Using a large language model (ChatGPT) to assess risk of bias in randomized controlled trials of medical interventions: protocol for a pilot study of interrater agreement with huma... by Christopher James Rose, Julia Bidonde, Martin Ringsten, Julie Glanville, Rigmor C. Berg, Chris Cooper, Ashley Elizabeth Muller, Hans Bugge Bergsund, Jose F. Meneses-Echavez, Thomas Potrebny

“…We will report observed agreement with an exact 95% confidence interval, expected agreement under random assessment, Cohen’s κ, and a p-value testing the null hypothesis of no difference in agreement. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN KIT PRAKTIKUM ELEKTRONIKA DASAR II BERBASIS SIMULATOR PROTEUS UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MAHASISWA DALAM PEMECAHAN MASALAH by Suwardi Suwardi, Erik Ayatullah, Haidul Haidul

“…This research is a type of research and development with stages are needs analysis, initial product development, expert validation, field testing and product revision. This research was conducted in the Physics Laboratory of the University of Bengkulu FMIPA odd semester 2018/2019 with the subjects of this study were 22 students. …”
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Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles (CM-AgNPs) from the Root of <i>Chuanminshen</i> for Improving the Cytotoxicity Effect in Cancer Cells with Antibacterial and Antioxidant Act... by Dandan Wang, Haijing Ke, Hongtao Wang, Jingyu Shen, Yan Jin, Bo Lu, Bingju Wang, Shuang Li, Yao Li, Wan Taek Im, Muhammad Zubair Siddiqi, Haibo Zhu

“…The unique properties of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), such as size, surface charge, and the ability to release silver ions, contribute to DNA damage, inducing of oxidative stress, and apoptosis in cancer cells. …”
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Relationship between weapon size and six key behavioural and physiological traits in males of the European earwig by Blackwell, Samantha E M, Pasquier, Laura, Dupont, Simon, devers, Severine, Lecureuil, Charlotte, Meunier, Joël

“…In many animals, male weapons are large and extravagant morphological structures that typically enhance fighting ability and reproductive success. It is generally assumed that growing and carrying large weapons is costly, thus only males in the best condition can afford it. …”
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Differences in Ventilatory Threshold for Exercise Prescription in Outpatient Diabetic and Sarcopenic Obese Subjects by Gian Pietro Emerenziani, Maria Chiara Gallotta, Silvia Migliaccio, Emanuela A. Greco, Chiara Marocco, Luca di Lazzaro, Rachele Fornari, Andrea Lenzi, Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti

“…All groups performed an incremental exercise test on a treadmill according to their physical ability. …”
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Developing practical machine learning survival models to identify high-risk patients for in-hospital mortality following traumatic brain injury by Aref Andishgar, Maziyar Rismani, Sina Bazmi, Zahra Mohammadi, Sedighe Hooshmandi, Behnam Kian, Amin Niakan, Reza Taheri, Hosseinali Khalili, Roohallah Alizadehsani

“…Model building involved training-test splits, survival analysis, and ML algorithms like Random Survival Forest (RSF) and Gradient Boosting. …”
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The Paracrine Effect of Transplanted Human Amniotic Epithelial Cells on Ovarian Function Improvement in a Mouse Model of Chemotherapy-Induced Primary Ovarian Insufficiency by Xiaofen Yao, Yuna Guo, Qian Wang, Minhua Xu, Qiuwan Zhang, Ting Li, Dongmei Lai

“…Human amnion epithelial cells (hAECs) transplantation via tail vein has been reported to rescue ovarian function in mice with chemotherapy-induced primary ovarian insufficiency (POI). To test whether intraperitoneally transplanted hAECs could induce therapeutic effect and to characterize the paracrine effect of transplanted hAECs, we utilized a chemotherapy induced mice model of POI and investigated the ability of hAECs and conditioned medium collected from cultured hAECs (hAECs-CM) to restore ovarian function. …”
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Enhanced diabetic retinopathy detection using U-shaped network and capsule network-driven deep learning by Govindharaj I, Poongodai A, Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram, Santhakumar D, Ravichandran S, Vijaya Prabhu R, Udayakumar K, Yazhinian S

“…CapsNet leverages its ability to recognize hierarchical patterns, providing more sensitive detection of glaucomatous changes than conventional Convolutional Neural Networks. …”
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Sunlight-Induced Photocatalytic Removal of Paracetamol Using Au-TiO₂ Nanoparticles by Lamine Aoudjit, Joana M. Queirós, A. S. Castro, Djamila Zioui, Noelia González-Ballesteros, S. Lanceros-Mendez, Pedro M. Martins

“…A model pollutant, paracetamol, was used to test the synergetic effect of Au (0.05 wt%) nanoparticles (NPs) with TiO₂ on photocatalytic activity. …”
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Direct-supply chilled-water radiant-floor cooling system coupled with an earth‒air heat exchanger system: A case study in a building by Jiaming Yang, Huiqing Cao, Zhenwei Wang, Yue Liu, Wei Song, Jiankai Dong

“…The results showed that the DS-RFC system had a superior cooling effect but almost no dehumidification ability; the change in the humidity ratio was less than 2.00 g/kg. …”
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Supervised Learning of Depth Estimation From Imperfect Rectified Stereo Laparoscopic Images of Liver Surface by Chongan Zhang, Ziyi Jin, Xiaoyue Liu, Yuelong Liang, Xiao Liang, Peng Wang, Xiujun Cai, Xuesong Ye

“…The results indicate that the edge-enhanced ACVNet++ algorithm improves the ability for 3D surface reconstruction of the liver and holds potential for clinical application.…”
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Automatic Thyroid Nodule Detection in Ultrasound Imaging With Improved YOLOv5 Neural Network by Daqing Yang, Jianfu Xia, Rizeng Li, Wencai Li, Jisheng Liu, Rongjian Wang, Dong Qu, Jie You

“…It comprises the coordinate attention (CA) module and the label smoothing regularization (LSR) module, in which the CA module enables the network ability of positional information extraction. The improved neural network correctly recognizes the lesion area and nodule type with a mean average precision (mAP) of 95.3&#x0025; in 8.4 ms on the test set. …”
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PTPRO represses breast cancer lung metastasis by inhibiting the JAK2-YAP axis by Xiao Xiong, Jingfang Liu, Xiaotong Wu, Zhimeng Yao, Yuhua Meng, Shuang Liu, Yexi Chen, Hongzheng Ren, Shegan Gao, Xiaofu Qiu, Hao Zhang

“…The regulatory role of PTPRO in JAK2–YAP activation was tested in cell-based knockdown, overexpression and catalytic-dead mutation assays. …”
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Jordanian banknote data recognition: A CNN-based approach with attention mechanism by Ahmad Nasayreh, Ameera S. Jaradat, Hasan Gharaibeh, Waed Dawaghreh, Rabia Mehamad Al Mamlook, Yaqeen Alqudah, Qais Al-Na'amneh, Mohammad Sh. Daoud, Hazem Migdady, Laith Abualigah

“…The proposed model has proven its ability to recognize counterfeits with high performance and accuracy while focusing on the important features extracted. …”
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MSPO: A machine learning hyperparameter optimization method for enhanced breast cancer image classification by Haonan Li, Vijay Govindarajan, Tan Fong Ang, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh, Amel Ksibi, Yen-Lin Chen, Chin Soon Ku, Ming Chern Leong, Fatiha Hana Shabaruddin, Wan Zamaniah Wan Ishak, Lip Yee Por

“…Based on the original Parrot Optimizer, MSPO integrates several strategies, including Sobol sequence initialization, nonlinear decreasing inertia weight, and a chaotic parameter to enhance global exploration ability and convergence steadiness. Tests using the CEC 2022 benchmark functions reveal that MSPO surpasses leading algorithms regarding optimization precision and convergence rate. …”
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Physical Properties and in Vitro Simulated Gastrointestinal Digestion Characteristics of Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua Powder with Different Particle Sizes by Chenchen ZHAO, Jiahui LÜ, Chang LIU, Ruonan TONG, Mengjin WANG, Heng LIU, Lihua XING, Jiao YU, Luna GENG, Nianjun YU

“…To investigate the functional effects of superfine grinding treatment on Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua powder, in this study, the sample was ground and sieved by pharmacopoeia test sieves (50, 100, 200 and 325 mesh) to prepare P. cyrtonema Hua powder with different particle sizes. …”
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Antimicrobial Blue Light Reduces Human-Wound Pathogens’ Resistance to Tetracycline-Class Antibiotics in Biofilms by Laisa Bonafim Negri, Sandeep Korupolu, William Farinelli, Alexis K. Jolly, Robert W. Redmond, Shifu Aggarwal, Laurence G. Rahme, Kristin H. Gilchrist, R. Rox Anderson, Jeffrey A. Gelfand

“…TCs were tested under dark conditions and with varying aBL light parameters against biofilms of methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA), <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> (PA), and <i>Escherichia coli</i> (<i>E. coli</i>). …”
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Predicting the Activity Level of the Great Gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) via Machine Learning by Fan Jiang, Peng Peng, Zhenting Xu, Yu Xu, Ding Yang, Shouquan Chai, Shuai Yuan, Limin Hua, Dawei Wang, Xuanye Wen

“…The simulation results revealed that the PSO‐ELM model has a stronger convergence ability and higher prediction accuracy for the activity level of R. opimus in fall (91.67%). …”
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Amniotic mesenchymal stem cells attenuate diabetic cardiomyopathy by inhibiting pyroptosis via modulation of the TLR4/NF-κb/NLRP3 pathway by Xuan Zhou, Shaoliang Xing, Lina Zhang, Jungu Lu, Deming Li, Yating Wang, Yuhang Ma, Weiqin Chang, Manman Su

“…Evaluations included glucose tolerance tests, echocardiography, serum analysis, and histopathological and molecular assessments. …”
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Relation of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Sensitive Reflectance Ratios to Carbon Flux Measurements of Montanne Grassland and Norway Spruce Forest Ecosystems in the Temperate Zone by Alexander Ač, Zbyněk Malenovský, Otmar Urban, Jan Hanuš, Martina Zitová, Martin Navrátil, Martina Vráblová, Julie Olejníčková, Vladimír Špunda, Michal Marek

“…We explored ability of reflectance vegetation indexes (VIs) related to chlorophyll fluorescence emission (𝑅686/𝑅630, 𝑅740/𝑅800) and de-epoxidation state of xanthophyll cycle pigments (PRI, calculated as (𝑅531−𝑅570)/(𝑅531−𝑅570)) to track changes in the CO2 assimilation rate and Light Use Efficiency (LUE) in montane grassland and Norway spruce forest ecosystems, both at leaf and also canopy level. …”
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