Analysing outcome variables with floor effects due to censoring: a simulation study with longitudinal trial data by Jos Twisk, Alette Spriensma, Iris Eekhout, Michiel de Boer, Jolanda Luime, Pascal de Jong, Melike Kaya Bahçecitapar, Martijn Heymans

“…This phenomenon is known as censoring and lead to skewed distributions of the outcome variable with an excess of either low (floor effect) or high values (ceiling effect). …”
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Utility of physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling to predict inter-antibody variability in monoclonal antibody pharmacokinetics in mice by Shufang Liu, Sara C. Humphreys, Kevin D. Cook, Kip P. Conner, Ana R. Correia, Alex W. Jacobitz, Melissa Yang, Ronya Primack, Marcus Soto, Rupa Padaki, Mariusz Lubomirski, Richard Smith, Marissa Mock, Veena A. Thomas

“…Using principal component analysis to correlate the regressed values of F1/F2 versus the multidimensional dataset composed of our panel of in vitro assays, we found that heparin chromatography retention time emerged as the predictive covariate to the mAb-specific F1, whereas F2 variability cannot be well explained by these assays. …”
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Adsorption Performance of La(III) and Y(III) on Orange Peel: Impact of Experimental Variables, Isotherms, and Kinetics by Li Liu, Yunzhang Rao, Changshun Tian, Tao Huang, Jiacheng Lu, Meidao Zhang, Min Han

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Exploring the influence of pre-analytical variables on gene expression measurements and relative expression orderings in cancer research by Tian Tian, Guie Lai, Ming He, Xiaofang Liu, Yun Luo, You Guo, Guini Hong, Hongdong Li, Kai Song, Hao Cai

“…In both single and multiple variable analyses, comparing each case sample to paired control sample revealed thousands of genes exhibited a twofold change in expression values. …”
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Frequency of office blood pressure measurements and the seasonal variability of blood pressure: results of the Hungarian Hypertension Registry by János Nemcsik, Johanna Takács, Dorottya Pásztor, Csaba Farsang, Attila Simon, Dénes Páll, Péter Torzsa, Szilveszter Dolgos, Akos Koller, Norbert Habony, Zoltán Járai

“…Purpose Hypertension is a major public health problem, thus, its timely and appropriate diagnosis and management are crucial for reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. …”
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Light Echoes of Time-resolved Flares and Application to Kepler Data by Austin King, Benjamin C. Bromley

“…We focus on two stars; the first appears to be a good candidate for use of this echo model, which predicts disk parameters that are consistent with known values. The second star turns out to be more problematic as a result of high brightness variability in its post-peak lightcurve. …”
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The time of emergence of Arctic warming, wetting and sea ice melting by Nicoleta Tsakali, Marlen Kolbe, Richard Bintanja, Nomikos Skyllas

“…Thus far, uncertainties in climate model projections, variability and methods have yielded diverging estimates of Arctic ToE. …”
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Advancing Meibography Assessment and Automated Meibomian Gland Detection Using Gray Value Profiles by Riccardo Forni, Ida Maruotto, Anna Zanuccoli, Riccardo Nicoletti, Luca Trimigno, Matteo Corbellino, Sònia Travé-Huarte, Giuseppe Giannaccare, Paolo Gargiulo

“…<b>Objective</b>: This study introduces a novel method for the automated detection and quantification of meibomian gland morphology using gray value distribution profiles. The approach addresses limitations in traditional manual and deep learning-based meibography analysis, which are often time-consuming and prone to variability. …”
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Numerically Efficient Average-Value Model for Voltage-Source Converters in Nodal-Based Programs by SEYYEDMILAD EBRAHIMI, Taleb Vahabzadeh, Juri Jatskevich

“…In nodal-analysis-based electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation programs with a non-iterative solution, the interfacing variables are computed based on the values of input voltages&#x002F;currents calculated at the previous time step. …”
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Comparison of Scaling Ground Motions Using Arithmetic with Logarithm Values for Spectral Matching Procedure by Rui Zhang, Dong-sheng Wang, Xiao-yu Chen, Hong-nan Li

“…In recent studies, spectral matching is the most commonly proposed method for selecting earthquake records for time-history analysis of structures. However, until now, there have been no serious investigations of the effects of coordinate values on the scaling of ground motions. …”
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Catalytic pyrolysis of bio-waste in synthesis of value-added products: A systematic review by Kofoworola Awodun, Yinghe He, Chunfei Wu, Salman Masoudi Soltani

“…Various conversion pathways, including biochemical and thermochemical processes, offer opportunities to produce value-added products that can serve as alternative energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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The value of the continuous genotyping of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis over 20 years in Spain by María José Iglesias, Daniel Ibarz, Alberto Cebollada, Jéssica Comín, María Soledad Jiménez, María C. Vázquez, Sofía Samper, The Spanish Working Group on MDRTB

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Explainable Machine Learning: A SHAP value-based approach to locational frequency stability by Alinane B. Kilembe, Robert I. Hamilton, Panagiotis N. Papadopoulos

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Value of lung ultrasound scores in assessing extravascular lung water in septic shock patients by Xueyan Zhang, Zhifeng Li

“…The lung ultrasound score (LUS) was obtained via bedside transthoracic lung ultrasound (TTE), and the correlation between these two variables was analysed. Of 24 patients, 22 had satisfactory Doppler lung ultrasound results, and a strong correlation was detected between the LUS and EVLW measurements at the 0, 2, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h time points (all P < 0.001; ICC (interclass correlation coefficients) = 0.92, 0.91, 0.92, 0.90, 0.88, 0.71, respectively; all P < 0.001). …”
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND RED COLOR VALUE IN QUALITY TESTING MIXTURE OF RICE BRAN AND SAWDUST by TAMBUNAN J. W., I. HERNAMAN, B. AYUNINGSIH, U. ROSANI

“…This study aims to determine the effect of the addition sawdust with rice bran on the physical properties and red color value. This research used a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 5 treatments and repeated 6 times. …”
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Predictive value of anthropometric indices for incident of dyslipidemia: a large population-based study by Somayeh Ghiasi Hafezi, Atena Ghasemabadi, Negar Soleimani, Maryam Allahyari, Mina Moradi, Amin Mansoori, Rana Kolahi Ahari, Mark Ghamsary, Gordon Ferns, Habibollah Esmaily, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan

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Study on the predictive value of preoperative CT features for the mitotic index of GIST based on the nomogram by Ren Yingzheng, Jiang Linlin, Yang Yang, An Junjie, Dong Yonghong

“…The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was used to evaluate the model discrimination, and the predicted probability risk was stratified by the optimal cutoff value. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test (HL test) was performed, and the calibration curve was drawn by Bootstrap repeated sampling 1000 times to evaluate the model consistency. …”
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Calculation and Forecast of Glacial Feeding in River Basins by V. G. Konovalov

“…A regional study of variability of the index of glacial alimentation δ (Schultz, 1965) with time t was carried out using long-period measurements of runoff in the river basins of Eurasia, North America, Central Europe, and Central Asia. …”
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Differential Transform Algorithm for Functional Differential Equations with Time-Dependent Delays by Josef Rebenda, Zuzana Pátíková

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Phenotypic variability analysis of key sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) moench) genotypes under dry lowland areas by Temesgen Begna

“…The maximum grain yield was obtained from genotype 4x14 (6.32 tha-1), followed by genotypes 8x15 (5.92 tha-1), 1x15 (5.88 tha-1), 13x14 (5.78 tha-1) and 6x15 (5.57 tha-1), with an average value of 5.00 tha-1, which was greater than the mean value of the check (ESH-4) (4.77 tha-1). …”
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