Interventional oncological treatment of breast cancer liver metastasis (BCLM): single center long-term evaluation over 26 years using thermoablation techniques like LITT, MWA and T... by Thomas J. Vogl, Jason Freichel, Tatjana Gruber-Rouh, Nour Eldin Nour Eldin, Sven Becker, Christine Solbach, Ulrich Stefenelli, Nagy N. N. Naguib

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Hubungan antara Kebiasaan sarapan dengan Status Gizi pada siswa SMP Negeri 5 Banyuwangi by Sheila Monica Kelly Amalia, Merryana Adriani

“…Data analysis was performed to determine the frequency distribution and the percentage of each variable studied. The statistical analysis used is a regression test. Results: The results showed that most students had good habits of breakfast (91.9%), normal nutritional status (72.9%). …”
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Comparative study on sexual and reproductive health of adolescents with and without aids by Júlia Valéria Ferreira Cordellini, Cristina de Oliveira Rodrigues, Lidia Natalia Dobrianskyj Weber, Tony Tannous Tahan, Beatriz Elizabeth Bagatin Veleda Bermudez, Clea Elisa Lopes Ribeiro, Andrea Maciel de Oliveira Rossoni

“…A questionnaire with objective multi-choice questions, as well as open-ended questions thought to stimulate free narratives was the base of data acquisition. Statistical analysis have considered the adolescents HIV+ and HIV- matched by age, gender and education. …”
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Trends and predictors of incidence of hypospadias in a tertiary hospital in South Africa by Daniel Udatinya, Ahsan Ahmad, Gaetan Kabera, Marietha Nel

“…EpiData version 3.1 and STATA version 15.1 were used for statistical analysis. The Mantel Haenszel method determined combined odds ratios for hypospadias outcome on boys whose mothers were exposed to certain conditions versus boys of unexposed mothers. …”
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Evaluating the Capabilities of Generative AI Tools in Understanding Medical Papers: Qualitative Study by Seyma Handan Akyon, Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Ahmet Sefa Camyar, Fatih Hızlı, Talha Sari, Şamil Hızlı

“…ResultsLLMs exhibited varying performance, with GPT-3.5-Turbo achieving the highest percentage of correct answers (n=3916, 66.9%), followed by GPT-4-1106 (n=3837, 65.6%), PaLM 2 (n=3632, 62.1%), Claude v1 (n=2887, 58.3%), Gemini Pro (n=2878, 49.2%), and GPT-4-0613 (n=2580, 44.1%). Statistical analysis revealed statistically significant differences between LLMs (P<.001), with older models showing inconsistent performance compared to newer versions. …”
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The Persian version of the psychological flexibility in sport scale: a psychometric study by Farzaneh Badinlou, Rokhsareh Badami, Gustaf Reinebo, Markus Jansson-Fröjmark, Fahimeh Sepehri, Shiva Molaviniya, Tobias Lundgren

“…Methods A total of 302 athletes from both team and individual sports (average age of 20.7 years, SD ± 7.5, 62.3% were female) were involved in the current study. Statistical analysis was performed on the data to test validity and reliability. …”
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Adiponectin gene expression in local fat depots in patients with coronary heart disease depending on the degree of coronary lesion by E. V. Belik, O. V. Gruzdeva, O. E. Akbasheva, Yu. A. Dyleva, D. A. Borodkina, M. Yu. Sinitsky, A. V. Sotnikov, K. A. Kozyrin, N. K. Brel, D. Yu. Naumov, A. A. Shilov, E. E. Bychkova, V. N. Karetnikova, O. L. Barbarash

“…Adiponectin gene expression was evaluated by polymerase chain reaction (real-time PCR) using TaqMan probes. Statistical analysis was performed using Statistica 9.0. …”
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Predicting hatchability of layer breeders and identifying effects of animal related and environmental factors by I. Bouba, B. Visser, B. Kemp, T.B. Rodenburg, H. van den Brand

“…This opens new horizons for future studies on hatchery data by taking the advantage of applying machine learning methods, that can fit complex datasets better than LR and applying statistical analysis.…”
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Comparison of Gait Pattern among Blind and Blind Folded Sighted Subjects: A Cross-sectional Study by Sweta Kumari, Naveen Bankey, Shomi Anand

“…Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used for statistical analysis. Results: The mean value of gait in blind folded sighted and blind subjects was found to be 3.28±0.48 and 2.01±0.79 km/hr respectively and was found statically significant having (p-value=0.001). …”
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HIV destigmatization: perspectives of people living with HIV in the Kumasi Metropolis in Ghana by Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah, Emmanuel Ofori, Ernest Alema-Mensah, Thomas Agyarko-Poku

“…Quantitative data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 and the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) version 9.4. Qualitative data was analyzed using a thematic approach.ResultsMost of the study participants (70.5%) said HIV-related stigma in Ghana is due to ignorance. …”
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Survival and Complication of Liver Transplantation in Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yifu Hou, Yifu Hou, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Hongji Yang, Hongji Yang, Shan Zhong, Shan Zhong

“…Studies that were retrospective record based or adopted a cohort approach and reported either patient survival rates or graft survival rates or complications of LT in infants were included in the meta-analysis. Statistical analysis was done using STATA version 13.0.Results: A total of 22 studies were included in the meta-analysis. …”
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Advancing Personalized Medicine by Analytical Means: Selection of Three Metabolites That Allows Discrimination between Glaucoma, Diabetes, and Controls by David Bernal-Casas, Joan Serrano-Marín, Juan Sánchez-Navés, Josep M. Oller, Rafael Franco

“…All possibilities, using the leave-one-out approach, were considered through ad hoc programming and in silico massive data production and statistical analysis. Our proof of concept led to the selection of four molecules: acetyl-ornithine (Ac-Orn), C3 acyl-carnitine (C3), diacyl C42:6 phosphatidylcholine (PC aa C42:6), and C3-DC (C4-OH) acyl-carnitine (C3-DC (C4-OH)) that, taken in combination, would lead to a 95% discriminative success. 100% success was obtained with a non-linear combination of the concentration of three of these four compounds. …”
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Acoustic Noise Levels of Dental Equipments and Its Association with Fear and Annoyance Levels among Patients Attending Different Dental Clinic Setups in Jaipur, India by Asif Yousuf, Shravani Ganta, Anup Nagaraj, Sonia Pareek, Mansi Atri, Kushpal Singh, Mohsin Sidiq

“…Dental fear among patients was measured using Dental Fear Scale (DFS). Results: Statistical analysis was performed using chi square test and unpaired t-test. …”
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The effectiveness of multicomponent exercise in older adults with cognitive frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Huanhuan Luo, Zitian Zheng, Zhe Yuan, Huixiu Hu, Chao Sun

“…Methods Our methodology entailed a comprehensive review of literature in databases including PubMed, EMbase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Wanfang, Sinomed, VIP, and CNKI from the inception of these databases to December 10, 2023. For our statistical analysis, we utilized RevMan 5.3, Stata 17.0 and R 4.3.2 software. …”
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Secondary aerosol formation promotes water uptake by organic-rich wildfire haze particles in equatorial Asia by J. Chen, S. H. Budisulistiorini, T. Miyakawa, Y. Komazaki, M. Kuwata, M. Kuwata, M. Kuwata

“…Non-refractory submicron particles (NR-PM₁) were dominated by organics (OA; approximating 77.1 % in total mass), whereas sulfate was the most abundant inorganic constituent (11.7 % on average). A statistical analysis of the organic mass spectra showed that most organics (36.0 % of NR-PM₁ mass) were highly oxygenated. …”
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Cq values as an indicator for COVID‐19 outcomes: A study of the correlation between laboratory parameters by Hadi Safdari, Saeede Bagheri, Nasrin Talkhi, Elahe Saberi Teymourian, Mahdi Hosseini Bafghi, Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi

“…Blood tests, including complete blood count, C‐reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), D‐dimer, IgG, and IgM, were also conducted. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 22 software. …”
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Fungal contamination of pig farm feeds by Krnjaja Vesna, Stanojković Aleksandar, Petrović Tanja, Mandić Violeta, Bijelić Zorica, Radović Čedomir, Delić Nikola

“…It has established the impermissible limit of total fungal count in 3.45% and 4.76% of a feed for fattening pigs and feed for piglets, respectively. Statistical analysis of the total number of fungi did not establish significant differences between the examined feed groups. …”
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Serological and Lacrimal Signaling in Patients Affected by Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) by Marcella Nebbioso, Andrea Iannaccone, Marzia Duse, Michele Aventaggiato, Alice Bruscolini, Anna Maria Zicari

“…Pearson’s correlation was chosen as statistical analysis to assess the relationship between the expression levels of VEGF in tears and blood and the clinical parameters measured. …”
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El orden y la memoria en una librería porteña de 1829: El Catálogo de la Librería Duportail Hermanos = The order and memory of a bookshop in Buenos Aires in 1829: The Catalog of... by Alejandro E. Parada

“…Secondly, the following subjects are discussed: the presence of a reading room, the historical evolution of other catalogs of that time, and the statistical analysis of the publications for sale. Then, a qualitative study of the collection is performed, based on the “notes” left by a reader of those days. …”
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New Classification of Gastric Varices: A Twenty-Year Experience by Akash Singh, Nipun Verma, Sahaj Rathi, Sunita Kumari, Shivani Chandel, Virendra Singh

“…Patients with varices in esophagogastric region as well as distally in the stomach or duodenum, thus having efferent drainage into the superior as well as inferior vena cava simultaneously, remain unclassified and were coined as GOV3. Statistical Analysis Descriptive data was represented as mean (standard deviation) or median (interquartile range) or number (percentage). …”
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