Glutathione-S-Transferase p1 Gene Promoter Methylation in Cell-Free DNA as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Tool for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jinghe Ye, Mao Wu, Long He, Peng Chen, Hongtao Liu, Hongwei Yang

“…The area under the curve (AUC) with 95% CI was 0.78 (95% CI = 0.75, 0.82). …”
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Direct Application of Coffee Pulp Vermicompost Produced from Epigeic Earthworms and Its Residual Effect on Vegetative and Reproductive Growth of Hot Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) by Yohannes Zergaw, Temesgen Kebede, Dargie Tsegay Berhe

“…The collected data were analyzed using R Statistical software. The results recorded in the direct application of 15 t/ha CEV were profoundly higher (P < 0.05), followed by the combined effects of both worms with an application rate of 15 t/ha. …”
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Zinc Sulphate and Boron-Based Foliar Fertilizer Effect on Growth, Yield, Minerals, and Heavy Metal Composition of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L) Grown on an Alfisol by Christopher Aboyeji, Oluwagbenga Dunsin, Aruna O. Adekiya, Chinomnso Chinedum, Khadijat O. Suleiman, Faith O. Okunlola, Charity O. Aremu, Iyiola O. Owolabi, Temidayo A. J. Olofintoye

“…It can therefore be recommended that for optimum yield and seed quality, application of 8 kg Zn·ha−1 combined 600 ml B·ha−1 is sufficient in the study area without increasing the heavy metal concentration of groundnut seed.…”
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Intelligent Soft Computing on Forex: Exchange Rates Forecasting with Hybrid Radial Basis Neural Network by Lukas Falat, Dusan Marcek, Maria Durisova

“…This paper deals with application of quantitative soft computing prediction models into financial area as reliable and accurate prediction models can be very helpful in management decision-making process. …”
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Evaluating Railway Operation Safety Situation in China Based on an Improved TOPSIS Method: A Regional Perspective by Xu Yan, Qiyuan Peng, Yong Yin, Yongxiang Zhang, Qingwei Zhong

“…The real-life statistical accident data in a regional area of China from 2016 to 2018 are chosen as a case study to verify the proposed method. …”
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Coupling Analysis of Hydrometeorology and Erosive Landforms Evolution in Loess Plateau, China by N. N. Cheng, H. M. He, Y. J. Lu, S. Y. Yang

“…We firstly describe hydrometeorology changing patterns (rainfall-runoff-soil erosion response) at different time scales (daily, monthly, and yearly) in perspective of river basins and then further investigate hydrometeorology impacts on erosive landform through combined analysis of statistical quantification and proposed conceptual model of rainfall-runoff-soil erosion landform. …”
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Standardizing and Classifying Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: An International Multicenter Study Using a Mobile Application by Nadia Karina Portillo-Ortíz, Luis Raúl Sigala-González, Iván René Ramos-Moctezuma, Brenda Lizeth Bermúdez Bencomo, Brissa Aylin Gomez Salgado, Fátima Cristal Ovalle Arias, Irene Leal-Berumen, Edmundo Berumen-Nafarrate

“…Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis yielded an area under the curve of 0.80, indicating reliable diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Desigualdades na mortalidade infantil no Município de São Paulo: em busca do melhor indicador by Ligia Vizeu Barrozo

“…Socioeconomic data were obtained from the micro data of the Demographic Census of 2010 referring to the sample areas. Statistical analyzes comprised simple non-spatial linear regression models (Ordinary Least Squares). …”
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Benefits of Dance Therapy in Overweight and Obese Women by Katia Rodríguez Palacios, Isaac Rodríguez Palacios, Lázaro Dionisio Rojas Matsuda, Yarisel López Pérez, Ismaray Sacerio González, Ivis Triana Oquendo

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to evaluate the benefits of the dance therapy program in its Zumba modality combined with Tae Bo, in overweight and obese women between 20 and 60 years old, in an area of the Pueblo Griffo Cienfuegos municipality. …”
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Energy Poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Recommendations by Maja Muftić Dedović, Samir Avdaković, Adnan Mujezinović, Nedis Dautbašić, Ajdin Alihodžić, Adin Memić

“…Households using wood for heating, with a combined rooftop area of 26,104 m², could generate 7,831,200 kWh of solar energy annually, reducing CO₂ emissions by 1,389,825 kg. …”
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In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics by Yongsheng Huang, Yaozhong Pan, Yu Zhu, Xiufang Zhu, Xingsheng Xia, Qiong Chen, Jufang Hu, Hongyan Che, Xuechang Zheng, Lingang Wang

“…The CSP method was applied to 10 major cotton-producing counties in Xinjiang, and the MRE between the CSP-detected area and the statistical area was 14.1&#x0025;. Further analysis revealed that the CSP index can accurately and effectively distinguish cotton from other features and contemporaneous crops and that the Otsu&#x2013;Sauvola automatic threshold method has robustness and regional consistency, thus providing an automatic and effective method for large-scale mapping of cotton in the early growing season.…”
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Evaluation of Rapeseed Leave Segmentation Accuracy Using Binocular Stereo Vision 3D Point Clouds by Lili Zhang, Shuangyue Shi, Muhammad Zain, Binqian Sun, Dongwei Han, Chengming Sun

“…However, for ground point clouds, we combined plane fitting with pass-through filtering for denoising, while statistical filtering was used for denoising outliers generated during scanning. …”
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Analyzing Worn-Out Texture Regeneration from Urban Branding Perspective Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) (Case Study: Worn-Out Texture of Shahr-e-Kord) by Dvood Mahdavi, Ali Mohammadi Gojani, Waliullah Nazari

“…AbstractUrban regeneration, a contemporary approach to revitalizing worn-out urban areas, has a tremendous impact on the quality of life and sustainability of residents. …”
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Preliminary study on the diagnostic value of urine cell glucose metabolism detection for male urothelial carcinoma by Yaoyao Wu, Angchao Ye, Zhenguo Bu, Shaoxing Zhu, He Wang, Yipeng Xu

“…Stratified analysis based on urine glycometabolism detection (high risk, low risk, no abnormalities) showed the sensitivity, specificity and Area Under Curve (AUC) values of “Glucose metabolism 1” (high risk) as 74.70%, 59.09% and 0.6689 (p = 0.0151), and “Glucose metabolism 2” (high/low risk) as 82.56%, 59.09% and 0.7082 (p = 0.0027). …”
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A Finite Element-Based Elastic-Plastic Model for the Contact of Rough Surfaces by Ali Sepehri, Kambiz Farhang

“…Shoulder-shoulder asperity contact yields a slanted contact force consisting of two components, one in the normal direction and a half-plane tangential component. Statistical summation of the asperity level contact force components and asperity level contact area results in the total contact force and total contact area formulae between two rough surfaces. …”
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La répartition des chimpanzés à Sebitoli (Parc National de Kibale, Ouganda): influence des facteurs naturels et anthropiques by Sarah Bortolamiol, Marianne Cohen, Milena Palibrk, Sabrina Krief

“…It also resulted in statistical curves that describe the weight of each variable in the construction of the chimpanzee’s probability model.We determine the core area of the chimpanzees’s community (around 20 km2 with a more frequented area of 4.5 km2). …”
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Assessment of Anterior Segment Measurements with Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography before and after Ab Interno Trabeculotomy (Trabectome) Surgery by Handan Akil, Ping Huang, Vikas Chopra, Brian Francis

“…The reduction of IOP and number of medications was found to be statistically significant in both groups (p<0.001). ACD, ACV, and angle parameters such as AOD 500/750, TISA 500/750, ARA 500/750, and TIA500 showed significantly greater changes from the preoperative values to postoperative 1st month values in combined Trabectome-cataract surgery group (p<0.05), whereas Trabectome-only group did not show statistically significant difference (p>0.05). …”
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Prognostic value of multi-PLD ASL radiomics in acute ischemic stroke by Zhenyu Wang, Yuan Shen, Xianxian Zhang, Qingqing Li, Congsong Dong, Shu Wang, Haihua Sun, Mingzhu Chen, Xiaolu Xu, Pinglei Pan, Pinglei Pan, Zhenyu Dai, Fei Chen, Fei Chen

“…Shapley Additive exPlanations was applied to interpret feature contributions.ResultsThe combined model of extreme gradient boosting demonstrated superior predictive performance, achieving an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.876. …”
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The Role of Urban Spaces in Improving the Life Quality (A Case Study of Malayer) by Robabeh Rajabi Amirabad, Bijan Rahmani

“…The type of the study was a developmental one and the area understudy was Malayer with 52697 households and an area of ​​2,400 hectares. …”
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A 40-year remote sensing analysis of spatiotemporal temperature and rainfall patterns in Senegal by Catherine Nakalembe, Diana B. Frimpong, Hannah Kerner, Mamadou Adama Sarr

“…In this study, we utilized satellite remote sensing data leveraging historical EO data using Google Earth Engine to investigate spatio-temporal rainfall and temperature patterns in Senegal from 1981 to 2020. We combined CHIRPS precipitation data and ERA5-Land reanalysis datasets for remote sensing analysis and used the Mann–Kendall and Sen's Slope statistical tests for trend detection. …”
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