Support Vector Machine – Recursive Feature Elimination for Feature Selection on Multi-omics Lung Cancer Data by Nuraina Syaza Azman, Azurah A Samah, Ji Tong Lin, Hairudin Abdul Majid, Zuraini Ali Shah, Nies Hui Wen, Chan Weng Howe

“…In this study, the LUSC datasets first undergo data pre-processing, including checking for missing values, normalization, and removing zero variance features. …”
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A randomised controlled trial of fluoxetine versus naltrexone in compulsive sexual behaviour disorder: presentation of the study protocol by Jussi Jokinen, Josephine Savard, Katarina Görts Öberg, Cecilia Dhejne

“…The results will be analysed using an appropriate analysis of variance model or a mixed model, depending on the distribution of HD: CAS and the extent of missing data.Ethics and dissemination The Swedish Ethical Review Authority and the Swedish Medical Products Agency have approved the study on 27 May 2020 and 4 June 2020, respectively (ref. no. 2020-02069 and ref. no. 5.1-2020-48282). …”
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Comparative analysis of developmental outcomes in very preterm infants: BSID-II versus Bayley-III German norms. by Marlene Hammerl, Martina Zimmermann, Anna Posod, Ulrike Pupp Peglow, Michaela Höck, Elke Griesmaier, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, Vera Neubauer

“…Exclusion criteria were death or missing outcome. Infants underwent testing with either BSID-II until December 2013 or Bayley-III from January 2014 onward, at 12 and/or 24 months. …”
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Technology independent optimization when implementing sparse systems of disjunctive normal forms of Boolean functions in ASIC by P. N. Bibilo, S. N. Kardash

“…For matrix forms of sparse DNF systems, the ternary matrix specifying elementary conjunctions contains a large proportion of undefined values corresponding to missing literals of Boolean input variables, and the Boolean matrix specifying the occurrences of conjunctions in DNF functions contains a large proportion of zero values.Methods. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing six monthly multi-month dispensing of antiretroviral therapy in two urban HIV clinics during the COVID-19 Era in Malawi. by Rachel Chamanga, Agatha Bula, Denview Magalasi, Stella Mahuva, Mulinda Nyirenda, Kwasi Torpey, Thulani Maphosa, Mitch Matoga

“…Other reported barriers were s missing clinic appointments and viral load sample collection, if timelines for ART dispensation and viral load testing were misaligned. …”
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A flux tower site attribute dataset intended for land surface modeling by J. Shi, H. Yuan, W. Lin, W. Dong, H. Liang, Z. Liu, J. Zeng, H. Zhang, N. Wei, Z. Wei, S. Zhang, S. Liu, X. Lu, Y. Dai

“…We then compiled the final flux tower attribute dataset by filling in missing attributes with global data and classifying plant functional types (PFTs). …”
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Safety and efficacy of omaveloxolone v/s placebo for the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia in patients aged more than 16 years: a systematic review by Ankita Umrao, Monika Pahuja, Nabendu Sekhar Chatterjee

“…However, the short duration, small sample size, and missing data, including the values of different measures of mFARS scores in patients, limit the generalizability of the results. …”
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The effects of psychosocial aftercare following pediatric chronic pain treatment withstand the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled tria... by Lisa-Marie Rau, Meltem Dogan, Gerrit Hirschfeld, Markus Blankenburg, Michael C. Frühwald, Rosemarie Ahnert, Sarah Braun, Ursula Marschall, Boris Zernikow, Julia Wager

“…A COVID-19 infection among family members or peers was associated with a lower probability of having chronic pain at long-term follow-up, whereas having missed or rescheduled health care appointments was associated with a higher probability. …”
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Diagnostic delay of myositis: protocol for an integrated systematic review by Christine Phillips, Matthew Cook, Anne Parkinson, Jane Desborough, Tergel Namsrai, Anita Chalmers, Christine Lowe

“…All study types (qualitative and quantitative) except review articles, examining diagnostic delay, incorrect diagnosis, missed diagnosis or slow diagnosis of all types of myositis in all ages will be included. …”
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Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – findings from online system mapping workshops with adolescents, policymakers a... by Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde, Frank De Vocht, Russell Jago, Martin White, Zoi Toumpakari

“…There is limited research and policy incorporating adolescents’ views on how they experience the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour and obesity, which misses an opportunity to improve services and policies that aim to influence the prevalence of childhood obesity. …”
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Modern perspective of the Rice Diet for hypertension and other metabolic diseases by Anthony Kuo, Pao-Hwa Lin, Yi-Ju Li, Friedrich C Luft, David López, Romeo Sommerfeld, Paul Ermler, Jana Fehr, Benjamin Bergner, Scott Sanoff, Francis Neelon, William McDowell, Smilla Fox, Abdullatif Ghajar, Elena Gensch, Cedric Lorenz, Martin Preiss, Tom Richter, Philip Klemmer, Anastacia Bohannon, Christoph Lippert

“…The data also permit examining the safety of extreme dietary sodium reduction.The database has numerous strengths (large patient population; extensive, long-term measurements and the use of UCl excretion to document dietary adherence) and limitations (missing data; temporal changes in methodologies over 50 years and lack of control subjects).Conclusion The RDDP database allows exploration of the effects of a diet extremely low in sodium, protein, fat and cholesterol on health indicators and patient survival. …”
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"I'll take them another day": A qualitative study exploring the socio-behavioral complexities of childhood vaccination in urban poor settlements. by Judy Gichuki, Ben Ngoye, Francis Wafula

“…The World Health Organization observed that over 25 million children missed out on one or more vaccines in 2021, with urban poor and other marginalized groups being the most affected. …”
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Design of an iterative method for enhanced early prediction of acute coronary syndrome using XAI analysis by Shital Hajare, Rajendra Rewatkar, K.T.V. Reddy

“…Addressing data integrity, the methodology encompasses rigorous data preprocessing techniques, including advanced missing value imputation and outlier detection, to ensure dataset reliability. …”
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MFCEN: A lightweight multi-scale feature cooperative enhancement network for single-image super-resolution by Jiange Liu, Yu Chen, Xin Dai, Li Cao, Qingwu Li

“…Existing lightweight super-resolution methods, which primarily focus on single-scale feature extraction, lead to the issue of missing multi-scale features. This results in incomplete feature acquisition and poor reconstruction of the image. …”
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Feasibility and acceptability for LION, a fully remote, randomized clinical trial within the VA for light therapy to improve sleep in Veterans with and without TBI: An MTBI2 sponso... by Jonathan E Elliott, Jessica S Brewer, Allison T Keil, Brittany R Ligman, Mohini D Bryant-Ekstrand, Alisha A McBride, Katherine Powers, Savanah J Sicard, Elizabeth W Twamley, Maya E O'Neil, Andrea D Hildebrand, Thuan Nguyen, Benjamin J Morasco, Jessica M Gill, Bradley A Dengler, Miranda M Lim

“…Participant drop out occurred in <10% of those enrolled, incomplete/missing data was present in <15% of key outcome variables, and overall fidelity adherence to the intervention was >85%, collectively establishing feasibility and acceptability for MBLT in Veterans with mTBI.…”
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Designing an online intervention for adults with addictive eating: a qualitative integrated knowledge translation approach by Phillipa Hay, Amanda L Baker, Clare Collins, Tracy Burrows, Mark Leary, Kirrilly Pursey, Antonio Verdejo-García, Janelle Skinner, Megan C Whatnall

“…This process resulted in the identification of eight barriers and three facilitators to providing and receiving treatment for FA, eight components needed or missing from current treatments, telehealth as a feasible delivery platform, and refinement of key elements to ensure the intervention met the needs of both health professionals and possible patients.Conclusion Using an IKT approach allowed for a range of viewpoints and enabled multiple professions and disciplines to engage in a semiformalised way to bring expertise to formulate a possible intervention for FA. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Ionospheric Scintillation on Multi‐Frequency BDS‐2/BDS‐3 Signals at Low Latitudes by Hang Liu, Xiaodong Ren, Xiaohong Zhang, Dengkui Mei, Pengxin Yang

“…To alleviate the undesirable effects of missing data on GNSS positioning, we first investigate the inter‐frequency relationship and distribution probability of two significant spectral parameters, that is, T (the spectral strength of the phase noise at 1 Hz) and p (the spectral slope of the phase power spectral density) in the tracking jitter model among three BDS frequencies. …”
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Patient-reported outcome measures following surgeries in implant dentistry and associated factors: a cross-sectional study by Xinyu Wu, Qi Yan, Bin Shi, Mengjie Ye, Jiahui Sun, Haibin Xia

“…Objectives We aimed to evaluate the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of dental implant surgeries and analyse the associated indicators.Design A cross-sectional study design was used.Setting Department of Oral Implantology, Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University (May 2020–April 2021).Participants Participants with missing teeth in need of implant-supported rehabilitation.Interventions Dental implant placement and/or bone augmentation procedures.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was discomfort on postoperative day 1, measured using a numerical rating scale (NRS). …”
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The impact of food-based incentive behaviors on oral health among Saudi children: a cross-sectional study by Yasir Dilshad Siddiqui, Saud Hamdan Almaeen, Ahmed Shawkat Hashem, Ahmed Ali Ahmed Almuntashiri, Mohammed Nadeem Baig, Abdullah Hammad Alshammari, Rital Jamal Alwaqid, Haifa Ali Almutairi, Raha Ahmed, Rakhi Issrani, Farooq Ahmad Chaudhary

“…Clinical examinations by specialist pediatric dentists assessed the plaque index and decayed-missing-filled tooth (dmft/DMFT) scores. Statistical analyses included descriptive analysis, the Mann-Whitney test, the Kruskal-Wallis test, Spearman’s correlation, and linear regression analysis. …”
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The Application of an Intelligent <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>-Harvesting Device Based on FES-YOLOv5s by Hao Ma, Yulong Ding, Hongwei Cui, Jiangtao Ji, Xin Jin, Tianhang Ding, Jiaoling Wang

“…The results showed that the <i>Agaricus bisporus</i> recognition algorithm achieved an average recognition accuracy of 96.72%, with an average missed detection rate of 2.13% and a false detection rate of 1.72%. …”
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