Simultaneous Quantification of 14 Compounds in Achillea millefolium by GC-MS Analysis and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Combined with Multivariate Techniques by Lan-Ping Guo, Jian Yang, Li Zhou, Sheng Wang, Chuan-Zhi Kang, Christian W. Huck

“…These results indicate that if one compound shows a linear relationship with the NIR absorbance signal (SCM) also, an MCM can be created due to the close interrelations of these compounds. …”
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Investigating male factors and their relationships with reproductive health outcomes: a case-control study protocol for Towards Optimal Fertility, Fathering, and Fatherhood studY (... by Fabian Yap, See Ling Loy, Yin Bun Cheung, Jerry Kok Yen Chan, Keith Godfrey, Chee Wai Ku, Jun Wei Pek, Melissa D/O Tharmalingam Durgahshree, Melinda Chan, Yie Hou Lee

“…Male and female participants will complete questionnaires on sociodemographics, general health and lifestyle factors, and their anthropometry and body fat composition will be measured. Blood and semen samples from the male participants will be collected for biochemical, molecular and semen analyses. …”
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Environmental heavy metal exposure and altering anti-Mullerian hormone levels in women by Zahra Namvar, Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpei, Abbas Shahsavani, Akbar Eslami, Maryam Mousavi, Fatemeh Shokri Dariyan, Philip K. Hopke, Fereidoun Azizi, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani

“…A multivariate linear regression model was used to assess the relationship between AMH and heavy metals, adjusting for age, body mass index (BMI), smoking, physical activity, age at menarche, education, marital status and parity. …”
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Exploring the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and gut microbiota at school age in a Brazilian birth cohort by Etiene Dias Alves, Marina Xavier Carpena, Aluísio J. D. Barros, Elena M. Comelli, Lorena López-Domínguez, Robert H. J. Bandsma, Iná da Silva dos Santos, Alicia Matijasevich, Juliana dos Santos Vaz, Romina Buffarini, Isabel Oliveira Bierhals, Maria Carolina Borges, Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues

“…Microbiota data was obtained at age 12 after 16S rRNA gene sequencing of self-collected fecal samples. Linear or logistic regression models evaluated the relationship between age groups and gut microbiota outcomes (alpha diversity, beta diversity and relative abundances at the phylum and genus levels), considering dietary covariates and demographic, socioeconomic, health-related, and behavioral factors. …”
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The Quantification of Vitamin D in Humans: A Promising, Non-Invasive and Cost-Effective Method to Measure 25-Hydroxyvitamin D by Giulia Squillacioti, Samar El Sherbiny, Veronica Lettico, Federica Ghelli, Marco Panizzolo, Giacomo Scaioli, Manuela Martella, Selene Limoncelli, Giulio Mengozzi, Roberto Bono

“…Results: We observed a linear correlation (Pearson r = 0.44; <i>p</i> = 0.05) between the benchmark and ELISA-measured 25(OH)D urinary levels. …”
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Associations of circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 with the expression of stem cell markers in benign breast tissue by Lusine Yaghjyan, Yujing J. Heng, Brian R. Sardella, Divya Murthy, Matt B. Mahoney, Bernard Rosner, Kornelia Polyak, Maisey Ratcliff, Rulla M. Tamimi

“…Methods This study included 151 cancer-free women with incident biopsy-confirmed benign breast disease and blood samples within the Nurses’ Health Study II. The data on reproductive and other BCa risk factors were obtained from biennial questionnaires. …”
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Effects of helium irradiation damage on deuterium plasma-driven permeation through tungsten coated RAFM steel by Yue Xu, Xiao-Ping Tian, Hong-Yan Tan, Hai-Ying Fu, Jun-Jie Ni, Lai-Ma Luo, Yu-Cheng Wu

“…He plasma irradiation with different fluences was carried out in a linear plasma device. The results showed that as He irradiation fluence increased, the surface damage of W coatings intensified, resulting in a high steady-state D-PDP flux and effective diffusion coefficient. …”
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CpG methylation changes associated with hyperglycemia in type 1 diabetes occur at angiogenic glomerular and retinal gene loci by Xiaojian Shao, Sophie Le Fur, Warren Cheung, Marie-Pierre Belot, Kevin Perge, Natacha Bouhours-Nouet, Candace Bensignor, Lucie Levaillant, Bing Ge, Tony Kwan, Mark Lathrop, Tomi Pastinen, Pierre Bougnères

“…In this study, blood samples were collected from 112 young patients at T1D diagnosis and 3 years later in average. …”
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A Signal On-Off Ratiometric Molecularly Imprinted Electrochemical Sensor Based on MXene/PEI-MWCNTs Signal Amplification for the Detection of Diuron by Yi He, Jin Zhu, Libo Li, Tianyan You, Xuegeng Chen

“…At the same time, the proposed sensor was successfully applied to the quantitative analysis of DU residues in soil samples, yielding highly satisfactory results.…”
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Application of computer vision and machine learning in morphological characterization of Adansonia digitata fruits by Franklin X. Dono, Bernard N. Baatuuwie, Felix K. Abagale, Peter Borgen Sørensen

“…The volumes of the fruits were estimated from the 2D features using random forest, linear, polynomial, and radial support vector machine models. …”
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Nitrogen fertilization of Cayman Blend grass (Urochloa hybrid cv. GP0423 + GP4467) on the chemical composition and fatty acid profile in milk from grazing cows by Isabel Cristina Acosta–Balcazar, Yuridia Bautista–Martínez, Benigno Estrada–Drouaillet, José Felipe Orzuna–Orzuna, Miguel Ruíz–Albarran, Jorge David Guiot–García, Lorenzo Danilo Granados–Rivera

“…An intensive rotational grazing system was used, and grass and milk samples were taken on days 14, 21, and 28 of the experimental periods. …”
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Peripheral Immune Profiles in Individuals at Genetic Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease by Laura Deecke, Olena Ohlei, David Goldeck, Jan Homann, Sarah Toepfer, Ilja Demuth, Lars Bertram, Graham Pawelec, Christina M. Lill

“…We calculated polygenic risk scores (PGSs) using genome-wide significant SNPs from recent large genome-wide association studies on ALS and AD. Linear regression analyses were then performed of the immune cell types on the PGSs in both the overall sample and a subgroup of older participants (>60 years). …”
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Warming Increases Environmental DNA (eDNA) Removal Rates in Flowing Waters by Elise D. Snyder, Jennifer L. Tank, Abagael N. Pruitt, Brett Peters, Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, E. M. Curtis, Kyle Bibby, Arial J. Shogren, Diogo Bolster, Scott P. Egan, Gary A. Lamberti

“…Consequently, smaller eDNA particles were removed faster than larger particles at 26°C and 23°C (Tukey's, p < 0.001) compared to 20°C (Tukey's, p = 0.01), resulting in an increase in the proportion of the eDNA sample made up of small particles with downstream transport for the two warmer temperatures (beta linear model, p < 0.001). …”
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Psychological and cultural correlates of illness conception and menopausal symptoms: a cross-sectional and longitudinal comparative study of Mosuo, Yi, and Han women by Limin Gao, Limin Gao, Jinyi Wang, Ying Zhang, Xudong Zhao, Xudong Zhao, Haojie Fu, Haojie Fu

“…The KMI was used to assess menopausal symptoms, and multiple linear regression analysis was employed to identify the main factors influencing menopausal symptoms. …”
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Objective monitoring of motor symptom severity and their progression in Parkinson’s disease using a digital gait device by Tamara Raschka, Jackrite To, Tom Hähnel, Stefano Sapienza, Alzhraa Ibrahim, Enrico Glaab, Heiko Gaßner, Ralph Steidl, Jürgen Winkler, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Jochen Klucken, Holger Fröhlich

“…However, we could show a strong reduction in required sample size, if digital gait features were employed as surrogates for traditional endpoints in a clinical trial context. …”
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Model-Based Dose Identification of Dalbavancin for Long-Term Suppressive Outpatient Treatment of Ventricular Assist Device Infections by Ute Chiriac, Uwe Liebchen, Otto Roman Frey, Heike Lanzinger, Sabrina Klein, Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, Matthias Karck, Anna Meyer, Benedict Morath

“…Data from Heidelberg University Hospital’s VAD register were analyzed using non-linear mixed-effects modeling for pharmacokinetic analysis and dosing simulations (Lixoft^®). …”
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Longitudinal maternal glycemia during pregnancy and placental epigenetic age acceleration by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Prabhavi Wijesiriwardhana, Richard J. Biedrzycki, Cuilin Zhang, Katherine L. Grantz, Jagteshwar Grewal, Fasil Tekola-Ayele

“…This study investigated the association between maternal glycemic levels and placental epigenetic age acceleration (PAA) in a multiethnic cohort. Methods In a sample of 301 pregnant women (102 Hispanic, 77 White, 72 Black, and 50 Asian/Pacific Islander), the association of glycemic markers cumulative exposure with PAA was tested using linear regression adjusting for fetal sex, maternal age, educational status, and health insurance status. …”
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Neurocognitive functioning in adults with neurofibromatosis type 1- a nationwide population-based study by Karoline Doser, Jens Richardt Møllegaard Jepsen, Line Kenborg, Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak, Vanna Albieri, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton, Anja Krøyer, Hanne Hove, John R. Østergaard, Christoffer Johansen, Sven Asger Sørensen, John Mulvihill, Jeanette Falck Winther, Pernille Envold Bidstrup

“…Descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), and general linear models with repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. …”
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The immunological age prediction of monocytes indicates that gestational diabetes mellitus accelerates the aging of monocytes in offspring by Yan Zhang, Rui Guo, Min Yin, Mei Shi, Ting Zhong, Shanshan Liu, Xia Li

“…Linear mixed-effects modeling was used to screen for age-related genes. …”
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Determination of Organic Carbon in Soil and Sediment by the Elemental Analyzer with Silver Cup Digestion Method by Junjie WANG, Qiaohuan WANG, Manyan XIONG, Xiangmei SONG, Meie WANG, Huimin FU, Hong LI, Ling MENG

“…The method demonstrated excellent linearity in the range of 21.2−6704.3μg of organic carbon content with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.9998. …”
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