L-shaped association between ankle-brachial index and coronary heart disease in Chinese adults with hypertension by Wei Zhou, Yumeng Shi, Chao Yu, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis involving 10,900 hypertensive patients, with CHD as the primary outcome. A generalized additive model (GAM) and fitted smoothing curve were employed to assess linearity and delineate the dose–response association between ABI and CHD. …”
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Carboxypeptidase B1 in dialyzed chronic kidney disease patients by Matej Stančík, Marián Grendár, Marián Mokáň

“…The mean Carboxypeptidase B1 concentration was significantly higher in the target arm compared to the control arm (77.60 ± 11.81 ng/mL and 1.22 ± 0.41 ng/mL, respectively; p < 0.001). Generalized linear mixed regression revealed that affiliation with the control arm was the only significant contributor of this finding. …”
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The influence of emotional states induced by emotion-related auditory stimulus on ankle proprioception performance in healthy individuals by Keqing Yuan, János Négyesi, Takeshi Okuyama, Ryoichi Nagatomi

“…Overall, sadness improved JPS performance, stabilizing errors, while happiness generally impaired it. These findings suggest that emotional states distinctly influence proprioceptive accuracy and stability, offering new insights into the interplay between emotion and movement.…”
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DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND THE ROLES OF TRADITIONAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PROMOTING PEACE AND SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF GOMBE STATE. by AHMED MUSA, BASHIR ABDULLAHI, MOHAMMED AUWAL, UMAR MUHAMMAD JUNGUDO

“… The adoption of Western Democracy after independence has come with a lot of changes to the hitherto roles and powers of traditional political institutions of building peace and security generally inNorthern Nigeria and Gombe in particular. …”
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ClassWise-SAM-Adapter: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Adapts Segment Anything to SAR Domain for Semantic Segmentation by Xinyang Pu, Hecheng Jia, Linghao Zheng, Feng Wang, Feng Xu

“…A segment anything model (SAM), built on the vision transformer (ViT) model with millions of parameters and trained on its corresponding large-scale dataset SA-1B, excels in various segmentation scenarios relying on its significance of semantic information and generalization ability. Such achievement of visual foundation model stimulates continuous researches on specific downstream tasks in computer vision. …”
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Implementation of flexible DEA structure in the management of business processes by Šegrt Slobodan, Tomić Radoljub, Anđelković Maja

“…DEA is a non-parametric technique based on linear programming for measuring the efficiency of decision-making units (DMU) with heterogeneous inputs/outputs. Generally speaking, DEA has a possible large number of inputs and outputs, and the essential problem is that it is often not clear which inputs and which outputs should be chosen when applied to a real problem, that is, when evaluating the efficiency of the system. …”
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The Impact of Academic Staff Appraisals on Job performance in Rwanda's Private Universities. by Ngirabakunzi, Felicien, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…Despite this, job performance among academic staff was generally high, with an overall mean score of 3.49. …”
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The Waste Management with Reward System Project Proposal: A Case Study of Bushenyi-Ishaka Monicipality in Uganda. by Turihabwe, Christopher, Ninsiima, Ivan

“…This research work generally summarizes the activities carried out in the design and implementation of the Waste Management with a rewards system. …”
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Impacts of Solid Waste Management on Environment and People of Kekubo-Kabale Municipality. by Ayebazibwe, Daphine

“…Gender disparities were also noted, with females generally more involved in waste generation and awareness activities, pointing to the need for interventions to promote gender-balanced participation. …”
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Effect of Parenting Style on Drug and Substance Abuse Among Teenage Youth in Kabale Municipality. by Ainembabazi, Marion

“…The study concluded that parenting styles are generally linked to drug and substance abuse, with permissive parenting showing a statistically significant positive relationship with substance use among youths in Kabale Municipality (β = 0.939, p = 0.000). …”
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Investigating Factors Affecting Iron Levels in Sorghum in Rubanda District. by Mujuni, Livingstone

“…Additionally, fields treated with chemical fertilizers and those that were irrigated generally exhibited higher iron content compared to fields with organic fertilizers and non-irrigated fields. …”
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The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law by Elizabeth Papp Kamali

“…Evidence from non-legal texts, including vernacular literature and guides for confessors, helps explain the concerns medieval English judges and jurors brought with them to the task of felony adjudication when faced with alcohol-laced facts, revealing a world in which tavern culture ensured alcohol’s omnipresence, but in which drunkenness was nevertheless not generally available as an excuse, partial or otherwise, for allegedly felonious behavior. …”
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Fetal Sacrococcygeal Teratoma: A Case Report of a Giant Tumor with an Excellent Outcome by Anna Kornete, Diana Bokucava, Natalija Vedmedovska

“…The prenatal course for most fetuses with SCT is generally uneventful, with only a few cases experiencing obstetric and fetal complications. …”
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Drought Occurrence Pattern in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia by A.S. Tefera, J.O. Ayoade, N.J. Bello

“…A statistically significant increasing drought trend was also revealed at all-time scales. Generally, the study has revealed an increasing trend of drought occurrence and spatially variable drought duration, severity, intensity and frequency in the study area. …”
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The information gain of explicitly provided over self-generated contextual knowledge for behavioral control. by Lukas Magnaguagno, Stephan Zahno, Ernst-Joachim Hossner

“…Most notably, experts generally benefitted from explicit instructions whereas for near-experts, an information gain could only be revealed for comparably certain information. …”
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APPLICATION OF DIBR AND MAIRCA METHODS IN THE EVALUATION OF THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE ECONOMY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Radojko Lukić

“…The worst economic performance in BiH’s economy was registered in 2020, which was contributed, among other things, by the Covid-19 pandemic. Generally speaking, the economic performance of BiH’s economy significantly improved recently. …”
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APPLICATION OF DIBR AND MAIRCA METHODS IN THE EVALUATION OF THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE ECONOMY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Radojko Lukić

“…The worst economic performance in BiH’s economy was registered in 2020, which was contributed, among other things, by the Covid-19 pandemic. Generally speaking, the economic performance of BiH’s economy significantly improved recently. …”
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Chronic abdominal pain and persistent disorder of nutritional status by V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. A. Poluyektova

“…According to the results of investigation in the patient with tesselated personality disorder somatoform disorder was diagnosed (generalized somatoform pain). Treatment included drug therapy along with repeated conversations with the patient, that resulted in relative stabilization of her state.Conclusion. …”
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Thrombotic Complications in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by A. V. Borota, A. A. Borota, E. V. Onishchenko

“…The risk of thrombotic complications is known to be 3 times higher in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than in healthy individuals, with the relative risk being 15 times higher during the periods of relapses. Aim. To study and generalize literature data available on the prevention and treatment of IBD thrombotic complications.Key findings. …”
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Rimegepant for the treatment of migraine by Amnon A. Berger, Ariel Winnick, Austin H. Carroll, Alexandra Welschmeyer, Nathan Li, Marc Colon, Antonella Paladini, Giovanni F. Ramírez, Jamal Hasoon, Elyse M. Cornett, Jaehong Song, Giustino Varrassi, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…Ongoing trials are also evaluating its role in migraine prophylaxis, and results are promising. It is also generally safer for use than existing options, does not appear to increase the chance of developing chronic migraines, and carries a very tolerable side effects profile. …”
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