Are psychological measures and actuarial data equally effective in discriminating among the prison population? Analysis by crimes. by Carlos Burneo-Garcés, Manuel Fernández-Alcántara, Agar Marín-Morales, Miguel Pérez-García

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Non-destructive detection of internal quality of apple based on CT image by HUANG Taotao, SUN Teng, ZHANG Jingping

“…Secondly, the atactic pulp area should be separated from the faulted image by means of a segmentation algorithm named Otsu, which is an adaptive threshold method. …”
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Operational evaluation of the deployment of Malaria/CRP Duo and Dengue Duo rapid diagnostic tests for the management of febrile illness by village malaria workers in rural Cambodia by Marc T. Visser, Dysoley Lek, Bipin Adhikari, Arjun Chandna, Moul Vanna, Sam Ol, Voeurng Bunreth, Chan Davoeung, Yok Sovann, Dafne Umans, Yoel Lubell, Rusheng Chew, Richard J. Maude, Rob W. van der Pluijm, Rupam Tripura, Naomi Waithira, Siv Sovannaroth, Michèle van Vugt, Lorenz von Seidlein, Mavuto Mukaka, Arjen Dondorp, Thomas J. Peto, James J. Callery

“…Focus group discussions (FGDs) and competency assessments of combo-RDT usage were conducted with VMWs. The main objectives were to determine whether VMWs could perform these combo-RDTs correctly and follow management algorithms, and whether deployment had an impact on VMW consultation rates. …”
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Prediction of knee joint pain in Tai Chi practitioners: a cross-sectional machine learning approach by Yang Chen, Xiaojie Su, Fei Yao, Yushan Liu, Hua Xing, Yubin Ju, Zhiran Kang, Wuquan Sun, Lijun Yao, Li Gong

“…Objective To build a supervised machine learning-based classifier, which can accurately predict whether Tai Chi practitioners may experience knee pain after years of exercise.Design A prospective approach was used. …”
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CytoBead ANA 2 assay - a novel method for the detection of antinuclear antibodies by Tulchinsky Roei, Gilburd Boris, Shovman Yehuda, Tocut Milena, Zeruya Eleanor, Binyaminov Ariel, Davidson Tima, Thomas Büttner, Abdullah Nasser, Juliane Michel, Stefan Rödiger, Peter Schierack, Amital Howard, Dirk Roggenbuck, Shoenfeld Yehuda, Shovman Ora

“…Abstract Detection of anti-nuclear autoantibodies (ANA) is based on a two-step algorithm including indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) on HEp2 cells and subsequent reflex/confirmatory testing for specific autoantibodies. …”
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Tennis Timing Assessment by a Machine Learning-Based Acoustic Detection System: A Pilot Study by Lucio Caprioli, Amani Najlaoui, Francesca Campoli, Aatheethyaa Dhanasekaran, Saeid Edriss, Cristian Romagnoli, Andrea Zanela, Elvira Padua, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Giuseppe Annino

“…<b>Results:</b> The ML algorithm showed a detection accuracy higher than 95%, while the average accuracy of the whole system that was applied on-court was 85%. …”
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Cathepsin G promotes arteriovenous fistula maturation by positively regulating the MMP2/MMP9 pathway by Lemei Hu, Changqing Zheng, Ying Kong, Zhiqing Luo, Fengzhang Huang, Zhigang Zhu, Quhuan Li, Ming Liang

“…Next, we integrated the results obtained from the degree algorithm provided by the Cytohubba plug-in, Molecular complex detection (MCODE) plug-in, weighted gene correlation network analysis (WGCNA), and Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression. …”
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Prediction and impact of high burden of ventricular pacing in patients with pacemaker after transcatheter aortic valve replacement by Frédéric Anselme, MD, PhD, Iliès Jaballah, MD, Arnaud Savoure, MD, Raphaël Al Hamoud, MD, Charles Fauvel, MD, Eric Durand, MD, PhD, Hélène Eltchaninoff, MD, PhD, Corentin Chaumont, MD, PhD

“…Dual-chamber pacemakers were programmed with an algorithm favoring spontaneous atrioventricular (AV) conduction. …”
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Processing of ellipsis with garden-path antecedents in French and German: Evidence from eye tracking. by Dario Paape, Barbara Hemforth, Shravan Vasishth

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Fungi Infection in Surgical Department. Systemic and Local Antifungal Therapy by L. A. Blatun, G. E. Skladan, R. P. Terekhova, S. A. Prudnikova, M. G. Krutikov, O. I. Andreytseva, M. N. Yan, A. A. Nikitin, A. A. Ushakov, N. G. Askerov, V. A. Mitish, Yu. S. Paskhalova, P. A. Munios Sepeda, S. D. Magomedova, S. L. Sokov

“…To determine the frequency of detection of pathogenic fungi in a variety of surgical departments, to track the effectiveness of the developed algorithm of systemic and local antifungal therapy. …”
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Machine-learning prediction for hospital length of stay using a French medico-administrative database by Franck Jaotombo, Vanessa Pauly, Guillaume Fond, Veronica Orleans, Pascal Auquier, Badih Ghattas, Laurent Boyer

“…The typical clinical profile of these patients (17.5% of the sample) was the elderly patient, admitted in emergency, for a trauma, a neurological or a cardiovascular pathology, more often institutionalized, with more comorbidities notably mental health problems, dementia and hemiplegia.Discussion: The integration of ML, particularly the GB algorithm, may be useful for health-care professionals and bed managers to better identify patients at risk of PLOS. …”
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Challenges in COVID-19 Pandemic Triaging: An Indian and US Perspective by Muralidhar Varma, Robin Sudandiradas, Mauli Mahendra Patel, Trini Ann Mathew, Marcus Zervos, Shashikiran Umakanth, Asha Kamath, Mahadev Rao, Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Vijaya Arun Kumar

“…<b>Methods:</b> Each country has its own triage guidelines and Infection, Prevention, and Control policies developed by its health ministry and may face significant challenges in implementing them. …”
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Comparison of Electronic Surveillance With Routine Monitoring for Patients With Lymphoma at High Risk of Relapse: Prospective Randomized Controlled Phase 3 Trial (Sentinel Lymphoma... by Katell Le Dû, Adrien Chauchet, Sophie Sadot-Lebouvier, Olivier Fitoussi, Bijou Fontanet, Arnaud Saint-Lezer, Frédéric Maloisel, Cédric Rossi, Sylvain Carras, Anne Parcelier, Magali Balavoine, Anne-Lise Septans

“…Therefore, early detection may have an impact on quality of life and overall survival. …”
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Diagnostic value of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in hemodialysis patients by D. S. Sedov, E. A. Fedotov, A. P. Rebrov

“…NT-proBNP high levels in patients on HD may be associated with a risk of developing cardiovascular events, systolic and diastolic myocardial dysfunction. …”
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ZBTB10 as a potential prognosis biomarker and correlates with the tumor immune microenvironment in stomach adenocarcinoma by Yingdi Jiang, Fuhua Han, Lu Dai, Shali Qiu, Yanjie Zhou, Ke Wang, Jiang Lin

“…Moreover, based on the CIBERSORT algorithm, the expression of ZBTB10 was positively related to the levels of B cells, CD4 + T cells, M1 macrophages, and neutrophil cells. …”
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METHOD OF MOLAR SURFACE RESTORATION FOR TREATMENT OF PIT-AND-FISSURE CARIES IN CHILDREN by J.I. Soloshenko

“…Considering this progress, the features in children caries may be unnoticed for definite period and be revelaed only during preventive checkups, when the defect is identified in the fissure or pit while the occlusal surface remains intact. …”
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Exploring the Key Features of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with Machine Learning by Wan-Peng Sun, Ji-Guo Zhang, Yichao Li, Wan-Ting Hou, Fu-Wen Zhang, Jing-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang

“…However, there are potentially a number of nonrepeaters that may be misclassified, as repeating bursts are missed due to the limited sensitivity and observation periods, thus misleading the investigation of their physical properties. …”
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Cuproptosis-related lncRNA predicts prognosis and immune pathways in osteosarcoma patients by LIAO Jun, FENG Yanbin, XI Deshuang, ZONG Shaohui

“…The level of immune cell infiltration in tumor samples from OS patients was inferred by the ESTIMATE algorithm. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to verify the expression of the four CRLs in different cell lines. …”
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Sequence-structure based prediction of pathogenicity for amino acid substitutions in proteins associated with primary immunodeficiencies by Ekaterina S. Porfireva, Anton D. Zadorozhny, Anastasia V. Rudik, Dmitry A. Filimonov, Alexey A. Lagunin, Alexey A. Lagunin

“…SSPR models were created for each protein using the MultiPASS software based on the Bayesian algorithm and different levels of MNA (Multilevel Neighborhoods of Atoms) descriptors for the representation of structural formulas of protein fragments including AAS.ResultsThe accuracy of prediction was assessed through a 5-fold cross-validation and compared to other bioinformatics tools, such as SIFT4G, Polyphen2 HDIV, FATHMM, MetaSVM, PROVEAN, ClinPred, and Alpha Missense. …”
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Interplay of lung microbiome and epigenetics in former smokers: A machine learning and fuzzy logic approach on COPD progression by Hamidreza Taherkhani, Azadeh Kavianfar, Hossein Lanjanian, Nazanin Hosseinkhan, Mahdieh Salimi, Sajjad Nematzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Sadegh Azimzadeh, Ali Masoudi-Nejad

“…A supervised machine learning algorithm was employed to classify preprocessed 16S rRNA data from 112 COPD patients, identify operational taxonomic units (OTUs), and assess bacterial abundance and diversity. …”
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