Risk Factors for Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: A Single-Center Retrospective Study by Feng Cheng, Yanyan Chen, Lei Zhu, Bin Zhou, Yonghong Xu, Yiran Chen, Liping Wen, Shuzheng Chen

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that in PTMC, male gender, age<55 years, tumor size>5 mm, bilateral lesions, and extrathyroidal extension were independent risk factors for LNM in general and for CLNM. …”
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Contribution of m5C RNA Modification-Related Genes to Prognosis and Immunotherapy Prediction in Patients with Ovarian Cancer by Yibin Liu, Shouze Liu, Lu Yan, Qianqian Zhang, Wenhua Liu, Xianghua Huang, Shikai Liu

“…Besides, not only was this model a prognostic factor independent of other clinical characteristics but it predicted the intensity of the immune response in OC. …”
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Analysis of Risk Factors for Postoperative Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis and its Treatment and Nursing by Huayun Liu, Yunhua Peng

“…Logistic regression analysis showed that hypertension, limb paralysis, central venous catheterization of lower limbs, and bedridden time affect postoperative LEDVT in an independent way (P<0.05). After the intervention, the coagulation function and inflammatory reaction were improved in both groups, with more significant improvement in the research group (P<0.05). …”
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Taper Preparation Variability Compared to Current Taper Standards Using Computed Tomography by Richard Gergi, Joe Abou Rjeily, Nada Osta, Joseph Sader, Alfred Naaman

“…In the apical third, mean taper was significantly different between TF and PathFiles-ProTaper (𝑃 value < 0.0001; independent 𝑡-test). Mean Taper was significantly higher with PathFile-ProTaper. …”
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Prevalence of Probable Sarcopenia and Associated Lifestyle Factors among Elderly Retired Nigerian Soldiers by Ajuonuma FO, Ibrahim BY, Zubairu HD, Butawa NN

“…Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify the independent predictive risk factor associated with probable sarcopenia among the participants. …”
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Psychological factors and health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia patients by Ricardo P. Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena

“…Anxiety, depression, dysfunctional coping, and low social support were independent predictors of HRQoL and mediated the effect of somatic symptoms in the mental component of HRQoL. …”
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Identification of Unknown Parameters and Orders via Cuckoo Search Oriented Statistically by Differential Evolution for Noncommensurate Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems by Fei Gao, Xue-Jing Lee, Heng-qing Tong, Feng-xia Fei, Hua-ling Zhao

“…Then the problems of fractional-order chaos’ identification are converted into a multiple modal nonnegative functions’ minimization through a proper translation, which takes fractional-orders and parameters as its particular independent variables. And the objective is to find the best combinations of fractional-orders and systematic parameters of fractional order chaotic systems as special independent variables such that the objective function is minimized. …”
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A nomogram based on InLDH and InNLR for predicting disseminated intravascular coagulation in patients with heat stroke by Lulu Wan, Gan Lin, Jiale Yang, Anwei Liu, Xuezhi Shi, Jinhu Li, Lian Xie, Ronglin Chen, Huasheng Tong

“…A nomogram incorporating InLDH and InNLR was developed and showed excellent discrimination and calibration capabilities. Conclusion: Nine independent risk factors were identified for the occurrence of DIC in HS patients. …”
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A fundamental special-relativistic theory valid for all real-valued speeds by Vedprakash Sewjathan

“…This paper constitutes a fundamental rederivation of special relativity based on the c-invariance postulate but independent of the assumption ds′2=±ds2 (Einstein [1], Kittel et al [2], Recami [3]), the equivalence principle, homogeneity of space-time, isotropy of space, group properties and linearity of space-time transformations or the coincidence of the origins of inertial space-time frames. …”
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Feature Selection with Graph Mining Technology by Thosini Bamunu Mudiyanselage, Yanqing Zhang

“…It is important to note that our experimental results indicates, this proposed simple ranking method performs better than other methods, independent of any particular learning algorithm used.…”
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RASGRF2 as a potential pathogenic gene mediating the progression of alcoholic hepatitis to alcohol-related cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma by Zhengyuan Chen, Danfeng Fan, Tianyi Hang, Xiaoqing Yue

“…Combining the results of the immune infiltration and bulk transcriptome results from an independent validation cohort, the core shared gene was determined to be RASGRF2. …”
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S-DCNN: prediction of ATP binding residues by deep convolutional neural network based on SMOTE by Sixi Hao, Sixi Hao, Cai-Yan Li, Xiuzhen Hu, Zhenxing Feng, Gaimei Zhang, Caiyun Yang, Huimin Hu

“…The S-DCNN achieved the highest Matthews correlation coefficient value of 0.5031 and an accuracy rate of 97.06% on an independent test set. Furthermore, when applied to the ATP-221 and ATP-388 datasets for validation, the S-DCNN outperformed existing methods on ATP-221 and performed comparably to other methods on ATP-388 during independent testing.ConclusionOur experimental results underscore the efficacy of the S-DCNN in accurately predicting ATP binding residues, establishing it as a potent tool in the prediction of ATP binding residues.…”
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Influence of preoperative frailty on quality of life after cardiac surgery: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Kathryn Bezzina, Christophe A Fehlmann, Ming Hao Guo, Sarah M Visintini, Fraser D Rubens, George A Wells, Rosetta Mazzola, Caroline McGuinty, Allen Huang, Lara Khoury, Kevin Emery Boczar

“…The primary exposure will be frailty status, independent of the tool used. The primary outcome will be change in quality of life, independent of the tool used. …”
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The effect of high-sugar feeding on rodent metabolic phenotype: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sophie Lucic Fisher, G. Jean Campbell, Alistair Senior, Kim Bell-Anderson

“…Abstract Dietary sugar consumption has been linked to increased cardiometabolic disease risk, although it is unclear if this is independent of increases in body weight and adiposity. …”
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Tailoring coherent beam combined laser pulse trains for high peak and average power applications by Claude-Alban Ranély-Vergé-Dépré, Corentin Lechevalier, Jordan Andrieu, Ihsan Fsaifes, Igor Jovanovic, Jean-Christophe Chanteloup

“…Laser systems based on coherent beam combination (CBC) that rely on tiled pupil architecture intrinsically carry digital capabilities independently applicable to all three essential characteristics of a laser pulse: amplitude, phase and polarization. …”
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Using microscopic imaging and ensemble deep learning to classify the provenance of archaeological ceramics by Qian Wang, Xuan Xiao, Zi Liu

“…Under 5-fold cross-validation and independent testing, the proposed fusion-based model performed excellently after comparing above three typical deep learning model. …”
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Numerical Statistic Approach for Peak Factor of Non-Gaussian Wind Pressure on Building Claddings by Tao Ye, Ledong Zhu, Zhongxu Tan

“…In this study, a stepwise search method for calculating the peak factor of non-Gaussian wind pressure and a gradual independent segmentation method for extracting independent peak values are proposed to determine the relationship accurately. …”
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Investigating the impact of persistent HPV infection on recurrence of lesions post-surgery for early-stage cervical cancer and related influencing factors by Jing Na, Ya Li, Qiao Lu, Yang Wang, Shichao Han, Jun Wang

“…Multivariate analysis identified persistent postoperative HPV infection (odds ratio [OR] 1.72, 95% confidence interval [CI] -1.14 to 5, p=0.001*) as an independent risk factor for recurrence. Additionally, smoking (OR 7.49, 95% CI 1.19 to 47.13, p=0.032), abnormal vaginal microbiota (OR 0.663, 95% CI 0.403 to 1.088, p=0.001*), and the type of surgical procedure (OR 0.32, 95% CI 0.11 to 0.91, p=0.033) were significantly associated with a higher rate of persistent HPV infection.ConclusionPersistent HPV infection after surgery is an independent risk factor for postoperative recurrence in early-stage cervical cancer. …”
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Higher serum Metrnl levels are associated with increased vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients by Conghui Liu, Wenwen Ren, Aihua Zhang

“…Higher Metrnl levels, older age, diabetes mellitus, and higher serum tCO2 and iPTH levels are independent determining factors for high AAC scores in HD patients.…”
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Aspiring to clinical significance: Insights from developing and evaluating a machine learning model to predict emergency department return visit admissions. by Yiye Zhang, Yufang Huang, Anthony Rosen, Lynn G Jiang, Matthew McCarty, Arindam RoyChoudhury, Jin Ho Han, Adam Wright, Jessica S Ancker, Peter Ad Steel

“…The development and independent validation datasets included 62,154 patients from two EDs and 73,453 patients from one ED, respectively. …”
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