Relative fat mass and risk of metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease and severe hepatic steatosis in U.S. adults: analysis of NHANES 2017–2020 data by Jianjun Wang, Wei He, Xianfu Cai, Zhaohui Hu, Yonghai Peng, Xi Chen, Pei Yang, Xintao Zeng, Sirui Chen, Decai Wang

“…Nonlinear associations between RFM levels and MASLD or SHS prevalence were assessed using smoothed curve fitting and threshold effect models. Subgroup analyses were conducted to evaluate the consistency of this association across different population groups. …”
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Efficacy of Dry Needling and Intramuscular Dry Needling Stimulation on Quadratus Lumborum in Patients with Mechanical Low Back Pain by Gerald Edwin Raj, Vinodhkumar Ramalingam, M. K. Franklin Shaju

“…The study found significant differences in postural sway, disability, and pain threshold among back pain patients. …”
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Blood and urine early treatment response biomarkers in HIV-associated disseminated tuberculosis by Linda Boloko, Marcia Vermeulen, Bianca Sossen, Abulele Bekiswa, Phiona E. Namale, Chad Centner, Robert J. Wilkinson, Charlotte Schutz, Graeme Meintjes, David A. Barr

“…A mixed-effects model predicted a decline in ordinal values of urine Xpert Ultra (cycle threshold), blood Xpert Ultra (cycle threshold) and blood culture (time-to-positivity) in response to anti-TB treatment. …”
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The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on the treatment of patients with cervical myofascial pain syndrome by Farid Rezaei Moghaddam, Zohre Rozati, Afsane Dadarkhah, Kamran Azma, Siroos Azizi

“…Further investigation regarding comparison of tDCS and other methods is highly recommended on the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome.…”
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Association of Postoperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Monocyte Lymphocyte Ratio (MLR) with the Presence of Osteoporosis in Japanese Patients after Hip Fracture Surgery... by Hirofumi Bekki, Takeshi Arizono, Daiki Hama, Akihiko Inokuchi, Takahiro Hamada, Ryuta Imamura

“…A YAM cutoff of 70% is an appropriate intervention threshold regarding postoperative recovery after hip fracture surgery. …”
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Comparing the effects of positional versus myofascial release of gluteus medius to manage patellofemoral pain syndrome: single blinded randomized clinical trial by Priyanka Ratan Kumar, Rabail Rani Soomro

“…Both the groups showed a significant reduction in pain, improvement in function, pressure pain threshold, strength, and quality of life (p<0.05). …”
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Impact of market orientation on competitiveness: Analysis of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises by Miklós Stocker, Lídia Várkonyi

“…Data was obtained by the survey method, MKTOR scale was implemented in the survey and financial data was also included. …”
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Breathing reserve as a predictor of postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with lung cancer by I. Sh. Kochoyan, E. K. Nikitina, A. A. Obukhova, Z. A. Zaripova

“…At the anaerobic threshold (AT), there were significant differences in BR (p = 0.003). …”
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Real-time blood gas management: evaluating quantum perfusion system’s accuracy against a standard blood gas analysis in CPB by Bahi Hyasat, Amjad Bani Hani, Ali Al Saraireh, Rana Al Kirmeen, Dina Sabha, Saif Yamin, Islam Massad, Ayman Hammoudeh

“…Hematocrit showed a pre-alignment deviation of 2.1%, reduced to 0.2% post-alignment, both within the CLIA threshold of ± 5%, with a Bland-Altman mean difference of 0.3009% (limits: 0.2956 to 0.3063%). …”
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Maximum Correntropy Criterion Kalman/Allan Variance-Assisted FIR Integrated Filter for Indoor Localization by Manman Li, Lei Deng, Yide Zhang, Yuan Xu, Yanli Gao

“…This study uses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to rectify the position errors of the INS. In this method, the difference between the positions of the INS and UWB is used as the measurement of the filter. …”
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Evaluation of the quality of electrochemical study in the diagnosis of infection of pancreatic cysts by A. V. Gerasimov, V. I. Nikolskiy, A. N. Mitroshin, K. I. Sergatskiy

“…When evaluating the quality of the joulemetric study in determining the early signs of in˛ammation of the contents of postnecrotic pancreatic cysts, it was proved that the threshold differential diagnostic value of 19.1 mkJ provides 81.8% sensitivity of the proposed method and 80.7% specificity (AUC = 91.3) with a statistically signi˝cant difference in current work (p &lt; 0.001).…”
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Selecting indicator-diatom taxa and its application for simplifying trophic diatom index for biological water quality assessment by Seoung Min Kim, Jung Ho Lee

“…The similarity between S-TDI and original TDI values were very high degree of 0.999, the paired sample t-test indicated no statistically significant difference and RMSE was 1.52 below the threshold. Conclusion : s: These results showed S-TDI can be applied to the water quality assessment instead of original TDI.…”
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Analysis of indications for selectively missing results in comparative registry-based studies in medicine: a meta-research study by Paula Starke, Zhentian Zhang, Hannah Papmeier, Dawid Pieper, Tim Mathes

“…Synthesis of results The cumulative distribution of p-values displays an abrupt, heavy increase just below the significance threshold of 0.05 while the distribution above the threshold shows a slow, gradual increase. …”
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Hybrid Scheduling Model Based on Fare Incentives for Peak Time Interval of the Metro: The Harbin Metro System by Haitao Pan, Shumin Feng

“…The analytical solutions of these two optimal methods (schedule gaps and fare differentials) for boarding congestion management are presented. …”
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Objective assessment of spectral ripple discrimination in cochlear implant listeners using cortical evoked responses to an oddball paradigm. by Alejandro Lopez Valdes, Myles Mc Laughlin, Laura Viani, Peter Walshe, Jaclyn Smith, Fan-Gang Zeng, Richard B Reilly

“…In the same subjects, psychoacoustic spectral ripple discrimination thresholds were also measured. A neural discrimination threshold was determined by systematically increasing the number of ripples per octave and determining the point at which there was no longer a significant difference between the evoked potential response to the standard and inverted stimuli. …”
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Comparison of Perimetric Outcomes from Melbourne Rapid Fields Tablet Perimeter Software and Humphrey Field Analyzer in Glaucoma Patients by Harsh Kumar, Mithun Thulasidas

“…To compare visual field results obtained using Melbourne Rapid Fields (MRF) iPad-based perimeter software and Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) 24-2 Swedish Interactive Threshold Algorithm (SITA) standard program in glaucoma patients. …”
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Clonidine used as a perineural adjuvant to ropivacaine, does not prolong the duration of sensory block when controlling for systemic effects: A paired, blinded, randomized trial in... by Jakob Hessel Andersen, Pia Jaeger, Tobias Laier Sonne, Jørgen Berg Dahl, Ole Mathiesen, Ulrik Grevstad

“…No differences in block duration were detected when assessed by: Pinprick, mean difference 0.0 h (95% CI: -1.3 to 1.3), maximum pain during tonic heat stimulation, mean difference -0.7 h (95% CI: -2.1 to 0.8), warmth detection threshold, mean difference -0.1 h (95% CI: -1.8 to 1.6) or heat pain detection threshold, mean difference -0.2 h (95% CI: -1.7 to 1.4).…”
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Prenatal ambient temperature exposure and cord blood and placental mitochondrial DNA content: Insights from the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort study by Eleni Renaers, Congrong Wang, Esmée M. Bijnens, Michelle Plusquin, Tim S. Nawrot, Dries S. Martens

“…Placental mtDNAc showed positive and negative associations for high temperature exposure depending on the applied high temperature threshold. Negative associations were observed during trimester 1 using the 90th and 95th percentile threshold (−26.1% and –33.2% lower mtDNAc respectively), and a positive association in trimester 3 when applying the most stringent 95th percentile threshold (127.0%). …”
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Assessment of CDKN2A homozygous and heterozygous deletions in gliomas across multiple detection platforms by Hainan Li, Ningning Luo, Chongzhu Fan, Tiantian Han, Xuemin Wei, Xing Zhang, Lijun Dai, Lei Ye, Dongsheng Chen, Linbo Cai, Zhi Li

“…However, there is currently no established threshold for identifying CDKN2A homozygous and heterozygous deletions using FISH. …”
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Preoperative prediction for early recurrence in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: combining radiomics and abdominal fat analysis by Suo Yu Yan, Fang Ming Chen, Bang Jun Guo, Su Hu, Li Lin, Yi Wen Yang, Xin Yu Jiang, Hui Yao, Chun Hong Hu, Yun Yan Su

“…Based on the nomogram score, patients were stratified into high-risk and low-risk groups, and survival analysis of different risk groups was performed using the Kaplan-Meier (KM) method. …”
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