Children and adolescents with overweight or obesity exhibit poor cardiorespiratory performance and elevated energy expenditure during an exercise task. by Carlos Sepúlveda, Matías Monsalves-Álvarez, Rodrigo Troncoso, Gerardo Weisstaub

“…Maximal oxygen consumption and ventilatory thresholds were measured using a modified Balke protocol. …”
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Thyroglobulin measurement in the needle washout for diagnosis of lymph node metastases of differentiated thyroid cancer by N. V. Severskaya, I. V. Chebotareva, N. V. Zhelonkina, M. I. Ryzhenkova, A. A. Ilyin, P. A. Isaev, V. V. Polkin, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…To analyze Tg in the washout after FNA of lesions of different origin on the neck and to determine its optimal cutoff for the diagnosis of DTC metastases.Materials and methods. …”
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Typical characteristics of deep coal seams with high outburst risk, outburst inducing mechanism and prevention measures by Baiquan LIN, Wei YANG, Tong LIU

“…When the gas expansion energy is higher than the protrusion threshold, a large amount of gas will be broken and thrown out of the coal body, leading to the occurrence of outburst accidents. …”
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Evaluation of an autonomous acoustic surveying technique for grassland bird communities in Nebraska. by Grace E Schuster, Leroy J Walston, Andrew R Little

“…Total species richness (focal and non-focal) for both methods was also compared at five different confidence thresholds using species accumulation curves. …”
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Ground Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds in Structured and Unstructured Environments Using a Hybrid Neural–Geometric Approach by Antonio Santo, Enrique Heredia, Carlos Viegas, David Valiente, Arturo Gil

“…Evaluated in structured (SemanticKITTI) and unstructured (Rellis-3D) environments, two different versions of the proposed method are studied, including a purely geometric method and a hybrid approach that exploits deep learning techniques. …”
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A cross-sectional study on occupational exposure to airborne azoxystrobin in tomato greenhouses post-spraying by Rocco MANGIFESTA, Luca COPPETA, Piergiorgio ASTOLFI, Teresa GALANTI, Luca DI GIAMPAOLO

“…Statistical analyses, including the Wilcoxon signed-rank and Mann-Whitney U tests, were performed to evaluate the differences in concentrations over time and between locations. …”
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An intraoperative nomogram for predicting secondary margin positivity in breast conserving surgery utilizing frozen section analysis by Cheng Li, Yan Jiang, Xumiao Wu, Yong Luo, Qi Li

“…This may reduce surgical complications and healthcare costs associated with multiple re-excisions and FSAs for recurrent positive margins.MethodsPatients were selected, divided into training and testing sets, and their data were collected. …”
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Influencing factors of lymph node metastasis and construction of a nomogram prediction model in elderly patients with early gastric cancer by LIANG Yufei, LI Chunying, ZOU Han, TIAN Liang, LI Xinmeng

“…The clinical impact curve showed that when the threshold was greater than 0.4, the prediction model and the actual occurrence were highly matched. …”
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Association Between Systemic Immunity‐Inflammation Index (SII) and Fatigue, Cancer, and Cancer‐Related Fatigue: Insights From NHANES (2005–2018) by Li Sun, Yanling Wu, Lydia Idowu Akinyemi, Zhiqiu Cao, Zhanhong Fan, Huahua Liu, Ziyi Yang, Leilei Zhang, Feng Zhang

“…ABSTRACT Objective To investigate the association between the systemic immunity‐inflammation index (SII) and fatigue, cancer, and cancer‐related fatigue (CRF) populations. Methods The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018 provided data for this retrospective cross‐sectional study. …”
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On the Durability of Sealable Circular Concrete Structures under Chloride Environment by Changwen Mi, Kaikai Shao, Xiaobao Li

“…Reinforcement corrosion resulting from chloride attack is one major mechanism that compromises concrete durability. Numerical methods were commonly used for tackling Fick’s diffusion equations. …”
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Predicting outcome of patients with severe urinary tract infections admitted via the emergency department by Steven G. Rothrock, David D. Cassidy, Brian Guetschow, Drew Bienvenu, Erich Heine, Joshua Briscoe, Nicholas Toselli, Michelle Russin, Daniel Young, Caitlin Premuroso, David Bailey, and ORMC Sepsis Study Group

“…PRACTICE had a greater net benefit compared to all other scores for predicting ICU admission across all threshold probabilities. A PRACTICE score >75 was more sensitive than a qSOFA score >1 (90% versus 54.3%, 35.7 difference, 95% CI = 24.5–46.9), SIRS criteria >1 (18.6 difference, 95% CI = 9.5–27.7), and a BOMBARD score >2 (12.9 difference, 95% CI = 5–12.9) for predicting mortality. …”
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PRIMARY ANGIOPLASTICS AND PHARMACOINVASIVE REPERFUSION IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: IMPACT ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND NO-REFLOW PHENOMENON by E. V. Vyshlov, D. S. Sevastyanova, A. A. Krylov, V. A. Markov

“…With estimated time for primary PCI wait about 120 min. after first medical contact, i.e. at the threshold of possible delay, the preferable is prehospital thrombolysis with PCI according to guidelines, because this reperfusion method more effectively saves LVEF.…”
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Residual signal auto-correlation to evaluate speech in Parkinson’s disease patients Auto-correlação do sinal residual para avaliação da fala em pacientes com doença de Parkinson... by José Carlos Pereira, Arthur Oscar Schelp, Arlindo Neto Montagnoli, Ana Rita Gatto, André Augusto Spadotto, Lídia Raquel de Carvalho

“…CONCLUSION: The significant differences in pitch’s amplitude between PD patients and healthy individuals demonstrate the methods specificity. …”
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Integrating remote sensing and species distribution modeling to assess the impacts of flood disturbance on the species habitat in the central Zagros by Soheyl Moradi, Hossein Moradi, Azita Rezvani

“…Flood extent was extracted using the Sentinel-1 Flood Service method in the European Space Agency’s SNAP software with a threshold of 0.01 for water body separation. …”
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Assessment of Internal Jugular Vein Size in Healthy Subjects with Magnetic Resonance and Semiautomatic Processing by M. M. Laganà, L. Pelizzari, E. Scaccianoce, O. Dipasquale, C. Ricci, F. Baglio, P. Cecconi, G. Baselli

“…This study proposed a reliable semiautomatic method able to measure the IJV area and shape along C1–C7, and suitable for defining the normality thresholds for future clinical studies.…”
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Estimated cost-effectiveness of sequential screening for colorectal cancer: evidence from the largest province-wide colorectal cancer screening program in China by Juan Zhu, Bingjie Jiang, Ruyi Xia, Chen Zhu, Weimiao Wu, Lingbin Du

“…For economic evaluation, a Markov model was constructed from a healthcare system perspective to assess six screening strategies with different frequencies (once per lifetime, every 10 years, 5 years, 3 years, 2 years, and every year) and initial screening at different ages. …”
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Revisiting Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio and De Ritis Ratio as Glycemic Control Assessment Tool among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study by Asharani Ningappa, Mahanth Nagaraju

“…Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study done on diabetic patients. …”
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Correlation study and full management of metabolic syndrome and sperm DNA fragmentation index, a regional multicentre prospective long term follow-up study from Anhui, China by Dongsheng Ma, Jianhong Xi

“…Spearman rank correlation coefficient was used for correlation analysis, segmented package for threshold analysis, Bootstrap sampling method and Bayesian method for mediation effect test analysis. …”
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Delimitation of rural and urban areas from spatial data in statistical grids: the province of Jaén (Spain) as a case study by José Domingo Sánchez-Martínez, Antonio Garrido-Almonacid

“…Applying a methodology that has allowed the assignment of a category related to the predominant territorial model in each grid, the main result is a synthesis map of the rural-urban gradient that can be recognised in the province of Jaén, showing the contrasts and imbalances derived from the physiographic conditions and the recent territorial changes.Key policy highlightsWe propose a method for mapping the spatial differentiation of the rural-urban gradient.We use demographic, accessibility and predominant land use variables integrated into six different categories.The scale, variables, thresholds and combinations of spatial information must be adapted to each particular territory and problem.The method used is suitable for diagnosing plans and measures to face the demographic challenge and territorial polarization.…”
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Comparing adverse maternal outcomes among adolescent and adult women in North Wollo Zone governmental hospitals, northern Ethiopia by Tadele Emagneneh, Chalie Mulugeta, Belay Susu, Negesse Belayneh, Delelegn Tsegaye

“…To correct for multiple testing, the false discovery rate method, using the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure, was applied with a threshold of adjusted p-values <0.1.ResultsAdolescent mothers exhibited significantly higher rates of adverse outcomes compared to adult mothers, including preterm labor (7.0% vs. 2.0%, p = 0.04), antepartum hemorrhage (11.9% vs. 4.9%, p = 0.014), anemia (19.3% vs. 10.2%, p = 0.006), pregnancy-induced hypertension (11.9% vs. 7.0%, p = 0.047), malpresentation (9.0% vs. 2.5%, p = 0.008), cephalopelvic disproportion (6.1% vs. 1.2%, p = 0.046), major perineal tears (8.6% vs. 3.3%, p = 0.016), and cesarean delivery (16.0% vs. 9.8%, p = 0.04).ConclusionAdolescent pregnancy was strongly linked to a range of adverse maternal outcomes, including preterm labor, antepartum hemorrhage, malpresentation, oligohydramnios, anemia, major perineal tears, and an increased likelihood of cesarean delivery. …”
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