Normative Study and Psychometric Properties of the Digital Quotient Test in Children and Adolescents Aged 8-18 in the Iranian Community by Marzieh Poursalehy Navideh, AhmadReza Matinfar

“…The present study aimed to establish norms and examine the psychometric properties of the Digital Quotient Test in children and adolescents aged 8-18 in the Iranian community.Methods: This study's statistical population included students of the First and Second Elementary Schools and the First and Second Secondary Schools of Tehran in the academic year 2020-2021. …”
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Medication adherence among hospitalized hypertension patients in Shenyang city by Wenqi NING, Ding LI, Liping YANG, Yuxian ZHANG, Hongzhu LIU, Rui HU, Mingzhu CHEN, Tong MENG, Min JIA, Ran ZHANG, Chang LU, Jian GONG

“…Descriptive analysis was used to compare baseline characteristics, including sociodemographic characteristics, and to compare adherence between groups. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 22.0 statistical software. …”
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HEADPLAY Personal Cinema System Facilitates Intravenous Cannulation in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Evangeline Lim, Teddy Fabila, Thong Sze Ying, Josephine Tan

“…Periprocedural anxiety was also determined using the modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS). There were no statistically significant differences in terms of pain and anxiety scores between the 2 groups. …”
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Specific Central Nervous System Medications Are Associated with Temporomandibular Joint Symptoms by John K. Drisdale III, Monica G. Thornhill, Alexandre R. Vieira

“…The chi-square test was used to determine any statistically significant associations. Results. There were no statistically significant associations between ADHD stimulant medications or SSRIs and reported TMD symptoms. …”
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Morphological analysis of cold-water coral skeletons for evaluating in silico mechanical models of reef-scale crumbling by Marta Peña Fernández, Josh Williams, Janina V. Büscher, Janina V. Büscher, J. Murray Roberts, Sebastian J. Hennige, Uwe Wolfram, Uwe Wolfram

“…At smaller length scales, mechanical surrogate models need to explicitly account for the statistical morphological differences in the skeletal structure. …”
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Seasonality, Interannual Variability, and Linear Tendency of Wind Speeds in the Northeast Brazil from 1986 to 2011 by Alexandre Torres Silva dos Santos, Cláudio Moisés Santos e Silva

“…To this end, the following methods were used: filling of missing data, descriptive statistical calculations, boxplots, cluster analysis, and trend analysis using the Mann-Kendall statistical method. …”
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Investigating risk factors for migraine in Syrian women: a cross-sectional case-control study by Nafiza Martini, Tamam Hawa, Mohamad Moamen Almouallem, Majd Hanna, Imad-Addin Almasri, Ghassan Hamzeh

“…Data collection involved a comprehensive questionnaire covering demographic information, clinical features, and medical history. Statistical analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and Chi-Square tests. …”
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Knowledge about COVID-19, coping and resilience in Mexican women: comparison by stress levels by Ana Leticia Becerra Gálvez, Alejandro Pérez-Ortiz, Yuma Yoaly Pérez-Bautista, Isaías Vicente Lugo-González, América Genevra Franco-Moreno, Erick Alberto Medina-Jiménez

“…High stress is positively and statistically significantly related to coping style, denial (r = .245; q = .20) and cognitive-reflective analysis (r = .303; q= .21). …”
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“Young Brown Men Being Brutish”: How Police Ten 7 Portrays Māori and Pacifica People as Violent and Criminal in Aotearoa New Zealand. by Antje Deckert, Wairua Taru Grant Pukeiti, Juan Tauri

“…., “brown”) people fairly in light of official police statistics; and, particularly, if any distorted representation suggests that Māori and Pasifika people are more violent. …”
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Assessing the MODIS Crop Detection Algorithm for Soybean Crop Area Mapping and Expansion in the Mato Grosso State, Brazil by Anibal Gusso, Damien Arvor, Jorge Ricardo Ducati, Mauricio Roberto Veronez, Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira

“…The area estimates were compared to official agricultural statistics from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and from the National Company of Food Supply (CONAB) at different crop levels from 2000/2001 to 2010/2011. …”
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Trend Analysis of Potential Evapotranspiration Data of Some Stations in the Tigris Basin by Okan Mert Katipoğlu

“…At the end of the research, according to the ITA method, while the PET data of the stations selected in the basin generally had statistically significant increasing trends, statistically significant decreasing trends were determined for the Diyarbakır station in the spring and winter seasons. …”
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Unsupervised Hyperspectral Denoising Based on Deep Image Prior and Least Favorable Distribution by Keivan Faghih Niresi, Chong-Yung Chi

“…Lately, it has been reported that the convolutional neural network (CNN), the core element used by deep image prior (DIP), is able to capture image statistical characteristics without the need of training, i.e., restore the clean image blindly. …”
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Use of Ohmic Heating System in Meat Thawing and Its Effects on Microbiological Quality by Duygu Balpetek Külcü, Ümit Gürbüz

“…When the thawing methods applied in this study evaluated in termsof L*, a*, b* values, there was no statistically difference between the groups(p> 0.05). …”
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The Impact of Aggressive Driving Behavior on Driver-Injury Severity at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Accidents by Changxi Ma, Wei Hao, Wang Xiang, Wei Yan

“…In addition, driving during peak-hour is found to be a statistically significant predictor of high level injury severity with aggressive driving behavior. …”
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Efficiency and Safety of Prolonged Levosimendan Infusion in Patients with Acute Heart Failure by Georgios Aidonidis, Ioannis Kanonidis, Vasileios Koutsimanis, Till Neumann, Raimund Erbel, Georgios Sakadamis

“…SAECG data demonstrated a statistically significant decrease after 72 hours (P<.04). …”
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Clinical validation of a biopsy‐based six‐gene signature prognostic for aggressive prostate cancer by Agnieszka Krzyzanowska, Debra F. Higgins, Stephen Barron, Tony Loughman, Amanda O'Neill, Katherine M. Sheehan, Chan‐Ju Angel Wang, Bozena Fender, Leah McGuire, Joanna Fay, Anthony O'Grady, Des O'Leary, R. William Watson, Anders Bjartell, William M. Gallagher

“…The primary outcome of adverse pathology and secondary outcomes of high primary Gleason (≥G4) and high pathological T‐stage (≥T3) were assessed by likelihood ratio statistics and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves from logistic regression models; time to biochemical recurrence was assessed by likelihood ratio statistics and C‐indexes from Cox proportional hazard regression models. …”
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NSAID-Induced Enteropathy in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Chronic Occult Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Prospective Capsule Endoscopy Study by Ilja Tachecí, Petr Bradna, Tomáš Douda, Drahomíra Baštecká, Marcela Kopáčová, Stanislav Rejchrt, Jan Bureš

“…The difference between subgroups of NSAIDs according to the COX specificity was not statistically significant. Conclusions. Capsule endoscopy is a highly accurate noninvasive method for evaluation of NSAID-induced enteropathy. …”
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High-Urgency Renal Transplantation: Indications and Long-Term Outcomes by Lampros Kousoulas, Nikos Emmanouilidis, Wilfried Gwinner, Jürgen Klempnauer, Frank Lehner

“…The HU renal transplant recipients also presented lower graft survival rates, but statistical significance (P<0.05) was reached only in the 5-year graft survival rate.…”
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Correlation between the Rotation of the First Molars and the Severity of Class II Division 1 Malocclusion by Betânia Pessoa Lima, Célia Regina Maio Pinzan-Vercelino, Laércio Santos Dias, Fausto Silva Bramante, Rudys Rodolfo De Jesus Tavarez

“…This correlation was statistically significant for indicator 1 between Groups 1 and 3 and for indicator 2 between Groups 1 and 4, which include cases of extreme malocclusion. …”
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An Interface-Based Method for Performance Improvement of the Municipal Solid Waste by Tabukeli, Musigi Ruhiiga, Virginia, Nthavheleni Mudau

“…The results show statistically significant final models (F (1,221) = 1093.23, 105.77, p.001), with an adjusted R2 of.040 and a 95% confidence level. …”
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