Efficacy and safety of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for acute and chronic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 381 studies (the meta-TENS... by Gareth Jones, Mark I. Johnson, Carole A. Paley, Matthew R. Mulvey, Priscilla G. Wittkopf

“…Random effect models were used to calculate standardised mean differences (SMD) and risk ratios. …”
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Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis: Fecal Calprotectin as a Surrogate Marker for Predicting Relapse in Adults with Ulcerative Colitis by Jiajia Li, Xiaojing Zhao, Xueting Li, Meijiao Lu, Hongjie Zhang

“…Diagnostic accuracy including pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and pooled area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) was calculated using a random effects model. Heterogeneity across studies was assessed by the I2 metric. …”
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Dissolution and Solubility Product of Cd-Fluorapatite [Cd5(PO4)3F] at pH of 2–9 and 25–45°C by Ju Lin, Zongqiang Zhu, Yinian Zhu, Huili Liu, Lihao Zhang, Zhangnan Jiang

“…Based on the log Ksp values obtained at an initial pH of 2 and 25°C, the Gibbs free energy of formation for Cd5(PO4)3F (ΔGf0) was calculated to be −4065.76 kJ/mol (−4064.11∼−4068.23 kJ/mol). …”
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Prognostic Utility of Prechemoradiotherapy Albumin-to-Alkaline Phosphatase Ratio in Unresectable Locally Advanced Pancreatic Carcinoma Patients by Veysel Haksoyler, Erkan Topkan

“…The AAPR (serum albumin (g/dL)/serum alkaline phosphatase (IU/L)) was calculated by using the parameters obtained from the routine biochemistry tests on the first day of the CCRT. …”
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Sudden cardiac death after acute myocarditis with arrhythmic presentation: hunting for risk predictors − a systematic review and meta-analysis by Massimo Imazio, Valentino Collini, Maria Lucia Narducci, Federico Ballacci, Federica Giordano

“…Random-effect models were used to calculate pooled ORs and CIs.Results Five observational studies enrolling 322 patients were identified. …”
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Automated Web Tool Measurement of Total Hip Arthroplasty Acetabular Component Inclination and Anteversion Angles by Christine Yoon, BS, Anna Eligulashvili, BS, Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD, Barlas Goker, MD, Eli Kamara, MD, Edward Mardakhaev, MD

“…Manual and web tool measurements included abduction angle and calculated anteversion angle by Liaw’s method. Differences between manual and web tool measurements were compared with a paired t-test and Bland-Altman analysis. …”
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Moral grounds and social norms of safe prosocial behaviour of young people by P. A. Kislyakov, E. A. Shmeleva, M. O. Aleksandrovich

“…The obtained empirical data were processed using percentage analysis, the Kraskel-Wallace criterion, the Pearson correlation analysis, and linear regression analysis (the step method). Calculations were done employing the SPPS 22 statistical program package.Results and scientific novelty. …”
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Exposure to lead and cadmium released from ceramics and glassware by Mimoza Rahovica, Arif Latifi, Evgenija Kiroska Petreska, Tatjana Kadifkova Panovska

“…Upon reviewing the measured and calculated Pb values in the remaining glassware, it is evident that in all the other samples analyzed from each category, it does not surpass the values above the MPML. …”
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Analysis of Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits under Low Carbon Pathway in Taiwan by Hsin-Chih Lai, Shih-Ming Chung, Li-Ling Li, Wen-Yinn Lin, Min-Chuan Hsiao

“…The future power plants’ emissions were calculated by historical inventory and the power generation from 2010 to 2016. …”
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Research Note: Additivity of P digestibility values previously determined using 4 dietary Ca levels for plant-based feedstuffs in broiler grower diets by B.W. Parsons, S.J. Rochell

“…In diet 1, SID of P was 33 %, which was lower (P < 0.05) than the values determined for all other treatments, which ranged from 57.1 to 57.4 %. Calculating SID of P in the test diets using previously determined SID of P values for individual plant-based ingredients at 0.75 % dietary Ca yielded values within 1 to 3 percentage units of the measured digestibility in the broiler grower diets which were close to or within the 95 % confidence interval for the measured SID of P. …”
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Influence of Geometry and Boundary Conditions in Area of the Cohesion between Materials on the Reflection of an Ultrasonic Beam. Part 2. Features of Experimental Simulation by A. R. Baev, N. V. Levkovitch, M. V. Asadchaya, A. L. Mayorov, G. I. Razmyslovich, A. Y. Burnos

“…The amplitude dependences of the scattering field vs. the receiving angle received mainly in the range from - 20º to + 20º and the displacement of the simulated defect relative to the axis of the probing acoustic beam were obtained.As it has been established, there is a quality conformity between the calculated and experimental data. The present study is of interest for solving a number of tasks of increasing efficiency of ultrasonic testing of modern objects with layered structure and will contribute to practical application.…”
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Learning Air Traffic as Images: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Airspace Operation Complexity Evaluation by Hua Xie, Minghua Zhang, Jiaming Ge, Xinfang Dong, Haiyan Chen

“…In practice, our work can be flexibly and conveniently applied to SOC evaluation without the additional calculation of hand-crafted factors.…”
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Analisis Perbandingan Algoritma SVM, KNN, dan CNN untuk Klasifikasi Citra Cuaca by Mohammad Farid Naufal

“…This can help develop self-autonomous machines so that they are not dependent on an internet connection and can perform their own calculations in real time. There are several popular image classification algorithms, namely K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). …”
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Mismatch Repair Status and Surgical Outcomes in Localized Colorectal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study by Tobias Freyberg Justesen, MD, Adile Orhan, MD, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, MD, Mikail Gögenur, MD, Ismail Gögenur, MD, DMSc

“…However, the restricted 5-year mean disease-free survival time, calculated due to violation of the proportional hazards assumption, showed a significant absolute difference of 0.13 years (95% CI, 0.03–0.23; P = 0.01) in favor of the dMMR group. …”
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The effect of cable fixation on union time in subtrochanteric femur fractures treated with cephalomedullary nailing by Fatih İlker Can, Emre Gültaç, Rabia Mihriban Kılınç, Cem Yalın Kılınç

“…Results: The cable fixation rate was calculated as 42.6%. There was a statistically significant relationship between cable use and the amount of gap (p=0.033). …”
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Orbit of a Possible Planet X by Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott Tremaine

“…The plausibility of an unseen planet in the outer solar system, and the expected orbit and mass of such a planet, have long been a topic of inquiry and debate. We calculate the long-term orbital stability of distant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which allows us to expand the sample of objects that would carry dynamical information about a hypothetical unseen planet in the solar system. …”
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Use of iStent as a Standalone Operation in Patients with Open-Angle Glaucoma by Yu-Yen Chen, Yun-Ju Lai, Yung-Feng Yen, Li-Ying Huang

“…Standardized mean differences (SMDs) of IOP and medication numbers were calculated. Furthermore, the success rate (the proportion of IOP ≤18 mmHg and IOP reduction ≥20% at end point) and the complication rate were also summarized. …”
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Assessment of the Efficiency of Thermal Waste Regeneration in the Blown Impassable Channels of Heating Mains by V. A. Sednin, T. V. Bubyr

“…Regression equations have been obtained for calculating the intensity of heat transfer from pipelines and channel enclosing structures with a given change in the size, length of channels and pipelines for various outdoor and ground temperatures characteristic of the heating and inter-heating periods. …”
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Cost-effective adsorption of cationic dyes using ZnO nanorods supported by orange peel-derived carbon by Eman J. E. Abdelrazek, Ahmed A. Gahlan, Gamal A. Gouda, Abdelaal S. A. Ahmed

“…The estimated maximum adsorption capacity estimated from the adsorption of MB and CV by the ZnO-NR@PC composite was 74.45 and 74.89 mg/g, respectively. The calculated adsorption free energy from D-R and Temkin models indicates the adsorption of MB, and CV dye molecules by the OP, PC, and ZnO-NR@PC composite may be physical. …”
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The effects of educational status and comorbidity on routine assessment of patient index data 3 and its correlation with disease activity score 28 and clinical disease activity ind... by Kubilay Sahin, Cem Ozisler, Nesibe Karahan Yesil, Fulya Dortbas, Ahmet Omma, Zeynep Ozbalkan Aslar, Yasar Karaaslan

“…Methods: A total of 246 RA patients (80.1% female; mean age: 53.2 years) followed up for 3 years were asked to fill out RAPID3 questionnaires, and DAS28 and CDAI were calculated. Patients were subdivided according to disease severity as Group A (remission-minimal disease activity) and Group B (moderate–severe disease activity). …”
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