Comparative Analysis of 95 Patients with Different Severity in the Early Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China by Fang He, Xue-feng Ding, Meng Cao, Hai-ying Gong, Xiang-zhen Fu, Jie Luo, Kui Liu, Zhou-zhou Tian, Lin Luo, Yu-yuan Fan, Ting Li, Qian-Jing Yao, Xiao-ju Chen, Xiang-lin Duan, Li Chen, Li Jiang

“…There were 53 males and 42 females, aged 22–84 years (mean 57.3 years). Clinical classification included 54 cases of common type, 27 cases of severe type, and 14 cases of critical type. …”
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Development and internal validation of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System-2 Risk screening Tool (EOSS-2 Risk Tool) for weight-related health complications: a case-control study in... by Evan Atlantis, P Fahey, Kathryn Williams, Paul Dugdale, James Rufus John, SL Hocking, Kath Peters

“…The final model was chosen based on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and the Hosmer-Lemeshow statistic; and validated using sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value.Setting and participants We analysed cross-sectional data from the Australian Health Survey 2011–2013 sample aged between 18 and 65 years (n=7518) with at least overweight and obesity.Results An EOSS≥2 classification was present in 78% of the sample. Of 14 candidate risk factors, 6 (family history of diabetes, hypertension, high sugar in blood/urine, high cholesterol and self-reported bodily pain and disability) were automatically included based on definitional or obvious correlational criteria. …”
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Nutritional Quality and Antioxidant Capacity of Different Chinese Eggplant Varieties Based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis by Jian Lyu, Ning Jin, Xianglan Ma, Xueyun Yin, Li Jin, Shuya Wang, Xuemei Xiao, Jihua Yu

“…The coefficients of variation (CV) for the 20 amino acids ranged from 5.85 to 106.14%, of which 18 free amino acids had CVs > 20%. …”
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Pengaruh Prediksi Missing Value pada Klasifikasi Decision Tree C4.5 by Aji Seto Arifianto, Kursita Dewi Safitri, Khafidurrohman Agustianto, I Gede Wiryawan

“…Karakteristik data yang digunakan meliputi 11 data bertipe numerik dan 14 data bertipe nominal. Jumlah data kelas positif penyakit ginjal kronis 250, sedangkan negatif ginjal kronis 150. …”
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Longitudinal Associations between Obesity, Inflammation, and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among US Black and White Adults in the CARDIA Study by Sharon H. Jackson, Anna Bellatorre, Timothy McNeel, Anna María Nápoles, Kelvin Choi

“…Having a high waist circumference (AOR=6.15; 95%CI=4.14,9.14) and being Black (vs. White) (AOR=1.60; 95%CI=1.05,2.44) were associated with T2DM. …”
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Increased Early‐Mortality in Children With Solid Tumors During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in a Middle‐Income Country by Oscar Ramirez, Vivian Piedrahita, Santiago Bolivar, Karina Grillo, Adriana Linares, Carlos Pardo, Martha Piña, Amaranto Suarez, Carlos A. Portilla, Jesus Ardila, Viviana Lotero, Luz A. Urcuqui, Angela Trujillo, Patricia Montenegro, Luis E. Bravo, Paula Aristizabal, VIGICANCER Working Group

“…Six‐month mortality aHRs for retinoblastoma, bone tumors, and soft tissue sarcomas due to progressive disease were 4.3 (95% CI, 1.3–14.5), 4.0 (95% CI, 1.4–11.3), and 5.4 (95% CI, 2.2–13.5), respectively. …”
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Dual spherical electric field strength sensors with separate sensitive elements and their research by S. V. Biryukov, S. S. Kolmogorova

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Crash Prediction on Expressway Incorporating Traffic Flow Continuity Parameters Based on Machine Learning Approach by Tian Lei, Jia Peng, Xingliang Liu, Qin Luo

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CAD Design for Recycling and Utilization of Waste Packaging from the Perspective of Ecological Criticism by Jia Wen

“…However, the average value of channel 2 is 14.58 tons. Comprehensive analysis shows that channel 2 has obvious advantages in reducing waste discharge. …”
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Progress in quality assessment of Italian saffron by Irene Locatelli, Davide Pedrali, Silvia Grassi, Susanna Buratti, Annamaria Giorgi, Luca Giupponi

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Decomposition of the pangenome matrix reveals a structure in gene distribution in the Escherichia coli species by Siddharth M. Chauhan, Omid Ardalani, Jason C. Hyun, Jonathan M. Monk, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Bernhard O. Palsson

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Acoustic and perceptual impact of face masks on speech: A scoping review. by Gursharan Badh, Thea Knowles

“…The 52 articles included in the final review consisted of; 11 studied perceptual outcomes only, 16 studied acoustic outcomes only, and 14 studied both perceptual and acoustic outcomes. 13 of these investigated acoustic features that could be used for mask classification. …”
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Bone Mineral Density is Decreased in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Correlates With Serum Intact Parathormone Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shefali Sharma, Aadhaar Dhooria, Tulika Singh, Varun Dhir, Arghya Chattopadhyay, Debashish Mishra, Sanjay Jain

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Predictors of county-level diabetes-related mortality risks in Florida, USA: a retrospective ecological study by Nirmalendu Deb Nath, Agricola Odoi

“…The 10th International Classification of Disease codes E10-E14 were used to identify diabetes-related deaths which were then aggregated to the county-level. …”
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Patient Preference for Once-Weekly Dosing in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Japan by Rohini Sen, Alan L. Shields, Koichiro Atsuda

“…The most commonly cited reasons for QW preference were (1) “less burdensome because they didn’t have to take it every day” (47.8%), (2) “less psychological burden” (14.6%), and (3) “forget to take it less often”(12.5%). …”
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Rapid learning with phase-change memory-based in-memory computing through learning-to-learn by Thomas Ortner, Horst Petschenig, Athanasios Vasilopoulos, Roland Renner, Špela Brglez, Thomas Limbacher, Enrique Piñero, Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Angeliki Pantazi, Robert Legenstein

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Functional constipation by Yu. O. Shulpekova, A. A. Kurbatova, A. V. Sedova

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Modeling Dominant Height Growth in Planted Pinus pinea Stands in Northwest of Tunisia by Sghaier Tahar, Palahi Marc, Garchi Salah, Bonet José Antonio, Ammari Youssef, Pique Miriam

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SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DEEP LEARNING by Vladimir Milićević, Igor Franc, Maja Lutovac Banduka, Nemanja Zdravković, Nikola Dimitrijević

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Current knowledge on spinal meningiomas: a systematic review protocol by Erik Edström, Adrian Elmi-Terander, Gustav Burström, Victor Gabriel El-Hajj, Jenny Pettersson Segerlind

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