Assessing the impact of macroeconomic variables on environmental quality in the MENA using logarithmic mean divisia and co-integration panel by Ali Afzali, Vahid Majed

“…To long-term analysis, After determining the input values related to MENA region, The panel data method was used that indicate the presence of co-integration in the model, Co-integration concept is reminiscent of a long-run equilibrium relationship between economic systems move over time towards it (Noferesti, 1999). …”
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Revision rate after surgery for elbow osteochondritis dissecans: a systemic review by Kuan-Ting Chen, Paul Pei-Hsi Chou, Po-Chun Chiu, Jung-Hsiu Chang

“…Logit transformation and random effects were calculated using the Der Simonian Laired estimator, and the Shapiro–Wilk test was first performed to determine whether revision interval data followed a normal distribution. …”
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Dynamic alterations and clinical implications of the plasma proteome in pediatric sepsis by Shiyuan Fan, Xinglv Liu, Zichi Zhao, Yanjuan Liu, Yu Jiang, Saizhen Zeng

“…Correlation study results suggested that AT III was adversely linked with IgA, IgG, IgM, C3, with Pearson's coefficients of −0.543, −0.217, −0.526, −0.128, respectively. …”
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Child mortality among ever married women aged 15 to 49 years in Ethiopia using multilevel count regression models by Buzuneh Tasfa Marine, Dagne Tesfaye Mengistie, Mihiret Genene Zewde, Kitesa Biresa Duftu, Habitamu Wudu, Maru Zewdu Kassie, Abraham Lomboro Dimore, Chekol Alemu, Firew Tiruneh Tiyare

“…This study aimed to identify key determinants of child mortality among ever-married women aged 15–49 in Ethiopia using advanced multi-level count regression models. …”
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Transcultural Adaptation, Validation, Psychometric Analysis, and Interpretation of the 22-Item Thai Senior Technology Acceptance Model for Mobile Health Apps: Cross-Sectional Study by Nida Buawangpong, Penprapa Siviroj, Kanokporn Pinyopornpanish, Wachiranun Sirikul

“…Discriminative indices consisting of sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) were used to determine appropriate banding and discriminant validity for the intention to use mHealth. …”
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Within- and between-day test–retest reliability of responses to rapid bilateral anterolateral magnetic phrenic nerve stimulation in healthy humans (ReStim) by Kyle G. P. J. M. Boyle, Andrea A. Beglinger, Heinrich Häusler, Anna Stahel, Esther I. Schwarz, Esther I. Schwarz, Christina M. Spengler, Christina M. Spengler

“…Relative and absolute reliability of both Pdi,mean and VT were quantified by calculating intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) and standard error of measurements (SEM), respectively. …”
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AI-assisted diagnosis of vulvovaginal candidiasis using cascaded neural networks by Zhongxiao Wang, Ruliang Wang, Haichun Guo, Qiannan Zhao, Huijun Ren, Jumin Niu, Ying Wang, Wei Wu, Bingbing Liang, Xin Yi, Xiaolei Zhang, Shiqi Xu, Xianling Dong, Liqun Wang, Qinping Liao

“…Timely and accurate diagnosis is crucial. Traditional methods, relying on clinical evaluation and manual microscopic examination, have limitations. …”
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Psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among medical professionals: An exploratory data analysis by Aldo SITIBONDO, Aanuoluwapo AFOLABI, Jamel HAJJI, Abdulmohsen Mohammed Abdullah ALKHULAYFI, Izaddin Ahmad AZIZ, Zane Asher GREEN, Francesca BRUNO, Martina BARBERA, Murat YLDIRIM

“…Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficients were used to analyze the data. Group comparisons of emotional responses were visualized using bar plots. …”
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Evaluation of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and minimal intervention associated with deproteinisation in permanent teeth with molar incisor hypomineralisation: study protocol... by Ana Paula Taboada Sobral, Marcela Leticia Leal Gonçalves, Lara Jansiski Motta, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Kristianne Porta Santos Fernandes, Sandra Kalil Bussadori, Raquel Agnelli Mesquita Ferrari, Amanda Rafaelly Honório Mandetta, Carolina Carvalho Bortoletto, Renato Araujo Prates, Alessandro Melo Deana, Rita de Cássia Loiola Cordeiro, Lourdes Aparecida Martins dos Santos Pinto

“…Pearson’s correlation coefficients will be calculated to determine the strength of correlations between variables. …”
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Development and validation of a novel scoring model for predicting underlying intracranial atherosclerosis prior to endovascular treatment in acute posterior circulation large-vess... by Guoyi Peng, Guoyi Peng, Guoyi Peng, Chuming Huang, Jiaqi Huang, Qiuhui Shi, Wei Xu, Shiwei Luo, Jiong Yang, Shouxing Wang, Qiao Wu, Chuwei Cai, Hao Long, Hao Long

“…Background and objectiveDetermining the cause of occlusion prior to endovascular treatment (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke caused by large-vessel occlusion (LVO) is helpful for developing a procedure strategy. …”
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A Novel 14-Gene Panel Associated With Efferocytosis for Predicting Pancreatic Cancer Prognosis Through Bulk and Single-Cell Databases by Yaheng Wu, Lin Zhao, Dingyan Yi, Zhihua Tian, Bin Dong, Chunxiang Ye, Jingtao Liu, Huachong Ma, Wei Zhao

“…A set of 14 ER-associated prognostic signatures, referred to as the “14-gene panel” genes, was identified based on overall survival (OS)/disease-free survival (DFS) data, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multivariate Cox regression analyses. …”
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Investigation, Optimization of Energy Consumption and Yield Modeling of Two Paddy Cultivars with Genetic-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by S. Sharifi, N. Hafezi, M. H. Aghkhani

“…The Sphere, Repmat, and Unifrnd functions were employed to determine the objective function, define the position of the bee colony, and quantify the position of the bee colony, respectively. …”
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Dark-field radiography for the detection of bone microstructure changes in osteoporotic human lumbar spine specimens by Jon F. Rischewski, Florian T. Gassert, Theresa Urban, Johannes Hammel, Alexander Kufner, Christian Braun, Maximilian Lochschmidt, Marcus R. Makowski, Daniela Pfeiffer, Alexandra S. Gersing, Franz Pfeiffer

“…Dark-field radiography helps to determine the directionality of trabecular loss. Graphical Abstract…”
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Mapping EQ-5D-5L Score From SGRQ in Patients with Asthma and/or COPD in NOVELTY by Jackson D, Quinton A, Zhang F, Müllerová H, Janson C, Sadatsafavi M

“…Starkie et al proposed an algorithm for mapping the SGRQ to EQ-5D-5L, a preference-based utility measure, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Value Health 2011;14:354– 60); only SGRQ total score, its squared value, and sex were included as covariates. We aimed to determine if including additional covariates could improve the performance of this algorithm type and whether amendments were required to extend this mapping to asthma or asthma+COPD.Patients and Methods: SGRQ and EQ-5D-5L were measured from a large, global, prospective, longitudinal study in asthma and/or COPD (NOVELTY; NCT02760329). …”
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Lifestyle factors and urine levels of organophosphorus flame retardants in endometrial cancer: insights from a case-control study by Yu-Che Ou, Fu-Jen Cheng, Wan-Ting Huang, Wen-Chin Lee, Hung-Chun Fu, Chen-Hsuan Wu, Ying-Yi Chen, Kuo-Chung Lan, Xuan-Ping Liou, Hao Lin, Chia-Te Kung

“…Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between the concentrations of the parent compounds and their metabolites were calculated. …”
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Postreperfusion Renal Allograft Biopsy Predicts Outcome of Single-Kidney Transplantation: A 10-Year Observational Study in China by Meifang Wang, Junhao Lv, Jie Zhao, Huiping Wang, Jianghua Chen, Jianyong Wu

“…We investigated the predictive value of postreperfusion biopsy on long-term allograft outcome after single-kidney transplantation. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the significance of histologic findings, read by experienced renal pathologists, in 461 postreperfusion biopsy specimens collected from 2010 to 2017 after deceased donor renal transplant; and performed time-to-event analyses to determine the association between histology and hazard of death-censored graft failure. …”
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Construction and application of a TCN-LSTM-SVM-based time series prediction model for water inflow in coal seam roofs by Xuan LIU, Yadong JI, Kaipeng ZHU, Chunhu ZHAO, Kai LI, Chaofeng LI, Chenhan YUAN, Panpan LI, Pengzhen YAN

“…ResultsThe training and prediction results indicate that the TCN-LSTM-SVM model yielded mean absolute errors (\begin{document}$ {E}_{{\mathrm{MA}}} $\end{document}) ranging from 56.02 m3/h to 129.89 m3/h, mean absolute percentage errors (\begin{document}$ {E}_{{\mathrm{MAP}}} $\end{document}) from 3 % to 7 %, root mean square errors (\begin{document}$ {E}_{{\mathrm{RMS}}} $\end{document}) from 82.60 m3/h to 162.61 m3/h, and coefficients of determination (\begin{document}$ {R}^{2} $\end{document}) from 0.81 to 0.98 based on the training, validation, and test sets. …”
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Value of APACHE II, SOFA and CardShock scoring as predictive tools for cardiogenic shock: A single‐centre pilot study by Małgorzata Chlabicz, Wojciech Łaguna, Remigiusz Kazimierczyk, Ewelina Kazimierczyk, Paulina Łopatowska, Monika Gil, Bożena Sobkowicz, Karol A. Kamiński, Agnieszka Tycińska

“…Methods This was a single‐centre observational study conducted between May 2016 and December 2017. …”
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Residence-based disparities of composite index of anthropometric failures in East African under five children; multivariate decomposition analysis by Aznamariam Ayres, Yawkal Tsega, Abel Endawkie, Shimels Derso Kebede, Eyob Tilahun Abeje, Ermias Bekele Enyew, Chala Daba, Lakew Asmare, Amare Muche, Fekade Demeke Bayou, Mastewal Arefaynie, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Abiyu Abadi Tareke, Awoke Keleb, Kaleab Mesfin Abera, Natnael Kebede, Endalkachew Mesfin Gebeyehu

“…To appreciate the residence-based differences of composite index of anthropometric failure in under-5 children, the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis and its extensions were employed to determine the effects of covariates and coefficients. …”
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Association between educational attainment and amyloid deposition across the spectrum from normal cognition to dementia: A meta-analysis by Fatemeh Sedghi, Elaheh Foroughi, Farzad Sheikhzadeh, Mahya Ahmadpour Youshanlui, Ata Akhtari Kohnehshahri, Omid Karimzadeh, Sayedeh-Fatemeh Sadat-Madani, Hani Ghadri, Peyman Parhiz, Amirhesam Amirbeyk, Shaghayegh Afshari, Yegane Ebrahimnia, Mahsa Soleimanzadeh, Mahsa Asadi Anar, Parviz Aghaei Borzabad, Niloofar Deravi

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