Clinical experience of genome-wide non-invasive prenatal testing as a first-tier screening test in a cohort of 59,771 pregnancies. by Jianxin Zhen, Liting Zhang, Huilin Wang, Xi Chen, Weihong Wang, Lili Li, Quanfu Zhang

“…Follow-up analysis demonstrated that GW-NIPT sensitivity exceeded 97% for fetal aneuploidies and was 63.6% for CNV (≥5 Mb). The positive predictive values for T21, T18, T13, sex chromosome aneuploidy, rare autosomal aneuploidy, and CNV (≥5 Mb) were calculated as 83.1%, 25.8%, 10.3%, 51.9%, 2.0%, and 33.9%, respectively. …”
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Cytology’s New Frontier: The Sydney System’s Innovative Approach to Lymph Node Diagnosis by Nidhi Choudhari, Meghashree V, Vidhya Subramaniam, Sudha M, Prajna K S

“…Diagnostic performance was evaluated using metrics such as sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and malignancy risk estimates. Results: 60 cases were evaluated by FNAC. …”
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Evaluation of point-of-care tests for detecting microalbuminuria in diabetic patients by M.M. Lloyd, J. Kuyl, H. van Jaarsveld

“…Positive and negative predictive values for the HemoCue® were 95.6% and 85.8%, and were 88.6% and 91.0% the Clinitek®. …”
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Predictive factors for failure of high flow nasal cannula among children with lower respiratory tract infection: A single center retrospective observational study. by Phanthila Sitthikarnkha, Rattapon Uppala, Apichaya Thiraratananukulchai, Prapassara Sirikarn, Leelawadee Techasatian, Suchaorn Saengnipanthkul, Sirapoom Niamsanit

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>SpO2/FiO2 at 4 hours after initiating HFNC appeared to be a predicting value for early detected failure for HFNC therapy in children with LRTI. …”
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Theoretical and experimental quantification of Suzuki segregation enthalpy and strengthening mechanisms in a binary alloy by Victoria Tucker, Dongsheng Wen, Victoria Cooley, Jun-Sang Park, Michael S. Titus

“….% Co, which is 2.2 at.% less than the predicted value at the same temperature. We also find that the segregation enthalpy measured from the composition profile is −21.1 ± 6.4 meV/atom and separately from differential scanning calorimetry segregation enthalpy is −66 meV/atom, whereas the predicted enthalpy is −31 ± 1 meV/atom. …”
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Mechanical and Bond-Slip Properties of Steel-Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Recycled-Aggregate Concrete by Jianhua Ji, Zening Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xi Liu

“…The mean and covariance of the ratio of the predicted value of the probability model to the test value are 1.14 and 2.61, respectively. …”
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Association of serum Netrin-1, NSE, and S100β with brain injury severity and prognosis in patients with sepsis-associated encephalopathy by Bo Zhang, Qiong Wu, Jing Wu

“…Independent risk factors for short-term mortality were identified, and the predictive values of these biomarkers were assessed both individually and in combination. …”
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The Influence of Working in Stone Crushing Factories on Specific Respiratory Parameters by Belal Rahhal, Raya Sinnokrot, Omar Abuzant, Samah Shahin, Amany Masalmeh, Wala Jarrar

“…The results were compared to the mean of the measured predictive values. It is concluded that working in stone-cutting factories influences the respiratory function in a negative way, and so necessitates urgent intervention to prevent health complications.…”
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Long-Term Exposure to Primary Traffic Pollutants and Lung Function in Children: Cross-Sectional Study and Meta-Analysis. by Francesco Barone-Adesi, Jennifer E Dent, David Dajnak, Sean Beevers, H Ross Anderson, Frank J Kelly, Derek G Cook, Peter H Whincup

“…We combined results from the meta-analysis with the distribution of the values of FEV1 in CHASE to estimate the prevalence of children with abnormal lung function (FEV1<80% of predicted value) expected under different scenarios of NO2 exposure. …”
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Leak detection characteristics of point and line sensors for foundational data in smart safety management systems by Hyeon-Ki Lee, Tae-Woong Park, Hyeong-Soo Kim, Hyeong-Joo Kim

“…Both measured and predicted values confirmed that the minimum detectable concentrations were at least 0.2 % for point sensors and at least 0.4 % for line sensors. …”
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Value in Using a Panel of Multiple Tumor-Associated Antigens for Immunodiagnosis of Cancer by Peng Wang, Chunhua Song, Weihong Xie, Hua Ye, Kaijuan Wang, Liping Dai, Yi Zhang, Jianying Zhang

“…In different types of cancer, the ranges of positive and negative likelihood ratio were 4.07–4.76 and 0.39–0.51, respectively, and the ranges of positive and negative predictive values were 74.2–88.7% and 58.8–75.8%, respectively. …”
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A Lightweight Transformer-Based Spatiotemporal Analysis Prediction Algorithm for High-Dimensional Meteorological Data by Yinghao Tan, Junfeng Wu, Yihang Liu, Shiyu Shen, Xia Xu, Bin Pan

“…Furthermore, SA-Fit introduces explicit functions with a lasso penalty to fit variations in high-dimensional meteorological data, achieving the prediction of a large amount of data with minimal prediction values. We performed experiments using the ERA5 dataset from the Shanghai and Xi’an regions. …”
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PD-L1 on Circulating Tumor Cells Indicates Poor Prognosis in Breast Cancer by Xue-fei Wang, Guo-chao Zhang, Sha-fei Wu, Jia-xin Li, Qiang Sun

“…Besides, the best cell type for determining the prognostic and predictive values of PD-L1 has not been established. This study investigated associations between PD-L1 on tumor cells (TCs), CTCs, and tumor-infiltrating immune cells (TIICs), respectively, and prognosis and clinicopathological features in breast cancer. …”
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Optimization of Enzymatic Hydrolysis Process and Characterization of ACE Inhibitory Peptide from Squid Skin by Zhe ZHANG, Lingyun MA, Fanfan SHANG, Yihui LIU, Qingchao XIE, Yong ZHAO

“…Under these parameters, the ACE inhibitory rate of the hydrolyzed squid skin product reached 88.22%±1.28%, closely with the predicted value. The IC50 for the ACE inhibitory rate of the squid skin peptides was calculated to be 2.839 mg/mL, with a molecular weight distribution predominantly below 3 kDa, accounting for 93.68% of the total. …”
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Comparative assessment of sarcopenia screening tools for patients with bone tumors: insights for enhanced clinical application by Jun Yu, Jun Yu, Qiongyao Guan, Yanyu Chen, Lan Zhou, Jian Chen, Yingchun Zeng

“…Positive and negative predictive values were moderate across tools, with combined screening methods generally improving sensitivity. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Structural Parameters Importance of Helical Temperature Microfiber Sensor by Artificial Neural Network by Juan Liu, Minghui Chen, Hang Yu, Jinjin Han, Hongyi Jia, Zhili Lin, Zhijun Wu, Jixiong Pu, Xining Zhang, Hao Dai

“…Compared with the actual values, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) and the correlation coefficient of the predicted values are 9.7 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times \,\,10^{-3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB and 99.84&#x0025;, respectively. …”
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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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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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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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