Assessment of Total Mercury in Public Drinking Water: A Case Study of Sana’a City, Yemen by Abdulqawi A. Numan, Anass A. Alnedhary, Mahfoudh M. AL-Hammadi, Ranya A- Alalie

“…Water samples from 58 wells in Sana'a City were analyzed using the validated DMA-80 method. Hg concentrations in all samples were below the WHO and Yemeni Organization for Standards Metrology and Quality Control threshold level (1 µg/L). …”
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Automated Food Weight and Content Estimation Using Computer Vision and AI Algorithms by Bryan Gonzalez, Gonzalo Garcia, Sergio A. Velastin, Hamid GholamHosseini, Lino Tejeda, Gonzalo Farias

“…The estimation model’s parameters are calibrated through experiments that generate volume-to-weight conversion tables for different food items. Validation of the system was conducted using rice and chicken, yielding error margins of 5.07% and 3.75%, respectively, demonstrating the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method.…”
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Crop water stress index assessment of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) under limited water conditions by Hüseyin Tevfik Gültaş

“…Irrigation applications were conducted using the line-source sprinkler irrigation method to create three constraints (35, 75, and 100 % of the water requirement) and a rainfed condition (control plot) under different crop growth periods. …”
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Extracting Target Detection Knowledge Based on Spatiotemporal Information in Wireless Sensor Networks by Tian Wang, Zhen Peng, Cheng Wang, Yiqiao Cai, Yonghong Chen, Hui Tian, Junbin Liang, Bineng Zhong

“…This algorithm does not need any artificial threshold compared with traditional algorithms. It makes the most of spatiotemporal information to obtain the final decision. …”
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Electro-Elastic Instability and Turbulence in Electro-osmotic Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids: Current Status and Future Directions by Chandi Sasmal

“…This viscoelastic behavior, which arises due to the stretching and relaxation phenomena of polymer molecules, leads to complex flow dynamics that are starkly different from those seen in simple Newtonian fluids under the same conditions. …”
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Cerebral oxygenation during submaximal and peak exercise for sedentary adults with and without down syndrome by Pieter-Henk Boer

“…V̇O2 peak determination was performed with a standardised incremental treadmill protocol and the ventilatory threshold (VT) and respiratory compensation point (RCP) were determined.ResultsThere were no significant differences for V˙O2 between 80%VT, VT, RCP and V˙O2 peak, as well as VT/ V˙O2 peak and RCP/ V˙O2 peak between DS and non-DS groups (p > 0.05). …”
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Big Data Cleaning Based on Improved CLOF and Random Forest for Distribution Networks by Jie Liu, Yijia Cao, Yong Li, Yixiu Guo, Wei Deng

“…However, due to the difficulty in determining the LOF threshold, a method of dynamically calculating the threshold based on the transformer districts and time is proposed. …”
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Analysis of Aperture-based Complexity Metrics and Their Effect on Patient-specific Quality Assurance in Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy Planning by Dinesh Kumar Saroj, Suresh Yadav, Neetu Paliwal, Ravindra Bhagwat Shende, Gaurav Gupta

“…The mean small area segment (MSAS) 5mm metric, with a threshold of 0.085, achieved a true positive rate of 38.17% and a false positive rate of 3.1%. …”
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Automatic Extraction of Doppler Envelopes for Gait Analysis Using FMCW Radar: A Novel Approach for Spatio-Temporal Parameters Estimation by Sumin Kim, Hyun-Chool Shin

“…Experiments were conducted on five participants with varying physical characteristics, and key gait parameters—such as walking speed, step length, and stride time—were estimated and compared against motion capture-based ground truth. The proposed method demonstrated relative errors typically below 10%, with key parameters such as Foot Speed and Leg Speed falling below the commonly cited 5% clinical threshold. …”
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Intramuscular Stress Transmission Between the Muscles of the Ball of the Thumb, and the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle After Tensegrity Massage Application – a Pilot study by Marcin Piwecki, Krzysztof Kassolik

“…In both groups, at the beginning and endof the session, LAT was tested with a tensiomyograph and algometer.Results: Statistically significant differences between the groups occurred in pressure pain threshold (p=0.02), contraction time(p=0.01), relaxation time (p=0.01) and sustain time (p=0.046) of the latissimus dorsi muscle. …”
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Context‐Sensitive Conscious Interpretation and Layer‐5 Pyramidal Neurons in Multistable Perception by Talis Bachmann

“…ABSTRACT Introduction There appears to be a fundamental difference between the two ways of how an object becomes perceptually experienced. …”
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Clinical study of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty by Wang Hongbin, Yuan Hua, Sun Xiaolong, Xu Mulan, Wu Xiangbo, Long Hua

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation(rTMS)on chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty(TKA).MethodsA total of 121 patients with postoperative chronic post-surgical pain(CPSP)who underwent unilateral TKA from January 2021 to June 2023 and who fulfilled the criteria were randomly assigned to receive rTMS(paralateral M1 area,10Hz,80% resting threshold,stimulation time of 1s,interval time of 3s,1200 pulses/min,once daily)or sham stimulation for one week.NRS scores and HSS scores for knee pain were compared between the two groups after 3 days,1 week,2 weeks,and 4 weeks of treatment,by repeated-measures analysis of variance.ResultsRepeated analyses of the NRS scores and total HSS scores in the two groups revealed statistically significant differences in rTMS compared with controls in pain (HSS1), joint activity (HSS3), flexion (HSS5), and subtraction (HSS7).ConclusionAs a safe and cost-effective neuromodulatory technique, rTMS is well suited to relieve chronic pain after TKA, improve the overall recovery of joint function, and improve quality of life, and is worthy of clinical application.…”
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USSD: Unsupervised Sleep Spindle Detector by Edgardo Ramirez, Pablo A. Estevez, Martin D. Adams, Claudio A. Perez, Marcelo Garrido Gonzalez, Patricio Peirano

“…The proposed detector learns prototype SSs of different lengths (called atoms). An unsupervised adaptive threshold method based on the distribution of the automatically detected SS lengths is developed, which allows the adaptation of the USSD algorithm to different datasets in an unsupervised way. …”
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Abnormal Electricity Consumption Behaviors Detection Based on Improved Deep Auto-Encoder by Nvgui LIN, Lanxiu HONG, Daoshan HUANG, Yang YI, Zhixuan LIU, Qifeng XU

“…Firstly, the data of normal electricity users are employed as training samples, and the effective features of the data are automatically extracted by AE; and then the data is reconstructed to calculate the detection threshold. Because the effective data characteristics are destroyed by the abnormal behaviors, the abnormal behaviors can be detected through comparing the difference between the reconstruction error and the detection threshold. …”
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Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia compared with controls among cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials by Joshua T. Cooper, Ellie Svoboda, Allan V. Prochazka, Duc M. Ha

“…We analyzed between-group mean differences (MD’s), standardized-mean-differences (SMD’s), and interpreted results using minimal clinically important difference (MCID) thresholds as endorsed by the American College of Physicians (ACP) or SMD thresholds. …”
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Longitudinal temperature measurement can determine humane endpoints in BALB/c mouse models of ESKAPEE infection by Randal Scott Dudis, Ting Y. Wong, Mariel G. Escatte, Yonas A. Alamneh, Rania Abu-Taleb, Wanwen Su, Christine Czintos, Timothy A. Fitzgerald, Yoann Le Breton, Daniel V. Zurawski

“…Based on our findings, we recommend future studies involving BALB/c mice ESKAPEE pathogen infection use temperature monitoring as a humane endpoint threshold.…”
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A Framework for Symmetric-Quality S3D Video Streaming Services by Juhyeon Lee, Seungjun Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Dongwook Kang

“…However, recent experiments have shown that when the disparity between resolutions exceeds a certain threshold, it can lead to a subjective degradation of the perceived 3D video quality. …”
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Effect of the time factor on the hydraulic activity of mechanically activated saponin-containing powder by Marina V. Morozova, Maria A. Frolova

“…After reaching the threshold volume of the Ca(OH)2 solution, the potential stabilizes. …”
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Prognostic significance of growth hormone in pediatric liver transplantation by R. M. Kurabekova, O. V. Silina, O. M. Tsirulnikova, I. E. Pashkova, O. E. Gichkun, G. A. Olefirenko, S. Yu. Oleshkevich, A. R. Monakhov, O. P. Shevchenko

“…One month after transplantation, GH concentrations were lower in 1-year survivors than in non-survivors (p = 0.02); the diagnostically significant threshold GH level was 1.8 ng/mL. Prior to LT, plasma GH levels did not differ between 1-year survivors and non-survivors. …”
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Meta-analyses of the effects of high-intensity interval training in elite athletes — part II: relationships between the mean effects on various performance measures by Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Will G. Hopkins, Nils Haller, Nils Haller, Julia Blumkaitis, Tilmann Strepp, Thomas Leonhard Stöggl, Thomas Leonhard Stöggl

“…The scatter of points in some plots was associated with the type of HIIT.DiscussionDifferences in time-trial performance between studies for a given change in peak speed/power, V̇O2max, or threshold speed/power imply that time trials should be included when assessing effects of HIIT on endurance performance. …”
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