The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder & Elbow Score used as a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for the Youth and High School Aged Baseball Athlete by Ryan Monti, Alicia Fernandez-Fernandez

“…Results indicate this discriminating threshold score to be at 68.6 points, which signifies anyone scoring above this threshold would be throwing with no pain and a score below this number indicating throwing with pain…”
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Associations of greenhouse gases, air pollutants and dynamics of scrub typhus incidence in China: a nationwide time-series study by Haoyue Cao, Jianqiang Han, Weiming Hou, Juxiang Yuan

“…First, an early warning method was applied to estimate the epidemic threshold and the grading intensity threshold. …”
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Novel fusion of color balancing and superpixel based approach for detection of tomato plant diseases in natural complex environment by Saiqa Khan, Meera Narvekar

“…Results indicate that the proposed method achieved an accuracy of 93.12% on a combined dataset using cross-validation to show that method is effective to classify diseases in the presence of a cluttered background. …”
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Objective and Subjective Assessment of the Sound Attenuation Efficiency Obtained by Custom Moulded Earplugs with Various Acoustic Filters – a Preliminary Study by Roman Gołębiewski, Andrzej Wicher, Artur Duraj, Milena Kaczmarek-Klinowska, Karina Mrugalska-Handke

“…The attenuation value was defined as the difference (in dB) between the hearing threshold of the test signal with a hearing protector and the hearing threshold determined without a hearing protector. …”
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Deteksi Persamaan Pola Gerakan pada Koreografi Tari Bali by Ni Made Rai Maryati, Made Windu Antara Kesiman, I Made Gede Sunarya

“…We use euclidean distance method to measure the level of image similarity, there are 5 threshold values that is 1.15, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22 and 1.25. …”
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Cochlear implant re-mapping informed by measures of viability of the electrode-neural interface: a systematic review with meta-analysis by Jason Tzu-Hsien Lien, Ben Williges, Deborah Vickers

“…Some site selection interventions were particularly successful while being informed by the low-rate threshold, modulation detection threshold, and electrode discrimination, yielding large and significant effect sizes around 1–1.5. …”
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Evaluation framework for the generation of continental bare surface reflectance composites by Paul Karlshoefer, Pablo d’Angelo, Jonas Eberle, Uta Heiden

“…It can estimate the theoretical limit achievable with defined processing parameters (spectral indices, thresholds, specific filtering, etc.) and it is also suitable to compare the performance of different SRC concepts from the literature. …”
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Design, Modeling, and Experiments of the Vortex-Induced Vibration Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Bionic Attachments by Zunlong Jin, Guoping Li, Junlei Wang, Zhien Zhang

“…In order to increase the response amplitude and decrease the threshold wind speed of vortex-induced vibration, a bionic attachment structure is proposed based on the experimental method. …”
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Size Increment During Surveillance in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Evidence Synthesis and Dose–Response Meta‐Analysis by Mohamed Badie Ahmed, Emad Naem, Harman Saman, Abeer Alsherawi, Asma Syed, Noora Al‐Abdulla, Latifa Alkaabi, Mahmoud A. Zirie, Suhail A. Doi

“…This evidence synthesis aims to assess PTC progression in size over time during active surveillance in terms of PTC tumor size progression to or beyond 3 mm during the surveillance period. Methods A dose–response meta‐analysis was conducted using the robust error meta‐regression method, using time as the “dose” and cumulative progression (%) was assessed. …”
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Impact of Forms of Visual Attenuation on Short-Term Eye Changes Under Controlled Reading Visibility by Su H, Chun RKM, De Lestrange-Anginieur E

“…Additional defocusing failed to exacerbate axial elongation under sub-threshold text visibility (mean difference: − 0.135 μm ± 2.783 μm), revealing a clear inhibitory effect of lowering visibility on eye changes. …”
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Two-phase linear relationship of Vitamin D and Vitamin A among children aged 0–14 years: a cross-sectional study by Wenyuan Liu, Qiao Wang, Bibo Mao, Fei Xu, Yefang Ke, Shengying Zhang, Chenbo Zhou, Chunyan Liu, Wenbo Lu, Jishan Zheng

“…BackgroundVitamin D and Vitamin A are crucial for children’s immune function, bone health, and cellular growth, but their interrelationship and the impact of various factors remain poorly understood.ObjectiveTo explore the relationship between Vitamin D and Vitamin A levels in children and identify any critical thresholds.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted from 2018 to 2021 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. …”
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Overweight and POMC methylation: epigenetic associations with adolescent depression by Ye Ye, Jia-Hui Hu, Xing-Yu Xiao, Ting Ji, Fei Wang, Fu-Jun Jia, Cai-Lan Hou

“…They were divided into three groups: 11 underweight individuals (BMI below the age-specific threshold), 75 normal-weight individuals (BMI within the defined normal range), and 22 overweight individuals (BMI between the overweight threshold and obesity threshold). …”
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A Fast Satellite Selection Algorithm Based on Hierarchical Clustering and Iterative Subset Optimization by Dan Jing, Weidie Li, Liang Han, Xinchen Li, Liangchao Li, Yan Zhang, Liang Guo, Mengdao Xing

“…Simulations show that this method can quickly select an optimal satellite subset that meets positioning accuracy requirements under different GDOP demands, significantly improving computational efficiency compared to the traditional methods.…”
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Amplification of UV radiation and gain mechanisms in ZnO films with loose-packed structure by L.A. Zadorozhnaya, A.P. Tarasov, A.S. Lavrikov, V.M. Kanevsky

“…The modern demands for miniaturization of optoelectronic devices, in particular, for the UV range, are inextricably linked with the improvement of fabrication technologies for the corresponding photonic nano/micro objects and the study of their radiative properties. In this work, the method of pyrolytic carbothermal synthesis, which is a modification of the thermal evaporation method, was used to fabricate microcrystalline ZnO films with laser properties. …”
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Uncertainty aware domain incremental learning for cross domain depression detection by Zita Lifelo, Jianguo Ding, Huansheng Ning, Sahraoui Dhelim

“…To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conduct extensive experiments on four benchmark MDD datasets-CMDC, DIAC-WoZ, MODMA and EATD confirming the effectiveness of our method’s potential for reliable depression detection in real-world clinical scenarios.…”
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Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references. by Yi-Xuan Xiong, Meng-Guo Wang, Luonan Chen, Xiao-Fei Zhang

“…Additionally, we provide a data-driven method to adaptively select a threshold for identifying previously unseen cell types. …”
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The impact of regional emergency logistics response capacity on sustainable economic growth in China by Heng Chen, Xianglong Lin, Yuan Guo, Yumei Yang

“…It applies the entropy weight method combined with the TOPSIS method to evaluate these capabilities across regions. …”
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Electromagnetic exposure levels of electric vehicle drive motors to cochlear implanted passenger. by Xu-Wei Dong, Yi-Dan Qian, Mai Lu

“…A calculation model including the vehicle body, brain tissue, skull, eyes, human body, and cochlear implant is built, and the finite element method is used to calculate the induced electric field ([Formula: see text]), specific absorption rate (SAR), and temperature changes in different tissues and organs of the passenger's body. …”
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A Reassessment of the Turkish Party System by Mustafa Bölükbaşı

“…This paper analyzes Turkish party systems from 1950 to the present using the quantitative method. Adopting the criteria of the number of relevant parties and their relative strengths, this study applies different indicators such as the effective number of parties and fragmentation. …”
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Research on Abnormal Ship Brightness Temperature Detection Based on Infrared Image Edge-Enhanced Segmentation Network by Xiaobin Hong, Guanqiao Chen, Yuanming Chen, Ruimou Cai

“…An eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning model is then established to predict the ship image brightness temperature threshold, using engine brightness threshold, water area brightness threshold, boundary brightness threshold, and temperature gradient as predictive elements. …”
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