Predictors of the Development of Major Adverse Cardiac Events following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Nouha Azaza, Fahad O. Baslaib, Akram Al Rishani, Mariam Ahmed, Jumana Al-Zainal, Mohamed Aboalela, Marian Gargousa, Geili Abdalla, Nadim Shah

“…In the multivariable regression model, only cardiogenic shock (odds ratio [OR] = 32.43) and the presence of diabetes mellitus (OR = 3.36) were predictors of MACE. …”
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Axial Compression Behavior of Circular Concrete-Filled High-Strength Thin-Walled Steel Tubular Columns with Out-of-Code D/t Ratios by Jun-Xin Li, Jian-Tao Wang, Qing Sun, Yan-Ru Wu, Shi-Ming Zhou, Fa-Cheng Wang

“…The axial compression test was first conducted to examine the failure mode, load-displacement curves, and composite mechanism effect. The finite element (FE) model was thereafter established to perform full-range analysis on the load versus displacement curve as well as the interaction behavior, where the parametric study was performed to investigate the influences of the material strengths and geometric sizes. …”
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Development, Validity, and Reliability of Adolescent Motivation Inventory-Cerebral Palsy by Moslem Dehghanizadeh, Malahat Akbarfahimi, Armin Zareiyan, Farzaneh Yazdani, Mitra Khalafbeigi

“…Results: Five factors with 22 items were extracted by EFA, accounting for 50.42% of the variance. The results of model fit indexes confirmed the goodness-of-fit of the final model with 20 items. …”
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Optimization of ultrasound-electrocatalytic process for improving the quality of biological treatment effluent by Parviz Abdi, Kobra Verdijkazemi, Arezoo Nejaei, Afshin Takdastan

“…Using hydrothermal reaction with complicated precipitation, the work generated FTO-TiO2/Ni anodes and analyzed them with the following methods: TEM, FESEM, EDS, elemental mapping, XRD, FTIR, and CV analysis. …”
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Prognosis of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction depending on the morphological features of intracoronary thrombi by D. I. Besh

“…The model is reliable (P < 0.0001) with a sensitivity of 83.33 % and a specificity of 88.24 %. …”
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Epidemiology of bacterial biofilms on polyps and normal tissues in a screening colonoscopy cohort by Julia L. Drewes, Samara B. Rifkin, Madison McMann, Sara Glass, Emma Spence, Caroline R. Wensel, Abby L. Geis, Courtney Stevens, Joell J. Gills, Hao Wang, Linda M. Hylind, Gerard Mullin, David Kafonek, David Cromwell, Louis La Luna, Francis M. Giardiello, Cynthia L. Sears

“…Direct examination of polyp tissues demonstrated similar bacterial burden and taxonomic composition compared to paired normal tissues, but polyps displayed enhanced bacterial invasion into crypts. …”
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The predictive value of the serum creatinine-to-albumin ratio (sCAR) and lactate dehydrogenase-to-albumin ratio (LAR) in sepsis-related persistent severe acute kidney injury by Xiaoxiao Luo, Dongyang Liu, Cuicui Li, Jia Liao, Wuyang Lv, Yuchen Wang, Ruxue Diao, Yingyu Jin

“…Independent predictors, sCAR and LAR, were combined into a composite Log(sCAR)_Log(LAR) score, denoted as the Log(sCAR)_Log(LAR) score. …”
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Internal Structure Evaluation on the Indonesian Version of Psychological Well-Being Scales by Darmawan Muttaqin

“…This is a quantitative and cross-sectional research with the convenience sampling method used to obtain data from 1,337 students. The validity of the PWBS internal structure is evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and composite reliability. …”
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Safety net or social barrier? Social networks and barriers to monitoring type 2 diabetes management among Black/African American men by Tyler Prochnow, Megan S. Patterson, Jeong-Hui Park, Ledric D. Sherman, Matthew Lee Smith

“…Interventions should focus on enhancing existing support relationships and leveraging positive health behavior modeling within networks rather than simply expanding social connections. …”
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Single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals the specific molecular signatures of myeloid cells responding to brain injury after microglial replacement by Xiao-Yi Xiong, Xiao-Yi Xiong, Xiao-Yi Xiong, Haicheng Yuan, Ying Mu, Yi He, Fang Xie, Xiao-Shuang Feng, Jia-Xin Xie, Xin-Ru Pan, Yu-Fei Wang, Jian Gong, Xiaoming Zheng, Peng-Fei Wang

“…Aged microglial replacement is protective against brain injury in aged mice; however, whether/how the molecular changes in myeloid cells are affected by this replacement in injured brains remains unclear.MethodsAged microglia in mice were eliminated by PLX3397 for 21 consecutive days and repopulated following withdrawal for 21 days; then, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) models were constructed. …”
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Predicting acute lung injury in infants with congenital heart disease after cardiopulmonary bypass by gut microbiota by Lan Jiang, Yueshuang Cun, Qiang Wang, Kede Wu, Menglong Hu, Zhen Wu, Tianyi Zhu, Zhaocong Yang, Nishant Patel, Nishant Patel, Xinyu Cai, Xinyu Cai, Jirong Qi, Xuming Mo

“…Random forest regression models and ROC curves were utilized to predict the occurrence of CPB-ALI.ResultsOur study revealed significantly different microbiota compositions among three groups (CON, CPB-ALI, and CPB-NALI). …”
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Episode-specific cortical functional connectome reorganization and neurobiological correlates in bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional study by Xiaobo Liu, Bin Wan, Xi-Han Zhang, Ruifang Cui, Siyu Long, Ruiyang Ge, Lang Liu, Jinming Xiao, Zhen-Qi Liu, Jiadong Yan, Ke Xie, Meng Yao, Xin Wen, Sanwang Wang, Yujun Gao

“…Then, we employed regression dynamic causal modeling to investigate the directional information flow along the reorganized sensory-association axis across different BD episodes. …”
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Fatty Acids of Erythrocyte Membranes and Blood Serum in Differential Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by M. V. Kruchinina, I. O. Svetlova, M. F. Osipenko, N. V. Abaltusova, A. A. Gromov, M. V. Shashkov, A. S. Sokolova, I. N. Yakovina, A. V. Borisova

“…Aim: to study fatty acid levels in erythrocyte membranes (RBC) and blood serum (BS) in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) to develop differential diagnostic models including fatty acids as biomarkers to distinguish between nosological entities of IBDs (ulcerative colitis — UC, Crohn's disease — CD, unclassified colitis — UCC).Materials and methods. …”
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Optimizing the Extraction, Identification, and Antioxidant Activity Analysis of Polyphenols from Carrot (Daucus carota L.) Preserve by Guowei LI, Yu SHI, Zhenghai ZHANG, Jingyi GE, Yanru JI, Jie SHI, Lianhui WEI, Qingli YANG, Yan DONG

“…Objective: To determine optimal extraction conditions for polyphenols from a carrot preserve and analyze their composition, compositional changes, and antioxidant activity. …”
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Maternal Metabolic Health and Mother and Baby Health Outcomes (MAMBO): Protocol of a Prospective Observational Study by Sarah A L Price, Digsu N Koye, Alice Lewin, Alison Nankervis, Stefan C Kane

“…A multivariable logistic regression analysis will be conducted to identify candidate predictors of poor pregnancy outcomes due to metabolic disease. From this model, model coefficients and the associated 95% CIs will be extracted to derive the risk score for predicting the delivery of LGA/SGA offspring (primary outcome) and composites of adverse neonatal outcomes and maternal outcomes (secondary outcomes). …”
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Enabling immune checkpoint blockade efficacy in T-lymphopenia by restoring CD8 T cell dynamics with IL-7 cytokine therapy by Yeon-Woo Kang, Donghoon Choi, Dain Moon, Kun-Joo Lee, Youngsik Oh, Jaehyuk Yang, Siheon Jeong, Uni Park, Sun-Kyoung Im, Se Hwan Yang, Seung-Woo Lee

“…This study aimed to understand the impact of TLP on ICB responsiveness and explore potential therapeutic strategies to enhance antitumor immunity.MethodsTo investigate ICB responsiveness depending on the severity of TLP, first, we established TLP mouse models that mimic clinically observed mild and severe TLP through thymectomy and anti-Thy1-induced peripheral T cell depletion. …”
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Consequences, costs and cost-effectiveness of workforce configurations in English acute hospitals by Peter Griffiths, Christina Saville, Jane Ball, David Culliford, Jeremy Jones, Francesca Lambert, Paul Meredith, Bruna Rubbo, Lesley Turner, Chiara Dall’Ora

“…We used the national standardised hospital mortality indicator model to adjust for risk of death and for national patient and the staff experience models included the Trust’s mortality rate to adjust for the acuity of the case mix. …”
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Evaluation of a novel simulation-based training for urgent laryngectomy care by Freya Sparks, Nicky Gilbody, Katerina Hilari

“…Methods A simulation-based training programme was piloted with delegates from a range of healthcare professions, over three separate study days. …”
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Construction and functional identification of overexpression vector of the peach PpCLH1 gene by LIU Xin, ZHANG Xiaoyu, MENG Junren, LI Ang, DUAN Wenyi, SUN Shihang, PAN Lei, ZENG Wenfang, WANG Zhiqiang, NIU Liang

“…Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the transcript level of the PpCLH1 gene prior to fruit ripening and its role in pericarp chlorophyll degradation during fruit development. [Methods] Zhongpan 102（Prunus persica L.）was selected as the experimental material. …”
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The significance of C-reactive protein for the prediction of net-adverse clinical outcome in patients with acute pulmonary embolism by Milić Rade, Džudović Boris, Subotić Bojana, Obradović Slobodan, Soldatović Ivan, Petrović Marina

“…Results from univariate logistic regression model showed that troponin was statistically significant predictor of 30-day mortality. …”
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