Association of muscle mass measured by D3-Creatine (D3Cr), sarcopenic obesity, and insulin-glucose homeostasis in postmenopausal women. by Hailey R Banack, Michael J LaMonte, JoAnn E Manson, Kexin Zhu, William J Evans, Mahalakshmi Shankaran, Jean Wactawski-Wende

“…The D3Cr method was initiated at a clinic visit and used to measure muscle mass via remote urine sample collection. Descriptive and graphical approaches and age-adjusted linear regression models were used to analyze study data. …”
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Recent Plant Traits of Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla in the Turkish Aegean Sea by Erhan Mutlu, Barış Akçalı, Yaşar Özvarol, Zeynep Narlı, Berivan Elif Aslan, Zeynep Zabun

“…The relationship between frond length and width followed a curved-linear (logarithmic) model, with a slope of approximately 0.515. …”
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Construction and Simulation of a Strategic HR Decision Model Based on Recurrent Neural Network by Xiaorong Li, Lijun Zhang, Dongchen Li, Dan Guo

“…A strategy for optimizing the training of hybrid convolutional neural networks is proposed, using an exponential linear unit activation function to solve the problem of neuron dead zones, a hybrid pooling strategy is used to improve the problem of feature information loss in maximum pooling processing, and an improved cross-entropy loss function is used to solve the problem of insufficient learning of difficult classification samples. …”
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Cryptocurrency trading and its relationship with other addictions among healthcare professionals in Türkiye by Ece Mumcu, Osman Hasan Tahsin Kılıç, Aysel Başer

“…Further research with clinical interviews and larger sample sizes is required to validate these findings. …”
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Determination of Hydrogen Cyanide in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke, CORESTA Collaborative Study and Recommended Method by Liu Xingyu, Chen Lisha, Tayyarah Rana

“…Statistical analysis was carried out following ISO 5725-2 to generate repeatability (r) and reproducibility (R) data for results from linear and rotary smoking. For reproducibility (R) expressed as a percentage of mean yield across all of the studied products and both smoking regimes, values ranged from 13.6–32.3%. …”
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Factors associated with knowledge in African immigrants with personal experiences of dementia by Manka Nkimbeng, Truphosa (Posa) Aswani, Elle Albers, Wynfred N. Russell, Tetyana P. Shippee, Joseph E. Gaugler

“…Abstract INTRODUCTION Dementia literacy shapes understanding of care and caregiving and thus influences the health outcomes of the care partner and the person living with dementia. METHODS Linear regression models were used to identify factors associated with dementia knowledge among a cross‐sectional sample of African immigrants with personal experiences of dementia. …”
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VIRTUS: virtual reality exposure training for adolescents with social anxiety – a randomized controlled trial by Elizabeth S. Uduwa Vidanalage, Jella De Lee, Dirk Hermans, Iris M. Engelhard, Sara Scheveneels, Katharina Meyerbröker

“…Primary (SPAI-18, LSAS-avoidance) and secondary (SPWSS) measures of social anxiety, along with general well-being indicators (e.g., resilience, depression, psychosocial functioning), will be assessed at baseline, post-treatment, and 3- and 6-month follow-ups. A series of linear mixed model (LMM) analyses will be used to examine and compare the effects of the interventions. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Low Temperature on the Gas Permeability of Granite by Wei Chen, Peng Wang, Yue Liang

“…Experimental results indicated that the gas permeability of granite under real-time low-temperature conditions exhibited a linear increase as the temperature decreased. In contrast, the gas permeability after freeze–thaw cycling followed a nonlinear trend: it increased initially, plateaued, and then increased again as the freezing temperature continued to drop. …”
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Area and isolation influence on bird diversity in Eucalyptus plantations: An island biogeography perspective by José A. Oddi, Aldana M. Ariza, Julieta Filloy

“…We analyzed the relationships between the spatial attributes of plantations (area and isolation) and species richness, functional richness, and functional originality using generalized linear models (GLMs) and Analysis of Deviance. Plantation area held no influence whatsoever on either taxonomic or functional diversity of forest birds inhabiting plantations. …”
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Modified oil extraction of pristine and weathered synthetic polyurea microcapsules and polyethylene microplastics from soil by Eva-Maria Teggers, Svetlana Heck, Boris Meisterjahn, Markus Simon, Dieter Hennecke, Roman Heumann, Holger Egger, Philipp Dalkmann, Annika Jahnke, Andreas Schäffer

“…MP polymers, such as linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and polyurea (PUA) are commonly applied to soils for mulching and pesticide application and their fate needs to be better understood. …”
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Compared to without video assistant referee: does video assistant referee monitoring have an impact on the Chinese Super League? by Bo Zhang, Mingyuan Lin, Delihai Qi, Liqing Zhang, Pei Deng

“…The Generalized Linear Mixed Model was used to examine the different variables in different groups. …”
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Spatial and Spectral Structure-Aware Mamba Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Jie Zhang, Ming Sun, Sheng Chang

“…Recently, a network based on selective state space models (SSMs), Mamba, has emerged as a research focus in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification due to its linear computational complexity and strong long-range dependency modeling capability. …”
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Predicting the Recurrence of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Using Whale Optimization-Based XGBoost Algorithm by Keshika Shrestha, H. M. Jabed Omur Rifat, Uzzal Biswas, Jun-Jiat Tiang, Abdullah-Al Nahid

“…The modifications that we introduced in the original WOA algorithm are a piecewise linear chaotic map for population initialization and inertia weight. …”
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Sarcopenia, functional capacity, and physical components of quality of life in older adults Mexicans: An explanatory model by Isaí Arturo Medina-Fernández, Sandra Cecilia Esparza-González, Nissa Yaing Torres Soto, Ana Laura Carrillo-Cervantes, Pedro Enrique Trujillo-Hernández, Josué Arturo Medina-Fernández

“…Methods: The study has a predictive correlational design with a sample population of 144 older adults from Coahuila, Mexico in 2024. …”
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The validity of the Meaning in Life in Persons with Dementia Questionnaire (MIND) by Torgeir Sørensen, Sverre Bergh, Knut Asbjørn Hestad, Ingvild Hjorth Feiring, Lars Johan Danbolt, Bjørn Lichtwarck

“…When testing for construct validity, in multivariate linear regression analysis meaningfulness was significantly associated with higher QoL-AD scores (Standardized β = 0.346), while crisis of meaning showed a negative but non-significant trend. …”
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Varied Response of EEG Rhythm to Different tDCS Protocols and Lesion Hemispheres in Stroke Subjects with Upper Limb Dysfunction by Chunfang Wang, Yuanyuan Chen, Peiqing Song, Hongli Yu, Jingang Du, Ying Zhang, Changcheng Sun

“…We tested the change of EEG spectral power after tDCS and the difference of change among four protocols using the paired-sample t-test and repeated measures analysis of variance. …”
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Maternal health literacy plays a greater role than paternal health literacy in adolescent physical activity in China: a cross-sectional study by Nanfang Yu

“…Statistical analyses, including independent t-test and multiple linear regression (to examine predictors of adolescent physical activity and BMI) were performed using SPSS 26.0 software. …”
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Self-Supervised Learning Meets Custom Autoencoder Classifier: A Semi-Supervised Approach for Encrypted Traffic Anomaly Detection by A. Ramzi Bahlali, Abdelmalik Bachir, Abdeldjalil Labed

“…Experimental results show that the representation learned from our proposed pretext task outperforms the best competing method in terms of accuracy by 3.41% on UNSW-NB15 (NB15) and 1.53% on CSE-CIC-IDS2018 (CSE18) when evaluated using linear probing. When fine-tuned with the Custom-AE on only 100 benign and 10 malicious samples, it achieves 83.51% (NB15) and 87.43% (CSE18) accuracy, representing gains of 4.55% and 5.08% over the initial features, respectively. …”
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Exploring the association of household location and sociodemographic profile on dietary diversity in occupied Palestine: a serial cross-sectional study by Chesa Cox, Weeam Hammoudeh, Tracy Kuo Lin

“…We analyzed the distribution of household location by survey year and used multivariate linear regression to evaluate factors associated with changes in food consumption score. …”
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Multiscale Characterization of Fractures and Analysis of Key Controlling Factors for Fracture Development in Tight Sandstone Reservoirs of the Yanchang Formation, SW Ordos Basin, C... by Peng Chen, Shuhan Yang, Xinyu Chen, Zeyu Li, Chuanbo Shen, Huaning Qiu

“…Conversely, the brittleness index positively correlates with fracture development and significantly influences fracture length, aperture, and linear density. Fractures are most prevalent in siltstone and fine sandstone, with minimal development in mudstone. …”
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