Prediction of subsequent vertebral fracture after percutaneous vertebral augmentation using MRI-based vertebral bone quality and CT-based Hounsfield units: a retrospective cross-se... by Youdi Xue, Kun Shi, Weixiang Dai, Chao Ma, Jie Li

“…These findings demonstrated that both VBQ and HU can accurately predict the occurrence of SVF after PVA. HLP might cause a false increase of VBQ value, using HU could better assess bone quality and predict SVF occurrence when HLP is present.…”
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The Patchwork of Land as a Problem Restricting the Development of Rural Areas by Karol Noga, Żanna Król

“…The spatial layout of individual land in villages has undergone continuous changes over the centuries, which has led to their defectiveness through the occurrence of fragmentation and scattering of plots, the lack of access or large distances from the farm house. …”
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False-Positive Blood Cultures in Acute Leukemia: An Underrecognized Finding by Stamatis Karakonstantis, Ioanna Manika, Maria Vakonaki, Anna Boula

“…The occurrence of false-positive blood cultures in patients with acute myeloid leukemia has been rarely described in the literature. …”
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Depositional environmental, provenance and climatic signatures of textural characteristics and heavy mineral distribution of the Vaigai river channel bed sediments, Southern India by Ramkumar M., Juni K.J., Sreerhishya K., Meenumol S., Kaviraj R., Jyothika J., Roy Priyadarsi D., Balasubramani K., Thirukumaran V., Nagarajan R., Menier D., Mathew M.J.

“…The transportation of sediments is characterized by suspension with rolling. Discriminant plots of environmental and energy conditions affiliate the studied sediments to the riverine environment and unidirectional flow except few. …”
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Predicting grade II-IV bone marrow suppression in patients with cervical cancer based on radiomics and dosiomics by Yanchun Tang, Yanchun Tang, Yaru Pang, Jingyi Tang, Jingyi Tang, Xinchen Sun, Xinchen Sun, Peipei Wang, Jinkai Li

“…The predictive model’s efficacy was assessed by plotting the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and evaluating its performance through the area under the ROC curve (AUC), the calibration curve, and decision curve analysis (DCA).ResultsSeven radiomic features and eight dosiomic features exhibited a strong correlation with the occurrence of BMS. …”
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Integrative transcriptomics and single-cell transcriptomics analyses reveal potential biomarkers and mechanisms of action in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Wanchen Cao, Kai Gao, Yi Zhao

“…The collagen signaling pathway was identified as the most dominant pathway, and violin plots demonstrated that ligands COL4A1 and COL4A2 were highly expressed in epithelial cells, while the receptor CD4 showed elevated expression in both tissue stem cells and smooth muscle cells. …”
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Correlation between serum magnesium level and arteriosclerosis in maintenance hemodialysis patients by Dan-yan Min, Ting Shen, Ting Zhang, Jun-jun Zhu, Miao Liu, Qiu-nan Zhan, Jun-li Zhao

“…Receiver operating characteristic（ROC） curve was plotted for examining the predictive value of magnesium ion level for arteriosclerosis in MHD patients. …”
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Metamorphic conditions and petrogenesis of the Qori complex metapelites using thermodynamic phase diagrams by Abdolnaser Fazlnia, Mirmohammad Miri, Adel Saki

“…Geochemistry The chemical data of the whole-rock are represented in Table 1. The samples plot between the pelitic and mafic rock fields on a discrimination diagram (Figure 4a), although, the presence of kyanite and staurolite reveals their metapelitic natures (Bucher and Grapes, 2011). …”
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Cryptostroma corticale and its relationship to other pathogens and pests on Acer pseudoplatanus by František Lorenc

“…In the present study, 20 sycamore maples (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) were evaluated on eight plots (160 trees) affected by sooty bark disease (SBD), caused by Cryptostroma corticale (Ellis & Everh.) …”
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Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heterogeneity Parameters Combined with Inflammatory Cells to Predict the Value of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Patients Post Myocard... by Yu-jiao Song, Xiao-ying Zhao, Lu-jing Wang, Ting Ning, Ming-tian Chen, Pei Liu, Si-wen Chen, Xin-xiang Zhao

“…The optimal cut-off values were identified using time-dependent ROC curves in R software, and Kaplan–Meier event-survival curves were plotted to illustrate the event-free rates based on these optimal thresholds.The median follow-up time was calculated using the reverse Kaplan–Meier method. …”
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Inspiratory and expiratory sinus arrhythmia in healthy human by Pascale Calabrese, Sophie Lambert‐Lacroix

“…For each subject, II and EE intervals were plotted versus normalized mean inspiratory duration and normalized mean expiratory duration, respectively, and correlation coefficients and slopes of regression lines were calculated. …”
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A Comparison of Mine Seismic Discriminators Based on Features of Source Parameters to Waveform Characteristics by Ju Ma, Guoyan Zhao, Longjun Dong, Guanghui Chen, Chuxuan Zhang

“…The advantages and limitations pertaining to each classifier were discussed by plotting the event magnitude versus sample number. …”
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Geospatial Data and Deep Learning Expose ESG Risks to Critical Raw Materials Supply: The Case of Lithium by Christopher J. M. Lawley, Marcus Haynes, Bijal Chudasama, Kathryn Goodenough, Toni Eerola, Artem Golev, Steven E. Zhang, Junhyeok Park, Eleonore Lèbre

“…., disputes, protests, violence) that can negatively impact CRM supply chains: (1) a knowledge-driven fuzzy logic model that yields an area under the curve (AUC) for the receiver operating characteristics plot of 0.72 for the entire model; (2) a naïve Bayes model that yields an AUC of 0.81 for the test set; and (3) a deep learning model comprising stacked autoencoders and a feed-forward artificial neural network that yields an AUC of 0.91 for the test set. …”
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Barrier Inhomogeneities of Al/p-In2Te3 Thin Film Schottky Diodes by R.R. Desai, D. Lakshminarayana, Ramesh Sachdeva, P.B. Patel, C.J. Panchal, M.S. Desai, N. Padha

“…It has been found that the occurrence of Gaussian distribution of BHs is responsible for the decrease of the apparent BH (φbo) and increase of the ideality factor (η). …”
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Landscape heterogeneity following high‐severity fire in California's forests by Chad T. Hanson

“…I found natural conifer regeneration in ≥80% of plots, even >300 m into patches. Conifer regeneration was greater closer to low–moderate‐severity areas. …”
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Risk factors for infections in patients with lupus nephritis and construction of a prediction model by Liu Ding-lin, Zhang Wen-hao, Hu Hao-fei, Li Ai-ting, Chen Zhi-jin, Zheng Cai-yan, Qin Le-le, Zhang Li, Li Rui-zhao, Ye Zhi-ming

“…The nomogram constructed in this study has a good predictive ability for the occurrence of risk factors for infection in LN patients.…”
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Regional Blood Flow Spectral Parameters as Predictors of Epidural-Related Maternal Fever: A Prospective Observational Study by Fei Shuai, Junxiang Jia, Peng Lin, Yicong Liao, Yuemei Xie

“…It is crucial to identify and predict the occurrence of ERMF at an early stage to improve the outcomes for mothers and infants. …”
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Study of Magnetocaloric Properties and Refrigeration Performance for Batch Preparation La-Fe-Si based Magnetocaloric Materials by 郭亚茹, 黄焦宏, 金培育, 刘翠兰, 程 娟, 张英德, 李兆杰, 戴默涵, 张建平, 高 磊, 王鹏宇, 裴 昊

“…The appearance of the inflection point in Arrott plots for three alloys implies the occurrence of itinerant electron metamagnetic transition. …”
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The South African National Vegetation Database: History, development, applications, problems and future by Michael Rutherford, Ladislav Mucina, Leslie Powrie

“…The NVD was developed using the Turboveg software environment, and currently comprises 46 697 vegetation plots (relevés) sharing 11 690 plant taxa and containing 968 943 species occurrence records. …”
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EFFECT OF SOLARIZATION AND AMENDMENTS ON THE PINE DAMPING OFF AND SOIL PROPERTIES by Wazeer A. Hassan

“…At the same time composted heating plots decreased C/N ratio to relatively optimal levels of 15.75 and 18.59 after both of solar periods, alkaline soil pH (8.41 – 9.56) did not incongruous with the efficiency of biocontrol T.h. in the decomposition of organic matter and availability of the most nutrients even in the solarized soil.…”
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