Evaluation of a Computed Tomography-based Technique for Predicting Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence Following Ablation Using an Adjusted Skeletal Muscle Index by Pingchuan Ma, Zhicheng Gao, Jiaqi Bao, Yilan Hu, Pengfei Sun, Qiqi Yan, Lifang Ye, Lihong Wang

“…The BMI-adjusted thresholds were 8.10 cm2/kg/m2 for males and 5.78 cm2/kg/m2 for females. …”
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Collagenase injection versus limited fasciectomy surgery to treat Dupuytren’s contracture in adult patients in the UK: DISC, a non-inferiority RCT and economic evaluation by Joseph Dias, Puvan Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Belen Corbacho, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Christopher Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine Hewitt, David Torgerson

“…The photography substudy found poor agreement between goniometry and both participant and clinician taken photographs, even after accounting for systematic differences from each method. Limitations Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in longer waits for Dupuytren’s contracture treatment, meaning some participants could not be followed up for 2 years. …”
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Assessing wet snow avalanche activity using detailed physics based snowpack simulations by N. Wever, C. Vera Valero, C. Fierz

“…Direct output from detailed snow cover models thereby is able to provide a better regional assessment of dangerous slope aspects and potential avalanche size than traditional methods.…”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…Feedback from patients and carers The process evaluation used a mixed-methods approach to obtain participant feedback about optimising transition support and to understand factors influencing engagement with ECHOMANTRA intervention. …”
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Soret Effect on the Instability of Double-Diffusive Convection in a Saturated Vertical Brinkman Porous Layer of Oldroyd-B Fluid by Yuanzhen Ren, Yongjun Jian

“…The instability of the double-diffusive convection of an Oldroyd-B fluid in a vertical Brinkman porous layer caused by temperature and solute concentration differences with the Soret effect is studied. Based on perturbation theory, an Orr–Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem is derived and numerically solved using the Chebyshev collocation method. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 lineage-dependent temporal phylogenetic distribution and viral load in immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals by Karen Zafilaza, Antoine Fauchois, Valentin Leducq, Romain Coppée, Romane Guilbaud, Anna-Maria Franco Yusti, Eve Todesco, Antoine Bridier-Nahmias, Quentin Le Hingrat, Sylvain Choquet, Patrice Cacoub, Zahir Amoura, Benoit Barrou, Valérie Pourcher, Jean-Philippe Spano, Martine Louet, Laura kramer, Tiphaine Goulenok, Mathilde Salpin, Eric Daugas, Richard Dorent, Sébastien ottaviani, Gérard Zalcman, Jade Ghosn, Charlotte Charpentier, Diane Descamps, Anne-Geneviève Marcelin, Vincent Calvez, Valentine Marie Ferre, Stéphane Marot, Cathia Soulie

“…This study aims to compare the viral replication load and genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised patients and non-immunocompromised individuals (NICs) from two major hospitals in Paris from January 2021 to May 2023. Methods Cycle threshold (CT) values were measured by TaqPath COVID-19 RT-PCR (Thermo Fisher Scientific). …”
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Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT by Madeleine Clout, Amanda L Lewis, Madeleine Cochrane, Grace J Young, Paul Abrams, Peter S Blair, Christopher Chapple, Gordon T Taylor, Sian Noble, Tom Steuart-Feilding, Jodi Taylor, J Athene Lane, Marcus J Drake

“…There was also no difference in their urinary symptoms or quality of life. …”
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Urodynamics tests for the diagnosis and management of male bladder outlet obstruction: long-term follow-up of the UPSTREAM non-inferiority RCT by Madeleine Clout, Amanda L Lewis, Madeleine Cochrane, Grace J Young, Paul Abrams, Peter S Blair, Christopher Chapple, Gordon T Taylor, Sian Noble, Tom Steuart-Feilding, Jodi Taylor, J Athene Lane, Marcus J Drake

“…There was also no difference in their urinary symptoms or quality of life. …”
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Dynamic versus fixed cerebral perfusion pressure targets in paediatric traumatic brain injury: a STARSHIP analysisResearch in context by C.A. Smith, S.Y. Bögli, M.M. Placek, M. Cabeleira, D. White, E. Daubney, A. Young, E. Beqiri, R. Kayani, R. O'Donnell, N. Pathan, S. Watson, A. Maw, M. Garnett, H.K. Kanthimathinathan, H. Bangalore, S. Sundararajan, G. Subramanian, D. Raffaj, S. Lampariello, A. Sarfatti, A. Mayer, O. Ross, M. Czosnyka, P.J. Hutchinson, P. Smielewski, S. Agrawal, Shruti Agrawal, Peter Smielewski, Peter J. Hutchinson, Stefan Yu Bögli, Claudia A. Smith, Carly Tooke, Caroline Payne, Holly Belfield, Amisha Mistry, Collette Spencer, Claire Jennings, Lara Bunni, Laura Anderson, Emily Morgan, Melanie James, Rebecca Beckley, Tahnima Khatun, Hafiza Khatun, Olivia Nugent, Richard Aldridge, Ruth Morgan, Julie Morcombe, Martin Quinton, Catherine Postlethwaite, Jenny Pond, Jessica Cutler, Caitlin Oxford, Marek Czosnyka, Michal Placek, Manuel Cabaleira, Deborah White, Esther Daubney, Adam Young, Erta Beqiri, Riaz Kayani, Roddy O'Donnell, Nazima Pathan, Suzanna Watson, Anna Maw, Matthew Garnett, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan, Harish Bangalore, Santosh Sundararajan, Gayathri Subramanian, Dusan Raffaj, Simona Lampariello, Avishay Sarfatti, Anton Mayer, Oliver Ross

“…Our findings indicate that the current fixed CPP threshold of 40–50 mmHg may be too low–highlighting the need for further investigation into autoregulation-guided CPP targets. …”
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Generation of Stochastic Daily Precipitation for China Based on Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis by Yang Yifei, Fang Weihua, Zheng Jinli, Fu Jingxuan

“…We applied the EOF analysis method to decompose daily precipitation data for China from 1961 to 2022 (62 years). …”
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Assessing Overheating Risks in Moderately Insulated Irish Social Housing: Analysis of Building Energy Ratings and Indoor Temperature Profiles by Fahimehsadat Sajadirad, Richard O’Hegarty, Oliver Kinnane

“…The findings reveal discrepancies in overheating risk assessments: overall, 4% surpass thresholds under CIBSE Guide A. In contrast, 41% of dwellings exceeded overheating thresholds under the Passivhaus standard during the May to September 2022. …”
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Effects of non-pharmacological interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms in pregnant women: a systematic review and network meta-analysisResearch in context by Guowei Zeng, Jianfeng Niu, Ke Zhu, Fei Li, Liwen Li, Kaiming Gao, Yanlong Zhuang, Boyang Zhang, Xiaoqiang Han, Gang Ye, Zhikun Gao, Haobai Li

“…Although we have employed reliable methods to address these issues, the findings of this study should still be interpreted with caution. …”
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Clinician Perspectives of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Based 3D Volumetric Analysis Tool for Neurofibromatosis Type 2–Related Schwannomatosis: Qualitative Pilot Study by Shelby T Desroches, Alice Huang, Rithvik Ghankot, Steven M Tommasini, Daniel H Wiznia, Frank D Buono

“…Overall, clinicians expressed concerns with current linear techniques, with clinicians agreeing that linear measurements can be variable with the possibility of two different clinicians calculating 2 different tumor sizes (mean 4.64, SD 0.49) and that volumetric measurements would be more helpful for determining clearer thresholds of tumor growth (mean 4.50, SD 0.52). …”
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Designing novel “Smell-Aids” to improve olfactory function in post COVID-19 era by Veronica L. Formanek, Barak M. Spector, Gabriela Zappitelli, Zhenxing Wu, Kai Zhao

“…Conclusions These results preliminarily demonstrated the novelty of improving olfactory function through different peripheral mechanisms for different patient and normative cohorts and may one day lead to an effective over-the-counter smell aid. …”
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Burned area detection based on time-series analysis in a cloud computing environment by J.A. Anaya, W.F. Sione, A.M. Rodriguez-Montellano

“…In order to maximize the burned area detection two alternatives to the temporal dNBR method were evaluated: the relative form of the temporal difference RdNBR and the use of time series metrics. …”
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Detection of clinically relevant variants in the TP53 gene below 10% allelic frequency: A multicenter study by ERIC, the European Research Initiative on CLL by Sarka Pavlova, Jitka Malcikova, Lenka Radova, Silvia Bonfiglio, Jack B. Cowland, Christian Brieghel, Mette K. Andersen, Maria Karypidou, Bella Biderman, Michael Doubek, Gregory Lazarian, Inmaculada Rapado, Matthijs Vynck, Naomi A. Porret, Martin Andres, Dina Rosenberg, Dvora Sahar, Carolina Martínez‐Laperche, Ismael Buño, Andrew Hindley, David Donaldson, Julio B. Sánchez, José A. García‐Marco, Alicia Serrano‐Alcalá, Blanca Ferrer‐Lores, Concepción Fernández‐Rodriguez, Beatriz Bellosillo, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Eugen Tausch, Hero Nikdin, Fiona Quinn, Emer Atkinson, Lisette van deCorput, Cafer Yildiz, Cristina Bilbao‐Sieyro, Yanira Florido, Christian Thiede, Caroline Schuster, Anastazja Stoj, Sylwia Czekalska, Anastasia Chatzidimitriou, Stamatia Laidou, Audrey Bidet, Charles Dussiau, Friedel Nollet, Giovanna Piras, Maria Monne, Svetlana Smirnova, Eugene Nikitin, Ivan Sloma, Alexis Claudel, Laetitia Largeaud, Loïc Ysebaert, Peter J. M. Valk, Amy Christian, Renata Walewska, David Oscier, Marta Sebastião, Maria Gomes daSilva, Piero Galieni, Mario Angelini, Davide Rossi, Valeria Spina, Sónia Matos, Vânia Martins, Tomasz Stokłosa, Monika Pepek, Panagiotis Baliakas, Rafa Andreu, Irene Luna, Tiina Kahre, Ülle Murumets, Tereza Pikousova, Terezia Kurucova, Sophie Laird, Daniel Ward, Miguel Alcoceba, Ana Balanzategui, Lydia Scarfo, Francesca Gandini, Ettore Zapparoli, Adoración Blanco, Pau Abrisqueta, Ana E. Rodríguez‐Vicente, Rocío Benito, Clotilde Bravetti, Frédéric Davi, Paula Gameiro, Joaquin Martinez‐Lopez, Bárbara Tazón‐Vega, Fanny Baran‐Marszak, Zadie Davis, Mark Catherwood, Andrey Sudarikov, Richard Rosenquist, Carsten U. Niemann, Kostas Stamatopoulos, Paolo Ghia, Sarka Pospisilova

“…We tested the ability to detect 23 such variants in 41 different laboratories using their NGS method of choice. …”
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Resource-Efficient Traffic Classification Using Feature Selection for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport-Internet of Things Network-Based Security Attacks by Emmanuel Tuyishime, Marco Martalò, Petru A. Cotfas, Vlad Popescu, Daniel T. Cotfas, Alexandre Rekeraho

“…This study proposes Statistical Moments Difference Thresholding, a feature selection method leveraging statistical central moments to identify significant features distinguishing between legitimate and malicious traffic. …”
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Establishing the best step-up treatments for children with uncontrolled asthma despite inhaled corticosteroids: the EINSTEIN systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effec... by Sofia Cividini, Ian Sinha, Giovanna Culeddu, Sarah Donegan, Michelle Maden, Katie Rose, Olivia Fulton, Dyfrig Hughes, Stephen Turner, Catrin Tudur Smith

“…A cost-effectiveness curve was generated to depict the probability of each intervention being cost-effective at different willingness-to-pay thresholds. Results We identified and screened 4708 publications from the search and retrieved 508 full-text articles for eligibility assessment. …”
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Effect of Digital Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids on Speech Intelligibility in Both Quiet and Noisy Environments by Burcu Deniz, Züleyha D. Gülmez, Halide Kara, Eyyup Kara

“…The adaptive and nonadaptive (with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of +5 and −5 dB, respectively) Turkish matrix sentence test (TURMatrix) in noise and free-field hearing assessments, including hearing thresholds with hearing aids, speech recognition thresholds (SRT), and speech discrimination scores, were conducted in two different conditions: HA in the DNR-on and DNR-off conditions. …”
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Neural network analysis of small samples using a large number of statistical criteria to test the sequence of hypotheses about the value of mathematical expectations of correlation... by A.I. Ivanov, A.I. Godunov, E.A. Malygina, N.A. Papusha, A.I. Ermakova

“…The purpose of the article is to improve the accuracy of neural network estimates of correlation coefficients. Materials and methods. The correlation coefficient is one of the most significant second-order statistical points. …”