu, Xu Jianyu, Guiquan Luo, Lipeng Cao, Xiaoqi Long

“…Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) without symptoms or silent GERD can be easily missed in patients with hypertension. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of GERD, specifically the prevalence of silent GERD in hypertensive patients, and to explore its possible predictors. …”
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Characterizing the omics landscape based on 10,000+ datasets by Eva Brombacher, Oliver Schilling, Clemens Kreutz

“…Moreover, we illustrate how data characteristics can impact analyses at the example of normalization in the presence of sample-dependent proportions of missing values. Given the variability of omics data characteristics, we encourage the systematic inspection of these characteristics in benchmark studies and for downstream analyses to prevent suboptimal method selection and unintended bias.…”
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What can mathematical models tell us about the relationship between circular migrations and HIV transmission dynamics? by Aditya S. Khanna, Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Steven M. Goodreau

“…In settings with circular migrations,commonly-used forms of compartmental models appear to miss keycomponents of HIV epidemiology stemming from interactions ofrelational and viral dynamics.…”
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Functional and Structural Brain Plasticity Enhanced by Motor and Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis by Luca Prosperini, Maria Cristina Piattella, Costanza Giannì, Patrizia Pantano

“…Small sample sizes, lack of randomization and/or an active control group, as well as missed relationship between MRI-detected changes and clinical performance, are the major drawbacks of the selected studies. …”
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Exploring Mean Annual Precipitation Values (2003–2012) in a Specific Area (36°N–43°N, 113°E–120°E) Using Meteorological, Elevational, and the Nearest Distance to Coastline Variable... by Fushen Zhang, Zhitao Yang, Shaobo Zhong, Quanyi Huang

“…Meteorological data from 48 meteorological stations were used, and spatial correlations between three meteorological factors and two topological factors were analyzed to improve the mapping results including annual precipitation, average temperature, average water vapor pressure, elevation, and distance to coastline. Some missing annual precipitation data were estimated based on their historical probability distribution and were assimilated as soft data in the BME method. …”
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A Data Quality Control Program for Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews by Janet E. Squires, Alison M. Hutchinson, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Kelly Deis, Peter G. Norton, Greta G. Cummings, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…Data quality was assessed using both survey and process data. Missing data and data errors were minimal. Mean and median values and standard deviations were within acceptable limits. …”
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Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Presenting with Oculomotor Ophthalmoplegia and Distal Myopathy by Jessica Mani Penny Tevaraj, Evelyn Tai Li Min, Raja Azmi Mohd Noor, Azhany Yaakub, Wan Hazabbah Wan Hitam

“…Neurofibromatosis type 2 may uncommonly present with isolated ophthalmoplegia, so a thorough physical examination and a high index of suspicion are required to avoid missing this condition.…”
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Postprocessing of Accidental Scenarios by Semi-Supervised Self-Organizing Maps by Francesco Di Maio, Roberta Rossetti, Enrico Zio

“…In the context of IDPSA, the interpretation consists in the classification of the generated scenarios as safe, failed, Near Misses (NMs), and Prime Implicants (PIs). To address this issue, in this paper we propose the use of an ensemble of Semi-Supervised Self-Organizing Maps (SSSOMs) whose outcomes are combined by a locally weighted aggregation according to two strategies: a locally weighted aggregation and a decision tree based aggregation. …”
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Can Well-sampled Phase Curves Be Used to Infer Asteroid Spectral Features? by Zachary Murray

“…However, these efforts often suffer from the inclusion of only a few asteroids, missing phase curve data, uncorrected rotational or apparitional aberrations, and other issues. …”
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Accurate calculation of the content volume, density and original weight of museum curated eggs by Valeriy G. Narushin, Michael N. Romanov, Nili Avni-Magen, Darren K. Griffin

“…A mathematical algorithm for calculating the D i value depending on the S/V ratio provides the missing link in calculating W of a whole egg from archived collection material.…”
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Estimating Climate Trends: Application to United States Plant Hardiness Zones by Nir Y. Krakauer

“…I outline a multistep methodology involving imputation of missing station values, geostatistical interpolation, and time series smoothing to update a climate variable’s expected value compared to a climatology period and apply it to estimating annual minimum temperature change over the coterminous United States. …”
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The proline-rich antimicrobial peptide Api137 disrupts large ribosomal subunit assembly and induces misfolding by Simon Malte Lauer, Jakob Gasse, Andor Krizsan, Maren Reepmeyer, Thiemo Sprink, Rainer Nikolay, Christian M. T. Spahn, Ralf Hoffmann

“…High-resolution structures obtained by cryogenic electron microscopy demonstrate that a large proportion of pre-50S states are missing up to five proteins (uL22, bL32, uL29, bL23, and uL16) and have misfolded helices in 23S rRNA domain IV. …”
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Aberrant Right Hepatic Duct Draining into the Cystic Duct: Clinical Outcomes and Management by Aijaz A. Sofi, Osama H. Alaradi, Marwan Abouljoud, Ali T. Nawras

“…These injuries are often-times missed or diagnosed late and as a result can develop serious complications. …”
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Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary by Susmann Natalie M.

“…Using contemporary tourist reviews, I unpack nuances that are missing in the archaeological and historical record. …”
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Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading? by Rick Mourits

“…However, in order to find out the determinants of later-life mortality, external validity of results, blind spots due to missing data, and familial clustering need to be studied more thoroughly.…”
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