Efficacy of a Self-Guided Internet Intervention With Optional On-Demand Feedback Versus Digital Psychoeducation on Sleep Hygiene for University Students With Insomnia: Randomized C... by Anna-Carlotta Zarski, Karina Bernstein, Harald Baumeister, Dirk Lehr, Stella Wernicke, Ann-Marie Küchler, Fanny Kählke, Kai Spiegelhalder, David Daniel Ebert

“…Analyses of covariance were conducted in an intention-to-treat sample. Secondary outcomes included diagnoses of insomnia and major depression, sleep quality, sleep efficiency, worrying, recovery experiences, recovery activities, presenteeism, procrastination, cognitive irritation, and recuperation in sleep. …”
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Effects of 10 Weeks of Walking With Mobile Step-Tracking Apps on Body Composition, Fitness, and Psychological State in Adolescents Who Are Overweight and Obese: Randomized Controll... by Adrián Mateo-Orcajada, Cristina M Ponce-Ramírez, Lucía Abenza-Cano, Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal

“…MethodsThe study was based on a randomized controlled trial with an initial sample of 50 adolescents aged between 12 and 16 years (from the first to the fourth years of compulsory secondary education), whose body composition, physical activity level, physical condition, and psychological state were measured. …”
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The Effect of the Mediterranean Diet–Integrated Gamified Home-Based Cognitive-Nutritional (GAHOCON) Training Programme for Older People With Cognitive Frailty: Pilot Randomized Con... by Rick Yiu Cho Kwan, Queenie Pui Sze Law, Jenny Tsun Yee Tsang, Siu Hin Lam, Kam To Wang, Olive Shuk Kan Sin, Daphne Sze Ki Cheung

“…Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group in a 1:1 ratio. …”
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Vine yield estimation from block to regional scale employing remote sensing, weather, and management data by Pedro C. Towers, Sean E. Roulet, Carlos Poblete-Echeverría

“…Remote sensing combined with other data that excludes field sampling appears as an optimal approach for yield estimation for a broad range of scales. …”
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Low-Dose Sirolimus Immunoregulation Therapy in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: A 24-Week Follow-Up of the Randomized, Open-Label, Parallel-Controlled Trial by Hong-Yan Wen, Jia Wang, Sheng-Xiao Zhang, Jing Luo, Xiang-Cong Zhao, Chen Zhang, Cai-Hong Wang, Fang-Yuan Hu, Xiao-Juan Zheng, Ting Cheng, Hong-Qing Niu, Guang-Ying Liu, Wen-Xian Yang, Na-Na Yu, Jin-Li Ru, Qi-Xiang Chen, Xue-Chun Lu, Pei-Feng He, Chong Gao, Xiao-Feng Li

“…Further study is required using a large sample of RA patients treated with sirolimus for a longer period. …”
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Causal Relationships Between Abdominal Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Fasting Insulin, and Cervical Disc Disorders, Osteoporosis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Mendelian Randomization Stu... by Tang H, Zhao J, Yan X, Zheng Z, Bai W, Tang Z, Liu X

“…This study utilized Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the causal effects of abdominal obesity, T2D, and fasting insulin (FI) on cervical disc disorders, osteoporosis (OP), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods: Exposure data were sourced from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for waist-hip ratio (WHR), body mass index (BMI), FI, and T2D with a sample size of 697,734 participants for WHR, 151,013 for BMI, and 62,892 cases with 596,424 controls for FI and T2D. …”
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Evaluation of Feature Selection and Regression Models to Predict Biomass of Sweet Basil by Using Drone and Satellite Imagery by Luana Centorame, Nicolò La Porta, Michela Papandrea, Adriano Mancini, Ester Foppa Pedretti

“…This study is among the first to combine multispectral data from both a drone equipped with Altum-PT camera and PlanetScope satellite imagery to predict fresh biomass in sweet basil grown in an open field, demonstrating the added value of integrating different spatial scales. A dataset of 40 sampling points was built by combining remote sensing data with field measurements, and seven vegetation indices were calculated for each point. …”
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Integrating pyramid vision transformer and topological data analysis for brain tumor by Dhananjay Joshi, Bhupesh Kumar Singh, Kapil Kumar Nagwanshi, Nitin S. Choubey

“…The approach also incorporates an adaptive sampling rate with hierarchical dynamic position embeddings for context-aware multi-scale feature extraction. …”
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The Impact of China’s Environmental Protection Tax on Regional Economic Effects by Е Чэнхао, Игорь Анатольевич Майбуров, Wang Ying

“…The study analyses four key variables—environmental protection tax revenue, regional industrial output value, regional GDP, and regional industrial pollution control investment—from 31 regions in China between 2018 and 2022, forming a sample of 30 observations. A random effects model is constructed and empirically analysed using Python 3.12. …”
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Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients with STEMI: from a prospective cohort study combing bidirectional Mendelian randomizatio... by Xiaoxiao Zhao, Jiannan Li, Shaodi Yan, Yu Tan, Runzhen Chen, Nan Li, Jinying Zhou, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Yi Chen, Hongbing Yan, Hanjun Zhao, Li Song

“…The association between CHIP and T2DM was evaluated by the comparison of (i) the prevalence of CHIP mutations among individuals with diabetes versus those without, (ii) the clinical characteristics delineated by CHIP mutations within the cohort of diabetic patients and (iii) the prognostic significance and correlation of CHIP mutations with mortality rates in T2DM subjects. Furthermore, a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study was performed using genetic instruments from the genome-wide association study for TET2 mutation CH from the UK Biobank (UKB) (2041 cases,173,918 controls) to investigate the causal relationship with T2DM from the FinnGen consortium (65,085 cases and 335,112 controls), and vice versa. …”
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Kaat koort: Study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of a multifactorial, multidisciplinary Aboriginal Health Practitioner-led Aboriginal dementia prevention inte... by Carrington CJ. Shepherd, Melissa A. Dunham, Lina Gubhaju, Karen E. Lamb, Digsu N. Koye, Phoebe Fitzpatrick, Emily Banks, Kaarin J. Anstey, Melinda Carrington, Daniel McAullay, Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, Grace Joshy, Lesley Nelson, Jason Agostino, Ellie Paige, Kathleen Abu-Saad, Elise Alexander, Rona MacNiven, Kelsey Griffen, Fiona Collins, Salena Linforth-Milham, Dolores Gilbert, Cindy Prior, Sadia Rind, Richelle Douglas, Sandra Eades

“…Methods: Kaat Koort is a pragmatic two-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial which will recruit a sample of 354 participants from two Aboriginal community-controlled health services in the south-west of Western Australia. …”
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Predicting HIV self-testing intentions among Chinese college students: a dual-model analysis integrating health belief constructs and machine learning prioritization by Yan Jiang, Jing Li, Jing Li, Jingfen Lu, Liping He, Lin Hu, Jiazhen He, Xianli Huang, Yuchao Li

“…This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the determinants of HIVST willingness among college students using the Health Belief Model (HBM) and random forest analytics.MethodsThis cross-sectional study employed stratified cluster sampling to recruit 1,015 undergraduates from Xiangnan College (July-August 2022), The Health Belief Model (HBM) was synthesized with random forest analytics to elucidate determinants of HIVST willingness. …”
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Landscape and climatic factors shaping mosquito abundance and species composition in southern Spain: A machine learning approach to the study of vector ecology by Martina Ferraguti, Sergio Magallanes, Carlos Mora-Rubio, Daniel Bravo-Barriga, Florentino de Lope, Alfonso Marzal

“…Extremely high temperatures correlated with a decrease in mosquito abundance, while accumulated rainfall in the three weeks preceding sampling positively impacted mosquito abundance by providing breeding habitats. …”
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High resolution soil moisture mapping in 3D space and time using machine learning and depth functions by Mo Zhang, Yong Ge, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Yuxin Ma

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Adulteration detection in cactus seed oil: Integrating analytical chemistry and machine learning approaches by Said El Harkaoui, Cristina Ortiz Cruz, Aaron Roggenland, Micha Schneider, Sascha Rohn, Stephan Drusch, Bertrand Matthäus

“…The MC-simulated data were then used to simulate larger datasets, a critical step for training and testing two classification models: Random Forest (RF) and Neural Networks (NN), as robust training cannot be achieved with small sample sizes. …”
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Predicting IDH and 1p/19q molecular status of gliomas with multi-b values DWI by Shanshan Zhao, Peipei Wang, Eryuan Gao, Mengzhu Wang, Guang Yang, Shouhui Niu, Mengjiao Pan, Kai Zhao, Jingliang Cheng, Xiaoyue Ma

“…An independent sample t-test or Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparisons between different subtypes of glioma. …”
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Comparative evaluation of the efficacy of 1% and 3% Sodium hypochlorite in reducing the microbial counts in primary teeth root canals using Bioluminometer – A randomized clinical t... by Divya Mukundan, Ganesh Jeevanandan, Satish Vishwanathaiah, Suman Panda, Tazeen Dawood, Aseel Abutaleb, Prabhadevi C. Maganur

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Comparison of the efficacy of the multimodal serotonergic antidepressants trazodone and vortioxetine in the treatment of patients with endogenous depression: A meta-analysis of dou... by D. S. Danilov

“…The trials were divided into 2 groups according to the comparability of original samples of patients, methods for evaluating their state, and duration of follow-up. …”
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<i>Lippia citrodora</i> (Lemon Verbena) Extract Helps Reduce Stress and Improve Sleep Quality in Adolescents in a Double-Blind Randomized Intervention Study by Pau Navarro, Adrián García, Roberta Villa, Vincenzo Nobile, Ortensia Ilaria Parisi, Chiara Lirangi, Fabio Amone, Erminia D’Ambrosio, Nuria Caturla, Jonathan Jones

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Performance Analysis of NaOH-Treated Randomly Oriented Bauhinia Purpurea L Fiber/Epoxy (BPFE) Composites: Mechanical and Free Vibration Studies for Biomedical Applications by G. Rajeshkumar, V. Vignesh, A. M. Arun Mohan, S. V. Naren Prasaadh, A. Poovarasan, Muhammad Imam Ammarullah

“…NaOH treatment was performed to modify the surface of BPFs, and treated samples with varying concentrations (5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) were individually used for composite fabrication. …”
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