Assessing the Reliability of the Dynamic-Index of Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Cardiac Surgery Candidates by Bahareh Mehregan Far, Sedigheh Sadat Naimi, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Mohsen Abedi, Mahmood Beheshti Monfared, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban

“…This study aims to investigate the reliability of the S-index in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery. Materials and Methods: This study included 20 preoperative cardiac surgery candidates (11 men and 9 women; mean age, 56±13 years). …”
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Feasibility of energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence for quantitative prediction of elemental profile in untreated bovine colostrum by D. Martini, M. De Marchi, A. Goi, M. Pozza, G. Niero

“…Current gold-standard methods to determine elemental composition of BC are inductively coupled plasma optical-emission spectrometry or inductively coupled plasma MS. …”
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Fitler compensating installations in AC traction networks by L. A. German, A. S. Serebryakov, A. A. Maksimova

“…The procedure of calculation of parameters of FCI was determined taking into account the curve of the traction current. …”
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Unveiling Cas12j Trans‐Cleavage Activity for CRISPR Diagnostics: Application to miRNA Detection in Lung Cancer Diagnosis by Ju‐Eun Kang, Hansol Kim, Young‐Hoon Lee, Ha‐Yeong Lee, Yeonkyung Park, Hyowon Jang, Jae‐Rin Kim, Min‐Young Lee, Byeong‐Ho Jeong, Ju‐Young Byun, Seung Jun Kim, Eun‐Kyung Lim, Juyeon Jung, Eui‐Jeon Woo, Taejoon Kang, Kwang‐Hyun Park

“…Abstract Cas12j, a hypercompact and efficient Cas protein, has potential for use in CRISPR diagnostics, but has not yet been used because the trans‐cleavage activity of Cas12j is veiled. …”
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Extraction of implicit field cost via inverse optimal Schrödinger bridge by Koshi Oishi, Yota Hashizume, Tomoki Nakao, Kenji Kashima

“…Path planning and navigation are typically conducted based on a field cost defined over a given space. However, determining an appropriate field cost is challenging. …”
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High-intensity interval training improves blood pressure and adropin plasma levels in elderly with hypertensive treatment by Alireza Ghardashi-Afousi, Abbasali Gaieni

“…The statistical analysis was performed by two-way repeated ANOVA to determine differences between groups and Pearson’s correlation coefficient to determine correlation.Results: The results showed that, following the six-week HIIT intervention, the plasma levels of adropin and NO significantly increased when compared to both control group (P= 0.0016) and the baseline (P= 0.0003) measurements. …”
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Boosting grapevine phenological stages prediction based on climatic data by pseudo-labeling approach by Mehdi Fasihi, Mirko Sodini, Alex Falcon, Francesco Degano, Paolo Sivilotti, Giuseppe Serra

“…Performance metrics, including the coefficient of determination (R2) and root-mean-square error (RMSE), are employed to assess the effectiveness of the models. …”
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Sociodemographic correlates of perceived physical literacy in Spanish adolescents: results from the EHDLA study by María Mendoza-Muñoz, José Francisco López-Gil, José Francisco López-Gil, Damián Pereira-Payo, Raquel Pastor-Cisneros

“…This study tried to determine the sociodemographic correlates of PPL among adolescents in Spain.MethodsA total of 1,378 participants [51% girls, median age = 14 years, interquartile range (IQR) 13 to 16] were analyzed. …”
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Automatic Quantification Software for Geographic Atrophy Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Validation Study by José M. Ruiz-Moreno, Jorge Ruiz-Medrano, Francisco Lugo, Belen Sirvent, Ignacio Flores-Moreno

“…Geographic atrophy (GA) is usually measured manually using fundus autofluorescence (FAF) images, lacking a reliable, automatic method to do so. Aims. To determine the accuracy and repeatability of new software to automatically quantify GA areas associated to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). …”
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Blood pressure variability combined with coagulation function in early prediction and outcome assessment of germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants with gest... by Lijun Jiang, Qian Yu, Hui Li, Fudong Wang, Feng Liu, Zhenxing Xu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This retrospective study included 106 preterm infants. …”
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Quality of the record of drug-related problems in a database for voluntary adverse event reporting by Maria Teresa Aznar-Saliente, Laura Roca-Aznar, Amparo Talens-Bolós, Paola Herraiz-Robles, Manuel Bonete-Sánchez, Laia Pons-Martínez, Borja Marcos-Ribes

“…Objective: To determine the number and type of errors found in the record of drug-related problems in the SINEA database, an electronic system for voluntary reporting of adverse events in healthcare, in order to quantify the differences between the raw and refined databases, suggest improvements, and determine the need for refining said databases. …”
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Association of Cumulative Dissipated Energy and Postoperative Foveal Thickness among Patients with Age-related Cataract who Underwent Uncomplicated Phacoemulsification by Joel M. Perez, MD, Manuel Benjamin B. Ibanez IV, MD, Sherman O. Valero, MD

“…Central subfield thickness (CST), cube volume (CV), and cube average thickness (CAT) of the macula were measured by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) at three separate time-points preoperative, 1 day, and 14 days after cataract surgery. To determine the correlation between parameters, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and degree of association, and coefficient of determination (r2) were used. …”
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The effects of cigarette smoking and exercise on total salivary antioxidant activity by Shahba'a Munther

“…Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the effects of both cigarette smoking and exercise on total salivary antioxidants and their impact on periodontal health status. …”
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Quantifying the Ki-67 Heterogeneity Profile in Prostate Cancer by Shane Mesko, Patrick Kupelian, D. Jeffrey Demanes, Jaoti Huang, Pin-Chieh Wang, Mitchell Kamrava

“…The highest Ki-67 was used to determine interprostatic variation. Ki-67 range (highest minus lowest) was used to determine intraprostatic and intralesion variation. …”
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Comparison between Second- and Third-Generation PTH Assays during Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy (MIP) by Marie-Hélène Gannagé-Yared, Nada Younès, Anne-Sophie Azzi, Ghassan Sleilaty

“…The aim of this study is to compare both assays and to determine the predictors of IOPTH decline. Methods. 112 patients (of which 72.3% females) underwent MIP by the same surgeon. …”
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Factors Related to Feelings of Loneliness and Attitudes Toward Ageing in Retired Older Adults by Fahime Rouhi, Shahla Asiri, Fataneh Bakhshi, Ehsan Kazemnezhad leili

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Predicting of the risk of major cardiovascular events developing in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in combination with renal dysfunction by E. V. Bolotova, V. V. Yavlyanskaya, A. V. Dudnikova

“…For the constructed regression equation, the determination coefficient is defined as R2=0,76, Hosmer-Lemeshov criterion =0,8. …”
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The prediction of karst-collapse susceptibility levels based on the ISSA-ELM integrated model by Jiaxin Wang, Ying Yang, Xian Yang, Yulong Lu, Yang Liu, Da Hu, Yongjia Hu

“…When validated against 20 datasets from a representative karst region, the proposed model achieved exceptional performance, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0544 and a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9914, significantly surpassing the prediction accuracy of conventional ELM and SSA-ELM models. …”
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Prevalence of HIV/AIDS Infection among Sexually Active Women in Ethiopia: Further Analysis of 2016 EDHS by Solomon Sisay Mulugeta, Selamawit Getachew Wassihun

“…The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HIV/AIDS infection among sexually active women in Ethiopia. …”
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Predicting the Perception of Aging Based on Personality Traits in Older Adults Referring to Health Centers in Mashhad, Iran by Mahdi Davoudi Baghban, Mostafa Rad, Mojtaba Mohammadi, Ehsan Mosa Farkhani, Mohammad Reza Ghasemi

“…The results of the regression analysis showed that conscientiousness (P=0.02), extroversion (P=0.008) and neuroticism (P<0.001) could significantly predict the perception of aging. According to the coefficient of determination, the research model was able to explain 22% of the variance in aging perception. …”
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