Contribution of hydrogeological, well logs and machine learning in predicting the aquifer hydraulic properties in arid regions: a case study of Nubian Sandstone aquifer, Farafra Oa... by Ahmed Nosair, Muhammad Nabih, Ahmed Bakry

“…The RF model demonstrated superior accuracy, with predicted values of T and K being 113.11 m2/h and 0.2271 m/h in well W-6, and 104.15 m2/h and 0.1867 m/h in well W-8, respectively. …”
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Comparison of CATs, CURB-65 and PMEWS as triage tools in pandemic influenza admissions to UK hospitals: case control analysis using retrospective data. by Puja R Myles, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Wei Shen Lim, Karl G Nicholson, Stephen J Brett, Joanne E Enstone, James McMenamin, Peter J M Openshaw, Robert C Read, Bruce L Taylor, Barbara Bannister, Malcolm G Semple

“…Area under receiver operator curves (AUROC), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values and negative predictive values were calculated. …”
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Computed Tomography–based Measurement of Herniated Orbital Volume Following Acute Orbital Fractures by Erina Kawabata, MD, Takashi Nuri, MD, PhD, Tatsuya Ichida, MD, Koichi Ueda, MD, PhD

“…The optimal AVhe cutoff value was 1.013 mL in the OF group (positive and negative predictive values, 96.3% and 66.7%, respectively; area under the curve, 0.925) and 1.13 mL in the MW group (positive and negative predictive values, 90.0% and 69.2%, respectively; area under the curve, 0.956). …”
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Diagnostic Value of Faecal M2PK and FIT in Colorectal Cancer Screening by Farahnaz Joukar, Mohammad Saghafi, Sara Yeganeh, Soheil Hassanipour, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of M2PK were 72.6%, 87.18%, 82.1%, and 79.7%, respectively. …”
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Predictive modelling of whole-body vibration transmission through strategic locations of human body using artificial neural networks by Ali Murtoja Shaikh, Bibhuti Bhusan Mandal

“…The study also compared the model-predicted values to the actual values using four unseen datasets, which were reserved for evaluating the model's generalization performance. …”
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Risk Factor Analysis and Prediction of Severe Hypocalcemia after Total Parathyroidectomy without Auto-Transplantation in Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism by Chenchen He, Yibing Zhang, Longfei Li, Guangming Cheng, Wei Zhang, Yufu Tang, Chunhui Wang

“…Incorporating these 4 factors, the nomogram achieved good concordance indexes of 0.866 (95%CI, 0.816–0.916) and 0.867 (95% CI, 0.793–0.941) in predicting SH in the training and validation cohorts, respectively, and had well-fitted calibration curves. The positive predictive values of the nomogram were 64.7% (54.1%–78.4%) and 75.0% (58.6%–88.5%), and negative predictive values of the nomogram were 90.0% (82.9%–93.6%) and 86.4% (73.5%–94.0%) for the training and validation cohorts, respectively. …”
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Correlation of structure and function in glaucoma by Maria Joanna Rodriguez-Chan, MD, Patricia M. Khu,MD,MS, Ma. Margarita L. Luna, MD, Manuel B. Agulto, MD

“…Sensitivities, specificities, and predictive values were obtained for each diagnostic test and in combination. …”
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Detection of primary malignancy and metastases with FDG PET/CT in patients with cholangiocarcinomas: Lesion-based comparison with contrast enhanced CT by Youssef Elias, Aladin Mariano, Yang Lu

“…On a lesion-based analysis, the sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPVs), negative predictive values (NPVs), and accuracies of PET/CT and CECT for detection of CCA were 96.5%, 55.5%, 97.2%, 50.0%, 94.1% and 62.2%, 66.7%, 96.7%, 10.0%, 62.5%, respectively. …”
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When math legitimizes knowledge: a step by step approach to Bayes’ rule in diagnostic reasoning by Yung Bruno de Mello Gonzaga, André Demambre Bacchi, Vitor Borin Pardo de Souza

“…OBJECTIVE: To present a step-by-step demonstration of Bayes' formula for positive and negative predictive values, fostering understanding and enabling its adoption in evidence-based medicine education and clinical practice as a supporting tool in the decision-making process. …”
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Diagnostic performance of two rapid tests for syphilis screening in people living with HIV in Cali, Colombia. by Jonny Alejandro García Luna, Nelson Romero-Rosas, Sebastian Alejandro Silva Peña, Oscar Javier Oviedo Sarmiento, Ximena Galindo Orrego, William Lenis Quintero, Luisa Consuelo Perea, Ernesto Martínez Buitrago, Lyda Osorio, Juan Carlos Salazar, Adrian D Smith, Neal Alexander

“…Sensitivity and specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios (LR) of RDTs were estimated with their corresponding 95% confidence interval (95% CI). …”
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The management of adults and children with moderate severity asthma by P.M. Jeena

“…Moderate severity asthma occurs in approximately 10 to 15% of patients with chronic reversible airway obstruction and is defined by more than four daytime symptoms per week, more than four night time symptoms per month and peak expiratory flow rates of between 60 and 80% of predicted values. Currently recommended first line chronic maintenance treatment for children and adults for moderate severity asthma is the use of combination therapy of inhaled corticosteroids and long acting beta-2 agonists. …”
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Predicting ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations using the BaYesian attention-based deep neural network by Angelo Casolaro, Vincenzo Capone, Francesco Camastra

“…The proposed model integrates the principles of the Bayesian neural network and the attention mechanism, enabling it to produce predicted values and their associated uncertainties, expressed as standard deviations. …”
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Plasticity model for pressing of rapeseed and rapeseed dehulled by ZHENG Xiao, LIN Guo-xiang, WANG Shao-mei

“…Greatest relative deviation below 11.44% and 1.1% between the experimental and predicted values of the strains indicate that the plasticity constitutive model can simulate plasticity deformation of rapeseed and rapeseed dehulled well. …”
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INTERVAL FORECAST OF DEGRADATION OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES by S. M. Baravikou

“…In particular cases parameter's true value deviation for a new instance can differ noticeably from the predicted values. For practical problems of ED gradual failures forecasting for future developments it's important to have interval forecast of functional parameter. …”
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Parameter analysis of vibratory energy flow in a hermetic compressor by statistical energy analysis by W. A. Barbosa, A. Lenzi, P.H. T. Zaninin

“…Shell and body vibratory energies have been measured at a standard operation condition, and the coupling loss factor thus obtained agreed well with predicted values calculated from impedance data. Several parameters, such as body and shell impedance, spring and shell loss factor, and model of the spring (tension and compression) were varied and their effects upon the compressor noise analyzed. …”
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Which Radiographic Measurements Best Predict Contralateral Slip in Patients Who Undergo Pinning for Unilateral Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis? by Eduardo N. Novais, MD, Timothy Borden, MD, Thierry Pauyo, MD, Mariana G. Ferrer, Patricia Miller, MS, Maranho Daniel, MD

“…Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values were also determined using literature-based cutoffs for the angles (tilt angle >10°, Billings >12°, PSA >14°, Southwick >12°). …”
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Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR) as Prognostic Markers of COVID-19 Disease Irrespective of Immunosuppression Status: A Case-Control Retro... by Amalia Papanikolopoulou, Vasiliki Rapti, Polyxeni Alexiou, Charalampos M. Charalampous, Maria Effrosyni Livanou, Vissaria Sakka, Konstantinos N. Syrigos, Garyfallia Poulakou

“…Both PLR and NLR exhibited consistently higher negative predictive values (NPVs) (>93%) compared to positive predictive values (PPVs) for intubation and death. …”
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Relationship between intraocular pressure and pulmonary function by Ryo Terauchi, Kota Fukai, Shota Fujimoto, Kyoko Ito, Tomohiro Kato, Kiminori Kato, Masayuki Tatemichi, Jun Araya, Yoshiaki Kabata, Tadashi Nakano

“…IOP was measured using non-contact tonometry, and respiratory function was assessed using spirometry, focusing on the forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio, percent predicted values of FEV1 (ppFEV1), and percent predicted values of FVC (ppFVC). …”
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Optimization extraction process of Shenghua Decoction and evaluation of its analgesic effects by Zhonghui Pu, Lijuan Chen, Huaidan Liu, Jingzhu Deng, Li Li, Liang Xiong, Liuying Li

“…The optimum conditions led to maximal combined content of ferulic acid and senkyunolide I at 1.2336 mg/g averaged from three validation tests (RSD = 1.84 %, n = 3), 0.9347 mg/g for ferulic acid and 0.2989 mg/g for senkyunolide I, and the bias ratio was 1.82 % compared with the predicted value of 1.251 mg/g, indicating the experimental values obtained from the BBD model agreed with that of the predicted values.Analgesic activity results indicated that SHD at all doses significantly reduced the number of twists induced by glacial acetic acid dose-dependently, and prolonged latency of foot licking to varying degrees at every stage of mice hot-plate test. …”
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The Canine Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR): Evaluation of a Point-of-Care Testing Device (MINIPET DIESSE) by Carlo Militello, Anna Pasquini, Anyela Andrea Medina Valentin, Petra Simčič, Giulia De Feo, George Lubas

“…The analytical sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), positive predictive values (PPVs), and negative predictive values (NPVs) were calculated. …”
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