Protocol for a Field Trial of a Hearing and Vision Support Intervention for People Living in Long‐Term Care in Australia by Carly Meyer, Najwan El‐Saifi, Naomi Rose, Kasia Bail, Colette Browning, Dayna Cenin, Antonio Ahumada‐Canale, Megan Campbell, Tim England, Melanie Ferguson, Yuanyuan Gu, Reema Harrison, Chyrisse Heine, Lisa Keay, Sheela Kumaran, Iracema Leroi, Gerald Liew, Angelita Martini, Ralph Martins, John Newall, Smriti Raichand, Emma Scanlan, Hamid R. Sohrabi, Melinda Toomey, Johanna Westbrook, Piers Dawes

“…Generalised linear models and paired t‐tests will be used to evaluate the effects on residents' and caregivers' quality of life and sensory device use. …”
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Protocol for an observational study to identify potential predictors of an acute exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (the PACE Study) by Klaus Kenn, Paul W Jones, Carmen Schade-Brittinger, Rainer Gloeckl, Daniela Leitl, Tessa Schneeberger, Inga Jarosch, Wolfgang Hitzl, Peter Alter, Bernd Sczepanski, Sandra Winterkamp, Martina Boensch, Chrysanthi Skevaki, Olaf Holz, Claus F Vogelmeier, Andreas R Koczulla

“…Regression analyses and a generalised linear model with a binomial outcome (AECOPD) will be applied to test if predictors are significant.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the Ethical Committee of the Philipps University Marburg, Germany (No. 61/19). …”
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Oxytocin levels in response to CRH administration in hypopituitarism and hypothalamic damage: a randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled trial by Queralt Asla, Maite Garrido, Eulàlia Urgell, Sílvia Terzan, Alicia Santos, Mercè Fernández, Nimmy Varghese, Cihan Atila, Anna Calabrese, Betina Biagetti, Franziska Plessow, Ignasi Gich, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Anne Eckert, Susan M. Webb, Elizabeth A. Lawson, Anna Aulinas

“…Linear mixed-effects regression model evaluated the change in oxytocin after CRH/placebo in HHD vs. …”
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Gastrointestinal helminth infections and ectoparasitism in wild rodents along wildlife-human interfaces in Tanzania by Venance T. Msoffe, Claus A. Thomas, Alfan A. Rija, Jahashi Nzalawahe, Abdul S. Katakweba, Gerald Misinzo, Ladslaus L. Mnyone

“…Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) were employed to assess helminth occurrence in relation to host demographics, ectoparasite load, and environmental factors. …”
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Sleep characteristics and hearing loss in middle-aged and older adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015–2018 by Kening Jiang, Adam P. Spira, Nicholas S. Reed, Frank R. Lin, Jennifer A. Deal

“…Multivariable-adjusted linear regression with an interaction term between sleep characteristic (categorical) and age (continuous in years) was used. …”
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Association of plasma metabolites with treatment response after intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections in treatment-naïve neovascular age-related macular d... by Inês Laíns, Deeba Husain, Joan W Miller, Ivana K Kim, John B Miller, Demetrios G Vavvas, Raviv Katz, Liming Liang, Jessica Lasky-Su, Archana Nigalye, Kevin M Mendez, David Wu, Hanna Choi, Augustine Bannerman, Hae Min Kang, Krupa Sourirajan, Roshni Bhat, Georgiy Kozak, Rodrigo A Alvarez

“…Multilevel mixed-effects linear modelling was used to assess associations between plasma metabolites and treatment response. …”
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Association between metal mixture in urine and abnormal blood pressure and mediated effect of oxidative stress based on BKMR and Machine learning method by Junjie Chen, Hao Zeng, Zhanglei Pan, Miao Li, Qingfeng Zhou, Kaichen Chen, Yulan Hao, Xiangke Cao, Lei Zhang, Qian Wang

“…These participants were followed up in 4 seasons for physical examination and blood and urine samples collection between December 2017 and October 2018. we employed linear mixed effect model (LME), Bayesian kernel-machine regression (BKMR) and Machine learning (ML) to evaluate complex exposure-response relationships between multi-metal mixtures and blood pressure outcomes. …”
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Differential diversity and structure of autotrophs in agricultural soils of Qinghai Province by Lianyu Zhou, Xuelan Ma, Qiaoyu Luo, Feng Qiao, Huichun Xie, Longrui Wang, Wenjuan Sun, Yu Liu, Yun Ma

“…The overall relative abundance trend of the bacterial taxa was similar among the three crop samples. Moreover, 31, 27, 10, and 8 significant linear discriminant analysis effect sizes were identified in the four regions collected from HZ, DL, DT, and GH, respectively. …”
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Gut microbiota, serum metabolites, and lipids related to blood glucose control and type 1 diabetes by Zhaohe Gu, Lanxin Pan, Huiling Tan, Xulin Wang, Jing Wang, Xueying Zheng, Jianping Weng, Sihui Luo, Tong Yue, Yu Ding

“…Methods We conducted a multi‐omics analysis of the gut microbiome from fecal samples, metabolites, and lipids obtained from serum samples, collected from a cohort of 72 T1D patients. …”
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Dental decay in children and the link to weight status: A cross-sectional analysis of national school health data by Arwa Alhamed, Abdullah Al-Zeer, Fahad Alsaawi, Abdulrahman Alshaikh, Abrar Alzaher, Abdullah Alkattan, Noura Alrasheed, Khlood Sagor, Elham Alsalem, Mona Ibrahim, Amjad Alfaleh

“…An independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and chi-square test were used to compare the means, while Pearson’s r correlation and multiple linear regression were used to examine the relationships between the study variables. …”
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Dietary phytogenic inclusion level affects performance and expression of heat shock, cytoprotective, inflammatory and apoptotic genes in the duodenum and the liver of cyclic heat-c... by Eugenia Iliopoulou, Ioannis Brouklogiannis, Vasileios V. Paraskeuas, Eirini Griela, Evangelos C. Anagnostopoulos, George Kefalas, Konstantinos C. Mountzouris

“…At the end of the experiment (d40), duodenal and liver samples from 7 broilers per treatment were appropriately collected, snap frozen and subsequently stored at -80°C until gene expression analysis. …”
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Gestational exposure to particulate matter from urban wildfires is associated with changes in circulating oxylipins but not flame retardants 7 to 13 months post-exposure by Eunyoung Park, Qing Shen, Zhichao Zhang, Claire E. O’Brien, Amanda J. Goodrich, Elizabeth E. Angel, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Daniel J. Tancredi, Sean Raffuse, Deborah H. Bennett, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Ameer Y. Taha

“…Adjusted linear regression models revealed a significant positive association between increasing PM2.5 (μg/m3) exposure and serum concentrations of benzo[k]fluoranthene, a PAH (β = 0.866, P = 0.0403, [95 %CI: 0.0389, 1.69]). …”
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Large-scale genome-wide association studies and meta-analyses of longitudinal change in adult lung function. by Wenbo Tang, Matthew Kowgier, Daan W Loth, María Soler Artigas, Bonnie R Joubert, Emily Hodge, Sina A Gharib, Albert V Smith, Ingo Ruczinski, Vilmundur Gudnason, Rasika A Mathias, Tamara B Harris, Nadia N Hansel, Lenore J Launer, Kathleen C Barnes, Joyanna G Hansen, Eva Albrecht, Melinda C Aldrich, Michael Allerhand, R Graham Barr, Guy G Brusselle, David J Couper, Ivan Curjuric, Gail Davies, Ian J Deary, Josée Dupuis, Tove Fall, Millennia Foy, Nora Franceschini, Wei Gao, Sven Gläser, Xiangjun Gu, Dana B Hancock, Joachim Heinrich, Albert Hofman, Medea Imboden, Erik Ingelsson, Alan James, Stefan Karrasch, Beate Koch, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Ashish Kumar, Lies Lahousse, Guo Li, Lars Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Yongmei Liu, Kurt Lohman, Thomas Lumley, Wendy L McArdle, Bernd Meibohm, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Bill Musk, Kari E North, Lyle J Palmer, Nicole M Probst-Hensch, Bruce M Psaty, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jerome I Rotter, Holger Schulz, Lewis J Smith, Akshay Sood, John M Starr, David P Strachan, Alexander Teumer, André G Uitterlinden, Henry Völzke, Arend Voorman, Louise V Wain, Martin T Wells, Jemma B Wilk, O Dale Williams, Susan R Heckbert, Bruno H Stricker, Stephanie J London, Myriam Fornage, Martin D Tobin, George T O'Connor, Ian P Hall, Patricia A Cassano

“…Publicly available microarray data confirmed differential expression of all three genes in lung samples from COPD patients compared with controls. …”
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Nondestructive estimation of leaf chlorophyll content in banana based on unmanned aerial vehicle hyperspectral images using image feature combination methods by Weiping Kong, Weiping Kong, Lingling Ma, Huichun Ye, Huichun Ye, Jingjing Wang, Chaojia Nie, Binbin Chen, Xianfeng Zhou, Wenjiang Huang, Zikun Fan

“…Comprehensive analyses of the linear relationships between all constructed two-pair feature combinations and LCC indicated that the ratio of mean to modified red-edge sample ratio index (MEA/MSRre) stood out (R2 = 0.745, RMSE = 2.17). …”
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Serum angiopoietin-2/angiopoietin-1 ratio is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients: a prospective cohort study by Han Li, Qianhui Song, Xinyu Su, Yiwei Shen, Hao Yan, Zanzhe Yu, Zhenyuan Li, Jiangzi Yuan, Jiaying Huang, Zhaohui Ni, Leyi Gu, Wei Fang

“…At the time of enrollment, serum and dialysate samples were collected to detect biochemical parameters, serum angiopoietin-2 and angiopoietin-1 levels. …”
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Rapid Determination of Fatty Acids in Ziziphi Spinosae Semen from Different Origins by Internal Extractive Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Peng LIU, Ning WANG, Si-yu XIE, Le-ting WANG, Zhe-hao LIANG, Run-chen LAI, Man-man QIN

“…The results showed that the linear relationships of these fatty acids are good within the range of 0.01-50.00 mg/g, with the correlation coefficient (R²) exceeding 0.992. …”
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Negative associations of age and lifestyle factors with the antibody response to the COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 in health workers from Spain by Luis Sarabia de Ardanaz, Luis Sarabia de Ardanaz, Esther Serrano-Conde, Ana Fuentes, Ana Fuentes, Ana Fuentes, Alba Leyva, Federico García, Federico García, Federico García, Pilar Requena, Pilar Requena, Pilar Requena

“…Statistical analyses consisted of linear and logistical regressions for point estimations and the Mann–Whitney, Friedman, and generalized estimating equations for repeated measures.ResultsAfter the primary vaccination, the antibody titers and the percentage of seroconverted individuals peaked at 5 weeks but declined after 1 year; however, they remained high after the booster administration. …”
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Factors associated with head circumference and indices of cognitive development in early childhood by Matthew R Grigsby, William Checkley, Tahmeed Ahmed, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Laura Nicolaou, Pascal Bessong, Margaret Kosek, Aldo A M Lima, Sanjaya Shrestha, Ram Chandyo, Estomih R Mduma, Laura Murray-Kolb, Brooks Morgan

“…Participating children were enrolled and followed up between 2009 and 2014. A final sample of 1210 children aged 0–24 months were included in the analyses. …”
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The Composition of the Dispersion Medium Determines the Antibacterial Properties of Copper (II) Oxide Nanoparticles Against <i>Escherichia coli</i> Bacteria by Olga V. Zakharova, Alexander A. Gusev, Peter A. Baranchikov, Svetlana P. Chebotaryova, Svetlana S. Razlivalova, Elina Y. Koiava, Anna A. Kataranova, Gregory V. Grigoriev, Nataliya S. Strekalova, Konstantin V. Krutovsky

“…At the same time, the concentration and aggregation effects of CuO NPs in the colloidal systems we studied did not have a linear action on their antibacterial properties. These results can be used in the development of antibacterial coatings and preparations based on CuO NPs to achieve their maximum efficiency, taking into account the expected conditions of their use.…”
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A sea ice deformation and rotation rate dataset (2017–2023) from the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system (ECCC-ASITS) by M. Plante, J.-F. Lemieux, L. B. Tremblay, A. Bouchat, D. Ringeisen, D. Ringeisen, P. Blain, S. Howell, M. Brady, A. S. Komarov, B. Duval, L. Yakuden, F. Labelle

“…This limits the meaningful information that can be extracted in areas with low SIDRR values but allows for the study of linear kinematic features with a high SIDRR signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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