The Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests for Sexually Transmitted Infections by Max A Chernesky

“…The following components of the evaluation should be standardized and carefully followed: specimen identification; collection; transportation; processing; quality control; reading; proficiency testing; confirmatory testing; discordant analysis -- sensitivity, specificity and predictive value calculations; and record keeping. Methods are available to determine whether sample results are true or false positives or negatives. …”
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Assessing the influence of the modifiable areal unit problem on Bayesian disease mapping in Queensland, Australia. by Farzana Jahan, Shovanur Haque, James Hogg, Aiden Price, Conor Hassan, Wala Areed, Helen Thompson, Jessica Cameron, Susanna M Cramb

“…<h4>Background</h4>Spatial data are often aggregated by area to protect the confidentiality of individuals and aid the calculation of pertinent risks and rates. However, the analysis of spatially aggregated data is susceptible to the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), which arises when inference varies with boundary or aggregation changes. …”
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Phytochemical Content of Tingi (Ceriops tagal) Bark Extract by Ultrasonication Process by Guring Briegel Mandegani, Rini Pujiarti, Ganis Lukmandaru

“…The extraction yield was calculated by drying the solution with a freezer dryer, and phytochemical content was determined using UV-vis spectrophotometry. …”
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Doxycycline Proniosomal Gel as Local Drug Delivery System in Periodontal Disease: A Vitro Study by Dhawal Rajendra Mody, Vrushali Lathiya, Abhay P. Kolte, Vaishnavi Biradar, Vaishnavi Langde

“…The characterization of proniosomal gel and determination of drug entrapment efficacy is calculated. Result: Doxycycline release from the doxycycline proniosomal gel (Batch F12) was studied using Franz diffusion cell assembly with dialysis membrane for 7 days in phosphate-buffered saline (7.4) indicated sustained release of doxycycline from the formulation. …”
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Correlation analysis between micro and macro indicators of high modulus modified asphalt for asphalt pavement. by Jiarong Wang, Zhengqi Zhang, Zhongnan Tian

“…Then, through correlation analysis and regression calculation, the estimation formula was established between the results of molecular dynamics simulation and high temperature rheological test. …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension and Determination of Its Risk Factors in Rural Delhi by Jugal Kishore, Neeru Gupta, Charu Kohli, Neeta Kumar

“…Odds of hypertension among subjects with risk factors were calculated. p value less than 0.05 was considered significant. …”
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Realization of High Dynamic Range Imaging in the GLORIA Network and Its Effect on Astronomical Measurement by Stanislav Vítek, Petr Páta

“…At the moment, there are prepared educational materials related to events like Sun eclipse (measuring local atmosphere changes), Aurora Borealis (calculation of Northern Lights height), or transit of Venus (measurement of the Earth-Sun distance). …”
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Muscle architecture of the medial gastrocnemius during growth by Yasuyoshi Mogi

“…The relative muscle thickness was calculated by dividing the absolute muscle thickness by body mass1/3. …”
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The Application of Convolutional Neural Network Combined with Fuzzy Algorithm in Colorectal Endoscopy for Tumor Assessment by Te-Jen Su, Feng-Chun Lee, Cheuk-Kwan Sun, Fu-Xiang Ke, Shih-Ming Wang, Ming-Chih Huang

“…When this method is combined with the patient’s physical data, the risk cancer can be calculated by the fuzzy algorithm. Based on the result of this study, the accuracy of the tumor profile by colonoscopy, that is, 81.6%, is more precise than that of colorectal cancer tumor analysis studies in the recent literature. …”
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Molecular modelling of four penicillins: bencylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, ampicillin and amoxicillin by Elso Manuel Cruz Cruz, Eslhey María Sánchez Domínguez

“…The molecular properties were calculated according to the Density Functional Theory, at a B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. …”
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A Transformer Encoder Approach for Localization Reconstruction During GPS Outages from an IMU and GPS-Based Sensor by Kévin Cédric Guyard, Jonathan Bertolaccini, Stéphane Montavon, Michel Deriaz

“…Our method predicts the velocity during periods of weak or lost GPS signals and calculates the position through bidirectional velocity integration. …”
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A New Truncated Muth Generated Family of Distributions with Applications by Abdullah M. Almarashi, Farrukh Jamal, Christophe Chesneau, Mohammed Elgarhy

“…In an applied part, the parameters are calculated using the maximum likelihood procedure. We use a comprehensive simulation analysis to demonstrate the accuracy of the derived estimates. …”
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Construction and Optimisation of Economic Performance Evaluation Systems in Project Management: A Mixed-Method Approach From the Perspective of Construction Enterprises by Huabin Yang, Zheng Yang

“…Finally, based on the evaluation system, the relationships between the indicators and the calculation formulas for the three-level indicators were summarised, culminating in a closed-loop, systematic, and multi-dimensional analysis framework. …”
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RESEARCH ON SAFETY PROTECTION DESIGN AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF ROLLING LOBE AIR SPRING UNDER EXTREME CONDITION (MT) by CHEN JunJie, ZHANG ShengPeng, ZHANG Lei, WANG QiLiang, CHEN Ke

“…The research results provide theoretical support for accurate calculation of safety protection capability of RLAS in the design stage.…”
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Structure dependent optical and conductive properties of HPMC:CoCl2 composites: A functional data analysis study by Gowtham G K, Thejas G. Urs

“…Alongside experimental evidence, we employ a robust calculation method using functional data analysis to draw clear relationships among the parameters under study, further emphasizing the scientific rigor and significance of our findings.…”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Work-Related Lower Back Pain among Radiographers in the State of Kuwait by Hesham N. Alrowayeh, Musaed Z. Alnaser, Talal A. Alshatti, Raed S. Saeed

“…Descriptive statistics, frequency calculations, and chi-square analyses were performed. …”
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Analysis of Gamasyab River Flood by Multi-Regression Method by Nabe Khazaei, Mahmood Alaee Taleghani, Habib Jafari

“…Using dominant distribution log normal 3 parameters for each basin floods with return periods of 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 75 and 100 years were calculated, then the amount of discharge with different return periods at stations above and the factors influencing flood above them, using simple and multiple regression using log and forward, backward and forward, backward and step-relationship models were presented. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach for Reactive Power Optimization Incorporating Interval Values for Renewable Power Generation by Honglei Jia, Cong Zhang, Jieming Du, Na Kuang

“…In each iteration, the uncertain power flow is solved using the optimizing-scenarios method- (OSM-) based interval power flow (IPF) algorithm. This approach calculates the real power losses and checks whether state quantities, including voltage, power flow, and generator output, exceed their limits. …”
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Fast agglomerative clustering using approximate traveling salesman solutions by Sami Sieranoja, Pasi Fränti

“…In this work, we propose a fast variant of Ward’s method that reduces the number of distance calculations and only needs O(N) memory. It works by constraining the merges to neighboring nodes on a novel fully connected graph that consists of multiple approximate traveling salesman problem (TSP) solutions. …”
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Encrypted Search Method for Cloud Computing Data Under Attack Based on TF-IDF and Apriori Algorithm by Demei Mao, Mingzhu Wang

“…Among them, MKSE uses an improved TF-IDF weight calculation method to extract keywords and applies virtual keywords to construct inverted indexes, making it difficult for malicious attackers to infer the index content easily. …”
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