Conservation Planning in an Era of Change: State of the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region by Kevin E. Doherty, Adam J. Ryba, Casey L. Stemler, Neal D. Niemuth, William A. Meeks

“…All published literature and new data analyses consistently indicate declines in grassland and wetland area. …”
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A tolerability burden index in schizophrenia: incorporating patient perspective in clinical trial adverse event reporting by Clément François, Alice Guiraud-Diawara, Christophe Lançon, Pierre Michel Llorca, Ann Hartry, Lene Hammer-Helmich, Djamel A. Zighed, Adrian Tanasescu, Mondher Toumi

“…For each patient, AEs were adjusted by frequency, severity, duration, and patient-experienced importance, and average tolerability-related burden scores were calculated. …”
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Risk factors associated with sexually transmitted infections among HIV infected men who have sex with men. by Yun Xian, Bowen Zhu, Xuan Zhang, Ping Ma, Ye Wei, Hongli Xia, Wenjie Jiang, Changqing Yang, Xiaojun Meng, Peng Peng, Yue Yang, Liying Jiang, Minjie Chu, Xun Zhuang

“…Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the related factors associated with STI-HIV co-infection. …”
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Angiotensin receptor blockers use and lung cancer risk in Chinese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study by Wenhao Li, Qingqing Yang, Yahong Chen, Yexiang Sun, Peng Shen, Feng Sun, Jinzhu Jia

“…The results of sensitivity analyses and negative control exposure analyses indicated that the associations were largely consistent and less likely to be influenced by unobserved confounding. …”
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Evaluating the performance of four types of photovoltaic panels in Antarctica's extreme environment by Mehmet Das, Erhan Arslan, Ebru Akpinar, Doğaç Baybars Isiler, Burcu Özsoy

“…The average surface temperatures were determined as 18.3 °C for monocrystalline, 18.2 °C for polycrystalline, 17.6 °C for flexible, and 16.5 °C for transparant panels. …”
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Grip strength across the life course: normative data from twelve British studies. by Richard M Dodds, Holly E Syddall, Rachel Cooper, Michaela Benzeval, Ian J Deary, Elaine M Dennison, Geoff Der, Catharine R Gale, Hazel M Inskip, Carol Jagger, Thomas B Kirkwood, Debbie A Lawlor, Sian M Robinson, John M Starr, Andrew Steptoe, Kate Tilling, Diana Kuh, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer

“…We carried out a series of sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of dynamometer type and measurement position (seated or standing).…”
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Effects of cecropin antimicrobial peptides on growth and intestinal health in growing male minks by Jian Chen, Xiaojun Yu, Guang Wang, Ziyi Jiang, Lingpeng Kong, Huanle Zhang, Lihua Wang

“…Serum immunological analyses revealed elevated levels of complement C4 and IgG in CAD-supplemented groups (p < 0.05). …”
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A Continuous Correlated Beta Process Model for Genetic Ancestry in Admixed Populations. by Zachariah Gompert

“…Consequently, many methods have been developed to infer genome-average ancestry and to deconvolute ancestry into continuous local ancestry blocks or tracts within individuals. …”
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Assessment of groundwater pollution using PIG index and microbiological indicators in the Angads plain, Morocco by Oualid Boukich, Rihab Ben-tahar, Elkhadir Gharibi, Mohammed Bourhia, Gamal A. Shazly, Musaab Dauelbait, Mohammed Mahjoub, Bouchra El guerrouj, Youssef Smiri

“…The PIG revealed that over 80% of samples fall into the insignificant and low pollution categories, with pollution levels increasing during the dry season. Microbiological analyses revealed the presence of fecal coliforms (FC), total coliforms (TC), intestinal enterococci (IE) and sulfate-reducing clostridium (SRC) with average levels of 52, 80, 2, and 0 CFU/100 mL during the wet season, while during the dry season these values increased to 79, 120, 3, and 0 CFU/100 mL, respectively. …”
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Family structure and women’s mental well-being: how family stressors explain mental health inequalities between lone and partnered mothers by Cadhla McDonnell, Pablo Gracia, Pablo Gracia

“…Analyses applied random-effects models and Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) decomposition techniques, combined with different model specifications as robustness checks (i.e., fixed-effects). …”
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Formation of groundwater chemistry in the Nowy Targ area in relation to land use by Aleksandra Anna Nowobilska-Luberda

“…The analyses concluded that land development has a dominant influence on water quality. …”
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Social anxiety and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of loneliness by Xingping Zhou, Baoan Feng

“…Mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes’ PROCESS macro (v4.1) in SPSS (v24). …”
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A porous metal–organic framework (Pd-MOF) as an efficient and recyclable catalyst for the C–O cross-coupling reactions by Anjan Kumar, Ahmed M. Naglah, Vicky Jain, Suhas Ballal, Amit Sharma, Munthar Kadhim Abosaoda, Abhayveer Singh, T. Krithiga, Subhashree Ray, Ojas Prakashbhai Doshi

“…These analyses confirmed the successful integration of Pd within the metal–organic framework structure. …”
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Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the HLS-EU-Q6 questionnaire by Müjdat YEŞİLDAL

“…The sample was randomly divided into two independent subsamples for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Reliability analyses included Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s omega, composite reliability (CR), average variance extracted (AVE), and item discrimination indices. …”
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IELTSoC: enhanced image encryption using combined logistic and Tinkerbell maps with second order cellular automata for internet of things by Biswarup Yogi, Satyabrata Roy, Ajoy Kumar Khan, Umashankar Rawat, Mahesh Jangid, Pronaya Bhattacharya

“…Furthermore, it achieved a “Unified Average Changing Intensity" (UACI) value of 49.8788 in differential analysis. …”
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Professional attitudes and behaviors acquired during undergraduate education in the College of Dentistry, King Saud University by Dina Al-Sudani, Fatima Al-Abbas, Zainab Al-Bannawi, Anwaar Al-Ramadhan

“…Many (59%) participants demonstrated high levels of professional attitudes and behaviors, whereas 40% did not comply with the elements of professionalism. Analyses revealed highly significant differences in certain responses with regard to gender, academic level, and grade point average. …”
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Prognostic effect of body roundness index on all-cause mortality among US older adults by Yiling Yang, Xiaomin Shi, Xiaohong Wang, Shu Huang, Jia Xu, Chen Xin, Ziyan Li, Yizhou Wang, Yusong Ye, Sha Liu, Wei Zhang, Muhan Lv, Xiaowei Tang

“…To further ensure the robustness of our findings, we conducted sensitivity analyses. Among 5371 U.S. older adults (age ≥ 65), with an average age of 72.45 (standard deviation [SD]:5.65) years, 2884 (60%) were women. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…Do risk estimates differ when using different noise metrics? Design Descriptive analyses of noise levels and variability at different times of day, analyses of inequalities in noise exposure and case-crossover analyses of cardiovascular events in relation to aircraft noise exposure. …”
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The effect of vocabulary development interventions on cognitive outcomes of vocabulary: A meta-analysis study by Nurbanu Kansızoğlu, Nazan Bekiroğlu

“…The findings from the meta-analysis, based on the random effects model, indicated that the average effect of vocabulary development interventions on vocabulary outcomes was 1.179. …”
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Migration Evolves in Response to Distinct Regimes of Climate Seasonality in Tropical Versus Temperate‐Breeding Suboscine Birds by Emily X. Johns, Oscar Johnson, Michael G. Harvey

“…We examine the climatic drivers of migration across the roughly 1300 species of suboscine birds, a group containing many intratropical migrants. Comparative analyses confirm that migratory behavior in temperate‐breeding suboscines evolves in association with temperature seasonality. …”
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