Risk thresholds for soft versus hard cardiovascular disease outcome models for initiating statin therapy among Chinese adults: a cost-utility analysis by Zhijia Sun, Haijun Zhang, Yinqi Ding, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, Yuanjie Pang, Pei Pei, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, Huaidong Du, Dan Huang, Xiaoming Yang, Maxim Barnard, Robert Clarke, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Jun Lv, on behalf of the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…We used CKB-ASCVD models to predict 10-year risk and different risk thresholds to guide statin initiation. …”
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PCA Weight Determination-Based InSAR Baseline Optimization Method: A Case Study of the HaiKou Phosphate Mining Area in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China by Weimeng Xu, Jingchun Zhou, Jinliang Wang, Huihui Mei, Xianjun Ou, Baixuan Li

“…Traditional selection methods, such as those based on average coherence thresholding, consider only a single factor and do not account for the interactions among multiple factors. …”
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Grip strength, muscle soreness and pain threshold perception evolution in baseball pitchers in a simulated 75-pitch game: a repeated measures study by Martin Descarreaux, Mathieu Tremblay, Samuel Anderson Sirois, Jacques Abboud

“…The purpose of this study was to quantify the evolution of grip strength, muscle soreness and pain threshold perception and pitching velocity in baseball pitchers throughout a simulated 75-pitch game.Methods 30 high-level amateur male baseball pitchers were recruited. …”
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Healthcare professionals interpersonal variability and determinants of medical decision thresholds for active management of extremely preterm infants in a level 3 perinatal center... by Charlotte Girard, Hélène Collinot, Héloïse Torchin, Clara Rollet, Pierre-Henri Jarreau, François Goffinet

“…Recognizing these differences and comparing personal thresholds with peers could facilitate more consensus-based decision-making within teams.…”
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Expanding access to HIV viral load testing: a systematic review of RNA stability in EDTA tubes and PPT beyond current time and temperature thresholds. by Kimberly Bonner, Reed A Siemieniuk, Andrew Boozary, Teri Roberts, Emmanuel Fajardo, Jennifer Cohn

“…RNA stability, the primary outcome, was measured by the difference in means compared to samples stored within established thresholds. …”
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Temperature simulation analysis and wear experimental of diamond abrasive grains cutting steel mixed materials by Min WEI, Yongjin SHI, Zihang GUO

“…The temperature rise in the cutting zones under different cooling methods is analyzed. Finally, experimental cutting tests using diamond wire saws on reinforced concrete material workpieces are conducted to investigate the failure behavior and wear rate of the wire saws under different cooling conditions. …”
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Difference limens of amplitude modulated signals by Edward OZIMEK, Aleksander SĘK

“…It was also found that difference in the STI values, determined with the objective method (the so-called RASTI method), which determine room quality from the point of view of speech intelligibility are found in the range of difference limens of amplitude modulated signals or below these limens.…”
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Valuation and compensation selection algorithm of simulation interferences by S. V. Kozlov

“…Using estimated-compensation method the selection it's motivated the algorithm simulation of interference evaluating the time of arrival and complex amplitude of the output signal consistent with the true signal of the filter, the weight subtracting the copy of the true signal from the input implementation, the formation of sufficient statistics for the two alternatives are «slow» and «fast» differences false signal from the true and comparing them with the threshold. …”
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Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Co-occurrence Risk of Rainstorms and High Tide Levels in Guangzhou by Zheng Yangkun, Wang Feng, Wei Qiuying, Zhang Yun, Yang Fang, Hu Maochuan

“…Rainfall sequences and corresponding tide-level sequences for each zone were selected using the peak-over-threshold sampling method. On this basis, the designed combinations of rainfall and tide levels under different joint return periods were calculated using Copula functions and the co-frequency method, and their spatial distribution characteristics were analyzed. …”
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Early selection of superior germplasm for oil-producing Eucalyptus maideni F. v. Muell by Zhuangyue Lu, Mei Li, Xuexian Li, Zhengxiong Zhao, Zilin Cao, Yulan Xu, Guanben Du, Xiaoli Wang

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Defining chronic pain impact levels: a patient-clinician approach using PROMIS® pain interference scores by Karon F. Cook, Dokyoung Sophia You, Michael Von Korff, Sean C. Mackey

“…We employed the PRO-Bookmarking technique to identify threshold scores that delineate different levels of chronic pain impact. …”
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Diagnosis of citrus leaf canker disease based on naive Bayesian classification by SHU Meiyan, WEI Jiaxi, ZHOU Yeying, DONG Qizhou, CHEN Haochong, HUANG Zhigang, MA Yuntao

“…In terms of performance efficiency, the time order of the four algorithms was fixed threshold method＜adaptive threshold＜naive Bayesian＜support vector machine, all of which were within a reasonable range. …”
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Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Based on Multi-Level Diversity Feature Fusion by Honggang Xie, Wanjie Ma

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a remote sensing image change detection method based on multi-level and multi-diversity feature fusion. …”
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Design of a Demodulation Algorithm for UWOC based on Improved Manchester Coding by ZHANG You, HU Fangren, ZHAO Xiaoyan, ZHOU Jun, WANG Qilong

“…【Objective】To meet the requirements of the engineering of high-speed Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC) technology, and to address the issue of high Bit Error Rate (BER) in underwater channels when using modulation methods such as On/Off Keying (OOK) that rely on threshold demodulation for high-speed communication, this paper conducts comparative simulation analysis of commonly used underwater optical communication modulation methods and proposes an improved modulation and demodulation algorithm that combines Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) with Manchester encoding and does not require threshold decision-making.…”
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Python algorithm package for automated Estimation of major legume root traits using two dimensional images by Amit Ghimire, Yong Suk Chung, Sungmoon Jeong, Yoonha Kim

“…Abstract A simple Python algorithm was used to estimate the four major root traits: total root length (TRL), surface area (SA), average diameter (AD), and root volume (RV) of legumes (adzuki bean, mung bean, cowpea, and soybean) based on two-dimensional images. Four different thresholding methods; Otsu, Gaussian adaptive, mean adaptive and triangle threshold were used to know the effect of thresholding in root trait estimation and to optimize the accuracy of root trait estimation. …”
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Unravelling the Molecular Identity of Bulgarian Jumping Plant Lice of the Family Aphalaridae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) by Monika Pramatarova, Daniel Burckhardt, Igor Malenovský, Ilia Gjonov, Hannes Schuler, Liliya Štarhová Serbina

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Assessing the Possibility of Prosecuting the Uyghur's Genocide before the International Criminal Court by Housein Aghaei Janat Makan, Noormohammad Nowruzi

“…Does it verifyrequisite jurisdictional threshold for initiate investigations by the Prosecutor of ICC? …”
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Spatiotemporal evaluation and impact of superficial factors on surface water quality for drinking using innovative techniques in Mahanadi River Basin, Odisha, India by Abhijeet Das

“…More than 62.5% of the examined samples is above the allowable threshold of TKN, and a high concentration of Cl- and NO3- at SN-(9), highlighted the impact of man-made factors, including fertilizers used in agriculture and industrial effluents. …”
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Effects of processing parameters on the reversible phase transition of germanium telluride by Haoran Ma, Shaorui Yang, Yi Liu, Yaguang Ye, Le Liu, Lei Liu, Wei Xiong, Leimin Deng, Tianting Chen

“…However, the low fault tolerance of existing manufacturing methods limits their further development and utilization. …”
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Reevaluating 30 cmH2O endotracheal tube cuff pressure: risks of airway mucosal damage during prolonged mechanical ventilation by Guo Mu, Guo Mu, Feixiang Wang, Qiang Li, Xuan Yu, Bin Lu

“…Whether this pressure level can cause potential damage to the airway mucosa remains to be discussed.MethodsAirway mucosa damage and structural changes at 30 cmH2O were examined in patients under general anesthesia and in rabbit mechanical ventilation models. …”
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