Predictive value of the monocyte count for determining the risk of postoperative moderate-to-severe ARDS in patients undergoing one-lung ventilation during radical treatment of eso... by Feng Zhang, Feng Zhang, Shunmei Lu, Guilong Wang, Hongyang Xu, Dongxiao Huang, Xiaomin Li

“…The difference of predictive value between postoperative monocyte count and prediction model (AUC = 0.760) was not statistically significant (p = 0.142). Additionally, a nonlinear connection between postoperative monocyte count and severe ARDS was found using curve fitting.ConclusionThe postoperative monocyte count is an ideal predictor of postoperative moderate-to-severe ARDS in this patient population and can be used for the early diagnosis of patients with severe postoperative ARDS.…”
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The Role of Motivation to Promote Personal and Social Responsibility Through PE and Sport: A Comparative Exploratory Investigation of Prospective PE Teachers and Sports Leaders in... by Istvan Soos, Ian Whyte, Diana Szekeres, Karoly Ozsvath, Attila Szabo, Jonathan Ling, Jose Francisco Jiménez-Parra, Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela

“…Data was analysed by IBM SPSS v. 29.0 statistical software package. Results: Results showed that university students’ academic motivations were influenced both by internal and external reasons; however, autonomous motivation demonstrated a medium correlation with personal responsibility, social responsibility, emotional repair, and resilience. …”
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Does a Provider Contact Wristband Reduce Emergency Department Visit Rates Following Hip or Knee Arthroplasty? by David C. Hein, MD, Ajay K. Srivastava, MD, Seann E. Willson, MD, Paul M. Telehowski, MD, Patrick J. Atkinson, PhD, Theresa S. Atkinson, PhD

“…While ED visits declined after the implementation of the wristband at both 2 and 3 years, these reductions were not statistically significant (30 days: 5.1% before, 4.1% after; 90 days: 8.1% before, 7.1% after). …”
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Sleep Disorders and Reproductive Health: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Potential Interventions by Magdalena Rosa-Bończak Rosa, Patrycja Marta, Filip Maciej Huzarski, Klaudia Anna Pawełek, Gabriela Monika Ferfecka, Agata Ossolińska, Natalia Morawiecka, Lucyna Stolarska, Oliver Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…Both primary research and systematic reviews, as well as meta-analyses with high methodological quality and statistical significance, were analyzed. This approach provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between sleep and fertility, considering both biological and psychological mechanisms. …”
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Exploring the influence of pre-analytical variables on gene expression measurements and relative expression orderings in cancer research by Tian Tian, Guie Lai, Ming He, Xiaofang Liu, Yun Luo, You Guo, Guini Hong, Hongdong Li, Kai Song, Hao Cai

“…Notably, the rate steadily increased after excluding gene pairs with the closest expression levels. Statistical analyses shown a higher proportion of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) than that of reversed gene pairs between case and control groups in both single-variable and multi-variable analyses. …”
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Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review by F van der Schyff, M Barnard, B Ströbele, M de Jager, R Britz, P Gaylard, J Loveland

“…Both these scores performed poorly in predicting graft and patient survival, with a C-statistic of 0.5. Renal recipient risk scores also demonstrated low- to average-risk patients being transplanted, with a median Hennepin score of 2 - 4 points and a KTMI of 2 points. …”
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EMA/CO Combination Chemotheraphy in Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia: Update of Our Results by Tolga Taşçı, Işın Üreyen, Günsu Kimyon, Alper Karalök, Sevgi Koç, M. Faruk Köse, Gökhan Tulunay, Taner Turan

“…The effects of tumor dimension and the presence of metastasis tended to be statistically significant in determining the resistance to therapy. …”
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Effect of age on the treatment duration and proposed “impacted incisor severity score” of impacted maxillary incisor: A retrospective study by Umer Mukhtar, Manoj kumar Jaiswal, Rigzen Tamchos, Ashima Goyal, Satinder Pal Singh, Aditi Kapur

“…The mean duration of treatment time was found to be 16.77 ± 8.83months and 21.75 ± 6.08months for impacted incisors with normal morphology and with dilaceration, respectively and the difference was statistically significant (p = 0.042). Conclusions: Considering the age of the patient, it does not show significant effect on the duration of treatment, but a change in root morphology like dilaceration, significantly increases the duration of treatment. …”
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Association of walking cadence to changes in knee pain and physical function: The multicenter osteoarthritis study by Khara A. James, Tuhina Neogi, David T. Felson, Patrick Corrigan, Cara L. Lewis, Irene S. Davis, Kathryn L. Bacon, James C. Torner, Cora E. Lewis, Michael C. Nevitt, Joshua J. Stefanik

“…For every 10-step/min decrease in cadence, the risk of incident knee symptoms increased by 10 ​% (RR ​= ​1.10, 95%CI [0.97, 1.25]), though this was not statistically significant and was attenuated after adjusting for gait speed (RR ​= ​0.95, 95%CI [0.80, 1.12]). …”
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Biphasic anaphylaxis in a Canadian tertiary care centre: an evaluation of incidence and risk factors from electronic health records and telephone interviews by Anne K. Ellis, Lubnaa Hossenbaccus, Sophia Linton, Hannah Botting, Eman Badawod, Alyssa Burrows, Sarah Garvey

“…A full medical review of the event ensued, and each type of anaphylactic event was statistically compared. Results Of 138 anaphylactic events identified, 15.94% were biphasic reactions, 79.0% were uniphasic, and 5.07% were classified alternatively as a non-anaphylactic biphasic reaction. …”
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Nurses retention: the impact of transformational leadership, career growth, work well-being, and work-life Balance by Eman Sameh AbdELhay, Samah Mohamed Taha, Mona Metwally El-Sayed, Sahar Hassan Helaly, Islam Sameh AbdELhay

“…The model explained 23.4% of the variance in nurse retention (R-squared = 0.234) and demonstrated statistical significance (F = 22.294, p < 0.001). Conclusion This study highlights the critical role of transformational leadership and work-life balance in enhancing nurse retention. …”
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Newer Generation of Scooters: Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin and Dibenzofuran and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Reductions by Hung-Hong Chen, Yun-Hwei Shen, Hsi-Hsien Yang, Jau-Huai Lu, Lin-Chi Wang, Yen-Kung Hsieh, Chia-Fon Lee, Sheng-Lun Lin

“…The annual emissions of PCDD/F TEQ was calculated based on the statistics in 2019 and tested as 1.63 g WHO-TEQ. It could be 99.7% reduced to 3.55 mg by replacing all scooters with Tier 6. …”
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Phenolic and amino acid profiles, and antioxidant properties of third generation snack foods adding Citrus mitis by-products and milk powder: impact of extrusion processing and mic... by Xóchitl Ariadna Ruiz-Armenta, Carlos Iván Delgado-Nieblas, José de Jesús Zazueta-Morales, Ernesto Aguilar-Palazuelos, Perla Rosa Fitch-Vargas, José Alberto Gallegos-Infante, José Ángel López-Valenzuela, María Fernanda Quintero-Soto

“…The color parameter C*, phytochemical, and antioxidant properties of four formulations were evaluated in the processing stages: unprocessed mixture (PS1), extruded pellets (PS2), and microwave-expanded products (PS3). The statistical analysis was performed using an unifactorial design with three levels (PS1, PS2, and PS3), evaluating four formulations (F1&amp;ndash;F4) and a commercial product (COM). …”
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Nonlinear effect of body mass index on postoperative survival following isolated heart transplantation by Reid Dale, PhD, Nataliya Bahatyrevich, MD, MS, Matthew Leipzig, BSc, Maria Elizabeth Currie, MD, PhD

“…The nonlinear spline terms for recipient BMI were statistically significant (p < 0.01). The hazard ratio (HR) appeared to grow linearly in BMI at an inflection point of BMI = 26. …”
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Individualized prediction of multi-domain intelligence quotient in bipolar disorder patients using resting-state functional connectivity by Xiaoyu Li, Wei Wei, Linze Qian, Xiaojing Li, Mingli Li, Ioannis Kakkos, Qiang Wang, Hua Yu, Wanjun Guo, Xiaohong Ma, George K. Matsopoulos, Liansheng Zhao, Wei Deng, Yu Sun, Tao Li

“…Results: The CPM achieved statistically significant prediction performance for three IQ domains in BD patients. …”
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Heightened demand for mental health information resources during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Germany: A retrospective longitudinal analysis of helpline calls by Jil Zippelius, Simon Schreynemackers, Ulrich Hegerl, Hanna Reich

“…Results: There were 56 more calls observed during the first lockdown phase than anticipated by the forecast model, a statistically significant finding (P < 0.005). During the second lockdown phase, the difference was even greater (P < 0.005) with 262 calls more than expected. …”
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Correlation among blastocoel fluid DNA level, apoptotic genes expression and preimplantation aneuploidy by Fattaneh Khajehoseini, Zahra Noormohammadi, Poopak Eftekhari-Yazdi, Hamid Gourabi, Reza Pazhoomand, Shirzad Hosseinishenatal, Masood Bazrgar

“…BF-DNA levels were significantly higher in the MA vs SE group (P = 0.01), while these were not statistically significant differences between the MA and FSDA groups or between the FSDA and SE groups, P = 0.17 and P = 0.38, respectively. …”
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Postmortem Analysis of Ethyl Alcohol Concentration in Blood, Urine, Muscle and Bile by Agnė Okulevičiūtė, Sigitas Chmieliauskas, Gabija Laubner-Sakalauskienė, Robertas Badaras, Sigitas Laima, Diana Vasiljevaitė, Jurgita Stasiūnienė

“…Toxicological data were processed using R commander statistical software. The study aimed to assess the changes, patterns, and correlations of ethyl alcohol concentrations in different body fluids after death. …”
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Outcomes of the toxic hepatites caused by alcohol surrogates by I. Yu. Pirogova, I. Yu. Ponomareva, S. P. Sinitsyn, Ye. P. Samokhina, A. S. Gorbunova, Ye. Yu. Startseva, V. S. Chulkov, T. F. Kondrat'yeva

“…Retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory data and survival rates of 80 patients (men 54, women 26, age 32 to 49 years), admitted to the hospital in 2006–2007, with evaluation of outcomes in 2012 was carried out. Statistical analysis of the data was carried out by Statistica-6 and Medcalc (using logistical regression and ROC-curves plotting) software packages. …”
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Total glucosides of paeony for rheumatoid arthritis: a protocol for a systematic review by Jing Luo, Guo-Yan Yang, Di-Er Jin, Ying-Ze Zhang, Jian-Ming Wang, Wei-Ping Kong, Qing-Wen Tao

“…Meta-analyses will be performed if the data are sufficiently homogeneous, both statistically and clinically. Possible publication bias will also be checked using funnel plots once the number of included studies is sufficient.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval is not required, as this study will not involve patients. …”
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