Diet and feeding strategy of Northeast Atlantic mackerel (Scombrus scomber) in Icelandic waters. by Cecilia Kvaavik, Gudmundur J Óskarsson, Anna Kristín Daníelsdóttir, Gudrún Marteinsdóttir

“…The GAM showed that temperature and the time the day of sampling were significant explanatory variables for the stomach weight, while zooplankton biomass did not seem to have much influence. …”
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Differential adaptation of Candida albicans in vivo modulates immune recognition by dectin-1. by Mohlopheni J Marakalala, Simon Vautier, Joanna Potrykus, Louise A Walker, Kelly M Shepardson, Alex Hopke, Hector M Mora-Montes, Ann Kerrigan, Mihai G Netea, Graeme I Murray, Donna M Maccallum, Robert Wheeler, Carol A Munro, Neil A R Gow, Robert A Cramer, Alistair J P Brown, Gordon D Brown

“…Transcript analysis revealed that this differential requirement for Dectin-1 is due to variable adaptation of C. albicans strains in vivo, and that this results in substantial differences in the composition and nature of their cell walls. …”
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A heterozygous CEBPA mutation disrupting the bZIP domain in a RUNX1 and SRSF2 mutational background causes MDS disease progression by Ruba Almaghrabi, Yara Alyahyawi, Peter Keane, Syed A. Mian, Khadidja Habel, Amelia Atkinson, Carl Ward, Rachel Bayley, Claudia Sargas, Pablo Menendez, George J. Murphy, Turki Sobahy, Mohammed A. Baghdadi, Arwa F. Flemban, Saeed M. Kabrah, Raul Torres-Ruiz, Eirini P. Papapetrou, Ildem Akerman, Manoj Raghavan, Eva Barragan, Dominique Bonnet, Constanze Bonifer, Paloma Garcia

“…Abstract Myelodysplastic syndrome disease (MDS) is caused by the successive acquisition of mutations and thus displays a variable risk for progression to AML. Mutations in CEBPA are commonly associated with a high risk of disease progression, but whether they are causative for AML development is unclear. …”
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Conduction Mechanisms in Polypyrrole-Copper Nanocomposites by K. Praveenkumar, T. Sankarappa, J.S. Ashwajeet, R. Ramanna, T. Sujatha, Jyoti Kattimani, G. Chandraprabha

“…Activation energy is found to be increasing with increase in copper content in the composites. Using data deviated from small polaron model, the density of states at Fermi level is calculated by employing the theory of variable range hopping of polarons due to Mott. …”
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Changes in Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolites in Patients with Extreme Obesity by Libuša Kubáňová, Adela Penesová, Ivan Hric, Jana Babjaková, Eva Baranovičová, Marián Grendár, Viktor Bielik

“…Multivariate statistical analysis and Random Forest models were employed to identify predictors with the highest variable importance. …”
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Personal, occupational and cardiovascular risk factors associated with elevated blood pressure in Brazilian firefighters: a cross-sectional study by Eliana Zandonade, Fernanda Camargo Damacena, Karla Nívea Sampaio, Igor Magalhães Sales

“…Objective Our study evaluated the prevalence of hypertension in a population of Brazilian firefighters and the association of elevated blood pressure (BP) with personal, occupational, and cardiovascular risk factors.Design This was a cross-sectional study.Setting Our study was based on health inspections of the Military Fire Brigade of the Espírito Santo State, Brazil, performed in 2019.Participants The study participants were 859 male Brazilian firefighters.Outcome measures Data collected included sociodemographic (age, ethnicity, educational level, health insurance coverage), occupational (city of work, type of current activity, main operational activity), lifestyle (smoking and alcohol consumption), and health status (fasting glucose, total cholesterol and triglycerides, blood pressure, and anthropometric composition). All firefighters in the pre-hypertension and hypertension range and/or using antihypertensive medication were considered as having BP above normal, and the association of this outcome with sociodemographic, occupational, lifestyle, and health status variables was analysed by a logistic regression model.Results We found that 45.6% of firefighters presented elevated BP levels. …”
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Characterization of biocomposite films made from carboxymethyl cellulose, okra mucilage, and black cumin seed (Nigella sativa) oil by Response Surface Methodology by Fariba Shekar, Afshin Javadi, Sodeif Azadmard-Damirchi, hamed hamishehkar

“…Statistical analysis showed that all variables significantly contribute to the model (p < 0.05). …”
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Investigation of the Boundary Value Problem for an Extended System of Stationary Nernst–Planck–Poisson Equations in the Diffusion Layer by Evgenia Kirillova, Natalia Chubyr, Roman Nazarov, Anna Kovalenko, Makhamet Urtenov

“…Dimensionless variables were introduced using characteristic parameter values. …”
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Gait speed in older adults: exploring the impact of functional, physical and social factors by Naiara Virto, Xabier Río, Iker Muñoz-Pérez, Amaia Méndez-Zorrilla, Begoña García-Zapirain

“…To assess physical function, SPPB tests (chair stand test, balance tests, gait speed test), manual grip strength, muscle quality index, and power were conducted, in addition to measuring body composition and socioeconomic status. Results: The final regression model showed that gait speed was significantly partially explained (R2=0.35; p<0.01) by the socioeconomic environment, age, balance, and relative power. …”
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Anti-aging effect of mustard and flax seed oils based nanoemulsion gel on aged rat skin through antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity by Soha Ismail, Omar A. Ahmed-Farid, Ghada Farouk Metwally, Dina Mansour, Abeer Khattab

“…N-hexane was used to extract the oils of black mustard and flax seed from their seeds, and the oils' fatty acid composition was then determined. A full factorial design was created to assess the impact of three variables: oil type, oil concentration, and S:Cos ratio, on various responses: globule size, zeta potential, and emulsification time of the self-nanoemulsifying system. …”
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Preparation and hot compression deformation of biomedical Ni-Ti alloy by WANG Zhen, XU Xiao-wen, WANG Kuai-she, WANG Wen

“…To analyze the relationship between variables in the hot deformation process of as-cast Ni-Ti alloy, a constitutive equation based on dynamic material model was established. …”
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Experimental Study on the Durability of Alkali-Activated Slag Concrete after Freeze-Thaw Cycle by Bin Chen, Jun Wang

“…When analyzed via the microstructure test, crack pores and microcracks with narrow spaces and large surface areas were generated under freeze-thaw damage conditions, but the dense hydration structure and high-bonding-strength hydration products led to a better freeze-thaw resistance. The damage model was established using compressive strength and relative dynamic elastic modulus as damage variables, and the attenuation exponential and accumulative damage power function model had a high accuracy, which could better reflect the freeze-thaw damage law and damage degree and predict the lifetime of alkali-activated slag concrete.…”
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基于TYCON的变速箱动力学仿真 by 邓晓龙, 刘国庆

“…In order to study the dynamic characteristics of the gearbox,TYCON has been used to construct the model,considering main influence factors such as the time-varying mesh stiffness,mesh damping,composite gear error,dynamic input and loading,torsional and bending stiffness of shafts,etc.Through dynamic simulation of steady and speed irregularity conditions,the variation of the key variable parameters,such as angular velocities,accelerations,torques of the shafts and gears had been gained.The system with enhanced and weakened third shafts have been simulated.…”
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Investigating of the role of cybercrime and e-brand trust on purchase interest of e-commerce platforms by Mohammad Fadil Imran, Hendra Gunawa

“…In the study, the outer model which is called the measurement model has a meaning between indicators connected by other variables. …”
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Spectrum of γ-Secretase dysfunction as a unifying predictor of ADAD age at onset across PSEN1, PSEN2 and APP causal genes by Sara Gutiérrez Fernández, Cristina Gan Oria, Dieter Petit, Wim Annaert, John M. Ringman, Nick C. Fox, Natalie S. Ryan, Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez

“…Understanding this clinical variability is crucial for understanding disease mechanisms, developing predictive models and tailored interventions in ADAD, with potential implications for sporadic AD. …”
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Multicentre methodological study to create a publicly available score of hospital financial standing in the USA by Harlan M Krumholz, Radoslav Zinoviev, Richard Ciccarone, Rick Antle, Howard P Forman

“…The sum of weighted variables is a single composite score named the Yale Hospital Financial Score (YHFS).Primary outcome measures Ability to reproduce both financial trends from a ‘gold-standard’ metric and known associations with non-fiscal data.Results The validity of the YHFS was evaluated by: (1) cross-validating it with previously excluded data; (2) comparing it to existing models and (3) replicating known associations with non-fiscal data. …”
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Waterbody type dependence of the spatial distribution of macroinvertebrate communities in temperate China by Yujie Si, Junxia Wang, Junxia Wang, Hongxiang Li, Haonan Li, Ping He, Lei Jin, Cunqi Liu

“…In the lake, spatial and environmental variables contributed to the spatial distribution of macroinvertebrate communities, while in the river, spatial variables were slightly more important than environmental variables. …”
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Taxed and untaxed beverage intake by South African young adults after a national sugar-sweetened beverage tax: A before-and-after study. by Michael Essman, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Tamryn Frank, Shu Wen Ng, Barry M Popkin, Elizabeth C Swart

“…We estimated beverage intake using a 2-part model that takes into consideration the biases in using ordinary least squares or other continuous variable approaches with many individuals with zero intake. …”
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Innovative Resource-Saving Equipment for Safflower Processing to Improve Oil Quality by Maigul Mursalykova, Gulnara Kokayeva, Mukhtarbek Kakimov, Bożena Gajdzik, Radosław Wolniak, Damian Dzienniak, Michał Bembenek

“…Although temperature was identified as the most influential factor overall, the significance of pressing time indicates that this variable also contributes meaningfully to the extraction efficiency. …”
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Association between milk pump type and free fatty acid concentrations on dairy farms with automated milking systems by Hannah M. Woodhouse, Stephen J. LeBlanc, Trevor J. DeVries, Karen J. Hand, David F. Kelton

“…A linear regression analysis was conducted with monthly average FFA as the outcome and pump type as the explanatory variable of interest, with other factors identified in previous research to be associated with increased FFA accounted for in the model. …”
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