Comparison Between Titanium and Thermally Activated Prostheses in Stapes Surgery by Mila Vasiljević, Klara Dragović, Petra Povalej Bržan, Janez Rebol

“…Audiometric evaluations revealed no statistically significant differences in bone conduction thresholds on the first postoperative day (<i>p</i> = 0.275) or at six weeks (<i>p</i> = 0.899), postoperative air-bone gap (<i>p</i> = 0.810), air-bone gap closure (<i>p</i> = 0.489), overclosure (<i>p</i> = 0.436), or bone conduction at 4 kHz (<i>p</i> = 0.324). …”
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Sequence-to-pattern analysis for predicting buying decisions on imbalanced clickstream data by Nur Adlina Marini Binti Amir Suharman, Amy Hui-Lan Lim, Hui-Ngo Goh

“…Preprocessed imbalanced clickstream data with various ratios of buyer and non-buyer groups, namely 4:96, 3:97, 2:98, and 1:99, were prepared by adjusting the thresholds for the similarity score, and their prediction performance was observed. …”
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Uncertainty evaluation and model optimization in multi-source reservoir modeling by Pingshan Ma, Chengyan Lin, Haocheng liu, Shaohua Li, Shun Wang

“…Finally, combining the Monte Carlo random simulation method, the distribution of cumulative probability reserves is obtained, and the 3P reserves of the study area are predicted to test the effectiveness of the multivariate regression model.…”
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Next-generation sequencing and drug resistance mutations of HIV-1 subtypes in people living with HIV in Sicily, Italy, 2021–2023 by Luca Pipitò, Marcello Trizzino, Chiara Mascarella, Sara Cannella, Roberta Gaudiano, Irene Ganci, Gaetano D'Alessandro, Benedetta Romanin, Maria Mercedes Santoro, Giovanni M. Giammanco, Antonio Cascio, Celestino Bonura

“…Mutations were detected by testing different NGS frequency cut-offs: ≥5 %, ≥10 %, and ≥20 %. …”
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Climate adaptive energy efficiency modeling using a generalized additive approach to optimize building performance across Chinese climate zones by Jian Yang, Mu He, Xingzhu Zhang, Qimeng Ning, Yu Chen, Maryam Alsadat Ziaei Mazinan

“…Research suggests a new method to M&V EEM using generalized additive models (GAM) to provide a way to measure how EEMs perform across different commercial buildings (i.e., offices, mixed-use developments, and healthcare). …”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…Each session for both cgiTBS (80% motor threshold) and rTMS (120% motor threshold) lasted approximately 37.5 minutes in total for the purposes of blinding participants and assessors of outcome. …”
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Can Restoring Tidal Wetlands Reduce Estuarine Nuisance Flooding of Coasts Under Future Sea‐Level Rise? by M. W. Brand, H. L. Diefenderfer, C. E. Cornu, M. A. McKeon, C. N. Janousek, A. B. Borde, T. D. Souza, M. E. Keogh, C. A. Brown, S. D. Bridgham

“…The harmonic constituents are used to generate water surface elevations over a time period of interest (e.g., one year) and compared to critical exceedance thresholds such as levee elevations. Then, changes to nuisance flooding are calculated by counting the number of hours critical thresholds are exceeded under different SLR and wetland restoration scenarios. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression in adults: LQD a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Zohra Zenasni, Kimberley Goldsmith, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee, Anthony J Cleare

“…For the QIDS-SR outcome, simulation and the non-central chi-squared method provided a value of 96.5% power to detect an effect size of 0.38 (a minimum clinically significant difference between treatments), with 40% occasion-wise nonresponse assumed. …”
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Preclinical gout is common in the patient with stage 3–5 chronic kidney disease. Relevance of musculoskeletal ultrasound by Enrique Calvo-Aranda, Laura Barrio Nogal, Boris Anthony Blanco Caceres, Diana Peiteado, Marta Novella-Navarro, Eugenio De Miguel, Jaime Arroyo Palomo, Roberto Alcázar Arroyo, Juan Antonio Martín Navarro, Milagros Fernandez Lucas, Martha Elizabeth Diaz Dominguez, Marco Antonio Vaca Gallardo, Elda Besada Estevez, Leticia Lojo Oliveira

“…Objectives: To assess the prevalence of urate deposit in stages 3–5 CKD detected by US, and to investigate if there are differences between AH and NU patients. Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study, recruiting patients aged ≥18 years with AH and stages 3–5 CKD in 4 hospitals. …”
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Evaluation of Strength Model Under Deep Formations with High Temperature and High Pressure by Fei Gao, Yan Zhang, Yuelong Liu, Hui Zhang

“…Based on the least absolute deviation method, this paper studies the response characteristics of rock strength at different temperatures and evaluates the prediction performance of six commonly used strength criteria under various temperature and stress environments. …”
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XYZ Ruby Code: Making a Case for a Three-Colored Graphical Calculus for Quantum Error Correction in Spacetime by Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente, Josias Old, Alex Townsend-Teague, Manuel Rispler, Jens Eisert, Markus Müller

“…Pauli flows allow for a graphical understanding of all quantities entering an error-correction analysis of a circuit, including different types of QEC experiments, such as memory and stability experiments. …”
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Machine Learning Detection of Melting Layers From Radar Observations by Yan Xie, Fraser King, Claire Pettersen, Mark Flanner

“…Traditional detection algorithms based on fixed thresholds or a priori assumptions lack general robustness across diverse weather conditions, which can be addressed by leveraging machine learning techniques. …”
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Presaccadic attentional shifts are not modulated by saccade amplitude by Luan Zimmermann Bortoluzzi, Estêvão Carlos-Lima, Gabriela Mueller de Melo, Melissa Hongjin Song Zhu, Gustavo Rohenkohl

“…Here, we measured contrast sensitivity thresholds during saccade planning in a two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) discrimination task in human observers. …”
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Association of Blood Donor-derived Cell-free DNA Levels With Banff Scores and Histopathological Lesions in Kidney Allograft Biopsies: Results From an Observational Study by Aylin Akifova, MD, Klemens Budde, MD, Mira Choi, MD, Kerstin Amann, MD, Maike Buettner-Herold, MD, Michael Oellerich, MD, Julia Beck, PhD, Kirsten Bornemann-Kolatzki, PhD, Ekkehard Schütz, PhD, Friederike Bachmann, MD, Fabian Halleck, MD, Eva V. Schrezenmeier, MD, Evelyn Seelow, MD, Bianca Zukunft, MD, Charlotte Hammett, MD, Nathan A. Pohl, Benedetta Mordà, MD, Jan Kowald, MD, Nils Lachmann, Diana Stauch, Bilgin Osmanodja, MD

“…To evaluate the association between dd-cfDNA and different histological patterns, we correlated absolute and relative dd-cfDNA (thresholds of 50 copies/mL and 0.5%, respectively) with the Banff 2022 lesion scores and the assigned diagnoses. …”
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Ground Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds in Structured and Unstructured Environments Using a Hybrid Neural–Geometric Approach by Antonio Santo, Enrique Heredia, Carlos Viegas, David Valiente, Arturo Gil

“…Evaluated in structured (SemanticKITTI) and unstructured (Rellis-3D) environments, two different versions of the proposed method are studied, including a purely geometric method and a hybrid approach that exploits deep learning techniques. …”
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Automatic Analysis of Ultrasound Images to Estimate Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat and Muscle Tissue in Patients with Suspected Malnutrition by Antonio Cuesta-Vargas, José María Arjona-Caballero, Gabriel Olveira, Daniel de Luis Román, Diego Bellido-Guerrero, Jose Manuel García-Almeida

“…Unlike traditional segmentation methods that rely solely on thresholding or pre-defined masks, our method employs an iterative hierarchical approach to refine contour detection and improve localization accuracy. …”
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Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index, Underweight and Obesity among English Children, 2007-2008 to 2011-2012. by James White, David Rehkopf, Laust Hvas Mortensen

“…Inequalities in the prevalence of underweight did not change. Traditional methods of examining inequalities only at the clinical thresholds of overweight and obesity may have led the magnitude of inequalities in childhood BMI to be underestimated.…”
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Valuing health across groups: a cross-sectional population-based willingness-to-pay survey in Bhutan by Yot Teerawattananon, Ryota Nakamura, Ying Yao, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Pempa

“…Introduction Context-specific cost-effectiveness thresholds (CETs) informed by societal willingness to pay (WTP) are crucial for healthcare resource allocation in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Development of automatic organ segmentation based on positron-emission tomography analysis system using Swin UNETR in breast cancer patients in Korea by Dong Hyeok Choi, Joonil Hwang, Hai-Jeon Yoon, So Hyun Ahn

“…Comparison of maximum SUV and mean SUV values from our automated segmentation with those from traditional single‐ROI methods revealed differences of 0.19 and 0.16, respectively, demonstrating improved reliability and accuracy in whole‐organ SUV analysis. …”
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Combined Use of Multiple Cloud‐Free Snow Cover Products in China and Its High‐Mountain Region: Implications From Snow Cover Identification to Snow Phenology Detection by Longhui Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Xueyan Sun, Lun Luo

“…Our findings highlight the prime influence of retrieval algorithms under clear‐sky conditions on accuracy, surpassing the importance of cloud‐gap‐filling methods. Specifically, a product optimizing normalized difference snow index thresholds for diverse landcover types consistently outperforms others in detecting all three snow phenology parameters, with correlation coefficients for SCD of 0.82 and 0.69, and CWR values for SSD of 0.54 and 0.40, and for SED of 0.53 and 0.37 in both China and the TP, respectively. …”
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