Performance of indirect adherence measures for daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among adolescent men who have sex with men and transgender women in Brazil. by Diana Zeballos, Laio Magno, Fabiane Soares, Jony Arrais Pinto Junior, Leila Amorim, Dirceu Greco, Alexandre Grangeiro, Inês Dourado, PrEP15-19 study group

“…A diagnostic accuracy study was conducted using tenofovir-diphosphate (TFV-DP) concentrations in dried blood spots as the reference standard, along with three index tests: medication possession ratio (MPR), pill count, and self-report. We calculated the area under the curve (AUC) for protective TFV-DP levels (≥800 fmol/punch) and sensitivity (SE) and specificity (SP) for established cutoff points.…”
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Study on Response Probability of Meteorological and Hydrological Drought Characteristics during Drought Recovery Period in Upper Hanjiang River by ZHU Fang, WANG Haiyu, YANG Shaokang, BO Huijuan

“…First, the Pearson correlation coefficient method was used to calculate the response time of meteorological and hydrological drought, and the time overlap method was used to match meteorological and hydrological drought events. …”
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The value of lung ultrasound score combined with echocardiography in assessing right heart function in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis and experiencing pulmonary hyper... by Ying Xia, Xin Liu

“…A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and calculate the area under the curve(AUC) to compare the diagnostic efficacy of various parameters. …”
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Influence of Messa di Voce speed on vocal stability of untrained, healthy subjects. by Jonas Kirsch, Marie Köberlein, Michael Döllinger, Matthias Echternach

“…The tasks' duration and calculated parameters (including, e.g., Open Quotient (OQ), Closing Quotient (ClQ), Relative Average Perturbation (RAP)), excluding parts of the signal with stationary sound pressure level (SPL), were analyzed with correlation analysis and statistical analysis (Analysis of Variance and subsequent multiple comparisons).…”
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Characteristics of Karst Cave Development in Urban Karst Area and Its Effect on the Stability of Subway Tunnel Construction by Fei Xue, Minjun Cai, Tianzuo Wang, Tongyang Zhao

“…According to the detection results, a series of numerical models were built and calculated using FLAC3D to investigate the effect of different sizes and locations of karst caves on the displacement and stability of the surrounding rock in tunnels. …”
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Unexplained Illnesses Associated With a Subscription Meal Service, 2022 by Melanie J. Firestone, Craig W. Hedberg

“…We independently reviewed data on 338 people, including 264 people with supplemental food exposure information, and calculated minimal attack rates. Of 264 people who completed the supplemental survey, all (100%) consumed the Lentil and Leek Crumbles. …”
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Reliability of the EasyAngle® for Assessing Hip Range of Motion in Healthy Children by Elana Duffy, Maria Wells, Alan Miller, Megan Tondra, Antonette Doty

“…Intrarater and interrater reliability of the recorded hip range of motion were calculated using intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) (3,1)…”
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER SUPPLY WELLS AND METHODS OF THEIR CAPITAL REPAIR by V. V. Ivashechkin

“…In which they offer to determine frictional force of the mudded filter against the formation from calculating formulae of the supporting power of an augered pile working with pulling loads. …”
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Non-Destructive Evaluation of Thermal Treatment Influence on Elastic Engineering Parameters of Poplar by Tuğba Yılmaz Aydın, Murat Aydın

“…The 2.25 MHz pressure and 1 MHz shear waves were propagated to calculate ultrasonic wave velocities, which were used to dynamically predict the constants. …”
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Relative Importance of Mode of Administration in Treatment Preferences among Plaque Psoriasis Patients in the United States by Steven R. Feldman, Anders Holmen Moeller, Sandra T. Erntoft Idemyr, Juan Marcos González

“…Results from this model were used to calculate respondents’ willingness to trade efficacy for reduced treatment burden. …”
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Comprehensive Research of Scaling Prediction for Gas Reservoir Fluid considering Phase State by Heng Zheng, Chunsheng Pu

“…For the complexity of the direct solution for a phase equilibrium system with a chemical reaction, a simplified method for calculating the phase change and chemical equilibrium in a multiphase equilibrium system with chemical reactions is proposed based on the conservation of materials and the unification of the physical properties of components. …”
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Geographical Peer Matching for P2P Energy Sharing by Romaric Duvignau, Vincenzo Gulisano, Marina Papatriantafilou, Ralf Klasing

“…However, many practical challenges have to be overcome before all players could gain in having efficient and automated local energy communities; such challenges include the inherent complexity of matching together geographically distributed peers and the significant computations required to calculate the local efficient matching options. We define and analyze in this work a precise mathematical modeling of the geographical peer matching problem, and demonstrate the inherent intractability of the problem, highlighting its high computational cost and underscoring the critical need for scalable approaches that effectively balance performance trade-offs as system size grows. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of systemic immune-inflammation index for acute appendicitis in the geriatric population by Ömerul Faruk Aydın, Ali Cankut Tatlıparmak

“…Demographic data, clinical features, and laboratory values were obtained from medical records. The SII was calculated based on neutrophil, platelet, and lymphocyte counts, and the patients were classified according to histopathological outcomes. …”
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Quantitative Inversion of Martian Hydrous Minerals Based on LSTM-1DCNN Model by Xinbao Liu, Ming Jin, Xiangnan Liu, Zhiming Yang, Zengqian Hou, Xiaozhong Ding

“…The average abundance of hydrous minerals was calculated to be 0.018, with a total area proportion of approximately 8%. …”
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Optimization of the Influencing Variables on the Corrosion Property of Steel Alloy 4130 in 3.5 wt.% NaCl Solution by A. M. El-Shamy, M. A. El-Hadek, A. E. Nassef, R. A. El-Bindary

“…The inhibitive effect of LI in contradiction of the corrosion of steel alloy 4130 surfaces is considered by resources of DFT/6-31G(d) calculations. The quantum chemical parameters interrelated to the inhibition efficiency are considered.…”
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Modulation Instability and Dynamical Analysis of New Abundant Closed-Form Solutions of the Modified Korteweg–de Vries–Zakharov–Kuznetsov Model With Truncated M-Fractional Derivativ... by Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md. Mamunur Roshid, Mahtab Uddin, Ashek Ahmed

“…With the use of symbolic calculations, the applied approach is clear, simple, and elementary, as demonstrated by the more broad and novel results that are obtained. …”
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Preserving the Past: A Dynamic Analysis of Heritage Tourism and Land Conservation in Mamluk Cairo by Amany E. Salem, Ahmed Tawhid Eissa, Thowayeb H. Hassan, Mahmoud I. Saleh

“…The current study develops new sustainable metrics—sustainable visitor capacity (SVC) and Sustainable Visitation Index (SVI)—to provide a multifaceted assessment of heritage destination management beyond simple visitor volume calculations. The SVC considers operating hours, site capacity, and walking time, while the SVI holistically evaluates time efficiency, spatial distribution, and physical comfort. …”
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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Systematic Review by Mazin Barry

“…Overall prevalence of LTBI with 95% confidence intervals (CI) was calculated using the random-effects model; heterogeneity was assessed using I2 statistics. …”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…Volume-based market share of branded antipsychotics was also calculated to compare branded vs. generic antipsychotic use across states. …”
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Lower serum magnesium level is an important risk factor for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents hypo-responsiveness in hemodialysis patients by Hayam Hebah, Shaimaa Abdelmegied, Dina Osman, Lina Khedr

“…The erythropoietin resistivity index (ERI) was calculated for all patients. Results There were significantly lower mean hemoglobin levels in patients with normo-hypomagnesemia vs patients with hypermagnesemia (8.96 ± 0.44 Vs 9.51 ± 0.39 g/dl respectively), with a p-value < 0.001. …”
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