The Clinical Importance of Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Preliminary Report by Burcu AVCI OZBALIK, Tugba BINGOL TANRIVERDI, Hafize Gulsah OZCAN, Melek GURA CELIK

“…Baseline characteristics, clinical data, Glasgow coma scale (GCS) on hospital admission, brain computed tomography (CT) results, injury severity score (ISS), and Marshall score were recorded for all patients. ONSD was calculated at 3 mm distance from the globe, immediately below the sclera. …”
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Location or size? A finite element analysis study of necrotic lesion impact on femoral head collapse by Shun Lu, Tianye Lin, Longfei Han, Ziqi Li, Mingcong He, Qiushi Wei

“…The maximum von Mises stess of the femoral head and necrotic lesion, as well as the femoral head displacement, were calculated to evaluate the biomechanical effects of these models. …”
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Layer dependent thermal transport properties of one- to three-layer magnetic Fe:MoS2 by Elham Easy, Mengqi Fang, Mingxing Li, Eui-Hyeok Yang, Xian Zhang

“…We also characterized Fe:MoS2’s thermal transport at high temperature, and calculated Fe:MoS2’s thermal transport by density theory function. …”
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CHATGPT: ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCES OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN UKRAINE by Oksana Chugai, Kateryna Havrylenko

“…Statistical analysis, specifically the calculation of median (Mdn) and Inter-Quartile Range (IQR), revealed a consensus regarding ChatGPT’s positive impact on academic performance and its suitability for peer recommendation. …”
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The role of sex, age, and BMI in treatment decisions for knee osteoarthritis: conservative management versus total knee replacement by Fabiola Ojeda, Laura Tío, Francisco Castro-Domínguez, Simone Tassani, Jerome Noailly, Jordi Monfort

“…The study employed multivariate analysis of variance for continuous variables at both patient and knee levels, followed by univariate analysis of variance for significant factors, while logistic and linear regression analyses were used to calculate odds ratios, with Bonferroni corrections applied to adjust p-values for multiple comparisons. …”
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Air Heat Pump in Wind Power by L. I. Gretchikhin, A. I. Hutkouski

“…With the reduction in the power of the spinup down to 5.9 W and in the speed of the air flow created by the ventilator to 1.7 m/s, the conversion coefficient increased to 14.9. The theoretical calculation of heat pump conversion coefficient is confirmed by experimental data. …”
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Mechanism and CO2 emissions analysis of multi-solid-waste synergistic red mud-based composite cementitious materials under orthogonal tests by Lili Cheng, Daiyu Zhou, Qiwan Zhang, Lingling Wang, Ninggui Hu, Zeyuan Wang

“…Quicklime enhanced the compactness by generating more hydration products after activating fly ash, silica fume and RM. (4) Life cycle assessment calculations indicated that the carbon emissions of MS-RMCM were 273.01 kg/t, with a unit compressive strength carbon emission coefficient of 10.86 kg/MPa, indicating the significant advantages of MS-RMCM in reducing CO2 emissions in the construction industry.…”
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Composite dietary antioxidant index is inversely and nonlinearly associated with cardiovascular disease, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and cardiovascular mortality in peo... by Yan Jiang, Yingying Shen

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis were used to explore these associations and to calculate odds ratios [OR], hazard ratios [HR], and 95% confidence intervals [CI], respectively.ResultsA total of 23,126 participants with dyslipidemia from NHANES 2001–2018 were included. …”
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Effect of power training on physical functional performance of patients with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Samuel Brito de Almeida, Emmanuelle Silva Tavares Sobreira, Charles Phillipe de Lucena Alves, Danielle Pessoa Lima, Janine de Carvalho Bonfadini, Manoel Alves Sobreira-Neto, Thiago Holanda Freitas, Simony Lira do Nascimento, Pedro Braga-Neto

“…Pooled effect estimates were calculated from baseline to endpoint scores.<h4>Results</h4>From 21,558 results, four studies were included in the meta-analysis due to their moderate to high methodological quality. …”
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Contemporary Normative Values for Five Common Static Standing Tasks on Firm and Compliant Floor Surfaces in Children Two to Thirteen Years by Nancy S. Darr, Mary Rose Franjoine, Cathey Norton, Brenda L. Young

“…Results: Descriptive statistics were calculated by age, height, weight, task, and floor surface. …”
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Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…RPE combines explicit encoding to enhance position features through attention, learning position bias implicitly, while OPE calculates absolute position offset encoding by considering differences with grouping embeddings. …”
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Pediatric and adolescent cancer disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: incidence, mortality, and survival across socioeconomic strata by Ankita Shukla, Rouba Karen Zeidan, Basema Saddik

“…Mortality- to-Incidence ratios (MIR) were calculated as a proxy measure of survival for each cancer type and country and Spearman’s correlation coefficient measured the association between socio-demographic index (SDI), incidence rates, mortality rates, and MIR. …”
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Examining the influence of port ship activities on pollutant emissions in port environments by Xinjia Gao, Qifeng Yu, Wei Dai, Qinyang Chen

“…Mingdong Terminal is identified as the most active, featuring the longest anchorage and berthing time, whereas Jungonglu and Zhanghuabang Terminals have the shortest. The calculation of pollutant emissions reveals that container ships and oil tankers are the primary contributors, particularly for CO2 and NOx emissions. …”
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Comparing Fetal Weight Estimates in the Third Trimester: Clinical Examination Findings, Ultrasonographic Estimation, and Actual Birth Weight by Ayesha Ghaffar, Sabeen Ashraf, Hafiza Alia Akbar Khan, Saba Yousaf, Tallat Farkhanda, Amartur Rabbal

“…The Shepard formula was used to calculate the FW. Following that, females were monitored till the birth of the fetus. …”
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Cost-benefit analysis of VKA versus NOAC treatment in German patients with atrial fibrillation utilizing patient self-testing by Roland Diel, Niklas Lampenius

“…Univariate sensitivity analysis was performed to examine the extent to which our calculations were affected by varying the parameters considered in our model within plausible extremes. …”
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Different Methods for Measurements and Estimation of Pulse Wave Velocity are not Interchangeable by Vladimir Prelević, Ana Jelaković, Kristina Gašparović, Danira Bažadona, Josipa Josipović, Mia Dubravčić-Došen, Danilo Radunović, Marija Domislović, Bojan Jelaković

“…Arterial stiffness has been measured in the office with SphygmoCor and 24 h with two oscillometric methods (Mobil-O-Graph and Arteriograph). ePWV was calculated using validated equation. PWV values obtained in office (SphygmoCor) showed higher average values compared to both 24-h oscillometric measurements of PWV and ePWV. …”
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Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control by Tabassum Nawab, Zulfia Khan, Iqbal M. Khan, Mohammad A. Ansari

“…Body mass index (BMI) was calculated. CO was defined as >90th age-and-sex-specific percentile of WC and GO by BMI-for-age-and-sex percentiles given by WHO Growth Reference 2007. …”
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Insulin Resistance Markers to Detect Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Male Hispanic Population by Maritza Pérez-Mayorga, Jose P. Lopez-Lopez, Maria A. Chacon-Manosalva, Maria G Castillo, Johanna Otero, Daniel Martinez-Bello, Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Daniel D. Cohen, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

“…Anthropometric measurements and biochemical determinations (glycemia, lipid profile, and insulin) were obtained, and ultrasound studies were performed to evaluate the presence of NAFLD. HOMA-IR index was calculated as (fasting insulin (µIU/mL) × fasting glucose (mmol/L)/22.5), the TyG index as Ln (triglycerides (mg/dL) × fasting glucose (mg/dL)/2), and the TG/HDL ratio as (triglycerides (mg/dL)/HDL-c (mg/dL)). …”
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Comparing the effectiveness of different exercise interventions on quality of life in stroke patients: a randomized controlled network meta-analysis by Liqun Jiang, Huimin Ding, Qishuai Ma, Shang Gao, Xinxin Zhang, Buongo Chun

“…Data analysis involved effect size calculations and network meta-analysis in Stata 17.0, with publication bias detected via funnel plots. …”
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The Impact of (DEM) Accuracy and (LC/LU) Resolution on the Watersheds Areas by Alaa Qais Muttar, Mustafa Tariq Mustafa, Muntasir Abdl Hameed Abdl Shareef

“…The optimum remote sensing data (sentinel-2 image and Copernicus DEM) are mapped, 3D simulated and analyzed by GIS to calculate the areas of (LC/LU) main layers and to find that the considerable part of the selected watersheds is the area of green lands 404.32676 km2 was about 54.396% of the total area in the study, and these areas are vary depending on many factors such as remote sensing data, precipitation, cultivation, season, and human activities. …”
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