Global glucose metabolism rate as diagnostic marker for disorder of consciousness of patients: quantitative FDG-PET study by Liu, D, Wang, N, Song, M, Chai, X, He, Q, Cao, T, Kong, D, Song, Z, Zhang, G, Liu, L, Wang, X, Chen, G, Yin, S, Yang, Y, Zhao, J

“…Also, the mean of cortical metabolic index was significantly different between MCS and healthy group (M = 7.88, SD = 0.80,p < 0.001). …”

Body composition, body mass, and cardiovascular health in mid-childhood and midlife: a compositional data analysis by Liu, M, Dumuid, D, Olds, T, Burgner, D, Ellul, S, Juonala, M, Wang, Y, Ranganathan, S, Cheung, M, Baur, L, Dwyer, T, Kerr, JA, Lycett, K, Wake, M

“…</p><p> <br> </p><p><strong>Results:</strong> Mean BMI z-score was 0.3 in children [standard deviation (SD) 1.0, 4.5% obese], and mean BMI was 27.9 in parents (SD 6.1, 28.8% obese). …”

Survivorship and field growth characteristics of four selected bamboo species for the development of bamboo industry in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo by Perumal, Mugunthan, Mohd Hassan, Nurul Husna, Abdullah, Nizam, Omar, Latifah, Zainudin, Johari, Wasli, Mohd Effendi

“…However, the lowest mean culm diameter was observed in G. levis at 2.66 cm, and the highest was in B. vulgaris at 4.51 cm. …”
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The musical descriptor using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): examples in P Ramlee songs by Musib, Ahmad Faudzi, Hamdan, Sinin, Kuryati, Kipli, Sinin, Aaliyawani Ezzerin, Johari Abdullah, Johari Abdullah

“…Keywords: Affinity, Sharpness, Harmonicity, Monotony, Mean Affinity and Mean Contrast…”
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Nutritional assessment of rural villages and estates in peninsular Malaysia: total blood cholesterol values in children, adolescents and adults by Wai, Tony Ng Kock, Lin, Khor Geok, Siong, Tee E., Hashim, Normah

“…In adults (≥ 18.0 years), there was marked disparity in mean TC values among the functional groups; males and females from rice households had the lowest mean TC values (4.58 and 4.99 mmol/L, respectively). …”

Wind characteristics of Oman by Sulaiman, M.Yusof, Akaak, Ahmed Mohammed, Abd Wahab, Mahdi, Zakaria, Azmi

“…Weibull parameters are derived from the empirical cumulative function and used to calculate the mean wind speed and variance of the theoretical distribution. …”
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Production risk and technical efficiency of Thai Koi (Anabas testudineus Bloch) farming in some selected areas of Bangladesh by Sarker, Md. Al Amin

“…Floating feed showed better performance in terms of the mean daily weight gain of fish, feed conversion ratios and mean weight of table fish with less culture days as opposed to sinking and mixed feeds. …”
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Effects of contrast enhanced positron emission tomography/computed tomography in cancer imaging by Mahmud, Mohd Hafizi

“…The mean SUVmax of all observed lesions was determined and the SUVmax of liver was statistically associated with several biological and procedural related factors. …”
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Intracranial volume post cranial expansion surgery using 3D CT scan imaging in children with craniosynostosis by Sulong, Shukriyah

“…The mean preoperative ICV was 880 mL (range, 641-1234 mL) while the mean postoperative ICV was 1081 mL(range,811-1385 mL) The difference was 201 mL which was statistically significant (P<0.001). …”
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A comparative study on faecal short-chain fatty acids concentration in lean, overweight and obese school children by Saipudin, Nurul Ain, Suhairom, Nornazira, Abd. Wahid, Nur Husna

“…The fecal SCFAs concentration of propionic acid (Mean=43.08 µmol/g, SD= 37.14) was the highest and followed by acetic acid (Mean= 29.73 µmol/g, SD= 23.30) and butyric acid (Mean= 23.19 µmol/g, SD= 17.75) with the overweight and obese children reported a higher concentration of butyrate (52%) and propionate (38%) as compared to lean children (p>0.05). …”
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Physical characteristics and occurrence rates of meteoric plasma layers detected in the Martian ionosphere by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Experiment by Withers, Paul, Mendillo, Michael, Hinson, David, Cahoy, Kerri

“…The mean width of the meteoric layer is 10.3 +/- 5.2 km. …”
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Effects of video-based technology to improve performance of a soccer player’s direct free kick by Tan, Mark Mu Zhou

“…Thirty male soccer players (Mean (SD): 23.3 (1.5) years) completed 30 direct free kicks achieving maximum points consisting between zero to five. …”
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Preferences of camp activity among secondary school students in west coast division of Sabah by Japial, Jcrechi

“…In addition, this study found that activities such as photography became the primary choice in camping, where it reached an average of 3.68 of mean score, followed by treasure hunt (3.67), birdwatching (3.60), handicraft camp (3.57), talent show (3:53) and the last is the view of the sunset with an average of 3.50 of mean score. …”
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Fear of childbirth among pregnant mothers at Hospital USM, Kelantan by Yi, Ong Yi

“…The Childbirth Fear Questionnaire (CFQ) and socio-demographic data were used to collect data, and a p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The mean age of the participants was 31.23 years (SD = 4.980), and the mean gestational age at enrolment was 33.51 weeks (SD = 5.967). …”
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The critical success factors of an ERP implementation in a chemical company by Kong, Keat Wai.

“…In this dissertation, references to "Dow" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, while "Dow CP" mean Dow Chemical Pacific (Singapore) Private Limited.…”
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Assessment of fluid responsiveness using pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation, plethysmographic variability index, central venous pressure, and inferior vena cava vari... by Chaves, Renato C. F., Barbas, Carmen S. V., Queiroz, Veronica N. F., Serpa Neto, Ary, Deliberato, Rodrigo O., Pereira, Adriano J., Timenetsky, Karina T., Silva Júnior, João M., Takaoka, Flávio, de Backer, Daniel, Celi, Leo A., Corrêa, Thiago D.

“…The plethysmographic variability index (PVI) was studied in 17 studies, mean threshold = 13.8 (12.3–15.3)%, and AUC was 0.88 (0.82–0.94). …”
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A privacy-preserving diffusion strategy over multitask networks by Wang, Chengcheng, Tay, Wee Peng, Wang, Yuan, Wei, Ye

“…In the proposed strategy, at each time instant, each agent sends a noisy estimate, which is its local intermediate estimate corrupted by a zero-mean additive noise, to its neighboring agents. We derive a sufficient condition to determine the amount of noise to add to each agent's intermediate estimate to achieve an optimal trade-off between the steady-state network mean-square-deviation and an inference privacy constraint. …”
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On the design of capacity-approaching error-correction codes for multi constrained systems by Zhang, Jiayu

“…A convergence to local optimum is guaranteed by the mean shift algorithm, which overcomes the limitations in greedy algorithms. …”
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Mendelian Randomization analysis of the causal effect of cigarette smoking on hospital costs by Dixon, P, Sallis, H, Munafo, M, Davey Smith, G, Howe, L

“…We followed individuals up for a mean of six years.</p> <br> <p><strong>RESULTS:</strong> Genetic liability to initiate smoking (ever versus never smoking) was estimated to increase mean per-patient annual inpatient hospital costs by £477 (95% confidence interval (CI): £187 to £766). …”

Testing Occupational Hazard Self-Evaluation Module (OHSEM) intervention among workers of SME (Manufacturing) in Northern Malaysia by Zulkifly, Syazwan Syah, Hasan, Nor Halim, Baharudin, Mohd Rafee

“…Results: The post-test results showed that safety KAB for the control group was moderate (mean = 2.11), while the mean score in the experimental group was high (m=4.17). …”
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