Risk factors for PTSD symptoms following PICU admission for childhood septic shock by Corbet Burcher, GJ, O’Dea, LA, Cooper, MK, Lancaster, R, McCutcheon, RA, Garralda, ME, Nadel, S

“…Data for 65 participants (48% male, median assessment age 8.0 years) was available. Median time since admission was 5.1 years. 30.8% children scored at risk of PTSD at any time since discharge Symptoms were significantly associated with acute CRP rise (p 0.03), other trauma exposures (p = 0.01), and female gender (p =0.04). …”

Ultra-processed food consumption and its relationship with diet quality among Malaysian young adults by Asma’ Ali, Xinyee, Natalie Ding, Noor Salihah Zakaria, Khairil Shazmin Kamarudin, Hamid Jan Jan Mohamed, Ahmad Ali Zainuddin, Hayati Mohd Yusof

“…The median S-MHEI score was 44.65 (IQR=12.77), indicating that 74.6% of participants had poor diet quality. …”
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Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…Consideration of four distinct image Denoising algorithms—Gaussian filter, Median filter, Wiener filter, and Rudin-OsherFatemi (ROF) algorithm—as the new fitting terms in the CDSS model leads to four variants of modified CDSS models called Modified CDSS based on Gaussian filter (MCDSSG), Modified CDSS based on Median filter (MCDSSM), Modified CDSS based on Wiener filter (MCDSSW) and Modified CDSS based on ROF (MCDSSROF). …”
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Visual Acuity Outcomes and Influencing Factors in a Cohort of UK Real-World Diabetic Macular Oedema Patients During the First Two Years of Anti-VEGF Treatment by Wen, Qing, Karcher, Helene, Wright, David M., Sinha, Samriddhi Buxy, Chakravarthy, Usha, Santos, Catarina, Igwe, Franklin, Salongcay, Recivall, Curran, Katie, Peto, Tunde

“…Results: 728 DMO patients (1035 eyes) treated with anti-VEGFs (ranibizumab, aflibercept, or bevacizumab) at the Northern Ireland Mater Macular Clinic from 2008 to 2021 were evaluated. The mean age was 64.5 (SD 12.8) years, and 59.6% were male. …”
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Correlative light and electron microscopy of telomeric repeat-binding factor 1 in mammalian cells by von Otter, Eric

“…EM analysis of cell sections shows that telomeres have a median diameter of 156 nm and 196 nm in HT1080 and MEFs, respectively. …”
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Measuring the performances of covariates using exponential survival analysis with partly-interval censored simulation data by Muhamad Jamil, Siti Afiqah, Lai, Jessintha, Abdullah, Mohd Asrul Affendi

“…This paper aims at proposing the partly-interval censored data into the fixed and time-varying covariates and measure the performances of Exponential survival distribution using mean square error (MSE), mean bias error (MBE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and standard error. …”
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Lasso environment model combination for robust speech recognition by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Jinyu, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Model combination is a common way to adapt acoustic models to a target test environment. For example, the mean supervectors of the adapted model are obtained as a linear combination of mean supervectors of many pre-trained environment-dependent acoustic models. …”
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A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mean operation time ranged from 143 to 450 min and mean operative blood loss from 22 to 225 ml. …”

Transition probabilities of diabetic retinopathy and death in an Asian population with diabetes by Seshasai, Sudarshan, He, Feng, Lam, Betty, Hamzah, Haslina, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Li, Jialiang, Wong, Tien Yin, Tan, Gavin Siew Wei, Sabanayagam, Charumathi

“…A multistate Markov model adjusted for age, sex, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diabetes duration, HbA1c, and body mass index (BMI) was applied to estimate annual transition probabilities between four DR states (no, mild, moderate, and severe/proliferative) and death, and the mean sojourn time in each state. Results: The median assessment interval was 12 months, with most patients having 3 assessments. …”
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Predicting the carbon dioxide emissions using machine learning by Geevaretnam, Jothi Letchumy, Megat Mohd. Zainuddin, Norziha, Kamaruddin, Norshaliza, Rusli, Hazlifah, Maarop, Nurazean, Wan Hassan, Wan Azlan

“…The predictive model's performance was evaluated based on the error measurement metric of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). …”
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Exploring disease axes as an alternative to distinct clusters for characterizing sepsis heterogeneity by Zhang, Zhongheng, Chen, Lin, Liu, Xiaoli, Yang, Jie, Huang, Jiajie, Yang, Qiling, Hu, Qichao, Jin, Ketao, Celi, Leo A., Hong, Yucai

“…Results The reproducibility of sepsis clustering subtypes across the various studies was modest (median NMI ranging from 0.08 to 0.54). The top-down transfer learning method (model trained on cohorts with greater severity was transferred to cohorts with lower severity score) had a higher NMI value than the bottom-up approach (median [Q1, Q3]: 0.64 [0.49, 0.78] vs. 0.23 [0.2, 0.31], p < 0.001). …”
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BOR2G: Building Optimal Regularised Reconstructions with GPUs (in cubes) by Tanner, M

“…Augmented with Kernel Conditional Density Estimation, our regulariser creates reconstructions with median errors between 5.64 cm and 9.24 cm.</p> <p>Finally, we present a machine-learning pipeline that learns, in an automatic fashion, to recognise the errors in dense reconstructions. …”

Incidence, prevalence, and survival of lung cancer in the United Kingdom from 2000–2021: a population-based cohort study by Corby, G, Barclay, NL, Tan, EH, Burn, E, Delmestri, A, Duarte-Salles, T, Golozar, A, Man, WY, Tietzova, I, Prieto-Alhambra, D, Newby, D

“…PP in 2021 was 0.18%, with the largest rise seen in participants aged over 60 years. Median survival post-diagnosis increased from 6.6 months in those diagnosed between 2000–2004 to 10.0 months between 2015–2019. …”

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in a tuberculosis treatment sanatorium on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a retrospective cohort analysis by Aung, HKK, Swe, LL, Saito, M, Lesseps, S, Janurian, N, Tun, WPP, Maung Maung, B, Than, A, Watthanaworawit, W, Kaewphanderm, N, Gornsawun, G, Pyae Phyo, A, Nosten, F

“…Over half of the COVID-19 patients were infected with TB (n= 104, 64.6%), and the rest were not (n=57, 35.4%). The median (interquartile range) age was 48 (33.5-57.0) and 27 (23-33) years in the TB and in the non-TB COVID-19 patients, respectively. …”

Experimental and numerical evaluation of aeroacoustic damping performance of in-duct double-layer orifice plates by Li, Jing

“…A centrifugal pump is implemented to generate mean flow through the perforated plate. The mean flow Mach number M_a is varied by changing the flow rate of the pump. …”
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Breaking invisible barriers: does fast internet improve access to input markets? by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Panigrahi, P

“…Enhanced connectivity increased real income by 2.2% in the median province. Our findings underscore the importance of digital infrastructure investments in fostering economic growth by improving supply chain efficiency and broadening firms’ access to suppliers.…”

Numerical investigations on an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor fueled with hydrogen for enhancing thermal performance by Zuo, Wei, E, Jiaqiang, Lin, Rongming

“…(b) The improved combustor achieves the largest thermal enhancement at the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio of 0.6, when the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio is ranged from 0.9 to 0.5. Namely, the mean temperature of upper and right wall is improved by about 27.55 K and 29.55 K, respectively, and the mean nonuniformity of upper and right wall temperature is reduced by about 23.24% and 19.51%, respectively. …”
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Sparse machine learning methods for financial signal processing by Pucha Srinivasa Sai Chakravarthy

“…And research of portfolio theory was primarily driven as a mean – variance optimization problem where in mean mimicked the returns and variance the risk. …”
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Event rates and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition in hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 positive children and young people and controls across different pandemic waves: exposure-stratified... by Pazukhina, E, Rumyantsev, M, Baimukhambetova, D, Bondarenko, E, Markina, N, El-Taravi, Y, Petrova, P, Ezhova, A, Andreeva, M, Iakovleva, E, Bobkova, P, Pikuza, M, Trefilova, A, Abdeeva, E, Galiautdinova, A, Filippova, Y, Bairashevskaia, A, Zolotarev, A, Bulanov, N, DunnGalvin, A, Chernyavskaya, A, Kondrikova, E, Kolotilina, A, Gadetskaya, S

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Of 2595 CYP with confirmed COVID-19, 1707 (65.7%) participated in follow-up interviews, with 1183/1707 (69%) included in the final ‘matched’ analysis. The median follow-up time post-discharge was 6.7 months. …”

Study on impacts of engineering strategies on pedestrian behaviour and perceptions at zebra crossings by Ng, Wan Ying

“…One recommendation includes painting an extra “LOOK” sign at the median to remind pedestrians to look out for vehicles at the other lane while crossing the road to ensure the safety of pedestrians. 46% of the participants stated that having a “LOOK” sign at the median of the crossing will remind them to look out for vehicles and improve the safety of pedestrians at zebra crossings. …”
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