Maxent was used instead of GARP because Maxent provides relative probabilities of presence rather than only presence-absence output and because it has, in some recent studies, been shown to outperform GARP with respect to its predictive success [11], [17].
Because two recent studies [13], [21] found that, for some miRNAs, miRNA levels affect target mRNA levels only for high-prevalence mRNAs, we repeated the analysis, but using only mRNAs with relatively high average expression values.
The good performance of RF was not surprising because other recent studies showed that RF models generally outperformed other comparable machine learning approaches for QSAR modeling based on extensive data sets [39, 66 68].
We chose the square grid topologies mainly because the recent studies on the deployment issues [21] have shown that square grid topologies are more realistic in delivering the desired network performance.
Because numerous recent studies have shown that increased autophagic activity is associated with cell death [34]-[36] [34]-[36]y is now considered to be autophagy cell death.
Such differences have lately been questioned because more recent studies of louseborne relapsing fever suggest less severe outcomes (29 ).
Microdilution was selected over disk-diffusion because several recent studies have reported greater experimental sensitivity with broth microdilution [ 21, 22].
Two putative genes (ACRS and ycf15) in Calycanthus were not annotated in Drimys and Piper because several recent studies indicated that they are not functional plastid genes.
These taxa were chosen because two recent studies place them as the sister group to the Acariformes, which would make the Acari a paraphyletic grouping [ 40, 41].
We instead chose to study the peridiagnostic time period because several recent studies have questioned whether use of advanced imaging for breast cancer staging is associated with improved outcomes.
