Impact of Physical Features on Visual Walkability Perception in Urban Commercial Streets by Using Street-View Images and Deep Learning by Gonghu Huang, Yiqing Yu, Mei Lyu, Dong Sun, Bart Dewancker, Weijun Gao

“…Additionally, deep-learning-based semantic segmentation was employed to extract and calculate the physical features of the Tenjin commercial district. …”
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UK multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme: a new natural history dataset and an improved Markov model by Jacqueline Palace, Martin Duddy, Thomas Bregenzer, Mike Boggild, Joel Oger, Helen Tremlett, Charles Dobson, Fheng Zhu

“…This approach will now be applied to the treated UK RSS MS cohort for future price adjustment calculations.…”
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EAST ASIA - REGIONAL OR GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION? by S. V. Nozdrev

“…The use of the system approach allowed to consider the movement of capital flows from an to Asia over a long period of time, the evolution of financial integration models. Calculations and comparisons, the construction of tables was carried out on the basis of statistical methods, which are applied for the study of currency and credit relations. …”
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In vitro Antibacterial Effect of Reduning Combined with Polymyxin on Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by Shangguan ZF, Chen HL, Li YF, Shi N, Mao QF

“…Then, the fractional inhibition concentration index (FICI) was calculated.Results: A total of 50 strains of CRKP were isolated, sputum and clean urine were the most common source of CRKP, and intensive care unit was the most common source department. …”
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Circulating Inflammatory Markers Are Inversely Associated with Heart Rate Variability Measures in Type 1 Diabetes by Anne-Marie L. Wegeberg, Tina Okdahl, Tina Fløyel, Christina Brock, Niels Ejskjaer, Sam Riahi, Flemming Pociot, Joachim Størling, Birgitte Brock

“…Heart rate variability, time domain, and frequency domains were calculated from a 24-hour Holter electrocardiogram, while cardiac vagal tone was determined from a 5-minute electrocardiogram. …”
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The association of systemic immune-inflammation index with incident breast cancer and all-cause mortality: evidence from a large population-based study by Yu Li, Yu Li, Meng Yu, Ming Yang, Jingqi Yang

“…However, its predictive value in a nationwide representative population, particularly for breast cancer incidence and mortality, is not well-established.MethodsThis study aimed to assess the association of SII and the risk of breast cancer incidence and all-cause mortality in breast cancer patients within the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2018. SII was calculated from complete blood count parameters. We used multifactor regression models to examine the associations between SII and the outcomes of interest.ResultsA total of 21,058 female participants were included in the study, of which 557 (2.7%) were identified as having breast cancer. …”
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Comparative assessment of difficulty scales for removal of the third molar of the lower jaw depending on its position by O.O. Gudarian, Zh.M. Nekhanevуch, T.O. Kycherenko, A.V. Shepelya

“…However, the latter has the largest number of criteria, according to which the difficulty of removing the third molar of the lower jaw is calculated.…”
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Association of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) Polymorphisms with Asthma Risk: A Meta-Analysis by Fenfang Zou, Jianpeng Zhang, Guoan Xiang, Hongbin Jiao, Hongmei Gao

“…The pooled odds ratios (ORs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to calculate the strength of association. Sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate the influence of individual studies on the overall effect estimates, and funnel plots and Egger’s test were inspected for indication of publication bias. …”
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Student correlates with interprofessional attitudes within undergraduate medical education by Jaime A. Foushee, Kirstie M. Everhart, Alexis M. Stoner, Lindsay Tjiattas-Saleski, David Redden

“…Results Over two years, 628 OMS responded to the survey, with 585 providing sufficient information to calculate IPAS scores. Of these 585, responses were from 267 first, 133 second, 84 third, and 65 fourth year students (36 missing). …”
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The concentration of selected organophosphorus pesticides associated with PM10 in agricultural ambient air in Iran: Health risk assessment using Monte Carlo simulation by Asma Tabanasl, Amin Mohammadpour, Aboozar Soltani, Mohammad Hoseini, Mohammadali Baghapour

“…The hazard index (HI) percentiles for children exposed to these pesticides in Yasuj's air were calculated as 0.0047 (5th percentile), 0.0141 (50th percentile), and 0.0291 (95th percentile). …”
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Influence of Pretreatments on Microwave Vacuum Drying Kinetics, Physicochemical Properties and Sensory Quality of Apple Slices by Yingqiang Wang, Hongxiao Zhao, Huiwen Deng, Xi Song, Wenjie Zhang, Sirui Wu, Jing Wang

“…Whether pretreated or not, MVD process was controlled by diffusion and characterized by a two-stage falling-rate drying. As calculated according to the Fick's law of diffusion, the moisture diffusivities ( D eff ) ranged from 1.64×10 -8 to 3.46×10 - 8 m 2 /s. …”
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Transportation and production collaborative scheduling optimization with multi-layer coding genetic algorithm for non-pipelined wells by Qiushi Li, Yuze Li, Haitong Sun, Wei Song, Honghong Li, Xiaoyong Gao, Chaodong Tan, Yaoyun Liu, Hongbing Liu

“…The optimal one-time result in the calculation example (200 wells) takes 1062.3 s to run, and the total driving distance of all tank trucks in the obtained feasible scheme is 11280 km. …”
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Vitamin Analysis, Trace Elements Content, and Their Extractabilities in Tetrapleura tetraptera by Prince Oteng, John K. Otchere, Stephen Adusei, Richard Q. Mensah, Emmanuel Tei-Mensah

“…Also, the chromatographic method (HPLC) was used to evaluate vitamin E concentration, and vitamin C and concentration of beta-carotene were calculated from the obtained concentration of vitamin A using a conversion factor by the titrimetric method. …”
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Prophylactic and therapeutic effects of EsV3 on atherosclerotic lesions in ApoE−/− mice by Yaze Wang, Hifumi Ohishi, Rongji Wu, Hui Liu, Rong Xu

“…Aortic oil red O staining was conducted to assess plaque formation and calculate the plaque-to-vessel area ratio. Liver tissue changes were examined via HE staining. …”
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Effectiveness of Different Organic Solvent Additions to Water Samples for Reducing the Adsorption Effects of Organic Pesticides Using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–T... by Yucan Liu, Xinyi Xu, Ying Wang, Yan Zhang, Jianbo Lu, Chengbin Liu, Jinming Duan, Hongwei Sun

“…Density functional theory calculations of the binding energies between pesticides (diazinon, malathion, and S–metolachlor) and vial materials further confirmed the effect of AE on the detection intensity of the analytes. …”
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Standard reference values of the upper body posture in healthy young female adults in Germany: an observational study by Daniela Ohlendorf, Charlotte Doerry, Vanessa Fisch, Sebastian Schamberger, Gerhard Oremek, Hanns Ackermann, Johannes Schulze

“…The tolerance ranges and CI were calculated. Group differences were tested by the Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney U test.Results In normal posture, the spinal column was marginally twisted to the left, and the vertebrae were marginally rotated to the right. …”
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An Exploration of Students’ Misconceptions about the Concept ‘Classification of Animals’ at Secondary Level and Effectiveness of Inquiry Method for Conceptual Change by Anjum NAZ, Abida NASREEN

“…The frequencies and percentages of responses given by students in pre and post session interviews were calculated and compared. In a result three categories of responses emerged such as scientific responses, misconceptions and generalizations. …”
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Clinical application of third-generation dual-source CT-based dynamic imaging reconstruction for pulmonary embolism imaging by Kai Liao, Biao Ye, Xi Li, Wei Liu, Tongtong Jia, Zongbao Han, Ziyi Liang, Yongli Duan, Xiaoli Sun, Jianmei Zhang, Rengui Wang, Jiao Gong

“…The vessel CT value and image background noise (IN) of each subgroup were also determined, and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were calculated. Simultaneously two radiologists performed a subjective evaluation of the quality of the picture images. …”
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Konsep Decision Tree Reptree untuk Melakukan Optimasi Rule dalam Fuzzy Inference System Tsukamoto by Tundo Tundo, Shofwatul 'Uyun

“…Proof carried out in this research is one of them by using a comparison of decision trees J48 and Random Tree with the aim to find out the optimization of rules formed using the Tsukamoto system's fuzzy inference method, after calculating that the REPTree decision tree has a more average Forecasting Error Rate (AFER) error tree small of 23.17% with a truth value of 76.83%, while J48 has an error rate of 24.96%, with a truth value of 75.04%, while Random Tree has an error rate of 36.51%, with a truth value of 63, 49% in the case of prediction of palm oil production at PT Tapiana Nadenggan. …”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a theory of planned behavior model-based instrument for evaluation of determinants of oral health behaviors in mothers of children younge... by Rusul Abdulameer Hadi Al-Sarray, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Muhammad Alzubidi, Mahdia Gholami, Simin Z. Mohebbi

“…The content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR) were calculated subsequently. The construct validity was examined by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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