Sensory and Motor Function, Pain, and Health Status in Children with Arthrogryposis and Myelomeningocele by Åsa Bartonek, Marie Eriksson

“…An additional purpose of this study was to explore pain, skin irritations, and health status. Methods: Nineteen children with AMC, twenty-three with MMC, and twenty-two typically developing (TD) children (7–18 years old) were tested using a somatosensory test battery in ankle kinesthesia and in identifying four different types of floors. …”
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Spinal protein kinase A and phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling are involved in the antinociceptive effect of phytohormone abscisic acid in rats by Mahtab MOLLASHAHI, Mehdi ABBASNEJAD, Saeed ESMAEILI-MAHANI

“…ABA in male Wistar rats. Methods: The animals were cannulated intrathecally and divided into different experimental groups (n=6‒7): Control (no surgery), vehicle (received ABA vehicle), ABA-treated groups (received ABA in doses of 10 or 20 µg/rat), ABA plus H.89 (PKA inhibitor)-treated group which received the inhibitor 15 min prior to the ABA injection. …”
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Research on bank financing strategy of e-commerce supply chain driven by blockchain by Lei Yang, Qiaoming Hou

“…Bank financing helps to alleviate these financing difficulties, and blockchain trust mechanisms can optimize bank financing strategies.MethodsTo address the issue of capital constraints for suppliers, based on the two operating modes of Consignment and Direct Selling in the e-commerce supply chain, using the Stackelberg game, considering the company’s risk-averse behavior and consumers’ green preferences, a game model is constructed to explore the impact of factors such as blockchain, risk aversion, product greenness, guarantee interest rates, and information verification efforts on bank financing strategies.Results and discussionWhen the blockchain technology is adopted within a certain threshold, the supplier can obtain higher financing income by adopting consideration than Direct Selling. …”
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Deploying AI on Edge: Advancement and Challenges in Edge Intelligence by Tianyu Wang, Jinyang Guo, Bowen Zhang, Ge Yang, Dong Li

“…Although edge intelligence methods have been proposed to alleviate the computational and storage burdens, they still face multiple persistent challenges, such as large-scale model deployment, poor interpretability, privacy and security vulnerabilities, and energy efficiency constraints. …”
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Gender relations and women's empowerment in small-scale irrigated forage production in Ethiopia. by Immaculate Omondi, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Melkamu Bezabih Derseh, Nils Teufel, Alessandra Galiè, Nelly Njiru, Eunice Kariuki, Annet Abenakyo Mulema, Isabelle Baltenweck, Chris Stephen Jones

“…Women's empowerment differed significantly with different dimensions of gender relations, types of forages grown, and small-scale irrigation practice. …”
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Population substructure and control selection in genome-wide association studies. by Kai Yu, Zhaoming Wang, Qizhai Li, Sholom Wacholder, David J Hunter, Robert N Hoover, Stephen Chanock, Gilles Thomas

“…A novel permutation procedure was developed for the correction of PS that identified a smaller set of principal components and achieved a better control of type I error (to lambda of 1.032 and 1.006, respectively) than currently used methods. The overlap between sets of SNPs in the bottom 5% of p-values based on the new test and the test without PS correction was about 80%, with the majority of discordant SNPs having both ranks close to the threshold. …”
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Establishing a Geological Knowledge Base for Braided River Deltas Using Google Earth by Xiaoyu Yu, Mengjiao Dou, Shaohua Li

“…., Yukon–Kuskokwim, Poyang Lake, Lena River deltas). Methods include listwise deletion for missing data (retaining 87% of Poyang Lake delta samples) and sensitivity analysis (threshold changes ≤2.4%). …”
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Effectiveness of Perfusion Index ratio and End-Diastolic Velocity ratio in evaluating the efficacy of Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block: a prospective observational study by Li Hu, Li Hu, Jintao Sun, Bin Zhang, Xiaoyan Ye, Jian Lu, Jian Lu, Zhipeng Zhu, Zhipeng Zhu, Hongmei Zhou, Hongmei Zhou

“…This study investigates the effectiveness of Perfusion Index (PI) ratio and End-Diastolic Velocity (EDV) ratio for early assessment of ISBPB effects.MethodsEighty-nine patients, aged 18–65 with BMI 18–24 kg/m2 and ASA grade I or II, underwent elective unilateral shoulder arthroscopic surgery. …”
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Machine learning based predictive modeling and risk factors for prolonged SARS-CoV-2 shedding by Yani Zhang, Qiankun Li, Haijun Duan, Liang Tan, Ying Cao, Junxin Chen

“…Results We conducted an assessment of ten different features, including vaccination, hypertension, diabetes, admission cycle threshold (Ct) value, cardio-cerebrovascular disease, gender, age, occupation, symptom, and family accompaniment, to determine their impact on the prolonged SARS-CoV-2 shedding. …”
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Diagnostic Value of RDW-Albumin Ratio for the Prediction of Mortality in Sepsis Associated Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Zhang J, Xu P, Huang Y, Li J, Ma C, Liu G, Ye J, Guo Y, Feng Z, Jiang B, Pan S, Gao C

“…To account for potential confounding variables, a propensity score matching method was conducted to verify the relationship. Subgroup analysis was performed for different sex, age, comorbidities, infection location and other scores.Results: A total of 328 patients with sepsis-related NTIS were analyzed in our study. …”
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The moderating effect of dietary fiber intake on the association between sleep pattern and liver fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a study from... by Guoqing Jia, Mengzhen Jia, Chuntao Li

“…A two-part linear regression model was also used to estimate threshold effects. The moderating effect of dietary fiber intake was further investigated in different subgroups. …”
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State preparation by shallow circuits using feed forward by Harry Buhrman, Marten Folkertsma, Bruno Loff, Niels M. P. Neumann

“…We continue by presenting $\textsf{LAQCC}$ implementations of different subroutines, including OR-gates, quantum Fourier transforms and Threshold gates. …”
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Evaluating the performance of pixel-based and object-based multidimensional clustering algorithms for automated surface water mapping by Bohao Li, Kai Liu, Ming Wang, Yanfang Wang, Linmei Zhuang, Weihua Zhu, Chenxia Li, Linhao Zhang, Yanan Chen

“…Finally, we compared the performance of multidimensional clustering algorithms with that of the modified Otsu thresholding method and the multi-index threshold-based algorithm and found that the former has an advantage in automated surface water extraction.…”
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Adaptive Deeping Siamese Residual Network: A Novel Model for Few-Shot Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Yonghua Jiang, Maoli Lu, Zhilin Dong, Zhichao Jiang, Weidong Jiao, Chao Tang, Jianfeng Sun, Zhongyi Xuan

“…A novel Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) technique is applied to non-linearly adjust the sequence information, allowing for the precise calculation of the optimal match between two sequences by detecting subtle differences. Additionally, inspired by the concept of dynamic soft-hard threshold matching in unsupervised learning, an innovative strategy for dynamically adjusting the adaptive threshold has been developed to enhance the generalization capability of the proposed ADSRN. …”
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Predicting Suicide or Self-Harm Crises Based on Decision Tree Analysis of Life Events and Coping Style: A Population-Based Study in China by Shumeng Ma, Ping Li, Liwen Ren, Ning Jia

“…While the impact of negative life events and coping styles on suicide crises showed cross-sex consistency, sex differences were observed for self-harm crises. Among male students, only interpersonal relationships exceeded the 10% threshold in importance, whereas a wider range of events surpassed this threshold for female students. …”
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Usefulness of computed tomography-guided puncture biopsy coupled with rapid on-site evaluation for diagnosis of pulmonary lesions: a systematic review and meta‑analysis by Zhongbao Zhang, Rui Liu, JunLin Li, Kai Zhang, Yuan Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Sanjay Rastogi

“…Further analysis of 3 studies that established control groups showed that the ROSE group had by 12% (95% CI, 0.08–0.16; I2 = 0) higher sampling adequacy and diagnostic accuracy than the non-ROSE group, while there was no significant difference in the rate of complications. Conclusions: For assessment of pulmonary lesions, CT-guided puncture biopsy combined with ROSE has high sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy, and is a practical operational method that merits wide clinical application.…”
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Maximum Correntropy Criterion Kalman/Allan Variance-Assisted FIR Integrated Filter for Indoor Localization by Manman Li, Lei Deng, Yide Zhang, Yuan Xu, Yanli Gao

“…This study uses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to rectify the position errors of the INS. In this method, the difference between the positions of the INS and UWB is used as the measurement of the filter. …”
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Evaluation of the quality of electrochemical study in the diagnosis of infection of pancreatic cysts by A. V. Gerasimov, V. I. Nikolskiy, A. N. Mitroshin, K. I. Sergatskiy

“…When evaluating the quality of the joulemetric study in determining the early signs of in˛ammation of the contents of postnecrotic pancreatic cysts, it was proved that the threshold differential diagnostic value of 19.1 mkJ provides 81.8% sensitivity of the proposed method and 80.7% specificity (AUC = 91.3) with a statistically signi˝cant difference in current work (p < 0.001).…”
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Diagnostics of Olfactory Impairment Using the Novel Olfactory Test Panoramic Smell Test by Tolstikhin, Y.V., Gavrilova, N.Y., Soprun, L.A., Chernyshova, O.A., Taalaibek-kyzy, Y.

“…The Kruskal-­Wallis test, Friedman test and Spearman correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Results. Threshold testing: median score = 6.0 (IQR 6.0–6.0), with no significant differences across concentrations. …”
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Main differential endometrial microbiota associated with recurrent implantation failure: a case control study by Hong Gao, Hong Gao, Jing Xiao, Bingyan Liang, Xiaolan Wang, Huanhuan Li, Genlin Li, Baoyu Wu

“…To identify the main differential endometrial microbiota associated with RIF and to establish threshold values for their relative abundance.MethodsThis case-control study was conducted in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine at two large hospitals. …”
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