The Concordance between Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Coronary Angiography in Detecting Coronary Artery Disease: A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Cardiac Center at King Abdul... by Fatma Aboul-Enein, Majed O. Aljuaid, Hail T. Alharthi, Abdulkarim M. Almudhhi, Mohammad A. Alzahrani

“…In addition, positive predictive and negative predictive values were 78.95% and 75%, respectively. Conclusion. …”
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A Clinical Validation of a Diagnostic Test for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Based on a Novel Serum Glycoprotein Biomarker Panel: PromarkerEso by Jordana Sheahan, Iris Wang, Peter Galettis, David I. Watson, Virendra Joshi, Michelle M. Hill, Richard Lipscombe, Kirsten Peters, Scott Bringans

“…PromarkerEso identified individuals with and without EAC (96% and 95% positive and negative predictive values). Conclusions: This less invasive approach for EAC detection with the novel combination of these glycoprotein biomarkers and clinical factors coalesces in a potential step toward improved diagnosis.…”
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Serum Liver Fibrosis Markers for Predicting the Presence of Gastroesophageal Varices in Liver Cirrhosis: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Xingshun Qi, Hongyu Li, Jiang Chen, Chunlian Xia, Ying Peng, Junna Dai, Yue Hou, Han Deng, Jing Li, Xiaozhong Guo

“…We enrolled 118 patients with liver cirrhosis who underwent the tests for the four serum liver fibrosis markers and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy at the same admissions. The predictive values of the four serum liver fibrosis markers were evaluated by the areas under the receiving operator characteristics curves (AUROCs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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Use of Sorbitan to Extract Capsaicinoids and Bioactive Compounds: Condition Optimization Study by Andrea de J. Campos-Badillo, Edén A. Luna-Zapién, Juan A. Ascacio-Valdés, Jolanta E. Marszalek, Rafael Minjares-Fuentes, Armando Quintero-Ramos, Jorge A. Meza-Velázquez

“…Experimental and predicted values were closely consistent. Meanwhile, extracts with the highest antioxidant potential (~7510 and ~5820 µM of Trolox Eq/100 g dw for ABTS and FRAP, respectively) were those extracted in sorbitan and PS from 40 mesh. …”
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Correlation between Optic Nerve Parameters Obtained Using 3D Nonmydriatic Retinal Camera and Optical Coherence Tomography: Interobserver Agreement on the Disc Damage Likelihood Sca... by Jae Wook Han, Soon Young Cho, Kui Dong Kang

“…The DDLS scored by the glaucoma specialist had the highest predictability value (0.941). Conclusions. The DDLS obtained by 3D optic disc photography is a useful diagnostic tool for glaucoma. …”
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Assessment of thyroid lesions using fine-needle aspiration cytology in accordance with The Bethesda System and its histopathological correlation by Himachal Mishra, Manika Alexander, Basavaraj Bommanahalli

“…The corresponding values for sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic precision of FNAC were 71.42%, 100%, and 93.93% respectively, while positive and negative predictive values were determined as 100% and 92.85% respectively. …”
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LoD2 Building Reconstruction from Stereo Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning and Model-Driven Approach by Rojgar Qarani Ismael, Haval Sadeq

“…This indicates that the predicted values are close to real values. Furthermore, most of the building’s roofs were correctly classified in both open and occluded areas. …”
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Experimental and Analytical Study on the Influence of Saturation Pressure and Surface Roughness on Pool Boiling CHF of HFE-7100 by Xiaoguang Fan, Shiya Gu, Jingsheng Lei, Guihang Luo, Fanbin Meng, Liyan Wu, Shiyan Gu

“…To further improve the prediction accuracy, a new empirical correlation for CHF dimensionless K considering the effects of saturation pressure and surface roughness was developed, and the predicted values were in better agreement with the experimental data.…”
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Relation of Changes in PEF and FEV1 During Salbutamol-Induced Bronchodilation After Methacholine Challenge Test by Leon L. Csonka, Antti Tikkakoski, Liisa Vuotari, Jussi Karjalainen, Lauri Lehtimäki

“…ROC analysis, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and kappa coefficient assessed how precisely increases in PEF detected a 12% and 0.2-L improvement in FEV1. …”
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Assessing Bioconcentration and Biotransformation of BDE-47 In Vitro: The Relevance of Bioavailable and Intracellular Concentrations by Paloma De Oro-Carretero, Jon Sanz-Landaluze

“…Moreover, the study highlighted the importance of experimentally determining C_free and C_cell, as the predicted values can vary depending on the chemical, thereby influencing the BCF outcome. …”
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Genotypes Diversity and Virulence Factor screening of Trichomonas vaginalis Isolated from Pregnant Women in Mosul (North of Iraq) by Fouad S. I. Al-Rubaye, Firas M. B. Alkhashab

“…Samples underwent microscopic examination and nucleic acid detection of AP65-1 gene, the wet smear test showed that 16.18%  of the collected specimen were positive while the parasite appeared only in 8.9% of the samples stained with Giemsa dye, the molecular screening for AP65-1gene that encodes for the surface attachment protein showed high sensitivity level of 100 at 50 specificity level in compare with other routine methods, the algorithm was evaluated according to specificity, sensitivity, and predictive values. Random Amplification Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was achieved to estimate genetic indices among isolated strains. …”
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Analysis of Energy Projects Financial Efficiency and Renewable Energy Generation in Russia by J. An, A. Yu. Mikhaylov

“…The result of the study shows an improvement in the accuracy of the predicted values, while previous models had higher standard error estimates. …”
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A Follow-Up Study for Pulmonary Function Evaluation in Children with Complicated Parapneumonic Pleural Effusion by Yu-Jen Wei, Ying-Tzu Ju, Ming-Lin Hsieh, Ming-Ho Wu, Jing-Ming Wu, Jieh-Neng Wang

“…The forced volume vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) were significantly higher in Group 2 patients (percentage of the predicted value in FVC: 87.6% ± 8.5% versus 79.2% ± 13.4% (Group 1) vs. 77.6% ± 9.0% (Group 3)). …”
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Evaluating the Tree Drawing Test Depression Assessment Scale for adolescent depression screening by Guorui Liu, Wei Liu, Jing Wen, Yige Liu, Hui Jin, Ziyang Li, Yanfei Zhang

“…With a cutoff score of 13, the Youden Index was 0.761, sensitivity was 0.780, specificity was 0.981, and the positive and negative predictive values were 0.952 and 0.839, respectively. The Cohen’s Kappa coefficient between the two raters ranged from 0.753 to 0.977. …”
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Influence of inspiratory muscle strength on 6-minute walk distance in patients with acute heart failure. by Ren Takahashi, Junichi Yokota, Yuko Matsukawa, Keisuke Matsushima, Takeru Suzuki, Eiki Tsushima

“…The measured PI-max was divided by the predicted value and used for analysis (%PI-max). The primary outcome was 6MWD, an indicator of exercise tolerance, and was measured at discharge. …”
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WEATHER RISKS AS DRIVERS OF STRUCTURAL SHIFTS IN AGRICULTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Marina Yevgenievna KADOMTSEVA, Andrej Vladimirovich BOGDANOV

“…Most often, the climate trend is presented in the form of predicted values of temperature increase on the Earth's surface by 1.5-2.0 degrees and the facts of the occurrence of the most probable weather risks. …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of Health Extension Workers in HIV-1/2 Screening Tests: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Mulatu Gashaw, Samuel Kindie, Minale Fekadie, Kassu Desta, Dawit Wolday

“…Finally, the percentage of accuracy, error rate, sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and measure of agreement (kappa) were calculated using SPSS version 26. …”
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Role and application of diffusion-weighted imaging in evaluation of prostate cancer by Amol Madanlal Lahoti, Ankita Ramprasad Lakhotiya, Sarang Manohar Ingole, Avinash Parshuram Dhok, Prashant N Mudaliar

“…., 95.12%, which is the positive predicted value. The mean ADC for benign category was 1.14 with standard deviation (SD) of 0.14 while mean for prostatitis was 0.91 with SD of 0.26 and for carcinoma was 0.75 with SD of 0.19. …”
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Physical education and sport activity assessment tool-based machine learning predictive analysis for planification of training sessions by Mohamed Rebbouj, Said Lotfi

“…Results Even if we focus on one metric test (as a target) with numeric values in this article, the results were promising compared to the predicted values of both physical tests and athletic performances, where we noticed some students have exceeded the expected values to reach. …”
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Evolution of CHA₂DS₂-VASc Score for Predicting Risk of Stroke Development in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation by A. O. Rubanenko

“…At the same time, developing of the new score systems, that will have better predictive values in stroke prognosis than CHA2DS2-VASc score, is still an actual problem in modern cardiology.…”
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