Differences in Finger Dexterity in Patients With Mild and Moderate Alzheimer's Disease—A Study of Cognitive Function by Disease Severity by Shota Suzumura, Aiko Osawa, Junpei Sugioka, Masaki Kamiya, Yuko Sano, Akihiko Kandori, Tomohiko Mizuguchi, Yoshiharu Uchida, Hitoshi Kagaya, Izumi Kondo

“…The Mann–Whitney U test and effect size were used to compare parameter values between the two groups (mild and moderate AD), and the calculated p values were corrected using the Bonferroni method. The Spearman rank correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the association between finger parameters and cognitive function (Mini‐Mental Examination [MMSE]). …”
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The Use of Catheter Mount Will Result in More Reliable Carbon Dioxide Monitoring under Fluid Exposing Conditions by Yongil Cho, Wonhee Kim, Tae Ho Lim, Hyuk Joong Choi, Jaehoon Oh, Bossng Kang, Youjin Kim, In Young Kim

“…Methods. In 25 healthy adults, a prospective, open label, crossover study was conducted to examine the effect of DCCM in mainstream and microstream capnometers under water exposing conditions. …”
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The manifestation of VIS-NIRS spectroscopy data to predict and mapping soil texture in the Triffa plain (Morocco) by Ayoub Lazaar, Biswajeet Pradhan, Zakariae Naiji, Abdelali Gourfi, Kamal El Hammouti, Karim Andich, Abdelilah Monir

“…The results of prediction models showed excellent performance for the VIS-NIRS spectroscopy to predict the sand fraction with a coefficient of determination R2=0.93 and Root Mean Squares Error (RMSE)=3.72 and good prediction for the silt fraction (R2=0.87; RMSE= 4.55), and acceptable prediction for the clay fraction (R2= 0.53; RMSE=3.72). …”
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Agreement Between Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Formulas and Indirect Calorimetry in Non-Dialysis Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease by Mariana Cassani de Oliveira, Marina Nogueira Berbel Bufarah, Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, Cassiana Regina de Góes, André Luís Balbi

“…Background and Aims: The gold standard method for measuring resting energy expenditure (REE) is indirect calorimetry (IC) using an expensive device that requires specialized training. …”
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MetaForecaster: A PSO-Driven Neural Model for Sustainable Industrial Air Quality Management by Marzia Ahmed, Shahrin Islam, Mohd Herwan Sulaiman, Md Maruf Hassan, Touhid Bhuiyan

“…Comparative analyzes with established hybrid forecasting approaches, such as Genetic Algorithm-NN, Simulated Annealing-NN, and Differential Evolution-NN, demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed PSO-NN model, achieving notably low prediction errors (MSE: <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.1941 \times 10^{-7}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), MAPE: 0.0016 and a high coefficient of determination (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$R^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>: 0.99999). …”
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Discordance of HER2 between primary tumors and lymph node metastatic lesions in invasive breast cancer by Noviana Nugrohowati, Sumadi Lukman Anwar, Juwaryani Juwaryani, Firda Ridhayani

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 30 invasive breast cancer patients. …”
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Deep learning for automated segmentation of radiation-induced changes in cerebral arteriovenous malformations following radiosurgery by Hsing-Hao Ho, Huai-Che Yang, Wen-Xiang Yang, Cheng-Chia Lee, Hsiu-Mei Wu, I-Chun Lai, Ching-Jen Chen, Syu-Jyun Peng

“…The average Dice similarity coefficient in these comparisons was 71.8%. Conclusions The proposed segmentation algorithm achieved results on par with conventional manual calculations in determining the volume of RICs, which were shown to peak at the end of the first year after SRS and then gradually decrease. …”
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Study on the Relationship Between Species Richness and Morphological Diversity of Higher Categories in Scarabaeoidea by Yumeng Qiao, Yijie Tong, Zhehao Tian, Ning Liu, Ming Bai

“…Evolutionary biology faces the important challenge of determining how to interpret the relationship between selection pressures and evolutionary radiation of species. …”
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Validation and Comparison of DEBQ and TEMS in Assessing Eating Behaviours in the Romanian Adult Population by Ana Maria Gal, Oana Dumitrascu, Andreea Gherasim, Otilia Nita, Alina Delia Popa, Laura Mihalache, Lidia Iuliana Arhire

“…Our study showed factor loads similar to the original version of the questionnaire for DEBQ and a very good internal validity (Cronbach's alpha fidelity coefficient greater than 0.8) for both DEBQ and TEMS. …”
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The Relationship between Attention and Balance in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Comparative Preliminary Study in Diplegia and Hemiplegia by mahrokh ghahari, Aliyeh Daryabor, mino kalantari, ashkan irani, zahra Shafiee

“…Spearman's correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the relationship between attention and balance, with a significance threshold of α=0.05. …”
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Relationship Between Craniovertebral Angle and Upper Trapezius Muscle Stiffness and Tone in Office Workers by Yoon-ji Lee, Sung-hoon Jung, Jun-hee Kim, Oh-yun Kwon

“…Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship between CVA and stiffness and tone of the UT muscle. …”

The development of open bite in patients with adenoid hypertrophy: clinical and radiological examination by M. E. Makarova, Z. S. Khabadze, Yu. A. Generalova, A. A. Kulikova, F. V. Badalov, M. Yu. Dashtieva, A. Yu. Umarov

“…To study the prevalence of adenoid hypertrophy in children aged 7 to 9 years with anterior open bite, paying special attention to the characteristics of the factors determining the development of this malocclusion.MATERIALS AND METHODS. 60 children aged 7 to 9 years with an orthodontic diagnosis of anterior open bite were included in the study. …”
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Assessment of minimum clinically important difference in symptoms and functionality of Japanese patients with major depressive disorder following inadequate response to antidepress... by Hikaru Hori, Masako Shiosakai, Yoshiyuki Shibasaki, Kentaro Yamato, Kentaro Yamato, Yilong Zhang

“…Here, we conducted a post hoc analysis to determine the MCID in Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS), and EQ-5D-5L-derived utility score. …”
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Test–Retest Reliability and Concurrent Validity of Photoplethysmography Finger Sensor to Collect Measures of Heart Rate Variability by Donald W. Rogers, Andreas T. Himariotis, Thomas J. Sherriff, Quentin J. Proulx, Megan T. Duong, Sabrina E. Noel, David J. Cornell

“…Additionally, similar standard errors of the mean, coefficient of variation, and minimal detectable change metrics were observed across all devices. …”
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Housing Price Modeling Using a New Geographically, Temporally, and Characteristically Weighted Generalized Regression Neural Network (GTCW-GRNN) Algorithm by Saeed Zali, Parham Pahlavani, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Ali Khazravi, Mohammad Ahmadlou, Sara Givekesh

“…The average index of the adjusted coefficient of determination in other methods, including the MLR, GWR, GTWR, GRNN, GCW-GRNN, and the proposed GTCW-GRNN in different modes of using Euclidean or travel distance and fixed or adaptive kernel was equal to 0.760, 0.797, 0.854, 0.777, 0.774, and 0.813, respectively, which showed the success of the proposed GTCW-GRNN algorithm. …”
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Reproducibility of instantaneous wave-free ratio and angiography coregistration in patients with coronary heart disease and diffuse and multilevel coronary artery lesion by D. S. Bubnov, R. V. Atanesyan, Z. B. Kardanakhishvili, F. T. Ageev, Yu. G. Matchin

“…Aim. To determine the reproducibility of the results of instantaneous wavefree ratio (iFR) and angiography coregistration in patients with coronary heart disease (CAD) with multilevel and diffuse lesions of the coronary arteries.Materials and methods. …”
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A prediction approach to COVID-19 time series with LSTM integrated attention mechanism and transfer learning by Bin Hu, Yaohui Han, Wenhui Zhang, Qingyang Zhang, Wen Gu, Jun Bi, Bi Chen, Lishun Xiao

“…The performances among the models are compared by the mean absolute error, root mean square error and coefficient of determination. Results LSTM outperforms than others, and TCN has the worst generalization ability. …”
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Repeatability and Agreement of Anterion with Pentacam HR and Orbscan II in Corneal Parameters after Photorefractive Keratectomy by Hadi Ostadi-Moghaddam, Javad Heravian Shandiz, Mohammad Hosein Validad, Monireh Mahjoob, Abbas Ali Yekta, Sadegh Basharaf, Tahereh Rakhshandadi

“…Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) checked Anterion’s repeatability. …”
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Role of survival post-progression in phase III trials of systemic chemotherapy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a systematic review. by Katsuyuki Hotta, Katsuyuki Kiura, Yoshiro Fujiwara, Nagio Takigawa, Akiko Hisamoto, Eiki Ichihara, Masahiro Tabata, Mitsune Tanimoto

“…The relationship between MPFS and MST was modeled in a linear function. We used the coefficient of determination (r(2)) to assess the correlation between them. …”
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Marital status of a patient in the formation of his attitude to the organization of medical care provided on an outpatient basis by S. N. Cherkasov, A. V. Martirosov, A. V. Fedyaeva, L. V. Kudryashova

“…Taking into account the nonparametric distribution of the primary data, the criterion of the reliability of differences χ2 was used to compare the groups, and the association coefficient was used to determine the dependence Ka.Results. …”
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