The T4/T3 quotient as a risk factor for differentiated thyroid cancer: a case control study by Mark Sasson, Emily Kay-Rivest, Rami Shoukrun, Anca Florea, Michael Hier, Veronique-Isabelle Forest, Michael Tamilia, Richard J. Payne

“…Odds ratios were determined for each parameter and logistic regressions were calculated between markers and probability of malignancy. …”
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Model Sistem Berbasis Pengetahuan untuk Rekomendasi Aktivitas Pensiun by Dono Catur Prasetyo, Sri Kusumadewi, Isnatin Miladiyah

“…The representation of system knowledge uses production principles, the inference process uses forward chaining and the process of calculating the certainty value uses the certainty factor method. …”
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A dehazing and enhancement algorithm for heterogeneous images of underground mining environments in coal mines by Xuhui ZHANG, Yanbin XIE, Wenjuan YANG, Chao ZHANG, Jicheng WAN, Zheng DONG, Yanqun WANG, Jie JIANG, Long LI

“…Methods Initially, hazy images were segmented into zones with different brightness values, for which the average ambient light intensity of global dark channels was calculated. The calculation results were integrated through weighting with the ambient light of local bright channels, which was obtained using adaptive gamma correction and multiscale Gaussian filtering. …”
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Feasibility of occlusal plane in predicting the changes in anteroposterior mandibular position: a comprehensive analysis using deep learning-based three-dimensional models by Bingran Du, Kaichen Li, Zhiling Shen, Yihang Cheng, Jiayan Yu, Yaopeng Pan, Ziyan Huang, Fei Hu, Xiaohui Rausch-Fan, Yuanpeng Zhu, Xueyang Zhang

“…The receiver operating characteristic curves of inclinations of seven OPs in distinguishing different anteroposterior skeletal patterns and correlations between inclinations of these OPs and APMP metrics were calculated and compared. For the OP inclination with the highest area under the curve (AUC) values and correlation coefficients, the regression models between this OP inclination and APMP metrics were further calculated. …”
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Role of Sling Tuina Exercise Technique in Improving Paraspinal Muscle Asymmetry in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by LIU Min, MA Zhaoshui, XU Qiangqiang, LI Li

“…Before treatment and after 4 weeks of treatment, the surface electromyography (sEMG) was used to measure the paraspinal muscles of the patients during standing weight-bearing position, and the root mean square (RMS) was calculated and analyzed through the included software, and the paraspinal muscle symmetry index was calculated (PMSI=RMS_convex/RMS_concave); Cobb's angle was used to assess the severity of the patients' scoliosis; and the angle of trunk rotation (ATR) was used to assess the degree of rotation of the trunk.ResultsBefore treatment, the PMSI values, Cobb's angle, and ATR values of the two groups were compared, and the differences were not statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05). …”
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Insights into simulation-based learning: student and faculty experiences in a PharmD program in Saudi Arabia by Reem Binsuwaidan, Najla A. Altwaijry, Alnada A. Ibrahim, Rawan A. Alghamdi, Razan Bin Humaid, Alaa A. AlSharif, Alaa A. AlHubaishi, Elshaymaa I. Elmongy, Lina I. Alnajjar, Ghadah H. Alshehri

“…The sample size was calculated with a 5% margin of error, 95% confidence interval for a target population. …”
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Management strategies for the efficient energy production of brackish water desalination to ensure reliability, cost reduction, and sustainability by A. Bdour, A. Hejab, L. Almakhadmeh, M. Hawa

“…This reflects the actual consumption and energy performance of the plant, which was found to be 192 percent more efficient than the estimated specific energy and 144 percent more efficient than the calculated specific energy. No energy conservation measures were implemented at this stage, as the plant was already operating efficiently. …”
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Diagnostic and Predictive Values of Inflammatory Factors in Pathology and Survival of Patients Undergoing Total Cystectomy by Xingxing Tang, Yudong Cao, Jia Liu, Shuo Wang, Yong Yang, Peng Du

“…The AUC of ROC was calculated to judge the diagnostic value of the IFs in pathology and their corresponding cut-off values. …”
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Presence of microplastics contamination in table salt and estimated exposure in humans by D.A. Syamsu, D. Deswati, S. Syafrizayanti, A. Putra, Y. Suteja

“…Furthermore, human exposure to microplastics can be predicted by calculating the estimated dietary intake and taking into account the daily salt intake.FINDINGS: Microplastics were detected in significant amounts (p<0.05) in all salt samples, ranging from 33 to 313 particles/kilogram. …”
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Evaluation method and application for in-situ stress in No. 8+9 coal seam, southern Shenfu block, northeastern margin of Ordos Basin by Jiawei WU, Wei TANG, Yanhe ZHU, Cunwu WANG, Yongjing TIAN, Jingyu ZI, Jianghao YANG, Xian SHI

“…In the western part, the directions of the maximum horizontal principal stress may deviate due to stress field disturbances around inactive faults and hydraulic fracturing activities. In 20 wells, calculations of the in-situ stress showed that the vertical principal stress in the No. 8+9 coal seam with a vertical depth of 1 902-2 181 m was 47-54 MPa. …”
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Cost-Consequence Analysis of Apixaban Versus Rivaroxaban for Managing Patients with Venous Thromboembolism in Saudi Arabia by Abdulaali R. Almutairi PhD, Yazed Alruthia PhD, Majed S. Alyami PharmD, Omar A. Alshaya PharmD, Taif Z. Alanazi PharmD, Sarah I. Al Daghreer PharmD, Ghazwa B. Korayem PharmD, Sarah A. Alrasheed PharmD, Reema A. Alorf PharmD, Omar A. Almohammed PhD

“…The effectiveness was determined by calculating 1 minus the probability of experiencing the composite outcome. …”
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Construction of the bromodomain-containing protein-associated prognostic model in triple-negative breast cancer by Wei Chen, Yushuai Yu, Chenxi Wang, Zirong Jiang, Xiewei Huang, Yidan Lin, Hongjing Han, Qing Wang, Hui Zhang

“…The BRDRGs score in TCGA-TNBC was calculated using single-sample Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (ssGSEA). …”
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Image-based analysis of quantitative morphological characteristics of wild potato tubers using the desktop application SeedСounter by K. A. Ivanova, E. G. Komyshev, M. A. Genaev, A. A. Egorova, K. A. Koloshina, N. A. Chalaya, D. A. Afonnikov, A. V. Kochetov, E. V. Rogozina, S. V. Gerasimova

“…The overall tuber yield volume for each plant was  calculated as a sum of volumes of individual tubers; tuber volume was calculated from its length to width ratio and projected area. …”
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Effect of Al and Ta Impurities on Si Adsorption on (001) and (111) Surfaces of B1-TiN by Yury M. Koroteev, Leonid A. Svyatkin, Sergey O. Ognev, Vyacheslav M. Silkin

“…In the present work, with the help of first-principles calculations of electronic and atomic structure of (001) and (111) surfaces of the Ti_1−x−yAl<i>_x</i>Ta<i>_y</i>N system with adsorbed Si atom and the interatomic bond study apparatus based on the calculation of a crystal orbital Hamilton population and a crystal orbital bond index, the nature of the bonds between adsorbed Si and the N, Ti, Al, and Ta atoms of the Ti_1−x−yAl<i>_x</i>Ta<i>_y</i>N surface system has been studied. …”
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Evaluation of Six Novel Protein Sources on Apparent Digestibility in Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei by Xiaoyue Li, Yongkang Chen, Chaozhong Zheng, Shuyan Chi, Shuang Zhang, Beiping Tan, Shiwei Xie

“…After the shrimp was acclimating for one week, their feces were collected 2 hours after the morning feeding until sufficient samples were available for compositional analysis to calculate apparent digestibility. The apparent digestibility coefficients for a dry matter of diets (ADCD) and ingredients (ADCI) as well as the apparent digestibility coefficients for crude protein (ADCPro), crude lipid (ADCL), and phosphorus (ADCP) of test ingredients were calculated. …”
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Occupational exposures and coronary heart disease in the Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) – a cross-sectional study by Franziska Labe, Raphael Twerenbold, Betül Toprak, Peter Koch, Birgit-Christiane Zyriax, Sarah Affolderbach, Lukas Damerau, Hanno Hoven, Hajo Zeeb, Robert Herold, Volker Harth

“…Absolute and relative frequencies were calculated. Using logistic regression, the association of CHD and standard occupation titles via ISCO-08 and the association of CHD and occupational exposures via JEM were calculated and adjusted for potentially confounding covariates. …”
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How to protect the proximal bronchial tree during stereotactic radiotherapy of ultracentral lung tumors: Lessons from MR-guided treatment by Sebastian Regnery, Efthimios Katsigiannopulos, Hin Lau, Philipp Hoegen-Saßmannshausen, Fabian Weykamp, Claudia Katharina Renkamp, Carolin Rippke, Fabian Schlüter, Sophia Albert, Jan Meis, Marietta Kirchner, Alexandra Balzer, Nicolaus Andratschke, Matthias Guckenberger, Jürgen Debus, Sebastian Klüter, Juliane Hörner-Rieber

“…A planning risk volume (PRV) is calculated for an assumed non-adaptive SBRT in deep-inspiration breath hold (DIBH) with surface-guidance (AlignRT®). …”
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The method described by Czosnyka is particularly suitable for measuring CPPe in patients undergoing cerebral angiography by Yunyun Liang, Pei Mo, Yonghong Chen, Xinwu Liu, Lin Chen, Xiaomin Zhou, Zijing Wang, Junyi Fu, Longchang Xie

“…BEL and CZO showed a strong correlation with LR in Pearson correlation coefficients.ConclusionThe CPPe, CrCP, and RAP values obtained using the CZO calculation methods are comparable to those measured using the reference method. …”
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Molecular docking and dynamics studies to identify novel active compounds targeting potential breast cancer receptor proteins from an indigenous herb Euphorbia thymifolia Linn [ver... by ShamaPrasada K, Reshma Kumarchandra, Vasavi Kumblekar, K Sreedhara Ranganath Pai, Suman Manandhar, Sharada Rai, Rajeshwari Shastry

“…Compounds with good docking scores were further subjected to dynamic studies to understand the protein ligand binding stability, ligand pathway calculation, and molecular mechanics energies combined with Poisson-Boltzmann (MM/PBSA) calculations using the Schrodinger suite. …”
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Association between left ventricular reverse remodelling and the B-type natriuretic peptide–cGMP cascade after anterior acute myocardial infarction by Satoshi Yasuda, Kunihiro Nishimura, Kensuke Takagi, Hiroyuki Takahama, Naoto Minamino, Masashi Fujino, Satoshi Honda, Yasuhide Asaumi, Yu Kataoka, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Soshiro Ogata, Teruo Noguchi, Takahiro Nakashima, Kenichiro Sawada, Yoshiaki Morita, Kazuhiro Nakao, Hiroyuki Miura, Takamasa Iwai, Marina Arai, Eri Kiyoshige, Kota Murai, Hideo Matama, Shuichi Yoneda

“…The estimated mature BNP (emBNP) concentration was calculated as the difference between total BNP and prohormone of BNP (proBNP) concentrations. …”
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