Dynamic Heart Rate Variability Vector and Premature Ventricular Contractions Patterns in Adult Hemodialysis Patients: A 48 h Risk Exploration by Gabriel Vega-Martínez, Francisco José Ramos-Becerril, Josefina Gutiérrez-Martínez, Arturo Vera-Hernández, Carlos Alvarado-Serrano, Lorenzo Leija-Salas

“…R-wave and PVC identification resulted in 97.53% and 85.83% positive predictive values, respectively. PVCs’ prevalence and HRV changes’ relationship in 48 h records could relate to cardiovascular risk. …”
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Cosmiatry: An analysis of the Brazilian market by Bartolomeu Antonio Nascimento, Flávio José Teixeira Rocha Ataíde da Motta, Fernanda Augusta Siqueira-Campos Ferreira da Silva, Fábio Dias-Neves, Guilherme Torreão, Rafael Anlicoara

“…Searches on Google Maps® were conducted using key terms, and telephone interviews were conducted to obtain information on professional categories, types of providers, and services offered. Positive predictive values were obtained for all search strategies and used to estimate the total number of providers. …”
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Monitoring of CO2 Absorption Solvent in Natural Gas Process Using Fourier Transform Near-Infrared Spectrometry by Mohd Yusop Nurida, Dolmat Norfadilah, Mohd Rozaiddin Siti Aishah, Chan Zhe Phak, Syafiqa M. Saleh

“…The statistical evaluation of the validation samples also confirmed that the difference between the actual value and the predicted value from the calibration model was not significantly different and acceptable. …”
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A Genetic-Algorithms Matrix-Factorization-Based Recommender System Model Using Tags by Manal Almaayah, Yousef Kilani, Ayoub Alsarhan, Mohammad Aljaidi, Mohammed Alshammari, Aadil Alshammari

“…As far as we know, we have not found in the literature any similar work that applies the evolutionary algorithm and the tag-based MF techniques to predict values for the unknown items. Experimentally, we use Movielens dataset, and we show that ETagMF achieves good results. …”
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QCI-WSC: Estimation and prediction of QoS confidence interval for web service composition based on Bootstrap by Li Qinying, Lu Wei, Li Fangli, Wang Taotao, Wang Hao

“…Finally, the results of user-invoked web service composition QoS are verified by the average interval coverage rate, compared to the actual QoS values and prediction values of the other methods, such as adaptive QoS prediction method based on collaborative filtering (QACF) and QoS-Aware web service recommendation (WSRec). …”
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Flow Accelerated Corrosion Prediction in High Pressure Economizer of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator by Phuris Khunphakdee, Kiattikhoon Phuakpunk, Benjapon Chalermsinsuwan

“…Predicted rates and measured rates agreed, although some predicted values were overestimated. The distributions of predicted FAC rates matched the tubes thickness distributions. …”
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Acoustic signatures of bulbar ALS: Predictive modeling with sustained vowels and LightGBM by Zahra Farrokhi, Seyed Amirali Zakavi, Arian Sarafraz, Maryam Valifard, Salar Yousefzadeh, Zahra Mashhadi Tafreshi, Omid Anbiyaee, Navid Rostami, Mahsa Asadi Anar, Niloofar Deravi

“…But the multimodal nature of the predictive values indicated some flaws in generalization. …”
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How Accurately Can Urologists Predict Eligible Patients for Immediate Postoperative Intravesical Chemotherapy in Bladder Cancer? by Hüseyin Alperen Yıldız, Müslim Doğan Değer, Güven Aslan

“…Positive and negative predictive values were also calculated for both groups. …”
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Multimodal ultrasound deep learning to detect fibrosis in early chronic kidney disease by Xiachuan Qin, Xiaoling Liu, Linlin Xia, Qi Luo, Chaoxue Zhang

“…The accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity of the multimodal US DL model were 0.779, 0.767, and 0.796, respectively, and the negative and positive predictive values were 0.842 and 0.706, respectively. The AUC of the multimodal US DL model was significantly better than that of the single-mode DL and clinical models. …”
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The Choice of Funding Sources for Start-Ups in a Transitional Economy: The Ability to Predict in a National Context  by Olga Obraztsova, Tatiana Poliakova, Ekaterina Popovskaya

“…Hypotheses were tested on a survey sample of early entrepreneurs from seven transitional economies, including Russia. The predictive values of the final models proved to be effective in predicting start-ups’ financial strategies and in comparing the probability of early entrepreneurs borrowing capital. …”
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Suggested New Statistical Parameter for Estimating Joint Roughness Coefficient considering the Shear Direction by Zhiqiang Zhang, Jiuyang Huan, Ning Li, Mingming He

“…The deviation between the predicted value calculated by Sa and the true value was smaller than that obtained from the existing statistical parameters. …”
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Performance Assessment of the Concepta Automated ANA Detection System in Routine Clinical Samples by Kübra Evren, Ayşe Nur Ceylan, Mehmet Akif Durmuş

“…The sensitivity and specificity were found to be 99.08% and 97.61%, respectively, with positive and negative predictive values of 87.96% and 99.83%. High concordance rates were observed for homogeneous (95.7%), centromere (92.3%), and nucleolar (92.1%) patterns, while lower rates were noted for speckled (60%) and cytoplasmic (44.4%) patterns.Conclusion: The Concepta automated system demonstrated very high accuracy in ANA positive and negative discrimination, comparable to other automated systems. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy evaluation of a point-of-care antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza in UK primary care (RAPTOR-C19). by Thomas R Fanshawe, Sharon Tonner, Philip J Turner, Margaret Głogowska, Umasha Ukwatte, Cecilia Okusi, Jade Cogdale, Maria Zambon, Brian D Nicholson, F D Richard Hobbs, Gail N Hayward, RAPTOR-C19 Study Group

“…<h4>Primary and secondary outcome measures</h4>Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values, compared to a laboratory reference standard of real-time reverse transcription PCR, using samples collected using a combined nasal and oropharyngeal swab.…”
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Study on remaining life of the contact terminal of high⁃speed circuit breakers in a subway vehicles by DANG Haitao, ZHAI Haojing, YANG Dazhang, XIANG Nan, AO Ni

“…Based on the linear prediction model, the remaining life of the moving contact terminal was evaluated, and the calculation results show that when the coating thickness of the moving contact terminal reduced from the initial 3.003 mm to the limit of 1.5 mm, the circuit breaker contact can be used for 19 313 cycles, corresponding to the natural year about 36.2, which is about 2.4 times of design service life. The predicted value has been verified by hypothesis testing, and the calculated result is within the predicted interval. …”
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Prediction Model of Powdery Mildew Disease Index in Rubber Trees Based on Machine Learning by Jiazheng Zhu, Xize Huang, Xiaoyu Liang, Meng Wang, Yu Zhang

“…Each model effectively simulates the progression of powdery mildew in rubber trees, with predicted values closely aligning with observed data. Among the models, the Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) model demonstrates the highest accuracy, the R² values for the training set and test set were 0.978 and 0.964, respectively, while the RMSE values were 4.037 and 4.926, respectively. …”
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Urine Protein-to-Creatinine Ratio Remains Informative Despite Nonsteady State Serum Creatinine During Acute Kidney Injury by Ian E. McCoy, Aris Oates, Chi-yuan Hsu

“…UPCRs measured during hospitalization demonstrated positive and negative predictive values suggesting utility in appraising clinically relevant outpatient UPCR levels. …”
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Аdaptive combined image coding with prediction of arithmetic code volume by B J.S Sadiq, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, М. N. Bobov

“…To adapt the structure of the combined encoder to the distribution of bits in the bit planes of DPCM pixel values, the article proposes to use prediction of the volume of arithmetic code based on entropy and comparison of the obtained predicted value with the volume of run length code. The entropy is calculated based on the values of the number of repetitions of ones and zero symbols, which are obtained as intermediate results of the run length encoding. …”
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Tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia in preinvasive and invasive squamous cell carcinoma of cervix by Radhika C Sasturkar, Ramesh BH, Sunita Nyamagoudar, Sateesh S Jigjini

“…Greater than 5 eosinophils/HPF and >10 eosinophils/10 HPF had sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values of 55%, 100%, 100%, and 75%, 100%and 100%, respectively. …”
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Agreement Between Medico-Administrative Database Algorithms and Survey-Based Diagnoses for Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults by Giraud Ekanmian, Carlotta Lunghi, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Line Guénette

“…The agreement was assessed with the kappa statistics (κ), and the algorithms’ sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were calculated using the case definitions derived from the DSM-IV-aligned ESA-Services interviews as the gold standard. …”
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Should renal resistive index be considered as a routine predictor in newly diagnosed acute hydronephrosis in patients with unilateral renal colic? by Hamid Dahmarde, Faramarz Fazeli

“…This cut-off value also provided the highest positive (94%) and negative (76%) predictive values. CDUS with RI measurement is an easy and non-invasive method that provides useful information about urinary tract obstruction stones in patients with unilateral RC. …”
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