Fabrication, Mechanical and Wear Properties of Aluminum (Al6061)-Silicon Carbide-Graphite Hybrid Metal Matrix Composites by Shivakumar Gouda, G. B. Veeresh Kumar, R. Pramod, N. D. Prasanna, H. S. Balasubramanya, S. M. Aradhya

“…The sliding wear resistance was noticed to be improved concerning higher amounts of reinforcement leading to a decrease in delamination and adhesive wear. The predicted values for the wear rate have also been compared with the experimental results and good correlation is obtained. …”
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The influence of the criterion of abnormal DLco value on the prediction of impaired lung diffusion capacity after SARS-CoV-2 infection by O. I. Savushkina, E. S. Muraveva, D. V. Davydov, E. V. Kryukov

“…Descriptive statistics, logistic regression analysis were applied, taking into account the previously obtained model for prognosis of abnormal DLco (<80% of the predicted value (%pred.)) [11]. In the present study on the same sample of patients, the prognosis of abnormal DLco was studied depending on the criterion 1: DLco < 80%pred. or criterion 2: DLco < predicted – 1.645SD (SD — standard deviation. …”
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Exploring genomic loci and candidate genes associated with drought tolerance indices in spring wheat evaluated under two levels of drought by Mohamed Mosalam, Rahma A. Nemr, Maha Aljabri, Alaa A. Said, Mohamed El-Soda

“…The same three indices exhibited high prediction values under the severe drought stress (SS) condition. …”
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Adaptation of k-means to automated forecasting of poorly structured time series of economic dynamics by Dunskaia Lada, Popova Elena

“…Our findings indicate that data mining algorithms make it possible to automate the process of translating numerical indicators of a time series into a linguistic equivalent to obtain predictive values without loss of quality.…”
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Prevalence of TB/HIV co-infection in countries except China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Junling Gao, Pinpin Zheng, Hua Fu

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Our analyses suggest that it is necessary to attach importance to HIV/TB co-infection, especially screening of TB/HIV co-infection using methods with high sensitivity, specificity and predictive values in the countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in the general population.…”
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Validation of Medication Proxies for the Identification of Hospitalizations for Major Adverse Cerebro-Cardiovascular Events by Steenhuis D, Li X, Feenstra TL, Hak E

“…Therefore, in this study, we aim to assess the validity of various medicines used as a proxy for major adverse cardio-cerebrovascular events (MACCE), that is, to identify an incident or previous hospitalization for a MACCE.Patients and Methods: Using the claims database of a large Dutch healthcare insurer, we estimated the concordance between hospitalization claims for MACCE and specific claims for dispensings to treat MACCE in a cohort of patients on primary preventive antihypertensive and/or antihyperlipidemic therapy between 2013 and 2020.Results: In a cohort of more than 110,000 patients, a dispensing of either vitamin K antagonists, platelet aggregation inhibitors, or nitrates was predictive of an incident hospitalization for a MACCE between 2013 and 2020, with a sensitivity of 71.5% (95% CI: 70.4– 72.5%) and specificity of 93.2% (95% CI 91.1– 93.4%), and any history of hospitalization for a MACCE (prevalence) with a sensitivity of 86.9% (95% CI: 86.5– 87.3%) and specificity of 81.9 (956% CI: 81.6– 82.1%), while positive predicted value remains low. Sensitivity analyses across age, sex, and patients with asthma/COPD or diabetes showed a similarly good performance.Conclusion: Claims for the dispensings of vitamin K antagonists, platelet aggregation inhibitors, and/or nitrates can be validly used as a proxy for new and previous hospitalization for MACCE in patients on primary preventive therapy. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing delayed treatment seeking for dental caries in preschool children: a cross-sectional study by Jingsi Huang, Jiaqi Sun, Ying Ji, Chengyu Chen, Ziyuan Yang, Hong Zhao

“…Predictive analyses indicated that children’s dental fear (AUC: 0.765, 95%CI: 0.707–0.823) and parental oral health literacy (AUC: 0.738, 95%CI: 0.673–0.802) demonstrated relatively high predictive values for delayed treatment. Conclusion Efforts to reduce delayed treatment should prioritise addressing children’s dental fear and improving parental oral health literacy. …”
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HBV and HCV serological monitoring among injection drugs users in opiate substitution treatment in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Sinisa Skocibusic, Marko Martinac, Jurica Arapovic, Svjetlana Grgic, Jadranka Nikolic, Dino Hasanagic, Milenko Bevanda, Jelena Ravlija

“…Sharing drug paraphernalia was found to be the most significant risk factor. The highest predictive values for acquiring HCV-infection were attributed to PWID who used heroin for more than three years and who were unmarried. …”
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Enhancing antioxidant and antibacterial activities of Cuminum cyminum, Origanum vulgare, and Salvia officinalis essential oils through a synergistic perspective by Behnam Gheisary, Sanaz Ashrafi-Saeidlou, Abbas Hassani, Mohammad Fattahi

“…The measured parameters were in close agreement with the predicted values from the quadratic polynomial equation. …”
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Validation of patient-reported outcome measures for dactylitis, psoriatic skin and nail disease, and uveitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis in routine care by Bente Glintborg, Merete Lund Hetland, Lene Dreyer, Lone Skov, Louise Majormoen Nielung

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, accuracy and Cohen’s kappa were calculated. …”
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Early Post Asymptotic Giant Branch Instability: Does it Affect White Dwarf Hydrogen Envelope Mass? by James MacDonald

“…Estimates of the total mass of hydrogen, M_H , in the stellar envelope from either asteroseismology or spectral evolution are at odds with predicted values from theoretical stellar evolution modeling. …”
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The Accuracy of the Uganda National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program diagnostic algorithm and the World Health Organisation treatment decision algorithms for childhood tuberculosis... by Peter J Kitonsa, Bernard Kikaire, Peter Wambi, Annet Nalutaaya, Jascent Nakafeero, Gertrude Nanyonga, Emma Kiconco, Deus Atwiine, Robert Castro, Ernest A Oumo, Hellen T Aanyu, Mary N Mudiope, Ezekiel Mupere, Moorine P Sekadde, Swomitra Mohanty, Adithya Cattamanchi, Eric Wobudeya, Devan Jaganath

“…We applied the 2017 Uganda NTLP and 2022 WHO algorithms (A with chest x-ray [CXR], B without CXR) to make a decision to treat for TB or not, and calculated the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values in reference to Confirmed vs. Unlikely TB, as well as a microbiological and composite reference standard. …”
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RESULTS OF SNOW COVER FORECAST IN THE CAUCASUS REGION USING THE METHOD OF SINGULAR-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS by Boris Azretaliyevich Ashabokov, Alla Amarbiyevna Tashilova, Lara Asirovna Kesheva

“…As a result of the selection of the main components (1, 3, and 13), prognostic trends of changes in the studied variables were obtained, periods of their increase and decrease were revealed, and predicted values of the average decade height of snow cover and the number of days for the period 2018-2022 were obtained. …”
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Penaeus vannamei aquaculture water quality prediction based on the improved back propagation neural network by DING Jinting, ZANG Zelin, HUANG Min

“…The comparison between the original measured and predicted values of the BP-neural network showed that the relative errors, with a few exceptions, were lower than 2.5%.In conclusion, the BP-neural network model can well reveal the complicated non-linear relationship between the input and output water quality variables in intensive P. vannamei tanks, and the improved BP-neural network (FABPM) method based on fuzzy method has the characteristics of fast convergence, high accuracy and good stability. …”
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Modelling Surface Roughness of 3/1 Twill Fabric Using Weft Yarn Count and Weft Thread Density by Wassie Mengie, Kura Alemayehu Beyene, Getaneh Alamir Eshetie

“…Model validation was performed, and the study showed that the measured and predicted values of the surface roughness of 3/1 twill fabric have a 0.828 coefficient of determination (R2). …”
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Prospective Assessment of mrTRG System Used for Determining the Efficiency of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer by T. P. Berezovskaia, Ya. A. Dayneko, A. A. Nevolskikh, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…When the mrTRG system was used without DWI, the following sensitivity and specificity values as well as positive and negative predictive values were obtained: 75%, 60%, 70% and 67%, respectively, with DWI – 87%, 87%, 87% and 87%, respectively.Conclusion. …”
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Forecasting Delivery Time of Goods in Supply Chains Using Machine Learning Methods by V. K. Rezvanov, O. M. Romakina, E. V. Zaytseva

“…The model showed satisfactory results in terms of time spent on training (3.3087 s) and forecasting (0.0051 s). Actual and predicted values almost perfectly matched. Deviations from actual values were minimal.Discussion and Conclusion. …”
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Employing urinary biomarkers in predicting renal recovery three months after in-hospital acute kidney injury by Shih-Ping Hsu, Chiang-Ting Chien

“…The sUCr/Osm test exhibited high sensitivity (0.881; 95% CI: 0.856–0.906) with a cutoff of 8.84 (sUCr/Osm8.84) and high specificity (0.785; 95% CI: 0.707–0.863) with a cutoff of 21.22 (sUCr/Osm21.22). The positive predictive values of the three methods were approximately 0.880. …”
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Remote web-based self-assessment of visual acuity versus ETDRS in patients with macular diseases: a method comparison study by Casper van der Zee, Leon Daniel Huang Huynh, Saskia Marijke Imhof, Jeannette Ossewaarde-van Norel, Redmer van Leeuwen, Robert Pieter Leendert Wisse

“…The NVA mean difference was 0.13(6.5 letter) SD0.24, positive- and negative predictive values 0.93(95%CI = 0.82;0.98) and 0.71(95%CI = 0.51;0.86) respectively. …”
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Role of electrograms recorded from mini electrodes in catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: a retrospective study by Ungjeong Do, Gi-Byoung Nam, Min Soo Cho, Jun Kim, Kee-Joon Choi

“…The positive and negative predictive values of atrial EGMs in the MEs for junctional rhythm induction during the first RF were 79.4% (27/34) and 77.8% (21/27), respectively. …”
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