Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C. by Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M Daniel Brannock, G Caleb Alexander, Robert F Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elaine Hill, Elizabeth P Kelly, Hemalkumar B Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J Wilkins, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, Emily R Pfaff, N3C Consortium

“…We estimated that Paxlovid reduced the risk of hospitalization by 39% (95% confidence interval (CI) [36%, 41%]; p < 0.001), with an absolute risk reduction of 0.9 percentage points (95% CI [0.9, 1.0]; p < 0.001), and reduced the risk of death by 61% (95% CI [55%, 67%]; p < 0.001), with an absolute risk reduction of 0.2 percentage points (95% CI [0.1, 0.2]; p < 0.001). …”
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Some Simple Full-Range Inverse-Normal Approximations by Raymond Koopman

“…Alternate versions of the approximations are also given, with the constants chosen to minimize the maximum relative error in the implied approximate q rather than the maximum absolute error in the approximate z. …”
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Medium-term load forecasting with Power Market Survey: GEPCO case study by Sheeza Mariam Nawaz, Ubaid Ahmed, Adil Amin, Syed Afraz Hussain Shah, Anzar Mahmood

“…The PMS is trained with a bottom-up approach and its performance is validated through mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), and confidence interval with 95% of probability. …”
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Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia: An uncommon but fatal cause of Pneumocystis pneumonia by Julia Schearer, Christopher Merrick

“…Here, we present a case of fatal PCP in a patient without a known history of immunocompromise subsequently diagnosed with idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) with an absolute CD4+ T-cell count of 7 cells/uL.…”
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Zur Bedeutung der Wörter in der Rechts- und Sprachtheorie der frühen Neuzeit by Jan Schröder

“…In fact, in the late 17th century, this idea was absolutely dominant and undisputed. In contrast to older theories, the first conferral of meaning (imposition) and etymology were no longer considered decisive. …”
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Analyzing and forecasting under-5 mortality trends in Bangladesh using machine learning techniques. by Shayla Naznin, Md Jamal Uddin, Ishmam Ahmad, Ahmad Kabir

“…Key metrics, including Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), R-squared, and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), were employed to evaluate model performance. …”
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Forecasting mental states in schizophrenia using digital phenotyping data. by Thierry Jean, Rose Guay Hottin, Pierre Orban

“…A majority of ordinal regression and binary classification models performed significantly above baseline, with macro-averaged mean absolute error values between 1.19 and 0.77, and balanced accuracy between 58% and 73%, which corresponds to similar levels of performance when these metrics are scaled. …”
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Constitutional Handcuffs by Richard Albert

“…Third, in concluding that absolute entrenchment undermines the participatory values that give constitutionalism its meaning, it proposes an alternative to entrenchment: the entrenchment simulator. …”
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Monotheistic understanding of the divine in African religion, Christianity and Islam by EW Namukoa, P Verster, PJ Nel

“…Finally, a suggestion is put forward as to the possibility to exploit the commonality of the absolute position of the Divine in the religious traditions as a shared basis for religious tolerance and dialogue. …”
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Examining reliability of WHOBARS: a tool to measure the quality of administration of WHO surgical safety checklist using generalisability theory with surgical teams from three New... by Jennifer M Weller, Carmen Skilton, Derryn A Gargiulo, Oleg N Medvedev, Simon J Mitchell, Alan F Merry

“…All elective and acute cases (adults and children) involving surgery under general anaesthesia during normal working hours were eligible.Participants The study included 243 surgical staff members, 138 (50.12%) women.Main outcome measure Absolute generalisability coefficient that accounts for variance due to items, phases, sites and raters for the WHOBARS measure of the quality of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist administration.Results The WHOBARS in its present form has demonstrated good generalisability of scores across teams and raters (G absolute=0.83). …”
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Minute-cadence Observations of the LAMOST Fields with the TMTS. VI. Physical Parameters of Contact Binaries by Qiqi Xia, Xiaofeng Wang, Kai Li, Xiang Gao, Fangzhou Guo, Jie Lin, Cheng Liu, Jun Mo, Haowei Peng, Qichun Liu, Gaobo Xi, Shengyu Yan, Xiaojun Jiang, Jicheng Zhang, Cui-Ying Song, Jianrong Shi, Xiaoran Ma, Danfeng Xiang, Wenxiong Li

“…The absolute physical parameters were inferred with the W-D code for 10 systems, all of them are W-type shallow or medium contact binaries. …”
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FORMAL STRUCTURE AND POLYPHONIC TECHNIQUE IN ZOLTÁN KODÁLY’S “SEVEN EASY CHORAL PIECES FOR CHILDREN" by Gabriela COCA

“…I noticed already then that despite their simplicity and absolute clearness these pieces are very logical and masterly elaborated. …”
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On the Estimation of k-Regimes Switching of Mixture Autoregressive Model via Weibull Distributional Random Noise by Rasaki, Olawale Olanrewaju, Anthony, Gichuhi Waititu, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The ergodic process for the WMAR(k; p1, p2, , pk ) model was ascertained via the maximized derivation of the absolute value of the subtraction of its likelihood from its expected likelihood.…”
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Entanglement-Enhanced Atomic Gravimeter by Christophe Cassens, Bernd Meyer-Hoppe, Ernst Rasel, Carsten Klempt

“…Interferometers based on ultracold atoms enable an absolute measurement of inertial forces with unprecedented precision. …”
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Szkic do teologii ludzkiej płciowości by Sławomir Kunka

“…Therefore, every woman and every man enjoy the same and equally nonvolatile and absolute dignity of the human person. Masculinity and femininity serve each other in achieving their common humanity. …”
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Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the Union of South Africa and beyond by F. Hale

“…It is argued that Balmforth was not at any time an absolute pacifist, and that the distinction between “pacifism” and “pacificism” which was advanced by inter alia the British historians A.J.P. …”
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Die prediker as preek: basisteoretiese perspektiewe uit Handelinge by C. J. H. Venter, H. K. Kim

“…The following issues from the book of Acts are dealt with: the passion of the preacher for congruence between preacher and sermon; the integrity to proclaim God’s total plan of salvation; humility, the courage and boldness in preaching the Word of God; the will to suffer hardship in absolute obedience to God, and the holy indignation when God is not honoured. …”
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Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym by Sylwester Zielka

“…., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones. …”
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Wind Field Retrieval From Co-Polarized SAR Imagery Without External Wind Direction Assistance by Xianen Wei, Jinsong Chong, Yawei Zhao, Lijie Diao, Xuan Jin

“…Similarly, the RMSE and the absolute value of Bias of wind speed comparison with ECMWF and ASCAT were both within 2.5 and 0.65 m/s, respectively. …”
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Sequestering of Fe and Pb ions from Wastewater by <i>Canarium schweinfurthii</i> after carbonization and chemical treatment: Isothermal and Kinetic Modeling by Bassey Uwem, Edjere Oghenekohwiroro, Otolo Solomon Ebiye

“…Kinetics model followed pseudofirst order as sum of absolute error (EABS) between Qe and Qc greater than that of pseudo second order. …”
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