Molecular profiling of bladder cancer xenografts defines relevant molecular subtypes and provides a resource for biomarker discovery. by Sharada Mokkapati, Ganiraju Manyam, Alexis R. Steinmetz, Côme Tholomier, Alberto Martini, Woonyoung Choi, Bogdon Czerniak, Byron H Lee, Colin P Dinney, David J McConkey

“…Bladder cancer (BLCA) genomic profiling has identified molecular subtypes with distinct clinical characteristics and variable sensitivities to frontline therapy. BLCAs can be categorized into luminal or basal subtypes based on their gene expression. …”
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Enhanced detection of chronic wasting disease in muscle tissue harvested from infected white-tailed deer employing combined prion amplification assays. by Caitlyn N Kraft, David W Bissinger, Erin E McNulty, Nathaniel D Denkers, Candace K Mathiason

“…Conventional assays including immunohistochemistry (IHC) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) lack the sensitivity to detect low concentrations of prions presumed to be present outside neural or lymphatic tissues. …”
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Could cough hypersensitivity symptom profile differentiate phenotypes of chronic cough? by Mi-Yeong Kim, Ha-Kyeong Won, Ji-Yoon Oh, Ji-Hyang Lee, Eun-Jung Jo, Sung-Yoon Kang, Ji-Ho Lee, Seung-Eun Lee, Noeul Kang, Young-Chan Kim, Hwa Young Lee, Jin An, Youngsang Yoo, Ji-Su Shim, So-Young Park, Han-Ki Park, Min-Hye Kim, Sae-Hoon Kim, Sang-Heon Kim, Yoon-Seok Chang, Sang-Hoon Kim, Byung-Jae Lee, Surinder S. Birring, Woo-Jung Song

“…This study aimed to compare symptom features, such as cough triggers and associated throat sensations, of cough hypersensitivity in patients with asthmatic chronic cough and those with refractory chronic cough (RCC). …”
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Classification of benign and malignant solid breast lesions on the ultrasound images based on the textural features: the importance of the perifocal lesion area by А.А. Kolchev, D.V. Pasynkov, I.A. Egoshin, I.V. Kliouchkin, О.О. Pasynkova

“…The final model achieved a sensitivity of 98%, specificity of 96%, and accuracy of 97%. …”
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Global surface eddy mixing ellipses: spatio-temporal variability and machine learning prediction by Tian Jing, Ru Chen, Chuanyu Liu, Chunhua Qiu, Chunhua Qiu, Cuicui Zhang, Mei Hong

“…Coarse-resolution climate models are sensitive to the specification of eddy diffusivity tensor. …”
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Accelerating Multilingual Cryptocurrency Forensics: An NLP-Driven Approach for Efficient Mnemonic Identification by Hsin-Hsiung Kao

“…Crucially, our TextCNN-driven approach processes data 40.47 times faster than the traditional method, significantly enhancing efficiency in time-sensitive forensic environments. This NLP-driven method not only maintains high accuracy while dramatically reducing processing time but also offers greater adaptability for diverse forensic needs compared to traditional techniques. …”
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Gene Polymorphism of Antigen B Subunit 2 and Pathogenesis of Cystic Echinococcosis in Murine Model by Hadi M. Alsakee, Hussein M. Abdulla, Reshna K. Albarzanji

“…To upgrade the diagnostic sensitivity rates of the immunological techniques, a mixture of native hydatid antigens containing AgB is recommended to be used in the ser-diagnosis of this infection. …”
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Validity of serum autotaxin and Doppler ultrasound as noninvasive markers of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis by Doaa El Wazzan, Ayman F. El-Shayeb, Soraya Hamouda, Mohamed El Shafei, Akram A. Degheidy, Basma Salem, Mohamed Adel

“…Child–Pugh classification, fibrosis-4 (FIB-4), age to platelet index (API), model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), platelet/splenic diameter, portal vein velocity, flow volume, and serum autotaxin were entered in stepwise logistic regression model for prediction of esophageal varices, and serum autotaxin, portal vein velocity, and flow volume were significant in multivariate regression analysis with sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of 96.25%, 75%, 93.9%, and 83.33%, respectively. …”
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Dietary carotenoid intakes and biological aging among US adults, NHANES 1999–2018 by Xiang Qi, Xuanyang Wang, Licheng Cheng, Yue Li, Keke Dang, Shuo Yang, Yina Wang, Runyi Zhou, Can Zhang, Ying Li

“…Subgroup analysis indicated that male, older individuals, smokers, alcohol drinkers, and less physically active individuals are particularly sensitive populations. Meanwhile, WQS regression and QG-comp analyses consistently indicated a negative association between mixed carotenoids exposure and four biological aging indices, highlighting that lutein/zeaxanthin and β-carotene were responsible for the outcomes. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni Infection in Faecal Samples by Ibrahim N. Mwangi, Eric L. Agola, Robert M. Mugambi, Esther A. Shiraho, Gerald M. Mkoji

“…Current diagnostic tools are limited by suboptimal sensitivity, slow turn-around-time, affordability, and inability to distinguish current from past infections. …”
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Quantitative 3-D investigation of faulting in deep mining using Mohr–Coulomb criterion and slip weakening law by Yatao Li, Xuehong Gao, Jianwei Yang, Erhu Bai

“…Our findings demonstrate that the k serves as a critical indicator of fault reactivity, with its sensitivity to φ and D m, significantly heightening the potential for seismic activities. …”
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Clinical utility of hematological parameters in aplastic anemia by Lizhong Zhang, Xiaonan Han, Qiujuan Zhu, Yu Qin, Yanan Jia

“…Meanwhile, a combination of absolute neutrophil count, absolute reticulocyte count and mean sphered cell volume (AUC 0.893, 95% confidence interval 0.842–0.943, sensitivity 78.9%, specificity 85.7%) showed excellent precision for the differential diagnosis of severe aplastic anemia. …”
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Investigating feature extraction by SIFT methods for prostate cancer early detection by Shadan Mohammed Jihad, Ali A. Alsaud, Firas H. Almukhtar, Shahab Kareem, Raghad Zuhair Yousif

“…The adopted methodology was based on the comparative analysis and benchmarking of the performance of feature extraction based on SIFT against traditional image processing techniques with a generic representation on a number of metrics: sensitivity, specificity, and overall diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Lactate/albumin ratio as a prognostic biomarker for in-hospital mortality in pediatric patients with necrotizing enterocolitis by Ban Li, Yuanzhi Chen, Zhen Yang, Xianglun Sun, Cheng Tian, Jingsi Liu, Lihua Yuan, Kanglin Dai

“…An L/A cutoff value of 0.56 demonstrated a sensitivity of 0.923 and specificity of 0.486, with an AUC of 0.725 from the ROC curve analysis. …”
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ASTEC–MAAP Comparison of a 2 Inch Cold Leg LOCA until RPV Failure by J. C. de la Rosa Blul, S. Brumm, F. Mascari, S. J. Lee, L. Carenini

“…The choice of the accumulator gas expansion model, either isentropic or isothermal, affects the rate and total amount of coolant injected and thereby determines whether the core is quenched or overheated and attains a noncoolable geometry during reflooding. A sensitivity case was additionally simulated by each code to allow comparisons to be made with either accumulator gas expansion models. …”
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Review of the Generation of Fractures and Change of Permeability due to Water-Shale Interaction in Shales by Kerui Liu, Dangliang Wang, James J. Sheng, Jianfeng Li

“…However, if the generated fractures cannot serve as an effective flow channel, shale permeability will be impaired by clay swelling, water blocking, stress-sensitive, etc.…”
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Comparison of Prevalence of blaNDM-1 Gene among Metallo-Beta Lactamase-Producing Multidrug-Resistant Fermenters and Nonfermenters in a Tertiary Care Hospital by Shaveta Kataria, Shipra Galhotra, Mohit Kumar, Priyanka Thandi, Neerja Jindal

“…Materials and Methods: All clinical specimens received in the microbiology department for culture and sensitivity from indoor patients were included in study. …”
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Serum Matrix Metalloproteinases and Risk of Urologic Cancers: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by BoWen Yang, XiaoYu Zeng, HanYu Wang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…We performed inverse variance-weighted MR as the primary method for calculating the overall effects of multiple instruments, while implementing additional MR methods and sensitivity analyses. Odds ratios (ORs) were employed to evaluate the causal relationship between serum MMPs and urologic cancers risk. …”
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Diagnostic value of procalcitonin for differentiation between bacterial infection and noninfectious inflammation in febrile children with systemic autoimmune diseases by Sathishkumar Loganathan, Sathish Kumar

“…PCT concentration cutoff value >1.2 ng/ml has the sensitivity of 83% (95% confidence interval [CI] 43.6–0.97) and specificity of 72% (95% CI 49.1–87.5), positive predictive value of 50% (95% CI 23.6–76.3) and negative predictive value 93% (95% CI 68.5–98.7). …”
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Macroproperties vs. microstates in the classical simulation of critical phenomena in quench dynamics of 1D Ising models by Anupam Mitra, Tameem Albash, Philip Daniel Blocher, Jun Takahashi, Akimasa Miyake, Grant Biedermann, Ivan H Deutsch

“…The long-time correlation length near the critical point is more sensitive to the full many-body state fidelity, and generally requires a large bond dimension MPS. …”
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