China’s renewable energy power has developed rapidly in recent years. Evaluating the external benefits of renewable energy power can provide a reference for the Chinese government to set diverse development goals and to implement differentiated suppo...
The primary objectives of transportation system development in European countries include improving transport efficiency, enhancing national economic competitiveness, and promoting sustainable mobility. A key aspect of achieving these goals is the ev...
Despite the well-demonstrated efficacy of infliximab in inflammatory diseases, treatment failure remains frequent. Dose adjustment using Bayesian methods has shown in silico its interest in achieving target plasma concentrations. However, most of the...
To address the increased use of lighting energy in the building sector, research on the use of light shelves has been increasing. Previous studies have focused on applying operating techniques to improve daylighting performance, which reduces the eco...
Lithium has been used in the treatment of bipolar disorder for several decades. Treatment optimization is recommended for this drug, due to its narrow therapeutic range and a large pharmacokinetics (PK) variability. In addition to therapeutic drug mo...
Background: Fluoxetine is widely prescribed to treat depression but exhibits high inter-individual and inter-ethnic pharmacokinetic (PK) variability. Most published population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) models were derived from Western patients, and the...
This article deals with the impact of external R&D evaluations as one of the institutional factors that can encourage (or discourage) the progress of the social sciences. A critical overview is presented of the increasing use of bibliometric indi...
A non-destructive evaluation method is proposed to identify the sectional loss of the external tendon of prestressed concrete structures by detecting the change of the magnetic flux in the external tendon exposed to a magnetic field. The method uses...
Background/Objectives: Surgical site infection (SSI) remains a major complication after colorectal surgery. Comparative evidence for commonly used perioperative intravenous antibiotic regimens is limited, and risk prediction models require external e...
Two assumptions dominate deep learning research on pneumonia detection from chest radiographs: that newer architectures outperform older ones, and that intra-dataset evaluation suffices to establish clinical utility. This study examined both on the p...
Research on water–energy–food security is crucial for ensuring the sustainable development of human society. Building on the water–energy–food theory and resilience concepts, a novel perspective termed “resilience securi...
Various externalities caused by highway infrastructures, such as promoting economic development, traffic congestion, and air pollution, are becoming more and more important. Currently, there is no multi-dimensional quantitative evaluation of the exte...
Background: An external evaluation is crucial before clinical applications; however, only a few gentamicin population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) models for critically ill patients included it in the model development. In this study, we aimed to evaluate...
Mongolia completed Joint External Evaluations (JEEs) of its International Health Regulations capacities in 2017 and 2023, providing assessments before and after the acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency. We conducted a comparative docum...
Performing MR investigation on patients instrumented with external fixators is still controversial. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of MR imaging of the knee structures in the presence of bridging external fixators. Different cadaver...
The monitoring of fracture or osteotomy healing is vital for orthopedists to help advise, if necessary, secondary treatments for improving healing outcomes and minimizing patient suffering. It has been decades since osteotomy stiffness has been ident...
The structural integrity of poultry eggs is essential for food safety, economic value, and hatchability. External eggshell quality—measured by thickness, strength, cracks, color, and cleanliness—is a key criterion for grading and sorting....
A light shelf is a type of natural daylight system that brings natural light from the outside into an indoor space through a reflector and a ceiling surface. The introduction of light shelves has led to studies evaluating their efficiency. However, p...
Background: Until recently, vascularized lymph-node flaps were based on arterial and venous donor vessels. Now, venous lymph-node flaps form a novel promising concept in the treatment of advanced-stage lymphedema. In preliminary studies, the external...
This paper proposes and describes a model for evaluating the hydro-mechanical efficiency of external gear machines. The model is built considering and evaluating the main friction losses in the machines, including the viscous friction losses at the t...
Background/Objectives: Oral and maxillofacial space infection (OMSI) has heterogeneous clinical presentations. We aimed to derive candidate clinical phenotypes at hospital presentation and assess their external structural reproducibility and prognost...
External ventricular drains (EVDs) are common in intensive care for neurocritical patients affected by different illnesses. Nurses play an essential role to ensure safe care, and guidelines are tools to implement evidence-based care. Thus, the aim of...
Background: We evaluated breast cancer-derived hypoxia and radiosensitivity signatures in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), then developed and externally evaluated HNSCC prognostic signatures from hypoxia-related genes. Methods: This ret...
School behavioral health (SBH) systems coaching is a developing approach to implementation support for the delivery of high-quality behavioral health support in schools through a multi-tiered prevention and intervention framework. Articulating coachi...
This study introduces an alternative approach to the assessment of the earthquake resistance of existing buildings and the evaluation of the requirements for seismic retrofit through external stiffening. Instead of assessing individual structural com...
In the last decade, many studies have been conducted on tractor and agricultural machinery electrification. In particular, the electrification of power take-off (PTO)-powered implements could support many benefits, such as improved comfort and safety...
29 September 2021
Purpose: To analyze the stress distribution and the direction of force in external hexagonal implant with crown in three different angulations. Materials and Methods: A total of 60 samples of geometric models were used to analyze von Mises stress and...
Quality grading of greenhouse lettuce requires rapid external appearance screening and nondestructive internal quality assessment. However, existing detection methods struggle to simultaneously evaluate both external and internal quality while mainta...
Infliximab is approved for treatment of various chronic inflammatory diseases including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, high variability in infliximab trough levels has been associated with diverse response rates. Model-informed precision...
This paper proposes a comprehensive condition evaluation method for distribution transformers considering their internal operation, external environment, and load operation for business expansion. Unlike the existing studies, the proposed method can...
(1) Background: External cervical resorption causes dental hard tissue destruction that may reduce the fracture resistance of affected teeth. By using a compressive strength test, this study aimed to evaluate the fracture resistance of teeth with sim...
22 January 2021
Ten years have elapsed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, and the relative contribution of natural radiation is increasing in Fukushima Prefecture due to the reduced dose of artificial radiation. In order to accu...
The glycoproteins alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) have long been approved as biomarkers for diagnosing and monitoring tumors. International Reference Preparations (IRPs) have been around since 1975. Nevertheless, manufactur...
Background/Objectives: Automated phonocardiogram (PCG) analysis is a candidate tool for scaling up cardiac auscultation, but the internal accuracy reported in many studies may not reflect performance when a model is applied to recordings from a diffe...
Routine clinical data can support the identification of individuals with diabetes, but model performance may change when disease prevalence and feature distributions differ across datasets. We evaluated a machine learning framework that combines clin...
Background: The objective of this study was to develop a practical staging method for reporting external carotid artery calcifications (ECACs) using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging, specifically to standardize reporting for oral and maxi...
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate external apical root resorption (EARR) in cases with extraction and non-extraction fixed orthodontic treatment. Methods: Ninety subjects were included in this study. The patients were divided int...
This study used a synthetic evaluation method to assess agri-environmental externalities at the regional level in Finland. The article developed a relative measure that made it possible to rank the 15 regions studied for seven agri-environmental ind...
We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of shoulder MR arthrography (MRA) acquired in the neutral (N), internal rotation (IR), and external rotation (ER) positions of the shoulder to detect SLAP lesions. Three observers evaluated 130 MRAs to...
External breast prostheses remain the primary noninvasive alternative after mastectomy; however, most commercial designs do not adequately reproduce natural breast biomechanics, heat dissipation, and ventilation behavior during daily activities. This...
Background/Objectives: Several population pharmacokinetic models of vedolizumab (VDZ) are available for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. However, their predictive performance in real-world clinical settings remains unknown. This study aims...
Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) is an indicator of phytoplankton biomass but is not continuously measured at all water-quality monitoring sites. This study evaluated machine learning models for estimating Chl-a from routinely monitored water-quality variables,...
Chinese dialect recognition by large language models (LLMs) cannot be evaluated adequately by terminal-label accuracy alone because correct labels may still rely on weak evidence, faulty knowledge mapping, or poorly calibrated uncertainty. We present...
Buildings account for a significant portion of a nation’s total energy consumption. To meet the global demand for greater energy efficiency, many countries are drastically strengthening insulation regulations for buildings. Thus, dramatically thicker...
Noninvasive Doppler ultrasonography (US) examination is a standard method for the clinical evaluation of the carotid arteries. Extracranial cerebral circulation includes the common carotid artery (CCA), the external carotid artery (ECA), and the extr...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming modern medicine, providing powerful tools to assist clinicians. However, the most accurate models are opaque, and their limited interpretability hinders clinical adoption and raises regulatory concerns....
Chemical endodontic irritants can lead to the demineralization of the inorganic tooth structure, its loss of integrity, microhardness changes, erosion, and an increased risk of fractures. We investigated the action of iron oxide nanomagnet particles...
The paper presents the computational fluid dynamics simulation of an external gear pump for fluid power applications. The aim of the study is to test the capability of the model to evaluate the pressure in a tooth space for the entire shaft revolutio...
Due to the high operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), the system efficiency depends on efficient thermal integration and the effective construction of system configuration. In this study, nine configurations of system integration de...
This paper proposes a theoretical model of evaluation of environmental externalities based on the analysis of real estate prices. This issue is included in regional planning policies which include activities and interventions that produce economic an...
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