Evidence from high‐income countries on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to improve mental health, wellbeing and quality of life for adults living with HIV: a systema... by Ada R. Miltz, Janey Sewell, Fumiyo Nakagawa, Sophia M. Rein, Lorraine Sherr, Alison Rodger, Andrew N. Phillips, Sanne vanLuenen, Nadia Garnefski, Vivian Kraaij, Colette J. Smith, Valentina Cambiano, Fiona C. Lampe

“…A systematic review and meta‐analysis was conducted to address this research gap. Methods Medline, Embase, Psychinfo and Web of science were searched (from 2008 to December 2023). …”
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Bariatric surgery for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus requiring insulin: Clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness analyses. by Emma Rose McGlone, Iain Carey, Vladica Veličković, Prem Chana, Kamal Mahawar, Rachel L Batterham, James Hopkins, Peter Walton, Robin Kinsman, James Byrne, Shaw Somers, David Kerrigan, Vinod Menon, Cynthia Borg, Ahmed Ahmed, Bruno Sgromo, Chandra Cheruvu, Gul Bano, Catherine Leonard, Howard Thom, Carel W le Roux, Marcus Reddy, Richard Welbourn, Peter Small, Omar A Khan

“…Over 5 years, bariatric surgery was cost saving compared to BMT (total cost GBP£22,057 versus GBP£26,286 respectively, incremental difference GBP£4,229). This was due to lower treatment costs as well as reduced diabetes-related complications costs and increased health benefits. …”
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Accuracy of a 2-minute eye-tracking assessment to differentiate young children with and without autism by Kristelle Hudry, Lacey Chetcuti, Diana Weiting Tan, Alena Clark, Alexandra Aulich, Catherine A. Bent, Cherie C. Green, Jodie Smith, Kathryn Fordyce, Masaru Ninomiya, Atsushi Saito, Shuji Hakoshima, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse

“…Limitations Our groups differed on socio-demographic characteristics and overall tracking (included within the Classification Algorithm). …”
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Mechanical response analysis of asphalt pavement considering top-down crack based on FDM-DEM coupling simulation by Min Wang, Xin Yu, Chen Chen

“…A coupled simulation model integrating the finite difference method (FDM) and discrete element method (DEM) was employed to investigate the mechanical behavior of asphalt pavement containing a pre-existing TD crack. …”
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Assessment of Internal Jugular Vein Size in Healthy Subjects with Magnetic Resonance and Semiautomatic Processing by M. M. Laganà, L. Pelizzari, E. Scaccianoce, O. Dipasquale, C. Ricci, F. Baglio, P. Cecconi, G. Baselli

“…This study proposed a reliable semiautomatic method able to measure the IJV area and shape along C1–C7, and suitable for defining the normality thresholds for future clinical studies.…”
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Digital innovation in healthcare: quantifying the impact of digital sepsis screening tools on patient outcomes—a multi-site natural experiment by Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Graham Cooke, Anthony C Gordon, Anthony Gordon, Shashank Patil, Runa Lazzarino, Andrew Brent, Kate Honeyford, Céire E Costelloe, Anne Kinderlerer, John Welch, Peter Ghazal, Claire Burnett, Alf Timney, Andrew Jonathan Brent, Cerie Costelloe, Pippa Goodman Ben Glampson

“…We evaluated the impact of sepsis screening tools on in-patient 30-day mortality across four multi-hospital NHS Trusts, each using a different algorithm for early detection of sepsis.Methods Using quasi-experimental methods, we investigated the impact of the screening tools. …”
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Alignment Parameters: Quantifying Dense Core Alignment in Star-forming Regions by Wei-An Chen, Ya-Wen Tang, S. D. Clarke, Patricio Sanhueza

“…A threshold value is then proposed to differentiate between “clustered” and “aligned” categories. …”
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Determination of high-confidence germline genetic variants in next-generation sequencing through machine learning models: an approach to reduce the burden of orthogonal confirmatio... by Muqing Yan, Qiandong Zeng, Zhenxi Zhang, Patricia Okamoto, Stanley Letovsky, Angela Kenyon, Natalia Leach, Jennifer Reiner

“…Laboratories interested in deploying such models should consider incorporating additional quality criteria and thresholds to serve as guardrails in the assessment process.…”
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Flood Depth Estimation in Agricultural Lands From L and C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Images and Digital Elevation Model by Samvedya Surampudi, Vijay Kumar

“…Depth estimation from non-contact based methods requires, flood boundary as a primary input. …”
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Outcomes for efavirenz versus nevirapine-containing regimens for treatment of HIV-1 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Prinitha Pillay, Nathan Ford, Zara Shubber, Rashida A Ferrand

“…Sensitivity analyses explored the potential influence of different dosages of NVP and different viral load thresholds.…”
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A parsimonious model for classifying the traffic state of urban road networks: A two-stage regression approach by Wei Huang, Dalin Tang, Xin Qiao, Guojun Chen

“…Existing methods usually assume a given number of state categories, which is not flexible if real applications are required to define different state levels. …”
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Validity and reliability of the XSENSOR in-shoe pressure measurement system. by Daniel Parker, Jennifer Andrews, Carina Price

“…Their validity and reliability across different pressures, durations of load and contact areas determine their appropriateness to address different research questions or clinical assessments. …”
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GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…Experimental results on the LINEMOD and Occlusion LINEMOD datasets indicate that our proposed method is highly competitive with state-of-the-art approaches, achieving 96.54% and 49.35% accuracy, respectively, utilizing the ADD-S metric with a 0.10d threshold.…”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for interpreting predictive models and key variables in flood susceptibility by Bahram Choubin, Abolfazl Jaafari, Jalal Henareh, Omid Karimi, Farzaneh Sajedi Hosseini

“…Variables like land use, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), aspect, lithology, and curvature had less impact, while soil order showed minimal influence. …”
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Predicting vector distribution in Europe: at what sample size are species distribution models reliable? by Lianne Mitchel, Lianne Mitchel, Guy Hendrickx, Ewan T. MacLeod, Cedric Marsboom, Cedric Marsboom

“…However, the field lacks standardisation with little consensus as to what sample size produces reliable models.ObjectiveDetermine the optimum sample size for models developed with the machine learning algorithm, Random Forest, and different sample ratios.Materials and methodsTo overcome limitations with real vector data, a simulated vector with a fully known distribution in 10 test sites across Europe was used to randomly generate different samples sizes. …”
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A Physics-Guided Neural Network for Flooding Area Detection Using SAR Imagery and Local River Gauge Observations by Monika Gierszewska, Tomasz Berezowski

“…Additionally, we compared the results with other unsupervised methods, such as Otsu thresholding, Chan-Vese segmentation, Gaussian mixture model, and spectral clustering. …”
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Automated Quality Control of Cleaning Processes in Automotive Components Using Blob Analysis by Simone Mari, Giovanni Bucci, Fabrizio Ciancetta, Edoardo Fiorucci, Andrea Fioravanti

“…The system acquires high-resolution monochrome images under various lighting configurations, including natural light and infrared (IR) at 850 nm and 940 nm, with different angles of incidence. Four blob detection algorithms—adaptive thresholding, Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG), Difference of Gaussians (DoG), and Determinant of Hessian (DoH)—were implemented and evaluated based on their ability to detect surface impurities. …”
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Is the outcome of fitting hearing aids to adults affected by whether an audiogram-based prescription formula is individually applied? A systematic review protocol by Kevin J Munro, Ibrahim Almufarrij, Harvey Dillon

“…Introduction Hearing aids are typically programmed using the individual’s audiometric thresholds. Developments in technology have resulted in a new category of direct-to-consumer devices, which are not programmed using the individual’s audiometric thresholds. …”
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Do patient-reported outcome scores better identify outlier surgical practice compared with revision rates for total knee arthroplasty? by Morgan C H Lingard, Christopher M A Frampton, Gary J Hooper

“…Funnel plot control limits identified similar numbers of outliers for 6-month Oxford score and revision rate, however, there here was minimal overlap in outliers identified using the 2 methods. There was also minimal overlap in outliers using centile thresholds. …”
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Validity and score interpretation of the 12-item Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease: an analysis of pooled data from two phase 3 trials of bimekizumab in patients with psoriatic... by Laure Gossec, Ana-Maria Orbai, Maarten de Wit, Dafna D Gladman, Laura C Coates, Alexis Ogdie, Vanessa Taieb, Jeremy Lambert, Barbara Ink, Christopher G Pelligra, Valérie Ciaravino

“…Objectives To investigate psychometric performance of the 12-item Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID-12) total and individual item scores in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and to estimate score change thresholds and scores corresponding to different levels of symptom/impact severity.Methods Data up to week 16 from 1252 patients with active PsA enrolled in two randomised controlled trials of bimekizumab (BE OPTIMAL (NCT03895203) and BE COMPLETE (NCT03896581)) were used to assess construct validity (correlations with other patient-reported outcomes), known-groups validity (based on Minimal Disease Activity index, Disease Activity Index for Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity Score), reliability (Cronbach’s alpha and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs)) and responsiveness (sensitivity to change). …”
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