Investigating the effects of plasma-activated water on E. coli with the novel application of single-cell impedance flow cytometry by Brayden Myers, Rita Agus, Bilal Bouharrak, Fabio Avino, Ivo Furno

“…After signal calibration with stationary-phase E. coli and a three-shell dielectric model, a sensitivity analysis and genetic algorithm were used to find the relevant subcellular dielectric parameters. …”
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Differences in drug resistance of HIV-1 genotypes in CSF and plasma and analysis of related factors by Jie Wang, Mei Li, Jungang Li, Renni Deng

“…The drug-resistant ratios of untreated patients and treated patients were 5/51 (9.8%) and 8/11 (72.7%), respectively. …”
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Enhanced Classification of Ear Disease Images Using Metaheuristic Feature Selection by Murat Ekinci, Furkancan Demircan, Zafer Cömert, Eyup Gedikli

“…To enhance classification accuracy, a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) was employed for feature extraction and optimization algorithms were utilized for feature selection. The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) effectively selected informative features for the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) model, achieving a classification accuracy of 92.6%. …”
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mzGroupAnalyzer--predicting pathways and novel chemical structures from untargeted high-throughput metabolomics data. by Hannes Doerfler, Xiaoliang Sun, Lei Wang, Doris Engelmeier, David Lyon, Wolfram Weckwerth

“…At the same time it is impossible to handle the amount of data involved in a metabolomics analysis manually. Algorithms are therefore imperative to allow for automated m/z feature extraction and subsequent structure or pathway assignment. …”
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Random shear resistance of a headed-stud connector in composite steel-concrete beam by Tomasz Domański, Mariusz Maślak

“…In this paper a detailed algorithm for the correct specification of this value is presented in detail. …”
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Peak Arm Current Reduction of Modular Multilevel Converter Based on Particle Swarm Optimizer for Circulating Current Injections by Riyadh Toman Thahab, Tahani Hamodi Al-Mhana

“…This paper uses a particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm to determine the optimal values for the injected components. …”
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A Machine Learning-Based Risk Prediction Model During Pregnancy in Low-Resource Settings by Kapil Tomar, Chandra Mani Sharma, Tanisha Prasad, Vijayaraghavan M. Chariar

“…With a test score of 98.8%, the Decision Tree (DT) algorithm outperformed other algorithms, according to the results. …”
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Novel energy efficient integration of chimney ventilation, liquid desiccant dehumidification, and evaporative cooling for humid climates by Omar Allahham, Kamel Ghali, Nesreen Ghaddar

“…The system was sized, and its operation was optimized using an advanced machine learning-genetic algorithm model for a typical office space in Beirut. …”
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Advanced retinal disease detection from OCT images using a hybrid squeeze and excitation enhanced model. by Gülcan Gencer, Kerem Gencer

“…<h4>Results</h4>The combined features from EfficientNetB0 and Xception are processed via fully connected layers and categorized using the Softmax algorithm. The methodology was tested on UCSD and Duke's OCT datasets and produced excellent results. …”
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Identification of patients with low risk of severity in confirmed COVID-19 cases. Cuba, 2020- 2021 by Maicel Eugenio Monzón-Pérez, Lizet Sánchez-Valdés, Agustín Lage-Dávila

“…Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic, a treat to global health, overwhelmed health systems in many countries. …”
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Prospective surgical strategies for type 1 A aortic insufficiency by Aryan Meknat, Alee N. Pettit, Neusha Hollingsworth, Michael S. Halbreiner

“…At most centers, even high-volume aortic centers, any root pathology with associated aortic valve disease is treated with concomitant root and aortic valve replacement with a valved conduit. …”
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Dilemmas in Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Fever without Focus and other conditions by Pankaj V Deshpande

“…Results: The three children having fever without focus became afebrile before the UCx report was available. The girl was treated with moisturizing and emollient creams for local application, and her symptoms disappeared. …”
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Development a Method for Estimating a Safe Distance between Coagulates to Automatically Plan Retinal Laser Coagulation in Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment by A. S. Shirokanev

“…A method for estimating a safe distance between coagulates has been developed via the mathematical modeling of the thermal conductivity problem. An algorithm was established for reconstructing a three-dimensional fundus structure from OCT images. …”
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Predictive modelling and identification of critical variables of mortality risk in COVID-19 patients by Olawande Daramola, Tatenda Duncan Kavu, Maritha J. Kotze, Jeanine L. Marnewick, Oluwafemi A. Sarumi, Boniface Kabaso, Thomas Moser, Karl Stroetmann, Isaac Fwemba, Fisayo Daramola, Martha Nyirenda, Susan J. van Rensburg, Peter S. Nyasulu

“…Aside from clinical methods, artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as machine learning (ML) models have been employed in treating COVID-19 cases. However, limited application of AI for COVID-19 in Africa has been reported in the literature. …”
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Iliopsoas abscess and adverse reactions to metal debris in the setting of an infected metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty. A case series by David O'Sullivan, Mark Curtin, Shane P. Russell, Colin G. Murphy

“…Medical history, serum markers, trimodal imaging, aspirations and surgical procedures performed were analysed The management algorithm employed is outlined.Five were diagnosed with culture positive prosthetic joint infections (PJI). …”
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Nanostring-based multigene assay to predict recurrence for gastric cancer patients after surgery. by Jeeyun Lee, Insuk Sohn, In-Gu Do, Kyoung-Mee Kim, Se Hoon Park, Joon Oh Park, Young Suk Park, Ho Yeong Lim, Tae Sung Sohn, Jae Moon Bae, Min Gew Choi, Do Hoon Lim, Byung Hoon Min, Joon Haeng Lee, Poong Lyul Rhee, Jae J Kim, Dong Il Choi, Iain Beehuat Tan, Kakoli Das, Patrick Tan, Sin Ho Jung, Won Ki Kang, Sung Kim

“…The aim of this study was to develop and validate a prognostic algorithm for gastric cancer (GCPS) that can robustly identify high-risk group for recurrence among stage II patients. …”
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Downregulation of the Unfolded Protein Response Links Metformin Treatment to Good Clinical Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer Patients by Mary L. Fay, Chris Nicol, Christine Orr, Brooke Wilson, David Hurlbut, Harriet Feilotter, Scott Davey

“…A supervised learning algorithm pinpointed molecular features that discriminate between metformin-treated and diet-controlled diabetic CRC samples, as well as those that discriminated between non-diabetic samples based on their five-year overall survival status. …”
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Hypercalcemia: A Practice Overview of Its Diagnosis and Causes by Vincenzo Calabrese, Roberta M. Messina, Valeria Cernaro, Alessandra Farina, Ylenia Di Pietro, Guido Gembillo, Elisa Longhitano, Chiara Casuscelli, Giovanni Taverna, Domenico Santoro

“…For this condition, the correct diagnostic algorithm should be followed. In this review, we summarize the diagnostic steps to follow and detail each clinical pathway is involved in hypercalcemia.…”
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A comprehensive investigation of the relationship between dietary fatty acid intake and preserved ratio impaired spirometry: multimethodology based on NHANES by Chenyuan Deng, Yu Jiang, Yuechun Lin, Hengrui Liang, Wei Wang, Jianxing He, Ying Huang

“…To facilitate the prediction of PRISm, six distinct machine learning algorithms were constructed, followed by the application of SHAP analysis to elucidate the contribution of individual predictors. …”
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A ResNet-based deep reinforcement learning framework using soft actor-critic for remaining useful life prediction of rolling bearings by Thanh Tung Luu, Duy An Huynh

“…However, many existing data-driven approaches rely heavily on supervised learning and treat RUL estimation as a direct regression task from sensor data, lacking the ability to model temporal decision-making or adapt to different domains. …”
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