Development and validation of the predictive scoring system for 90-day mortality in critical ill patients with exertional heatstroke by Jiali Cun, Li Zhong, Jingjing Ji, Yan Liu, Zhifeng Liu, Ming Wu

“…Using the mathematical transformation principle, the regression coefficients of each risk predictor were reassigned to develop a practical predictive scoring system. …”
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The Relationship Among Theory of Mind, Comprehensionof Mental Verbs State and Mean Length of Utterance in Children With Hearing Impairment by Zahra Hajgholamrezaee, Fatemeh Hassanati, Pariya Hajgholamrezaee, Akbar Darouie

“…Objective The theory of mind is an underlying cognitive ability for the development of social skills, which is closely linked to language development. …”
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UAV rice panicle blast detection based on enhanced feature representation and optimized attention mechanism by Shaodan Lin, Deyao Huang, Libin Wu, Zuxin Cheng, Dapeng Ye, Haiyong Weng

“…Correlation coefficient analysis across disease severity levels indicates high consistency between predictions and ground truth, with values ranging from 0.962 to 0.993. …”
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A new BWO-based RGB vegetation index and ensemble learning strategy for the pests and diseases monitoring of CCB trees using unmanned aerial vehicle by Keliang Hu, Keliang Hu, Junchen Liu, Hai Xiao, Qiangguo Zeng, Jun Liu, Jun Liu, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Man Li, Man Li, Zhihui Wang, Zhihui Wang

“…To account for the collinearity relationship between indices, the random forest variable importance and correlation coefficient iterative analysis algorithm are employed to select indices, retaining the most important or lowest collinearity multiple vegetation indices. …”
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Investigating the Knowledge of General Dental Students and Residents Regarding Practical Self-Assessment Skills by Fatemeh Sadat Sajadi, Zahra Salari, MohadeseSadat TabatabaeiRad, Ali Abedi, Reyhaneh Aftabi

“…The second part questioned students' knowledge and attitude toward practical self-assessment skills. The intra-class coefficient and content validity index of the questionnaire were 0.72 and 0.83, respectively. …”
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Association between blood cortisol levels and numerical rating scale in prehospital pain assessment by Raúl López-Izquierdo, Elisa A. Ingelmo-Astorga, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Santos Gracia Villar, Luis Alonso Dzul López, Silvia Aparicio Obregón, Rubén Calderon Iglesias, Ancor Sanz-García, Francisco Martín-Rodríguez

“…The aim of this work was to determine the ability of prehospital cortisol levels to correlate to pain. …”
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Estimation of the air conditioning energy consumption of a classroom using machine learning in a tropical climate by Liliana Ortega-Diaz, Julian Jaramillo-Ibarra, German Osma-Pinto

“…During the training phase, the RFR model achieved a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.97, while the SVR obtained an R2 of 0.78 in the test phase. …”
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Daily Runoff Prediction Model Based on Multivariate Variational Mode Decomposition and Correlation Reconstruction by DING Jie, TU Peng-fei, FENG Yu, ZENG Huai-en

“…[Conclusions](1) The MVMD decomposition method can control the number of decomposition layers, ensuring complete signal feature extraction without overfitting while improving processing speed.(2) Pearson correlation coefficient method enhances prediction accuracy through decomposed data classification.(3) The MEA-BP can improve signal-to-noise ratio, adapt to complex environments, enhance learning efficiency and generalization ability, and reduce computational complexity.(4) The GWO-ELM algorithm integrates grey wolf optimizer with extreme learning machine, providing a fast and adaptive solution for time-series prediction with reduced overfitting and improved efficiency.(5) The overall combined model can efficiently and stably process large amount of data while ensuring high accuracy.…”
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Evaluation of CORDEX Africa regional climate models performance in simulating climatology of Zarima sub-basin northwestern Ethiopia by Meaza Kassahun, Kassahun Ture, Dessie Nedaw

“…The models were evaluated based on their ability in replicating the seasonal and annual rainfall, minimum and maximum temperature and inter-annual variability for the period of 1986–2005 using statistical metrics such as BIAS, Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Pearson correlation coefficient (r), coefficient of variation (CV), Kling Gupta Efficiency (KGE) and Taylor diagram. …”
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Exploring the textural characteristics of foods preferred by Chinese elderly individuals based on IDDSI levels. by Muxi Chen, Yi Cheng, Wen Hu, Mengyan Wang, Juan Duan, Lei Shi

“…Regression analysis revealed that cohesiveness had the most substantial impact on IDDSI levels (coefficient = -5.224, p≤0.05), followed by adhesiveness (coefficient = -0.021, p≤0.05), and hardness (coefficient = 0.002, p≤0.05).…”
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Numerical simulation of multi-principal elements high-entropy alloy milling based on minimal quantity lubrication by Yanwei WU, Yin LIU, Xingwei SUN, Heran YANG, Zhixu DONG, Weifeng ZHANG

“…When the milling depth is greater than 0.20 mm, the ability of MQL milling to reduce milling force increases with the increase of milling depth. …”
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A Miniaturized Implantable Telemetry Biosensor for the Long-Term Dual-Modality Monitoring of Core Temperature and Locomotor Activity by Wendi Shi, Hao Huang, Xueting Sun, Qihui Jia, Yu Zhou, Maohua Zhu, Mingqiang Tian, Zhuofan Li, Zepeng Zhang, Tongfei A. Wang, Lei Zhang

“…The results demonstrate stable and highly accurate performance over the 30-day implantation period. Its ability to minimize behavioral interference while enabling long-term continuous monitoring highlights its value in both biomedical and animal behavior research.…”
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Spatial Downscaling of Soil Moisture Product to Generate High-Resolution Data: A Multi-Source Approach over Heterogeneous Landscapes in Kenya by Asnake Kassahun Abebe, Xiang Zhou, Tingting Lv, Zui Tao, Abdelrazek Elnashar, Asfaw Kebede, Chunmei Wang, Hongming Zhang

“…While satellite and model-derived SM products effectively capture SM dynamics, their coarse spatial resolutions (~10–36 km) hinder their ability to represent SM variability in heterogeneous landscapes influenced by local factors. …”
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Evaluating the effects of urban development on the ecological carrying capacity of Isfahan city based on the system dynamics approach by Zahra Dehghan Manshadi, Parastoo Parivar

“…The necessity of ecological capacity and the ability of cities to sustain their potential to provide goods and services to both current and future generations cannot be overstated. …”
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Characterization of Rheological and Tribological Properties of Sodium Alginate Microspheres Prepared by High-speed Shear and Microfluidics by Jiawen LIN, Siqian CHEN, Yujia LIU, Jie ZHU, Kai WANG

“…The microspheres prepared by microfluidics exhibited stronger thixotropy and recovery ability, and their tribological coefficient was less affected by the concentration. …”
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Development of an XGBoost-based prediction model for wound recurrence risk in diabetic foot ulcer patients treated with antibiotic-loaded bone cement by Yi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xingyu Sun, Cheng Cheng, Nianzong Hou, Nianzong Hou, Shiliang Han, Xin Tang

“…Based on feature correlation, feature importance, and feature weight, LASSO analysis, random forest, and the Pearson correlation coefficient approach were used to identify the features. …”
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Repeatability of Fractal Analysis in OCT Angiography of the Macula and Optic Nerve Head by Gustavo Rosa Gameiro, MD, PhD, Alessandro A. Jammal, MD, PhD, Verônica Vilasboas-Campos, MD, Jianhua Wang, MD, PhD, Felipe A. Medeiros, MD, PhD

“…Vessel density repeatability was assessed using the coefficient of variation (CoV) with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. …”
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An efficient propagation system through stem cuttings of a multipurpose plant—Ficus tikoua Bur by Tinghong Tan, Yu Peng, Biling An, Fan Gao, Yanni Sun, Chuandong Yang, Hong Yang, Zhihong Lu

“…Mantel test analyses revealed that the ability of F. tikoua cuttings from different habitats to form adventitious roots (ARs) largely determined the functional traits associated with cutting propagation. …”
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Evaluation of Siemens Healthineers’ StrokeSegApp for automated diffusion and perfusion lesion segmentation in patients with ischemic stroke by Lynnet-Samuel J. Teichmann, Ahmed A. Khalil, Kersten Villringer, Jochen B. Fiebach, Stefan Huwer, Eli Gibson, Ivana Galinovic

“…The performance of the StrokeSegApp was compared against this ground truth using the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and Bland–Altman plots. The study also evaluated the application’s ability to recommend mechanical thrombectomy based on DEFUSE 2 and 3 trial criteria.ResultsThe StrokeSegApp demonstrated a mean DSC of 0.60 (95% CI: 0.57–0.63; n = 241) for diffusion deficit segmentation and 0.80 (95% CI: 0.76–0.85; n = 56) for perfusion deficit segmentation. …”
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Discernibility in explanations: Designing more acceptable and meaningful machine learning models for medicine by Haomiao Wang, Julien Aligon, Julien May, Emmanuel Doumard, Nicolas Labroche, Cyrille Delpierre, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, Louis Casteilla, Valérie Planat-Benard, Paul Monsarrat

“…Thirteen statistical coefficients were evaluated for their ability to capture, for a given variable, the relationship between its values and its explanations using Passing-Bablok regression. …”
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