Preoperative skeletal muscle index vs the controlling nutritional status score: Which is a better objective predictor of long‐term survival for gastric cancer patients after radica... by Zhi‐Fang Zheng, Jun Lu, Jian‐Wei Xie, Jia‐Bin Wang, Jian‐Xian Lin, Qi‐Yue Chen, Long‐Long Cao, Mi Lin, Ru‐Hong Tu, Chao‐Hui Zheng, Chang‐Ming Huang, Ping Li

“…Spearman's correlation coefficient, the Kaplan‐Meier method, and Cox regression were used. …”
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Leveraging advanced deep learning and machine learning approaches for snow depth prediction using remote sensing and ground data by Haytam Elyoussfi, Abdelghani Boudhar, Salwa Belaqziz, Mostafa Bousbaa, Karima Nifa, Bouchra Bargam, Abdelghani Chehbouni

“…The dataset was processed and normalized for optimal performance, and hyperparameters were fine-tuned using a randomized search method. New hydrological insights for the region: The Results highlight the efficacy of AI-based approaches for snow depth prediction, with SVR achieving the best performance (Root Mean Square Error of 2–5 cm and an average coefficient of determination of 0.97). …”
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Digital Image Processing Applied in the Deformation Analysis of Hip Prosthesis: Multivariate Regression Analysis by Jorge Ramos-Frutos, Israel Miguel-Andres, Diego Oliva, Marco Perez-Cisneros, Teresa Alonso-Rasgado, Colin G. Bailey, Jose Francisco del Valle-Mojica

“…The first criterion considers the significance of the model coefficients; the second criterion considers a coefficient of determination greater than 75%, and the third criterion considers that the proposed model is significant. …”
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High-intensity interval training improves blood pressure and adropin plasma levels in elderly with hypertensive treatment by Alireza Ghardashi-Afousi, Abbasali Gaieni

“…The statistical analysis was performed by two-way repeated ANOVA to determine differences between groups and Pearson’s correlation coefficient to determine correlation.Results: The results showed that, following the six-week HIIT intervention, the plasma levels of adropin and NO significantly increased when compared to both control group (P= 0.0016) and the baseline (P= 0.0003) measurements. …”
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Boosting grapevine phenological stages prediction based on climatic data by pseudo-labeling approach by Mehdi Fasihi, Mirko Sodini, Alex Falcon, Francesco Degano, Paolo Sivilotti, Giuseppe Serra

“…Performance metrics, including the coefficient of determination (R2) and root-mean-square error (RMSE), are employed to assess the effectiveness of the models. …”
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Sociodemographic correlates of perceived physical literacy in Spanish adolescents: results from the EHDLA study by María Mendoza-Muñoz, José Francisco López-Gil, José Francisco López-Gil, Damián Pereira-Payo, Raquel Pastor-Cisneros

“…This study tried to determine the sociodemographic correlates of PPL among adolescents in Spain.MethodsA total of 1,378 participants [51% girls, median age = 14 years, interquartile range (IQR) 13 to 16] were analyzed. …”
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Blood pressure variability combined with coagulation function in early prediction and outcome assessment of germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants with gest... by Lijun Jiang, Qian Yu, Hui Li, Fudong Wang, Feng Liu, Zhenxing Xu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This retrospective study included 106 preterm infants. …”
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Quality of the record of drug-related problems in a database for voluntary adverse event reporting by Maria Teresa Aznar-Saliente, Laura Roca-Aznar, Amparo Talens-Bolós, Paola Herraiz-Robles, Manuel Bonete-Sánchez, Laia Pons-Martínez, Borja Marcos-Ribes

“…Methods: A Pharmacist reviewed the database and refined the adverse events reported from January to August, 2014, considering the “describe_what_happened” field as the gold standard. …”
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Association of Cumulative Dissipated Energy and Postoperative Foveal Thickness among Patients with Age-related Cataract who Underwent Uncomplicated Phacoemulsification by Joel M. Perez, MD, Manuel Benjamin B. Ibanez IV, MD, Sherman O. Valero, MD

“…Central subfield thickness (CST), cube volume (CV), and cube average thickness (CAT) of the macula were measured by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) at three separate time-points preoperative, 1 day, and 14 days after cataract surgery. To determine the correlation between parameters, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and degree of association, and coefficient of determination (r2) were used. …”
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The effects of cigarette smoking and exercise on total salivary antioxidant activity by Shahba'a Munther

“…Material & methods: the study group consisted of 120 males, 20–25 years old selected from patients at the College of Dentistry/University of Baghdad. …”
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Machine learning models for estimating the overall oil recovery of waterflooding operations in heterogenous reservoirs by Sayed Gomaa, Ahmed Ashraf Soliman, Mohamed Mansour, Fares Ashraf El Salamony, Khalaf G. Salem

“…The ANN proposed model achieves a high coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.999 and a low root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 0.0063 on the validation dataset. …”
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Quantifying the Ki-67 Heterogeneity Profile in Prostate Cancer by Shane Mesko, Patrick Kupelian, D. Jeffrey Demanes, Jaoti Huang, Pin-Chieh Wang, Mitchell Kamrava

“…Background: Ki-67 is a robust predictive/prognostic marker in prostate cancer; however, tumor heterogeneity in prostate biopsy samples is not well studied. Methods: Using an MRI/US fusion device, biopsy cores were obtained systematically and by targeting when indicated by MRI. …”
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Comparison between Second- and Third-Generation PTH Assays during Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy (MIP) by Marie-Hélène Gannagé-Yared, Nada Younès, Anne-Sophie Azzi, Ghassan Sleilaty

“…The aim of this study is to compare both assays and to determine the predictors of IOPTH decline. Methods. 112 patients (of which 72.3% females) underwent MIP by the same surgeon. …”
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Factors Related to Feelings of Loneliness and Attitudes Toward Ageing in Retired Older Adults by Fahime Rouhi, Shahla Asiri, Fataneh Bakhshi, Ehsan Kazemnezhad leili

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Predicting of the risk of major cardiovascular events developing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in combination with renal dysfunction by E. V. Bolotova, V. V. Yavlyanskaya, A. V. Dudnikova

“…For the constructed regression equation, the determination coefficient is defined as R2=0,76, Hosmer-Lemeshov criterion =0,8. …”
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The prediction of karst-collapse susceptibility levels based on the ISSA-ELM integrated model by Jiaxin Wang, Ying Yang, Xian Yang, Yulong Lu, Yang Liu, Da Hu, Yongjia Hu

“…When validated against 20 datasets from a representative karst region, the proposed model achieved exceptional performance, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0544 and a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9914, significantly surpassing the prediction accuracy of conventional ELM and SSA-ELM models. …”
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Prevalence of HIV/AIDS Infection among Sexually Active Women in Ethiopia: Further Analysis of 2016 EDHS by Solomon Sisay Mulugeta, Selamawit Getachew Wassihun

“…Methods. For this study, data were obtained from the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2016. …”
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Predicting the role of socio-economic indices for the Human Development Index based on a multivariate regression model by Zainab Alimoradi, Mark D. Griffiths, Mehran Alijanzadeh

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Equivalent Nonlinearization Technique for Random Analysis of Nonlinear System With Fractional Derivative Damping by Ming Xu

“…To derive solutions for such strong nonlinear systems more concisely, this manuscript presents an approximate method for analyzing the random responses of nonlinear systems with fractional derivative damping. …”
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The importance of different preoperative factors in the prognosis of functional results of uncomplicated surgery for idiopathic epimacular membranes by S. G. Toropygin, S. V. Nazarova, A. N. Maslov

“…Regression with a 0,597-determination coefficient showed that the baseline visual acuity and central retinal thickness had the biggest impact on the visual acuity measured 1 year after surgery (p &lt; 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively). …”
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