Biological and urban environmental variables as correlates of adolescents' physical activity by Julio Brugnara Mello, Michael Duncan, Arieli Dias, Gabriel Bergmann, Anelise Gaya, Adroaldo Gaya

“…Linear and binary logistic regression models were tested. …”
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Quantification of Photocyanine in Human Serum by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Its Application in a Pharmacokinetic Study by Bing-Tian Bi, Ben-Yan Zou, Li-Ting Deng, Jing Zhan, Hai Liao, Kun-Yao Feng, Su Li

“…The detection was performed on a triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer operating in multiple reaction-monitoring (MRM) mode. Each sample was chromatographed within 7 min. Linear calibration curves were obtained for photocyanine at a concentration range of 20–2000 ng/mL (r>0.995), with the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) being 20 ng/mL. …”
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Simultaneous detection of dual targets Escherichia coli and Salmonella enteritidis using enzyme‐free strand displacement reaction by Shixin Yan, Yuling Xiao, Ruijuan Shen, Jiazhe Cheng, Yuling Zhang, Nan Wu, Jinhao Chen, Jie Chen, Peng Zhang, Jia Geng

“…Importantly, the spiked recovery of the three clinical fluid samples performed well, which proved that this method had the potential to detect E. coli and S. enteritidis in clinical samples. …”
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The continuing impact of COVID-19 on eating disorder early intervention services in England: An investigation of referral numbers and presentation characteristics by Lucy Gallagher, Lucy Hyam, Karina Allen, Ulrike Schmidt

“…Methods Data from January 2019 to September 2024 were analyzed, including three services with pre-, pandemic, and post-pandemic data (Sample 1), and 62 services with post-pandemic data (Sample 2), 32 of which also contributed data during the pandemic. …”
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The Method for Fabricating Proppant and Cenosphere Sand-Based Casting Molds Involving the Use of Binder Jetting 3D Printing with Furan Binder and Impregnation with Colloidal Silica... by Viacheslav E. Bazhenov, Ksenia A. Deputatova, Andrey A. Rizhsky, Yuri V. Tselovalnik, Andrey I. Bazlov, Stanislav V. Chernyshikhin, Andrey V. Koltygin, Alexey S. Anishchenko, Vladimir D. Belov, Evgenii Yu. Shchedrin

“…Furthermore, the bending mechanical properties and linear shrinkage of the samples were determined. The experimental findings demonstrated that the specific impregnation and sintering regimes examined in this study yielded sufficient mechanical properties for the casting molds and the structure with cristobalite bridges. …”
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Studying pollen representation of vegetation and plant richness from Pampean coastal dunes (Argentina, South America): exploring from local to landscape quantitative linkages by Carolina Vásquez, Gonzalo Sottile, Victor Merino-Campos, Silvina Stutz

“…Multivariate analyses were used to classify pollen samples and compare them to landscape unit coverage (%). …”
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Assessing the robustness of vascular surgery meta-analyses using the Fragility Index: a cross-sectional study by Yi Guo, Wei Lu, Qiang Hu, Tiehao Wang, Chengxin Weng, Jiawen Wu, Jiacheng Li, Lihong Lin, Guobing Cheng

“…Aortic meta-analyses demonstrated higher robustness compared with venous and vascular access meta-analyses. FI showed a non-linear relationship with sample size and total number of events, indicating robustness improved only up to specific thresholds, beyond which robustness declined or plateaued.Conclusion Overall robustness of meta-analyses in vascular surgery was moderate, with notable variability among research areas. …”
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Simulation Study on Dose and LET of Neutron Irradiation for Biological Experiments Using Spallation, Reactor, and Compact Neutron Sources by May Sweet, Kenji Mishima, Masahide Harada, Keisuke Kurita, Hiroshi Iikura, Seiji Tasaki, Norio Kikuchi

“…We analyzed neutron flux, energy deposition rates, and Linear Energy Transfer (LET) distributions. The KUANS simulation demonstrated the highest dose rate of 17 Gy/h, significantly surpassing that obtained at BL10, due to the large solid angle achieved with optimal sample placement. …”
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Label‐Free Single‐Molecule Immunoassay by Xiaoyan Zhou, Chao Chen, Shuang Zhou, Guangzhong Ma, Mohammad Javad H. N. Chemerkouh, Christine L. H. Snozek, Eric H. Yang, Jiapei Jiang, Brandyn Braswell, Zijian Wan, Xinyu Zhou, Shaopeng Wang

“…To show its translational potential to clinical settings and point‐of‐care diagnostics, N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide is examined in patient whole blood samples using the LFSMiA and results in a strong linear correlation (r > 0.99) with standard clinical lab results.…”
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Comparative proteomics analysis of maize (Zea mays) leaves infected by small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus) by Mei-ai ZHAO, Zhen LEI, Yu-he PEI, Xiao-yu SHAO, Xin-mei GUO, Xi-yun SONG

“…Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) analysis was performed on 24-cm long, pH 4–7 linear immobilized pH gradient (IPG) strips, and gels were stained with silver and coomassie brilliant blue. …”
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PDCNet: A Polarimetric Data-Enhanced Contrastive Learning Network for PolSAR Land Cover Classification by Bo Ren, Chaoyue Hua, Biao Hou, Jian Lv, Chen Yang, Licheng Jiao, Jocelyn Chanussot

“…The proposed method first constructs positive sample pairs for contrastive learning by leveraging the linear relationship between the coherency matrix (T-matrix) and the covariance matrix (C-matrix). …”
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Association between herpes simplex virus infection and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers: analysis within the MAPT trial by Morgane Linard, Isabelle Garrigue, Bruno Vellas, Nicola Coley, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Nicholas James Ashton, Pierre Payoux, Anne-Sophie Salabert, Jean-François Dartigues, Joachim Mazere, Sandrine Andrieu, Catherine Helmer

“…Plasma Aβ42/40 ratio, neurofilament light chain and p-tau181 were also available for a sub-sample of participants. Multivariate linear regressions were performed and stratified by APOE4 genotype. …”
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Angular alignment, rotational profile, and joint range of motion in the lower limb of typically developing children from 7–16 years of age: a cross-sectional study by Christian Wong, Michael Mørk Petersen, Trine Henriksen, Ales Jurca, Soeren Boedtker, Andreas Balslev-Clausen, Steen Harsted

“…To explore potential differences across the variables, we utilized Bonferroni-corrected Welch’s 2-sample t-tests, one-way analysis of means, and univariable linear regression. …”
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DC-Mamba: A Novel Network for Enhanced Remote Sensing Change Detection in Difficult Cases by Junyi Zhang, Renwen Chen, Fei Liu, Hao Liu, Boyu Zheng, Chenyu Hu

“…We propose a dynamic loss function to address the issue of sample imbalance, giving more attention to difficult samples during training. …”
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Effects of resistance training intensity on the cardiovascular health of postmenopausal women with hypertension: a study protocol for the LOAD trial by Jose E Tanus-Santos, Leonardo da Silva Gonçalves, Jonas Benjamim, Yaritza Brito Alves Souza, Leonardo Santos Lopes da Silva, Marcio Fernando Tasinafo Junior, Macario Arosti Rebelo, Carlos Roberto Bueno Júnior

“…Intention-to-treat analysis will be adopted using the linear mixed model.…”
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Simultaneous determination of nirmatrelvir, ritonavir, and beta-D-N4-hydroxycytidine in human plasma and epithelial lining fluid using LC-MS/MS and its clinical application to comp... by Wenjing Zhang, Lin Xia, Zhilong Yuan, Mengdan Liu, Yang Jiao, Zhuo Wang

“…Additionally, we monitored epithelial lining fluid in 4 BALF samples from 4 patients and observed that NHC exhibited higher permeability in lung tissue (approximately 20 % higher than nirmatrelvir). …”
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Performance evaluation of the Qiagen BK virus ASR on the NeuMoDx system by Amorce Lima, Luciano Soares, Caroline Simmons, Laura Rowe, Dominic Uy, Deanna Becker, Suzane Silbert

“…Results: The assay exhibited a strong linear correlation (R² = 0.9985) with the reference panel and an excellent analytical accuracy (R² = 0.9976). …”
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Experimental study on effective stress sensitivity of coal permeability based on dynamic drainage process by Kang LI, Xiaoyang ZHANG, Binbin HU, Weijiang KONG, Yunfei DOU, Junjian ZHANG, Dongdong WANG

“…The relationship between conversion permeability (k') and confining pressure and pore pressure is binary linear. The ESCK values of coal samples with different water saturations are constant and significantly less than 1.0, ranging from 0.244 5 to 0.475 3. …”
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A quantitative PCR to detect non-toxigenic Clostridioides difficile by Khurshida Begum, Hubert C. Chua, M. Jahangir Alam, Kevin W. Garey, Jinhee Jo

“…No NTCD was found in 25 GDH-EIA –/– samples compared to 5 of 25 (20%) GDH-EIA +/– samples and 2 of 23 (8.7%) GDH-EIA +/+ samples. …”
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Effects of Conditioning Temperature on Pellet Quality, Nutrients Digestibility, and Metabolizable Energy of Broilers Diet by Seyedeh Vajiheh Shakhese Emampour, Abolghasem Golian, Heydar Zarghi, Ali Reza Hesabi Nameghi

“…All pellet diets were sampled after production to test for pellet quality. …”
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