Building radiomics models based on ACR TI-RADS combining clinical features for discriminating benign and malignant thyroid nodules by Xingxing Chen, Xingxing Chen, Lili Zhang, Bin Chen, Jiajia Lu

“…To evaluate the clinical utility of the nomogram in reducing unnecessary biopsies, we further analyzed the performance of our integrated model (Clin+ACR+Rad) compared to the traditional ACR TI-RADS system at different probability thresholds. At the statistically optimal threshold of 0.386, the unnecessary biopsy rate decreased from 46.97% to 22.05% in the training cohort and from 45.83% to 21.05% in the test cohort.ConclusionThe current study offers preliminary support that the model of combined clinic-ACR score-radiomics score can be helpful for predicting malignancy in thyroid nodules by looking at a retrospective cohort of surgically treated thyroid nodules. …”
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Bias in modeled Greenland Ice Sheet melt revealed by ASCAT by A. Puggaard, A. Puggaard, N. Hansen, R. Mottram, T. Nagler, S. Scheiblauer, S. B. Simonsen, L. S. Sørensen, J. Wuite, A. M. Solgaard

“…We show that applying thresholds, informed by in situ measurements, reduces the differences between ASCAT and RCMs and minimizes the discrepancies between different RCMs. …”
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Predicting and evaluating slope stability in permafrost regions of the central Qinghai‒Tibetan Plateau by Fei Wang, Bo Huang, Mikhail Zhelezniak, Xiao-Ying Li, Alexander Zhirkov, Qi-Hao Yu, Zhi Wen

“…The overall distribution trends of unstable areas from both methods were broadly consistent, with a difference of only 7% in unstable area size. …”
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Variations in the Use of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in Primary Care in England: A Population-Based Cohort of 531,735 FITs from 495,121 Patients Between 2019 and 2023 by Morton AJ, Crooks CJ, West J, Nicholson BD, Humes DJ

“…Using a single FIT value as a threshold for onwards referral may work differently in different regions of England. …”
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Atomic Habits Parenting Validating a Behavioral Framework for Stunting Prevention by Sirajuddin Sirajuddin, Mustamin Mustamin, Dien Abdul Munir

“…This study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Atomic Habits Parenting instrument and its association with stunting prevention in children under five. This method differs from others as the consistent daily practice of small habits leads to a 37-fold improvement over one year. …”
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Antibacterial and Cytotoxicity characteristics of experimental epoxy -based endodontic sealer loaded with silver gold nanoparticles: in vitro study by Nermine Hassan, Mona Riad, Shereen Hafez Ibrahim, Khaled Mahmoud, Bassam Ahmed Abulnoor, Reham Hassan

“…The chosen significance threshold was P <0.05. Results Antibacterial results revealed that there was no difference in the diameter of the inhibition zones measured in all groups at 24 h. …”
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The Role of High-Tech Jobs in Regional Development by A. A. Ugryumova, M. V. Savelyeva

“…In the study there have been used methods of analysis and synthesis of information, systematic, logical, comparative and economic analysis, expert assessments. …”
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Toward Smart Condition Monitoring of Rotatory Machines: An Optimized Probabilistic Signal Reconstruction Methodology for Fault Prediction With Multisource Uncertainties by Xiaomo Jiang, Weijian Tang, Haixin Zhao, Xueyu Cheng

“…Three signal reconstruction methods, that is, Bayesian wavelet multiscale decomposition, probabilistic principal component analysis, and auto-associative kernel regression, were seamlessly integrated to address the noise, high dimensionality, and correlation in the sensed multivariate vibration data for accurate fault prediction. …”
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Glycated albumin as a diagnostic tool in diabetes: An alternative or an additional test? by Fernando Chimela Chume, Mayana Hernandez Kieling, Priscila Aparecida Correa Freitas, Gabriela Cavagnolli, Joíza Lins Camargo

“…Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the clinical utility of GA in diagnosis of DM.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>This diagnostic test accuracy study was performed in 242 Brazilian individuals referred for OGTT in a tertiary university hospital. …”
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Is sustained virological response a marker of treatment efficacy in patients with chronic hepatitis C viral infection with no response or relapse to previous antiviral intervention... by Kurinchi S Gurusamy, Edward Wilson, Ronald L Koretz, Victoria B Allen, Brian R Davidson, Andrew K Burroughs, Christian Gluud

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>SVR may be a good prognostic marker but does not seem to be a valid surrogate marker for assessing HCV treatment efficacy of interferon retreatment. The SVR threshold at which retreatment increases life expectancy may be different for different drugs depending upon the adverse event profile and treatment efficacy. …”
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Rapid and accurate classification of mung bean seeds based on HPMobileNet by Shaozhong Song, Shaozhong Song, Shaozhong Song, Zhenyang Chen, Helong Yu, Helong Yu, Mingxuan Xue, Mingxuan Xue, Junling Liu

“…In this study, based on the deep learning model MobileNetV2, a DMS block is proposed for mung bean seeds, and by introducing the ECA block and Mish activation function, a high-precision network model, i.e., HPMobileNet, is proposed, which is explored to be applied in the field of image recognition for the fast and accurate classification of different varieties of mung bean seeds. In this study, eight different varieties of mung bean seeds were collected and a total of 34,890 images were obtained by threshold segmentation and image enhancement techniques. …”
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Change in address in electronic health records as an early marker of homelessness. by Janet Song, Yu Deng, Yuyang Yang, Lacey Gleason, Abel Kho

“…We aim to establish recorded address changes as a screening variable for housing instability and homelessness and to attempt to define the threshold of high churn.<h4>Methods</h4>Our study is a single-center cross-sectional study of EHR data (2018-2024) conducted at a US academic center with eleven sites across Chicago. …”
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Pain Sensitivity in Adolescent Males with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Testing for Associations with Conduct Disorder and Callous and Unemotional Traits. by Clare Northover, Anita Thapar, Kate Langley, Stephanie H M van Goozen

“…<h4>Results</h4>Boys with comorbid CD exhibited a higher pain threshold and tolerance than boys with ADHD alone, but the groups did not differ in physiology at the time the pain threshold and tolerance were reported. …”
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The effect of language typology on the students’ writing skills: A case of the undergraduate students of Arabic language and literature at Arak University by Tahereh Khanabadi, Isa Motaghizadeh, Hayat Ameri, hadi nazarimonazam

“…This effect was higher in specific components with the obtained value of 76.7% than in different components with the value of 48.3%. As for the common components, with the obtained value of 4.6%, and based on covariance analysis, the mentioned teaching method was not effective in improving the students' progress in understanding and applying this component. …”
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METABOLISM OF FATTY ACIDS IN LEFT VENTRICLE MYOCARDIUM AND THE EFFICACY PROGNOSIS OF CARDIO-RESYNCHRONIZING THERAPY IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS by M. O. Gulya, Yu. B. Lishmanov, K. V. Zavadovsky, D. I. Lebedev

“…To study perfusion and metabolism of LV myocardium in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP) and to invent on this basement a gamma-specific predictors for cardio-resynchronizing therapy (RT) efficacy. Material and methods. Totally 63 patients with DCMP included (41 male, 22 female) with mean age 55,4±8,3 y.o., having congestive heart failure (CHF) of III-IV NYHA. …”
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CH₃OH^•+ + CH₄ Reaction: Mechanistic Insights and Reaction Rates for Astrochemical and Atmospheric Environments by Mauro Satta, Daniele Catone, Mattea Carmen Castrovilli, Francesca Nicolanti, Antonella Cartoni

“…The study explores the reaction mechanism and energetics under ionized conditions utilizing quantum chemical methods and experimental data. The findings reveal that the reaction’s non-thermal behavior becomes pronounced when CH₃OH^•+ is vibrationally excited by photon absorption above the ionization threshold, as can happen in the presence of ionizing agents like cosmic rays. …”
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Comparison of Hearing Phenotypes Among Children With Congenital Cytomegalovirus and Other Non‐Cytomegalovirus Conditions by Shi Liang, Emily Huang, Jordan Stout, Candace Winterton, Chong Zhang, Bridget F. Dorsey, Angela Presson, Matthew Firpo, Albert Park

“…The ROC curve demonstrated high specificity (0.94) for cCMV infection if the threshold difference between the two ears was greater than 58.6 dB. …”
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Publicly Available Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Rehabilitation Protocols Show High Variability and Frequent Divergence from the 2020 ASSET Recommendations by Nabil Mehta, Alexander J Acuna, Johnathon R McCormick, William E Harkin, Hasani W Swindell, Steven F Defroda, Mike Reinold, Gregory P Nicholson, Grant E Garrigues

“… # Purpose The purpose of this study was to (1) quantify the variability in online anatomic TSA rehabilitation protocols, and (2) assess their congruence with the ASSET consensus guidelines. # Methods This study was a cross-sectional investigation of publicly available, online rehabilitation protocols for anatomic TSA. …”
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Fractal and multifractal spatiotemporal patterns of land surface temperatures in a coastal city by Qin Nie, Feipeng Ran, Wang Man, Hui Li, Ying Yuan, Lizhong Hua

“…In order to discover the fractal and multifractal nature of land surface temperature (LST) spatiotemporal patterns, this study computed the LST in thecoastal city, Xiamen, southeastern China using Landsat TM/OLI/TIRS images from 1994 to 2015, and introduced two-dimensional box-counting and two-dimensional multifractal box-counting methods to quantitatively characterize the LST pattern. …”
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Feature extraction for safety coalmine gas concentration prewarning based on HHT and SVD by Dingwen Dong, Yuehao Wang, Wenpei Zhao

“…In view of the mine gas concentration varies with the production process. Methods The data sequence of real-time gas monitoring were decomposed into the Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) with different time scales by using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), then the noise signals in it is eliminated by using Hilbert spectrum analysis, furthermore, combined EMD with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), the singular value sequence is extracted to reflect the intrinsic feature of the gas concentration. …”
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