Demystifying the diagnostic potentials of air-conducted ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential test elicited by a custom-built chirp stimulus among patients with... by Abdallatif, Athar Mazen Rasmi

“…The cVEMP testing was conducted on 55 healthy adults with a mean age of 29.5 ± 9.1 years and 43 patients with vestibular disorders with a mean age of 41.6 ± 8.9 years. …”
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Dynamically optimal portfolio selection with frictions and portfolio constraints by Ye, Zi

“…Among a variety of decision-making models on this topic, this thesis studies two different representatives of portfolio optimization in a discrete-time setting, namely classical mean-variance and behavioural S-shaped portfolio optimization. …”
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Perceputal rendering algorithm by Gong, Yi Fan

“…The perceptual model is a combination of K-mean Clustering method and Visual Importance theory. …”
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Global minimum variance portfolio : an application to the Singapore stock market by Lim, Ching Jie, Walker, Cheryl Chia, Cheng, Paul Shin Wee, Ng, Nicolson Bowen

“…Furthermore, the look-back periods have no significant impact on the mean returns of the portfolio within each model.…”
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An investigation of finite wings with leading edge protuberances by Gan, Christopher De Hao

“…This is confirmed by the streamline and mean vorticity plots further downstream on the airfoil. …”
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Lane formation and aggregation spots in a model of ants by Bruna, M, Burger, M, de Wit, O

“…Remarkably, the mean-field PDE not only supports aggregation spots and lane formation but also unveils a bistable region where these two behaviors compete. …”

Laser speckle flowgraphy derived characteristics of optic nerve head perfusion in normal tension glaucoma and healthy individuals : a Pilot study by Mursch-Edlmayr, Anna Sophie, Luft, Nikolaus, Podkowinski, Dominika, Ring, Michael, Schmetterer, Leopold, Bolz, Matthias

“…Parameters for the characterization of pulse-waveform of the mean blur rate were calculated. It was shown that the mean blur rate was significantly lower in the glaucoma group compared to the control group (P < 0.001). …”
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React based web-application for stock price forecasting with a novel stacking algorithm by Mittal, Madhav

“…The models are evaluated using three error metrics –Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). …”
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Prediction of neutralising antibodies for novel coronavirus with machine learning by Kho, Jordon Junyang

“…The best performing models were mean pooling models trained using SMOTE-N with accuracies of up to 82% and F1 scores of up to 84% after hyper-parameter tuning. …”
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Dynamic and regression modeling of ocean variability in the tide-gauge record at seasonal and longer periods by Hill, Emma M., Davis, James L., Ponte, Rui M.

“…Comparison of monthly mean tide-gauge time series to corresponding model time series based on a static inverted barometer (IB) for pressure-driven fluctuations and a ocean general circulation model (OM) reveals that the combined model successfully reproduces seasonal and interannual changes in relative sea level at many stations. …”
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中国成年人文化程度与体格指标的长期变化关系 by Tan, Y, Shen, Z, Yu, C, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lyu, J, Li, L

“…From age 25 years to baseline survey (mean age 45.2±6.5), the mean weight change per 5-year was (1.70±2.63) kg for men and (1.27±2.10) kg for women. …”

Cost-utility analysis of molnupiravir plus usual care versus usual care alone as early treatment for community-based adults with COVID-19 and increased risk of adverse outcomes in... by Png, ME, Harris, V, Grabey, J, Hart, ND, Jani, BD, Butler, D, Carson-Stevens, A, Coates, M, Cureton, L, Dobson, M, Dorward, J, Evans, P, Francis, N, Gbinigie, OA, Hayward, G, Holmes, J, Hood, K, Khoo, S, Ahmed, H, Lown, M, McKenna, M, Mort, S, Nguyen-Van-Tam, J, Rahman, N, Richards, DB, Thomas, N, van Hecke, O, Hobbs, FR, Little, P, Yu, L-M, Butler, CC, Petrou, S

“…<p><strong> Results </p></strong>In the base-case analysis, molnupiravir had higher mean costs of £449 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 445 to 453) and higher mean QALYs of 0.0055 (95% CI = 0.0044 to 0.0067) than usual care (mean incremental cost per QALY of £81 190). …”

Association between breakfast consumption pattern with body mass index (bmi) and physical activity among undergraduate students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang... by Zulkifflee, Iwani Afifah

“…More than half of respondents, 58.6%, spent between RM10 to RM15 on their daily food budget, with a mean of RM14.66 ± 6.03 and received between RM500 to RM1000 for their monthly allowance, with mean of RM553.73 ± 261.78. …”
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Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…A prospective 3-month study was conducted on 15 young (median age 31 years, interquartile range (IQR) 25-35 years) and 14 older adults (median age 72 years, IQR 70-73 years). …”
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Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…For histopathological grading of articular cartilage in femur and tibia, surgically induced group showed minimal changes during week 12 with median values of 1 and 2 in femur and tibia, respectively. …”
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Study on morphology of copper-through silicon vias based on electron backscatter diffraction by Zhuo, Guoping.

“…Grain growth was seen in the ion-milled Cu-TSV specimen where similar orientation maps (as compared to previous studies by Okoro.C) were generated. The median grain diameter value is of more significance in estimating the grain diameter of the specimen. …”
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South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…The KW test revealed a statistically significant difference between the median returns across days of the week. Based on the above, profitability is expressed on Tuesdays in South African REITs. …”
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Phenotypic vs. genetic mismatch of BMI and type 2 diabetes: evidence from two perspective cohort studies by Li, A, Gong, S, Yu, C, Pei, P, Yang, L, Millwood, IY, Walters, RG, Chen, Y, Du, H, Yang, X, Hou, W, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lv, J, Li, L, Sun, D, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…We calculated adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) for the association of BMI-PGM and type 2 diabetes using Cox proportional hazard models in each cohort, and combined HRs using random-effects meta-analyses. During a median follow-up of 12 years for both cohorts, BMI-PGM was associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes, with the discordantly low group showing reduced risk and the discordantly high group showing elevated risk compared to the concordant group, independent of BMI and other conventional risk factors. …”

Detecting changes in population trends in infection surveillance using community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence as an exemplar by Pritchard, E, Vihta, K-D, Eyre, DW, Hopkins, S, Peto, TEA, Matthews, PC, Stoesser, N, Studley, R, Rourke, E, Diamond, I, Pouwels, KB, Walker, AS, COVID-19 Infection Survey Team

“…Change-points associated with emergence of major variants were estimated to occur a median 4 days earlier (IQR 0-8) in GAMs versus ISR. …”

Criminality in patients with autoimmune encephalitis: a case series by Michael, S, Varley, J, Williams, R, Bajorek, T, Easton, A, Irani, SR

“…Criminal behaviours began a median of 18 months (range = 15 months–12 years) after encephalitis onset. …”