Response Rate and Impact on Lipid Profiles of Obeticholic Acid Treatment for Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A Meta-Analysis by Yuan Gao, Li Li, Bei Li, Yutao Zhan

“…Two researchers independently extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of studies. We calculated risk ratio (RR) for the overall complete response rate, and the standardized mean difference (SMD) for the serum lipids changes after OCA treatment, all with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using fixed-effects models. …”
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Prohibiting Babel-A call for professional remote interpreting services in pre-operation anaesthesia information. by Gernot Gerger, Nikolaus Graf, Elisabeth Klager, Klara Doppler, Armin Langauer, Verena Albrecht, Aylin Bilir, Harald Willschke, David M Baron, Maria Kletecka-Pulker

“…Statistical analyses (χ2 tests and binomial) were calculated to show differences between and within the groups.…”
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Enhancement of Aeroengine Combustion Chamber Air Cooling Holes Design for Emission Reduction and Pattern Factor Control by Masoud Hajivand

“…One of the major objectives of this research is to compare the CFD results at the combustor outlet with gas dynamic and thermodynamic calculations that have been carried out using AxStream software at the Department of Aeroengine Design, Kharkiv Aviation Institute. …”

Tracking of Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents in Germany in the Context of Risk Factors for Hypertension by Giselle Sarganas, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Claudia Niessner, Alexander Woll, Hannelore K. Neuhauser

“…BP tracking coefficients were calculated from Spearman’s rank-order correlations. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of anxiety disorders during the perimenopause (1990–2021) and projections to 2035 by Ying Zhang, Ting-Ting Hu, Yong-Ran Cheng, Zhi-Fen Zhang, Jun Su

“…Methods Data from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database were utilized to assess disability-adjusted life years associated with anxiety disorders linked to perimenopause. We calculated trends using the estimated average percent change, and future projections were made using the Bayesian age–period–cohort model to estimate disability-adjusted life year trends for anxiety disorders from 2022 to 2035. …”
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Processing streams in a monitoring cloud cluster by Alexey N. Nazarov

“…At the same time, analytical relations are obtained to calculate the required performance of the Hadoop cluster at a given value of the probability of batch loss.…”
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Prevalence of depressive disorders among pregnant women in Brazil in 2019: A descriptive cross-sectional study by Maira Gonçalves de Oliveira Lucas, Maria Isabel do Nascimento

“…The prevalence of depressive disorders and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were calculated. RESULTS: The prevalence of depression before the current pregnancy was 6.03% (95%CI: 3.80%; 8.25%). …”
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Agreement between 2D Visual- and 3D Motion Capture-based Assessment of Foot Strike Pattern by Haruhiko Goto, Toshinao Kamikubo, Ryota Yamamoto, Toshiharu Tsutsui, Suguru Torii

“…The visual, SI, and SA methods were used, and the kappa values for each method were calculated. # Results An assessment of the two types of foot strike: NRFS and RFS, revealed almost perfect kappa values (κ = 0.89--0.95) among the visual, SI, and SA methods. …”
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Association Between Mental Illness and Diabetes: an Expert Opinion-Based Analysis by Elizabeth Cristina Mayorga Aldaz, Roberto Javier Aguilar Berrezueta, Elizabeth Altamirano

“…A qualitative assessment of the responses was carried out and the cut-off points and their respective indicator scales were calculated; inverse standard normal values were used. …”
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Movement Competency Screens Can Be Reliable In Clinical Practice By A Single Rater Using The Composite Score by Kerry J. Mann, Nicholas O'Dwyer, Michaela R. Bruton, Stephen P. Bird, Suzi Edwards

“…Kappa score, percentage agreement and intra-class correlation were calculated for each movement individually and for the composite score…”
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Prediction model and real-time diagnostics of hydraulic fracturing pressure for highly deviated wells in deep oil and gas reservoirs by Lingdong Meng, Xiaoling Zhang, Yejun Jin, Kun Yan, Ziyang Li, Hailong Fu, Song li

“…The frictional pressure within the wellbore fluid, the hydrostatic fluid pressure, and the near-well friction drags have been calculated and predicted. A real-time prediction model for diagnosing pumping fracturing has been constructed to further comprehend “abnormal” fracturing construction pressures in highly deviated wells. …”
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Chemical composition of the discharge fluid from IDDP-2, Reykjanes, Iceland by I. Galeczka, I. Galeczka, F. Óskarsson, K. G. Mesfin, J. E. Jónsson

“…Most of the major non-volatiles are in a low range of the concentrations calculated for the Reykjanes deep reservoir. The RN-15/IDDP-2 feeding aquifer is, however, enriched in gases such as CO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>, H<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>S, N<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>, and H<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> compared to their content before drilling. …”
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Surgical ergonomics among ophthalmologists at Alsaim Eye Hospital, Wad Madani, Sudan: a clinical audit by Imtinan Yousif, Khawla Jibreel, Mehera Mohammed

“…None of the operation room postures reached the targeted standard, with the highest value (77.3%) for the appropriate seating and the lowest (22.6%) for maintaining a straight back. When calculating the association between years of experience and adherence to the established operating postures, only maintaining proper gaze reached a statistical significance (P value of 0.04). …”
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Reservoir Characteristics and Its Comprehensive Evaluation of Gray Relational Analysis on the Western Sulige Gas Field, Ordos Basin, China by Xinping Liang, Qingbin Xie, Mingyu He, Quanyou Liu, Vladimir Morozov

“…Based on the premise of a lower limit of an effective reservoir, we select five parameters (permeability (K), porosity (Φ), effective sand thickness (M), effective sand/sand thickness ratio (D), and gas saturation (Sg)) to calculate the correlation coefficient, relational degree, and index weights for reservoir quality evaluation. …”
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Analyzing Urban Parks for Older Adults’ Accessibility in Summer Using Gradient Boosting Decision Trees: A Case Study from Tianjin, China by Haobo Zhao, Gang Feng, Wei Zhao, Yaxin Wang, Fei Chen

“…Additionally, the visual indexes of the spatial syntax are analyzed with Depthmap 10, the sunlight conditions are analyzed with the Tangent model, and some other spatial factors, such as the green space ratio and the hard ground ratio, are calculated according to the semantic segmentation of the 360-degree panoramic view photo from the center of every area. …”
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The changing burden of gout in adults aged 70 and above based on the global burden of disease 2019 by Yang Yang, Zhong Liu

“…We evaluated temporal trends and regional disparities by calculating the estimated annual percentage change (EAPCs).ResultsGlobally, the number of older adults individuals affected by gout increased from 5,316,210 cases in 1990 to 15,666,063 cases in 2019. …”
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Breeding Habitat Preference of the Dengue Vector Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from Urban, Semiurban, and Rural Areas in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka by J. M. Manel K. Herath, W. A. Priyanka P. De Silva, Thilini C. Weeraratne, S. H. P. Parakrama Karunaratne

“…Breeding preference ratios (BPRs) were calculated using Index of Available Containers and the Index of Contribution to Breeding Sites. …”
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Comparative Assessment of the Effect of Positioning Techniques and Ground Control Point Distribution Models on the Accuracy of UAV-Based Photogrammetric Production by Muhammed Enes Atik, Mehmet Arkali

“…To assess the accuracy of the points in these models, the horizontal, vertical, and 3D root mean square error (RMSE) values were calculated, holding the test points stationary in place. …”
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED STRUCTURAL ERRORS DETECTION IN BPMN MODELS by Andrii Kopp, Dmytro Orlovskyi, Igor Gamayun, Illia Sapozhnykov

“…To analyze the obtained results, the confusion matrix was used and the corresponding quality metrics were calculated. The obtained results confirm the suitability of the developed software for detecting structural errors in business process models. …”
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Dietary phytochemical index and the risk of gallstone disease: a case-control study by Mohammad Abdulmohsin Jebur, Ghufran Lutfi Ismaeel, Haitham Mukhklif Salim, Ammar Hussein Ahmed, Israa Habeeb Naser

“…It involved 250 patients with gallstones and 250 controls. DPI was calculated based on data collected from a 168-item validated food frequency questionnaire. …”
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