Cost-effectiveness of quality improvement intervention to reduce time between CT-detection and ureteroscopic laser fragmentation in acute symptomatic ureteric stones management by Khopekar, F, Nabi, S, Shiva, M, Stewart, M, Rajendran, B, Nabi, G

“…Patients and methods: 100 consecutive patients with an average (median) age 55.6 (57.5) years and average (median) stone size of 8.2 mm (± 7 mm) between October 2018 and December 2021 who underwent emergency ureteroscopy and laser fragmentation formed the study cohort as part of a clinical service quality improvement. …”

Proinflammatory cytokines suppress nonsense-mediated RNA decay to impair regulated transcript isoform processing in pancreatic β cells by Ghiasi, Seyed M., Marchetti, Piero, Piemonti, Lorenzo, Nielsen, Jens H., Porse, Bo T., Mandrup-Poulsen, Thomas, Rutter, Guy A.

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Long-term outcomes in thoracic aortic surgery: 11 year single centre experience by Staniforth, E, Ttofi, I, Ttofi, J, Perinparajah, V, Vijjhalwar, R, Uberoi, R, Sideso, E, Dubey, S, Krasopoulos, G

“…The median time to re-operation was 1.8 years. 68% of the reoperations occurred within the first 5 years. …”

Time to HIV viral rebound and frequency of post-treatment control after analytical interruption of antiretroviral therapy: an individual data-based meta-analysis of 24 prospective... by Gunst, JD, Gohil, J, Li, JZ, Bosch, RJ, White, Catherine Seamon, A, Chun, T, Mothe, B, Gittens, K, Praiss, L, De Scheerder, M, Vandekerckhove, L, Escandón, K, Thorkelson, A, Schacker, T, SenGupta, D, Brander, C, Papasavvas, E, Montaner, LJ, Martinez-Picado, J, Calin, R, Castagna, A, Muccini, C, de Jong, W, Leal, L, Tipoe, T, Frater, J

“…Median time to pVL >50, >400, and >10,000 copies/mL was 16 days (interquartile range [IQR]:13–25), 21 (IQR:15–28), and 32 (IQR:20–35), respectively. …”

Comparison of INTERGROWTH- 21st and Fenton growth standards to assess size at birth and at discharge in preterm infants in the United Arab Emirates by Cheikh Ismail, L, Mohamad, MN, Ohuma, EO, ElHalik, MS, Dash, SK, Osaili, TM, Hasan, H, Hashim, M, Saleh, ST, Daour, RA, Parker, SR, Ali, HI, Stojanovska, L, Al Dhaheri, AS

“…Results: A total of 1537 infants with a median birth gestation of 35.3 weeks, and a median birthweight of 2320 g were included. …”

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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Tinjauan Faktor Peramal Terhadap Efikasi Kendiri Guru Pelatih Semasa Menjalani Latihan Mengajar (S/O 14827) by Jafar, Mohd Fairuz

“…Pelan Pembargunan Pendidikan Malaysia 2013-2025 (PPPM 2013-2025) menekankan aspek kualiti seperti yang termaktub dalam anjakan ke empal. …”
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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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Penggunaan media sosial, kemahiran komunikasi dan penggunaan teknologi maklumat dalam memperkasakan keusahawanan bekas banduan di Malaysia by Fauziah Ibrahim, Siti Noradilah Zainal, Ezarina Zakaria, Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin, Sheerad Sahid

“…Hasil kajian ini memberi implikasi kepada pihak yang berkepentingan khususnya kepada Jabatan Penjara Malaysia ke arah keperluan penyediaan pelan strategik untuk pembangunan modul, program-program latihan, pementoran dan kemahiran keusahawanan yang memberi penekanan terhadap aspek meningkatkan komunikasi dan penggunaan teknologi maklumat bagi mempersiapkan peluang pekerjaan dan pembudayaan keusahawanan dalam kalangan bekas banduan.…”
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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. …”