Obesity mediates the association between psoriasis and diabetes incidence: a population-based study by Zuojiao Xu, Kaihua Ma, Yinuo Zhai, Jing Wang, Yan Li

“…For psoriasis, an inflection point was noted in men where its prevalence began to decline as BMI exceeded a certain threshold. Similarly, in younger adults, psoriasis prevalence decreased above a specific BMI threshold. …”
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Efficacy of Dry Needling Combined with Eccentric Exercise Versus Oral and Topical NSAID Treatment in Patients with Tennis Elbow: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Zacarías Sánchez-Milá PhD, Vanesa Abuín-Porras PhD, Helena Fidalgo-Gómez PhD, Isabel Mínguez-Esteban MSc, Jaime Almazán-Polo PT, MSc, PhD, Jorge Velázquez-Saornil PhD

“…Pain intensity was assessed using the Visual Analog Scale and pressure pain threshold at the lateral epicondyle, medial epicondyle, radial styloid, and ulnar styloid. …”
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Does social health insurance prevent financial hardship in Mongolia? Inpatient care: A case in point. by Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva, Enkhjargal Batbaatar, Mikael Svensson, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren, Munkhsaikhan Togtmol, Jussi Kauhanen

“…"Catastrophic health expenditure" is defined as out-of-pocket payments for inpatient care that exceed a threshold of 40% of households' non-discretionary expenditure. …”
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Association between lower extremity movement patterns and ACL loading in CAI patients across varied ankle sprain frequencies within a year by Zeyi Zhang, Shengmeng Wei, Hanlin Shi, Youping Sun

“…Methods The incidence of ankle sprains among 74 male participants was meticulously documented over a one-year period. …”
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HIV treatment as prevention: systematic comparison of mathematical models of the potential impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence in South Africa. by Jeffrey W Eaton, Leigh F Johnson, Joshua A Salomon, Till Bärnighausen, Eran Bendavid, Anna Bershteyn, David E Bloom, Valentina Cambiano, Christophe Fraser, Jan A C Hontelez, Salal Humair, Daniel J Klein, Elisa F Long, Andrew N Phillips, Carel Pretorius, John Stover, Edward A Wenger, Brian G Williams, Timothy B Hallett

“…Comparing results and conclusions across models is challenging because models have addressed slightly different questions and have reported different outcome metrics. …”
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Large Language Models in Dental Licensing Examinations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mingxin Liu, Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Wenbo Huang, Atsushi Ogihara, Hikari Sophia Nagao, Hiroko Okada, Takahiro Kiuchi

“…GPT-4’s performance, however, remained consistent across different regions. Conclusion: LLMs, particularly GPT-4, show potential in dental education and diagnostics, yet their accuracy remains below the threshold required for clinical application. …”
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Strong Reservoir Wettability Heterogeneities of an Eocene Tight Oil Play from the Bonan Sag, Bohai Bay Basin as Revealed by an Integrated Multiscale Wettability Evaluation by Jie Chen, Huimin Liu, Xuqing Fang, Xingzhong Hu, Tao Meng, Lingjie Yu, Zongguang Guo, Guoheng Liu, Keyu Liu

“…In contrast, the other samples, C3 and C4, display strong water-wet characteristics across different scales. The pore size threshold between water-wet and oil-wet conditions for samples C1 and C2 is 0.1 μm, while that for samples C3 and C4 is 1 μm. …”
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Basic research on CVD single crystal diamond processing by UV nanosecond laser by Huabin ZHAN, Kaixuan FENG, Yupeng CHEN, Jing LI, Jiawei WEI, Jianhui CHEN, Qi HAO, Changwei WAN, Ni CHEN

“…Based on the advantages of high precision, high efficiency and easy automation of laser processing, this paper adopts the ultraviolet nanosecond laser for CVD single diamond etching, and combines the laser line etching energy model with the basic research on the law of laser processing and etching principle.MethodsA UV nanosecond laser is used to carry out basic research on the laws of laser processing and etching principle through the ablation threshold test, laser energy modeling and line etching test, scanning electron microscope observation and energy spectrum analysis test. …”
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Association between eGDR and MASLD and liver fibrosis: a cross-sectional study based on NHANES 2017–2023 by Wenjing Peng, Zeyu Li, Nian Fu

“…A non-linear relationship with threshold effects at an eGDR value of 3.25 was observed for MASLD. …”
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Cross-Dataset Head-Related Transfer Function Harmonization Based on Perceptually Relevant Loss Function by Jiale Zhao, Dingding Yao, Junfeng Li

“…The proposed method utilizes a perceptually relevant loss function, which jointly constrains multiple objectives, including interaural level differences, auditory-filter excitation patterns, and classification accuracy. …”
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Research on the Combined Load-Bearing Mechanism of Deeply Buried Pressure Pipelines Under High Internal Water Pressure by LIU Yijie, ZHANG Xuhui, HUANG Bensheng, YANG Fengjie, YUAN Mingdao, XU Yunqian

“…When concrete cracking was considered, these differences became more pronounced: the maximum difference in circumferential stress increased to 118.03MPa, radial deformation differed by up to 1.6mm, and the surrounding rock load-sharing ratio varied by as much as 59.31%. …”
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The Use of Infrared Thermography in Determining Timing for Early Pedicle Division of the Preexpanded Bipedicled Visor Flap after Ischemic Preconditioning by Wentian Xiao, Shunuo Zhang, Hua Li, Shaoqing Feng, Fabio Nicoli, Richard Huynh, Jiajing Lu, Yixin Zhang, Peiru Min

“…This comprised of subjective examination and indocyanine green angiography. The threshold of temperature difference to determine the pedicle division was analyzed based on the temperature changes between the clamps. …”
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Ultrashort wave satellite channel classification and recognition algorithm based on mirror filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 by Shang WU, Lei SHEN, Lijun WANG, Ruxu ZHANG, Xin HU

“…In response to the classification and identification problems of 5 kHz channels, 25 kHz channels, broadband interference channels, narrowband interference channels, and single tone interference channels in the ultrashort wave frequency band, a classification and identification method for ultrashort wave channels based on mirror filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 (LBP attention ResNet50) was proposed.The problem of difficulty in distinguishing between satellite channels and background noise under low signal-to-noise ratio, as well as the identification of signal channels and interference channels with similar characteristics, has been effectively solved.Firstly, the proposed method performs mirror symmetry on the ultrashort wave spectrum and fills it in, while blackening the edges of the spectrum to construct a mirror-filled spectrum, which improves the discrimination of different types of channel spectra.Then, channel attention was introduced into ResNet50 to focus the attention of the network model on the channel.Finally, a loss function based on cross entropy and local binary pattern (LBP) was proposed to improve the extraction effect of subtle texture features on signal channels and interference channels images.The proposed method based on mirror-filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 has shown an improvement of 19.8%, 8.2%, 1.8%, and 0.8% in classification accuracy for ultrashort wave channels compared to the traditional method utilizing fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectrum thresholding, the YOLOv5s target detection and classification method based on mirror-filled spectrum, the Attention-ResNet50 method with attention mechanism based on mirror-filled spectrum, and the Transformer network method under a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10 dB.…”
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Comparison of three respiratory physical therapy techniques and their impact on pulmonary function restoration among cardiac surgery patients in hospital settings by V. V. Vitomskyi

“…To compare three respiratory physical therapy techniques and their impact on pulmonary function restoration among cardiac surgery patients in hospital settings. Materials and methods. The study involved 126 patients of both sexes who were admitted for cardiac surgery. …”
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METABOLISM OF FATTY ACIDS IN LEFT VENTRICLE MYOCARDIUM AND THE EFFICACY PROGNOSIS OF CARDIO-RESYNCHRONIZING THERAPY IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS by M. O. Gulya, Yu. B. Lishmanov, K. V. Zavadovsky, D. I. Lebedev

“…The best threshold value of calculated end- systolic volume dynamics — 34,02 confirms the 87,5% sensitivity and 100% specificity of RT.Conclusion. …”
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Is night‐time surgical procedure for renal graft at higher risk than during the day? A single center study cohort of 179 patients by Patrick Julien Treacy, Flora Barthe, Imad Bentellis, Ugo Giovanni Falagario, Thomas Prudhomme, Laetitia Imbert de La Phalecque, Aysha Shaikh, Laetitia Albano, Daniel Chevallier, Matthieu Durand

“…No statistically significant differences were observed between the two groups using the Kruskal–Wallis method for CD complications (Qobs: 0.076; p = .735). …”
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Clinical Course of Coronary Heart Disease Concomitant with Asthma by N. Y. Grigoryeva, T. P. Ilyushina, K. S. Kolosova, N. B. Koroleva, A. A. Streltsova, D. V. Soloveva

“…The research purpose: to study features of clinical process of a coronary heart disease when it combines with a bronchial asthma.The materials and methods: 180 people were included in the research, 90 of them suffer from both CHD and BA (the first group), and also 90 people have only CHD without BA (the second group). …”
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Benefit of Avasopasem Manganese on Severe Oral Mucositis in Head and Neck Cancer in the ROMAN Trial: Unplanned Secondary Analysis by Carryn Anderson, MD, Samuel Salvaggio, PhD, Mickaël De Backer, PhD, Jean-Christophe Chiem, PhD, Gary Walker, MD, MPH, MS, Deborah Saunders, DMD, BSc, Christopher M. Lee, MD, Neal Dunlap, MD, Eugene Kennedy, MD, Robert Beardsley, PhD, Benton Schoen, BA, Marc Buyse, ScD

“…Key clinically relevant outcomes from ROMAN were prioritized: (1) WHO grade 4 OM incidence; (2) SOM incidence; (3) days of SOM; (4) days to SOM onset, with 7 days difference defined as the clinical relevance threshold for SOM days and SOM onset. …”
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Enhanced Conformer-Based Speech Recognition via Model Fusion and Adaptive Decoding with Dynamic Rescoring by Junhao Geng, Dongyao Jia, Zihao He, Nengkai Wu, Ziqi Li

“…First, based on the Conformer network and its variants, we introduce a weighted fusion method using training loss as an indicator, adjusting the weights, thresholds, and other related parameters of the fused models to balance the contributions of different model structures, thereby creating a more robust and generalized model that alleviates overfitting and local optima. …”
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Strengths and weaknesses of Global Positioning System (GPS) data-loggers and semi-structured interviews for capturing fine-scale human mobility: findings from Iquitos, Peru. by Valerie A Paz-Soldan, Robert C Reiner, Amy C Morrison, Steven T Stoddard, Uriel Kitron, Thomas W Scott, John P Elder, Eric S Halsey, Tadeusz J Kochel, Helvio Astete, Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec

“…A total of 2,047 and 886 places were reported in the SSI and identified by GPS, respectively. Differences in the concordance between methods occurred by location type, distance threshold (within a given radius to be considered a match) selected, GPS data collection frequency (i.e., 30, 90 or 150 seconds) and number of GPS points near the SSI place considered to define a match. …”
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