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Ecological Factors of Being Bullied Among Adolescents: a Classification and Regression Tree Approach
Being bullied is a well-recognized trauma for adolescents. Bullying can best be understood through an ecological framework since bullying or being bullied involves risk factors at multiple contextual levels. T...
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Intravertebral vacuum cleft sign: a cause of vertebral cold defect on bone scan
A 67-year-old female presented with an acute compression fracture with an intravertebral vacuum cleft (IVC) sign of the T12 vertebra. Her bone scan demonstrated a cold defect of the fractured vertebra. Althoug...
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Open AccessHigh metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis are associated with lateral lymph node metastasis in patients with incidentally detected thyroid carcinoma
The objective of this study was to investigate whether total lesion glycolysis (TLG) and metabolic tumor volume (MTV) measured by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography ...
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Factors Associated with Diffusely Increased Splenic F-18 FDG Uptake in Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma
Although diffuse splenic 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) uptake exceeding hepatic activity, is considered abnormal, its clinical significance is rarely discussed in the literature. The aim of this study was to ...
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A single interval based classifier
In many applications, it is desirable to build a classifier that is bounded within an interval. Our motivating example is rooted in monitoring in a stam** process. A novel approach is proposed and examined i...
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Limited Clinical Value of Periablative Changes of Serum Markers in the Prediction of Biochemical Remission in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Remnant thyroid ablation and 1-year stimulated thyroglobulin (sTg) measurement are recommended for those who have undergone total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. The serum Tg kinetics in such ...
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Emotional Bonds with Parents, Emotion Regulation, and School-Related Behavior Problems Among Elementary School Truants
Among juvenile status offenses, truancy represents the largest share of juvenile court caseloads. As a marker of risk, truancy is important because of its associations with school disengagement, drop-out, and ...
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Dependence maps, a dimensionality reduction with dependence distance for high-dimensional data
We introduce the dependence distance, a new notion of the intrinsic distance between points, derived as a pointwise extension of statistical dependence measures between variables. We then introduce a dimension re...
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Hepatic FDG Uptake is not Associated with Hepatic Steatosis but with Visceral Fat Volume in Cancer Screening
We aimed to evaluate the relation between visceral fat volume and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake of the liver measured by maximum or mean standardized uptake value.
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Multilevel vorticity confinement for water turbulence simulation
Physically based fluid simulation can provide realism, but simulating water turbulence remains challenging. Recently, there have been much work on gas turbulence, but these algorithms mostly rely on the Kolmog...
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Just-in-Time Teaching Exercises to Engage Students in an Introductory-Level Dinosaur Course
The Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) technique allows students to be engaged in course material outside of the classroom by answering web-based questions. The responses are summarized and presented to students in ...
