Increased global posterior tibial slope is significantly associated with higher ACL graft signal intensity on 2-Year postoperative MRI after primary ACL reconstruction using hamstr... by Zhi-yu Zhang, Le-jin Hong, Wen-bin Bai, Jia-yi Shao, Yi-tian Gao, Xiao-yue Fu, Jian-quan Wang, Cheng Wang

“…Posterior tibial slope (PTS) and anterior tibial subluxation (ATS) were measured on preoperative MRI, whereas the normalized signal intensity of the ACL graft was evaluated on postoperative MRI and calculated as the ratio of the graft signal intensity to that of the patellar tendon. …”
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Timp2 loss-of-function mutation and TIMP2 treatment in a murine model of NSCLC: Modulation of immunosuppression and oncogenic signaling by David Peeney, Sarvesh Kumar, Tej Pratap Singh, Yueqin Liu, Sandra M. Jensen, Ananda Chowdhury, Sasha Coates-Park, Joshua Rich, Sadeechya Gurung, Yu Fan, Daoud Meerzaman, William G. Stetler-Stevenson

“…In summary, we describe how TIMP2 exerts novel, anti-tumor effects in a murine model of lung cancer and that rTIMP2 treatment supports a normalizing effect on the tumor microenvironment. Our findings show that TIMP2 treatment demonstrates significant potential as an adjuvant in the treatment of NSCLC.…”
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Effectiveness Trade-Off Between Green Spaces and Built-Up Land: Evaluating Trade-Off Efficiency and Its Drivers in an Expanding City by Xinyu Dong, Yanmei Ye, Tao Zhou, Dagmar Haase, Angela Lausch

“…Interaction detection demonstrates significant synergistic effects between pairs of drivers, such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and building height, and the number of patches of green spaces and the patch cohesion index of built-up land, with <i>q</i>-values of 0.298 and 0.137, respectively. …”
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Independent and joint associations of neighbourhood greenness and walkability with transportational and recreational physical activity among youth and adults in Canada by Natalie Doan, Sebastian A. Srugo, Stephanie A. Prince, Rachel C. Colley, Daniel G. Rainham, Taru Manyanga, Gregory P. Butler, Richard Larouche, Sarah E. Turner, Justin J. Lang

“…To derive an indicator of neighbourhood greenness, for each survey year, we aggregated mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values within 2016 dissemination areas. …”
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Improved SED-fitting Assumptions Result in Inside-out Quenching at z ~ 0.5 and Quenching at All Radii Simultaneously at z ~ 1 by Alexander de la Vega, Susan A. Kassin, Camilla Pacifici, Stéphane Charlot, Emma Curtis-Lake, Jacopo Chevallard, Timothy M. Heckman, Anton M. Koekemoer, Weichen Wang

“…Their slopes are similar at all masses (0.06–0.08 dex kpc ^−1 ), and the normalizations for the quiescent galaxies are lower. Therefore, the sSFR profiles decline with time as quenching occurs at all radii simultaneously. …”
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Acute recovery of heart rate in a functional fitness session and its relationship with maximum oxygen consumption by Brian Johan Bustos-Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Rafael Enrique Lozano Zapata, Amalia Villamizar Navarro, John Alexander García Galviz

“…Maximum heart rate, session heart rate, and recovery heart rate (1, 2, and 3 minutes) were recorded. The Shapiro-Wilk normality test and the Pearson correlation coefficient (95% confidence and a p-value of 0.05) were applied.…”
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Artificial intelligence-driven ensemble deep learning models for smart monitoring of indoor activities in IoT environment for people with disabilities by Munya A. Arasi, Hussah Nasser AlEisa, Amani A. Alneil, Radwa Marzouk

“…First, data preprocessing is performed using min–max normalization to convert input data into useful format. …”
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Cell-free DNA predicts all-cause mortality of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by Feixiang Xu, Xiao Tan, Jianli Wang, Su Lu, Hailin Ding, Mingming Xue, Yumei Chen, Sheng Wang, Jie Teng, Yiqin Shi, Zhenju Song

“…Moreover, cfDNA was positively correlated with several baseline parameters, including serum creatine, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, prothrombin time, and International Normalized Ratio.Conclusion High serum cfDNA level is associated with higher mortality among the S-AKI population, indicating that cfDNA is a valuable biomarker for S-AKI prognosis.…”
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Formation and development of the language training methodology for foreign students at classical university. Part 4. Language training of foreign medical students in the english me... by N. Ushakova, I. Kushnir, O. Trostynska, T. Aleksieienko

“…Furthermore, the article scrutinizes the normative, procedural, and evaluative functions of linguistic discipline curricula. …”
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Assessment of potentially toxic elements pollution in soils and plant leaves along the high-traffic highway zones in Tehran, Iran by Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh, Hamid Toranjzar, bbas Ahmadi, Nourollah Abdi, Javad Varvani

“…Bioaccumulation Factor (BCF) calculations indicated Pine and Cypress species had higher potential for metal uptake, with BCF values exceeding 1 for zinc and lead in high-traffic areas, whereas Mulberry demonstrated relatively lower accumulation. Despite a normalized NIPI index value of 1, the enrichment factor (EF) for zinc (EF = 98.04) underscores significant anthropogenic contributions, particularly from non-exhaust vehicular emissions. …”
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Osilodrostat treatment in patients with Cushing’s disease of Asian or non-Asian origin: a pooled analysis of two Phase III randomized trials (LINC 3 and LINC 4) by Akira Shimatsu, Beverly MK Biller, Maria Fleseriu, Rosario Pivonello, Eun Jig Lee, Rattana Leelawattana, Jung Hee Kim, Rama Walia, Yerong Yu, Zhihong Liao, Andrea Piacentini, Alberto M Pedroncelli, Peter J Snyder

“…Osilodrostat, a potent oral 11β-hydroxylase inhibitor, provided rapid, sustained mean urinary free cortisol (mUFC) normalization in Cushing’s disease patients in two Phase III studies (LINC 3, NCT02180217; LINC 4, NCT02697734). …”
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Drug Efficacy Recommendation System of Glioblastoma (GBM) Using Deep Learning by Sajid Naveed, Mujtaba Husnain, Ali Samad, Amna Ikram, Hina Afreen, Ghulam Gilanie, Najah Alsubaie

“…Each cell line provides gene expression values, which are further normalized through Z-transformation for each gene. However, we utilized only 47 genes in our research due to limitations in computer processing speed and memory. …”
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Genome-wide identification and functional roles relating to anthocyanin biosynthesis analysis in maize by Xiaofang Wang, Huangai Li, Shuai Wang, Meiqi Ruan, Yiping Li, Lei Zhu, Zhenying Dong, Yan Long

“…These anthocyanin biosynthetic genes have high copy numbers and are normally clustered on chromosomes. The promoters of these synthetic genes contain various cis-elements and the gene expression patterns and transcriptional regulatory networks were analyzed. …”
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Evaluation of the WRF-CMAQ Model Performances on Air Quality in China with the Impacts of the Observation Nudging on Meteorology by Jiali Li, Shaocai Yu, Xue Chen, Yibo Zhang, Mengying Li, Zhen Li, Zhe Song, Weiping Liu, Pengfei Li, Min Xie, Jia Xing

“…It was found that the Nudging case improved model performances for PM2.5 and its chemical components at the Xianghe site with lower values of normalized mean bias (NMB) and higher values of correlation coefficient (R) than the base case. …”
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Potentials of Presepsin as a Novel Sepsis Biomarker in Critically Ill Adults: Correlation Analysis with the Current Diagnostic Markers by Mai S. Sater, Nourah Almansour, Zainab Hasan Abdulla Malalla, Salim Fredericks, Muhalab E. Ali, Hayder A. Giha

“…These measures were heart rate (HR), white blood count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), lactate plasma concentrations, and measures of hemostasis status (platelets count (PLT), fibrinogen, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), international normalization ratio (INR) and D-dimer). Plasma bilirubin and creatinine served as indicators of liver and kidney dysfunction, respectively. …”
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The Effect of FOXA3 Overexpression on Hepatocyte Differentiation and Liver Regeneration in a Fah cKO Mouse ModelSummary by Shao Li, Chupeng Ou, Jiajun Zhang, Min Zeng, Kangyan Liang, Qing Peng, Yi Gao

“…After RF3 spheroid transplantation, Fah cKO mice exhibited increased survival, reduced weight loss, normalization of liver function and hepatocyte structure, and enhanced expression of hepatocyte differentiation factors. …”
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The Modulation of Reward and Habit Systems by Acupuncture in Adolescents with Internet Addiction by Yang Wang, Yun Qin, Hui Li, Dezhong Yao, Bo Sun, Zhiliang Li, Xin Li, Yu Dai, Chao Wen, Lingrui Zhang, Chenchen Zhang, Tianmin Zhu, Cheng Luo

“…Using a paired t-test in IA subjects before and after 40 days of acupuncture, the increased ROI-to-ROI rsFC was decreased (normalized to HC) with acupuncture, including the rsFC of the right VRP with the left OFC, PMC, and cerebellum, and the rsFC of the left cerebellum with the left OFC, PMC, and right vmPFC. …”
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Uncertainty analysis of linear and non-linear regression models in the modeling of water quality in the Caspian Sea basin: Application of Monte-Carlo method by Sahar Heidari Masteali, Mahmoud Bayat, Pete Bettinger, Mansour Ghorbanpour

“…The research results showed that more than 70% of the models produced results within an acceptable range of uncertainty. Furthermore, the normalized RMSE (NRMSE) values associated with the models were all in the range of 0 to 30%, which is considered acceptable. …”
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Bearing Defect Detection with Unsupervised Neural Networks by Jianqiao Xu, Zhaolu Zuo, Danchao Wu, Bing Li, Xiaoni Li, Deyi Kong

“…Sample preprocessing algorithm based on normalized sample symmetry of bearing is adopted to greatly increase the number of samples. …”
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Activin levels correlate with lymphocytic infiltration in epithelial ovarian cancer by Elizabeth T. Evans, Emily F. Page, Alex Seok Choi, Zainab Shonibare, Andrea G. Kahn, Rebecca C. Arend, Karthikeyan Mythreye

“…Methods Publicly available RNA sequencing data were accessed from GEO (#GSE143897) with normalization and quantification performed via DESeq2. …”
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