Evaluation of parenting interventions for those with additional health and social care needs during pregnancy: THRIVE a multi-arm RCT with embedded economic and process components by Marion Henderson, Anja Wittkowski, Katie Buston, Karen Crawford, Alice MacLachlan, Alex McConnachie, Emma McIntosh, Claudia-Martina Messow, Catherine Nixon, Rosaleen O’Brien, Shona Shinwell, Daniel Wight, Yiqiao Xin, Rachel Calam, Ruth Dundas, James Law, Helen Minnis, Lucy Thompson, Philip Wilson

“…The intervention group was entered in the regression models in the following ways: Binary as active intervention (ETPB or MB) versus CAU. …”
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Single and multi-objective real-time optimisation of an industrial injection moulding process via a Bayesian adaptive design of experiment approach by Mandana Kariminejad, David Tormey, Caitríona Ryan, Christopher O’Hara, Albert Weinert, Marion McAfee

“…The multi-objective optimisation techniques, composite desirability function and Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) using the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) model, are compared with the real-time novel ADoE approach. …”
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Estimation of Health State Utility Values in Fabry Disease Using Vignette Development and Valuation by Derralynn Hughes, Andrew Lenny, Koonal Shah, Louise Longworth, Giovanna Devercelli, Olulade Ayodele

“…Each vignette was valued in an online survey by members of the United Kingdom (UK) general population using the composite time trade-off (TTO) method, which aims to determine the time the respondent would trade to live in full health compared with each impaired health state…”
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Nutritional, Phytochemical, and In Vitro Antioxidant Activity Analysis of Different States of Soy Products by Rahat Bin Robbani, Md. Munnaf Hossen, Kanika Mitra, Md. Zahurul Haque, Md. Abu Zubair, Shumsuzzaman Khan, Md. Nazim Uddin

“…In this study, we aimed to reveal the nutrient compositional differences of various states of soy flours. …”
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Universal health care delivery mitigates socioeconomic-related risk for adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. by Fahimeh Faqihi, Rita Perri, Jimmy Chien, Jin-Gun Cho, Stephen Milne, Shopna Bag, Nicole Gilroy, John R Wheatley, Kristina Kairaitis

“…A generalised linear regression model of demographic features, co-existing conditions, and socioeconomic status was used to determine the risks of the composite outcome.…”
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SimProx: A Similarity-Based Aggregation in Federated Learning With Client Weight Optimization by Ayoub El-Niss, Ahmad Alzu'Bi, Abdelrahman Abuarqoub, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Ammar Muthanna

“…Traditional aggregation methods, such as Federated Averaging (FedAvg), often assume uniform client contributions, leading to suboptimal global models in heterogeneous data environments. …”
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Maternal asthma and newborn DNA methylation by Casper-Emil Tingskov Pedersen, Thanh T. Hoang, Jianping Jin, Anna Starnawska, Raquel Granell, Hannah R. Elliott, Anke Huels, Heather J. Zar, Dan J. Stein, Yining Zhang, Herman T. den Dekker, Liesbeth Duijts, Janine F. Felix, Júlia Sangüesa, Mariona Bustamante, Maribel Casas, Martine Vrijheid, Latha Kadalayil, Faisal I. Rezwan, Hasan Arshad, John W. Holloway, Stefan Röder, Ana C. Zenclussen, Gunda Herberth, Nicklas Heine Staunstrup, Henriette Thisted Horsdal, Jonathan Mill, Eilis Hannon, iPSYCH-MINERvA Group, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Giancarlo Pesce, Nour Baïz, Barbara Heude, Sahra Hosseinian-Mohazzab, Carrie V. Breton, Sophia Harlid, Justin Harbs, Magnus Domellof, Christina West, Edwina Yeung, Xuehuo Zeng, Wenche Nystad, Siri E. Håberg, Maria C. Magnus, Diana Schendel, Stephanie J. London, Klaus Bønnelykke

“…Paternal asthma was analyzed for comparison. Models were adjusted for covariates and cell-type composition. …”
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A novel therapy targeting the gut–liver axis for chronic hepatitis B: Ursodeoxycholic acid plus Bifidobacterium by Zhen Xun, Xiaobao Yao, Caorui Lin, Xinyao Yang, Yanfang Zhang, Xin Yang, Yujue He, Renquan Jiang, Yanping Lan, Yuchen Ye, Detai Ye, Shanjian Chen, Ke Ma, Wennan Wu, Siyi Xu, Bin Yang, Can Liu, Jing Chen, Qi Zheng, Qishui Ou

“…We aimed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of targeting the gut microbiota-bile acid (BA) axis using ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) combined with the probiotic Bifidobacterium to treat chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Methods: BA profiles were characterized by mass spectrometry, and gut microbiota composition was analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing in patients with CHB and healthy controls (HCs). …”
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Pion pair production in e + e − annihilation at next-to-leading order matched to Parton Shower by Ettore Budassi, Carlo M. Carloni Calame, Marco Ghilardi, Andrea Gurgone, Guido Montagna, Mauro Moretti, Oreste Nicrosini, Fulvio Piccinini, Francesco P. Ucci

“…In particular, we carry out a detailed discussion on the inclusion of the pion form factor in the virtual sQED corrections according to two independent methods, inspired by the generalised vector meson dominance model and the dispersive approach, respectively. …”
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Association of urban green and blue space with accelerated ageing: A cohort Study in the UK Biobank by YiNi Wang, XinYu Shi, Fei Yang, ShengYuan Wang, TianShu Han, Kun Ma

“…General linear models and logistics models assessed links between UGBS and accelerated ageing (Klemera-Doubal method, telomere length and frailty). …”
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3D Printing parameter optimisation combined with heat treatment for achieving high density and enhanced performance in refractory high-entropy alloys by Deyu Jiang, Miao Luo, Changxi Liu, Yashuo Zhang, Lai-Chang Zhang, Kuaishe Wang, Wen Wang, Lechun Xie, Liqiang Wang, Weijie Lu, Di Zhang

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Pharmacogenetic and pharmacokinetic factors for dexmedetomidine-associated hemodynamic instability in pediatric patients by Yanping Guan, Bilian Li, Yiyu Zhang, Hao Luo, Xueding Wang, Xue Bai, Zhuoling Zheng, Yaying Huang, Wei Wei, Min Huang, Xingrong Song, Guoping Zhong

“…A validated population pharmacokinetic model was used to estimate pharmacokinetic parameters. …”
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Predicting incident type 2 diabetes in a Japanese cohort: an 8-year analysis of the NAGALA database by Yangchun Wang, Fei Liu, Ruixiang Tong, Zhonghua He, Qin Fang, Jie Feng, Hongliang An, Junjun Liu

“…The ability of individual components and a composite risk score to discriminate was assessed using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves.ResultsOver an average follow-up duration of 2207.82 ± 1379.73 days, 262 patients (1.7%) had the onset of T2DM. …”
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Combinatorial Data‐Driven Innovation of Ecofriendly Transparent Solar Heat Control Coating for Green Buildings by Weibin Zhang, Man Kwan Law, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Jinglei Yang

“…However, many studies have focused only on TSHC coatings composed of single functional nanoparticles, and the development of these coatings traditionally relied on trial‐and‐error methods. Herein, we propose a real experimental data‐driven tandem neural networks (NNs) model, comprising spectrum NNs and inverse design NNs, for the combinatorial innovation, development, and optimization of TSHC coatings. …”
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Outcomes for older people with screening-detected versus existing chronic kidney disease: a cohort study with data linkage by Anna K Forbes, José M Ordóñez-Mena, Winnie Mei, Clare J Taylor, Nicholas Jones, Jennifer A Hirst, FD Richard Hobbs

“…Design & setting: Prospective cohort study of 892 primary care patients aged ≥60 years with CKD (existing and screening detected) in Oxfordshire, with data linkage to civil death registry and secondary care. Method: Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using Cox proportional hazard models to compare the risk of all-cause mortality, hospitalisation, CVD, ESKD separately, and as a composite between CKD groups, as well as to identify factors associated with mortality. …”
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Sex differences in the association of cardiometabolic risk scores and blood pressure measurements with white matter hyperintensities in diverse older adults—HABS-HD by Cellas A. Hayes, Raul Vintimilla, Soumilee Chaudhuri, Soumilee Chaudhuri, Michelle C. Odden

“…A second BP model also controlled for all five risk factors.ResultsDiabetes (β = 0.46, 95% CI 0.28–0.64), hypertension (β = 0.47, 0.30–0.64), and higher composite risk (β = 0.19, 0.12–0.26) were associated with greater WMHV. …”
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Downhole Coal–Rock Recognition Based on Joint Migration and Enhanced Multidimensional Full-Scale Visual Features by Bin Jiao, Chuanmeng Sun, Sichao Qin, Wenbo Wang, Yu Wang, Zhibo Wu, Yong Li, Dawei Shen

“…Additionally, a multi-scale luminance adjustment module is integrated to merge features across perceptual ranges, mitigating localized brightness anomalies such as overexposure. The model is structured around an encoder–decoder backbone, enhanced by a full-scale connectivity mechanism, a residual attention block with dilated convolution, Res2Block elements, and a composite loss function. …”
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Enhancing Spatial Allocation of Pediatric Medical Facilities for Reduced Travel-Related CO₂ Emissions: A Case Study in Tianjin, China by Hongjie Dong, He Zhang, Rui Wang, Yutong Zhang, Yuxue Zhang, Lisha Zhang

“…Therefore, methods for enhancing the spatial allocation of pediatric medical facilities are proposed. …”
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Factors determining cognitive, motor and language scores in low birth weight infants from North India. by Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Sunita Taneja, Suman Ranjitkar, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Tarun Dua, Laxman Shrestha, Tor A Strand

“…Factors influencing cognitive, motor and language scores were determined using multivariable linear regression model.<h4>Results</h4>Linear growth (i.e., length for age z score, LAZ) [cognitive: Standardized ẞ-coefficient = 2.19, 95% CI; 1.29, 3.10; motor: 2.41, 95% CI; 1.59, 3.23; language: 1.37, 95% CI; 0.70, 2.04], stimulation at home [cognitive: 0.21, 95% CI; 0.15, 0.27; motor: 0.12, 95% CI; 0.07, 0.17; language: 0.21, 95% CI; 0.16, 0.25] and number of diarrhoeal episodes [cognitive: -2.87, 95% CI; -4.34, -1.39; motor: -2.62, 95% CI; -3.93, -1.29; language: -2.25, 95% CI; -3.32, -1.17] influenced the composite scores in all three domains i.e., cognitive, language and motor. …”
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Reduction in cardiovascular disease events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with a sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor versus a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibit... by A. Kashiwagi, S. Shoji, S. Onozawa, Y. Kosakai, M. Waratani, Yu. Ito

“…Outcomes included hospitalization for heart failure (hHF), all-cause death (ACD) and the composite of hHF or ACD. Hazard ratios (HR) were calculated using the inverse probability weighting Cox proportional hazards model to compare CVD event risks between treatment groups.RESULTS: Compared with DPP4i, SGLT2i was associated with a significant reduction in hHF risk among patients without a CVD history (HR 0.507, 95% confidence interval 0.283–0.907), but not in the full cohort or those with a CVD history. …”
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