Association of health literacy with illness perception of Chinese community patients with chronic disease by Chaowei Guo, Yibo Wu, Xinghua Bai, Qiao Qiao, Dianjun Qi, Shuang Zang

“…Conclusions This study determined a threshold of health literacy that was associated with the illness perception of Chinese chronic disease patients. …”
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Plasma level and clinical significance of ADAMTS13 in patients with primary membrous nephropathy by Zhu Guo-qiang, Yang Shu-fen, Zhang Xue-qing, Lu Chen

“…And area of under ROC curve was 0.794 （<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001） for ADAMTS13 diagnosing PMN with concurrent VTE and the optimal threshold value was 65.95% with a sensitivity of 96.7% and a specificity of 53.3%. …”
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Changes of intestinal microbiome and its relationship with painful diabetic neuropathy in rats by Shuaiying Jia, Haiqi Mi, Yao Su, Yuning Liu, Zhi Ming, Jingyan Lin

“…Abstract Objective To analyze the gut bacterial microbiome in rats with painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) compared to normal rats. Methods Type 2 diabetes was induced in rats via a high-fat and high-sugar diet combined with a low dose of streptozotocin. …”
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Absolute Capacitance Measurement by Direct Digital Fitting of Proportional Coefficient by Xuanze Wang, Qian Shi, Da Liu, Boya Xie, Siyuan Chen, Junzhe Luo, Peipei Lu

“…In the realm of capacitance measurement, traditional methods that gauge capacitance through timing charge and discharge intervals frequently suffer from inaccuracies, particularly due to noise affecting voltage threshold detection. …”
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Assessment of Mathematical Approaches for the Estimation and Comparison of Efficiency in qPCR Assays for a Prokaryotic Model by Jose Arturo Molina-Mora, Meriyeins Sibaja-Amador, Luis Rivera-Montero, Daniel Chacón-Arguedas, Caterina Guzmán, Fernando García

“…Differences in efficiency were revealed depending on the mathematical method used; the values were 100% in three out of the four standard curves, but estimations of the expected fold change in DNA serial dilutions were not achieved, indicating the possible overestimation of efficiency. …”
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Analysis of real-time RT-PCR and rapid antigen test and its correlation with clinical characteristics, investigation profile, and imaging of SARI-suspected COVID-19 infections by Roshan Kanheya Lenka, Bhabani Patnaik, Jeetendra Ku Patra, Somi Patro, Dharitri Mohapatra, Nirupama Chayani, Mahadev Das

“…Additionally, the study aims to evaluate different COVID-19 diagnostic methods. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Odisha, India. …”
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GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…Experimental results on the LINEMOD and Occlusion LINEMOD datasets indicate that our proposed method is highly competitive with state-of-the-art approaches, achieving 96.54% and 49.35% accuracy, respectively, utilizing the ADD-S metric with a 0.10d threshold.…”
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Robust and Efficient Registration of Infrared and Visible Images for Vehicular Imaging Systems by Kai Che, Jian Lv, Jiayuan Gong, Jia Wei, Yun Zhou, Longcheng Que

“…The automatic registration of infrared and visible images in vehicular imaging systems remains challenging in vision-assisted driving systems because of differences in imaging mechanisms. Existing registration methods often fail to accurately register infrared and visible images in vehicular imaging systems due to numerous spurious points during feature extraction, unstable feature descriptions, and low feature matching efficiency. …”
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Shape-Dependent Dynamic Label Assignment for Oriented Remote Sensing Object Detection by Xue Zhang, Yanxia Wu, Guoyin Zhang, Ye Yuan, Guangliang Cheng, Yulei Wu

“…It introduces a new metric for evaluating sample box quality by considering angular differences relative to ground truth (GT) boxes and adjusts the sample scoring threshold according to the aspect ratio of each GT box. …”
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A Miniaturized and Intelligent Lensless Holographic Imaging System With Auto-Focusing and Deep Learning-Based Object Detection for Label-Free Cell Classification by Jin Chen, Wentao Han, Liangzun Fu, Zhihang Lv, Haotian Chen, Wenjing Fang, Jiale Hou, Haohan Yu, Xiwei Huang, Lingling Sun

“…Cell detection and classification is a key technique for disease diagnosis, but conventional methods such as optical microscopy and flow cytometry have limitations in terms of field-of-view (FOV), throughput, cost, size, and operation complexity. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for interpreting predictive models and key variables in flood susceptibility by Bahram Choubin, Abolfazl Jaafari, Jalal Henareh, Omid Karimi, Farzaneh Sajedi Hosseini

“…Variables like land use, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), aspect, lithology, and curvature had less impact, while soil order showed minimal influence. …”
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Turkish validity and reliability of children’s environmental health knowledge and skills questionnaires for nursing students by Hatice Gürgen Şimşek, Şafak Dağhan

“…To examine the psychometric properties of the “Children’s Environmental Health Knowledge (ChEHK-Q) and Skills (ChEHS-Q) Questionnaire” among Turkish-speaking nursing students. Methods This study employed a methodological method. …”
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Residual transmission of HIV infection from mother to child in the Atlantic and littoral departments in Benin by Edwige Hermione Dagba Gbessin, Haziz Sina, René Kpemahouton Keke, Michel Kiréopori Gomgnimbou, Aldric Afangnihoun, Moussa Bachabi, Abdoul-Salam Ouedraogo, Lamine Baba-Moussa

“…Comparison of proportions tests (analysis of the significance of the difference in prevalence) with an error threshold of 5% were used to assess the determinants of the transmission. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 severity prediction in young adults using artificial intelligence by K. V. Kas’janenko, K. V. Kozlov, K. V. Zhdanov, I. I. Lapikov, V. V. Belikov

“…Aim: to build a predictive model for severe COVID-19 prediction in young adults using deep learning methods.   Materials and methods: data from 906 medical records of patients aged 18 to 44 years with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during 2020–2021 period was analyzed. …”
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Urban River Health Assessment Based on Concept of Resilience -Taking Jinshui River in Zhengzhou City as a Case Study by Yufan Zhang, Yingying Zhu, Yijie Chen, Guohang Tian

“…The combined weighting method and a matter-element extension model were used to evaluate river health and to forecast development trends. …”
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Exploring the potential of remote sensing to detect marine plastic debris in the South African Ocean region by J. Pretorius, S. Haupt, B. Sibolla, B. Sibolla

“…The integration of these two methods could provide an enhanced approach to monitoring marine plastic debris.…”
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Features of anorectal function after radiation therapy in patients with rectal cancer by O. I. Kit, O. G. Bondarenko, Yu. A. Gevorkyan, N. V. Soldatkina, M. A. Gusareva, N. G. Kosheleva, A. A. Solntseva, D. S. Petrov, D. A. Savchenko

“…To study the function of the sphincter in patients with rectal cancer after chemoradiotherapy using the method of high-resolution anorectal manometry.Patients and methods. …”
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Agreement between Arterial and Capillary pH, pCO2, and Lactate in Patients in the Emergency Department by Vincent Collot, Stefano Malinverni, Jabir Haltout, Eric Schweitzer, Pierre Mols, Magali Bartiaux

“…The primary objective of the study was a quantitative analysis to assess the mean difference and 95% confidence interval of the difference between capillary and arterial BGA for pH, pCO2, and lactate. …”
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Effectiveness, treatment durability, and treatment costs of canagliflozin and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes in the USA by Mukul Singhal, Hiangkiat Tan, Craig I Coleman, Michelle Han, Chi Nguyen, Michael Ingham

“…Introduction This real-world study compared glycemic effectiveness, treatment durability, and treatment costs with canagliflozin 300 mg versus any dose of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the USA.Research design and methods A retrospective cohort study using administrative claims and laboratory data (1 April 2012 to 28 February 2017) from the HealthCore Integrated Research Database were used to assess mean HbA1c at 3-month intervals, achievement of HbA1c thresholds (&lt;7.0%, &lt;8.0%, &lt;9.0%), and treatment durability (ie, adherence, discontinuation, switching, treatment failure (ie, exceeding threshold (7.0%, 8.0%, 9.0%), having a prescription for a new antihyperglycemic agent)) in adults with T2DM who initiated canagliflozin 300 mg or any dose of a GLP-1 receptor agonist. …”
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Cellular Characteristics and Protein Signatures of Human Adipose Tissues from Donors With or Without Advanced Coronary Artery Disease by Caitlin P. S. Ellis, Benjamin W. Tero, Christian M. Potts, Kimberly T. Malka, Xuehui Yang, Joshua Hamilton, Calvin Vary, Andre Khalil, Lucy Liaw

“…Using this threshold, there were 36 differences when comparing PVAT and subcutaneous adipose tissue from VR donors, 58 differences when comparing PVAT from CABG or VR donors, and 55 when comparing subcutaneous adipose tissue from CABG vs. …”
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