Network meta-analysis of cadmium toxicity against Chlorella vulgaris and the role of growth stimulants and macronutrients by M. Iqhrammullah, S. Saudah, M. Monalisa, F. Fahrurrozi, S.A. Akbar, S.S. Lubis

“…The collected data were then subjected to Bayesian frequentist network meta-analysis, utilizing standardized mean difference and a 95 percent confidence interval as measures of effect size. …”
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Paraspinal muscle volume and fatty infiltration after circumferential minimally-invasive deformity correction by John Paul G. Kolcun, Ryan M. Kelly, Bradley L. Kolb, Dustin H. Kim, Alireza Borghei, John E. O'Toole, Richard G. Fessler

“…Using T2-weighted MRI, we measured total muscular volume of the psoas major, erector spinae, and multifidus muscles. We used the threshold method to determine fatty infiltration as percent fat area (PFA) along the length of these scanned regions, encompassing the final surgical construct. …”
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Valgus-related Elbow Pathology Is Not Associated With Decreased Baumann’s Angle: A Case-control Study by Nicolas Pascual-Leone, MD, Olivia C. Tracey, BA, Ruth H. Jones, BS, Nnaoma Oji, MD, Douglas N. Mintz, MD, Peter D. Fabricant, MD, MPH

“…A two-tailed significance threshold was set as P ​≤ ​.05. Results: A total of 72 matched patients were included (24 MEFx, 24 OCD, and 24 controls). …”
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A randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of trans-tympanic injections of a sodium thiosulfate gel to prevent cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in patients with head and neck... by Viannique Rolland, François Meyer, Matthieu J. Guitton, Richard Bussières, Daniel Philippon, Isabelle Bairati, Mathieu Leclerc, Mathieu Côté

“…For the main outcome, the permanent threshold shift (PTS) in decibel (dB) was calculated as the difference between the final and baseline measures at all pure tone frequencies at 0.5–14 kHz for each patient and for each ear. …”
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Reliability and responsiveness of the D12 and validity of its scores as a measure of dyspnoea severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial lung disease by Jeffrey J Swigris, Sonye Danoff, Paul F Dellaripa, Joshua J Solomon, Tracy J Doyle

“…Known-groups validity was supported by significant differences between subgroups of patients with differing levels of dyspnoea (eg, St. …”
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Relationship between atherogenic index of plasma and valvular calcification in elderly patients with degenerative valvular heart disease by Qu Yinghao, Liu Mingliang, Guo Xiaozhuo, Yu Yiming, Dong Jianjun, Li Feng

“…[Results] Fasting blood glucose, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and plasma-induced arteriosclerosis index in the calcification group were higher than those in the non-calcification group, triglyceride was lower than that in the non-calcification group, and the differences had statistical significance (P<0.05); there was no significant difference in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol between the two groups (P>0.05). …”
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Immediate effects of high-intensity laser therapy for nonspecific neck pain: a double-blind randomized controlled trial by Yuhua Xie, Yuhua Xie, Yingxiu Diao, Dongyu Wu, Manxia Liao, Linrong Liao, Linrong Liao, Linrong Liao

“…Upon initial comparison, no significant differences (p &gt; 0.05) were observed between the two groups. …”
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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

“…It might be that if patients have both CHD and asthma they do not reach an ischemic threshold because of dyspnoea due to a respiratory failure.The conclusion. …”
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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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Feature Point Extraction from the Local Frequency Map of an Image by Jesmin Khan, Sharif Bhuiyan, Reza Adhami

“…Moreover, in terms of repeatability rate; the results show that the performance of the proposed method with respect to different aspect is compatible with the existing methods.…”
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Study on the influence of gear pair operating parameters on heat transfer characteristics of lubrication systems and global sensitivity analysis by Yankun Hou, Yaguo Lyu, Jiaolei Tian, Zhengang Liu

“…A cooling benefit is proposed as a quantitative indicator, and by defining the rate of temperature change resulting from flow variation, a parameter sensitivity threshold decision mechanism is established. This mechanism balances the supply-scavenge oil temperature difference and heat generation power from the perspective of the lubrication system. …”
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Altered albumin/neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio are associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality for advanced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome by Xiaoshuang Yin, Jinmei Zou, Jing Yang

“…This method identifies the optimal cutoff for continuous variables where the difference in survival rates is most pronounced, making it particularly well-suited for analyzing time-to-event data, such as survival outcomes. …”
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Abstract 149: Metabolic Neuroimaging in the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk: A Regional FDG‐PET Analysis by Robert C. Subtirelu, Eric M. Teichner, Yvonne Su, Thomas Werner, Abass Alavi, Poul Flemming Høilund‐Carlsen, Mona‐Elisabeth Revheim

“…An independent samples t‐test was used to assess the differences in z‐scores between controls and at‐risk subjects. …”
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Maternal and placental microbiome and immune crosstalk in pregnancies with small-for-gestational-age fetuses – a pilot case-control study by Katarzyna Kosińska-Kaczyńska, Dominika Krawczyk, Martyna Bednorz, Katarzyna Chaberek, Agnieszka Czapska, Magdalena Zgliczyńska, Magdalena Zgliczyńska, Krzysztof Goryca, Krzysztof Goryca, Magdalena Piątkowska, Aneta Bałabas, Paweł Czarnowski, Natalia Żeber-Lubecka, Natalia Żeber-Lubecka

“…No taxa remained significant after correction in samples from fetal side, but several taxa showed trends of differing abundance. Veillonella showed a trend toward higher abundance in stool samples in SGA group, while other taxa were significant only at a lower threshold. …”
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Consciousness Disorders after Elective Surgery in Patients with Cerebrovascular Insufficiency by V. V. Likhvantsev, Yu. V. Ilyin, E. A. Shmeleva, M. P. Danilov, Yu. V. Skripkin, O. A. Grebenchikov

“…When they occur, there is an increased risk of postoperative cognitive impairments, including long-term problems. The above-threshold S100b protein concentration of 0.26 ng/mg is an early predictor of postoperative cognitive disorders.…”
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Persistent influence of past obesity on current adiponectin levels and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes by Min-Ji Kim, Sung-Woo Kim, Bitna Ha, Hyang Sook Kim, So-Hee Kwon, Jonghwa Jin, Yeon-Kyung Choi, Keun-Gyu Park, Jung Guk Kim, In-Kyu Lee, Jae-Han Jeon

“…Based on past and current BMIs, participants were categorized into never-obese (nn, n = 106), previously obese (on, n = 43), and persistently obese (oo, n = 73) groups based on a BMI threshold of 25 kg/m2. Adiponectin level and BMI were key variables. …”
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Higher Serum Neuropeptide Y Levels Are Associated with Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity in Obese Chinese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Hao-Neng Tang, Fen Xiao, Ya-Ru Chen, Si-Qi Zhuang, Yue Guo, Hui-Xuan Wu, Hou-De Zhou

“…Serum NPY levels were significantly elevated in the MUO group compared with the MHO group ((667.69±292.90) pg/mL vs. (478.89±145.53) pg/mL, p<0.001). A threshold and nonlinear association between serum NPY levels and MUO was found (p=0.001). …”
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Automatic Adaptive Algorithm for Delineation of Cerebral-Spinal Fluid Regions for Non-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Volumetry and Cisternography in Mice by Ryszard Gomolka

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an invaluable method of choice for anatomical and functional in vivo imaging of the brain. …”
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Oil and gas enrichment mechanisms and key exploration technologies in deep layers of Subei Basin by ZHU Xiangyu, YU Wenquan, ZHANG Jianwei, LI Chuhua, LI Heyong

“…Based on the distinction between sandstone and mudstone, this suite included six techniques for reservoir prediction: effective reservoir modeling based on petrophysical analysis, post-stack multi-parameter inversion constraint method, pre-stack and post-stack joint inversion method, seismic attribute threshold analysis method, seismic multi-attribute neural network prediction method, and SP curve reconstruction for acoustic curve. …”
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A combined radiomics and clinical model for preoperative differentiation of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic bile duct stones with cholangitis: a machine learning a... by Hongwei Qian, Hongwei Qian, Yanhua Huang, Yuxing Dong, Luohang Xu, Ruanchang Chen, Fangzheng Zhou, Difan Zhou, Difan Zhou, Jianhua Yu, Jianhua Yu, Baochun Lu, Baochun Lu

“…Radiomics features were extracted from ultrasound images, and clinical variables with significant differences between groups were identified. Feature selection was performed using LASSO regression and recursive feature elimination (RFE). …”
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