Determinants of smoking and smoking cessation among health professionals in Serbia: A cross-sectional study by Krstev Srmena, Marinković Jelena, Simić Snežana, Jovićević Ana, Marković-Denić Ljiljana

“…In this nationwide study, 3,084 physicians and nurses from 4 types of institutions and four geographical regions were selected and 2,282 included (response rate 74.0%). …”
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A study on the relationship between self-efficacy and career identity of rural-oriented tuition-waived medical students based on the mediating effect of vocational outcome expectat... by Xiaoying Chen, Yue Chen, Xuebo Zhu

“…Descriptive statistics were calculated, and differences between groups were estimated using Student’s t-test and ANOVA. …”
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Prevalence of oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV 16/18) infection, cervical lesions and its associated factors among women aged 21-49 years in Amhara region, Northern Ethiopia. by Minwuyelet Maru Temesgen, Tefera Alemu, Birtukan Shiferaw, Seid Legesse, Taye Zeru, Mahteme Haile, Tesfaye Gelanew

“…The sample size was calculated by using the single population proportion formula, proportionated to hospitals, and women were recruited consecutively. …”
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The efficacy of a complex of vitamins B 1, B6 and B 12 in combination with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs for pain control in osteoarthritis: meta-analysis of randomized contr... by E. S. Filatova, A. E. Karateev, S. I. Glukhova, A. M. Lila

“…A weighted mean difference (WMD) and the heterogeneity of the data (index I2) were calculated.Results and discussion. The meta-analysis included 3 RCTs (n = 298) with a duration of 3 to 8 weeks. …”
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A Transcriptomic Biomarker for Predicting the Response to TACE Correlates with the Tumor Microenvironment and Radiomics Features in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Wang C, Leng B, You R, Yu Z, Lu Y, Diao L, Jiang H, Cheng Y, Yin G, Xu Q

“…TFS scores were then calculated for HCC patients in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) cohort. …”
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New method for landslide susceptibility evaluation in alpine valley regions that considers the suitability of InSAR monitoring and introduces deformation rate grading by Dingyi Zhou, Zhifang Zhao, Wenfei Xi, Xin Zhao, Jiangqin Chao

“…The best evaluation factors are selected using covariance diagnosis and gray correlation analysis. …”
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Bioassay-guided fractionation of okra seed peptide on antioxidant activities and inhibition of oxidative stress in LPS stimulated RAW 264.7 cells by Samuchaya Niemrungruang, Orathai Sawatdichaikul, Siriporn Tanjor, Dalad Siriwan

“…The hydrolysate was filtered through an ultrafiltration membrane with a selective molecular weight of 3 kDa and the % yield was calculated. …”
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Assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene services within nineteen Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022 by Saira Butt, Md. Samiur Rahman Chowdhury, Sohana Sadique, Abdullah Al Faisal, Adrien Mahama, Alexander Gorski, Biserka Pop-Stefanija, David Beversluis, Jackson Mojong Lochokon, Kalyan Velivela, Kennedy Uadiale, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Teju Gebeyaw Worku, Thok Johnson Gony Billiew, Patrick Keating

“…Crude and weighted averages with 95% confidence intervals were calculated for each indicator and compared with targets pre-defined based on Sphere guidelines and Médecins Sans Frontières WASH experts. …”
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Comparative analysis of long-term organ damage in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus using belimumab versus standard therapy: a post hoc longitudinal study by Murray B Urowitz, Robert L Ohsfeldt, Ronald C Wielage, Yumi Asukai, Sulabha Ramachandran, John J Dever, Mehdi Zakerifar, Ashish V Joshi

“…Sixteen clinical variables were selected to calculate the propensity score.Results The 592 LTE and 381 Toronto Lupus Cohort patients were highly dissimilar across the 16 variables; an adequately balanced sample of 181 LTE and 181 matched Toronto Lupus Cohort patients (mean bias=3.7%) was created using propensity score matching. …”
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Response Characteristics and Influencing Factors of the Ecological Stoichiometry of Soil Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus to Conversion of Orchards into Farmlands on the Loess Table... by LIU Ruhua, MA Yali, CUI Erliang, QIAO Jiangbo, JIA Xiaoxu, ZHU Yuanjun, SHAO Mingan

“…［Methods］ Farmlands of 0 year (30 years orchard), 1 year, 3 years and 5 years old was selected as the research objects in this study, with farmlands cultivated with food crops set as the control group (CK). …”
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of lung cancer in male smokers: a nested case-control study. by Stephanie J Weinstein, Kai Yu, Ronald L Horst, Dominick Parisi, Jarmo Virtamo, Demetrius Albanes

“…Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using multivariate-adjusted conditional logistic regression. …”
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Incidence and prevalence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis by Negar Golchin, Aditya Patel, Julia Scheuring, Victoria Wan, Kimberly Hofer, Jean-Paul Collet, Brandon Elpers, Tamara Lesperance

“…Pooled weighted-mean incidence and prevalence estimates were calculated from studies reporting adequate epidemiological data using a DerSimonian-and-Laird random-effects model. …”
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Human papillomavirus in vulvar cancer: a systematic review by D. S. Dolgasheva, M. K. Ibragimova, E. A. Kravtsova, I. A. Tsydenova, K. A. Gaptulbarova, M. M. Tsyganov, N. V. Litviakov

“…Overall HPV prevalence was calculated as the percentage of all HPV tested cases. …”
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Prognostic and clinicopathological significance of the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score in patients with lymphoma: a meta-analysis by Lili Li, Lihong Shou

“…The prognostic significance of CONUT to overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in lymphoma was estimated by calculating pooled HRs with 95% CIs. The relationship between CONUT and clinicopathological characteristics was measured based on pooled ORs with 95% CIs.Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane Library databases were comprehensively searched from inception through 24 March 2023.Statistical methods Either a random-effects model or a fixed-effects model was selected depending on the level of heterogeneity among the included studies.Results This meta-analysis enrolled seven articles, containing 2060 patients with lymphoma. …”
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Application of PFI-4DVar Data Assimilation Technique to Nowcasting of Numerical Model by Jiang Wenjing, Liang Xudong

“…PFI-4DVar significantly improves the precipitation nowcasting. Calculations are reduced by selecting 12-minute assimilation time window, which greatly saves computational resources. …”
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A Novel Risk Score for Type 2 Diabetes Containing Sleep Duration: A 7-Year Prospective Cohort Study among Chinese Participants by Xiangtong Liu, Zhiwei Li, Jingbo Zhang, Shuo Chen, Lixin Tao, Yanxia Luo, Xiaolin Xu, Jason Peter Fine, Xia Li, Xiuhua Guo

“…Sleep duration was calculated from the self-reported usual time of going to bed and waking up at baseline. …”
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Quad-Band Multiport Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting in Ambient Environment by Sunanda Roy, R. Jun-Jiat Tiang, Mardeni Bin Roslee, Md. Tanvir Ahmed, M. A. Parvez Mahmud

“…Indistinctly, the proposed antenna consists of 8-port which maintain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.33\lambda \times 0.33\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (i.e. wavelength <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> calculated at 0.9 GHz in free space) average area per port and has achieved more than 35&#x0025; relative bandwidth (BW) with a maximum gain of 6.5 dBi to cover the selected frequency bands. …”
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Child immunization data quality in Rwanda: an assessment of routine health information system data by Thaoussi Uwera, J. Frederik Frøen, Eleni Papadopoulou, Enock Rukundo, Hassan Sibomana, Andrew Muhire, David K. Tumusiime, Mahima Venkateswaran

“…We calculated frequencies and percentage differences. Accuracy ratios were computed for HMIS reports against facility registers for 2020 and e-Tracker for 2022. …”
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Carbon footprint associated with a small-scale emissions reduction initiative for sustainable event management by V. de cadenet, P. Parinyakulset, W. Komkum, P. Boondaeng, P. Raksa

“…In this study, the Suranaree Agricultural Fair 2025, a nine-day public event hosted by Suranaree University of Technology, located in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, was selected as a representative case for examining the environmental impacts of large-scale academic gatherings. …”
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SIGLEC1 has the potential to be an immune-related prognostic indicator in colon adenocarcinoma: a study based on transcriptomic data and Mendelian randomization analysis by Jue Gu, Yaxuan Wang, Hui Zhang, Haijuan Gu, Haixia Zhu

“…Pathway enrichment analysis, protein–protein interaction (PPI) network, Cox regression analysis, and Kaplan–Meier survival analysis were performed on DEGs to select the most critical genes. The correlation between SIGLEC1 expression in COAD and TME status and between immune checkpoints and SIGLEC1 was examined using gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and Pearson correlation coefficients. …”
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