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Sungroul Kim
While cotinine is commonly used as a biomarker to validate self-reported smoking status, the selection of an optimal cotinine cutoff value for distinguishing true smokers from true nonsmokers shows a lack of standardization among studies. This review des...
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Yongshuai Sun, Anping Lei, Ke Yang and Guihe Wang
Relying on the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway widening project near the impervious wall of a reservoir, this paper uses FLAC3D two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical simulation methods to establish the whole process model of the impervious wall...
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Stéphane Crépey, Noureddine Lehdili, Nisrine Madhar and Maud Thomas
A major concern when dealing with financial time series involving a wide variety of market risk factors is the presence of anomalies. These induce a miscalibration of the models used to quantify and manage risk, resulting in potential erroneous risk meas...
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Benito Perez-Gonzalez, Alvaro Fernandez-Luna, Daniel Castillo and Pablo Burillo
The relative age effect (RAE) consists of the lower presence of members of an age group born in the months furthest from the age cut-off date established. In youth soccer, it is known that because of this effect the birth dates of more players in a team ...
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Yijun Shao, Kaitlin Todd, Andrew Shutes-David, Steven P. Millard, Karl Brown, Amy Thomas, Kathryn Chen, Katherine Wilson, Qing T. Zeng and Debby W. Tsuang
The application of natural language processing and machine learning (ML) in electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce dementia underdiagnosis, but models that are not designed to reflect minority populations may instead perpetuate underdiagnosis. ...
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Tribeni C. Sharma and Umed S. Panu
At times, hydrological drought is defined using Q90 or Q95 (90% or 95% flows equaling or exceeding) or even at higher levels, such as Q75 as the cutoff level regardless of their seasonal variation (i.e., truncation at the uniform flow level). In the past...
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Vasile-Andrei Olteanu, Catalin-Victor Sfarti, Gheorghe G. Balan, Oana Timofte, Elena Gologan, Dana Elena Mitrica, Georgiana-Emmanuela Gilca-Blanariu, Cristina Gena Dascalu, Ion Sandu and Gabriela Stefanescu
The progression of liver fibrosis and the presence of portal hypertension are two key points in the follow-up and severity assessment of patients with chronic liver disease. Objective evaluation of such aspects has proven to be difficult due to the lack ...
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Raid Alrowais, Bandar Alwushayh, Muhammad Tariq Bashir, Basheer M. Nasef, Ahmed Ghazy and Elsayed Elkamhawy
Cutoff walls are widely used to limit seepage, piping, and the uplift under hydraulic structures. Therefore, this study focused on a numerical investigation of the hydraulic performance of cutoff walls beneath hydraulic structures during both static and ...
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Xiaoyi Fu, Lei Liang, Wenlai Ma, Hutao Cui and Yang Zhao
Designing spacecraft involves a careful equilibrium to avoid overengineering or underdesigning, which underscores the importance of employing thermal uncertainty analysis. A key part of this analysis is modeling thermal conditions, but this is often a co...
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Bunjira Makond, Pornsarp Pornsawad and Kittisak Thawnashom
Osteoporosis is still a serious public health issue in Thailand, particularly in postmenopausal women; meanwhile, new effective screening tools are required for rapid diagnosis. This study constructs and confirms an osteoporosis screening tool-based deci...
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Huiquan Zhou, Hao Luo, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Xingxing Qian, Chao Ren and Puihing Chau
Previous evidence suggests that temperature is associated with the number of emergency department (ED) visits. A predictive system for ED visits, which takes local temperature into account, is therefore needed. This study aimed to compare the predictive ...
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Cheng-Jen Chen, Pei-Kwei Tsay, Shiu-Feng Huang, Po-Hsiang Tsui, Wan-Ting Yu, Tse-Hwa Hsu, Jennifer Tai and Dar-In Tai
Fibrosis-4 (FIB4), transient elastography (TE), and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) are popular modalities to assess liver fibrosis. Their cutoff values for degrees of fibrosis vary between studies. The influence of hepatic steatosis on fibrosis ...
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Isabel C. Pérez Hoyos, Nir Y. Krakauer and Reza Khanbilvardi
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly threatened by humans? rising demand for water resources. Consequently, it is imperative to identify the location of GDEs to protect them. This paper develops a methodology to identify the probabili...
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Runjie Wang, Wenzhong Shi, Xianglei Liu and Zhiyuan Li
Historical measurements are usually used to build assimilation models in sequential data assimilation (S-DA) systems. However, they are always disturbed by local noises. Simultaneously, the accuracy of assimilation model construction and assimilation for...
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