Cardiovascular Disease and Its Implication for Higher Catastrophic Health Expenditures Among Households in Sub-Saharan Africa by Folashayo Ikenna Peter Adeniji, Taiwo Akinyode Obembe

“…Households with CVD were more likely to experience greater CHE across all the thresholds in Ghana. Households who reported having CVD were twice as likely to incur CHE at 5% threshold (odds ratio [OR], 1.946; confidence interval [CI], 0.965-1.095), 3 times as likely at 10% threshold (OR, 2.710; CI, 1.401-5.239), and 4 times more likely to experience CHE at both 25% and 40% thresholds, (OR, 3.696; CI, 0.956-14.286) and (OR, 4.107; CI, 1.908-8.841), respectively. …”
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Effects of pneumatic tube systems on viscoelastic coagulation tests in septic patients and healthy individuals: protocol of the randomized controlled VETaPT-trial by Martin Mirus, Erik Buehrer, Lars Heubner, Christian Schnabel, Thea Koch, Peter Markus Spieth

“…The primary outcome is the difference in coagulation parameters between transport methods, evaluated in the context of measured acceleration forces.Expected resultsThis is the first study to systematically compare multiple next generation VET and platelet aggregation systems in both healthy and septic patients under controlled PTS transport conditions. …”
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Effect of the time factor on the hydraulic activity of mechanically activated saponin-containing powder by Marina V. Morozova, Maria A. Frolova

“…After reaching the threshold volume of the Ca(OH)2 solution, the potential stabilizes. …”
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New Approach for Diagnostics of VZV Infection by Using Real-Time PCR by H. Ph. Pham, A. V. Sidorov, A. V. Milovanova, T. P. Antonova, A. N. Lisakov, F. G. Nagieva, G. I. Alatortceva, O. A. Svitich, A. C. Kasanova, V. F. Lavrov, V. V. Zverev

“…We used pools of peripheral blood samples from sick and healthy patients as clinical materials for analysis and Varilrix vaccine sample as a source of positive control viral DNA. Main methods used here were DNA extraction and real-time PCR in the version of TaqMan probes; amplification reactions were made in triplicates for each sample with standard deviation of threshold cycles less than 1.5%. …”
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Automated pavement marking integrity assessment using a UAV platform – a test case of public parking by Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Di Wang, Jian Chai, Sungkon Moon, Maria Rashidi, Xiangyu Wang

“…After detecting all parking lines from images, the Otsu method was employed to determine the threshold of 0.9 as the quantitative indicator of painting quality. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Rapid Entire Body Assessment Using AI-Assisted Ergonomic Analysis in Dentistry by Benhar Arvind Manohar, Jebakani Devaraj, Chellapandian Maheswaran, Selvan Pugalenthi

“…The optimized REBA score profile establishes a maximum attainable threshold for dentists, directing them towards the lower scores. …”
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Discussing the epidemiology of COVID-19 model with the effective numerical scheme by Abeer Aljohani, Shahbaz Mustafa, Shan Ali Khan, Abdullah Alhushaybari, Herbert Mukalazi

“…Calculated simulations show that the NSFD method preserves the important aspects of the continuous model. …”
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The impact of renewable energy technology innovation on the low-carbon economic transition by X.Y. Liu, X. Shao, X. Li, C. Dong

“…Subsequently, it is investigated the critical role of climate risk through moderating and threshold effect. Furthermore, a difference-in-differences model is constructed to evaluate the efficacy of policy interventions in this transformative process. …”
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Muscle synergies during the walk-run and run-walk transitions by Leonardo Lagos-Hausheer, Samuel Vergara, Victor Munoz-Martel, Germán Pequera, Renata L. Bona, Carlo M. Biancardi

“…Analysing surface electromyography using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) we obtained synergy modules and temporal activation profiles. Alpha threshold for statistical tests set at 0.05. Results We described four different transition strides, two for increasing speed transitions, and two for decreasing speed transitions. …”
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Effectiveness of Perfusion Index ratio and End-Diastolic Velocity ratio in evaluating the efficacy of Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block: a prospective observational study by Li Hu, Li Hu, Jintao Sun, Bin Zhang, Xiaoyan Ye, Jian Lu, Jian Lu, Zhipeng Zhu, Zhipeng Zhu, Hongmei Zhou, Hongmei Zhou

“…The EDV ratio had an AUROC of 0.706 (95% CI: 0.553–0.860), with a threshold of 1.32, sensitivity of 92.9%, and specificity of 50%. …”
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Does a priming warm-up influence the incidence of [Formula: see text] during a ramp test and verification phase? by JianBo Qiao, Paul Rosbrook, Daniel K Sweet, Riana R Pryor, David Hostler, David Looney, J Luke Pryor

“…The second visit required a priming warm-up (cycling at 50 W for 4 min increasing to 70% difference between the gas exchange threshold [GET] and maximum work rate [WRmax] for 6 min) followed by the same protocol as in the first visit. …”
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Effect of outpatient or home-based cardiac rehabilitation training on cardiopulmonary function and mental health after percutaneous coronary intervention in young and middle-aged p... by LI Jingyuan, LI Haiying, GUO Xiao, QU Fengxia, XIN Yue, ZHOU Yaqun

“…Results After rehabilitation training, both groups had significant increases in anaerobic threshold power, anaerobic threshold metabolic equivalent (ATMets), anaerobic threshold oxygen uptake per kilogram (ATVO2), peak power (PEAKPower), peak oxygen uptake per kilogram (PEAKVO2max), and peak metabolic equivalent (PEAKMets) (t=2.22-6.43,P<0.05), with no significant changes in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure at resting state (P>0.05), and there were significant differences between the two groups in the changes in ATMets, ATVO2, PEAKPower, PEAKMets, and PEAKVO2max after training (z=2.23-4.10,P<0.05). …”
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Economic Evaluations of Treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Literature Review by Lachaine Jean, Miron Audrey, Catherine Beauchemin, on behalf of the iGenoMed Consortium

“…The objective of this literature review was to evaluate the existing evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of treatment options in IBD. Methods. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify economic evaluations of IBD therapy. …”
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Application of the Hough Transform to Dispersion Control of Overlapping Particles and Their Agglomerates by P. V. Gulyaev

“…The results showed that when the threshold parameters of the Hough transform change, the number of detected particles stabilizes near their optimal values. …”
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Times Matter, the Impact of Convective Dust Events on Air Quality in the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona by K. Ardon‐Dryer, T. Aziz

“…Seven PM10 stations were used to evaluate the changes in PM10 concentrations over different time intervals (10‐min, hourly, and daily). …”
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Assessment of the medial olivocochlear reflex in normal-hearing right-handed subjects using auditory brainstem response: a pilot study by Ahmed Zein-Elabedein, Ahmed Ragab, Hosam Sanyelbhaa, Ahlam Diab, Asmaa Moaty

“…There were no statistically significant differences between all participants regarding the latency and ABR threshold level with CAS and without CAS. …”
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Advanced bearing fault detection at varying rotational speeds using PSO-optimized SVM and CDET feature selection by Hongxu Chai, Xiaoshi Ma, Feng Zhu, Yandong Hu

“…The outcomes demonstrate that specific features can effectively differentiate various bearing conditions at different speeds, highlighting the efficacy of the recommended approach compared to other fault detection methods.…”
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Analysis on the Relationship between the Mandibular Third Molar and the Position of the Mandibular Canal in Koreans from the Yanbian Area and the Han... by Zhen-Long Liu, En-Shi Jiang, Lian-Yan Cui, Jing-Xu Li

“…The significance threshold was set at 0.05. Conclusion. There are some differences in the positional relationship between the mandibular canal in the MTM region and the rate of cortical bone disruption between Koreans from the Yanbian area and the Hans. …”
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The association between waist-to-height index and prostate cancer risk: evidence from the NHANES study by Qinghe Gao, Zongqi Lin, Yihua Zhang, Jiantong Cai, Shaopeng Li

“…In addition, restricted cubic sample plots and threshold effects were examined to further explore the nonlinear association between WWI and prostate cancer. …”
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CO₂ flux characteristics of the open savanna and its response to environmental factors in the dry–hot valley of Jinsha River, China by C. Yang, C. Yang, C. Yang, C. Yang, Y. Tian, Y. Tian, Y. Tian, Y. Tian, J. Cui, G. He, J. Li, C. Li, C. Li, C. Li, H. Duan, Z. Wei, Z. Wei, L. Yan, L. Yan, X. Xia, X. Xia, Y. Huang, Y. Huang, A. Jiang, A. Jiang, Y. Feng

“…The response mechanisms of NEE to changes in different environmental factors were generally similar, with NEE being at its minimum when located at the threshold of environmental factors. …”
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