Hs-CRP/HDL-C ratio as a predictive inflammatory-lipid marker for sarcopenia: evidence from NHANES 2015–2018 by Xin-Yan Guo, Liang-Wen Li

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the association between the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (Hs-CRP/HDL-C) ratio and sarcopenia among U.S. population by using composite marker integrating systemic inflammation and lipid metabolism.MethodThis study included participants from the 2015–2018 of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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Multi-bed separation grouting in “three soft” thick coal seams mining and its application by Wenbing GUO, Dongtao WU, Mingjie GUO, Yuhang HU, Weiqiang YANG, Bibi WANG

“…In order to realize the accurate grouting and reduce subsidence in multi-bed separation grouting. By improving the method for determining separation positions based on the composite beam theory, the filling positions for multi-bed separation grouting were determined. …”
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Carotid plaque thickness predicts cardiovascular events and death in patients with chronic kidney disease by Sasha S. Bjergfelt, Ida M. H. Sørensen, Laerke Urbak, Klaus F. Kofoed, Theis Lange, Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Henrik Sillesen, Christina Christoffersen, Susanne Bro

“…C-statistics was used to evaluate models for predicting MACE. The improvement in C-statistics was similar for the two models including classical cardiovascular risk factors plus cPTmax (0.247, CI: 0.181–0.312) and CACS (0.243, CI: 0.172–0.315), respectively, when compared to a model only controlled for time since baseline (a Cox model with no covariates). …”
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Comparison of sedentary time, number of steps and sit-to-stand-transitions of desk-based workers in different office environments including working from home: analysis of quantitat... by Martha Sauter, Eva Backé, Carina Pfab, Michaela Prigge, Claudia Brendler, Falk Liebers, Peter von Löwis, Andrea Pfeiffer, Falko Papenfuss, Janice Hegewald

“…Time-use data were also examined using compositional data analysis. Mixed model regression was performed to estimate means and 95% confidence intervals (CI). …”
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Impact of family socio-economic status on the prognosis of heart transplantation in children by Shun Liu, Han Mo, Yiqi Zhao, Xiao Chen, Weiteng Wang, Yijing Li, Ningning Zhang, Mengni Bao, Zeyu Cui, Qian Zhao, Jun Yan, Xiumeng Hua, Jiangping Song

“…The Cox proportional hazards model and the Kaplan-Meier method were utilized for this analysis. …”
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Delivery of care in high mortality hospital settings: a direct observational study examining 1848 h of neonatal nursing in KenyaResearch in context by Abdulazeez Imam, Michuki Maina, Jalemba Aluvaala, Vincent Kagonya, Onesmus Onyango, Fredrick Were, Sebastian Fuller, Kenneth Karumba, Mike English, David Gathara, Peter Mwangi, Lucy Kinyua, Lydia Thuranira, Virginia Njoroge, Ngina Mwangi, Loise Mwangi, Penina Musyoka, Zainab Kioni

“…The relationship between nursing workload and nursing care provision was assessed using multilevel models. Findings: Across 8 hospitals spanning 1848 h of observation of 597 sick newborns, the median nursing time available for each newborn ranged from 19.2 to 72.0 min on a 12-h shift. …”
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Impact of awake prone positioning duration on intubation or mortality in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure: secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial by Qin Sun, Rui Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Jianfeng Xie, Yingzi Huang, Yi Yang, Haibo Qiu, Ling Liu, Hui Chen, the Chi-ARDS Net (Chinese ARDS Research Network)

“…A Cox proportional hazards regression model was employed to elucidate the associations, and the daily duration of APP was treated as time dependent. …”
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Reliability analysis of landing gear operation based on improved support vector machine-based decomposed-coordinated by ZHANG Lei, CHEN Junyu, FENG Jun, FENG Yunwen, LIU Lei

“…Taking the wheel brake temperature difference of main landing gear as an example, the verification of the proposed method in reliability modelling and simulation is carried out. …”
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Tracking and Disturbance Suppression of the Radio Telescope Servo System Based on the Equivalent-Input-Disturbance Approach by Lei Yang, Na Wang, Zhiyong Liu, Ning Li

“…Finally, the composite controller is designed for an identified telescope model. …”
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Elevated triglyceride-glucose index is a risk factor for cardiovascular events in adults with type 1 diabetes: a cohort study by Rosa Oh, Seohyun Kim, Sang Ho Park, Myunghwa Jang, So Hyun Cho, Ji Yoon Kim, You-Bin Lee, Sang-Man Jin, Kyu Yeon Hur, Gyuri Kim, Jae Hyeon Kim

“…The risk of CVD across the TyG index quartiles was compared using the Cox proportional hazards model. Results The cut-off points for the TyG quartiles were 8.46, 9.03, and 9.60. …”
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Effectiveness and risk of ARB and ACEi among different ethnic groups in England: A reference trial (ONTARGET) emulation analysis using UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum-... by Paris J Baptiste, Angel Y S Wong, Anna Schultze, Catherine M Clase, Clémence Leyrat, Elizabeth Williamson, Emma Powell, Johannes F E Mann, Marianne Cunnington, Koon Teo, Shrikant I Bangdiwala, Peggy Gao, Kevin Wing, Laurie Tomlinson

“…We assessed outcomes using an inverse-probability-weighted Cox proportional hazards model for ARB versus ACEi with heterogeneity by ethnicity assessed on the relative and absolute scale. …”
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Prognostic value of advanced lung cancer inflammation index in heart failure patients: A comprehensive analysis by Wentao Chen, Guihua Zhang, Qiao Lei, Huixia Lu

“…The advanced lung cancer inflammation index (ALI) is a composite indicator consisting of several parameters used to assess inflammation and nutritional status. …”
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NF1 expression profiling in IDH-wildtype glioblastoma: genomic associations and survival outcomes by Michael Chang, Mohamed Sherief, Maria Ioannou, Viveka Chinnasamy, Lucy Chen, Michael Frost, Michelle Mattson-Hoss, Herb Sarnoff, David O. Kamson, Matthias Holdhoff, Debraj Mukherjee, Chetan Bettegowda, Jordina Rincon-Torroella, Victoria Croog, Peng Huang, Fausto J. Rodriguez, Calixto-Hope G. Lucas, Karisa C. Schreck

“…Here, we seek to perform a composite analysis for NF1 loss accounting for genomic alterations and protein expression via immunohistochemistry. …”
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The advanced lung cancer inflammation index has an L-shaped association with prognosis in American adults with metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: a cohort study by Yuexia Lu, Shuaipeng Yuan, Huazhao Xu, Jiqi Ouyang, Jinsheng Dong, Xin Jiang, Xiao Shao, Runshun Zhang

“…Our study aims to find the relationship between advanced lung cancer inflammation index (ALI) levels and the prognosis of patients with MAFLD and to determine the predictive value of ALI in this context.MethodsMultivariate-adjusted Cox regression models were used to analyze the association between ALI and all-cause, cardiovascular, cancer, and diabetes-related mortalities in patients with MAFLD. …”
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MELD score predicts outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure: A longitudinal evaluation by Francesco Curcio, Cristiano Amarelli, Rosaria Chiappetti, Irene Mattucci, Veronica Flocco, Mahmoud Issa Rammal, Ciro Abete, Francesca Mazzella, Ciro Maiello, Pasquale Abete, Francesco Cacciatore

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.887 for MELD score and composite outcome of death, urgent transplant, and need for LVAD. …”
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Comprehensive Effects of Operation of Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plants on Downstream Conventional Hydropower Plants by ZHU De-kang, QIN Rui, CHENG Xiang, GUO Xu-ye

“…By integrating this method with the local grid’s time-of-use electricity pricing policy, a power generation scheduling model for conventional hydropower plants was established. …”
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Application of a deep learning algorithm for the diagnosis of HCC by Philip Leung Ho Yu, Keith Wan-Hang Chiu, Jianliang Lu, Gilbert C.S. Lui, Jian Zhou, Ho-Ming Cheng, Xianhua Mao, Juan Wu, Xin-Ping Shen, King Ming Kwok, Wai Kuen Kan, Y.C. Ho, Hung Tat Chan, Peng Xiao, Lung-Yi Mak, Vivien W.M. Tsui, Cynthia Hui, Pui Mei Lam, Zijie Deng, Jiaqi Guo, Li Ni, Jinhua Huang, Sarah Yu, Chengzhi Peng, Wai Keung Li, Man-Fung Yuen, Wai-Kay Seto

“…The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) results in a considerable number of indeterminate observations, rendering an accurate diagnosis difficult. Methods: We developed four deep learning models for diagnosing HCC on computed tomography (CT) via a training–validation–testing approach. …”
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Features of Distance Learning in Higher Education Institutions in The Context of The Covid-19 Pandemic by Oksana N. Goncharova, Milera Yu. Halilova

“…The data were processed in the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 program using descriptive statistics methods. The following methods were used in the work: analysis of methodological, pedagogical, psychological, scientific, technical and methodological literature on the research problem; private methods - classification, systematization, comparison, analysis and generalization of pedagogical experience, modeling of the content of education. 60.9% of women and 39.1% of men took part in the survey, among them the majority of full-time students (96.2%), less – extramural studies (2.7%) and composite study mode (1.1%). …”
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Taguchi analysis of shrinkage and warpage of injection-moulded polypropylene/multiwall carbon nanotubes nanocomposites

“…The additive model used works well for predicting the warpage and shrinkage behaviour of PP and PP/MWNT composites.…”
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Research on Circulating Current Suppression Control of Parallel Inverters by Yibiao Fan, Lixia Tong, Xiaoping Wang, Xiaowei Cai, Zhihe Fu, Junhui Zhou, Shuangmao Huang, Xingkui Mao

“…In the composite control strategy, the low-frequency ZCSS (LF-ZCSS) is suppressed by the ZSVD compensation method, and the HF-ZCSS is suppressed by the virtual inductance method. …”
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