EVALUATION OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AND ISOKINETIC TEST PARAMETERS OF AMPUTEE FOOTBALL PLAYERS by Sertaç Yakal, Funda Arıkan Aküzüm, Türker Şahinkaya, Safinaz Yıldız Albayrak

“…The sports group had higher heart rates corresponding to the anaerobic threshold (p<0.05). At the same time, no significant difference was observed between the two groups concerning resting and maximum heart rate (p>0.05). …”
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A comprehensive study on the rheological properties of desulfurized rubberized asphalt and establishment of micro-scale mechanical models by Yingjie Chang

“…As the degree of desulfurization of the rubber powder increases, the fatigue damage rate of asphalt gradually decreases, leading to an increase in the fatigue life. Notably, the difference between the m-critical temperature and stiffness-critical temperature (ΔTc) for only ML40MA does not exceed the threshold value, indicating that it has the best low-temperature cracking resistance. …”
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Dynamic Behavior of the Fractional-Order Ananthakrishna Model for Repeated Yielding by Hongyi Zhu, Liping Yu

“…The stability of its equilibrium points is first investigated using fractional-order stability criteria, particularly in regions where the corresponding integer-order model exhibits instability. A linear finite difference scheme is then developed, incorporating an accelerated L1 method for the fractional derivative. …”
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Leveraging logit uncertainty for better knowledge distillation by Zhen Guo, Dong Wang, Qiang He, Pengzhou Zhang

“…By combining these techniques, we enhance knowledge distillation results and facilitate effective knowledge transfer between teacher and student models, even when architectural differences exist. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.…”
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Variations in the Use of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in Primary Care in England: A Population-Based Cohort of 531,735 FITs from 495,121 Patients Between 2019 and 2023 by Morton AJ, Crooks CJ, West J, Nicholson BD, Humes DJ

“…Using a single FIT value as a threshold for onwards referral may work differently in different regions of England. …”
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Prognostic Value of Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia in Patients with Unresectable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving Radiotherapy by Jinlong TONG, Haiyu WANG, Xiaoqiang TIAN, Ying LI, Shihui LU, Wei YE

“…The Kaplan-Meier method was employed to analyze the survival of patients with different levels of min ALC. …”
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Machine Learning for Predicting Zearalenone Contamination Levels in Pet Food by Zhenlong Wang, Wei An, Jiaxue Wang, Hui Tao, Xiumin Wang, Bing Han, Jinquan Wang

“…This study aims to develop a rapid and cost-effective method using an electronic nose (E-nose) and machine learning algorithms to predict whether ZEN levels in pet food exceed the regulatory limits (250 µg/kg), as set by Chinese pet food legislation. …”
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Prediction of air quality perception in aircraft cabin based on psychophysical model and artificial neural network (ANN)-based model by Yihui Yin, Lei Zhao, Ruoyu You, Jingjing Pei, Hanyu Li, Junzhou He, Yuexia Sun, Xudong Yang, Qingyan Chen

“…The new model is able to consider the interactions among individual differences, environmental factors and VOC concentrations, thus providing a method innovation for realizing people-oriented VOC control.…”
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Multivariable regression models improve accuracy and sensitive grading of antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Sanjana G. Kulkarni, Sacha Laurent, Paolo Miotto, Timothy M. Walker, Leonid Chindelevitch, Carl-Michael Nathanson, Nazir Ismail, Timothy C. Rodwell, Maha R. Farhat

“…Sensitivity gains are highest for ethambutol, clofazimine, streptomycin, and ethionamide as regression graded considerably more resistance-associated variants than SOLO for these drugs. There is no difference between SOLO and regression with regards to meeting the target product profiles set by the WHO for genetic drug susceptibility testing, except for rifampicin, for which regression specificity is below the threshold of 98% at 97%. …”
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Physical-Abstract Bidirectional-Guided Learning for High-Resolution Radar Target Recognition by Yuying Zhu, Yinan Zhao, Zhaoting Liu, Meilin He

“…Experimental results show that the proposed method is capable of handling challenging conditions where there are significant differences in target aspect between the training and testing datasets. …”
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Spatio‐Temporal Dynamics of Invasive Spartina Alterniflora and Its Functional Traits' Responding to Hydro‐Meteorology by Bolin Fu, Bingyan Yuan, Hang Yao, Weiwei Sun, Mingming Jia, Zuofang Yao, Yeqiao Wang

“…This study proposed a novel time series adaptive threshold segmentation method (NSATS) to extract S. alterniflora. …”
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Classification-based point cloud denoising and 3D reconstruction of roadways by Denghong CHEN, Ning PANG, Wen NIE, Juqiang FENG, Jiliang KAN, Jinjing ZHANG

“…MethodsThis study proposed an adaptive classification-based point cloud denoising algorithm using neighborhood radius (R), minimum neighborhood point number (Imin), spatial threshold (σc), and feature preservation factor (σs). …”
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Ulnar sensory-motor amplitude ratio: a new tool to differentiate ganglionopathy from polyneuropathy by Raphael Ubirajara Garcia, Joao Adilson Gama Ricardo, Cassiana Abreu Horta, Solange Garcia Garibaldi, Anamarli Nucci, Marcondes Cavalcante Franca Junior

“…Results Ulnar CMAP amplitudes were similar between GNP x PNP x Controls (p=0.253), but ulnar SNAP amplitudes (1.6±3.2 x 11.9±9.1 × 45.7±24.7) and USMAR values (0.3±0.3 × 1.5±0.9 × 4.6±2.2) were significantly different. A USMAR threshold of 0.71 was able to differentiate GNP and PNP (94.4% sensitivity and 90.9% specificity). …”
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The Intra-Host Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 After Neutralizing Antibody Therapy, Revealed by Nanopore Sequencing by Hong-Xiang Zeng, Wen-Hong Zu, Hai-Yan Wang, Jing Yuan, Lin Cheng, Gang Xu, Yi-Gan Huang, Yang Liu, Shu-Ye Zhang, Zheng Zhang

“…In a substantial sample size of approximately 800 clinical specimens, we thoroughly examined and compared different sequencing methods. Meta-transcriptome sequencing was effective for samples with viral reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) threshold cycle (Ct) values below 22, whereas multi-amplicon sequencing was effective across a wide Ct range. …”
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Cultivated and Fallow Land in the Highlands of Cañar (Ecuadorean South Andes): Effects of Farmer Emigration on an Agrarian Landscape by Michel Vaillant, Marc Oswald

“…On the threshold of the 21st century, Ecuador entered the darkest economic period in the history of its republic, resulting in a vast migratory movement to foreign countries. …”
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Investigation of Always Present and Spectrum Sensing based Incumbent Emulators by Abbas Ali Sharifi

“…The obtained results verify the superiority of the proposed energy detection approach compared to the existing conventional methods.…”
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The impact of psychostimulant use on office based buprenorphine treatment retention by Ryan Edgerton, Peter Rebeiro, Sam MacMaster, Lisa Bell, Parul Patel, Loren Ginn, Kyra Beach, Veeraj Shah, R. Lyle Cooper

“…Conclusion This study examined the impact of stimulant use on retention in buprenorphine treatment within a low-threshold OBOT clinic. Our findings differ from previous research that reported significant decreases in retention among methamphetamine users. …”
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Continuous and interval aerobic sessions: effects on triglyceride concentrations by Eder Santiago, Rochelle Rocha Costa, Rodrigo Sudatti Delevatti, Cláudia Gomes Bracht, Artur Avelino Birk Preissler, Gustavo Silveira, Danielle Girolometto Fracalossi, Eli Silveira Júnior, Vitória de Mello Bones da Rocha, Bruna Machado Barroso, Thaís Reichert, Luiz Fernando Martins Kruel

“…Fifteen volunteers performed two different aerobic sessions, a continuous and an interval session. …”
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Prediction of cardiovascular risk using Framingham, ASSIGN and QRISK2: how well do they predict individual rather than population risk? by Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa, Martin Gulliford, Edmond S-W Ng, Ben Goldacre, Liam Smeeth

“…Current practice to use a constant threshold level for intervention for all patients, together with the use of different scoring methods, may inadvertently create an arbitrary classification of high CVD risk.…”
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Temporal and spatial variations in the effect-based ecotoxicological assessment of streams by Delia Hof, Thomas Bing, Sebastian Heß, Jens Mayer, Jörg Oehlmann, Matthias Oetken

“…Abstract Background Water bodies are affected by chemical contamination, including micropollutants, which is not fully captured by conventional chemical monitoring methods. The inclusion of integrative, effect-based in vivo and in vitro methods in standardized assessment procedures offers the possibility of bridging discrepancies between chemical and biological assessments and has already been proposed in several studies. …”
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