Four-year follow-up of CHARM2, an effective family planning intervention, on number and sex of births: Findings from an RCT in rural India by Anita Raj, Nicole Johns, Florin Vaida, Mohan Ghule, Namratha Rao, Jay G. Silverman

“…We used adjusted mixed-effects logistic regression models examining sex composition of births at each follow-up and over the total 48-month follow-up to assess differences in all births of boys and girls by treatment group. …”
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Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Drug and PVA–Drug–Surfactant Complex Organogel with Dimethyl Sulfoxide as a Drug Delivery System by Sabina Otarbayeva, Dmitriy Berillo

“…The relevance of active research lies in the need to develop new technologies to improve drug delivery methods for the effective treatment of wound healing. …”
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Relational Knowledge Prediction via Dynamic Bi-Mode Embedding by Yang Fang, Xiang Zhao, Zhen Tan, Weidong Xiao

“…In this paper, we propose a new method, namely, <italic>Bi-Mult</italic>, which combines the advantages of compositional models and translation models. …”
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Association of the cardiometabolic index with sarcopenia among U.S. adults: NHANES 2011-2018 findings. by Qing Zhao, Yue Xu, Xiaotian Chen

“…<h4>Background</h4>The cardiometabolic index (CMI), initially devised as a diagnostic tool for diabetes mellitus, has evolved into a composite biomarker for evaluating metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease risk. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Bisphenol-A Released from Five Different Orthodontic Aligners - An In vitro Study Using Gas Chromatography Coupled with Mass Spectrometry by SD Milling Tania, S Ashwin Kumar, S Veerasankar, C Priya Dharshini, Mary Sheloni Missier, C Dhanalakshmi

“…Background: Bisphenol A (BPA) monomer is used during the production of a wide variety of orthodontic materials such as composites, aesthetic brackets, and thermoplastic aligners; its release from incomplete polymerisation and resin degradation poses serious health risks. …”
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OSMlanduse a dataset of European Union land use at 10 m resolution derived from OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 by Michael Schultz, Hao Li, Zhaoyan Wu, Daniel Wiell, Michael Auer, Zipf Alexander

“…These labels served as training data for a classification model, predicting land use in remaining areas. Country-specific deep learning convolutional neural networks and Sentinel-2 feature space composites of 2020 at 10 m resolution were employed. …”
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Carbohydrate metabolism, pancreas functional activity and diet in young residents of two ethnic groups in the North by Inessa V. Averyanova

“…The objective of this study was to analyze the type and balance of the diet, examine the hormonal regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in order to identify the etiology of hyperglycemic manifestations in young people of two ethnic groups residing in the territory of Magadan Oblast. Methods — Blood serum carbohydrate parameters were measured using the ion-exchange chromatography, enzymatically enhanced chemiluminescence, and the hexokinase method. …”
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Decomposing delayed first marriage and birth across cohorts: The role of increased employment instability among men in Japan by Ryota Mugiyama

“…OBJECTIVE: This study examines the extent to which cross-cohort changes in employment status and work experience account for delays in first marriage and first birth among men in Japan born between 1945 and 1984. METHODS: Discrete-time hazard models are applied to nationally representative retrospective survey data from Japan. …”
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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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Origin Traceability of Chinese Mitten Crab (<i>Eriocheir sinensis</i>) Using Multi-Stable Isotopes and Explainable Machine Learning by Danhe Wang, Chunxia Yao, Yangyang Lu, Di Huang, Yameng Li, Xugan Wu, Weiguo Song, Qinxiong Rao

“…The Chinese mitten crab (<i>Eriocheir sinensis</i>) industry is currently facing the challenges of origin fraud, as well as a lack of precision and interpretability of existing traceability methods. Here, we propose a high-precision origin traceability method based on a combination of stable isotope analysis and interpretable machine learning. …”
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Eco-friendly moxifloxacin removal using date seed waste and Ni-Fe LDH: Adsorption efficiency and antimicrobial potential by Ahmed Mahmoud, Fatma I. Abo El-Ela, Rehab Mahmoud, Ayman Z. Shehata, Hany Abd El-Raheem, Esraa Salama, Ahmed A. Allam, Haifa E. Alfassam, Amal Zaher

“…Results: The removal percent of the MOX was 35.37 % at pH 3, 44.91 % at pH 7, and 83.50 % at pH 5 for (DSP), Ni-Fe LDH and Ni-Fe LDH /(DSP) composite, respectively. The Langmuir- Freundlich model is the best suitable model for three nanomaterials (DSP), Ni-Fe LDH and Ni-Fe LDH /(DSP), R2 were (0.97,0.99 and 0.99, respectively) and qmax were (212.77, 206.7 and 251,6 respectively). …”
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Social Determinants of Health and Cardiovascular Risk among Adults with Diabetes: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study by Lisa Zhang, Evgeniya Reshetnyak, Joanna B. Ringel, Laura C. Pinheiro, April Carson, Doyle M. Cummings, Raegan W. Durant, Gargya Malla, Monika M. Safford

“…We estimated Cox proportional hazard models to examine associations between number of SDOH (0, 1, 2, ≥3) and CVD events. …”
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Enhancing Water Bodies Detection in the Highland and Coastal Zones Through Multisensor Spectral Data Fusion and Deep Learning by Xiaofei Han, Nazih Y. Rebouh, Yasmeen Ahmed, Muhammad Nasar Ahmad, Zainab Tahir, Yahia Said, Ishfaq Gujree

“…This work demonstrates the synergistic power of multiband spectral fusion and deep learning for environmental feature extraction in remote sensing. The proposed models and methods are scalable and adaptable for broader applications in coastal monitoring, inland water mapping, and climate-related hydrological assessments, offering a valuable contribution to automated Earth observation workflows under changing climatic conditions.…”
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Integrated Vibration Control of In-Wheel Motor-Suspensions Coupling System via Dynamics Parameter Optimization by Wei Wang, Mu Niu, Yuling Song

“…Based on artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA), a novel dynamics parameter optimization method is proposed to search the optimal parameter combination existing in the nonlinear dynamics model. …”
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Coupling Coordination Degree between New Urbanization and Eco-Environment in Shaanxi, China, and Its Influencing Factors by Lifeng Guo

“…On this basis, the coordination coupling between new urbanization and eco-environment in Shaanxi and its key factors were evaluated and analyzed, using composite index method, relative development level model, coupling degree model, and coordination coupling degree (CCD) model. …”
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Effect of forging sequence and heat treatment on microstructure of high-duty power-plant shaft made of Cr-Mo ultra-high strength steel by Skubisz P., Lisiecki Ł.

“…Mechanical and thermal processing cycles designed using the finite element method were fully verified physical modeling using a 16 ton forging block, including two alternative quenching strategies: oil vs. water spray and air. …”
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Durability Evaluation of Concrete in Cold and Arid Regions Based on Grey Relational Theory by Li Gong, Ying Liang, Bingzong Zhang, Xuelei Gong, Yiqun Yang

“…The results show that using the test results and the optimized grey relational analysis evaluation model, the concrete specimens mixed with an air-entraining agent have strong resistance to composite erosion. …”
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Influence of body mass index on cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis varies across anti-citrullinated protein antibody status and biologic use by George Athanasios Karpouzas, Anne Grete Semb, Ellen-Margrethe Hauge, Dionicio Angel Galarza-Delgado, Miguel A González-Gay, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Petros P Sfikakis, Virginia Pascual-Ramos, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Carol Hitchon, Elena Myasoedova, Durga Prasanna Misra, Iris J Colunga-Pedraza, Alfonso Corrales, George Kitas, José Ramón Azpiri-lópez, Sarah R Ormseth, Patrick Dessein, Piet Leonardus Cornelis Maria van Riel, Durez Patrick, Brian Bridal Logstrup

“…Biologics alter body composition and mitigate cardiovascular risk in RA. …”
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Day-ahead photovoltaic power forecasting with multi-source temporal-feature convolutional networks by Ziming Ouyang, Zhaohui Li, Xiangdong Chen

“…In this paper, we propose a composite data augmentation method and a model that can effectively utilize the augmented data. …”
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Study on main controlling factors of CO2 huff-n-puff for enhanced oil recovery and storage in shale oil reservoirs by CHEN Jun, WANG Haimei, CHEN Xi, TANG Yong, TANG Liangrui, SI Rong, WANG Huijun, HUANG Xianzhu, LENG Bing

“…A composite discrete fracture network numerical model combining both artificial and natural fractures was established to analyze the oil recovery enhancement mechanisms of CO2 huff-n-puff. …”
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