Cumulative Success Rate of Short and Ultrashort Implants Supporting Single Crowns in the Posterior Maxilla: A 3-Year Retrospective Study by Giorgio Lombardo, Jacopo Pighi, Mauro Marincola, Giovanni Corrocher, Miguel Simancas-Pallares, Pier Francesco Nocini

“…Patients and Methods. We performed a retrospective study in 65 patients with 139 implants. 46 were ultrashort and 93 short. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Propensity to Learn from Experience Related to Safety Events Questionnaire in the Industries of Mazandaran province by Arezoo Sammak-Amani, Zahra Naghavi-Konjin, Abolfazl Hosseinnataj, Siavash

“…Material and Methods: This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the propensity to learn from experiences related to safety events questionnaire, among 352 operators and managers (92% response rate), using quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess face and content validity, construct validity, and reliability coefficients. …”
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Assessing body composition in older adults: comparing BMI, Calf circumference, and DXA by Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas, Ayrton Moraes Ramos, Karollyni Bastos Andrade Dantas, Rodrigo Gomes de Souza Vale, Fabiana Rodrigues Scartoni, Delson Lustosa de Figueiredo, Lourdes Andresa Ramos de Oliveira, Vinícius de Souza Eloy, Ian Whyte, Lúcio Flávio Gomes Ribeiro da Costa

“…Pearson's correlation test investigated the associations between DXA, BMI, and CC variables. The coefficient of determination (r2) was used to verify the explanatory power between the study variables. …”
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Susceptibility weighted imaging for detection of thrombus in acute ischemic stroke: A cross‐sectional study by Subash Phuyal, Sushanta Paudel, Suchit Thapa Chhetri, Prakash Phuyal, Sadina Shrestha, Anzil Man Singh Maharjan

“…In this study, the purpose is to correlate the SVS on SWI with different parameters of stroke. Methods This prospective cross‐sectional study enrolled consecutive stroke patients with vessel occlusion on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) over 1 year. …”
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Assay precision, 99th percentile reference value and proportion of detected healthy european adults for VIDAS® high-sensitive troponin I by Nathalie Auberger, Isabelle Coin, Laure Marillet, Frédérique Raymond, Sandrine Michel-Busseret, Pierre-Géraud Claret, Camille Pease

“…Methods: High-sensitivity performance was assessed by examining the limits of detection, the determination of the 99th percentile value, the evaluated imprecision at said value and the detectable results above limit of detection (LoD) in a cohort of healthy European individuals. …”
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Relationship job embeddedness to turnover intention among nurses: A cross-sectional, correlational study by Benyamin Saadatifar, Zahra Ebrahimi Rigi, Parichehr Sabaghzadeh Irani, Chiman Ghaderi, Omolbanin Akbari

“…Methods & Materials: This descriptive-analytic study included 242 nurses from hospitals affiliated with Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. …”
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Sample size calculations based on day-to-day variability of stress biomarkers in persons with dementia and their family caregivers by Azita Emami, Jeehye Jun, Gabriella Engström, Lars Berglund, Töres Theorell

“…Introduction: Accurate estimates of intra-individual variability are necessary for proper design of clinical trials and epidemiological studies where the stress biomarkers cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) are measured for dyads of persons with dementia (PWDs) and their family caregivers (FCGs). The aim is to determine the number of consecutive sampling days required to detect effect differences in clinical trials, and to accurately estimate regression coefficients in epidemiological studies where stress biomarkers are exposure variables in regression models with future disease as outcome. …”
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Development and validation of the Iranian Social Health Questionnaire (IrSHQ) by Hassan Rafiey, Mostafa Amini Rarani, Fardin Alipour, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae

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Validation Study of the Iranian Version of Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHF‐Q): A Cross‐Sectional Study by Majideh Heravi‐Karimooi, Razieh Bandari, Somayeh Eskandari, Sahar Semnani, Nahid Rejeh, Ali Montazeri

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Decreases in molecular diffusion, perfusion fraction and perfusion-related diffusion in fibrotic livers: a prospective clinical intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging study. by Pu-Xuan Lu, Hua Huang, Jing Yuan, Feng Zhao, Zhi-Yi Chen, Qinwei Zhang, Anil T Ahuja, Bo-Ping Zhou, Yì-Xiáng J Wáng

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>This study was aimed to determine whether pure molecular-based diffusion coefficient (D) and perfusion-related diffusion parameters (perfusion fraction f, perfusion-related diffusion coefficient D*) differ in healthy livers and fibrotic livers through intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) MR imaging.…”
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Influence of Aerodynamic Modeling Errors on the Dynamic Characteristics of a Missile by Qiang Li, Xiaming Yuan, Jihong Zhu

“…Common aerodynamic modeling methods are compared, the effects of longitudinal coefficient deviations on the linearized missile model are analyzed using a deviation test approach, and the results are validated through simulations. …”
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Trust under the microscope: psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the Trust in Multidimensional Healthcare Systems Scale by Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh, Hamid Sharif-Nia, Arezoo Dehghani, Gholamreza Masoumi, Samantha B. Meyer

“…Abstract Background Trust in healthcare systems is an essential determinant of patient satisfaction and healthcare outcomes. …”
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Immunohistochemical characterization of the expression of matrix metalloproteinase - 9 (MMP-9) and tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase (TIMP-1) in the invasive endometrioi... by A. V. Chepets

“…Methods and results. It was found that MMP-9 and TIMP-1 expression occurs in 100% of invasive EEC. …”
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MICROCIRCULATORY DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME by Sergey S. Krutitsky, Georgiy P. Plotnikov, Irina N. Sizova, Damir M. Galimzyanov, Dmitriy L. Shukevich, Evgeniy V. Grigoriev

“…Materials and Methods: We recruited 174 consecutive patients with ACS during 2014-2015. …”
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CT imaging biomarkers to predict severity and prognosis of pulmonary hypertension. by Do Won Yoon, Yeonyee E Yoon, In Chang Hwang, Wonjae Lee, Ki-Yeal Lee, Eun Ju Chun

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>To explore whether there are computed tomography (CT) imaging biomarkers that can stratify the severity of patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH).<h4>Methods</h4>We retrospectively enrolled 144 consecutive patients with suspected PH who underwent CT pulmonary angiography and right heart catheterization (RHC). …”
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Finite Impulse Response Filter Design Using Fuzzy Logic-Based Diversity-Controlled Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution by K. Mohaideen Abdul Kadhar, S. Rengarajan, S. Tamilselvi, N. Karuppiah, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, A. Thamilmaran, C. Dhanamjayulu, Baseem Khan

“…In order to validate the results of the proposed technique, various population-based evolutionary computing techniques such as the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMAES), differential evolution (DE), self-adaptive differential evolution (SaDE), and Jaya algorithm have also been applied for determining the effective filter coefficients. The performance of the various algorithms has been analysed and compared based on the parameters such as stopband attenuation, passband attenuation, and ripples. …”
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Classification of Land Cover and Land Use in Mobarakeh County Using Landsat 9 Imagery Data by Reza Peykanpour Fard, Sohrab Hasheminejad, Parvaneh Peykanpour Fard

“…Ultimately, to evaluate the accuracy of the classified results, the produced map was compared with ground truth data using Google Earth. Furthermore, to determine the overall accuracy of the classification, the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were calculated. …”
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Influence of enzymatic parapancreatitis on the early phase of acute destructive pancreatitis by D. V. Kulikov, A. Yu. Korolkov

“…The severity of the defeat of the retroperitoneal tissue from the early stages of the disease largely determines its course.The objectivewas to assess the features of the evolution of the pathological process in the retroperitoneal tissue in ADP and the effect of EP on the course of phase I of ADP.Methods and materials. 63 cases (ADP) without enzymatic peritonitis were analyzed. …”
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Occupational safety awareness, practice, and their correlation among employees of food and beverage industries of Telangana, India by Sunil Kumar NG, Peri Pinakapani, Thirupathi Chellapalli

“…The collected statistical data was analyzed using key statistical indicators, including the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, the Kruskal-Walli’s test, and the Mann–Whitney U test for p-value determination. …”
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Intravascular ultrasound-derived virtual fractional flow reserve in the superficial femoral artery by Takenobu Shimada, Yoshihiro Iwasaki, Atsushi Funatsu, Tomoko Kobayashi, Shigeru Nakamura, Daiju Fukuda

“…Methods Between April 2022 and February 2023, PFFR was measured before endovascular therapy in 31 stenotic femoropopliteal artery lesions. …”
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