The Relationship Between Preoperative Neutrophil–Lymphocyte Ratio and Postoperative Length of Stay in Carotid Body Tumor Resection by Biao Wu, Jiang Zhu, Liang Chen, Xiaonan Wang, Hao Zhang, Kunyu Guan, Yu Li

“…In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed data from 231 CBT patients who underwent resection at Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, between 2008 and 2020. …”
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Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) at Admission Predicts In-Hospital Mortality of COVID-19-Infected Patients by Haryati Haryati, Mohamad Isa, Mohammad Rudiansyah, Juhairina Juhairina, Muhamad Nor, Fidya Rahmadhany Arganita

“…The PNI was associated with an increased risk of mortality, with a univariate odds ratio (OR) of 0.923. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis demonstrated that a PNI cut-off value of p<41.9 had a sensitivity of 44.9% and a specificity of 82.4%, with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.666 (p<0.001). …”
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Experience of using unmanned aerial photography systems for mapping the territory of the Russian Federation by S. Nekhin, A. Rubenok

“…The analysis of the methods of remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing) used in mapping the territory of the Russian Federation (satellite imagery, aerial photography from manned and unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs) is given. …”
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Concepts for point-of-care ultrasound training in low resource settings: a scoping review by Friedrich Eppel, Friederike Hunstig, Sabine Bélard, Benno Kreuels

“…Methods and findings All studies on diagnostic POCUS training in LMICs that could be found in the Cochrane, Embase, Google Scholar, and Medline databases up to July 6, 2023, were included and data was extracted for descriptive analysis. The review protocol was registered at OSF https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/8FQJW . …”
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The Impact of Background Music on Flow, Work Engagement and Task Performance: A Randomized Controlled Study by Yuwen Sun

“…A two-phase longitudinal experiment with 428 Chinese undergraduates employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze data from randomized groups (control, high-arousal, low-arousal, and Mozart K448), completing Backward Digit Span tasks under controlled auditory conditions. …”
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Assessing soil erosion and sediment yield in the Bou Rouina watershed (Northeast of Algeria): a RUSLE-SDR modeling approach by Zineb Youcef Khodja, Kamel Khanchoul, Robert Altschul, Abdeldjalil Belkendil, Zahra Djamai

“…Validation of the generated soil erosion map was performed using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results showed mean values of rainfall erosivity at 148.02 MJ.mm.ha-1.h-1.yr-1 and soil erodibility at 0.034 t.ha.h.ha−1.Mj−1.mm−1. …”
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Early therapy contributes to the normalization of platelet in patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome during the convalescent phase. by Xiaoyu Xue, Xiaolei Wang, Ling Lin, Wenjing Niu, Zhouling Jiang, Kehang Liu, Yanli Xu, Youde Liu, Zhihai Chen

“…The multivariate Cox regression was used to identify independent risk factors affecting platelet recovery and the Kaplan-Meier was performed to evaluate the probability of 14-day platelet recovery, using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and area under the curve (AUC) to measure the model's performance, with clinical benefit assessed by decision curve analysis (DCA).…”
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Leveraging spatial dependencies and multi-scale features for automated knee injury detection on MRI diagnosis by Jianhua Sun, Ye Cao, Ying Zhou, Baoqiao Qi

“…BackgroundThe application of deep learning techniques in medical image analysis has shown great potential in assisting clinical diagnosis. …”
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Estimating individual exposure to malaria using local prevalence of malaria infection in the field. by Ally Olotu, Gregory Fegan, Juliana Wambua, George Nyangweso, Edna Ogada, Chris Drakeley, Kevin Marsh, Philip Bejon

“…The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to assess the discriminatory power of the models. …”
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Development and Application of High Temperature Direct Push Storage Logging System by SUN Zhiyuan, XU Guixu, WANG Shoupeng, TANG Liping

“…Through standardization, digitization, modular circuit design and insulation design techniques, the reliable operation of the measurement circuit in high-temperature environments is ensured, and the specific design of the universal data processing module is provided. …”
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Combined Transplantation of Mesenchymal Progenitor and Neural Stem Cells to Repair Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Seok Voon White, Yee Hang Ethan Ma, Christine D. Plant, Alan R. Harvey, Giles W. Plant

“…We show, in this study, that MPC transplantation resulted in a co-operative NSC cell survival improvement on day three post-SCI. …”
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Enhancing environmental sustainability: Optimal municipal-industrial waste burial site selection in Bandar Abbas, Iran using a fuzzy multi-criteria approach incorporating physical-... by Mahdi Ranjbari, Mohammad Amiri, Alireza Rasekhi Sahneh, Mahdi Faghihi

“…Euclidean distance mapping, combined with fuzzy operators (AND, OR, SUM, Product) and varied gamma values, generates a superposition map for site suitability analysis. …”
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Systematic approach in struggle against Heracleum Sosnowskyi with GPS mapping usage by Mykhailo Solomiichuk, Maksym Solomiichuk

“…Goal. Analysis of long-term data on the systematic control of Heracleum Sosnowskyi on the territory of the city of Chernivtsi and the city of Kovel, taking into account the effectiveness of the use of GPS mapping. …”
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FORECASTING OF PRODUCTION OUTPUT FOR LIGHT INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES WITH PURPOSE TO DETERMINE THEIR POWER RESOURCES REQUIREMENTS. Part 1 by V. N. Romaniuk, D. B. Muslina

“…The results of an analytical calculation analysis of statistical and obtained forecasting data are considered as a basis for the development of scientifically substantiated proposals for modernization of energy supply systems and power resource saving of the industry that fully corresponds to the investigation objective. …”
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Prediction of clinical outcome for high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of adenomyosis based on non-enhanced MRI radiomics by Ziyi Liu, Ziyan Liu, Xiyao Wan, Yuan Wang, Xiaohua Huang

“…The combined model was constructed by integrating Radscore and clinical-imaging independent predictors. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, the Delong test, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to evaluate the models.Results The combined model had the best overall performance among the three models. …”
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Dietary vitamin K intake associates with reduced all-cause mortality in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients by Yu Huang, Xianfeng Zhu, Liang Han, Hulan Hu

“…Sensitivity analyses, subgroup analyses, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were performed to validate findings. …”
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Wet-nursing as a new strategy for orphan care in Saudi Arabia by Abdulaziz Albrithen, Shamma Alfalasi

“…Data collection took approximately five months (January 2022 to May 2022). …”
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RMIS-Net: a fast medical image segmentation network based on multilayer perceptron by Binbin Zhang, Guoliang Xu, Yiying Xing, Nanjie Li, Deguang Li

“…Comprehensive evaluations on two benchmark datasets (2018 Data Science Bowl for cellular structure segmentation and ISIC-2018 for lesion boundary delineation) demonstrate RMIS-Net’s superior performance, achieving state-of-the-art metrics including an average F1-score of 0.91 and mean intersection-over-union of 0.82. …”
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Multi scale supervised entropy weighted binary pattern for texture classification by Xiaochun Xu, Bin Li

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Learning How to Learn in Sustainability Transitions Projects: The Potential Contribution of Developmental Evaluation by Andrew S. Mitchell, Mark Lemon

“…Research Design: Phronetic case study. Data Collection and Analysis: Participant-observation, action research, focus and special issue group facilitation. …”
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