Thyroid hormones and frailty in older adults: systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis by Wen-Chun Chia, Yang-Ching Chen, Shuang-ling Xiu, Sen-Te Wang

“…Abstract Objective To investigate (1) whether the association of thyroid hormone with frailty risk is linear or nonlinear and (2) which range of thyroid hormones or thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is more associated with a higher risk of frailty in older adults. …”
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Associations between Restrained Eating and the Size and Frequency of Overall Intake, Meal, Snack and Drink Occasions in the UK Adult National Diet and Nutrition Survey. by Ana Lorena Olea López, Laura Johnson

“…Average daily frequency and size (kcal) of overall intake, meal, snack and drink occasions were calculated and associations with restrained eating were modelled using multiple linear regression including under-reporting of energy intake, age, gender, BMI, emotional eating, external eating and physical activity as covariates. …”
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Synthesis of M-Doped MoSe₂ (M = Fe, Co, Ni) via Chemical Vapor Deposition for an Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Xinya Chen, Xingchen Zhang, Jinying Zhang, Zhiyong Wang

“…Electrochemical tests, including linear sweep voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry, revealed that the doping of Fe, Co, and Ni significantly enhanced the HER catalytic activity of MoSe₂, with the Co-doped sample exhibiting the best performance, showing an overpotential of 0.293 V at 100 mA/cm⁻² and a Tafel slope of 47 mV/dec. …”
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Seismic Attribute Extraction and Application Based on the Gabor Wavelet Transform by Ran Xiong, Xuri Huang, Liang Guo, Xuan Zou, Haonan Tian

“…Thus, we propose a new seismic attribute extraction method based on the Gabor wavelet transform and linear dimensionality reduction. This method does not use the peaks or troughs of the seismic signal and instead focuses on the energy change in the seismic signal at the strata interface. …”
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Differentiable Deep Learning Surrogate Models Applied to the Optimization of the IFMIF-DONES Facility by Galo Gallardo Romero, Guillermo Rodríguez-Llorente, Lucas Magariños Rodríguez, Rodrigo Morant Navascués, Nikita Khvatkin Petrovsky, Rubén Lorenzo Ortega, Roberto Gómez-Espinosa Martín

“…To tackle this issue, the IFMIF-DONES project aims to build a facility capable of generating a neutron source in order to irradiate different material samples. This will be achieved by colliding a deuteron beam with a lithium jet. …”
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Use of the 6-minute walk/run test to predict peak oxygen uptake in adolescents by Gabriel Bergmann, Mauren Bergmann, Antônio de Castro, Thiago Lorenzi, Eraldo Pinheiro, Rodrigo Moreira, Alexandre Marques, Adroaldo Gaya

“…They were divided into a validation and a cross-validation group. A linear regression analysis was conducted to assess the associations between the independent variables 6WRT, age, gender, anthropometric measurements and the dependent variable peak oxygen uptake in the validation group. …”
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A deep learning based hybrid recommendation model for internet users by Amany Sami, Waleed El Adrousy, Shahenda Sarhan, Samir Elmougy

“…The proposed model uniquely combines user-based and item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) to effectively analyze user-item interactions, Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) to capture complex non-linear relationships, and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to identify sequential patterns in user behavior. …”
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Parental medical background and pre-admission preparedness in China’s medical student selection by Jin Yang, Hongbin Wu

“…Linear and logistic regression models were employed to assess the relationship between parental medical background and admission outcomes/pre-admission preparedness, controlling for socio-demographic covariates (e.g. gender, urban/rural residency, family income) and institutional/provincial fixed effects.Results Children of medical professionals were significantly overrepresented (11.60% vs. 0.34% national physician-population ratio). …”
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Cultural mismatch and accelerated epigenetic age during the transition to college by Yolanda Vasquez-Salgado, Gabrielle Halim, Angel E. Morales, Katelan Galvan, Teresa Seeman, Steve Cole

“…GrimAge, FitAge and DunedinPACE, second and third-generation epigenetic aging measures, were used for analysis. Hierarchical linear regressions, controlling for chronological age, ethnicity, biological sex, body-mass-index, smoking and alcohol use, and parental socioeconomic status, were used to test our hypothesis. …”
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A Portable Smartphone-Based 3D-Printed Biosensing Platform for Kidney Function Biomarker Quantification by Sangeeta Palekar, Sharayu Kalambe, Jayu Kalambe, Madhusudan B. Kulkarni, Manish Bhaiyya

“…A disposable 3D-printed flow cell holds samples, ensuring precision and minimizing contamination. …”
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Evaluation of inflammation adjustment methods to assess iron deficiency using longitudinal data from norovirus human challenge trials. by Yi-An Ko, Parminder S Suchdev, Jiaxi Geng, Hanqi Luo, Melissa F Young, Anne M Williams

“…Longitudinal studies with larger sample sizes exposed to other infectious agents are needed to further evaluate inflammation-adjustment methods and the need for including multiple inflammation biomarkers.…”
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Hinge-FM2I: an approach using image inpainting for interpolating missing data in univariate time series by Saad Noufel, Nadir Maaroufi, Mehdi Najib, Mohamed Bakhouya

“…Experimental results demonstrate that Hinge-FM2I significantly outperforms established methods such as linear/spline interpolation, K-Nearest Neighbors, and ARIMA. …”
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The Effect of Toileting Position in Uroflow Curves in Young Healthy Nulliparous Women by Omar Felipe Dueñas-Garcia, Maria del Pilar Matta-Gonzalez, Kylie Fuller, Wei Fang, Robert Edward Shapiro

“…Results need to be corroborated by a larger scale study considering the small sample size of our study.…”
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The Role of Metacognitive Processes and Emotional Schemas in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Sevinc ULUSOY, Kaasim Fatih YAVUZ, Tugba KARA, Mehmet Emrah KARADERE

“…Also according to multiple linear regression analysis; its determined that RTSQ total scores predict YBOCS obsession, YBOCS compulsion and YBOCS total scores, TAFS Moral sub-scale total scores predict only YBOCS obsession total scores. …”
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Dioctylsulfosuccinate Functionalized NiAl-Layered Double Hydroxide for Sensitive Fenuron Electroanalysis Using a Carbon Paste Electrode by Aude Peggy Kameni Wendji, Herve Leclerc Tcheumi, Ignas Kenfack Tonle, Emmanuel Ngameni

“…Furthermore, the interference effect of several inorganic ions and other pesticides potentially affecting fenuron stripping was explored, and the method’s applicability was confirmed by determining fenuron levels in a river sample taken from down-town Yaoundé.…”
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Changes in job satisfaction among doctors in Norway from 2010 to 2017: a study based on repeated surveys by Judith Rosta, Olaf G Aasland, Magne Nylenna

“…Objective To assess job satisfaction for different categories of Norwegian doctors from 2010 to 2016–2017.Design Cross-sectional surveys in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016–2017 of partly overlapping samples.Setting Norway from 2010 to 2016–2017.Participants Doctors working in different job positions (hospital doctors, general practitioners (GPs), private practice specialists, doctors in academia). …”
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Storing live black soldier fly larvae: the influence of temperature and storage techniques by A. Resconi, I. Biasato, S. Bellezza Oddon, Z. Loiotine, L. Gasco

“…Data were analysed by means of generalised linear mixed models (IBM SPSS software, P ≤ 0.05). …”
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NIRS and machine learning algorithms as a non-invasive technique to discriminate and classify cooked broiler and duck meat by Kamrunnahar Khan Bristy, Dip Ghosh, Md. Abul Hashem

“…Various machine learning algorithms, including linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM), Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, Neural Network, and XGB, were evaluated. …”
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Unravelling Students’ Attitudes Toward Lifelong Exercise by Efstathia Evangelou, Nikolaos Digelidis, Charalampos Krommidas

“…The first study used hierarchical linear regression to ascertain whether social and personal variables could be identified as predictors of students’ attitudes toward lifelong exercise. …”
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Examining religious attitudes and mental well-being in post-earthquake trauma by Şükran Başgöl, Semra Elmas, Saliha Yurtçiçek Eren

“…Pearson’s correlation was used to assess relationships between continuous variables, and linear regression was performed for further analysis. …”
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