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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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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A comparison of soil sampling procedures used to monitor soil fertility in permanent pastures by Friesen, DK, Blair, GJ

“…The number of grid samples required to estimate within 10% of the mean varied from 121 for Bray-1 P down to 1 for soil pH. …”

Unsupervised learning based performance analysis of n-support vector regression for speed prediction of a large road network by Asif, M. T., Oran, A., Fathi, E., Xu, M., Dhanya, M. M., Mitrovic, N., Jaillet, P., Dauwels, Justin, Goh, Chong Yang

“…The traditional performance measures such as mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and root mean square error (RMSE) provide little insight into spatial and temporal characteristics of prediction methods for a large network. …”
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Development of food commodity price forecasting model as an early warning system with a multivariate time series clustering by Sumertajaya, I Made, Rohaeti, Embay, Fitrianto, Anwar, P., Windhiarso Ponco Adi

“…The forecasting evaluation results show good accuracy with Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) scores below IDR 1000.00 in most cases, which is equivalent to Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) scores below 10%. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network for Internet of Things Facility Management (IoT-FM) environment sensing by Guan, Jun Liang

“…Also, PM2.5 had a better K-means clustering and silhouette coefficient of 0.627. …”
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Food choice motivations and perceptions of healthy eating: a cross-sectional study among consumers in the UAE by Cheikh Ismail, L, Osaili, TM, Obaid, RS, Hashim, M, Ahmed, M, Al-Fayadh, F, Farah, A, Sad, H, Alghanem, H, Mohamad, MN, Saleh, ST, Al Daour, R, Masuadi, E, Stojanovska, L, Ali, HI, Al Dhaheri, AS

“…Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) and K-means cluster analysis were used to identify and determine the optimal number of clusters. …”

The effect of using individual self-guided Breathing controlled with imagery Training among novice and skill athletes by Roslan, Siti Raihanah

“…For SA, the mean score change from 370.00during pre-test to 503.85during post-test. …”
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A renewal-equation approach to estimating Rt and infectious disease case counts in the presence of reporting delays by Bajaj, S, Thompson, R, Lambert, B

“…During infectious disease outbreaks delays in case reporting mean that the time series of cases is unreliable, particularly for those cases occurring most recently. …”

Door to door service by shipping lines : theory and practice by Ong, Xue Ling.

“…This paper examines Singapore shippers’ expectations on door-to-door service attributes and compares these service attributes to container shipping lines’ understanding of these expectations to determine if a perceptual gap exists. This is done by means of a review of previous studies, personal interviews and survey questionnaires. …”
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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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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…While machine learning expertise doesn't quite mean you can create your own Turing Test-proof android - as in the movie Ex Machina- it is a form of artificial intelligence and one of the most exciting technological means of identifying opportunities and solving problems fast and on a large scale. …”
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A new method for the control of size of pellets in the melt pelletization process with a high shear mixer by Heng, Paul Wan Sia, Wong, Tin Wui, Shu, Jian Jun, Wan, Lucy Sai Cheong

“…The effects of binder concentration, mean particle size of bulk material and post-melt impeller speed on the relationship of specific energy consumption and pellet growth were examined. …”
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Environmental and human data-driven model based on machine learning for prediction of human comfort by Mao, Fubing, Zhou, Xin, Song, Ying

“…The comparison results show that the SVR-RBF has the best performance for comfort prediction according to the mean squared error, mean absolute error and R-squared score.…”
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Gaussian message passing for overloaded massive MIMO-NOMA by Liu, Lei, Yuen, Chau, Guan, Yong Liang, Li, Ying, Huang, Chongwen

“…Second, the means of the traditional GMP will fail to converge when Nu/Ns (2-1-25.83. …”
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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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Investigating spatio-temporal variability of initial ²³⁰Th/²³²Th in intertidal corals by Chiang, Hong-Wei, Philibosian, Belle, Meltzner, Aron J., Wu, Chung-Che, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Edwards, R. Lawrence, Chuang, Chih-Kai, Suwargadi, Bambang W., Natawidjaja, Danny H.

“…Here we present 66 reconstructed U–Th isochrons of modern and Holocene Porites lutea and lobata corals from throughout the Sumatran forearc islands (SFI). Mean square of weighted deviates (MSWD) is used to evaluate the variabilities of 28 location-specific 230Th/232Th0 values before the regional mean. …”
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Implementation of occupational safety and health management system in reducing ergonomic risk among certified and uncertified automotive industry workers by Ikpegbu, Mavis Amarachi

“…OSHMS provides a set of tools that enhance safety, risk management efficiency related to all organization’s activity, it is a systematic means for employers to handle challenges and reduce haphazard attitudes to risk and problems in the work environment. …”
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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. …”

Aeration slab study volume 2 by Rahardjo, Harianto, Indrawan, I Gde Budi, Fakhrur, Rozy Harnas

“…Temperatures under the turf cover were relatively stable and always lower as compared to those under the asphalt pavement and aeration slab. The mean temperatures for soil underneath the aerations slab were 32.3"C for both 0.125 m and 0.25 m depths whereas the mean temperatures for soil underneath the asphalt pavement were 36.2"C and 35.7°C for 0.125m and 0.25 m depth, respectively. …”
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