Compatibility of the urodynamic findings and mixed urinary incontinence symptoms by Fatemeh Mallah, Parvin Bastani, Aila Kari, Ehsan Sepehran, Hanieh Salehi-Pourmehr

“…This study aimed to evaluate the agreement between the symptoms of patients with MUI and urodynamic findings. Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was conducted on 170 MUI patients who underwent urodynamic evaluation for confirmation of the presumptive diagnosis. …”
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Dynamic and Static Multiobjective Topology Optimization for Gears of Directional Drill Transmission System by Xiaohong Zhao, Xianguo Yan, Zhi Chen, Linbo Li, Ruibin Ren

“…Aiming at the multiobjective topology optimization design of the structure, this paper proposes a method to establish the comprehensive objective function based on the normalized subobjective of the compromise programming method and to determine the weight coefficient of the subobjective of the comprehensive objective function by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). …”
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Multispectral Imaging-Based System for Detecting Tissue Oxygen Saturation With Wound Segmentation for Monitoring Wound Healing by Chih-Lung Lin, Meng-Hsuan Wu, Yuan-Hao Ho, Fang-Yi Lin, Yu-Hsien Lu, Yuan-Yu Hsueh, Chia-Chen Chen

“…The StO2 levels that were determined using the TOSD system varied significantly among the phases of wound healing. …”
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Estimating vastus lateralis muscle volume from a single ultrasound image by Moritz Eggelbusch, Guido Weide, Michael Tieland, Renske N. Vergeer, Luuk Vos, Jantine van den Helder, Stephan van der Zwaard, Richard T. Jaspers, Peter J. M. Weijs, Rob C. I. Wüst

“…Here, we developed a method to accurately estimate vastus lateralis (VL) muscle volume based on a single measurement of anatomical cross-sectional area (ACSA) or tissue thickness. …”
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Real-time shear wave elastography in measuring normal ileocolon intestinal wall stiffness using colonoscopy as reference: A single-center research by Shuo Wang, Shihui Li, Shuling Chen, Manying Li, Xiaoyan Xie, Mao Ren, Yujun Chen

“…Measurement reliability was evaluated by the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The threshold value of SWE in differentiating normal and abnormal intestine was determined using ROC curve analysis with the largest Youden index, and the diagnostic performance of this threshold was evaluated. …”
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Retrospective Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a New Tanner–Whitehouse-Based Bone Age Assessment Algorithm Trained with a Deep Neural Network System by Meesun Lee, Young-Hun Choi, Seul-Bi Lee, Jae-Won Choi, Seunghyun Lee, Jae-Yeon Hwang, Jung-Eun Cheon, SungHyuk Hong, Jeonghoon Kim, Yeon-Jin Cho

“…Linear regression analysis was performed and the coefficient of determination (r²), mean absolute error (MAE), and root mean square error (RMSE) were measured. …”
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Video Laryngoscopes in Simulated Neonatal Intubation: Usability Study by Jasmine Antoine, Kirsty McLeod, Luke Jardine, Helen G. Liley, Mia McLanders

“…However, video laryngoscope devices vary, raising the possibility of differences in usability. <b>Methods</b>: The study used mixed methodology, including observations, semi-structured interviews, think-aloud techniques, high-fidelity simulations, function tests, and questionnaires to assess usability, defined by the clinician satisfaction, efficacy, and efficiency of six video laryngoscope devices; (1) C-MAC^® with Miller blade, (2) GlideScope^® Core^TM with Miller blade, (3) GlideScope^® Core^TM with hyperangle LoPro blade, (4) Koala^® Vision Ultra with Miller blade, (5) Koala^® Handheld with Miller blade, and (6) Parker Neonatal with Miller blade. …”
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A supervised machine-learning analysis of doxorubicin-loaded electrospun nanofibers and their anticancer activity capabilities by Mohammadreza Rostami, Mohammadreza Rostami, Maliheh Gharibshahian, Maliheh Gharibshahian, Mehrnaz Mostafavi, Ali Sufali, Mahsa Golmohammadi, Mohammad Reza Barati, Reza Maleki, Nima Beheshtizadeh, Nima Beheshtizadeh

“…This study employed a supervised machine-learning analysis to extract the influencing parameters of the input from quantitative data for doxorubicin-loaded electrospun nanofibers. The study also determined the significance coefficient of each parameter that influences the output results and identified the optimum points and intervals for each parameter. …”
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Research on High-Accuracy, Lightweight, Superfast Model for Nitrogen Diagnosis and Plant Growth in Lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i> L.) by Xuyang Li, Iftikhar Hussain Shah, Xiaohao Gong, Muhammad Azam, Wu Jinhui, Pengli Li, Yidong Zhang, Qingliang Niu, Liying Chang

“…Applying the transfer learning technique in RGB images exhibited EfficientNet-v2-s, the best model for precise determination of nitrogen diagnostics, with R² of 0.9859, MSE of 24.0755, and MAE of 2.3433. …”
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Documenting the Production Process of Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Gorgan, Ali Abadkatol and Aqqola Regions by Mohammad Reza Mansouri Vajari, Ebrahim Zeinali, Afshin Soltani, Benjamin Torabi, Alireza Nehbandani

“…In these investigations, the scope of changes and the method of performing each management operation performed in the bean farms and also the proportion of farmers who used different methods of each of these management operations were determined. …”
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Static strengths of circular hollow section stub column strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymer. by Chen Wei, Yang Yang

“…The cost-effective number of CFRP laminates bonded on the steel tube surface can be determined using the CFRP confinement coefficient λ, where λ balances the construction cost and the strengthening efficiency. …”
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Establishment and epidemiological investigation of a dual fluorescent qPCR assay for Pasteurella multocida and Salmonella in yaks in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê, Chi... by Yao Pan, Qingting Yu, Qi Wang, Qiang Li, Wei Tian, Lingxiang Xin, Xing Hu, Haiyue Xiao, Yuanjie Liu, Luo Rong Deng Zhu, Lan Lan, Liangquan Zhu, Jianping Wu

“…The standard curves showed strong linearity, with coefficients of determination of 0.995 and 0.998, and amplification efficiencies of 103.37% and 103.47% for pMD-kmt1 and pMD-invA, respectively. …”
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GKZ hypergeometric systems of the four-loop vacuum Feynman integrals by Hai-Bin Zhang, Tai-Fu Feng

“…The analytical expressions of Feynman integrals can be formulated as a linear combination of the fundamental solution systems in certain convergent region, which the combination coefficients can be determined by the integral at some regular singularities, the Mellin-Barnes representation of the integral, or some mathematical methods.…”
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Enhanced removal of the crystal violet dye from aqueous medium using tripolyphosphate–functionalized Zn–substituted magnetite nanoparticles by Lotfi Ben Tahar, Roaa Mogharbel, Yasmeen Hameed, Adel Noubigh, Mustafa Jaip Allah Abd Elmageed Abualreish, Ahmed Hamad Alanazi, Mohammad Rafe Hatshan

“…Preliminary results showed that pH is the most important factor that controls the dye adsorption and the optimum removal efficiency was determined for the natural pH (pH ∼7). …”
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Translation and Validation of the Tagalog Trust in Ophthalmologist Scale by Daphne Viel Cruzat-Tsuru, MD, Jose Ma. D. Martinez, MD, MBA

“…Results: The TTOS showed high internal consistency with Cronbach alpha of 0.92, high reliability with Pearson's coefficient of 0.85, and high validity with Spearman’s coefficient of 0.67. …”
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Uwagi o metodzie kojarzenia koncentracji naprężeń W. Moszyńkiego by Jerzy Tadeusz PINDERA

“…Several types of notches were investigated by the photoelastic method. Although the number of the investigated notch types is too small to permit conclusions of a more general character, the results obtained confirm the supposition of the inventor of the method that it can be used in engineering practice, at least in some particular cases, for a preliminary determination of shape coefficients of combined notches. …”
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The risk of coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome by N.V. Chmyr, R.Y. Dutka, H.V. Svitlyk, N.M. Hromnatska, I.S. Dronyk, K.J. Abrahamovych, O.Z. Didenko, M.Y. Fedechko, N.V. Drobinska

“…The preventive nature of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and prolactin (in women) effect on the occurrence of CAD and the provoking influence of diabetes, age, triglyceride, thyroid-stimulating hormone, cortisol levels, body mass index, and glycated hemoglobin were revealed. Their regression coefficients were determined, the reliability was checked using the Wald method, and the whole model was checked using the chi-square, the accuracy of the model was 79.4 %, the specificity was 77.3 %, and the sensitivity was 81.9 %. …”
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Exploring the functional role of POU5F1 using CRISPR RNP electroporation of zygote (CRISPR-EZ) in buffaloes by Meeti Punetha, Dharmendra Kumar, Suman Choudhary, Sheetal Saini, Kamlesh Kumari Bajwa, Surabhi Sharma, Manu Mangal, P. S. Yadav, T. K. Datta

“…In conclusion, direct electroporation of the CRISPR RNP component to the earlier stage of the zygote efficiently created mutations in the POU5F1 gene. We developed an easy and straightforward protocol for gene editing, which could serve as a valuable method for studying the functional genomics of the buffalo embryos. …”
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Transformation of the regulation of liability for tax offenses in the Russian Federation by E. L. Gulkova, E. A. Pshenichnova

“…The problems of tax administration in the sphere of taxation have been considered, as well as the prospects and directions offurther development and expansion of the applied methods of management of tax relations in the Russian Federation have been determined. …”
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Agreement between patient-reported flares and clinically significant flare status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in sustained remission: data from the ARCTIC REWIND trials by Désirée van der Heijde, Gunnstein Bakland, Åse Lexberg, Lena Bugge Nordberg, Siri Lillegraven, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Joseph Sexton, Till Uhlig, Espen A Haavardsholm, Karen Holten, Daniel H Solomon, Ellen Moholt, Hallvard Fremstad, Hilde Haukeland, Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter, Cristina Spada, Kaja E Kjørholt, Christian A Høili, Tor Magne Madland, Inger Johanne Widding Hansen, Inger Myrnes Hansen, Maud-Kristine Aga Ljoså

“…A clinically significant flare was defined as a combination of Disease Activity Score (DAS) &gt;1.6, increase in DAS of ≥0.6 and 2 swollen joints, or the rheumatologist and patient agreed that a clinically significant flare had occurred. Agreement coefficient, sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of patient-reported flare status with regard to clinically significant flare status were determined.Results Of 248 patients, 64% were women, age 56.1 (11.8) years, disease duration 4.1 (2.8–7.4) years, DAS 0.8 (0.3). 35% of patients reported a flare at least once, clinically significant flares were recorded in 21%. 48/53 clinically significant flares (91%) led to an intensification of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugss. …”
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