Machine learning for predicting neoadjuvant chemotherapy effectiveness using ultrasound radiomics features and routine clinical data of patients with breast cancer by Pu Zhou, Pu Zhou, Hongyan Qian, Pengfei Zhu, Jiangyuan Ben, Jiangyuan Ben, Guifang Chen, Qiuyi Chen, Lingli Chen, Jia Chen, Ying He, Ying He

“…Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were performed to identify the CFs that were independently associated with pCR. We compared 10 ML models based on radiomics features: support vector machine (SVM), logistic regression (LR), random forest, extra trees (ET), naïve Bayes (NB), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), multilayer perceptron (MLP), gradient boosting ML (GBM), light GBM (LGBM), and adaptive boost (AB). …”
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Effect of oodev and turmeric powder dietary supplementations on the reproductive performance of sunset platy fish Xiphophorus maculatus by Harton Arfah, Odang Carman, Muhamad Fathurrizki Darmawan, Fajar Maulana, Lina Mulyani

“…The addition of oodev 0.5 ml/kg broodstock, turmeric powder 3%/kg feed, and the combination of both into the feed increased larval production three, two, and five times higher compared to the control, respectively. The percentage of survival of the larvae is sorted from the highest in treatment D, B, C, A, i.e. 97.51%, 95.79%, 95.65%, and 93.32%, respectively. …”
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Projeto de extensão universitária ‘SaúHDe renal’: Efeitos na qualidade de vida e na aptidão física by Jordana Letícia Buratti, Thaís Severo Dutra, Moane Marchesan Krug, Clara Suemi da Costa Rosa, Paulo Ricardo Moreira, Robelius De-Bortoli, Rodrigo de Rosso Krug

“…EG patients who had more effective participation in the TF obtained better scores in the resistance of lower/upper limbs, in the flexibility and improvements in domains of the QOL, functional capacity, vitality, social aspects, and limitation due to emotional aspects when compared to the CG. The GE significantly increased upper limb resistance, handgrip strength, and the QV in the functional capacity domain. …”
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Effect of modified Traditional Chinese Medicine hot compress technique in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (改良式中药热敷技术治疗膝骨关节炎效果观察) by CUI Yangfang (崔杨芳), LIU Ai (刘爱), ZHANG Xuejian (张雪键), ZHAO Yue (赵月), QI Mengying (齐梦颖)

“…The clinical effective rate and incidence of nursing adverse events were compared between two groups. Results The VAS score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P＜0. 01), The incidence of scalds in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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Efficacy of a reduced-dosage PRRS MLV vaccine against a NADC34-like strain of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by Xinyu Yan, Jiayu Liu, Fengxiong Yue, Yan Lin, Yan Li, Wensi Wu, Shan Zhao, Xiaobo Huang, Qin Zhao, Yiping Wen, Sanjie Cao, Senyan Du, Nanfang Zeng, Qigui Yan

“…Therefore, this study compared the effectiveness of 0.1 and 1 dosages against a NADC34-like PRRSV infection using commercial PRRSV vaccines, Ingelvac PRRS MLV, which have been widely utilized in China.MethodsIn this study, we immunized piglets with two different dosages of the MLV vaccine and infected piglets within a nasal way with NADC34-like CF PRRSV at 42 days post-vaccination. …”
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Kombinasi K-Means dan Support Vector Machine (SVM) untuk Memprediksi Unsur Sara pada Tweet by Wiga Maulana Baihaqi, Muliasari Pinilih, Miftakhul Rohmah

“…In the classification process using two validation methods, namely cross-fold validation of 5 times compared with 10-fold cross validation, the accuracy of the two validation methods is 64.18% and 63.68%, respectively. …”
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Long-term effectiveness of radiofrequency renal denervation in patients with resistant arterial hypertension (10-year follow-up results) by O.L. Rekovets, Yu.M. Sirenko, O.O. Torbas, S.M. Kushnir, G.F. Prymak

“…The decrease in office SBP/DBP was –12.59/–10.0 mm Hg; –11.17/–2.57 mm Hg; –20.31/–11.71 mm Hg, –27.71/–13.33 mm Hg and –30.21/–16.67 mm Hg, in the dynamics of 1 month, 12 months, 2 years, 5 years and 10 years, respectively, p <0.05 for all values compared to the initial. The office heart rate at the stages of 1 month, 6, 12 months, 2 years, 5 and 10 years decreased, its dynamics were –3.74 bpm, –4.68 bpm, –1.45 bpm, –2.13 bpm, –4.21 bpm, –3.88 bpm, respectively. …”
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Variations in vitamin D status among Chinese children aged 1–6 years during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yongfeng Qiao, Xiaoqin Wang, Yanfen Ma, Jian Hu

“…Total 25(OH)D concentrations were compared between the two observation periods. Vitamin D status was determined by 25(OH)D concentrations: deficient (&lt;20 ng/ml), insufficient (20–29 ng/ml), and sufficient (30–100 ng/ml).ResultsThe study involved 6,780 children, with 52.8% being 1-year-olds, 23.1% being 2-year-olds, and 24.1% being 3 to 6-year-olds. …”
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Effects of effluent recirculation on two-stage anaerobic digestion in treatment of biodegradable municipal solid waste by P.V. Dinh, T. Fujiwara, A.N. Peni, C.K. Tran

“…Maintaining the reactor at pH 6.5 increased the concentration of fermentation products compared to pH 5.5, including 5.9 percent total chemical oxygen demand, 5.5 percent soluble chemical oxygen demand, and 10.6 percent total volatile fatty acids. …”
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UltraTimTrack: a Kalman-filter-based algorithm to track muscle fascicles in ultrasound image sequences by Tim J. van der Zee, Paolo Tecchio, Daniel Hahn, Brent J. Raiteri

“…It also yielded similar or lower root-mean-square deviations from manual tracking for previously published image sequences (fascicle length: 2.3–2.6 mm, fascicle angle: 0.8–0.9 deg) compared with a recently-proposed hybrid algorithm (4.7 mm, 0.9 deg), and the recently-proposed DL_Track algorithm (3.8 mm, 3.9 deg). …”
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High-Throughput Phenotyping for Agronomic Traits in Cassava Using Aerial Imaging by José Henrique Bernardino Nascimento, Diego Fernando Marmolejo Cortes, Luciano Rogerio Braatz de Andrade, Rodrigo Bezerra de Araújo Gallis, Ricardo Luis Barbosa, Eder Jorge de Oliveira

“…Multispectral sensors showed higher correlations compared to RGB, especially for vigor, shoot yield, and fresh root yield (−0.40 ≤ <i>r</i> ≤ 0.50). …”
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Analyzing the serum biochemical factors that influence early neurological deterioration in ischemic Stroke patients and developing a nomogram prediction model by Xiaoni Zhan, Yunyun Xu, Rongrong Ma

“…Both groups' basic demographics, medical history, and biochemical test results were compared. Influencing factors were identified using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) method, and these variables were included in a multivariate logistic regression analysis to construct a nomogram for predicting END in IS patients. …”
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Evaluation of Simulated Weightlessness Model of Hindlimb Unloading Miniature Pigs and Their Tissue Damage by TU Yingxin, JI Yilan, WANG Fei, YANG Dongming, WANG Dongdong, SUN Zhixin, DAI Yuexin, WANG Yanji, KAN Guanghan, WU Bin, ZHAO Deming, YANG Lifeng

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A New Smartphone-Based Cognitive Screening Battery for Multiple Sclerosis (icognition): Validation Study by Stijn Denissen, Delphine Van Laethem, Johan Baijot, Lars Costers, Annabel Descamps, Ann Van Remoortel, Annick Van Merhaegen-Wieleman, Marie D’hooghe, Miguel D'Haeseleer, Dirk Smeets, Diana M Sima, Jeroen Van Schependom, Guy Nagels

“…Test performance was comparable between people with MS and healthy participants for all cognitive tests, both in icognition (Symbol Test: U=4431; P=.42; Dot Test: U=3516; P=.32; vBDS: U=3708; P=.27) and the gold standard paper-and-pencil tests (Symbol Digit Modalities Test: U=4060.5, P=.82; 10/36 Spatial Recall Test: U=3934; P=.74; auditory Backward Digit Span: U=3824.5, P=.37). …”
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Prospective Analysis of Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Assessment of the Resection Bed for Bladder Tumor by Ben-Max de Ruiter, Jan E. Freund, C. Dilara Savci-Heijink, Jons W. van Hattum, Marinka J. Remmelink, Theo M. de Reijke, Joyce Baard, Guido M. Kamphuis, D. Martijn de Bruin, Jorg R. Oddens

“…Patient summary: We investigated a special imaging technique called confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) for checking the bladder after surgery for bladder cancer in a group of 40 patients. CLE results were compared to traditional biopsy results and the patients were checked after 3 months. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier à Lyon : la complexité de la protection au titre des monuments historiques by Josiane Boulon

“…Indeed, these represent only avery small portion of these monuments compared to the underground sections.In March 1887, the first law concerning historical buildings was born, it only applied to public property buildings registered on the lists. …”
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Application of care bundles based on the concept of enhanced recovery after surgery in perioperative nursing of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy (基于加速康复外科理念的集束化干预在腹... by FANG Shuheng (房树恒), ZHU Hengmei (朱恒美), DONG Zhitao (董志涛), HE Dandan (贺丹丹)

“…Postoperative recovery condition, incidence of complications and postoperative pain were compared between the two groups. Results At 2, 6 and 24 h after surgery, the Visual Analogue Scale of pain in the observation group were lower than those in the control group, with a significant difference(P＜0. 05). …”
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Enhancing deep learning methods for brain metastasis detection through cross-technique annotations on SPACE MRI by Tassilo Wald, Benjamin Hamm, Julius C. Holzschuh, Rami El Shafie, Andreas Kudak, Balint Kovacs, Irada Pflüger, Bastian von Nettelbladt, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Anton Baumgartner, Philipp Vollmuth, Jürgen Debus, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Thomas Welzel

“…Abstract Background Gadolinium-enhanced “sampling perfection with application-optimized contrasts using different flip angle evolution” (SPACE) sequence allows better visualization of brain metastases (BMs) compared to “magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo” (MPRAGE). …”
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Warm and humid environment induces gut microbiota dysbiosis and bacterial translocation leading to inflammatory state and promotes proliferation and biofilm formation of certain ba... by Yinrui Guo, Jianlang He, Shaojie Li, Shiqi Zou, Haiting Zhang, Xin Yang, Jian Wang

“…On the one hand saliva and tongue coating samples were also taken from human subjects with “Dampness Syndrome” for microorganism culturing and to assess biofilm formation, on the other hand the co-culture products of a macrophage cell line RAW264.7 and Candida albicans and the effect of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were evaluated for their impact on the proliferation and biofilm-forming abilities of different bacterial strains. Results Compared to a control group, the treatment group exhibited significant changes in gut microbiota, including increased biofilm formation, which was mitigated by Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. …”
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Pre-treatment nutrition-related indicators and the prognosis of patients with newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian cancer: an ambispective cohort study by Shirui Wang, Jingyu Zhu, Ningjuan Wu, Nannan Wang, Xiaohe Dang, Minyi Zhao, Juan Zhao, Ding Ma, Xiaofeng Yang

“…A Cox proportional hazards model was established to obtain hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).ResultsThe median follow-up duration was 48 months. Compared with patients having normal nutritional indicators, those with hypoalbuminemia had poorer first-line chemotherapy responses. …”
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