Pests in cherry plantations in the conditions of the Southern Steppe of Ukraine by L. Rozova, O. Yeremenko, I. Yudytska

“…Methods. Laboratory field. The population of cherry trees by pests was determined by conventional methods in the Research Garden of the NNVC Tavriya State Agrotechnological University. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Cyclic Huff-n-Puff with Surfactants Based on Complex Fracture Networks in Water-Wet Oil Reservoirs with Extralow Permeability by Bao Cao, Pu Wei, Fuchun Tian, Yang Yan, Kun Xie, Weijia Cao, Xuewei Liu, Xiangguo Lu, Yu Li, Hongru Li

“…Then, the experiments of huff-n-puff with surfactants at different threshold injection pressures and soaking time were carried out to determine the oil increasing effects and analyze the pore-scale (micropores, mesopores, and macropores) mechanisms by combining the technology of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which showed that the recovery increased with threshold injection pressure mostly in mesopores and macropores, while that increased with soaking time mostly in micropores. …”
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Chronic diseases and catastrophic health expenditures in elderly Chinese households: a cohort study by Xueying Yao, Dandan Wang, Tiantian Zhang, Qian Wang

“…Methods A total of 6,483 older adults obtained from four waves (2013, 2015, 2018, 2020) of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were analysed (elderly household without CHE at baseline were included). …”
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Effectiveness of Manipulative Therapy on Neck Pain, Function and Disability. A Systematic Review by Nan Xu, Elif Nur Surucu

“…Keywords: Neck pain; manipulative therapy; effectiveness; pain threshold; pain intensity; neck function …”
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Association between alcohol drinking frequency and depression among adults in the United States: a cross-sectional study by Peng Qi, Mengjie Huang, Haiyan Zhu

“…Multifactorial logistic regression models, subgroup analysis, smooth curve fitting, and threshold effect analysis were used to investigate the relationship between alcohol drinking frequency and depression. …”
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A Comparison of the Ligation Torque Expression of a Ribbonwise Bracket–Archwire Combination and a Conventional Combination: A Primary Study by Bin Lin, Feifei Jiang, Jie Chen, Jiaxing Liang

“…The ribbonwise brackets produced moments that could reach a threshold of 5 Nmm more quickly as the angle was increased. …”
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Enhancing ROP plus form diagnosis: An automatic blood vessel segmentation approach for newborn fundus images by José Almeida, Jan Kubicek, Marek Penhaker, Martin Cerny, Martin Augustynek, Alice Varysova, Avinash Bansal, Juraj Timkovic

“…The main requirements are that it can correctly identify the blood vessels in fundus images and perform well on different systems used for newborn evaluation. Methods: The pipeline uses different methods, including CIELAB Enhancement, Background Normalization, Bell-Shaped Gaussian Matched Filtering, Modified Top-Hat operation, and a combination of vesselness filtering composed of Frangi and Jerman Filters. …”
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Synthetic ECG signal generation using generative neural networks. by Edmond Adib, Fatemeh Afghah, John J Prevost

“…We also proposed 3 new concepts (threshold, accepted beat and productivity rate) and employed them along with the aforementioned methods as a systematic way for comparison between models. …”
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Image Segmentation Techniques for Intelligent Monitoring of Putonghua Examinations by Hui Liu

“…Among them, they can be broadly classified as region-based segmentation methods, threshold-based segmentation methods, edge-based segmentation methods, specific theory-based segmentation methods, and deep learning-based segmentation methods. …”
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DPOAE measurements in factory workers with cochlear hearing loss by O. Szczepaniak, M.A. Błaszak

“…The interrelations between the results of these two methods were analyzed with respect to all measured frequencies and for six groups of subjects representing different characteristics of audiograms. …”
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Thinking like a Lawyer Ethically: Narrative Intelligence and Emotion by Lesley Townsley

“…These program learning outcomes are similar to those identified in the Australian Threshold Learning Outcomes for law, yet the local legal environment is very different. …”
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Heritability of bipolar affective disorder: Family study by Obradović Tanja, Veličković Ružica, Timotijević Ivana, Anđelković Marko

“…Methods. By the use of a questionnaire, 80 patients with over crossed threshold for bipolar affective disorder were asked for functional information about the members of their families belonging to the first degree of relation (fathers, mothers and full- sibs). …”
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PROPHYLAXIS OF THE PAIN OF THE SYNDROME WHEN USING REMOVABLE DENTURES by M.Ya. Nidzelsky, N.V. Tsvetkova, V.M. Sokolovskaya

“…The task is solved by the use of electro-diagnostics of tissues dentition method of R. Voll that determine the pain threshold mucosa alveolar process and palate. …”
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Automatic Detection and Unsupervised Clustering-Based Classification of Cetacean Vocal Signals by Yinian Liang, Yan Wang, Fangjiong Chen, Hua Yu, Fei Ji, Yankun Chen

“…This paper overcomes the limitations of the traditional threshold-based method, and the threshold is set adaptively according to the mean value of the signal energy in each frame. …”
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Being (Not) Successful in Internationalisation After Receiving Export Support: Which Predictors Are Able to Forecast It and How Accurately? by Oliver Lukason, Tiia Vissak

“…Predictors portraying firm size and export support size emerge as the best in the case of both methods, while in different neural networks, at least one predictor from each of the four domains is among the most important ones. …”
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Immediate Effects of the Mandibular Muscle Energy Technique in Adults with Chronic Temporomandibular Disorder by Antonio Márquez-Vera, Luis Polo-Ferrero, Ana Silvia Puente-González, Roberto Méndez-Sánchez, José Antonio Blanco-Rueda

“…Results: The results showed that the mandibular muscle energy technique produced positive effects with significant differences in the intra- and intergroup comparisons for pain threshold to pressure, mandibular mobility, and kinesiophobia, demonstrating its efficacy and safety as a treatment option for adults with temporomandibular disorders, with proven effects in the short term. …”
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Prediction of aerobic and anaerobic capacity from lactate relative change during isocapnic buffering phase in elite athletes by روح الله نیکویی, محسن حسن لی

“…During the incremental test Breath-by-breath measurement of respiratory gas was performed and during the last 30 seconds of each 3-minute stage, blood samples were collected for lactate measurement. Lactate threshold (LT) and respiratory compensatory threshold (RCT) were defined as abrupt increase in blood lactate concentration in lactate - workload and abrupt increase in CO2 respiratory equivalent. …”
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Prognostic role of fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio in patients with gynecological cancers: a meta-analysis by Yaping Chen, Jiliang Zhang

“…Subgroup analyses confirmed that FAR predicted OS regardless of sample size, cancer type, FIGO stage, treatment modality, FAR threshold, threshold determination method, or type of survival analysis (p < 0.05). …”
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EFFICACY OF COLISTIN AND CEFIDEROCOL ON CARBAPENEM RESISTANT Acinetobacter baumannii ISOLATES by Feyza Balci, Nilgün Kansak, Sebahat Aksaray

“…Isolates with zone diameters above the threshold were considered susceptible; those below the threshold were indeterminate due to potential resistance or intermediate susceptibility (Figure 1). …”
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Exploring Nutrient Deficiencies in Lettuce Crops: Utilizing Advanced Multidimensional Image Analysis for Precision Diagnosis by Jilong Xie, Shanshan Lv, Xihai Zhang, Weixian Song, Xinyi Liu, Yinghui Lu

“…Additionally, a multi-dimensional image analysis algorithm combining threshold segmentation, improved Canny edge detection, and gradient-guided adaptive threshold segmentation enabled precise segmentation of healthy and nutrient-deficient tissues. …”
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