Association between long-term visit-to-visit resting heart rate variability and cognitive decline: evidence from two national cohorts by Guangjun Zheng, Biying Zhou, Zhenger Fang, Xia Chen, Mingliang Liu, Fudong He, Haofeng Zhang, Guang Hao, Haidong Zhu, Yanbin Dong

“…Similar results were observed from several sensitivity analyses, including using average real variability and coefficient of variation for RHRV, additionally adjusted for physical activity, excluding participants who had heart problems at baseline, and further adjusting for the C-reactive protein in the CHARLS. …”
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Surgical Management of Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review, Network Meta-analysis, and Longitudinal Analysis of Surgical Complications by Annora Ai-Wei Kumar, BBioMedSc, Matthew Lawson-Smith, MBBCh BAO

“…Results: There were 26 RCTs included, representing 19 surgical techniques and 1,193 hands. The average follow-up period was 29 months. In the analyses of pain, simple trapeziectomy ranked first, and trapeziectomy with button ranked last. …”
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Nutritional Value and Consumer Acceptance of New Cereal Bars Offered to Children by Białek Małgorzata, Rutkowska Jarosława, Radomska Justyna

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Analysis of the Impact of Information Behavior on the Marketing and Fertilization Strategies of Small Cocoa Producers in the Provinces of Guayas and Los Ríos in Ecuador by Ivonne Soraya Burgos Villamar, Luis Eduardo Solís Granda, Jorge Fabricio Guevara Viejó, Juan Diego Valenzuela Cobos

“…In Los Rios, the analyses reflected average values of 0.68 ± 0.46 cmol(+)/L aluminum, 2.98 ± 1.13 cmol(+)/L magnesium and 0.34 ± 0.11 cmol(+)/L potassium. …”
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Representation of women in scientific subjects: overview of systematic reviews investigating career progress in academic publishing with a focus on mental health by Daniel Stahl, Ayse Kostem, Sanchita Garg, Emma Wilson-Lemoine, Til Wykes

“…Method We investigated women’s authorship position in a systematic review and meta-analyses, following PRISMA guidelines and using random-effects regression analyses. …”
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Psychometric validation of the EORTC QLQ-OES18 in patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Lauren Podger, Daniel Serrano, Liyun Li, Lin Zhan, Boxiong Tang, Gisoo Barnes

“…For known-groups validity, 88.6% of analyses demonstrated the hypothesized direction of effect, suggesting that the expected differences in baseline QLQ-OES18 scores between prespecified groups were observed. …”
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Pharmacoeconomic analysis of using biological agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by I. I. Dyakov, D. V. Goryachev

“…The pharmacoeconomic analysis has indicated the use of the biological agents etanercept (ETC) can decrease the cost of an annual therapy cycle for each patient with RA by an average of 84,764–481,622 rubles and considerably increase the number of patients receiving the current therapy without allocating additional resources. …”
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Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets: An umbrella review. by Angelo Capodici, Gabriele Mocciaro, Davide Gori, Matthew J Landry, Alice Masini, Francesco Sanmarchi, Matteo Fiore, Angela Andrea Coa, Gisele Castagna, Christopher D Gardner, Federica Guaraldi

“…Primary studies and reviews/meta-analyses based on interventional trials which used A/APFDs as a therapy for people with metabolic diseases were excluded.…”
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Analysis of Mineral Composition and Isotope Ratio as Part of Chemical Profiles of Apples for Their Authentication by Boris Krška, Martin Mészáros, Tomáš Bílek, Aleš Vávra, Jan Náměstek, Jiří Sedlák

“…The mineral and isotopic content of the apple fruit flesh was analysed using ICP-MS. The data were processed using the ANOVA test and compositely analysed using the PCA and LDA models. …”
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Ratio of remnant cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus risk in early pregnancy among Korean women. by Jing Sheng, Chun-Fang Ma, Xiao-Fei Wu, Xiang-Xiang Li

“…The RC/HDL-C ratio and GDM occurrence were investigated utilizing a binary logistic regression model, various sensitivity analyses, and subgroup analyses. Additionally, the RC/HDL-C ratio was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.…”
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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

“…In contrast, on average, 82% and 76% of gene pairs keep consistent REO pattern between paired samples in single-variable and multi-variable analyses, respectively. …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of Four Different Regression Equation Based Mixed Dentition Analysis in Children and Young Adolescents of Bihar Population by Divya Jyoti, Jeevendranath Shukla, Arvind Kumar, Shalini Shalini, Swati Sagar, Saurabh Raj

“…Aim: To evaluate four regression equation-based mixed dentition analyses in a Patna population and assess their accuracy and correlation. …”
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Aspects of the behavior of some pentaerythritol ester base synlubes for turbo-engines by I.A. El-Magly, H.K. Nagib, W.M. Mokhtar

“…Dean Stark apparatus has been used to measure the water separated periodically as one of the resultants giving an indication about reaction progress. Elementary analyses, mean average molecular weight, i.r., viscosity, density and pour point have been determined for the prepared esters. …”
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Heavy metal ions in the wastewater of the Majdanpek Copper Mine by Ana Ristić, Srećko Manasijević, Natalija Dolić

“…The paper presents the average annual concentrations of heavy metal ions in the wastewater of the Majdanpek Copper Mine filtration plant. …”
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Mitigating the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: Key Trends and Drivers of Redistribution by Martin Larch, Philipp Mohl

“…Abstract The growing inequality of market income has attracted considerable attention; less so the redistribution of income. This article analyses key trends and drivers of income redistribution in the EU and the world. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Maize (Zea mays L.) Hybrids Using Microsatellite Markers by Eminur Elçi, Tuğçe Hançer

“…Genetic purity analyses revealed more than 98% homogeneity in the hybrid seeds. …”
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Diagnostic préliminaire de l’exposition du littoral méditerranéen du Maroc face au risque de tsunami by Elise Basquin, Denis Mercier, Axel Creach, Elia D’Acremont, Sara Lafuerza

“…In the Alboran Sea, the Mediterranean coastline of Morocco is exposed to tsunami hazard. The average regional seismicity (≈ 6.6 Mw) may be the direct cause of this phenomenon and may enhance the possibility of occurrence of submarine landslides, a potential indirect source of tsunami. …”
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pH value and concentrations of total dry residue and suspended matter in the wastewater of the Majdanpek Copper mine by Novica Davitkov, Srećko Manasijević, Natalija Dolić

“…The paper analyses the average annual values of the concentration of total dry residue, pH value and suspended matter in the wastewater of the Majdanpek Copper Mine. …”
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Uncertainty Quantification in Industrial Risk Assessment for Practical Decision-making by Nelly Olivier-Maget, Thibaud De Barnier, Florent Bourgeois, Nadine Gabas

“…Indeed, in the near future, it seems inevitable that decisions will be made based on results from risk analyses with uncertainties. The bowtie method is no exception to this necessary evolution. …”
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Budgeting as a Method of Cost Management Using a Residential Community as an Example by Bartłomiej Juras, Małgorzata Czerny

“…General research methods were used, such as analysis of the budgets of the housing community, as well as deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning for conclusions. The analyses contain also cost trends in the examined period, some average costs in the period, cost division into groups, costs per capita, per apartment, etc., but focus mostly on variations between budget plans and their implementation. …”
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