Prognostic significance of pleural fluid microbiological positivity in pleural infection: a bicentric 10-year retrospective observational study by Wong, C, Fan, HC, Rahman, NM, Wong, JCC, Cheng, HS, Chiu, PH, Tong, CW, Miu, FPL, Yam, LYC

“…MPPI was associated with significantly increased risk of mortality (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 1.46, 95% CI 1.08–1.98). …”

Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases by Vinogradova, Y, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…Odds ratios for HRT types, adjusted for personal characteristics, smoking status, alcohol consumption, comorbidities, family history, and other prescribed drugs. …”

On-load tap changing transformer studies for a small microgrid by Koh, Vesley Yun Rui

“…The On-Load Tap Changing (OLTC) Transformers are installed between certain nodes of the microgrid to adjust the voltages so as to avoid large voltage drops in the network. …”
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Bandwidth Allocation of URLLC for Real-time Packet Traffic in B5G: A Deep-RL Framework by Salh, Adeeb, Ngah, Razali, Hussain, Ghasan Ali, Alhartomi, Mohammed, Boubkar, Salah, M. Shah, Nor Shahida, Alsulami, Ruwaybih, Alzahrani, Saeed

“…To achieve large volumes of arrival rates, we propose Adversarial Training based Generative Adversarial Networks (AT-GANs), which utilize a significant number of extreme events to provide high reliability and adjust real data in real-time. Simulation results show that Deep- Reinforcement Learning (Deep-RL) for AT-GAN could eliminate the transient training time. …”
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A healthy amount of privacy: quantifying privacy concerns in medicine by Cofone, IC

“…I propose a simple method to incorporate these concerns into a standard health impact evaluation, based on quality-adjusted life years and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. …”

Predicting
mergers
and
acquisitions
: a study of Tobin's Q. by Chong, Hui Shan., Lim, Jian Liang., Tan, Keng Tiong.

“…The results indicate that the industry-adjusted Q produces a more significant and accurate measure in determining takeovers targets. …”
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AI in urban planning by Low, Ryan Wai Zhun

“…However, they are either labour intensive which require a huge amount of time or fail to adjust to the dynamic environment. With the advancement of AI and technology nowadays, urban planners can tap on this potential to revolutionise their methods of planning land use configuration. …”
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AI methods for myocardium reorientation using SPECT perfusion images by Wang, Runze

“…The usual method is to manually adjust by experienced doctors, but this operation is time-consuming and laborious. …”
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Micro-systems mechanics Vol. IV by Lin, Rongming, David J. Ewins

“…It can regulate the position of read/write head laterally in parallel with the surface of the disk and simultaneously adjust the flying height of the read/write head over the spinning platter. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…In place of the less tractable spike-timing-dependent plasticity, we employ recently validated phase-difference-dependent plasticity rules, which adjust coupling strengths based on the relative phases of θ-neuron oscillators. …”

Fast updating feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb relays multimodal identity and reward contingency signals during rule-reversal by Hernandez, DE, Ciuparu, A, Garcia da Silva, P, Velasquez, CM, Rebouillat, B, Gross, MD, Davis, MB, Chae, H, Muresan, RC, Albeanu, DF

“…While animals readily adjust their behavior to adapt to relevant changes in the environment, the neural pathways enabling these changes remain largely unknown. …”

Methyl and dimethyl o-xylenyl-substituted fullerene acceptors for polymer solar cells by Kim, Hee Un, Park, Jong Baek, Grimsdale, Andrew Clive, Hwang, Do-Hoon

“…The lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy levels increased with increasing number of adducts on the fullerene because of their decreasing number of sp2-hybridized carbons. …”
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Functionalized sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for interfacial modulation of inverted perovskite solar cells by Abuzeid, Hesham R., Tay, Darrell Jun Jie, Febriansyah, Benny, Kanwat, Anil, Salim, Teddy, Zhumekenov, Ayan A., Pullarkat, Sumod A., Mathews, Nripan

“…Detailed characterization results highlight the role of sp2c-COF in reducing the Ni3+ defect density in NiOx films and forming Lewis acid-base adducts with undercoordinated Pb2+ on the perovskite surfaces, thereby inhibiting interfacial redox reactions and suppressing non-radiative recombination. …”
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Doped amorphous silica nanoparticles as enhancing agents for surface-assisted time-of-flight mass spectrometry by Lim, Angelina Yimei, Gu, Feng, Ma, Zhun, Ma, Jan, Rowell, Frederick

“…Alternatively in the absence of such proton donor/acceptor residues as with hydrophobic particles, the primary ions are released from the particles during desorption and form cation adducts as sodiated and potassiated species in the gas phase above the surface.…”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…In the multivariable models adjusted for relevant covariates, combustible cigarette users (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=1.77; 95% CI: 1.56–2.01) and dual users (AOR=2.22; 95% CI: 1.61–3.05) had higher odds of reporting ever having chest pain, as well as having chest pain in the past 30 days. …”
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The impact and effectiveness of local content policy on oil exploration and production in Brazil by de Almeida, E, Martinez-Prieto, D

“…For future projects, allowing greater flexibility to adjust local content commitments as development plans are established would help reduce project risks. …”

Fluctuation control for many-to-one routing in wireless sensor networks by Jing, Gang, Jia, Lei, Xie, Li-hua, Hu, Qing-lei, Liu, Shuai

“…Finally, an adaptive maintenance mechanism is proposed to adjust the estimation of a sensor available capacity as the network environment changes. …”
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Robust coordination of distributed generation and price-based demand response in microgrids by Zhang, Cuo, Xu, Yan, Dong, Zhao Yang, Wong, Kit Po

“…To mitigate such difficulties, price-based demand response (PBDR) can adjust the loads to adapt to the renewables. On the other hand, dispatchable DG such as microturbines can coordinate with the PBDR to further manage the power balance and achieve economic benefits. …”
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Neonatal antipredator tactics shape female movement patterns in large herbivores by Atmeh, K, Bonenfant, C, Gaillard, J-M, Droge, E

“…Here, using a comparative analysis across 54 populations of 23 species of large herbivores from 5 ungulate families (Bovidae, Cervidae, Equidae, Antilocapridae and Giraffidae), we show that mothers adjust their movements to variation in resource productivity and heterogeneity according to their offspring’s neonatal tactic. …”

Underestimating global land greening: future vegetation changes and their impacts on terrestrial water loss by Chai, Y, Miao, C, Slater, L, Ciais, P, Berghuijs, WR, Chen, T, Huntingford, C

“…These findings improve predictions of future vegetation and transpiration, providing valuable insights for policymakers to adjust water management strategies and better prepare for water-related challenges.…”