Tailored dose baclofen in patients with alcoholic liver disease: A case series with 2-year follow-up of hospitalisation by Heydtmann, M, Macdonald, B, Lewsey, J, Masson, N, Cunningham, L, Irnazarow, A, Nardone, A, Cosgrave, J, Chick, J

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Fifty-three hospitalised patients with alcoholic liver disease started tailored dose baclofen (median: 5.05 months, median highest dose before tapering down: 60 mg). …”

Mapping the Unseen: In Vivo CEST-MRI of Creatine Reveals Improved Cardiac Energetics in Subjects with Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery by Yurista, Salva R., Chen, Shi, Eder, Robert A., Garrett, Thomas, Butsch, W. S., Aminian, Ali, Tang, W. H. W., Farrar, Christian T., Gee, Denise, Abel, E. D., Das, Saumya, Nguyen, Christopher T.

“…Results Thirteen subjects were enrolled, and 6 subjects [mean BMI 40.5 ± 2.6] had completed the second CMR (i.e. post-surgery), with a median follow-up of 10 months. …”
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Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf area and dry weight decreased with increasing height in a similar manner in both leaf litter and harvested leaves. This suggests that median crown height can be estimated from mean area or mass of the leaf litter of a tree in this species. …”
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Predictive validity of the Oxford digital multiple errands test (OxMET) for functional outcomes after stroke by Webb, SS, Demeyere, N

“…Participants were followed up after 6-months and completed the Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living (NEADL) scale. 117 participants were recruited (M = 26.18 days post-stroke (SD = 25.16), mean 74.44yrs (SD  = 12.88), median NIHSS 8.32 (IQR = 5-11)). …”

Metastatic pituitary tumors: an institutional case series by Yearley, Alexander G., Chalif, Eric J., Gupta, Saksham, Chalif, Joshua I., Bernstock, Joshua D., Nawabi, Noah, Arnaout, Omar, Smith, Timothy R., Reardon, David A., Laws, Edward R.

“…Median PFS and OS were 0.6 years (range 0.0-2.2) and 1.5 years (range 0.1–9.6) respectively upon development of metastases. …”
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Image processing algorithms for medical applications by Ling, Regina Ming Zhen

“…In this paper, noise removal will be done using these four filters (i.e. Gaussian, Mean, Median and Wiener filter). The performance evaluation parameters used to measure the effectiveness of each filter are Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). …”
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Pilot feasibility study to determine the utility of direct access and quantitative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) in the assessment of suspected acute biliary o... by Novak, A, Acharya, A, Beer, S, Espinosa, A, Smith, GB, Saga, C, Andrews, J, Bailey, A, Soonawalla, Z, Bungay, H, Pavlides, M

“…One patient was excluded from analysis. Mean patient time to diagnostic report and mean per patient associated direct medical cost and mean cost to diagnosis for the direct MRCP and standard of care group was 2.53 days, £449.54, and £647 respectively for the direct MRCP group and 4.18 days costing £742.06 and £896 for standard care. …”

Electricity load forecasting for smart home by Lin, James Rizhong

“…The results obtained were favourable, as it is apparent that the Prophet model had managed to capture the cyclic behaviour of the time series. The mean, median and seasonal Naïve models achieved a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 33.493%, 32.995% and 29.492% respectively. …”
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International web-based survey of patients with non-hydrocephalic symptomatic pineal cysts by Harding, J, Masina, R, Hill, A, Ansanipour, A, Steele, A, Kolias, A, Santarius, T

“…Results: 543 participants (mean age 38.6 years, range 1–83) were included in the analysis, of which 82 (mean age 38.9 years, range 16–72) had undergone cyst resection. …”

Medical management pathways for Cushing’s disease in pituitary tumors centers of excellence (PTCOEs) by Giustina, A, Uygur, MM, Frara, S, Barkan, A, Biermasz, NR, Chanson, P, Freda, P, Gadelha, M, Haberbosch, L, Kaiser, UB, Lamberts, S, Laws, E, Nachtigall, LB, Popovic, V, Schilbach, K, Lely, AJVD, Wass, JAH, Melmed, S, Casanueva, FF

“…The median percentage of patients with CD receiving medical treatment was 13.3% (4.8–82.9). …”

Characteristics of materials used in the writing of Singapore popular history by Narayanan, Rakunathan

“…Primary sources were not used as extensively as in other studies of similar nature; slightly less than a third of total references. The median citation age was 27 years and the mean was 42.1 years, with the Price's Index at 14%. …”
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Vitamin D in Gambian children with discordant tuberculosis (TB) infection status despite matched TB exposure: a case control study by Stockdale, L, Sambou, B, Sissoko, M, Egere, U, Sillah, AK, Kampmann, B, Basu Roy, R

“…Mean vitamin D levels were 2.05 ng/mL (95% CI - 0.288 to 4.38) higher in 24 highly TB-exposed uninfected children compared with 24 matched highly TB-exposed infected children (p = 0.08). …”

Postpartum-specific vital sign reference ranges by Green, L, Pullon, R, Mackillop, L, Gerry, S, Birks, J, Salvi, D, Davidson, S, Loerup, L, Tarassenko, L, Mossop, J, Edwards, C, Gauntlett, R, Harding, K, Knight, M, Chappell, L, Watkinson, P

“…Median (3rd–97th centile) day-of-birth temperature was 36.7°C (35.6–37.6).…”

GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application by Mayne, R, Aiewsakun, P, Turner, D, Adriaenssens, E, Simmonds, P

“…Analysis times ranged from 1-506 min (median 3.59) on datasets with 17-1004 genomes and mean genome length of 3000–1 000 000 bases.…”

Real-world effectiveness of azacitidine in treatment-naive patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes by Rajakumaraswamy, N, Gandhi, M, Wei, AH, Sallman, DA, Daver, NG, Mo, S, Iqbal, S, Karalliyadda, R, Chen, M, Wang, Y, Vyas, P

“…ORR was 67.8% (n = 259), including an HIR of 29.3% (n = 112). Median follow-up was 12.9 months; median OS was 17.9 months (95% CI, 15.5-21.7). …”

Using QALYs as an outcome for assessing global prediction accuracy in diabetes simulation models by Dakin, H, Gao, N, Leal, J, Holman, RR, Tran-Duy, A, Clarke, P

“…QALYs relate&nbsp;directly to decision-making and combine mortality and diverse clinical events into a single&nbsp;measure using evidence-based weights that reflect population preferences. (2) To explore the&nbsp;usefulness of Q2 (Q-squared), the proportional reduction in error, as a model performance metric&nbsp;and compare it with other metrics: MSE; mean absolute error; bias (mean residual); and R2.…”

Determining the motivational factors for participation in team sports in Nanyang Technological University Students by Chang, Han Yun

“…Microsoft Excel was used to evaluate and analyse the results to find the mean, median and mode of each motive to determine which motivation factor has the highest rating. …”
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Neuropathic pain is a feature in patients with symptomatic femoral acetabular impingement by Wood, S, Coxon, L, Glyn-Jones, S, Barker, KL

“…Post treatment, there was a median change in the neuropathic score in both iHOT33 (40.8 (25 to 76.5) with a median difference of 24.13 (CI 95% 10.46 to 45.92) and average pain 4.5(1.5 to 7) with a median difference of 2 (CI 95% 1 to 5) but to a lesser amount than the nociceptive group, iHOT33 (64(38.2 to 86.6) with a median difference of 15.50 (CI 95% 6.41 to 21.82) and average pain 3(1 to 5.7) with a median difference of 1 (CI 95% 0.5 to 1).…”

Cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and adulthood and cardiovascular disease in Middle Age by Kartiosuo, N, Raitakari, OT, Juonala, M, Viikari, JSA, Sinaiko, AR, Venn, AJ, Jacobs, DR, Urbina, EM, Woo, JG, Steinberger, J, Bazzano, LA, Daniels, SR, Magnussen, CG, Rahimi, K, Dwyer, T

“…The median (IQR) follow-up time was 23.6 (18.7-30.2) years. …”

Promoting Islamic Social Finance: Experience From Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia by Zainol, Zairy, Abd. Wahab, Norazlina, Md. Tahir, Raziah, Osman, Amirul Faiz, Abdul Majid, Nurul Huda, Hanafi, Norshafizah

“…The data were tabulated and used descriptive analysis (frequency, mean, median, minimum and maximum), cross-tabulation and statistical test. …”
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