Sex-stratified analysis of marketing exposure and current e-cigarette use among Saudi adolescents by Najim Z. Alshahrani, Abdullah M. Alarifi, Mohammed R. Algethami, Mohammed A. Aljunaid, Ahmed K. Shukri, Mohannad A. Alzain

“…Key exposures included seeing a point-of-sale (POS) advertisement and being offered a free e-cigarette. A composite marketing exposure score (0, 1, or 2 exposures) was created. …”
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Study on main controlling factors of CO2 huff-n-puff for enhanced oil recovery and storage in shale oil reservoirs by CHEN Jun, WANG Haimei, CHEN Xi, TANG Yong, TANG Liangrui, SI Rong, WANG Huijun, HUANG Xianzhu, LENG Bing

“…A composite discrete fracture network numerical model combining both artificial and natural fractures was established to analyze the oil recovery enhancement mechanisms of CO2 huff-n-puff. …”
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The relationship between job stress and the perception of patient safety culture among Palestinian hospital nurses by Loai M. Zabin, Jamal Qaddumi, Sajed Faisal Ghawadra

“…Methods This study employed a quantitative cross-sectional approach. Data collection took place from June to September 2023. …”
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Primary prevention cardiovascular disease risk prediction model for contemporary Chinese (1°P-CARDIAC): Model derivation and validation using a hybrid statistical and machine-learn... by Yekai Zhou, Celia Jiaxi Lin, Qiuyan Yu, Joseph Edgar Blais, Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Emmanuel Wong, Kathryn Tan, David Chung-Wah Siu, Kai Hang Yiu, Esther Wai Yin Chan, Doris Yu, William Wong, Tak-Wah Lam, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Ruibang Luo, Celine S L Chui

“…The outcome was the first diagnosis of a composite of coronary heart disease, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, peripheral artery disease, and revascularization. …”
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Assessment of Digitalization of Interaction Between the State and Citizens by E. I. Dobrolyubova, A. N. Starostina

“…The objectives of the study include the analysis of current Russian and foreign approaches to assessing the digitalization of interaction between the state and citizens; development and testing of a composite indicator methodology for conducting such an assessment in the provision of public services. …”
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Genetic background and multidomain interventions in mild cognitive impairment by Kosuke Fujita, Tetsuaki Kimura, Akiko Yamakawa, Shumpei Niida, Kouichi Ozaki, Takashi Sakurai, Hidenori Arai, Daichi Shigemizu, J-MINT study group

“…Participants who completed the J-MINT intervention and had genetic data, including whole-genome sequencing (WGS), were analyzed. …”
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Evaluating antenatal risk in twin pregnancies—A feasibility study to identify modifiable factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes by Isabelle Greatholder, Emma Tomlinson, Jack Wilkinson, Lucy E. Higgins, Mark D. Kilby, Alexander E. P. Heazell

“…Material and methods Patients pregnant with twins at six UK hospitals between December 2019–March 2021 completed researcher‐administered questionnaires at approximately 20‐, 28‐ and 36‐weeks' gestation, recording a wide range of self‐reported social, lifestyle and demographic factors, alongside prospectively recorded clinical data from maternity records. Descriptive statistics were used to describe frequencies of exposures; logistic regression was used to determine whether factors were associated with a composite measure of adverse neonatal outcome. …”
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Geology, Mineralogy, Fluid Inclusion, and H–O–S–Pb Isotope Constraints on Ore Genesis of the Keyue Sb–Pb–Zn–Ag Deposit in Southern Tibet by Da Wang, Youye Zheng, Wantao Yang, Ngawang Gyatso

“…The H–O isotopic compositions of stages 3 and 4 quartz (δDV-SMOW: –174‰~−120‰, δ18OH2O: 1.59‰~11.34‰) are similar to those of stages 3 and 4 minerals (δDV-SMOW: –165‰~−150‰, δ18OH2O: 6.14‰~13.03‰), whereas they are different from stage 1 and 2 (δDV-SMOW: –108.3‰~−103.6‰, δ18OH2O: 1.92‰~3.82‰) and stage 5 and 6 (δDV-SMOW: –165‰~−138‰, δ18OH2O: −12.91‰~0.82‰) minerals from the Zhaxikang deposit. …”
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Assessing the use of urinary creatinine excretion rate to estimate urine output in lactating cows by K. Park, J. Kim, H. Hu, C. Lee

“…Daily subsamples of urine were composited by cow and period and assayed for creatinine concentration. …”
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A study on land use change simulation based on PLUS model and the U-net structure: A case study of Jilin Province by Jiafu Liu, Xiangli Kong, Yue Zhu, Baihao Zhang

“…The U-Net model, which utilizes convolutional neural networks to extract multi-scale spatial features and addresses the class imbalance issue with the OHEM-Dice composite function, significantly enhances the prediction accuracy of nonlinear dynamics. …”
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Study protocol for an internahaational prospective non-randomised trial evaluating the long-term outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve re... by Antonio Salsano, Francesco Nappi, Cristiano Spadaccio, Antonio Fiore, Zein El-Dean, Camille Bourgois, Antonio Nenna, Thibaut Schoell

“…The principal clinical outcome under consideration will be the composite degree of all-cause mortality, ischaemic stroke or rehospitalisation at 10 years. …”
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Features of Distance Learning in Higher Education Institutions in The Context of The Covid-19 Pandemic by Oksana N. Goncharova, Milera Yu. Halilova

“…Because of testing the quality of distance learning, an array of 187 records was obtained. The data were processed in the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 program using descriptive statistics methods. …”
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Adaptation of the Children's Perceived Academic Self-Efficacy Scale: Validity and Reliability Study by Neslihan Tuğçe Özyeter, Ömer Kutlu

“…The study group consisted of secondary school students, and the data were collected in two separate sessions. Upon completion of the adaptation-based translation of the scale, its degree of validity was calculated based on the linguistic, content, construct and criterion approaches and its degree of reliability was calculated by Cronbach Alpha and Composite Reliability coefficient. …”
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The Walkability Evaluation and Optimization Strategies of Metro Station Areas Taking Shanghai as an Example by Xiaoyan Chen, Zhengyan Shi, Yanzhe Hu

“…Based on the correlation coefficients, factor assignments, and constants, a composite walkability index formula was established to evaluate pedestrian routes near four Shanghai metro stations. …”
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Preparation and Mechanical Properties of Graphene Oxide: Cement Nanocomposites by Fakhim Babak, Hassani Abolfazl, Rashidi Alimorad, Ghodousi Parviz

“…We investigate the performance of graphene oxide (GO) in improving mechanical properties of cement composites. A polycarboxylate superplasticizer was used to improve the dispersion of GO flakes in the cement. …”
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TUH-NAS: A Triple-Unit NAS Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Feng Chen, Baishun Su, Zongpu Jia

“…We designed a new hyperspectral image attention mechanism module to increase the focus on critical regions and enhance sensitivity to priority areas. We also adopted a composite loss function to enhance the model’s focus on hard-to-classify samples. …”
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PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE GROUP ENVIRONMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (GEQ) FOR THE HIGH PERFORMANCE SOCCER AND FUTSAL CONTEXT by José Roberto Andrade do Nascimento Junior, Andressa Ribeiro Contreira, Caio Rosas Moreira, Gislaine Contessoto Pizzo, Vandresa Teixeira Ribeiro, Lenamar Fiorese Vieira

“…The sample consisted of 441 male athletes, 140 soccer players and 301 futsal players. The data analysis was carried out by using the following tests: Cronbach's alpha (α), Composite Reliability (CR), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and Spearman's correlation. …”
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Establishing strength prediction models for low-carbon rubberized cementitious mortar using advanced AI tools by Fu Limei, Xu Feng

“…Rubberized cementitious composites have emerged as a sustainable alternative in the construction sector by promoting circular economy principles. …”
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Estimation of Relationship between Inflation and Relative Price Variability: Granger Causality and ARDL Modelling Approach by Saghir Pervaiz Ghauri, Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Jolita Vveinhardt, Dalia Streimikiene

“…The outcomes of the research further divided into food and non-food groups too. The monthly data of CPI was taken from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, from August 2001 to July 2011 (with 2000-01 base) for 92 composite commodities with 12 sub-groups. …”
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New Regulatory Approaches under the EU’s Legislation on Digitalisation: Introduction to the Special Edition of the EJRR “Charting the Landscape of Automation of Regulatory Decision... by Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Herwig C.H. Hofmann, Felix Pflücke

“…This introductory article outlines three fundamental regulatory developments in the EU’s legislation addressing digitalization and automation of decision-making: One is that across many acts we see a move towards more complex multi-level composite procedures, involving not only public structures with agencies, EU bodies, national agencies, but also co-regulation through standardisation in combination with – in several areas – audited self-regulation. …”
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