Stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: Practice patterns, dose selection and factors impacting survival by Jared R. Robbins, Ryan K. Schmid, Abdulrahman Y. Hammad, Thomas Clark Gamblin, Beth A. Erickson

“…Biological Effective Dose (BED) was calculated for each patient in order to uniformly analyze different fractionation regimens. …”
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Histopathological evaluation of the effects of thymoquinone and resveratrol on the liver in rats administered doxorubicin by Mehmet Burak Ates, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ali Erdem Ozturk, Mustafa Numan Bucak, Aysegul Bulut

“…Hepatocyte degeneration, necrosis/apoptosis, bile duct hyperplasia, dissociation, congestion, karyomegaly, mononuclear cell infiltration, binuclear hepatocytes, and mitosis were all examined microscopically, and a liver total lesion score was calculated<p> <b>Results:</b> Dox treatment increased relative liver weight, but the TQ and Res groups prevented this increase (p<0.05). …”
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Challenges and Barriers of Online Teaching: Perspective of Faculty in a Private Medical College of Lahore by Naureen Omar, Ifra Aslam, Syeda Mahnoor Nadeem, Ramsha Batool, Umbreen Navied, Muhammad Subhan Feroze

“…Percentages, proportions and means were calculated. Results: The respondents included 23 (32%) Demonstrators, 11 (15.7%) Senior Demonstrators, 22 (31.4%) Assistant Professors, 7 (10%) Associate Professors and 7 (10%) Professors. …”
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Behavior of Mortality in Cienfuegos Province in the Period 2013-2022 by Jorge Enrique Portell del Sol, Dania Lázara Pedraza Alejo, Yusimí Alejo Padrón, Leticia Castro Morejón, Ling Denisse Santeiro Pérez, Yaniela Sarmiento Albelo

“…Annual and five-year rates were calculated. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used. …”
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Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) versus Perfluoropropane (C3F8) in the Intraoperative Management of Macular Holes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Idan Hecht, Michael Mimouni, Eytan Z. Blumenthal, Yoreh Barak

“…A random effects model was used, and corresponding I2 heterogeneity estimates were calculated. Results. Nine pertinent publications studying a total of 4,715 patients were identified in 2000 to 2017, including two randomized studies (n=206), two prospective studies (n=170), and five retrospective or registry-based studies. …”
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U-shaped relationship between uric acid levels and all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension by Yating Huang, Jie Li, Feifei Sun, Huining Zhou, Hua Jiang, Liang Chen

“…The correlation between UA and all-cause mortality was calculated by threshold and saturation effect analysis, along with Cox regression models. …”
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Morphological characteristics of regeneration of the lower jaw bone in an experiment using natural collagen with lincomycin by I.V. Chelpanova

“…To determine changes in the composition in the bone regeneration, three parameters were calculated – the relative volume of: 1) bone tissue, 2) osteoplastic material and 3) connective tissue in the bone regeneration. …”
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Measuring the Average Peak Timing of Kinematic Variables in Youth and Adolescent Baseball Pitchers by Mark Boland, Daniel Zambanini, Ivan Mulligan, Sean Donegan

“…Descriptive outcomes were calculated and results were compared to previous studies examining the same variables in collegiate and professional pitchers…”
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Failure and development height of overlying rock of a water flowing fracture in goaf under a karst aquifer by Lulin Zheng, Xiong Liu, Qing Qiu, Youwen Tian, Weide Ren, Jin Xu, Xiaokun Wang

“…Four key strata were identified, and their fracture steps were calculated through integrating the results of the physical test of the overlying rock of the coal seam. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Dynamic Stable Cluster Head Selection in VANET by Muhammad Asim Saleem, Zhou Shijie, Muhammad Umer Sarwar, Tanveer Ahmad, Amarah Maqbool, Casper Shikali Shivachi, Maham Tariq

“…The link reliability is calculated using the eigengap heuristic. The last metric is trust; this is one of the concepts that has not been included in the weighted approach to date as per the literature. …”
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Application of Fractal Analysis in Detecting Trabecular Bone Changes in Periapical Radiograph of Patients with Periodontitis by Parisa Soltani, Sajad Sami, Jaber Yaghini, Ehsan Golkar, Francesco Riccitiello, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…Fractal dimension (FD) values were calculated using the fractal box counting approach. …”
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Inverted U-shaped association between the systemic immune-inflammation index and colorectal polyps in Chinese patients: a cross-sectional study by Jie Bao, Yajie Teng, Yingxue Yang, Qinghua Wang

“…We conducted a comparative analysis of patient characteristics among those with adenomatous polyps, non-adenomatous polyps, and individuals without CPs using descriptive statistics. We calculated the SII for each group and assessed the relationship between SII values and the presence of CPs.ResultsOur study included 3,028 individuals, of whom 1,432 (47.29%) had colorectal polyps. …”
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Clinical and Histopathologic Characteristics of Oral and Maxillofacial Malignancies: A 5-year Assessment in an Iranian Population by Saber Babazadeh, Shadi Saghafi Khadem, Zeinab Mousavi

“…Patient mortality rate and survival time were also calculated. Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-square, Fisher's exact test and Mann-Whitney-U test. …”
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Comparison of serum ischemia modified albumin levels between preeclamptic and healthy pregnant women by Dinç Zuhal, Çakar Erbil, Kumru Pınar, Erel Özcan, Neşelioğlu Salim, Cimsit Nilüfer, Boz Gizem

“…When IMA threshold value of >0.98 was taken to predict preeclampsia; the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) were calculated as 65.15%, 64.71%, 64.18%, and 65.67%, respectively. …”
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LIFU Alleviates Neuropathic Pain by Improving the KCC2 Expression and Inhibiting the CaMKIV–KCC2 Pathway in the L4–L5 Section of the Spinal Cord by Ye-Hui Liao, Bin Wang, Mo-Xian Chen, Yao Liu, Li-Juan Ao

“…Western blotting (WB) and immunofluorescence (IF) were used to calculate the expression of phosphorylated extracellular signal–regulated kinase 1/2 (p-ERK1/2), calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV (CaMKIV), phosphorylated cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element-binding protein (p-CREB), and KCC2 in the L4–L5 portion of the spinal cord after the last behavioral tests. …”
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Multimodal machine learning for analysing multifactorial causes of disease—The case of childhood overweight and obesity in Mexico by Rosario Silva Sepulveda, Magnus Boman, Magnus Boman

“…The unsupervised pipeline used traditional methods with k-Means and hierarchical clustering, with the optimal number of clusters calculated to be k = 2.ResultsThe decision tree classifier in the supervised early fusion approach produced the best quantitative results. …”
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Solving geocryology problems based on generalized Fourier theory for temperature waves in half-space by Anatoliy M. Afanasyev, Yulia S. Bakhracheva

“…For a material with clay characteristics and with specific values of all the process-defining quantities for each of the waves, the depth of penetration and the delay time of vibrations at a given depth relative to fluctuations in air temperature are calculated, and the results obtained are compared with experimental data. …”
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Phosphate binder in dialysis: a cross-sectional study of patients' adherence and pill burden by Brunelle Bruna Scavello Coelho Ferezin, Luiza Karla Ramos Pereira de Araújo, Carolina Marquez Lima, Hugo Abensur, Benedito Jorge Pereira, Maria Aparecida Dalboni, Rosa Maria Affonso Moyses, Rosilene Motta Elias

“…Methods: We accessed factors associated with P binder adherence among patients on dialysis in an academic hospital. Adherence was calculated as the ratio between the number of pills taken per day as reported and the prescribed number of pills. …”
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Economic evaluation of tranexamic acid for the treatment of acute gastrointestinal bleeding: a cost-effectiveness analysis using data from the HALT-IT randomised controlled trial by Ian Roberts, Vipul Jairath, Alec Miners, Jack Williams, Haleema Shakur-Still, Nuha Bazeer

“…Cost-effectiveness was evaluated using incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), reported as the cost per QALY gained.Methods A Markov model was developed to calculate the overall costs and health outcomes of TXA administration versus no-TXA. …”
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Rate estimation and trend analysis of new HIV infections among the international migrant population in Chile from 2013 to 2022 by Rodrigo Puentes, María Alejandra Dünner, Natalia T. Santis-Alay, Mario E. Soto-Marchant, Cecilia Canales, Janepsy Díaz

“…Crude and standardized rates of new HIV infections reported by the Institute of Public Health of Chile (ISP) were calculated for the period 2013 to 2022, using data from public and private health facilities nationwide. …”
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