Principle and implement of automatic grader for fruit internal quality based on dielectric property by XU Fang, ZHANG Li-bin, JI Shi-ming

“…The principle and the method of nondestructive inspection for fruit quality based on dielectric property of fruit are analyzed. …”
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Does empowerment through corruption reduce gender inequalities? The case of women in sub-Saharan Africa by J. F. Landry Ngono, F. Martiale Petga

“…These thresholds vary between the different components of each component, but they remain between 25 and 35%.…”
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Sidewalk thermal comfort in street canyon and role of pavements under perpendicular sun rays during summer by D. Jareemit, M. Srivanit

“…This analysis helped identify the threshold for comfortable summer conditions in Thailand. …”
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Association between red cell distribution width—albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in intensive care unit patients with heart failure by Ni Li, Junling Li, Kai Wang

“…Multivariate adjusted Cox regression and subgroup analysis demonstrated that individuals in Q2 [hazard ratio (HR) 1.15, 95%CI 0.98–1.34], Q3 (HR 1.65, 95%CI 1.39–1.96) and Q4 (HR 2.16, 95%CI 1.74–2.68) had an increased risk of mortality compared to individuals in Q1 (p for trend < 0.001), and this relationship was consistently observed across most subgroups, except for different ages. Subsequent analysis revealed that the inclusion of RAR significantly improved the prognostic value on the basis of SOFA and APACHE Ⅱ, and the concordance index increased from 0.636 to 0.658 for SOFA, from 0.682 to 0.695 for APACHE Ⅱ (p < 0.001 for both).ConclusionThe study found that high level of RAR was independently associated with an increased risk of 1-year all-cause mortality in ICU patients with heart failure, with a stronger effect in young and middle-aged patients and a threshold effect, which could potentially serve as an early warning indicator for high-risk populations.…”
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Prognostic nutritional index as a potential predictor of prognosis in patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Mingyuan Pan, Zheng Li, Shanfeng Sheng, Xiao Teng, Yuyang Li

“…Restricted cubic splines (RCS) explored the potential dose—response relationship between PNI and mortality, and threshold analysis determined the critical threshold of PNI. …”
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Severe-hail detection with C-band dual-polarisation radars using convolutional neural networks by V. Forcadell, V. Forcadell, C. Augros, O. Caumont, O. Caumont, K. Dedieu, M. Ouradou, C. David, J. Figueras i Ventura, O. Laurantin, H. Al-Sakka

“…The study demonstrates that many of the existing hail proxies can be adjusted using a threshold value and a threshold area to achieve better performance. …”
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Detectability of Subclinical Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Levels Associated with Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients of North-West Region Hospital by A. R. Volkova, O. D. Dygun, O. N. Zhdanova, B. G. Lukichev, L. A. Belyakova, E. M. Sereda

“…To study the detectability of subclinical hypothyroidism, the range of thyroid-stimulating hormone values associated with CVD in patients who seek medical care at the multidisciplinary hospital of the North-West region.Material and methods. 1340 patients of different sex and age with normal TSH value (0.4-2.5 mlU/l) and subclinical hypothyroidism were included into the study. …”
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Association Between Inflammation Indices Derived From Complete Blood Count and Coronary Artery Calcification by He Y, Li L, Zhou T, Yang H, Liu T, Hu H

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis, smooth curve fitting, and threshold effect analysis were subsequently used to explore the potential linear or nonlinear relationships between CBC-derived inflammation indices and CAC. …”
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Vincristine Regulates C/EBP-β/TGF-β1 to Promote A1 Astrocyte Polarization and Induce Neuropathic Pain by Chen Y, Tang G, Lu J, Tang S, Xiong X, Chen C, Pei L, Shi J

“…In vitro experiment, the astrocyte model was constructed by Vincristine, and si-C/EBP-β was regulated before VCR administration. Pain threshold of rats was measured by thermal withdrawal latency (TWL) and mechanical withdrawal threshold (MWT), Elisa was used to detect the expression level of inflammatory factors, qRT PCR and Western blotting were used to detect astrocyte polarization markers, C/EBP-β, TGF-β 1, p-smad2 and p-smad3.Results: Following Vincristine administration, the TWL and MWT of rats exhibited a decrease. …”
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Accuracy of Ultrasound Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules Based on Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Diagnostic Technology: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yu Xue, Ying Zhou, Tingrui Wang, Huijuan Chen, Lingling Wu, Huayun Ling, Hong Wang, Lijuan Qiu, Dongqing Ye, Bin Wang

“…Ultrasonography (US) is the most common method of identifying thyroid nodules, but US images require an experienced surgeon for identification. …”
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The effect of cognitive emotion regulation on direct-acting antivirals adherence in patients with hepatitis C by Adina Turcu-Stiolica, Irina Paula Doica, Bogdan Silviu Ungureanu, Mihaela-Simona Subtirelu, Dan Nicolae Florescu, Razvan-Aurelian Turcu-Stiolica, Ion Rogoveanu, Dan-Ionut Gheonea

“…Spearman correlation analysis was conducted to explore the relationships between adherence and different factors. ROC-curves were used to evaluate the adherence threshold to achieve SVR. …”
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Effects of strict versus lenient rate control on exercise capacity in atrial fibrillation: a retrospective analysis by Jinna Chang, Qian Du, Yuting Liu, Dujuan Li, Haofeng Zhou, Yingxue Liao, Junshuo Zhu, Bingqing Bai, Xiangyang Liu, Huan Ma

“…However, no significant differences were detected in the anaerobic threshold or ventilation parameters among these groups. …”
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Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Rare Earth Elements in Zhejiang Province, China by Shufeng Ye, Ronghua Zhang, Pinggu Wu, Dong Zhao, Jiang Chen, Xiaodong Pan, Jikai Wang, Hexiang Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Qin Weng, Zijie Lu, Biao Zhou

“…This may be attributed to differences in moisture content, root absorption mechanisms, and processing methods. …”
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Chinese Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility in Primary School Classrooms by Jianxin PENG, Peng JIANG

“…A method based on the sentence test is more useful for speech intelligibility evaluation in classrooms than that based on the word test for different age groups. …”
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试验场载荷特征分析与标准化方法研究 by 施闯闯, 赵礼辉, 顾振飞, 叶沛, 翁硕, 郑松林

“…In view of the problem that the collection of vehicle load must be completed after the prototype car is completed,and the necessary load data are often lacking in the product development stage,the standardization of load spectrum under the endurance criterion of the proving ground is studied in this paper.Firstly,the characteristics of the measured load spectrum of different vehicle types in a domestic proving ground are analyzed,and the consistency of the frequency distribution of rainflow cycles for different vehicle types is clarified.Furthermore,the validity of the traditional probability distribution model and the extreme value distribution model in the rainflow cycle modeling is compared by synthesizing the difference of load frequency distribution and damage interval distribution.Through load frequency and damage distribution,the rationality of the exceeding threshold distribution model in load modeling is verified.Finally,the standardized load model of the proving ground is established by normalizing the loads of different types of vehicles.The validity and rationality of the standardized load model are verified by comparing the rainflow cycle,pseudo-damage and fatigue life of the standardized load spectrum with the measured load spectrum in proving grounds.The standardized load spectrum and load spectrum standardization method can provide accurate and effective load data for new vehicle in the early development stage,so as to ensure product reliability and durability level.…”
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Lameness Recognition of Dairy Cows Based on Compensation Behaviour Analysis by Swing and Posture Features from Top View Depth Image by Ruihong Zhang, Kaixuan Zhao, Jiangtao Ji, Jinjin Wang

“…The threshold method reached a recall rate of 93.02% for sound cows. …”
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Heterogeneity in susceptibility and connectivity for epidemic models by Mr Tarek Alrefae

“…The time pressure associated with modelling an outbreak in real-time currently forces the modeller to forgo ABMs and their heterogeneities, which are known to significantly lower the herd immunity threshold (HIT), attack rate, and other relevant epidemiological metrics of interest (Montalban 2022). …”
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An association rule-based approach for frequent item mining of multi-stage access data by Silong Wu

“…The database needs to be scanned multiple times by traditional Apriori algorithms to generate candidate itemsets, resulting in significantly reduced efficiency, but also have too simple a support threshold setting, which fails to fully consider the importance and differences of different itemsets in practical business, thereby affecting the accuracy of frequent item mining. …”
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Noise-tolerant Grover's algorithm via success-probability prediction by Jian Leng, Fan Yang, Xiang-Bin Wang

“…We propose a noise-tolerant method that significantly reduces the running time and exponentially improves the error threshold with number of qubits for Grover's search. …”
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Economic Evaluations of Treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Literature Review by Lachaine Jean, Miron Audrey, Catherine Beauchemin, on behalf of the iGenoMed Consortium

“…Biological therapies were dominant in 23% of the analyses and were cost-effective according to a $CAD50,000/QALY and $CAD100,000/QALY threshold in 41% and 62% of the analyses, respectively. …”
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