Constructing Official Poverty Lines for Countries in Transition – Beyond the Poverty Line (2000-2010) by Marinko Škare, Romina Pržiklas Družeta

“…Because there are considerable differences in the methods used for poverty estimates, as well as insufficient and incomplete statistics, proposal for a new unique measure would serve as a “tool” for the prompt application of adequate social policies for transition countries.…”
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Pre-infarction angina and ischemic pre-conditioning role in coronary reserve protection during early post-infarction period by A. P. Ivanov, T. S. Gornostaeva, I. A. Elgardt

“…Both mechanisms of ischemic myocardial protection were associated with better tolerance to physical stress, but had some differences in myocardial ischemia severity. In IPC, myocardial ischemia was characterized by substantial increase in painless ischemic episode rates, with circadian variation in ischemic threshold. …”
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Research on the Impact of Atmospheric Environment Self-Purification Capacity on Fog-Haze Pollution by Jingkun Zhou, Yating Li, Xiao Zhao, Ting Yin

“…When green technology innovation reaches the first threshold, the atmospheric self-purification capacity can significantly reduce the impact of haze pollution. …”
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The incidence of hyperkalemia in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism after ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation vs. parathyroidectomy by Mian Ren, Yueming Liu, Bo Lin, Wenli Zou, Bin Zhu, Juan Wu

“…IntroductionThe aim of our study was to compare the incidence of hyperkalemia in maintenance dialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism(SHPT) after parathyroidectomy(PTX) or ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation(RFA), and to explore the risk factors and the best preoperative serum potassium threshold.MethodsWe defined hyperkalemia as serum potassium >5.30 mmol/L. …”
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MRI Detection of Unknown Primary Tumours in the Head and Neck: What Is the Expected Normal Asymmetry in the Size of the Palatine Tonsils? by Kaijing Mao, Qi Yong H. Ai, Kuo Feng Hung, Irene O. L. Tse, Ho Sang Leung, Yannis Yan Liang, Yu Chen, Lun M. Wong, W. K. Jacky Lam, Ann D. King

“…An additional analysis involving patients with PTC confirmed a threshold of ΔV% of 40% for PTs, which may be clinically valuable to help detect pathology using MRI.…”
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Analysis of influencing factors for primary membranous nephropathy complicated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and establishment of a nomogram prediction model by Mirixiatijiang· Maimaiti, Zhu Guo-qiang, Su Ming-jie, Halinuer· Shadekejiang, Zhang Xue-qin, Lu Chen

“…DCA showed that the use of nomogram prediction model was more beneficial in predicting ASCVD in PMN when the threshold probability of patients was 0.01 to 1.ConclusionThe nomogram prediction model containing four predictor variables （age， hypertension， BUN， eGFR） developed in this study can be used to predict the risk of ASCVD in patients with PMN.…”
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Research on interdisciplinary measurement and evolutionary path in the field of ophthalmology by Lu Chunji, Liu Yuwei, Zhang Fangyuan, Nie Zihan

“…As medical research deepens, the integration of theories, methods, and technologies from other disciplines with medicine has become an effective means to promote the development of medical research and address issues in the medical fieldObjectiveThere are significant differences in disciplinary intersections in different subfields of medicine, and this study, using ophthalmology as an example, aims to tap into the complex interrelationships between ophthalmology and other disciplines, to reveal interdisciplinary themes in ophthalmology, and to track the development and evolution of trans-ophthalmologic researchMethodsThis article takes ophthalmology as an example and uses the Rao-Stirling index to calculate the disciplinary distribution of journals cited in the literature of this field. …”
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Development and Validation of a Radiomics Nomogram Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Clinicoradiological Factors to Predict HCC TACE Refractoriness by Dong Y, Hu J, Meng X, Yang B, Peng C, Zhao W

“…Dimension reduction was conducted using variance threshold, univariate selection, and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator methods. …”
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Color Stability, Surface Gloss, Surface Roughness, and Wettability of Material Jetting 3D-Printed Denture Material Under Various Surface Treatments by Toshiki Nagai, Amal Alfaraj, Wei-Shao Lin

“…Comparisons of ΔE₀₀ were made against the 50%:50% acceptability threshold (AT) of 1.8 and the 50%:50% perceptibility threshold (PT) of 0.8 for tooth shade, as well as the 50%:50% PT of 1.72 and the 50%:50% AT of 4.08 for gingival (pink) shade. …”
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Combined bailing capsule and conventional therapies in the treatment of chronic renal failure: a meta-analysis and economic evaluation by Yumei He, Yumei He, Wei Li, Wei Li, He Zhu, He Zhu, Sheng Han, Sheng Han

“…This ICER was below China’s willingness-to-pay threshold of CNY 85,698 (2022 gross domestic product per capita). …”
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Therapy adjustments in people with type 1 diabetes with impaired hypoglycemia awareness on multiple daily injections using real-time continuous glucose monitoring: a mechanistic an... by Norbert Hermanns, Stefan Pleus, Cornelia Haug, Guido Freckmann, Lutz Heinemann, Delia Waldenmaier, Dominic Ehrmann

“…However, they reported an increased intake of rescue carbohydrates (0.8±0.6 (mean±SD) vs 1.0±0.8 intake/day; baseline-adjusted between-group difference 0.3 intake (0.1–0.5), p=0.031). The glucose threshold at which rescue carbohydrate intake was initiated was elevated from 71±13 mg/dL (3.9±0.7 mmol/L) to 79±14 mg/dL (4.4±0.8 mmol/L) (adjusted between-group difference +7.6 mg/dL (2.4–12.8) (+0.4 mmol/L (0.1–0.7)); p=0.005) in the rtCGM group. …”
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Effects of Self-Assisted Manual Therapy Combined with a High-Intensity Walking Program on Musculoskeletal Pain, Functionality, and Posture in Older Adults: A Multicentre Randomized... by Gemma Victoria Espí-López, Laura Fuentes-Aparicio, Rocío Cogollos-de-la-Peña, Lucas Monzani, Elena Marques-Sule, Dagmar Pavlu, Anna Arnal-Gómez

“…After isolating the effect of correlations among our primary outcomes, our analysis revealed statistically significant between-subject (<i>p</i> < 0.01), within-subject (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and between-within subject differences (<i>p</i> < 0.05) in Pressure Pain Threshold scores in favour of the MTWG. …”
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Fast Depth Imaging Denoising With the Temporal Correlation of Photons by Zhenchao Feng, Weiji He, Jian Fang, Guohua Gu, Qian Chen, Ping Zhang, Yuanjin Chen, Beibei Zhou, Minhua Zhou

“…Due to selecting a proper threshold, our method can effectively filter out the false alarm of system and use the ToFs of detected signal photons to rebuild the depth image of the scene. …”
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Research and application of image recognition-based identification for flesh browning of loquat fruits by CHEN Yujia, DENG Chaojun, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Xiuping, CHEN Xiuping, ZHAO Jianing, MA Cuilan, JIANG Jimou

“…In the evaluation of the loquat flesh browning, the browning index and browning area of the MATLAB algorithm indicated the browning situation from different dimensions, and the combination of the two methods could maximize the characterization of the browning resistance of the loquat resources. …”
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Estimated cost-effectiveness of sequential screening for colorectal cancer: evidence from the largest province-wide colorectal cancer screening program in China by Juan Zhu, Bingjie Jiang, Ruyi Xia, Chen Zhu, Weimiao Wu, Lingbin Du

“…For economic evaluation, a Markov model was constructed from a healthcare system perspective to assess six screening strategies with different frequencies (once per lifetime, every 10 years, 5 years, 3 years, 2 years, and every year) and initial screening at different ages. …”
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Revisiting Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio and De Ritis Ratio as Glycemic Control Assessment Tool among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study by Asharani Ningappa, Mahanth Nagaraju

“…Materials and methods: It is a retrospective study done on diabetic patients. …”
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Sealing and zero leakage characteristics of a high-pressure large-sized main drive based on active pressure compensation by Lifang ZHENG, Chao FANG, Fei MA, Tengfei CAI, Man YAO

“…To prevent the possible harm caused by high water pressure confining load to the sealing system, this study proposes a new main drive sealing method based on active pressure compensation, designs a sealing device suitable for the main drive sealing runway, proposes a zero leakage sealing evaluation method combined with percolation theory and a statistical contact model, establishes a micro- and macro-scale finite element sealing structure model, investigates the sealing contact and pressure resistance characteristics under different compensatory pressures and external loads, and reveals the evolution mechanism of sealing performance under the combined action of external cavity pressure and compensatory pressure. …”
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Circadian Profile of Salivary Melatonin Secretion in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy by Łukasz Kapek, Justyna Paprocka, Marek Kijonka, Maria Zych, Ewa Emich-Widera, Beata Rzepka-Migut, Damian Borys, Ilona Kaczmarczyk-Sedlak, Maria Sokół

“…The logit model was fitted to the data to obtain the salivary dim light melatonin onsets (DLMOs), and the results were compared with the values estimated from the classic threshold method with a linear interpolation and those previously published for the blood measurements. …”
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value Of Ki67 Proliferation Fraction in Serous Effusions by Alexandra Schönherr, Mary Bayer, Alfred Böcking

“…Assuming a threshold at 26%, a sensitivity of 25% and specificity of 100% resulted. …”
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Identification of the optimal points for the acupuncture treatment of neck pain in China: protocol for a multicenter, matched, case-control study by Ling Zhao, Hui Zheng, Mingsheng Sun, Guoyan Geng, Jiao Chen, Xingsha Ma, Mingxi Yan, Dingjun Cai, Fan-rong Liang, Chunxia Yang, Siyuan Tao, Jieru Peng

“…Body surface temperature, mechanical pain threshold, pressure pain threshold and skin resistance will be assessed at the 15 acupoints most frequently used to treat NP, and at the five body regions in which pain occurs most frequently. …”
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