Performance Analysis of 2022 Women’s European Football Champion England National Team by Gizem Başkaya

“…The obtained data were recorded in SPSS 23 package program and interpreted by calculating frequency and percentage values. It was determined that the England national team scored a total of 22 goals with an average of 3.67 goals per match, and 2 goals were scored in their own goal with an average of 0.33 goals per game. …”
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Cyto-histological correlation of salivary gland lesions according to the Milan reporting system by Shireen Hamid, Muhammad Mudassar, Nida Hamid, Muhammad Sarwar Zia, Tariq Mehmood, Sadia Hameed

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and diagnostic accuracy of FNAC were calculated. The data was analyzed using SPSS 24 taking a P value < 0.05 as significant Results: This study evaluated 74 cases of salivary gland lesions with cytology, all of which underwent histopathology. …”
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A sensitivity analysis of methodological variables associated with microbiome measurements by Samuel P. Forry, Stephanie L. Servetas, Jennifer N. Dootz, Monique E. Hunter, Jason G. Kralj, James J. Filliben, Scott A. Jackson

“…For each parameter investigated, a main effect was calculated that allowed direct comparison both between methodological choices (bias effects) and between samples (real biological differences). …”
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Feasibility of individualized home exercise programs for patients with head and neck cancer-study protocol and first results of a multicentre single-arm intervention trial (OSHO #9... by Sabine Felser, Julia Rogahn, Änne Glass, Lars Arne Bonke, Daniel Fabian Strüder, Jana Stolle, Susann Schulze, Markus Blaurock, Ursula Kriesen, Christian Junghanss, Christina Grosse-Thie

“…The dropout rate was adjusted from 30% (N = 60) to 20% (N = 53, calculated sample size n = 42 PwHNC and 20% (n = 11) to dropout).…”
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Diabetes and Hemoglobin A1c as Risk Factors for Nosocomial Infections in Critically Ill Patients by Eirini Tsakiridou, Demosthenes Makris, Vasiliki Chatzipantazi, Odysseas Vlachos, Grigorios Xidopoulos, Olympia Charalampidou, Georgios Moraitis, Epameinondas Zakynthinos

“…Inclusion criteria: ICU hospitalization >72 hours and mechanical ventilation >48 hours. HbA1c was calculated for all participants. DM, HbA1c, and other clinical and laboratory parameters were assessed as risk factors for VAP or BSI in ICU. …”
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Validation of the COTENP Code: A Steady-State Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Code for Nuclear Reactors with Plate Type Fuel Assemblies by Duvan A. Castellanos-Gonzalez, João Manoel Losada Moreira, José Rubens Maiorino, Pedro Carajilescov

“…To validate the COTENP code, we considered experimental data from the Brazilian IEA-R1 research reactor and calculated data from the Chinese CARR multipurpose reactor. …”
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Verification of the Reliability of an Automated Urine Test Strip Colorimetric Program Using Colorimetric Analysis: Survey Study by Keigo Inagaki, Daisuke Tsuriya, Takuya Hashimoto, Katsumasa Nakamura

“…This program used Accelerated KAZE to perform image-matching processing to reduce the effect of misalignment during photography. It also calculated and judged the item with the smallest color difference between the color chart and the urine test strip using the CIEDE2000 color difference formula. …”
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Relationship between Tectonism and Composition and Pore Characteristics of Shale Reservoirs by Fuhua Shang, Yanming Zhu, Haitao Gao, Yang Wang, Ruiyin Liu

“…According to fractal dimension calculations, it is found that in strong deformed shale, more multiple dimensions of the pore system tend to represent rougher pore surfaces and more irregular shapes. …”
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ChatGPT-4 Performance on German Continuing Medical Education—Friend or Foe (Trick or Treat)? Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Christian Burisch, Abhav Bellary, Frank Breuckmann, Jan Ehlers, Serge C Thal, Timur Sellmann, Daniel Gödde

“…MethodsWe designed a randomized controlled trial, in which adult high school students attempt to solve CME tests across six medical specialties in three study arms in total with 18 CME training courses per study arm under different interventional conditions with varying amounts of permitted use of ChatGPT-4. Sample size calculation was performed including guess probability (20% correct answers, SD=40%; confidence level of 1–α=.95/α=.05; test power of 1–β=.95; P<.05). …”
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Association between individual urinary iodine concentrations in pregnant women and maternal/newborn outcomes by Fernanda Bolfi, Maryan Borcsik Marum, Samantha Ellen da Silva Fonseca, Glaucia M F S Mazeto, Celia Regina Nogueira, Vania dos Santos Nunes-Nogueira

“…Relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated as an estimate of the effect of iodine <150 μg/L. …”
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Polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden scales in older adults: a cross-sectional study among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary care hospital by Manjunath Bidarolli, Biswadeep Das, Vikram Singh Rawat, Sachin Manocha, Hannah Theresa Sony, Akash Agnihotri, Mahima Gupta, Franklin Agera

“…Anticholinergic burden scales were calculated by the respective tools. Univariate analysis was adopted to determine the factors that may affect polypharmacy. …”
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Conventional endotracheal tubes versus polymer-coated tubes in ventilator-associated pneumonia development: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Oscar Inácio de Mendonça Bisneto, Luanna Paula Garcez de Carvalho Feitoza, Larissa Calixto Hespanhol, Sávio Benvindo Ferreira, Caroline Serafim Dagostin, Roberto Augusto Mazetto Silva Vieira, Lucas Alencar Queiroz, Lucas Chen, Taniela Marli Bes, Ho Yeh Li

“…Statistical analysis was performed using Review Manager Software, and a The Mantel-Haenszel test was performed using a random effects model, and risk ratios (RR) were calculated for binary outcomes. Subgroup analyses were conducted using a fixed effects model when heterogeneity was low. …”
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Assessment of Traffic-Related Ambient Air Particulate Matter (PM) Levels in Douala, Cameroon by Yannick Cédric Ngangmo, Cyrille Adiang Mezoue, Cyrille Meukaleuni, Brice B. S. Wandjie, David Monkam

“…The nRMSE was 9% for PM10 and 12 for PM2.5, and the index-d for both particle sizes was close to 1 (0.74 for PM10 and 0.98 for PM2.5), which allows us to conclude that the calculated concentrations are the closest to the measured concentrations. …”
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Catastrophe Mechanism of Stress-Fissure Coupling Field in Mining Close Distance Seams in Southwest China by Suo Jie, Li Zhen-hua, Huang Cun-han, Cao Zheng-zheng, Xu You-lin, Chen Zu-guo

“…For the sake of studying the catastrophe mechanism of stress-fissure coupling field in mining close distance seams in southwest China, a test working face in Guizhou province in southwest China is adopted and researched by the methods of numerical calculation and similar experiment. When the working face advances to 180 m in 4# coal seam in a similar experiment, the overlying rock breaks to the central base plate of Yulongshan limestone, and the conductive fractures run through the Changxing limestone karst cave and Yulongshan limestone karst cave. …”
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Mixed pastures and biological efficiency in buffalo production systems: determinants for a sustainable livestock by Juan Pablo Uzcátegui-Varela, Martha Gloribet Ceballos Ramírez

“…The analysis of biological systems is characterized by the use of basic calculations during the production process that define the complex dynamics of natural capital, which is directly managed by human activities with a simplification and selection of biodiversity to support ecosystem function while generating products of agri-food interest. …”
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Search of Reflectance Indices for Estimating Photosynthetic Activity of Wheat Plants Under Drought Stress by Firuz Abdullaev, Daria Churikova, Polina Pirogova, Maxim Lysov, Vladimir Vodeneev, Oksana Sherstneva

“…Normalized difference indices (NDIs) were calculated using the reflectance intensity of wheat shoots in the range from 400 to 1000 nm. …”
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Decomposition and nutrient release pattern of wheat (Triticum aestivum) residues under different treatments in desert field conditions of Sudan by Fatoma A. M. Rezig, Elsadig A. Elhadi, Mubarak R. Abdalla

“…Mass loss and nutrients released from wheat residue followed the exponential model, Wt = W0 9 e-kt from which the specific decay rate constants (k) and t0.5 and t0.95 were calculated. Results The result show that the mineral fertilization combined with crop residues (RF ? …”
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Study on Mechanical Performance of Prestressed UHPFRC U-Beam Bridges by Mengying Liu, Eugen Brühwiler, Fengkun Cui, Yue Xu

“…Finally, the failure mode, failure process, cracking moment, ultimate moment, and strain of the full-scale model are studied. The calculation formulas of the flexural capacity of UHPFRC U beam considering ductile failure are derived. …”
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Exploring coastal climate adaptation through storylines: Insights from cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique by Henrique M.D. Goulart, Panagiotis Athanasiou, Kees van Ginkel, Karin van der Wiel, Gundula Winter, Izidine Pinto, Bart van den Hurk

“…We use cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, as a case study of a powerful cyclone that has caused extensive damage to a coastal city and imagine how these impacts would change under multiple scenarios. Then we calculate the reductions in impacts due to different adaptation strategies. …”
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Investigation of Coolant Local Hydrodynamics in the Mixed Core of the VVER Reactor by S. M. Dmitriev, A. V. Gerasimov, A. A. Dobrov, D. V. Doronkov, A. N. Pronin, A. V. Ryazanov, D. N. Solntsev, A. E. Khrobostov

“…The results of the study of the coolant cross flow between fuel assemblies interaction, i.e. between the adjacent TVSA-T and TVSA-T mod.2 fuel assemblies were adopted for practical use in the JSC of “Afrikantov OKB Mechanical Engineering” for assessing the heat engineering reliability of VVER reactor cores; also, they were included in the database for verification of computational hydrodynamics programs (CFD codes) and for detailed cell-based calculation of the reactor core.…”
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