Prevalence and Residual Risk of HIV in Volunteer Blood Donors of Zhejiang Province, China, from 2018 to 2022 by Hong Zhu, Wei Ding, Wenjuan Han, Xiaofan Zheng, Yiqing Hu, Jie Dong, Yaling Wu, Danxiao Wu, Jinhui Liu, Faming Zhu

“…The HIV residual risk transmission was calculated using the incidence or window period model. …”
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Diagnostic efficacy and necessity of 18F-FDG PET/CT in fever of unknown origin: insights from a retrospective cohort study by Xiaoman Yu, Shuang Wang, Na Du, Hongguang Zhao, Haiying Chen

“…The diagnostic performance for different etiologies of FUO was assessed by calculating the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.ResultsOf the 284 enrolled patients, infectious diseases were diagnosed in 53 (18.7%), non-infectious inflammatory diseases in 76 (26.8%), malignant tumors in 66 (23.2%), and 89 (31.3%) remained undiagnosed. …”
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Marine Shale Gas Occurrence and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study from the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation, Northwestern Guizhou, China by Taotao Cao, Hu Liu, Anyang Pan, Mo Deng, Qinggu Cao, Ye Yu, Yanran Huang, Zhenghui Xiao

“…Combined with the two methods, it can result in accurate calculations of shale gas reserves and free/sorbed gas ratio. …”
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Meta-analysis of Efficacy and Safety of Fire Acupuncture in Treatment of Ganglion Cyst by Yanan LIU, Yihong ZHOU, Xiaokang JIA, Lijin JI, Li ZHOU

“…The odds ratio (<italic>OR</italic>) was selected as the total statistic in count data, the mean difference (<italic>MD</italic>) was selected in measurement data, and the 95%confidence interval (<italic>CI</italic>) was calculated.Results:A total of nine RCTs involving 724 patients were eventually included. …”
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Seasonally Dependent Daytime and Nighttime Formation of Oxalic Acid Vapor and Particulate Oxalate in Tropical Coastal and Marine Atmospheres by Le Yan, Yating Gao, Dihui Chen, Lei Sun, Yang Gao, Huiwang Gao, Xiaohong Yao

“…Additionally, thermodynamic equilibrium calculations were performed on the coastal data, and independent size distributions of particulate oxalate in the upwind marine atmosphere were analyzed to support the findings.…”
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Filtration flow rate at low convection volume in continuous hemodiafiltration using cytokine adsorbing hemofilter does not affect cytokine clearance in an experimental model by Mototsugu Kudo, Shinya Chihara, Hiroomi Tatsumi, Yoshiki Masuda

“…Clearances of creatinine, IL-6, and IL-8 were calculated for each setting of the proportions of QD and QF during CKRT using PMMA and AN69ST. …”
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Resilience-oriented passenger subsidy design for taxi travel under pandemic control by Lei Xia, Zhengfeng Huang, Gao Gao, Pengjun Zheng

“…Secondly, using the travel resilience calculation formula, we evaluate the taxi travel resilience levels under different pandemic control measures and analyze other factors (such as virus characteristics) on taxi travel resilience through regression models. …”
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Time-dependent, patient-centered perceptions of quality measures for total joint arthroplasty: a cross-sectional, choice modeling study by Jacie L. Lemos, Jessica M. Welch, Derek F. Amanatullah, Lauren M. Shapiro, Alex H. S. Harris, Robin N. Kamal

“…Methods Patients who had undergone a TJA within the past two years or had a scheduled TJA within the next 6 months completed a questionnaire designed using best-worst scaling, a method used to measure individuals’ priorities by asking participants to make repeated selections of the best and worst items in a series of subsets of items. Subanalyses were calculated to compare each phase of care (preoperative, short term postoperative, and long term postoperative). …”
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The evaluation of internal adaptation of glass ionomer restorations applied after the use of different cavity conditioners in primary teeth: an in-vitro study by Sümeyye Gürler, Akif Demirel, Arda Buyuksungur

“…Subsequently, restorative materials were applied and all samples were thermocycled (5–55 °C, 5000 cycles) and IA were calculated volumetrically by using a Micro Computed Tomography (Micro-CT) system. …”
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Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Trichoderma Isolates from Vegetable Crop Rhizospheres in Nepal [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Arvind Kumar Keshari, Suraj Baidya, Aashaq Hussain Bhat, Ram B. Khadka, Puja Jaiswal

“…Plains, on the other hand, exhibited lower species diversity (H = 1.515, J = 0.66, D = 0.33). The calculated species abundance values showed that plains (E = 2.11), mid-hills (E = 1.95), and high mountains (E = 1.99) each had their unique diversity profiles. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Multi-point Corona Discharge Characteristics in Thunderstorms by Xu Dewang, Tan Yongbo

“…When corona discharge reaches dynamic equilibrium, the suppressed electric field value can be calculated using the environmental electric field and the electric field distortion coefficient at the specified points. …”
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Diagnoses of postpartum urinary retention using next-generation non-piezo ultrasound technology: assessing the accuracy and benefits by Ruben Plöger, Charlotte Behning, Adeline Walter, Ulrich Gembruch, Brigitte Strizek, Florian Recker

“…Intraclass correlation coefficients, Bland-Altman plots, and Pearson correlation coefficients were used for analyzing the reliability and agreement between the measurements of these devices and were calculated for subgroups as body mass index, mode of delivery and timepoint of delivery. …”
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Risk Factors and Characteristics Associated with Visual Impairment and Eye Diseases in Moyamoya Disease: Insights from a National Database by Youyi Song, Xin Yang, Hongzhu Yang, Hongyun Mei, Xuedan Lu, Hao Xie, Qinfeng Yang, Wenbin Duan

“…Subsequently, multivariate logistic regression was utilized to calculate odds ratios (OR) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) over a 10-year period to further investigate these relationships. …”
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Performance of artificial intelligence on cervical vertebral maturation assessment: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Termeh Sarrafan Sadeghi, Seyed AmirHossein Ourang, Fatemeh Sohrabniya, Soroush Sadr, Parnian Shobeiri, Saeed Reza Motamedian

“…Twelve studies were included in the meta-analysis and their pooled values for sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative likelihood ratios, and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were calculated for each cervical stage (CS). The most accurate CVM evaluation was observed for CS1, boasting a sensitivity of 0.87, a specificity of 0.97, and a DOR of 213. …”
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Tell me y: anticipation of sex discrepancies in cell-free DNA testing due to maternal genetic abnormalities: a case report by Nuria Balaguer, Emilia Mateu-Brull, Jose Antonio Martínez-Conejero, Ana Cervero, Roser Navarro, Jorge Jiménez-Almazán, Miguel Milán

“…Non-duplicated aligned reads were aggregated into 100-kb bins, adjusted for CG bias, and further aggregated into 5-Mb windows. Z-scores were calculated for autosomes, sex chromosomes, and 5-Mb bins. …”
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Application of Enhanced Weighted Least Squares with Dark Background Image Fusion for Inhomogeneity Noise Removal in Brain Tumor Hyperspectral Images by Jiayue Yan, Chenglong Tao, Yuan Wang, Jian Du, Meijie Qi, Zhoufeng Zhang, Bingliang Hu

“…The original hyperspectral brain tumor image is then smoothed using a weighted least squares algorithm model embedded with bilateral filtering (BLF-WLS), followed by a calculation and separation of the instrument fixed-mode fringe noise component from the acquired reference dark background image. …”
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Comparison of Healthcare Encounters and Drug Persistence in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Receiving Oral Selexipag, Inhaled Iloprost, or Parenteral Treprostinil: A... by Ci Song, Peter Kunovszki, Amélie Beaudet

“…Rates of hospitalization (inpatient admissions), emergency room visits, or outpatient visits per person-year were calculated. Drug persistence was measured as time to discontinuation of index drug. …”
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Does Anemia Have a Potential Effect on Type 2 Hepatorenal Syndrome? by Sondes Bizid, Haythem Yacoub, Ghanem Mohamed, Bahaa Ben Slimane, Khouloud Boughoula, Hatem Ben Abdallah, Riadh Bouali, Nabil Abedelli

“…Models of end-stage liver disease (MELD) and Child–Turcotte–Pugh (CTP) scores were calculated. Results. The most common etiology of cirrhosis was viral hepatitis (66%). …”
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Ecological stability of broad bean (<i>Vicia faba</i> L.) in organic farming conditions by N. A. Georgieva, V. I. Kosev

“…Three types of stability parameters were calculated based on regression, variance, and nonparametric analysis. …”
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The Effect of Corneal Refractive Power Area Changes on Myopia Progression during Orthokeratology by Minfeng Chen, Xinting Liu, Zhu Xie, Pengqi Wang, Miaoran Zheng, Xinjie Mao

“…The orthokeratology decentration via tangential difference topography was analyzed. This study calculated the different power areas in the central 4 mm pupillary area by axial-difference corneal topography, compared the differences of the different power areas between these two groups, and evaluated the relationships between corneal positive-power area, orthokeratology decentration, and AL changes. …”
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