Utilizing a Wireless Radar Framework in Combination With Deep Learning Approaches to Evaluate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity in Home-Setting Environments by Lee KT, Liu WT, Lin YC, Chen Z, Ho YH, Huang YW, Tsai ZL, Hsu CW, Yeh SM, Lin HY, Majumdar A, Chen YL, Kuan YC, Lee KY, Feng PH, Chen KY, Kang JH, Lee HC, Ho SC, Tsai CY

“…However, both PSG and HSAT require that sensors be attached to a subject, which may disturb their sleep and affect the results. …”
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Level of and trends in women’s empowerment inequalities in antenatal care services in Ethiopia: further analysis of the Ethiopia demographic and health surveys, 2000-16 by Gebretsadik Shibre, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Damen Haile Mariam

“…The concentration indices showed that disparities mostly increased in 2016 and the change was underpinned by the changes in the inequalities of various factors and sensitivities of antenatal care services with respect to these variables, such as wealth, maternal education, media exposure, place of residence, and women’s empowerment itself. …”
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Anthropological Dimension of the Philosophical "Literature-Centric" Model of Ukrainian Romanticism by Z. O. Yankovska, L. V. Sorochuk

“…Man in this kind of movement, thanks to the means of art, appears very clearly as a spiritually rich, sensitive, vulnerable and strong person. For him or her, the highest value is freedom, the ability to make freely independent fateful decisions. …”
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Stock price prediction with attentive temporal convolution-based generative adversarial network by Ying Liu, Xiaohua Huang, Liwei Xiong, Ruyu Chang, Wenjing Wang, Long Chen

“…Nevertheless, stock market data typically contain substantial noise to which TCNs may be overly sensitive, thereby affecting the accuracy of the predictions. …”
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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

“…<italic>Results:</italic> Benchmarking against existing tools revealed that BeatProfiler detected and analyzed contraction and calcium signals better than existing tools through improved sensitivity in low signal data, reduction in false positives, and analysis speed increase by 7 to 50-fold. …”
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Plasma Levels of Propionylcarnitine Improved Prediction of Heart Failure and All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease by Jairo Lumpuy-Castillo, Francisco J. Rupérez, Brenda Lee Simas Porto, Carmen Cristóbal, Nieves Tarín, Ana Isabel Huelmos, Joaquín Alonso, Jesús Egido, Ignacio Mahíllo-Fernández, Lorenzo López-Bescós, José Tuñón, Óscar Lorenzo

“…Through a multivariable logistic regression analysis, a combined model of age, Gal-3, and the NGAL/propionylcarnitine ratio showed the highest prediction for HF or death (AUC = 0.88, sensitivity = 0.8, and specificity = 0.81; <i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Re-annotation of SARS-CoV-2 proteins using an HHpred-based approach opens new opportunities for a better understanding of this virus by Brézellec, Pierre

“…As it is now well established that some viral proteins share similarities with proteins of their hosts, we decided to explore the hypothesis that this lack of homologies could be, at least in part, the result of the documented loss of sensitivity of Pfam Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) when searching for domains in "divergent organisms". …”
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Gut microbiota influence on lung cancer risk through blood metabolite mediation: from a comprehensive Mendelian randomization analysis and genetic analysis by Yizhao Du, Qin Wang, Zongmei Zheng, Hailun Zhou, Yang Han, Ao Qi, Lijing Jiao, Lijing Jiao, Yabin Gong

“…MR-Egger intercept test, Radial MR, MR-PRESSO, Cochran Q test and Leave-one-out (LOO) analysis were used for sensitivity analyses. Analyses were adjusted for smoking, alcohol intake frequency and air pollution. …”
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Long-Term Visual Quality and Pupil Changes after Small-Incision Lenticule Extraction for Eyes without Preoperative Cylinder Refraction by Xiaonan Yang, Qiting Feng, Quan Liu, Jianhui Chen, Pengxia Wan

“…Refractive outcomes, corneal curvature, aberrations, contrast sensitivity (CS), and pupil diameter were evaluated preoperatively, and 30 months postoperatively. …”
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Designing community-based strategies to reach non-household contacts of people with tuberculosis in Lusaka, Zambia: a rapid qualitative study among key stakeholders by Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Marksman Foloko, Evelyn Kundu-Ng’andu, Herbert Nyirenda, Zainab Jabbie, Mainza Syulikwa, Chanda Mwamba, Mary Kagujje, Monde Muyoyeta, Anjali Sharma

“…They also indicated an interest in participating, citing many benefits, including increased TB knowledge/awareness, early diagnosis, convenience, and possibly reduced transmission, and recommended that the strategy incorporate sensitization, consent, volunteerism, and respectful, confidential, private services. …”
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Urinary human papillomavirus DNA as an indicator of gynaecological infection in young women in Schistosoma and HIV endemic South Africa by P. Pillay, H. N. Galappaththi-Arachchige, M. Taylor, B. Roald, B. Roald, E. F. Kjetland, E. F. Kjetland

“…Urine HPV DNA showed a sensitivity of 75.7% and specificity of 77.6% relative to the CVL HPV DNA. …”
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In Vivo Corneal Confocal Microscopy Detects Improvement of Corneal Nerve Parameters following Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Xiaofan Jia, Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoxia Wang, Qi Pan, Tongzhang Xian, Xiaobin Yu, Lixin Guo

“…In vivo CCM could be a sensitive method that can be applied in future longitudinal or interventional studies on DPN.…”
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Effect of auricular acupoint pressing combined with acupoint application in the treatment of senile constipation (耳穴压豆联合穴位贴敷治疗老年性便秘效果观察) by KAN Haiying (坎海英), ZHOU Weihua (周维华)

“…Results Shorter inter-defecatory time interval and defecation duration, and higher scores of defecation sensation and fecal Characteristics were observed in the observation group compared with those in the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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Genomic Alterations in Primary Gastric Adenocarcinomas Correlate with Clinicopathological Characteristics and Survival by Marjan M. Weiss, Ernst J. Kuipers, Cindy Postma, Antoine M. Snijders, Daniel Pinkel, Stefan G. M. Meuwissen, Donna Albertson, Gerrit A. Meijer

“…With this recently developed technique chromosomal aberrations can be studied with high resolution and sensitivity. Methods: Array CGH was applied to a series of 35 gastric adenocarcinomas using a genome‐wide scanning array with 2275 BAC and P1 clones spotted in triplicate. …”
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A machine learning model to predict neurological deterioration after mild traumatic brain injury in older adults by Daisu Abe, Motoki Inaji, Takeshi Hase, Eiichi Suehiro, Naoto Shiomi, Hiroshi Yatsushige, Shin Hirota, Shu Hasegawa, Hiroshi Karibe, Akihiro Miyata, Kenya Kawakita, Kohei Haji, Hideo Aihara, Shoji Yokobori, Takeshi Maeda, Takahiro Onuki, Kotaro Oshio, Nobukazu Komoribayashi, Michiyasu Suzuki, Taketoshi Maehara

“…At the cutoff value from the Youden index, the model showed a sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value of 60, 96, and 38%, respectively. …”
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Causal Associations Between Sarcopenia and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Huang Y, Zhao S, Hong J, Shen L, Wang Z, Wang D

“…Second, in the reverse MR analysis, we assessed whether GDM influenced sarcopenia-related traits. Finally, sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the robustness of the MR analysis.Results: Forward MR analysis revealed that appendicular lean mass (odds ratio [OR] = 1.2182, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.1397– 1.3021, P < 0.0001), right-hand grip strength (OR= 1.4194, 95% CI: 1.0773– 1.8701, P= 0.0128), left-hand grip strength (OR= 1.6064, 95% CI: 1.2829– 2.0115, P < 0.0001), and usual walking pace (OR= 3.3676, 95% CI: 1.8769– 6.0423, P < 0.0001) were associated with an increased risk of GDM. …”
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Sidewalk thermal comfort in street canyon and role of pavements under perpendicular sun rays during summer by D. Jareemit, M. Srivanit

“…The implementation of these albedo strategies has the potential to enhance thermal comfort by 0.34-0.38 percent and alter the threshold values of the Physiologically Equivalent Temperature Index for thermal sensation, transitioning from hot to cold environments. …”
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Integrating bioinformatics and machine learning to identify AhR-related gene signatures for prognosis and tumor microenvironment modulation in melanoma by Qianru Li, Qianru Li, Heli Li

“…The relationship between the selected genes and drug sensitivity, as well as non-coding RNA interactions, was thoroughly investigated.ResultsOur analysis identified a robust prognostic model, with four AhR-related genes (MAP2K1, PRKACB, KLF5, and PIK3R2) emerging as key contributors to melanoma progression. …”
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Gaps in Study Design for Immune Parameter Research for Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review by Mariana Herrera, Cristian Vera, Yoav Keynan, Zulma Vanessa Rueda

“…We found high heterogeneity between studies including failure to account for the time/illness of the individuals studied; varied samples and protocols; different clinical classification of TB; different laboratory methods for IP detection, which in turn leads to variable units of measurement and assay sensitivities; and selection bias regarding TST and booster effect. …”
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Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Care Coordination Instrument for cancer patients by Anne Werner, Anke Steckelberg, Alexandra Strobel, Andreas Wienke, Heike Schmidt, Dirk Vordermark, Patrick Michl, C. Benedikt Westphalen, Julia Lühnen

“…Both domains reflect important aspects of care. The sensitivity of the CCI should be examined in future studies involving different cancer entities.…”
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