Investigation of riprap stability at downstream of spillway flip bucket without and with energy dissipators by Mehdi Niroubakhsh, Alireza Masjedi, Mohammad Heidarnejad, Amin Bordbar

“…Ripraps of the same density and of four different diameters were investigated at five discharges at the movement threshold. …”
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The economics of the performing arts before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: cost-output-profit analysis on the example of a performance by D. L. Morozova

“…The novelty of the study lies in fact that different methods of calculating production costs for theatres have been summarised and a methodology for checking the break-even points existence for organising entertainment events in the long and short term has been presented.…”
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THE USABILITY OF I-SUYYAH: A MOBILE TOURISM APPLICATION FOR ARAB TOURISTS IN MALAYSIA by Wan Ab Aziz Wan Daud, Mohammad Taufiq Abdul Ghani, Ahmad Zaki Amiruddin, Kamarulzaman Abdul Ghani, Ahmad Abdul Rahman

“…The data obtained were analysed using the Fuzzy Delphi method, and twelve experts were selected to analyse the fuzziness consensus. …”
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Associative experiment as a means of tracking dynamics of secondary language personality development as exemplified by the stimulus word “nation” by Vera V. Koroleva, Ekaterina T. Polyanskaya

“…A chain associative experiment, conducted in three groups with different levels of English proficiency – including a group of native speakers – serves as the primary research method. …”
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Fine-Tuning Network Slicing in 5G: Unveiling Mathematical Equations for Precision Classification by Nikola Anđelić, Sandi Baressi Šegota, Vedran Mrzljak

“…The proposed method demonstrates outstanding performance, achieving a perfect classification accuracy of 1.0.…”
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Concrete Crack Skeleton Analysis: A Machine Vision Approach to Feature Extraction by Rui Wang, Xinxin Guo, Jiaxuan Liu, Yu Wan

“…Therefore, a feature extraction method based on inflection point recognition of concrete surface crack skeleton is proposed in this paper. …”
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Effects of Proprioception Exercises in the Rehabilitation Process of Football Players after Arthroscopic Surgery Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) by Manouchehr Haidary

“…Data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney and t-test with the significance threshold of (p<0.05). Results: through the proprioceptive exercise protocol, static and dynamic balance was significantly improved (p<0.001). …”
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Influence of Gaussian noise and Levy noise on the phase dynamics of the ensemble of Kuramoto-like oscillators of first and second order by Arinushkin, Pavel Alekseevich, Kupriyanov, Vladislav Dmitrievich, Vadivasova, Tatjana Evgenevna

“…&nbsp; Methods. In this paper, two ensembles of Kuramoto-like phase oscillators with the same topology but different number of oscillators are investigated. …”
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WPD-Based Noise Reduction for Microseismic Data Through Adaptive Coefficient Shrinkage and Multi-Basis Fusion by Yaqi Zhang, Zhiqiang Lan, Zheng Shi, Yuhang Xue, Jie Wang, Kun Zhu, Jian He, Xiujian Chou

“…Firstly, this method utilizes energy filtering to eliminate noise that is not temporally correlated with microseismic waveforms, then employs time-varying thresholds to refine the edges of these waveforms, effectively leveraging time and amplitude information to preserve the details of waveform edge. …”
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Classification of intracranial tumors based on optical-spectral analysis by I. D. Romanishkin, T. A. Savelieva, A. Ospanov, K. G. Linkov, S. V. Shugai, S. A. Goryajnov, G. V. Pavlova, I. N. Pronin, V. B. Loschenov

“…Such a variety of optical and spectral characteristics makes it difficult for the surgeon to analyze them directly during surgery, as it is usually realized in the case of fluorescence methods – tumor tissue can be distinguished from normal with a certain degree of certainty by fluorescence intensity exceeding  a threshold value. …”
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Association between ambient ozone exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in Guangdong Province by Peng HU, Shanshan RAN, Qingmei LIN, Yin YANG, Zilong ZHANG, Xiaoling GUO, Yonggui GAO, Jinde ZHAO, Hualiang LIN

“…This study found that there were threshold concentrations between O3 exposure and preterm birth risk during different gestational periods, and the threshold concentrations in the first, second, third, and whole trimesters were 112.32, 99.83, 111.74, and 112.46 μg·m−3, respectively. …”
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Osseointegrated Implants and Osseoperception - A Review by Kumari Deepika, Atul Bhatnagar, Rekha Gupta

“…The current review of literature deals with these issues and has been summarized under following heads: • Mechanism of osseoperception • Neurophysiological and psychophysical methods of assessing phenomenon of osseoperception • Mechanoreceptors contributing to osseoperception • Different concepts of osseoperception Keywords: ­ Osseointegration, osseoperception, active threshold, passive threshold, dental implant…”
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Differential patterns of the relationship between exercise dose and mortality risk across severities of airflow limitation: a prospective cohort study with a 5-year follow-up perio... by Yide Wang, Hongxia Duan, Yingqi Wang, Yidie Bao, Linhong Jiang, Xiaoyu Han, Fengsen Li, Peijun Li, Weibing Wu, Xiaodan Liu

“…Objective: This study examines the dose–response relationship between physical activity (PA) and all-cause mortality across different severities of airflow limitation, identifying threshold effects that yield new insights into the PA–mortality association. …”
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The question of differential diagnosis of anemia in diabetes mellitus by T. V. Saprina, N. N. Musina, T. S. Prokhorenko, Ya. S. Slavkina, A. P. Zima

“…In DM sTfR and the sTfR /logFerritin index had high information content in IDA at diagnostic thresholds different from those for general population. …”
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Adaptive User Pairing With Non-Orthogonal Medium Access Choices for Balanced Coexistence of Mission-Critical and eMBB Services in Cellular IoT by Farnaz Khodakhah, Aamir Mahmood, Patrik Osterberg, Mikael Gidlund

“…By using this derived threshold, we design an adaptive pairing algorithm that achieves near-optimal QoS for MC users and maximizes eMBB data rates. …”
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Gluten Contamination of Labelled Gluten-Free Food Products Marketed in China by Yanjun Li, Qing Liu, Samuel Godefroy, Jingguang Li, Yan Chen

“…However, when the threshold was 10 mg/kg and 5 mg/kg, the McNemar <i>x</i>² test showed significant differences between the proportions of positive results of the two ELISA platforms and R5 Méndez (<i>p</i>-value < 0.05); using R5 Méndez as the reference, the two ELISA platforms showed 53.1% to 70.3% positive predictive values, suffering the drawback of high false-positive results. …”
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Pediatric PCFD Exhibits Less Forefoot Abduction and Middle Facet Subluxation Than Non-Pediatric PCFD: A Weight-Bearing CT Analysis by Antoine Acker MD, Erik Jesus Huanuco Casas MD, Tommaso Forin Valvecchi MD, Emily Joan Luo BS, Sally Kuehn BS, Kepler A.M. Carvalho MD, Albert T. Anastasio MD, Mark E. Easley MD, Chien-Shun Wang MD, Cesar de Cesar Netto MD, PhD

“…These results suggest that a different threshold should be set to assess PCFD in patients with flat feet since childhood.…”
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Impact of Methotrexate and 7‐Hydroxymethotrexate Exposure on Renal Toxicity in Pediatric Non‐Hodgkin Lymphoma by Hao Bing, Yi Ma, Jiamin Xu, Qixian Ling, Yanlong Duan, Libo Zhao

“…By ROC analysis, the Cmax of MTX and 7‐OHMTX had the greatest area under the curve (AUC) values (0.769 and 0.771, respectively). A Cmax threshold of 9.26 μmol/L for MTX or a Cmax threshold of 0.66 μmol/L for 7‐OHMTX was associated with the best sensitivity/specificity for toxicity events (MTX: sensitivity = 0.886; specificity = 0.70; 7‐OHMTX: sensitivity = 0.886; specificity = 0.70). …”
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Use of Sentinel-2 images for the detection of sandbars along the Lower Vistula by Klaudia Oktawia Kryniecka, Artur Magnuszewski

“…Every water index used had different results. The difference may be reduced by improving different threshold value algorithm.…”
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Validation of stool and blood analysis compared to Inv A and ttr based direct blood qPCR assay as diagnostic tools for typhoid fever by Shymaa A. Elaskary, Hanem Mohamed Badawy, Doaa S. Elgendy, Amany Mohammed Abdelmaksoud, Rasha G. Mostafa

“…While the blood-based ttr and Inv A qPCR technique showed 82% and 80% positivity, respectively, with a Ct threshold value of 37 cycles for both techniques. The stool culture method revealed S. enterica infection in only 32% of cases, while blood culture methods identified S. enterica in 48% of cases. …”
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