Comparison of the Frontal Plane Projection Angle and the Dynamic Valgus Index to Identify Movement Dysfunction in Females with Patellofemoral Pain by Lori A Bolgla, Haley N Gibson, Daniel C Hannah, Tiana Curry-McCoy

“…Positive likelihood ratios were calculated for each measure. The significance level was *p* \< 0.05…”
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Wilson disease in the USA: epidemiology and real-world patient characteristics based on a retrospective observational health claims study by Karl Heinz Weiss, Peter Hedera, Shona Fang, Carey Strader, Halley Costantino

“…Adjusted prevalence was calculated using age-specific prevalence standardised to the USA (2010 US census) and to the world (WHO 2000–2025) to enable comparisons across countries, using direct standardisation of prevalence estimates by age group.Results Overall, 2115 patients with WD were identified during the study period. …”
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Health belief model of parents’ COVID-19 vaccination intentions for children: perceived benefits and barriers in Indonesia by Eka Wuri Handayani, Eka Wuri Handayani, Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, Fredrick Dermawan Purba

“…The sample size was calculated using formulation in OpenEpi for 95% confidence levels, with a statistical power of 80%.ResultsOur study finds that perceived benefit and perceived barriers are the two domains that most significantly influenced the parents’ intention to vaccinate their children. …”
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Spatial Distribution of the Probability of Satisfying the Chill Requirements of Pistachio in Iran Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data by Ebrahim Asadi Oskouei, Saeedeh Kouzegaran, Mansoureh Kouhi, Hossein Hokmabadi, Mohsen Eslami

“…The main goal of this work is to calculate the chilling requirements for breaking the dormancy of four pistachio cultivars, using the CH method. …”
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Edge Computing-Based Machine Vision for Non-Invasive and Rapid Soft Sensing of Mushroom Liquid Strain Biomass by Libin Wu, Guimiao Xiao, Deyao Huang, Xiandong Zhang, Dapeng Ye, Haiyong Weng

“…The cascaded machine vision model mainly consists of three steps: first, the object detection task to locate the observation window, achieving a mean Average Precision (mAP50:95) of 82.3% with 78.7 GFLOPs; then, the segmentation task to extract liquid strain data within the observation window, yielding a mean intersection over union (MIoU) of 85.9% with 110.4 GFLOPs; and finally, calculating mycelium biomass indices via the morphological image processing task. …”
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Study of the landslide process in conditions of seasonally frozen soils (landslide slope of the Vorkuta river valley) by A. N. Vikhot

“…Based on the results of vertical electrical sounding, a geoelectric section at the landslide failure edge is presented. Statistical calculations based on geodetic data, transformation of landslide displacement time series to stationary form by detrending method, correlation analysis were carried out.Results. …”
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Design Optimization and Parameter Analysis of a Hybrid Rocket Motor-Powered Small LEO Launch Vehicle by Hao Zhu, Pengcheng Wang, Weile Xu, Yuanjun Zhang, Hui Tian, Guobiao Cai

“…The theoretical velocity increments are calculated by the Tsiolkovsky formula, and the actual velocity increments are obtained based on the trajectory simulation data. …”
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Experimental Study of Mechanical Characteristics of Tunnel Support System in Hard Cataclastic Rock with High Geostress by Minglei Sun, Yongquan Zhu, Xinzhi Li, Zhengguo Zhu, Benguo He

“…The results showed that (1) under the condition of high geostress and hard cataclastic surrounding rock, the initial support deformation is large, the horizontal convergence is much larger than the settlement of arch, and the deformation duration is relatively short; (2) the distribution of pressure and stress in initial support are very uneven on the cross-section and greatly affected by the construction process; (3) in the case of large horizontal tectonic stress, the use of large curvature side wall support is beneficial to improve the quality of support and control the deformation of the structure, especially to improve the stress of concrete; (4) the closure time of the supporting system greatly influences the stress state and deformation, so it is necessary to shorten the length of the lower bench and the distance of the invert as possible so as to close the support as early as possible; (5) different location of the tunnel surrounding rock stress distribution is very uneven, the measured value is much larger than calculated value in level III based on the specification of surrounding rock; (6) under high strength and ground stress, the initial supporting stress of steel frame increases rapidly, and the measured stress is larger. …”
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Development of a theoretical framework based on the MAPR model for stage-based, individualized mobile smoking cessation interventions through systematic literature review and exper... by Shuilian CHU, Hang JING, Lirong LIANG, Jun LI

“…Using the constructed theoretical framework, two experts classified intervention strategies within the functional modules of two smoking cessation APPs, and a consistency ratio was calculated to assess the reliability of the framework. …”
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Bioresource Rent Value of Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park, Philippines, for Access and Benefit Sharing Scheme by Grace V. Villanueva, Jersam C. Calago, Bobby B. Alaman, Joseph Glenn Laput, Emmarie F. Mapi-ot, Richard B. Parilla, Gemmalyn M. Trespalacio, Joan U. Ureta, J. Carl Ureta

“…Value chain analysis and resource rent calculation were utilized to determine the economic value of MMNRP’s bioresources and ensure their sustainability and equitable management. …”
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Accuracy of administrative data for surveillance of healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review by Karel G M Moons, Marc J M Bonten, Maaike S M van Mourik, Pleun Joppe van Duijn, Grace M Lee

“…The large heterogeneity in study designs across the included studies precluded formal calculation of summary diagnostic accuracy estimates in most instances.Conclusions Administrative data had limited and highly variable accuracy for the detection of HAI, and their judicious use for internal surveillance efforts and external quality assessment is recommended. …”
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Below the Schwinger critical magnetic field value, quantum vacuum and gamma-ray bursts delay by Iver H. Brevik, Moshe M. Chaichian, Anca Tureanu

“…Above the critical magnetic field limit, calculated by Schwinger in the lowest order perturbation in quantum electrodynamics (QED), one reaches the threshold for electron-positron pair creation (through the intermediate electric field, as known also from standard electrodynamics), which has interesting consequences. …”
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The Activity Concentrations and Radium Equivalent Activity in Soil Samples Collected from the Eastern Part of Basrah Governorate in Southern Iraq by Rasha S. Ahmed, Raghad S. Mohammed, Rana O. Abdaljalil

“…The radium equivalent activity, the external hazard index, the internal hazard index, and the radioactivity level index were calculated to estimate the radiation hazard in Basrah. …”
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Panel data regression approach on inclusive green growth by E. Juniardi, S. Amar, H. Aimon

“…The novelty of this study is the use of environmental quality variables to replace environmental degradation in calculating the composite variable of inclusive green growth.  …”
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Data Homogeneity Effect in Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Type 1 Diabetic Retinopathy by Jui-En Lo, Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang, Yun-Nung Chen, Yi-Ting Hsieh, Nan-Kai Wang, Ta-Ching Chen, Kuan-Jen Chen, Wei-Chi Wu, Yih-Shiou Hwang, Fu-Sung Lo, Chi-Chun Lai

“…The model performance in predicting DR was evaluated using testing images from each dataset, and area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity were calculated. The model trained using the Kaggle dataset had an average (range) AUC of 0.74 (0.03) and 0.87 (0.01) in the testing Kaggle and T1D datasets, respectively. …”
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Estimating the Relative Risks of Spatial Clusters Using a Predictor–Corrector Method by Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Kamel Rekab, Julia Pluta, Said Tabharit

“…To test the proposed method, we first calculated the relative risks of statistically significant spatial clusters of COVID-19 mortality in the U.S. over seven time intervals from May 2020 to March 2023. …”
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An Intervention Study: Does a Cognitive Reappraisal Technique Reduce the Perceived Stress in Fourth-Year Dental Students in New Zealand? by Alana Smith, Imogen Scott, Jithendra Ratnayake, Kate Newsham-West, Peter Cathro

“…Change scores were calculated by subtracting the follow-up DES scores from baseline DES scores. …”
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The Mechanism of Rock Mass Crack Propagation of Principal Stress Rotation in the Process of Tunnel Excavation by Guanfeng Chang, Xinzhu Hua, Jie Zhang, Peng Li

“…In this study, the theoretical calculation and numerical analysis method have been combined with the crack propagation conditions to study the stress-driven mechanism of brittle rock crack propagation under principal stress rotation. …”
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Seismic and GNSS strain-based probabilistic seismic hazard evaluation for northern Chile using DAS Magnitude Scale by Ranjit Das, Claudio Meneses, Hua Wang

“…GNSS strain data proved invaluable for refining seismic segmentation in Northern Chile, enhancing the precision of PSHA calculations. Conclusions A PSHA map for Northern Chile, synthesizing seismic catalog data and GNSS strain rates using a Logic Tree-based algorithm, has been developed for a 475-year return period. …”
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Human reference microbiome profiles of different body habitats in healthy individuals by Sujin Oh, Kyoung Un Park, Kyoung Un Park

“…Reference intervals of alpha diversity indices were calculated. To reduce the effects of inherent limitations of microbiome data, the taxonomic profiles of the reference group were estimated as log-scaled fold change (logFC) in the abundance of microorganisms between two habitats within the subjects. …”
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