The methods of treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients with valvular heart disease by O.M. Grytsay, Y.V. Skybchyk, I.Y. Mokryk, E.V. Zhytyns’kiy, V.О. Kuts, О.J. Zharinov, B.M. Todurov

“…In conclusion, despite numerous clinical trials, none provided evidence base to determine statistically significant differences in survival; it has not currently been determined how surgical treatment of valvular atrial fibrillation influences the survival of patients.…”
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Study on the Technical Efficiency of Creative Human Capital in China by Three-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Model by Jian Ma, Yueru Ma, Yong Bai, Bing Xia

“…The authors are trying to estimate the technical efficiency value in Chinese context, which is adjusted by the environmental variables and statistical noises, by establishing a three-stage data envelopment analysis model, using data from 2003 to 2010. …”
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Optimization of Wind Turbine Airfoil Using Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm and Pareto Optimal Front by Ziaul Huque, Ghizlane Zemmouri, Donald Harby, Raghava Kommalapati

“…The standard least square method was used to generate response surface by the statistical code JMP. Elitist Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) was used to determine the Pareto optimal set based on the response surfaces. …”
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Comparison of VIDAS and Radioimmunoassay Methods for Measurement of Cortisol Concentration in Bovine Serum by Daniela Proverbio, Roberta Perego, Eva Spada, Giada Bagnagatti de Giorgi, Angelo Belloli, Davide Pravettoni

“…A paired Student’s -test, Pearson’s correlation analysis, Bland-Altman plot, and Deming regression analysis were used to compare the two methods. There was no statistically significant difference between mean serum cortisol concentrations measured by VIDAS or RIA methods (). …”
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The Effect of Different Disinfecting Agents on Bond Strength of Resin Composites by Ahmed Mohammed Hassan, Ahmed Ali Goda, Kusai Baroudi

“…Data collected were statistically analyzed by t-test and one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc test. …”
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Cavitation Detection in Centrifugal Pump Based on Interior Flow-Borne Noise Using WPD-PCA-RBF by Liang Dong, Kan Wu, Jian-cheng Zhu, Cui Dai, Li-xin Zhang, Jin-nan Guo

“…Six-feature parameters are extracted based on frequency-division statistics, including three time-domain features and three wavelet packet features. …”
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Simulation of global sea surface temperature maps using Pix2Pix GAN by Deepayan Chakraborty, Adway Mitra

“…We have shown that the maps generated by these models have similar statistical characteristics as the CMIP6 model simulations. …”
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Measuring and ranking the sustainability of Mahshahr port neighborhoods from the perspective of healthy city indicators using Ida\'s technique by mehdi hemati, sadegh besharatifar, mohsen agaee

“…The present study was descriptive-analytical with the aim of analyzing the stability of neighborhoods in the city of Bandar Mahshahr from the perspective of healthy city indicators, in the form of three components of economic, social and environmental and 22 sub-indicators based on 2016 statistics in different neighborhoods of Bandar Assess and evaluate Mahshahr. …”
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Effect of Packaging on Microbial Quality of Edible Flowers During Refrigerated Storage by Aleksandra Wilczyńska, Anita Kukułowicz, Anna Lewandowska

“…The differences in the counts of moulds and S. aureus were statistically significant depending on the type of flower. …”
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Ethanol Production Yield from Cassava Mill Effluent using Starch Hydrolyzing Bacterium (Bacillus species) and Glucose Fermenting Yeast (Saccharomyces species) by L. P. Peekate, L. O. Amadi, E. Amos

“…The highest ethanol concentration (17.2±0.7 %) and yield (47.65±1.92 %) was in CME fermented with Bacillus-Saccharomyces inocula (BSI) ratio of 1:2. However, statistical analysis revealed that there was no significant difference (p = 0.135) in the results obtained with the different inocula ratios. …”
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Training and Testing Data Division Influence on Hybrid Machine Learning Model Process: Application of River Flow Forecasting by Hai Tao, Ali Omran Al-Sulttani, Ameen Mohammed Salih Ameen, Zainab Hasan Ali, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Sinan Q. Salih, Reham R. Mostafa

“…Three data division modeling scenarios were inspected including 70%–30%, 80%–20, and 90%–10%. Several statistical indicators are computed to verify the performance of the models. …”
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Incidence of Stroke in Young Adults: A Review by Carmine Marini, Tommasina Russo, Giorgio Felzani

“…Heterogeneity among studies was statistically significant but improved after excluding 4 studies. …”
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On the Methodology for Calculating the Economic Efficiency of Energy Storage Systems by K. V. Dobrego, S. A. Fursov, S. S. Dubnovitski, V. L. Charvinski

“…The features of calculating the economic effect of performing these functions under the conditions of the statistical nature of the load regime of the enterprise are considered. …”
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Supportive parenting and adolescents digital citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of self-regulation by Agustín Morales-Álvarez, Angel Alberto Valdés-Cuervo, Lizeth Guadalupe Parra-Pérez

“…The study included 570 Mexican adolescents (48% girls and 52% boys), and structural equation modeling and multigroup invariance statistics were conducted for analysis. The results showed that autonomy support was positively associated with all dimensions of digital citizenship, while structure provision was only positively associated with online civic engagement. …”
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The Noble Suicide: The Case of a Self-Contained Dagger in the Heart and a Literal Raw by Maricla Marrone, Benedetta Pia De Luca, Marco Papalino, Fortunato Pititto, Carlo Angeletti, Roberto Bellacicco, Michela Raino, Giuseppe Pulin, Francesca Tarantino

“…According to WHO estimates, more than 700,000 people die each year due to suicide and suicides performed with a bladed weapon account for approximately 1.6%–3% of all suicides. It is statistically more common to find injuries to the heart, lungs, and thoracic vessels in homicides, whereas in suicides there is a higher frequency of vascular injuries to the extremities of the limbs. …”
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Effect of Acarbose on Long-Term Prognosis in Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients with Newly Diagnosed Impaired Glucose Tolerance by Peng Yun, Ai-ming Du, Xue-jun Chen, Jing-cheng Liu, Hu Xiao

“…The incidence of major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) and carotid intima-middle thickness (CIMT) were statistically analyzed. Results. During the mean follow-up of 2.3 years, the risk of recurrent MACE in acarbose group was decreased significantly compared with that in control group (26.67% versus 46.88%, P<0.05); at the same time, thickening of the CIMT was significantly slower than the control group ((1.28 ± 0.42) mm versus (1.51 ± 0.64) mm, P<0.05). …”
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National and regional aspects of formation of physical culture and recreation environment in educational institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan by Manurov, Ilgiz M., Kalmanovich, Vladimir L.

“…In our work, we applied such methods as study and comparative analysis of pedagogical and methodological literature; systematic analysis of legal documents; generalization of the experience of pedagogical practice; questionnaires; methods of mathematical statistics and experimental methods. Physical culture and wellness environment of the university has a huge value potential and great opportunities in the field of training organization and education of students, formation of general culture, development of socially significant qualities and personal attitude to health care as a value. …”
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Psychosocial Underpinnings of Pain and Sleep Disturbance in Safety-Net Primary Care Patients by Sarah Griffin, Joseph Tan, Paul B. Perrin, Allison B. Williams, Erin R. Smith, Bruce Rybarczyk

“…All possible indirect (mediational) effects within this model were statistically significant, suggesting a possible route through which cynical hostility may shape pain and sleep, two common presenting problems in primary care. …”
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Interaction between the Haptoglobin 2 Phenotype and Diabetes Mellitus on Systolic Pulmonary Arterial Pressure and Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in Hemodialysis Patients by Inbal Dahan, Evgeny Farber, Nadia Thauho, Nakhoul Nakhoul, Adi Francis, Mohamad Awawde, Andrew P. Levy, Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, Swati Basu, Farid Nakhoul

“…To test our hypothesis we Hp typed and performed transthoracic echocardiography on a series of HD patients and stratified them into elevated and normal s-PAP groups and then evaluated whether there was a significant association between the Hp type, elevated s-PAP, and decreased NO bioavailability as defined by low plasma nitrite. We found a statistically significant interaction between the Hp type and DM on the prevalence of elevated s-PAP and lower mean nitrite levels with the combination of elevated s-PAP and low nitrite levels being significantly more prevalent in Hp 2-2 DM individuals. …”
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Student Engagement Dataset (SED): An Online Learning Activity Dataset by M. S. S. Kassim, Z. H. Azizul, A. A. H. Ahmad Fuaad

“…Correlation analysis of student engagement features showed a statistically significant but weak negative correlation between the number of courses, early morning logins, assignments, and top students&#x2019; performance. …”
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