Migration characteristics of landslide considering particle morphology by Changyu HAN, Wenchao CHEN, Min ZHANG, Li JIN, Zhe WANG, Zhenxing YANG

“…The results show that, in respect of engineering scale landslide, particle size scaling presents a threshold of impact on slope safety factor prediction. …”
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Developing a real-time hand-gesture recognition technique for wheelchair control. by Md Rafiul Huda, Md Liakot Ali, Muhammad Sheikh Sadi

“…The proposed method offers more users' flexibility through less hand movement in operation of the wheelchair. …”
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Segmentation of Endothelial Cell Boundaries of Rabbit Aortic Images Using a Machine Learning Approach by Saadia Iftikhar, Andrew R. Bond, Asim I. Wagan, Peter D. Weinberg, Anil A. Bharath

“…This segmentation approach is compared, using hand-labelled data, to a number of standard segmentation/thresholding methods commonly applied in microscopy. …”
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Systematic review of the performance of rapid rifampicin resistance testing for drug-resistant tuberculosis. by Matthew Arentz, Bess Sorensen, David J Horne, Judd L Walson

“…Predictive values of the tests were determined at different prevalence rates of rifampicin resistance and MDR-TB.…”
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Distribution of interscan measurement error in AI-based 3D MRI analysis of knee cartilage thickness in osteoarthritis. by Hisako Katano, Eiji Sasaki, Kanto Nagai, Naofumi Hashiguchi, Haruka Kaneko, Yasuyuki Ishibashi, Ryosuke Kuroda, Nobuo Adachi, Muneaki Ishijima, Makoto Tomita, Jun Masumoto, Ichiro Sekiya

“…The entire cohort (KL1-4) showed errors ≤0.05 mm, ≤ 0.10 mm, and ≤0.20 mm in 37%, 67%, and 93% of measurements. Differences between KL1-2 and KL3-4 groups were significant for all thresholds.…”
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High Pollution Loadings Influence the Reliability of Himawari-8 Cloud-Mask in Comparison with Space-Based Lidar and Surface Observations by Wei Wang, Pengfei Tong, Huihui Feng, Weiwei Xu

“…Cloud identification methods of passive sensors are usually on the basis of different thresholds at different wavelengths. …”
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Association between late pregnancy A/G ratio and the risk of neonatal admission for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia by Hongjuan Wei, Xin Chang, Rufeng Ji, Yinyan Tang

“…Conclusion Late pregnancy A/G ratio is closely associated with the risk of admission for NHB. A/G ratio within different ranges affects the risk of NHB in varying directions and to different extents. …”
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Development and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Stages of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients by Nam Nguyen-Hoang, Wenbo Zhang, Jacqueline Koeze, Harold Snieder, Eric Keus, Gerton Lunter

“…This study aimed to develop and internally validate the first clinical prediction model for different stages of AKI in critically ill adults. Methods: We utilized data from the Simple Intensive Care Studies II (SICS-II), a prospective cohort study at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. …”
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Correlations between insertional Achilles tendinopathy and haglund’s deformity: MRI and radiographic findings by Shih-Chieh Tang, Han-Ting Shih, Yu-Hsien Wu, Shun-Ping Wang

“…Five different radiographic parameters for diagnosing Haglund’s deformity were measured. …”
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Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Healthy Activity Programme, a brief psychological treatment for depression delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-mo... by Benedict Weobong, Helen A Weiss, David McDaid, Daisy R Singla, Steven D Hollon, Abhijit Nadkarni, A-La Park, Bhargav Bhat, Basavraj Katti, Arpita Anand, Sona Dimidjian, Ricardo Araya, Michael King, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, G Terence Wilson, Richard Velleman, Betty R Kirkwood, Christopher G Fairburn, Vikram Patel

“…HAP plus EUC also had a marginal effect on WHO Disability Assessment Schedule score at 12 months (aPR = -1.58; 95% CI -3.33, 0.17; p = 0.08); other outcomes (days unable to work, intimate partner violence toward females) did not statistically significantly differ between the two arms. Economic analyses indicated that HAP plus EUC was dominant over EUC alone, with lower costs and better outcomes; uncertainty analysis showed that from this health system perspective there was a 95% chance of HAP being cost-effective, given a willingness to pay threshold of Intl$16,060-equivalent to GDP per capita in Goa-per quality-adjusted life year gained. …”
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Correlation study and full management of metabolic syndrome and sperm DNA fragmentation index, a regional multicentre prospective long term follow-up study from Anhui, China by Dongsheng Ma, Jianhong Xi

“…Spearman rank correlation coefficient was used for correlation analysis, segmented package for threshold analysis, Bootstrap sampling method and Bayesian method for mediation effect test analysis. …”
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Assessing racial disparities in healthcare expenditure using generalized propensity score weighting by Jiajun Liu, Yi Liu, Yunji Zhou, Roland A. Matsouaka

“…Furthermore, we leverage modern propensity score weighting techniques to address the challenges inherent to multiple group evaluations, such as violations of the positivity assumption, and compare the performance of different propensity score weights. Methods We use generalized propensity score methods to assess racial disparities across 4 specific racial or ethnic groups: Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Apnea, Myocardial Infarct Size, and Coronary Collaterals in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Multidisciplinary Study by Kundel V, Devarakonda K, Khan S, Suarez-Farinas M, Cohen O, Santos-Gallego C, Menegus MA, Kini A, Vengrenyuk Y, Okamoto N, Ueda H, Gidwani U, Kizer JR, Redline S, Kaplan R, Shah N

“…Rentrop Score quantified coronary collateralization (scores 0– 3, higher scores indicating augmented collaterals). Group differences in Rentrop grade and infarct size were compared using the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test and Fisher’s Exact test as appropriate, with a significance threshold set at p < 0.05.Results: Among 33 adults, mean age was 54.4± 11.5 and mean BMI was 28.4± 5.9. 8 patients (24%) had no SA, and 25 (76%) had SA (mild n=10, moderate n=8, severe n=7). 66% (n=22) underwent CMR, and all patients had Rentrop scores. …”
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SCM-DL: Split-Combine-Merge Deep Learning Model Integrated With Feature Selection in Sports for Talent Identification by Didem Abidin, Muhammed G. Erdem

“…In this stage, a remarkable performance was obtained with 98.85%. In TID2, nine different feature selection methods (four RFE-related methods, three SelectKBest-related methods, and Lasso and Boruta) are applied to reduce the number of features. …”
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Revisiting hemodynamic definition: Incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following acute intermediate-high and high-risk pulmonary embolism by Bárbara Lacerda Teixeira, André Grazina, Ricardo Carvalheiro, Tiago Mendonça, Tiago Pereira da Silva, António Fiarresga, Ruben Ramos, Duarte Cacela, João Reis, Ana Galrinho, Luís Almeida Morais, Rui Cruz Ferreira

“…Background: The hemodynamic definition of pulmonary hypertension (PH) was updated, lowering the mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) threshold to 20 mmHg and the pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) to 2 Wood units. …”
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Adjuvant systemic therapy in early breast cancer and results of a prospective observational multicenter BRIDE study: patients outcome and adherence to guidelines in cancer clinical... by Stefania Gori, Alessandra Fabi, Catia Angiolini, Monica Turazza, Piermario Salvini, Piermario Salvini, Gianluigi Ferretti, Elisabetta Cretella, Lorenzo Gianni, Claudia Bighin, Angela Toss, Angela Toss, Claudio Zamagni, Patrizia Vici, Costanza De Rossi, Antonio Russo, Giancarlo Bisagni, Alessio Schirone, Lucia Borgato, Anna Cariello, Claudia Cappelletti, Roberto Bordonaro, Saverio Cinieri, Alessandra Modena, Matteo Valerio, Maria Francesca Alvisi, Irene De Simone, Francesca Galli, Eliana Rulli, Anna Santoni, Matteo Verzè, Fabrizio Nicolis

“…IntroductionEvaluation of every breast cancer (BC) patient by multidisciplinary team and application of guidelines are very important to ensure the best treatment and achieve the best outcome.MethodsThe multicenter prospective observational BRIDE study enrolled, from 01/2018 to 02/2021, 1633 BC patients from 19 Italian cancer centers. …”
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STRAIN LOCALIZATION PECULIARITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN ROCK SAMPLES TESTED BY UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION AND EXPOSED TO ELECTRIC PULSES by V. A. Mubassarova, L. M. Bogomolov, A. S. Zakupin, I. A. Panteleev, O. B. Naimark

“…It is noted that for the logarithmic graphs of distribution by energy, angular coefficients (b-factors) are somewhat different in the period of electric impact and in no-impact periods, which shows that the ratio of AE signals with higher energy indicators is increased in case of external impacts. …”
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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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Cost-effectiveness of bioimpedance-guided fluid management in patients undergoing haemodialysis: the BISTRO RCT by Mandana Zanganeh, John Belcher, James Fotheringham, David Coyle, Elizabeth J Lindley, David F Keane, Fergus J Caskey, Indranil Dasgupta, Andrew Davenport, Ken Farrington, Sandip Mitra, Paula Ormandy, Martin Wilkie, Jamie H Macdonald, Ivonne Solis-Trapala, Julius Sim, Simon J Davies, Lazaros Andronis

“…Sensitivity analyses explored the impact of different scenarios, sources of resource use data and value sets. …”
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Artificial intelligence contouring in radiotherapy for organs-at-risk and lymph node areas by Céline Meyer, Sandrine Huger, Marie Bruand, Thomas Leroy, Jérémy Palisson, Paul Rétif, Thomas Sarrade, Anais Barateau, Sophie Renard, Maria Jolnerovski, Nicolas Demogeot, Johann Marcel, Nicolas Martz, Anaïs Stefani, Selima Sellami, Juliette Jacques, Emma Agnoux, William Gehin, Ida Trampetti, Agathe Margulies, Constance Golfier, Yassir Khattabi, Olivier Cravéreau, Alizée Renan, Jean-François Py, Jean-Christophe Faivre

“…The comparative analysis of the technical aspects highlights the similarities and differences between the software. There is no difference in between senior radiation oncologist and residents for OARs contouring. …”
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