Association of Adipokines with Insulin Resistance, Microvascular Dysfunction, and Endothelial Dysfunction in Healthy Young Adults by Cynthia Cheng, Constantine Daskalakis

“…They included 24% African Americans and 21% Asians with average body mass index of 25.4 kg/m2. All five inflammation markers were significantly associated with QUICKI. …”
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Geomagnetic disturbances and grid vulnerability: Correlating storm intensity with power system failures. by Mauro González Figueroa, Daniel David Herrera Acevedo, David Sierra Porta

“…A simple regression model confirms that storm intensity and average magnetic field strength are statistically significant predictors of unexplained outages, more so than broad indicators such as sunspot number alone. …”
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Forecasting mortality and DALYs from air pollution in SAARC nations by Amna Amer, Nadia Mushtaq, Olayan Albalawi, Muhammad Hanif, Emad E. Mahmoud, Muhammad Nabi

“…Statistical analyses reveal a consistent upward trend in deaths and DALYs during the forecasting period, primarily driven by Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution (APM) and Ambient Ozone Pollution (AOP). …”
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Influence of a dam and tributaries on macrobenthos communities and ecological water quality in the Kebir–Rhumel wadi (Northeast Algeria) by Mouna Siham Chaba, Mammeri Imad, Zouggaghe Fatah

“…Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) taxa richness; Hilsenhoff Biotic Index (BI); Iberian Biological Monitoring Working Party (BMWP’) index; and Average Score Per Taxon (ASPT) demonstrate a fairly poor quality above the dam and a fair quality below it. …”
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Profiling public perception of emerging technologies: Gene editing, brain chips and exoskeletons. A data-analytics framework by Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bâra

“…For prediction, in the multi-class classification task, the ROC-AUC score is 0.852 and average F1 Score is 0.987. Following the results, both technology creators and legislators must work collaboratively to ensure that technological advancements are ethically grounded, widely accepted and aligned with societal values.…”
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Minority identity and social structures shape diffusion dynamics of minority languages: a combined macro and micro approach by Ya Gao, Wenqi Liu

“…Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical analyses reveal that self-minority identity transmission significantly fosters minority language diffusion in both heterogeneous and homogeneous networks, especially in heterogeneous networks, and that increasing the average degree of the network promotes minority language diffusion. …”
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Internal control risk assessment using interval valued spherical fuzzy CRITIC EDAS by Fatih Sahin, Akin Menekse

“…The study contributes significantly by prioritizing internal control levels, conducting sensitivity analyses, and providing a comparative analysis with contemporary approaches. …”
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A Prospective Study of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Illicit Drug Use in Adulthood by Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning, Peggy C. Giordano

“…The present research used two waves of data from the longitudinal Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) to examine the impact of ACEs reported during adolescence on illicit drug use frequency in adulthood (average age 32) among 930 (403 men and 527 women) respondents. …”
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Determination of Formaldehyde by HPLC with Stable Precolumn Derivatization in Egyptian Dairy Products by Ahmed Salem Sebaei, Ahmed M. Gomaa, A. A. El-Zwahry, E. A. Emara

“…The method is validated and gives average recovery of formaldehyde at the three different levels 0.1, 5.0, and 10.0 mg/kg varied between 89% and 96%. …”
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A Dual-Attentive Multimodal Fusion Method for Fault Diagnosis Under Varying Working Conditions by Yan Chu, Leqi Zhu, Mingfeng Lu

“…The performance of the proposed method was experimentally verified through a series of industrial case analyses. The proposed DAMFM-MD method achieves the best F-score of 99.95%, an accuracy of 99.96%, and a recall of 99.95% across four sub-datasets, with an average fault diagnosis response time per sample of 1.095 milliseconds, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.…”
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A Systematic Review of Center of Mass as a Measure of Dynamic Postural Control Following Concussion by Sarah Patejak, Joshua Forrest, Emily Harting, Mable Sisk, Eric Schussler

“…The average STROBE score was 26.5/34 (range from 23-30). …”
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CD14 and complement crosstalk and largely mediate the transcriptional response to Escherichia coli in human whole blood as revealed by DNA microarray. by Corinna Lau, Ståle Nygård, Hilde Fure, Ole Kristoffer Olstad, Marit Holden, Knut Tore Lappegård, Ole-Lars Brekke, Terje Espevik, Eivind Hovig, Tom Eirik Mollnes

“…Using DNA microarray and gene annotation analyses, we aimed to decipher the effect of combined inhibition of C3 and CD14 on the transcriptional response to bacterial challenge in human whole blood. …”
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Analysis of directions for improving education and training system to foster offsite construction architectural professionals in South Korea by W. G. Yun, T. K. Kang, B. Y. Bae, K. H. Kim

“…Through statistical analyses, such as cluster analysis, we suggest educational directions for specific technical fields for each knowledge level group of construction engineers among the “high-,” and “low-” level groups. …”
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Fabrication of Electrospun Nanofibers Membrane for Emulsified Oil Removal from Oily Wastewater by Sura M. Alkarbouly, Basma I. Waisi

“…. %) in N, N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) solvent resulted in various average fiber sizes, porosity, contact angle, permeability, oil rejection, and antifouling properties. …”
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Asymmetry of the economic development of the Eurasian Economic Union: analysis and recommendations by A. A. Urunov, A. R. Vagapova, S. I. Shirinova

“…The article analyses the asymmetry of the development of the Eurasian Economic Union countries (hereinafter referred to as the EAEU). …”
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Proximity to four bikeway types and neighbourhood-level cycling mode share of male and female commuters by Kay Teschke, Anna Chinn, Michael Brauer

“…Uphill slopes to bikeways were associated with somewhat lower mode shares in bivariate analyses but not in adjusted models. Cycle commuting was most common in neighborhoods with intermediate average commute durations: 20 to 29 minutes. …”
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Considerations for High-Fidelity Modeling of Unsteady Flows in a Multistage Axial Compressor by Douglas R. Matthews, Nicole L. Key

“…Particularly, in conjunction with the SAS-SST turbulence model, the transient calculations significantly improved the spanwise (radial) mixing characteristics of the transient-average stagewise total temperature profiles. Spectral analyses of the transient signals compared with unsteady pressure measurements showed fundamental and second harmonic blade-passing frequency amplitudes matching within 5–7% in the embedded stage. …”
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Implementation of an Internet Weight Loss Program in a Worksite Setting by Kathryn M. Ross, Rena R. Wing

“…Retention was excellent (93% at Month 3 and 89% at Month 6). Intent-to-treat analyses demonstrated that participants lost an average (±SE) of -5.8±.60 kg from baseline to Month 3 and regained 1.1±.31 kg from Month 3 to Month 6; overall, weight loss from baseline to Month 6 was -4.7±.71 kg, p<.001. …”
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An Analytical Solution for the Hydraulics of Looped Pipe Networks by Mohammad Mehdi Riyahi, Amin E. Bakhshipour, Carlo Giudicianni, Ulrich Dittmer, Ali Haghighi, Enrico Creaco

“…The results show that this algorithm attains an average accuracy of 90% in predicting exact flow directions, with a confidence level of 99%.…”
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The Global Fingerprint of Modern Ice‐Mass Loss on 3‐D Crustal Motion by Sophie Coulson, Mila Lubeck, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Evelyn Powell, James L. Davis, Mark J. Hoggard

“…Abstract Crustal motion generated by rapid ice‐mass loss from Earth's glaciers and ice sheets has previously been considered in Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) analyses and numerical models across regions of ice retreat. …”
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