Dynamic 19F-MRI of pulmonary ventilation in lung transplant recipients with and without chronic lung allograft dysfunction by Mary A. Neal, PhD, Saskia Bos, MD, PhD, Charlotte W. Holland, MRCP, Kieren G. Hollingsworth, Gerard Meachery, FRCP, Arun Nair, MD, FRCP, James L. Lordan, FRCP, Andrew J. Fisher, FRCP, PhD, Peter E. Thelwall, PhD

“…Background: By the time chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), with its main phenotypes bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS), is diagnosed by pulmonary function testing, irreversible damage to the lung allograft may already have occurred. …”
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Assessment of caries diagnostic threshold of DMFT, and ICDAS II in the estimation of caries prevalence rate in first permanent molars among students of College of Dentistry-Hawler... by Razawa Kareem Saeed, Mustafa Isa Omer, Neenor Nazar Hanna, Hallo Khals Ghafour

“…Between genders the P value was (0.38) and between age groups was (0.30) their result being insignificant, according to chi-square test. Conclusion: this study indicates that; the rate of decay is more in mandibular FPMs in comparison to maxillary FPMs. …”
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Factors affecting heat resilience of drone honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their sperm. by Alison McAfee, Bradley N Metz, Patrick Connor, Keana Du, Christopher W Allen, Luis A Frausto, Mark P Swenson, Kylah S Phillips, Madison Julien, Zoe Rempel, Robert W Currie, Boris Baer, David R Tarpy, Leonard J Foster

“…To address this gap, we tested body mass, viral infections, and population origin as predictors of drone survival and sperm viability in a series of heat challenge assays. …”
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ACCEPTANCE OF A USB-BASED PORTABLE LEARNING RESOURCE ON LOCAL KNOWLEDGE (EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES) by Angie R. Jalandoon, Liezel G. Mohillo, Dave E. Marcial

“…A USB-based Learning Resource, the PLR, was developed and tested to cater to users' flexible means of education. …”
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Effect of nanoemulsion carbonated hydroxyapatite-statin administration on Acp 5 and Runx-2 expression during orthodontic relapse in rats by Ananto Ali Alhasyimi, Niswati Fathmah Rosyida, Ika Dewi Ana

“…The collected data were evaluated using analysis of variance and post hoc tests, with p < 0.05. Results: A significant reduction in Acp 5-positive cells in the CHA-statin group was observed on days 7 and 14 of relapse movement compared with the other groups (p < 0.05), whereas the average Runx-2 expressions in the CHA-statin groups were significantly higher than in the other groups on days 1, 7, and 14 during the relapse phase (p < 0.05). …”
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Postmortem Analysis of Ethyl Alcohol Concentration in Blood, Urine, Muscle and Bile by Agnė Okulevičiūtė, Sigitas Chmieliauskas, Gabija Laubner-Sakalauskienė, Robertas Badaras, Sigitas Laima, Diana Vasiljevaitė, Jurgita Stasiūnienė

“…To avoid postmortem changes in blood alcohol concentration, the test substance must be transported in special media enriched with sodium fluoride or potassium oxalate. …”
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Determinants of infertility among married women who attend gynecologic unit at health facilities of Gamo Zone and South Omo Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a case control study by Firehiwot Haile, Selamawit Gebeyehu, Hanan Abdulkadir, Yordanos Gizachew, Mesrach Hailu

“…The data was collected by using the Open Data Kit (ODK) app through face-to-face interviews and exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. The chi-square test and multivariable logistic regression model were used to identify determinants (P value < 0.05). …”
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Fabrication and Performance Analysis of Novel HTV Silicon Rubber Nanocomposites for High Voltage Insulation in Outdoor Environment by Aqeel Ur Rehman, Muhammad Salman Khan, Abraiz Khattak, Yasin Khan, Khalid Hamad Alkhalid

“…Fabrication of silicon rubber nanocomposites was accomplished by a highly accurate procedure that included extensive testing with rubber technology. The extraordinarily high resistive nature of silicon rubber nanocomposites displays the insulation levels attained by nano-filler addition to the base matrix. …”
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Low & Anaplastic Grade Glioma Umbrella Study of MOlecular Guided TherapieS (LUMOS-2): study protocol for a phase 2, prospective, multicentre, open-label, multiarm, biomarker-direct... by Marshall Pitz, Eng-Siew Koh, Elizabeth H Barnes, Lucille Sebastian, Mandy L Ballinger, David M Thomas, Christopher O'Callaghan, John Simes, Hui K Gan, Sonia Yip, Hao-Wen Sim, Desma Spyridopoulos, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Cynthia Hawkins, Kristen McParland, Benjamin Kong, Subotheni Thavaneswaran, Patrick J Wheeler

“…This study aims to improve outcomes by molecular profiling of patients at relapse, then matching them with the best available drug based on their molecular profile, maximising the chances of patient benefit while simultaneously testing multiple novel drugs.Methods and analysis Low &amp; Anaplastic Grade Glioma Umbrella Study of MOlecular Guided TherapieS (LUMOS-2) will be an international, phase 2, multicentre, open-label, biomarker-directed, umbrella clinical trial for recurrent isocitrate dehydrogenase mutant, histologically grade 2/3 gliomas. …”
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Faktor Faktor Berpengaruh Kepada Kepuasan Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Indonesia (Fasilkom UI) Terhadap Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh (PJJ) Melalui Student-Centered E-Lea... by Hisyam Athaya, Betty Purwandari, Imairi Eitiveni, Mardiana Purwaningsih

“…From the result of a systematic literature review, a model is built from by collecting and selecting potential factors and indicators. The model was then tested using a quantitative method, and the results were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. …”
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Morpho-meristic variations of the native and Vietnam-originated climbing perch (Anabas testudineus), collected from hatchery sources in Bangladesh by Md. Arif Shahariar, Md. Mahamudul Hassan, Swagata Aditya, Tanjina Saulin, Atika Khondokar, Mohammad Shafiqul Alam

“…The nonparametric Kruskal Wallis (H) test also revealed significant variation both in morphometric and meristic characteristics. …”
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Economic impact of fetal wastage and common diseases, along with their incidence rates and seasonal variations, at an abattoir in FCT, Nigeria. by Ibrahim Dauda Dauda, Abdulhakeem Binhambali, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril, Zainab Oyiza Idris, Farhan Rhidor Akorede

“…The notable economic losses from condemned organs also underscore the necessity of implementing pregnancy tests for female animals before slaughter to protect food security and support the nation's economy. …”
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Development of machine learning models for predicting non-remission in early RA highlights the robust predictive importance of the RAID score-evidence from the ARCTIC study by Gaoyang Li, Shrikant S. Kolan, Franco Grimolizzi, Joseph Sexton, Giulia Malachin, Guro Goll, Tore K. Kvien, Tore K. Kvien, Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter, Manuela Zucknick, Siri Lillegraven, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Bjørn Steen Skålhegg

“…The model performance was evaluated through five independent unseen tests with nested 5-fold cross-validation. The predictive power of each feature was assessed using a composite measure derived from individual algorithm estimates.ResultsThe model demonstrated a mean AUC-ROC of 0.75-0.76, with mean sensitivity of 0.77-0.81, precision (also referred to as Positive Predictive Value) of 0.77-0.79 and specificity of 0.63-0.66 across the criteria. …”
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Evaluating empirical and machine learning approaches for reference evapotranspiration estimation using limited climatic variables in Nepal by Erica Shrestha, Suyog Poudyal, Anup Ghimire, Shrena Maharjan, Manoj Lamichhane, Sushant Mehan

“…Two strategies were applied: (1) the proposed ML models were tested at each weather station using leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV), (2) meteorological stations were grouped into three clusters using the K-means clustering and model performance were evaluated on each cluster. …”
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HPV vaccination knowledge, attitude, and practices among physicians in a teaching hospital, Karachi by Sehrish Habib Memon, Bhombhal Swaleha Tariq

“…Methods and Material: Physicians were approached in outpatient clinics, and a pilot-tested coded questionnaire was filled by them. Statistical Analysis Used: Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19. …”
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Determinación de aneuploidías/poliploidías en vacas Holstein con historial de aborto by Carlos Meza-López, Rómulo Bañuelos-Valenzuela, Braulio Lozano-Carbajal, Federico de la Colina-Flores, Lucía Delgadillo-Ruiz

“…Las ap/pp en los linfocitos de las vacas van desde (0%), una mediana del (2%) y máxima de (16%) de aberraciones cromosómicas, la edad registrada de las vacas fue una mínima de 3.5 años, una mediana de 5.8 y una máxima de 7.4. Con estos resultados se puede predecir que existe la posibilidad de que con cada año las vacas aborten y se incrementa en un 31.7%. …”
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Radiation dose and fraction in immunotherapy: one-size regimen does not fit all settings, so how does one choose? by Marka Crittenden, Sandra Demaria, C Norman Coleman, Jonathan Schoenfeld, Arta Monjazeb, Samir Khleif, Seema Gupta, Andrew Sikora, Zachary Morris, Chandan Guha, Stephen Shiao, Silvia Chiara Formenti, Bhadrasain Vikram, Mansoor M Ahmed

“…This article describes a conceptual framework for testing different radiation therapy regimens as separate models of how radiation itself functions as an immunomodulatory ‘drug’ to provide alternatives to the widely adopted ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy of frequently used 8 Gy×3 regimens immunomodulation.…”
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The impact of apolipoprotein E, type ∊4 allele on Alzheimer's disease pathological biomarkers: a comprehensive post-mortem pilot-analysis. by Ziyu Wan, Tao Ma

“…Employing Pearson R correlation, and one-way and two-way ANOVA tests, we elucidate the pathological changes in biomarkers and the altering effects of ApoE4. …”
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A comprehensive analysis of deep learning and transfer learning techniques for skin cancer classification by Manishi Shakya, Ravindra Patel, Sunil Joshi

“…Experimental performance is measured on the ISIC 2018 dataset which contains 3300 images of skin disease including benign and malignant type cancer images. 80% of the images from the ISIC 2018 dataset are allocated for training, while the remaining 20% are designated for testing. All approaches are trained using different parameters like epoch, batch size, and learning rate. …”
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Ensemble learning to predict short birth interval among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia: evidence from EDHS 2016–2019 by Jenberu Mekurianew Kelkay, Deje Sendek Anteneh, Henok Dessie Wubneh, Abraham Dessie Gessesse, Gebeyehu Fassil Gebeyehu, Kalkidan Kassahun Aweke, Mikiyas Birhanu Ejigu, Mathias Amare Sendeku, Kirubel Adrissie Barkneh, Hasset Girma Demissie, Wubshet D. Negash, Birku Getie Mihret

“…Results Random forest demonstrated the best performance with an accuracy 97.84%, recall of 99.70%, F1-score of 97.81%, 98.95% precision on test data and AUC (98%). Region, residency, age of women, sex of child, respondent education, distance health facility, husband education and religion were top predicting factors of short birth interval among women in Ethiopia. …”
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