Diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis in the era of thoracoscopic surgery by Ehab F. Salim, Gaser A. Ali

“…Patients and methods A prospective study was done from January 2019 to January 2023 to evaluate diagnostic methods for patients with exudative pleural effusions (PE) of unknown etiologies. …”
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Determining the number of clusters using nonparametric statistics by Darius Šimoliūnas

“… A Gaussian mixture model is investigated in this paper. A method for estimation of unknown number of clusters in the case of equal covariance matrices is discribed. …”
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Comparative Clinical and Laboratory Assessment of the Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Therapy in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee Joints by O. A. Rechkunova, T. V. Chernysheva, I. A. Krivotulova, N. V. Sharapova

“…The average age of the patients was 60 [46; 76] years. Depending on the method of rehabilitation treatment, the patients were divided into 3 equal groups (n=40): the 1st group was prescribed periarticular subcutaneous ozone therapy in combination with therapeutic exercise, the 2nd group — magnetotherapy and electrophoresis on the knee joint area in combination with therapeutic exercise, and 3rd group — only the complex of therapeutic exercise. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Thus, developing methods other than NNs is worth exploring to improve security at the system level. …”
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Palatal rugae assessment using plaster model and dental scan: a cross-sectional comparative analysis by Laura Roselli, Federica Mele, Carmela Suriano, Valeria Santoro, Roberto Catanesi, Massimo Petruzzi

“…The coefficients of correlation and determination were strong to very strong for all six parameters assessed, with no statistically significant differences detected between the two methods of palatal rugae impression.ConclusionBoth digital and traditional methods were equally reliable in capturing palatal rugae patterns. …”
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Safe Semi-Supervised Contrastive Learning Using In-Distribution Data as Positive Examples by Min Gu Kwak, Hyungu Kahng, Seoung Bum Kim

“…The existing methods assume that the class distributions of labeled and unlabeled data are equal; however, their performances are significantly degraded in class distribution mismatch scenarios where out-of-distribution (OOD) data exist in the unlabeled data. …”
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Rough-and-Refine Model for Scene Graph Generation by Li Junliang, Lv Shirong, Li Wei

“…Existing scene graph generation methods have achieved significant success. However, most models suffer from either having too many parameters or making inaccurate judgments regarding predicates. …”
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Numerical simulation of food particle mixing effect in three-dimensional motion mixer by CHENG Yuefeng, MENG Zhaoxin, WANG Menggang, SHA Yufeng

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of different active shaft speeds and barrel shapes on the mixing performance of food particles in a three-dimensional motion mixer.MethodsSimplified modeling of the three-dimensional motion mixer was performed using 3D software. …”
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Geodetic data inversion to estimate a strain-rate field by introducing sparse modeling by Yohei Nozue, Yukitoshi Fukahata

“…As a result, we find: (1) regardless of the locking depth of the fault, the proposed method reproduces localized strain rates near the fault with almost equal or better accuracy than the L2 regularization method (i.e., only the smoothness constraint); (2) the advantage of the proposed method over the L2 regularization method is clearer when data coverage is worse (i.e., when fewer observation points are available); and (3) the proposed method can be applied when observation errors are small. …”
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Diagnostic capabilities of the virtual bronchoscopy at advanced neoplastic process of esophagus with formation of tracheobronchial fistula: Description of a case by M. A. Mitev, N. Trajkova, D. Arabadzhiev, S. Valkanov, N. Georgieva, E. Obretenov

“…Conclusion: The VB is a successful method equally effective compared to the FB, to diagnose of advanced neoplastic processes.…”
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A New Framework to Evaluate Sustainable Higher Education: An Analysis of China by Yuqing Geng, Hongwei Zhu, Nan Zhao, Qinghua Zhai

“…This article selects regions of China and compares the development status and coupling coordination level of sustainable higher education both temporally and spatially from the aspects of expenditure, existence, efficiency, effectiveness, economy, equity, and equality based on the 7E framework with the combined method of information entropy weight analysis and technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution and coupling coordination degree model. …”
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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HYPSOMETRIC UNIFORMITY (NON-UNIFORMITY) FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE GEOSPHERE MODEL OF STABILITY OF GEOSYSTEMS IN DAGHESTAN by L. Sh. Akhmedova, N. O. Guseynova

“…In order to introduce the geosphere sustainability model of geosystems in the territory of the Republic of Dagestan, we conducted a statistical analysis and interpretation using a hypsometric analysis of the territory based on a detailed study of the relief morphology using mathematical statistics and visualization methods.Methods. The morphological structure of the territory is determined using the method of planimetry at given intervals of heights according to a hypsometric map to a scale of 1: 1,000,000; morphometric analysis of the territory was carried out using a greater number of altitudinal gradations at predetermined border intervals above 500 m of height; hypsometric map was visualized using MapInfo Pro GIS.Results and discussion. …”
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The effects of acute interval cycling and blood flow restriction on hematologic factors of beginner cyclists by Hadi Bashafaat, Mohammad Ismail Afzalpour, Ali Asghar Fallahı, Saeed Nazıfı, Said Ilbeıgı

“…Blood compositions change as a result of physical activity and an exercise associated with Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) is a new exercise method. This study aims to compare the acute effect of an interval exercise with blood flow restriction on beginner cyclists’ hematologic factors.  …”
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DETAILS’ REPAIR OF CONSTRUCTION AND ROAD MACHINES: FLUCTUATIONS’ MODELLING by V. E. Ovsyannikov, V. I. Vasilyev

“…The paper studies the possibility of the calculation method’s usage in oscillatory processes, which allows assigning the cutting modes by providing required output parameters.Materials and methods. …”
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Comparison between paracervical block and intrauterine lidocaine for pain management in surgical termination of first-trimester miscarriage: a randomized clinical trial by Doaa M. Effat, Mona A. Elkafrawy, Amira A.E. Shaban

“…Patients and methods One hundred fifty pregnant women suffering from first-trimester miscarriage and requiring pregnancy termination were randomly assigned into three equal groups. …”
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Grid frequency disturbance analysis based virtual synchronous generator transient performance improvement control by Bo Yang, Hao Li, Yuxin Zhang, Shuai Lu

“…As thoroughly analyzed in this paper, the existing methods will alter the grid frequency disturbance transfer function and worsen the transient performance, while they improve the VSG power step responses. …”
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Diagnosis and treatment of small bowel cancer by B. M. Rakhimov, E. P. Krivoshchekov, A. N. Kirsanov

“…Their preoperative detection is an exception rather than the rule.Materials and methods. We examined 15 patients preoperatively diagnosed with small bowel tumors. …”
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Personalized Treatment of Periodontitis in a Patient with McArdle’s Disease: The Benefits from Probiotics by Salvatore Cannizzaro, Carolina Maiorani, Andrea Scribante, Andrea Butera

“…At the baseline, the patient had 82 pockets with probing pocket depth (PPD) equal to or greater than 4 mm. The patient was instructed in the correct methods of oral hygiene and was advised toothpaste and mouthwash based on probiotics; subsequently, a debridement was performed to remove etiological factors using Dental-Biofilm Detection Topographic Technique (D-BioTECH). …”
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Generative AI for Bayesian Computation by Nick Polson, Vadim Sokolov

“…A Quantile Neural Network (QNN) is trained to map samples from a base distribution to the posterior distribution. Our method applies equally to parametric and likelihood-free models. …”
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The paradox of measuring success of nations in elite sport by Veerle De Bosscher, Bruno Heyndels, Paul De Knop, Maarten van Bottenburg, Simon Shibli

“…A Linear regression analysis is used to introduce relative success as a measurement of success when controlling for macro determinants such as population and wealth. This method allows comparing nations on more equal grounds, which is necessary if one wants to measure effectiveness of elite sport policies. …”
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