Genetic architecture of thermotolerance traits in beef cattle: a novel integration of SNP and breed-of-origin effects by Gabriel A. Zayas, Camila Santos Rojas, Eduardo E. Rodriguez, Aakilah S. Hernandez, Ashley M. Beard, Fahad Rafiq, Kaitlyn M. Sarlo Davila, Raluca G. Mateescu

“…Crossbreeding Bos t. taurus and Bos t. indicus has emerged as a critical strategy to balance the production efficiency of taurine breeds with the superior thermotolerance of indicine breeds. …”
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N-2-Hydroxypropyl Trimethyl Ammonium Chloride Chitosan-Aluminum Nano-Adjuvant Elicit Strong Immune Responses in Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Inactivated Vaccine by Jin Z, Liu J, Guo S, Xu S, Gong X, Zhang C, Zhao K

“…The N-2-HACC-Al nano-adjuvant was characterised, and its safety was determined by analysing the cytotoxicity and hemolysis. …”
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Free-Electron Screening Mechanism of the Shallow Impurity Breakdown in n-GaAs: Evidences from the Photoelectric Zeeman and Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopies by O. Z. Alekperov, E. P. Nakhmedov

“…It is shown that an increase in the FC concentration reduces the CCS, which can be assumed as the main factor along with the increase in the ionization coefficient for the SI breakdown in the electric field. …”
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Role of Psychological Distress in the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care and Self-Management Behaviors of Elderly Patients with T2DM Chronic Complications by Sun X, Wang X, Zhou R, Deng W, Jiang J, Shi Y

“…Furthermore, the total effect of PAID-C on DSMB-O via PACIC was determined to be (0.27+0.22=0.49). Notably, the mediating effect accounted for 54.99%.Conclusion: Psychological distress is intricately linked to self-management behaviour among elderly patients suffering from T2DM and chronic complications. …”
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The validity of a new resilience scale: the Japan Resilience Scale (J-RS) for mothers with a focus on cultural aspects by Mariko Takeuchi, Michiko Matsunaga, Akimitsu Miyake, Ryuichiro Egashira, Sayaka Hotta, Mai Nakano, Misaki Moriguchi, Fumihiko Yasuno, Masako Myowa, Keisuke Hagihara

“…Internal consistency (reliability) of the J-RS was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and the final model was determined via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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Oral health literacy: effectiveness of a homegrown intervention among community-dwelling older Nigerians by B. O. Akinboboye, B. I. Malomo, C. A. Gbiri, A. O. Ogunyemi, A. P. Arikawe, O. A. Obashoro-John

“…Methods A multi-stage and multi-phased mixed-method study was conducted among adults ≥50 years with a Charlson comorbidity index score ≤ 1. …”
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The Noninvasive Measurement of Ocular Rigidity and the Pulsatile Choroidal Volume Change in Children and Young Adults by Martin Reyes, Sage Smith, Kelly Lam, Yasaman Adel, Nimesh B. Patel, OD, PhD, Diane N. Sayah, OD, PhD

“…Intrasession repeatability for OR and ΔV was assessed in 31 eyes and was determined to be excellent based on a single measure intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.912, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.825, 0.956) and 0.941, 95% CI (0.879, 0.972), respectively and a within-subject standard deviation of 0.0037 μL−1 and 1.14 μL, respectively. …”
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Resistance intensity test (RIT): a novel bioassay for quantifying the level of acaricide resistance in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks by Frans Jongejan, Laura Berger, Laura Homminga, Iris Hulsebos, Alita Petersen, Priscila Teixeira Ferreira, José Reck, Guilherme Klafke

“…Usually, the recommended label dose or an established discriminating dose of an acaricide is used to determine high mortality (≥ 95%) of susceptible tick strains. …”
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The effect of the informative program in the narrative style on the development of the meaning of life among blind students at Al-Noor Institute / Baghdad Governorate by Aasu Saleh Saeed, Alaa Khudair Nassif

“…The researchers used the following statistical methods: (Pearson correlation coefficient, Fakronbach equation, Spearman's equation, T-test for two independent samples, Chi-square, Wilcoxen test, Mann-Whitney test, weighted mean, percent weight). …”
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Understanding preoperative health-related quality of life in rotator cuff tear patients: role of patients’ characteristics by Daniela Brune, Thomas Stojanov, Andreas Marc Müller, David Weibel, Sabina Hunziker, Stephanie Erdbrink, ARCR_Pred Study Group, Laurent Audigé

“…Abstract Background Assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a widely employed method in orthopedics to evaluate patient well-being and measure the effectiveness of surgical interventions. …”
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Explainable machine learning and online calculators to predict heart failure mortality in intensive care units by An‐Tian Chen, Yuhui Zhang, Jian Zhang

“…It showed satisfying area under the curve (AUC), recall, precision, F1 score, Cohen's kappa score and Matthew's correlation coefficient. The concordance index (c‐index) reached 0.7972 in the training cohort and 0.8125 in the testing cohort. …”
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Relationship between gut microbiota and markers of myocardial fibrosis in with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by A. N. Kaburova, O. M. Drapkina, S. M. Yudin, S. N. Koretsky, V. V. Makarov, M. S. Pokrovskaya, S. A. Kraevoy, B. B. Shoybonov, I. A. Efimova

“…The quantitative determination of myocardial fibrosis markers was carried out by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Predictive potential of cardiovascular risk factors and their associations with arterial stiffness in people of European and Korean ethnic groups by T. A. Brodskaya, V. A. Nevzorova, K. I. Shakhgeldyan, B. I. Geltser, D. A. Vrazhnov, Yu. V. Kistenev

“…The first stage included statistical analysis using Mann-Whitney, χ2, Fisher tests, while the second one — determination of weighing coefficients of individual risk factors on aortic PWV. …”
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Operation Analysis of Automated Unit for Magnetic Pulse Treatment of Garden Strawberry by A. Yu. Izmaylov, D. O. Khort, R. A. Filippov, A. I. Kutyrev, I. G. Smirnov

“…Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM conducts research and development work on the determination of parameters, technical characteristics of machines and operating modes of magnetic pulse treatment (MPT) of plant material in field conditions. …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS FOR THE OCCURRENCE OF IRON DEFICIENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS OF THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY by V. A. Shashel, A. A. Bishenova, E. G. Potyagailo, N. N. Shchegolevataya

“…The serum iron (SJ), serum ferritin (SF) and total iron binding capacity of serum (BFW) were determined. The saturation coefficient of ferric iron was calculated by the formula: NTZ=SZ/OZSS.100%. …”
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Source identification and ecological risk assessment of some heavy metals in surface soils collected from the vicinity of Arad-Kouh processing and disposal complex, Tehran, Iran by Seyedeh Maryam Mohammadi, Bahareh Lorestani, Soheil Sobhan Ardakani, Mehrdad Cheraghi, Lima Tayebi

“…After acid digestion of soil samples, the element contents were determined using ICP-OES. Also, pollution indices, potential ecological risk were computed. …”
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Correlation Between Tear Film Stability and Myopia in Children by Huang PW, Kuo YK, Chen NN, Li JH, Wu CH, Chen HM, Su KW, Sun CC

“…The correlation between dry eye and myopia was determined by linear regression analysis.Results: In total, 31 non-myopic (mean age, 9.03 years) and 34 myopic (mean age, 8.44 years) children were included in the final analysis. …”
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Can patient self-evaluation of functional status be used for evaluation of impairment of motor function in Guillain-Barré syndrome? Mapping clinician- and patient-reported outcomes... by Antoine Regnault, Angély Loubert, Stéphane Quéré, Qun Lin, Glen Frick, Hirokazu Ishida, Yuko Abeta, Helene Chevrou-Severac

“…The association between HFGS score and R-ODS total centile score (linear measure of limitations; 0, most severe activity and social participation limitations and 100, no limitations) was assessed using the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient. Threshold values of R-ODS total centile score that could differentiate between patients with an HFGS score of ≤ 1 and > 1 were determined using receiver-operating characteristic curve analyses and mapping (Rasch measurement theory). …”
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Observational study comparing the accuracy/variability between the ERSPC and the PCPT risk calculators for the prediction of significant prostate cancer in patients with PSA by Enrique Gomez Gomez, Juan José Salamanca Bustos, Julia Carrasco Valiente, Jose Luis Fernandez Rueda, Ana Blanca, José Valero Rosa, Ines Bravo Arrebola, Javier Marquez López, Juan Manuel Jimenez Vacas, Maria José Requena Tapia, Raul Miguel Luque

“…The prediction of SigPCa was determined by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in evaluating malignant lymph node invasion in patients with female genital neoplasms by Basta-Nikolić Marijana, Nikolić Dragan, Stojanović Sanja, Đurđević Srđan, Nikolić Olivera, Till Viktor

“…Functional imaging, including diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI MRI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map, provides promising results in discrimination benign from malignant pelvic and inguinal lymph nodes in patients with gynecological malignancies. …”
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