Efficacy of different surgical approaches in the clinical and survival outcomes of patients with early-stage cervical cancer: protocol of a phase III multicentre randomised control... by Lei Li, Ming Wu, Xiaopei Chao, Shuiqing Ma, Xianjie Tan, Sen Zhong, Jinghe Lang, Aoshuang Cheng, Wenhui Li

“…However, the influencing factors of research centres and the learning curves of surgeons in these studies lacked sufficient evaluation. The efficacy of different surgical approaches for early-stage cervical cancer in the clinical and survival outcomes remains to be validated.Methods and analysis Patients diagnosed with FIGO (2009) stage IA1 (with lymphovascular space invasion), IA2 or IB1 cervical cancer with histological subtype of squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma or adenosquamous carcinoma will be recruited in this multicentre randomised controlled study. …”
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Bayesian FDOA Positioning with Correlated Measurement Noise by Wenjun Zhang, Xi Li, Yi Liu, Le Yang, Fucheng Guo

“…Conventional localization algorithms such as the two-stage weighted least squares (TSWLS) method, which jointly exploits TDOA and FDOA measurements for positioning, are thus no longer applicable since they will suffer from the thresholding effect and yield meaningless localization results. …”
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Numerical Simulation-Based Study on the Arching Effect in Subsequent Backfill by Xuebin Xie, Wei Wang

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Effects of low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on motor recovery in subacute stroke patients with different motor evoked potential status: a randomized contr... by Wenjun Qian, Xiaoyu Liao, Xiaowen Ju, Yaxin Gao, Miao Wu, Chen Xie, Yaoying Zhang, Xianming Long, Surong Qian, Yan Gong

“…ObjectivesTo explore the effects of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS) on motor function and cortical excitability in stroke patients with different motor evoked potential (MEP) status.MethodsA total of 80 stroke patients were enrolled in this randomized controlled trial and divided into two groups according to MEP status (− or +) of lesioned hemisphere. …”
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Extraction of Abandoned Cropland Using Multisource Remote Sensing Images in Suburban Regions: A Case Study of Zengcheng, Guangdong Province by Shanshan Feng, Shun Jiang, Xu Liu, Lei Zhang, Yangying Gan, Ning Xia, Wenbin Wu, Canfang Zhou

“…Currently, analyzing time-series normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) variations serves as a widely used method for abandoned cropland extraction. …”
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Twig age 2.0: A novel and reliable method to track variation in ungulate browsing over species, sites and time by Donald M. Waller

“…Because deer prefer to browse on certain species, I develop and compare two methods to adjust for deer preferences to ensure accurate comparisons among sites that differ in species compositions. …”
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Machine learning with the body roundness index and associated indicators: a new approach to predicting metabolic syndrome by Yaxuan He, Zekai Chen, Zhaohui Tang, Yuexiang Qin, Fang Wang

“…Objective To develop a non-invasive prediction model for MetS by integrating body roundness index (BRI), gender, age, height, and waist circumference with machine learning algorithms, and to validate its generalizability across different ethnic groups. Methods We trained and validated machine learning models using a retrospective health examination dataset from Central South University (D1, n = 268,942) and externally validated them on a European cohort (D2, n = 60,799). …”
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Research on the Nonlinear and Interactive Effects of Multidimensional Influencing Factors on Urban Innovation Cooperation: A Method Based on an Explainable Machine Learning Model by Rui Wang, Xingping Wang, Zhonghu Zhang, Siqi Zhang, Kailun Li

“…Key results are summarized as follows: (1) Urban innovation cooperation exhibits different phased characteristics. (2) There exist nonlinear and interactive effects between urban innovation cooperation and multidimensional factors, among them, the Scientific and Technological dimension contributes the most (30.59%) and has the most significant positive promoting effect in the later stage after surpassing a certain threshold. …”
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Comparison among T1-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Modified Dixon Method, and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Measuring Bone Marrow Fat by Wei Shen, Xiuqun Gong, Jessica Weiss, Ye Jin

“…The inhomogeneous distribution of bone marrow fat, the threshold segmentation of the T1-weighted MRI, and the ambiguity of the FFMRI may partially explain the difference among the three methods.…”
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Exploring the impact of bilingual education on student outcomes: A qualitative student-centric approach by Gnana Sanga Mithra S, Ananth Padmanabhan

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Improved Crystalline Quality of AlN by Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth Using Two-Phase Growth Method for Deep-Ultraviolet Stimulated Emission by Xiang Chen, Jianchang Yan, Yun Zhang, Yingdong Tian, Yanan Guo, Shuo Zhang, Tongbo Wei, Junxi Wang, Jinmin Li

“…Compared with the single low V/III ratio growth, the two-phase growth method can lead to a coherent coalescence at the second growth stage and hence suppress new dislocations generating at the coalescence fronts. …”
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An indoor Wi-Fi access points localization algorithm based on improved path loss model parameter calculation method and recursive partition by Wenyan Liu, Xiangyang Luo, Qing Mu, Yimin Liu, Fenlin Liu

“…The algorithm recursively partitions the region where the target Wi-Fi access points are located according to the idea of quadtree partition, and partitions it into same sub-grids, which is sequentially performed until the sub-grids are smaller than the set threshold. The detection device is used at the detection location of the grids to measure the received signal strength, which is from the detection points to the target access point, the grid center point is used as the location of the candidate target access point, the parameters in the path loss model are calculated by using the signal strength differences between the detection points, and then the distances between the detection points and the target access point are calculated by using the signal strength values from the detection points to the target access point. …”
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Ultrasound-Guided Vacuum-Assisted Excision (VAE) in Breast Lesion Management: An Experimental Comparative Study of Two Different VAE Devices Across Various Aspiration Levels and Wi... by Serena Carriero, Maurizio Cè, Matilde Pavan, Mariassunta Roberta Pannarale, Giulia Quercioli, Sveva Mortellaro, Alessandro Liguori, Maria Cosentino, Maria Iodice, Marta Montesano, Giulia Querques, Carolina Lanza, Salvatore Alessio Angileri, Pierpaolo Biondetti, Filippo Pesapane, Gianpaolo Carrafiello, Sonia Santicchia

“…It also determined the number of specimens needed to achieve the 4 g diagnostic threshold. <b>Methods</b>: The Mammotome^® Elite 10G and the Mammotome^® Revolve EX were evaluated under controlled conditions. …”
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Electron Impact Ionization and Partial Ionization Cross Sections of Plasma-Relevant SiCl_<i>x</i> (x = 1–3) Molecules by Savinder Kaur, Ajay Kumar Arora, Kasturi Lal Baluja, Anand Bharadvaja

“…The electron-impact ionization and partial ionization cross sections are reported for few silicon-chlorine molecules using semi-empirical methods. The partial ionization cross sections are determined using a modified version of the binary-encounter-Bethe model. …”
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Promoting Help-Seeking in Response to Symptoms amongst Primary Care Patients at High Risk of Lung Cancer: A Mixed Method Study. by Richard Wagland, Lucy Brindle, Sean Ewings, Elizabeth James, Mike Moore, Carol Rivas, Ana Ibanez Esqueda, Jessica Corner

“…Interviews (n = 39) indicated three overarching differences between the views of consulting and non-consulting participants: concern over wasting their own as well as GP time; high tolerance threshold for symptoms; a greater tendency to self-manage symptoms.…”
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The Influence of Remnant Preservation on the Final Outcome after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Prospective Comparative Study by Vishanth Krishna Rao, Madan Ballal

“…Therefore, this study was performed to assess the superiority of remnant preservation over conventional ACL restoration methods. Materials and methods: Our study is a non-randomized prospective comparative study conducted at our institute from 1st August 2022 to 30th June 2024. …”
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A subregional shallow water bathymetry derivation method for coral reef using ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2 combined with sediment information by Caixiang Xu, Xiaoguang Ruan, Chenhan Shen, Zixin Tao, Xiaohan Xu, Jiangnan Zheng, Weijiang Wu

“…Then, the sediment pixel information is counted, and the coral reef area is divided into three sub-regions of high, medium and low reflection by threshold segmentation method. Finally, combined with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2 data, the improved subregional satellite-derived bathymetry model is constructed to obtain the shallow bathymetry results. …”
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A detailed comparison of analysis processes for MCC-IMS data in disease classification-Automated methods can replace manual peak annotations. by Salome Horsch, Dominik Kopczynski, Elias Kuthe, Jörg Ingo Baumbach, Sven Rahmann, Jörg Rahnenführer

“…Our goal is to identify a fully automatic pipeline that yields competitive disease classification results compared to an established but subjective and tedious semi-manual process.<h4>Method</h4>We combine a large number of modern methods for peak detection, peak clustering, and multivariate classification into analysis pipelines for raw MCC-IMS data. …”
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Optimal scheduling method for multi-regional integrated energy system based on dynamic robust optimization algorithm and bi-level Stackelberg model by Bo Zhou, Erchao Li, Wenjing Liang

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Identification of Gender Differences in Acute Myocardial Infarction Presentation and Management at Aga Khan University Hospital-Pakistan: Natural Language Processing Application in... by Christine Ngaruiya, Zainab Samad, Salma Tajuddin, Zarmeen Nasim, Rebecca Leff, Awais Farhad, Kyle Pires, Muhammad Alamgir Khan, Lauren Hartz, Basmah Safdar

“…MethodsWe developed an NLP-based methodology to extract AMI symptoms and medications from 5358 discharge summaries spanning the years 1988 to 2018. …”
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