Trace Elements and Heavy Metal Contents in West Algerian Natural Honey by Dalila Bereksi-Reguig, Salim Bouchentouf, Hocine Allali, Agnieszka Adamczuk, Grażyna Kowalska, Radosław Kowalski

“…The results showed that the analyses of mineral content were sufficient to determine the floral origin and their variability may be related to geochemical and geographical differences. On other hand, all elements detected were at levels below safe thresholds.…”
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Automated analysis of photoelectron yield spectroscopy spectra interpreted via power laws by Shinjiro Yagyu, Michiko Yoshitake, Takahiro Nagata, Takeshi Yasuda, Takatsugu Wakahara, Yubin Liu, Yoshiyuki Nakajima

“…We propose an automated method for threshold analysis in photoelectron yield spectroscopy (PYS), a technique used for measuring the ionization energy of inorganic and organic semiconductors. …”
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The rationality of the punishment ladder: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China by Ke Jiang, Fang Wang

“…Specifically, this research employs methods such as regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that after a judicial interpretation in 2017 defined the amount of information corresponding to different circumstances surrounding this crime, a significant discontinuity pertaining to fixed-term imprisonment sentences emerged at the threshold of the amount of information. …”
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齿轮图像分析中的二值化处理 by 张庆英, 岳卫宏, 江霞, 肖维红

“…Combining the methods of Full-scale Optimal Threshold and the Local Dynamic Threshold in different proportions, strengthening the fringe of the image by means of Laplacian factor, are proved available to get a better result of image processing.…”
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Water Level Variation Monitoring in East Lake, Wuhan Based on Satellite Altimetry by LIU Huo-sheng, WANG Hai-hong, YU Qian-hui, LU Liang, QIN Peng-cheng, LIU Yi-bing

“…In addition to the original range observations and ICE-retracked ranges provided by SGDR products, this study applied the Offset Center of Gravity (OCOG) and threshold methods for waveform retracking. Among them, the threshold retracking method selected eight threshold levels ranging from 20% to 90% (in 10% increments) to analyze the retracking performance under different thresholds. …”
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Photon-counting CT for bullet material differentiation: applications in forensic radiology by Benedikt M. Schaarschmidt, Jan Hegmanns, Jörg Wulff, Viktor Haase, Sebastian Faby, Felix Baum, Christian Bäumer, Sebastian Zensen, Johannes Haubold, Benno Hartung

“…Conclusion In this PCCT phantom study, significant differences were observed between lead and brass bullets in the different energy threshold images. …”
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Fast QTMT partition decision based on deep learning by Shuang PENG, Xiaodong WANG, Zongju PENG, Fen CHEN

“…Compared with the predecessor standards, versatile video coding (VVC) significantly improves compression efficiency by a quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) structure but at the expense of extremely high coding complexity.To reduce the coding complexity of VVC, a fast QTMT partition method was proposed based on deep learning.Firstly, an attention-asymmetric convolutional neural network was proposed to predict the probability of partition modes.Then, the fast decision of partition modes based on the threshold was proposed.Finally, the cost of coding performance and time was proposed to obtain the optimal threshold, and the threshold decision method was proposed.Experimental results at different levels show that the proposed method achieves an average time saving of 48.62%/52.93%/62.01% with the negligible BDBR of 1.05%/1.33%/2.38%.Such results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Dynamic identification of snow phenology in the Northern Hemisphere by L. Wang, X. Miao, X. Hu, Y. Li, B. Qiu, J. Ge, W. Guo

“…Previous studies commonly employed fixed-threshold methods to extract snow phenology, which cannot represent the differences in the beginning and/or end of the snow period under different snow conditions in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to potential uncertainties in terms of snow phenology. …”
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Strategies to accelerate cervical cancer elimination in Greece: a modeling study by Cody Palmer, Anastasios Skroumpelos, Ugne Sabale, Ilias Gountas, Georgios Trimis, Antonis Karokis, Theodoros Agorastos

“…When HPV DNA-based methods replaced Pap tests at the same rate and HPV vaccination coverage levels, the WHO threshold was reached by 2061. …”
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Representative Elementary Volume of Rock Using X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography: A New Statistical Approach by Taufiq Rahman, Hamed Lamei Ramandi, Hamid Roshan, Stefan Iglauer

“…The proposed method can be applied to different types of rocks for more accurate estimation of a REV.…”
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Fecal occult blood testing in colorectal cancer screening programs by N. V. Severskaya, A. A. Nevolskikh, V. A. Avdeenko, Zh. V. Hailova, S. A. Ivanov

“…This review presents the methods used in the world for fecal occult blood testing, their advantages and limitations; recommendations for reporting the results of a quantitative immunochemical test; thresholds recommended in screening programs in different countries for quantitative immunochemical tests. …”
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Radiophobia Harm, Its Main Cause, and a Proposed Solution by Bobby R. Scott

“…Conclusions: The SRP should be linked to population dose thresholds rather than the invalid LNT hypothesis and small likely harmless radiation doses could possibly be used in treating different diseases.…”
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Integration of large-scale community-developed causal loop diagrams: a Natural Language Processing approach to merging factors based on semantic similarity by Melissa Valdivia Cabrera, Michael Johnstone, Joshua Hayward, Kristy A. Bolton, Douglas Creighton

“…This study aimed to explore the feasibility of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in simplifying and enhancing CLD merging processes, avoiding manual merging of factors, utilizing different semantic textual similarity models. Methods The factors of thirteen CLDs from different communities in Victoria, Australia regarding the health and wellbeing of children and young people were merged using NLP with the following process: (1) extracting and preprocessing of unique factor names; (2) assessing factor similarity using various language models; (3) determining optimal merging threshold maximising the F1-score; (4) merging the factors of the 13 CLDs based on the selected threshold. …”
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GOTHiC, a probabilistic model to resolve complex biases and to identify real interactions in Hi-C data. by Borbala Mifsud, Inigo Martincorena, Elodie Darbo, Robert Sugar, Stefan Schoenfelder, Peter Fraser, Nicholas M Luscombe

“…Our method outperforms previous methods and provides a statistical framework for further data analysis, such as comparisons of Hi-C interactions between different conditions. …”
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Dynamic Cascade Detector for Storage Tanks and Ships in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Tong Wang, Bingxin Liu, Peng Chen

“…Some studies have shown that different stages should have different Intersections of Union (IoU) thresholds to distinguish positive and negative samples because each stage has different IoU distributions. …”
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Use of Sentinel-2 images for the detection of sandbars along the Lower Vistula by Klaudia Oktawia Kryniecka, Artur Magnuszewski

“…Every water index used had different results. The difference may be reduced by improving different threshold value algorithm.…”
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Dynamical quantum phase transition and thermal equilibrium in the lattice Thirring model by Mari Carmen Bañuls, Krzysztof Cichy, Hao-Ti Hung, Ying-Jer Kao, C.-J. David Lin, Amit Singh

“…Moreover, in the case of the gapped quench Hamiltonian, we unveil a connection of this threshold to a transition between different regions in the finite-temperature phase diagram.…”
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Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol Based on Zone for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by Jia Yanfei, Chen Guangda, Zhao Liquan

“…Firstly, it supposes that the different types of nodes are distributed in different zones. …”
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The effects of industrial noise of higher spectrum on the workers’ auditory perception abilities by Mihailović Dobrivoje, Đurić Nenad, Kovačević Ivana, Mihailović Đorđe

“…Data were statistically analyzed by establishing the significance of differences between absolute thresholds of hearing for both groups and for all nine frequency levels. …”
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Research on the predictive performance of using ROC curve to evaluate axial length for myopia in children and adolescents by Cui Mingming, Zhu Zhongxin, Gao Yuting, Zong Xinnan, Li Shaoli, Liu Junting, Chen Fangfang, Yang Zhou, Yin Tao, Lyu Yanyu, Zhang Hao

“…Method Visual acuity examination, refractive screening and ocular axis examination of 2388 children aged 7–18 (4776 eyes) from 8 schools in a certain area of Beijing were used as the data source, we evaluated the predictive ability of AL for myopia in children using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, and constructed Logistic Regression to analyze the reference value of AL threshold for children of different age and sex groups. …”
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