JUSTIFICATION OF DIRECTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 AND METABOLIC DISORDERS by Tetiana S. Gruzieva, Olena Ya. Antonyuk

“…Data analysis was conducted using R (EZR) software. …”
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Health Monitoring of Thick Materials Using Piezoceramic Patches, Time Signals, and Wavelet Transmittance Functions by D.R. Hughes, A. Ghoshal, E. Rowe, M.J. Sundaresan, M.J. Schulz, J.T. Feaster

“…This paper mainly deals with the development of WTF and the associated damage indicator by analyzing the simulated and experimental sets of data.…”
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Uncertain Single-Machine Scheduling with Deterioration and Learning Effect by Jiayu Shen

“…To address the problem in an uncertain environment, the expected value model and pessimistic value model are developed. These models can be converted into equivalent models based on the inverse distribution method. …”
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Causal relationship between gut microbiota and dental caries: a two-sample mendelian randomization study by Yang Wang, Quan Li, Jinqi Hua, Hongliang Que, Haoxiang Xu, Xinyu Xu, Ninghan Feng

“…Methods First, gut microbiota and dental caries data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were analyzed using Mendelian randomization analysis. …”
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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case-Control Study by Anas M. Almofarreh, Haytham A. Sheerah, Ahmed Arafa, Fairuz A. Algori, Ghonem R. Almutairi, Kafi A. Alenzi, Madiha M. Al-Alsehemi, Banan H. Mekwar, Osama Alzeer, Haneen N. Molla

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The Causal Role of Esophageal Cancer and Gut Microbiota: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by Wei Su MD, Han Chen MD, Die Hu MD, Bixing Ye MD, PhD, Weifeng Zhang MD, Guoxin Zhang MD, PhD, Xinmin Si MD, PhD, Xiaoying Zhou MD, PhD

“…A bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was conducted using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method. …”
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A Mendelian randomization study on the causal association of circulating cytokines with diabetic nephropathy by Yiming Xu, Tian Xiao, Junqing Yang, Jiali Wang, Bingting Wang, Chen Qiao

“…We selected eligible instrumental SNPs that were significantly related to the circulating cytokines. Multiple MR analysis approaches were employed, including inverse variance weighted (IVW), Weighted Median, MR‐Egger, Weighted Mode, Simple Mode, and MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR‐PRESSO) methods. …”
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The effect of mineral fertilizers on productivity of the new spring barley variety ‘Znatny’ in the non-blackearth part of the Russian Federation by О. V. Levakova, O. V. Gladysheva

“…According to the obtained data, an increase in the doses of applied fertilizers (N90Р90К90–N120Р120К120) resulted in the intensified development of most leaf diseases and a decrease in lodging resistance. …”
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Causal relationship between osteoporosis, bone mineral density, and osteonecrosis: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Chao Zhang, Hao Yu, Yulin Miao, Biaofang Wei

“…Genetic instruments were selected based on genome-wide significance, linkage disequilibrium, and strength (F-statistic). Bidirectional MR analysis was performed using inverse-variance weighted (IVW), MR-Egger regression, and weighted median methods to assess causality. …”
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The role of immune cells in cirrhosis: evidence from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Yao Chen, Kui Wang, Yunpeng Liu, Huilei Zeng, Huan Long, Jianhua Kang, Suijian Wang, Jianzhong He

“…The Mendelian randomization(MR) study was employed to explore relationships between these factors, aiming to provide new directions and insights for clinical research. Methods The genetic data associated with cirrhosis from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were obtained from the FinnGen R10 database.Inverse variance weighting (IVW) completing with MR-Egger, weighted mode, simple mode, and weighted median were adopted to enhance the robustness of our analysis. …”
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Co-Designing an Antiracist Dental Health System: Protocol for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander–Led Mixed Methods Study by Brianna Poirier, Joanne Hedges, Dandara Haag, Yin Paradies, Tamara Mackean, João Bastos, Catherine Leane, Gustavo Soares, Sneha Sethi, Jessica Manuela, Pedro Santiago, Kelli Owen, Natalie Bauer, Jodie Milne, Ashleigh Smith, Kelly Smith, Priscilla Larkins, Madison Cachagee, Vaibhav Garg, Latisha Sykora, Nicolas Reid, Michael Larkin, Jayde Fuller, Lisa Jamieson

“…Data collection for the development of workforce strategies will be collected from October 2024 to July 2025; the framework will be developed from August to December 2025 and disseminated in 2026. …”
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A causal association between chemokines and the risk of lung cancer: a univariate and multivariate mendelian randomization study by Mengmeng Wang, Mingjun Gao, Wenbo He, Siding Zhou, Yusheng Shu, Xiaolin Wang

“…Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were performed by five methods, Inverse variance weighted (IVW), Weighted median estimation, MR-Egger, Simple mode and Weighted, with IVW as the primary analysis method. …”
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Blood cell perturbation responses mediate the causal relationship between the gut microbiota and asthma: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study by Junjie Bi, Liqun Zhao, Xue Liu, Jingjing Zhang, Wei Zhang

“…Employing Mendelian randomization (MR) techniques, we evaluated the causal associations among gut microbiota, blood cell perturbation responses, and these asthma phenotypes, primarily using inverse variance weighting (IVW) for statistical analysis. …”
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Impact of an mHealth App (Kencom) on Patients With Untreated Hypertension Initiating Antihypertensive Medications: Real-World Cohort Study by Koichiro Matsumura, Atsushi Nakagomi, Eijiro Yagi, Nobuhiro Yamada, Yohei Funauchi, Kazuyoshi Kakehi, Ayano Yoshida, Takayuki Kawamura, Masafumi Ueno, Gaku Nakazawa, Takahiro Tabuchi

“…We conducted a modified Poisson regression analysis, weighted by inverse probability of treatment weighting, to examine the effect of mHealth app usage on the initiation of antihypertensive medications. …”
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Serum metabolites and risk of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: A Mendelian randomization study by Wenhui Yuan, Yong Liu, Chao Liu, Yuanzheng Qiu

“…The inverse variance weighted method was the primary method for causality analysis while MR-Egger, weighted median and MR-RAPS served as complementary approaches. …”
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Causal relationship between inflammatory cytokines and polycystic ovary syndrome: a bidirectional mendelian randomization study by Danling Tian, Jinfeng Chen, Liang Liu

“…We performed an interactive MR study to assess the causal relationships between 91 inflammatory cytokines and PCOS using Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) data. We underwent dual-sample MR analysis with inverse variance weights (IVW) as the predominant MR methodology with multiple validity and heterogeneity analyses. …”
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Machine Learning for Predicting Required Cross-Sectional Dimensions of Circular Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns by Anton Chepurnenko, Samir Al-Zgul, Vasilina Tyurina

“…The models were trained on synthetic data generated in accordance with Russian design codes. …”
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Associations between multiple metals exposure and bone mineral density: a population-based study in U.S. children and adolescents by Jian Han, Jiaqing Sun, Lin Yuan, Luyao Lou, Xiaofeng Jiang

“…Abstract Aim This study examined the correlation between multi-metal exposure and bone mineral density (BMD) in U.S. children and adolescents. Methods Data from 1,591 participants (aged 8–19) were analyzed using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2016. …”
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Association between the triglyceride glucose index and the risk of acute respiratory failure in patients with acute pancreatitis by Jiao Lv, Yuanjun Zhou, Changyan Tao, Yan Cai, Hongfeng Yang, Juan Xu, Jun Chen, Ruxian Sun

“…Methods Retrospective cohort analysis was conducted with the MIMIC-IV 2.2 critical care data. …”
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Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Force Estimation Based on OpenSim Musculoskeletal Modeling by WANG Xiaoling, JIAN Jiawei, XIE Qiurong, LIAN Zhanghui, GUO Chunming, GUO Jiemei, LI Yurong

“…Through the model scale, inverse kinematics, inverse dynamics analysis, residual reduction processing and muscle control and analysis, medial/lateral tibiofemoral contact force is estimated during walking gait, considering the contribution of external force and internal muscle strength. …”
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