Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…Diaz found that the performance of the bivariate model deteriorates when between-study heterogeneity increases and the number of studies decrease.5 Our simulation studies found similar results—with moderate levels of heterogeneity (tau2 = 1), the coverage probabilities of Se, Sp, and the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) with the bivariate model dropped below the nominal level.6 Diagnostic accuracy studies usually favor sensitivity over specificity, or vice versa leading to diagnostic 2 × 2 tables with one or more of the cells with low frequency or zero counts. …”
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Spatio-temporal variation in potential habitats for rare and endangered plants and habitat conservation based on the maximum entropy model by Zongbao, Yang

“…We compared potential habitats with existing protected areas (PAs) in gap analysis, and used a transfer matrix to quantify changes in potential habitats. …”
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Failure mode analysis for single-phase Multi-level qZSI interfacing PV system to utility grid by Rahman, Syed

“…The power deficit due to a failure of the module is reflected as a decrease in the grid current reference. …”
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Enzymatic treatment of peanut butter to reduce the concentration of major peanut allergens by Yu, Jianmei

“…Treatment of peanut butter with a combination of trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin resulted in a decrease in IgE-binding, suggesting that enzymatic treatment has the potential to reduce the allergenicity. …”
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Effects of acute and chronic exercise on immunological parameters in the elderly aged: Can physical activity counteract the effects of aging? by Sellami M.

“…The concept is that some lifestyle strategies such as high-intensity exercise training may prevent disease through the attenuation of immunosenescence. In this context, we take a top-down approach and review the effect of exercise and training on immunological parameters in elderly at rest and during exercise in humans, and how they respond to different modes of training. …”
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Rebound effects undermine carbon footprint reduction potential of autonomous electric vehicles by Onat, Nuri C.

“…However, they are likely to increase road transport activity and life cycle greenhouse emissions, due to several rebound effects. In this study, we investigate tradeoffs between improved fuel economy and rebound effects from a life-cycle perspective. …”
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Heat stress impairs proprioception but not running mechanics by Mtibaa K.

“…Step frequency decreased (−2.5 ± 3.6%) and step length increased (+2.6 ± 3.8%) over time (p < 0.05), independently of condition. …”
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Dietary patterns and colorectal cancer by Tayyem, Reema F.

“…In the Healthy Pattern group we found a 10.54% variation in food intake, while the intake variation was 11.64% in the Western Pattern. …”
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Subchannel Assignment and Power Allocation for Time-Varying Fog Radio Access Network with NOMA by Qiu, Yu

“…The coordination between NOMA and F-RAN provides powerful support to extensive application of augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicular networking, intelligent medical and other emerging applications. In this paper, we focus on a noncooperative game resource optimization to decrease the complexity while the dynamic optimization problem is decoupled to subchannel assignment and power allocation. …”
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Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter? by Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami

“…We consider various financial constraint measures and corruption indices, and assess the stability of the relationship for different levels of economic development and corruption. …”
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An intelligent data uploading selection mechanism for offloading uplink traffic of cellular networks by Wang, Qian

“…In IDUSM, our proposed probability prediction model precisely predicts a participant’s mobility from spatial and temporal aspects, and we decrease data redundancy produced in the Wi-Fi offloading process to reduce waste of participants’ limited resources (e.g., storage, battery). …”
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The Effect of Chronic Endurance Exercise on Serum Levels of MOTS-c and Humanin in Professional Athletes by Alser, M.

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The Influence of Urbanization on Natural Overland Flow Paths by Al-Sayed, Amna Mohammed

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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INSULIN RESISTANCE AND NITRIC OXIDE IN HUMAN RETINAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN VITRO by Bushra, Sumbul

“…This may suggest that insulin could counteract the hyperglycemic effect on AKT/PI3 kinase which mediates NO production and VEGF-A, with decreased adhesion molecules such as p-selectin that is involved in barrier disorder of retinal endothelial cells. …”
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Caffeine use or napping to enhance repeated sprint performance after partial sleep deprivation: Why not both? by Romdhani, Mohamed

“…Purpose: To compare the effect of a 20-minute nap opportunity (N20), a moderate dose of caffeine (CAF; 5 mg·kg-1), or a moderate dose of caffeine before N20 (CAF+N) as possible countermeasures to the decreased performance and the partial sleep deprivation-induced muscle damage. …”
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Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment by Itani, Mariam

“…The used PCM melting temperature is 28 °C with a coverage area of 642 cm2 and total weight of the vest of 1.19 kg including 8 PCM packets (87.5 grams each). …”
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Tailoring of the thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of the polypropylene foams using gamma-irradiation by Mrl�k, Miroslav

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Assessment of SnO2 nanoparticles' impact on local Pichoclorum atomus growth performance, cell morphology and metabolites content by Bounnit, Touria

“…The current study investigates the ecotoxicity of SnO2 nanoparticles on a local marine algae isolate. Five different concentrations (1, 5, 25, 50 and 100mg/L) were tested and the culture was followed for 72h. …”
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Mechanical and microstructure characterization of hard nanostructured N-bearing thin coating by Cabibbo, M.

“…The main problem with steel, is that it exhibits a relatively low hardness (below 10GPa) which strongly decreases upon annealing above about 600K. …”
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Polyaniline/Polystyrene Blends: In-Depth Analysis of the Effect of Sulfonic Acid Dopant Concentration on AC Conductivity Using Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy by Al-Thani N.

“…Increasing CSA resulted in a decrease in the AC conductivity of the blends. …”
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