http://www.mnje.com/sites/mnje.com/files/041-057_-piplica_et_al.pdf by Damir Piplica, Ivo Speranda, Zvonimir Josip Perkovic

“…Therefore, we applied it TOR as a research method because shorter average duration of the mandate of a central bank governor can be an obstacle for conducting of the monetary policy in the long run, as in such a case central bank would be less interested in obtaining its primary goal – keeping of monetary stability. …”
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Linear Regression Analysis of Sleep Quality in People with Insomnia in Wuhan City during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hai-Tao Jin, Fei Wang, Wen Zhang, Qi-Lin Liu, Jing-Lan Zhang, Miao Yu, Zhen-Zhen Guo, Wei Pan

“…The scores of FCV-19S, SAS, and SDS were closely related to insomnia, and the influencing degree was in the following order: fear, depression, and anxiety (OR = 1.30, 0.709, and 0.63, respectively). …”
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The Study of Relationship between Social Support and Quality of Life among Elderly People in Kerman by Saideh Garousi, Hossein Safizadeh, Fatemeh Samadian

“…The research tool was a questionnaire with interview; SF36 questionnaire was used for scaling quality of life and a researcher made questionnaire for measuring social support.Results: The most important supporters were, in the first degree, was wife/husband followed by then son and, in third degree, daughter. …”
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Preliminary study of renal cortex palpate organization quantitative SWV reference value in early chronic kidney disease(CKD) by LI Shen-fu, HU Hua, WEI Jin-yu, MA Li, LIU Guang-de

“…Objective To investigate the relationship between the shear wave velocity(SWV)measured by virtual touch tissue quantification(VTQ) and the stage of early chronic kidney disease(CKD),and to provide SWV reference range of early CKD.Methods One hundred and eighty CKD patients and 100 control subjects without CKD were enrolled in this prospective study from March2015 to August 2016.SWV was measured by using VTQ inspection of color Doppler ultrasound.CKD patients were divided into 5 groups based on creatinine clearance calculated with MDRD formula.There are 61,53,56,6 and 4 cases in CKD stage 1 to 5,respectively.Results The average SWV value of the study group and control gro.up were(2.20 ± 0.68) m/s and(2.38 ± 0.84) m/s,respectively.There were no significant difference between these two groups(P>0.05).The stage of CKD is negatively related to the SWV vale in trends,but has no significant difference(P>0.05),and each group respectively when compared with the control group had no statistical significance(P>0.05).The combined CKD 1-2 stage and CKD 4-5 stage respectively compared with the control group had no statistical difference(P>0.05).But the combined CKD 3-5 stage respectively compared with the control group.CKDl stage and CKD 1-2 stage there were significant difference(P<0.05).GFR value comparison between different CKD stage groups have obvious difference(P<0.05).Conclusions The SWV can be detected with VTQ and can be used to evaluate the degree of injury in mid-late stage CKD.The SWV value correlates with the degree of injury in CKD patients negatively(r=-0.422,P=0.032).…”
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Incidence and outcome of transient and permanent atrioventricular heart block after pediatric heart surgery: A retrospective study from Saudi Arabia by Muhammad Shahzad, Yasser Abdulrhman Alheraish, Reem Beheri, Khaled Alarwan, Majid Shahani, Sarosh Waheed, Kashif Rizvi

“…The average duration for the recovery of AV conduction was found to be 6.65 ± 2.8 days. …”
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Coordinated Learning by Model Difference Identification in Multiagent Systems with Sparse Interactions by Qi Zhang, Peng Jiao, Quanjun Yin, Lin Sun

“…In many MASs, interactions between agents are usually sparse, and then a lot of MARL methods were devised for them. These methods divide learning process into independent learning and joint learning in coordinated states to improve traditional joint state-action space learning. …”
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Glenohumeral Instability and Arm Pain in Overhead Throwing Athletes: A Correlational Study by Max Wardell, Doug Creighton, Carter Kovalcik

“…Previous studies illustrate that 75-80% of baseball players will experience some degree of upper extremity (UE) pain. GH instability is thought to play a role…”
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COMPARISON BETAXOLOL AND METOPROLOL TARTRATE THERAPIES IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATED WITH STABLE ANGINA by A. A. Anderzhanova, J. V. Gavrilov, V. A. Sulimov

“…To compare antihypertensive, antianginal and antiischemic efficacy of β1-selective adrenoblockers (betaxolol and metoprolol tartrate) in patients with arterial hypertension (HT) of 1-2 degree associated with stable angina class II.Material and methods. 100 patients (aged 23-66 y.o.) with HT associated with stable angina or without angina were involved in the study. …”
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Enhanced Edge Feature Fusion and Visual State Space for Precise Detection of Switch Tip Close Fitting by Chang Zhengtang, Lan Xiangui, Lai Yihui

“…Experimental results demonstrate that DU-Net achieves high segmentation and measurement accuracy, with an average Intersection over Union of 97.58% for rail recognition, a Dice similarity coefficient of 98.80%, and an average Hausdorff Distance of 0.426 mm. …”
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The effects of mentor support on Ed.D students’ research creativity: mediating roles of research self-efficacy and learning engagement by Haifei Miao, Lixing Zhao, Zhigang Wang

“…IntroductionDoctor of education (Ed.D) is a professional degree designed to cultivate highly specialized professionals in education, teaching, and educational leadership. …”
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Hue-preserving lightness and saturation modification in RGB color space for protanopia and deuteranopia by Ayaka Fujita, Mashiho Mukaida, Tadahiro Azetsu, Noriaki Suetake

“…The main results of quantitative evaluation are as follows. (1) In the index evaluating the degree of contrast improvement for colors which are difficult for dichromats to discriminate, the average value of the proposed method is about 0.84, and indicates that the proposed method is comparable to the conventional methods. (2) In the index represented by the ratio of the number of pixels clipped with white or black, the average of the proposed method is 4.38×10−4 and indicates that there are almost no clipped white and black pixels.…”
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The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–2014 by Jonas Schöley

“…OBJECTIVE: This study estimates heterogeneity in the level and shape of age-specific mortality within a cohort of newborns and quantifies the degree to which mortality selection explains the shape of the average neonatal mortality trajectory. …”
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Self-assessment of the Musculoskeletal System Load of the Nurses Employed in Conservative and Surgical Departments by Karolina Filipska, Dorota Wolska, Beata Haor, Anna Antczak-Komoterska

“…Material and Methods. The study involved 50 nurses employed in surgical (32%) and conservative (68%) departments. …”
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Evaluation of cases of mammoplasty with the areolar inferior pedicle technique by Eduardo Favarin, Glayse June Sassaki Favarin, Ives Alexandre Yutani Koseki, Fábio Yutani Koseki

“…Complications occurred in 33.76% of the cases, and the average amount of resected tissue was 585 g. The degree of satisfaction was excellent or good in 93% of the cases. …”
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Comparative Analysis of BTM Systems Made of a Fireproof Composite Material with Nano Boron Nitride by Ioan Szabo, Florin Mariasiu, Thomas Imre Cyrille Buidin

“…These findings are supported by the lowest average heat absorption by the batteries, of 34.44 kJ, as well as the lowest average internal resistance difference (caused by thermal gradients), of 5.23%. …”
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Efficient algorithm for calculating short cycles in Tanner graph based on matrix computation by Qing ZHU, Le-nan WU, Yong-biao YANG, Jie LI, Shi-ming XU

“…Loop distribution of Tanner graph affects the BER performance of low-density parity-check codes(LDPC) decoding.To count short cycles in the Tanner graph efficiently,a side by side recursion algorithm based on matrix computation was proposed.Firstly,5 basic graph structures were defined to realize recursive calculate in the implementation process.Compared with previous works,the algorithm provided many methods for counting the same length of cycles.The same result confirmed the correctness of the algorithm.The new algorithm could not only calculate the total number of cycles,but also gave the number each edge participating in fixed-length cycles.Its complexity was proportional to the product of D and square of N,where D was the average degree of variable nodes,and N denoted the code length.For LDPC codes,D was far less than N.For most of the LDPC codes,the calculation for numbers of cycle-length g、g+2、g+4 was only several seconds.…”
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Efficient algorithm for calculating short cycles in Tanner graph based on matrix computation by Qing ZHU, Le-nan WU, Yong-biao YANG, Jie LI, Shi-ming XU

“…Loop distribution of Tanner graph affects the BER performance of low-density parity-check codes(LDPC) decoding.To count short cycles in the Tanner graph efficiently,a side by side recursion algorithm based on matrix computation was proposed.Firstly,5 basic graph structures were defined to realize recursive calculate in the implementation process.Compared with previous works,the algorithm provided many methods for counting the same length of cycles.The same result confirmed the correctness of the algorithm.The new algorithm could not only calculate the total number of cycles,but also gave the number each edge participating in fixed-length cycles.Its complexity was proportional to the product of D and square of N,where D was the average degree of variable nodes,and N denoted the code length.For LDPC codes,D was far less than N.For most of the LDPC codes,the calculation for numbers of cycle-length g、g+2、g+4 was only several seconds.…”
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VASCULAR REMODELING IN HYPERTENSION: ANGIOGENESIS FEATURES by L. A. Haisheva, S. V. Shlyk, A. S. Pleskachev, E. S. Makarenko

“…Aim — cross-sectional study of changes in various segments of the vascular bed in arterial hypertension (AH), defining the role of inducers and inhibitors of angiogenesis in these processes.Materials and methods. The study included 99 patients with arterial hypertension of I–II degree, average age of 63.2 ± 2.6 years, diseaseduration 9.2 ± 7.2 years.Results. …”
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JUSTIFICATION OF EARLY DIAGNOSTIC AND INTERVENTION ESOPHAGOGASTROSCOPY IN DIAGNOSTICS AND PROPHYLAXIS OF RECURRENCE OF VARICOSE BLEEDINGS by Инна Сергеевна Шестак, Алексей Григорьевич Короткевич, Антон Сергеевич Леонтьев, Виктор Васильевич Кузнецов, Семен Александрович Май, Илья Васильевич Савостьянов

“…The aim of the study was to determine the structure of bleeding sources with confirmed portal hypertension by using emergency gastroscopy, including to assess the effectiveness of the prevention of hemorrhagic recurrence using endoscopic hemostasis methods. Methods. Gastroscopy was performed in 165 (64.2 %) patients on average 2.2 ± 0.5 hours from the admission by endoscopes Olympus, Karl Storz and Fujinon with an instrumental channel of 2.8 mm. …”
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THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE AND PRACTICALLY RELIZABLE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE LIGHT-CHESTNUT SOILS OF THE NORTHERN WEST PRECASPIAN REGION ACORDING TO THE MOISTURE AND SOLINITY (ON EXAMPLE O... by G. N. Hasanov, T. A. Asvarova, K. M. Gadzhiev, Z. N. Akhmedova, A. S. Abdulaeva, R. R. Bashirov, M. S. Sultanakhmedov

“…The main factors to achieve high productivity ephemeras and ephemeroids on light-chestnut soil of the North- West Precaspian are about 80–85 mm rainfall during April – May, with average daily air temperature 15–16 °C, its relative humidity 70–73 %, volatility of 130–140 mm, KU 0.30, chloride-sulphate type of salinity in the layer of a low degree of 0–35 cm. …”
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