Specifying the probability characteristics of funnel plot control limits: an investigation of three approaches. by Bradley N Manktelow, Sarah E Seaton

“…The third method led to a probability that was always greater than, or equal to, p.…”
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The association between environmental exposures during childhood and the subsequent development of Crohn's disease: A score analysis approach. by Victor Tinashe Sabe, Abigail Raffner Basson, Esme Jordaan, Mikateko Mazinu

“…Two methods employed the subgrouping of one or more (similar) variables (methods A and B), with each subgroup assigned a score value weighting equal to one. …”
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A Fusion Model for Predicting the Vibration Trends of Hydropower Units by Dong Liu, Youchun Pi, Zhengyang Tang, Hongpeng Hua, Xiaopeng Wang

“…The fusion model first employed a waveform matching extension method based on parameter ergodic optimization to extend the original signal. …”
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Contrastive Speaker Representation Learning with Hard Negative Sampling for Speaker Recognition by Changhwan Go, Young Han Lee, Taewoo Kim, Nam In Park, Chanjun Chun

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we compared the performance of a deep learning model trained with a conventional loss function utilized in speaker recognition with that of a deep learning model trained using our proposed method, as measured by the equal error rate (EER), an objective performance metric. …”
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Investigating the Design and Manufacture of a Silicone Texture Pad in a Lumbosacral Orthosis for a Patient With Chronic Low Back Pain by Bahareh Delshad, Mokhtar Arazpour, Akbar Biglarian, Seyed Reza Mousavi, Mohammad Ali Mardani

“…The patient’s pain and functional disability were measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) and Oswestry disability index (ODI) before using the belt, and after 6 weeks of using it, her satisfaction with the treatment method was recorded. …”
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ANALISIS PASOKAN TBS DAN HARGA CPO (STUDI KASUS KABUPATEN BENGKULU UTARA DAN PT. AGRICINAL) by . Nusril, Nyayu Neti Arianti, . Rismaini

“…This research was carried out on 2005 September in North Bengkulu Sub-Province. The analysis data Method was adapted with that aim is descriptive analysis, exponential smoothing method and process cost of goods manufactured method. …”
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Effectiveness of mobile and e-mail-based reporting on consistency in private health facilities for the disease surveillance system, Poonamallee Health District, Tamil Nadu, India:... by Abishek Stanislaus, Prabhakaran Jesudoss, Sendhilkumar Muthappan, Ponnaiah Manickam

“…Conclusion: Both e-mail and mobile interventions have equally improved the consistency of reporting. The mobile-based reporting method was found to be more consistent and complete and maintain timeliness compared to the e-mail-based reporting method.…”
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Mechanism and Stability Analysis of Deformation Failure of a Slope by Yingfa Lu, Gan Liu, Kai Cui, Jie Zheng

“…The results show that progressive failure can be well represented and the safety factor can be well described by the main thrust method (MTM), comprehensive displacement method (CDM), and surplus displacement method (SDM), which can be used to feasibly evaluate slope stability.…”
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Activation of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen steering sharing with unsharp nonlocal measurements by Xin-Hong Han, Tian Qian, Shan-Chuan Dong, Shuo Wang, Ya Xiao, Yong-Jian Gu

“…Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that nonlocal measurements with unequal strength possess a greater activation capability compared to those with equal strength. Our activation method generates fresh concepts for conservation and recycling quantum resources.…”
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Hybrid Capture-Based Sequencing Enables Highly Sensitive Zoonotic Virus Detection Within the One Health Framework by Weiya Mao, Jin Wang, Ting Li, Jiani Wu, Jiangrong Wang, Shubo Wen, Jicheng Huang, Yongxia Shi, Kui Zheng, Yali Zhai, Xiaokang Li, Yan Long, Jiahai Lu, Cheng Guo

“…Our method bridges a critical divide between diagnostic detection and genomic surveillance. …”
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Integration of Convolutional Neural Network and Image Processing for Pulp Fibril Detection and Measurement by Tanachot Chirakitsakul, Pakaket Wattuya, Phichit Somboon, Panthira Jansakra, Chakrit Watcharopas

“…However, traditional measurement methods—such as manual visual examination of pulp samples under microscopy—are slow, error-prone, and labor-intensive, limiting their scalability in industrial applications. …”
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Enhancing Adversarial Defense via Brain Activity Integration Without Adversarial Examples by Tasuku Nakajima, Keisuke Maeda, Ren Togo, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama

“…These methods also lead to a trade-off between robustness to adversarial examples and accuracy for clean images. …”
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Optimizing Class Imbalance in Facial Expression Recognition Using Dynamic Intra-Class Clustering by Qingdu Li, Keting Fu, Jian Liu, Yishan Li, Qinze Ren, Kang Xu, Junxiu Fu, Na Liu, Ye Yuan

“…By comparing with existing methods, we demonstrate that the DICC method can help the model achieve superior performance across various facial expression datasets. …”
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PENGARUH KOMUNIKASI PEMASARAN TERHADAP PENINGKATAN JUMLAH NASABAH ASURANSI BUMI ASIH JAYA MEDAN by Ardial Ira Yustina

“…The issues of this research is: " How far the iInfluence of marketing communications to make-up of the amount of client at Glorious Earth Asih Insurance?" Research Method used by method korelasional, while technique of data collecting is by propagating enquette. …”
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Cellulose extraction from corn husk and its modification with metal-organic framework and its use to remove pharmaceutical pollutants by Alireza Hazrati, mehdi barzegarzadeh, Mohammad Sadegh Aminifazl

“…The chemical structure, crystallinity, morphology, particle size and other properties of the absorbent were investigated and confirmed using SEM, XRD, FT-IR and VSM analyses.Findings: The parameters affecting the maximum absorption of doxorubicin including pH, initial concentration, adsorbent amount and contact time were optimized using Taguchi's statistical method and in optimal conditions of pH = 6, the initial concentration was equal to 20 ppm, the amount of adsorbent was equal to 2 g/L, and in 80 minutes, the absorption capacity was 88%. …”
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Aircraft Position Estimation Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Low SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) Values by Przemyslaw Mazurek, Wojciech Chlewicki

“…The safety of the airspace could be improved by the use of visual methods for the detection and tracking of aircraft. …”
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Published population pharmacokinetic models of mycophenolate sodium: a systematic review and external evaluation in a Chinese sample of renal transplant recipients by Tong Gao, Wen Xu, Xiao Li, Qie Guo, Donghua Liu, Xiaolei Zhang, Ping Leng, Jialin Sun

“…Model prediction performance was evaluated using three metrics: the goodness-of-fit method based on model prediction, prediction error test method and visual predictive checks method based on model simulation.ResultsA total of 186 drug concentration data of 31 patients in our hospital were collected, and 4 literature were retrieved, among which 1 were one-compartment models and 3 were two-compartment models. …”
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Wavelet Transform-Based 3D Landscape Design and Optimization for Digital Cities by Yang Chen, Xiaolin Wang, Chang Zhang

“…Finally, the simulation experimental results show that the proposed denoising method in this article can better retain the texture details in the images and the denoised images have better visual effects; the proposed information fusion model has higher accuracy compared with the traditional methods. …”
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Research on Early Fault Identification of Cables Based on the Fusion of MTF-GAF and Multi-Head Attention Mechanism Features by Hao Wu, Dan Tang, Yuan Cai, Chaowen Zheng

“…At the same time, the classification results of cable early faults are visualized using the t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) method to visually observe the classification effect of the hybrid neural network. …”
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Large multimodal model for open vocabulary semantic segmentation of remote sensing images by Bing Liu, Xiaohui Chen, Anzhu Yu, Fan Feng, Jiaying Yue, Xuchu Yu

“…Inspired by the success of large multimodal models, we propose an open vocabulary segmentation method for remote sensing images. The proposed method uses the large multimodal model LLAVA and the vision large model SAM to achieve segmentation of open vocabulary. …”
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