Associations and potential epigenetic changes between air pollution and osteoarthritis risk and survival: Insights from a prospective cohort study by Jing Qian, Jiahao Zhu, Yifan Wang, Ruoqi Dai, Jingyou Miao, Ye Yang, Wenxia Zhao, Jing Wang, Lilu Ding, Dan Zhou, Min Yu, Yingjun Li

“…Additionally, using genome-wide association statistics, we examined the potential causal associations between air pollution-related DNA methylation (DNAm) and OA risk. …”
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Identifying a Set of Key Paradata Indicators in Web Surveys Based on the Relationship with Response Quality, Respondent Characteristics and Survey Estimates by Vasja Vehovar, Nejc Berzelak, Gregor Čehovin

“…The result of this process was a set of 12 key paradata indicators that could serve as a starting point for the creation of standardised paradata indicators that could potentially augment web survey response data. …”
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Green Transportation and Environmental Sustainability in Selected Manufacturing Entities in Kampala District, Uganda by Rugasira, Jack, Moses, Agaba, Byarugaba Mbiito, Jotham, Makumbi, Rita, Kyotuheire, Jill, Asiime, Jane

“…Green Transportation reflects a small F-statistic of 17.841 indicating the statistical significance of each of the regression coefficients. …”
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Reconstruction of climatic events from the 16th century in Transylvania: interdisciplinary analysis based on historical sources by Ovidiu Răzvan Gaceu, Tudor Caciora, Ștefan Baias, Cezar Morar, Mihai Dudaș, Marius Stupariu, Maria Maxim

“…The obtained results were processed using statistical techniques to reconstruct the evolution of the weather during the respective period.Results and discussionThe study identifies multiple pieces of evidence associated with extreme weather events, including 40 unusually warm summers and several years of excess precipitation or drought. …”
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Expectation-Maximization Aided Modified Weighted Sequential Energy Detector for Distributed Cooperative Spectrum Sensing by Mohammed Rashid, Jeffrey A. Nanzer

“…Previous studies have shown that even with fewer observed samples per energy statistics, improved detection capabilities can be achieved by aggregating both present and past ED samples in a test statistic. …”
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Accelerated Orthodontic Canine Retraction Using Minimally Invasive Orthocision by Omar Chawshli, Zana Omer, Omed Ikram

“…The contralateral side of each patient used as a control for the experimental side with vertical incisions and decortication of bone with piezo knife both mesial and distal to the retracted canine after alignment and before starting retraction with power chain on 0.017*0.025 inch stainless steel wire. …”
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Maximum-likelihood Regression with Systematic Errors for Astronomy and the Physical Sciences. II. Hypothesis Testing of Nested Model Components for Poisson Data by Massimiliano Bonamente, Dale Zimmerman, Yang Chen

“…A novel model of systematic errors for the regression of Poisson data is applied to hypothesis testing of nested model components with the introduction of a generalization of the Δ C statistic that applies in the presence of systematic errors. …”
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Using Dose-Effect Relationship for Optimising Systemic Corticosteroid Dosage in Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by O. P. Alekseeva, S. V. Krishtopenko, A. A. Alekseeva

“…To induce remission, all patients had the first course of prednisone at a starting dose of 30 to 60 mg/day, with a subsequent reduction. …”
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Multi-INTACT: integrative analysis of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome identifies causal mechanisms of complex traits by Jeffrey Okamoto, Xianyong Yin, Brady Ryan, Joshua Chiou, Francesca Luca, Roger Pique-Regi, Hae Kyung Im, Jean Morrison, Charles Burant, Eric B. Fauman, Markku Laakso, Michael Boehnke, Xiaoquan Wen

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Predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults exposed to heavy metals: Interpretable machine learning by Meiyue Shen, Yine Zhang, Runqing Zhan, Tingwei Du, Peixuan Shen, Xiaochuan Lu, Shengnan Liu, Rongrong Guo, Xiaoli Shen

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Reduced functional independence and multimorbidity increases the risk of severe infection among older patients with Omicron: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Wan Yu, Runnian Huang, Shuning Sun, Li Bu, Xin Chen, Yunhua Di, Shuwu Lin, Qian Li, Yang Yang, Xingyue Ye, Wenxu Wang, Rui Ren, Linze Xi, Ru Zhang, Yi Li, Xin Li, Tianbo Hou, Zibo Ning, Yang Peng, Difei Wang

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Evaluation of Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Orthopantomogram in Detecting and Classifying Radiolucent Lesions by Sheetal Singar, Ajay Parihar, Prashanthi Reddy

“…The evaluation of the performance of both CNN by new data consisting (60 OPG images) 30 benign and 30 malignant lesions. Statistical Analysis: Performed using SPSS (Statistical package for social science) 20.0 version. …”
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Associations of cachexia and frailty with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Tracy L. Peters, Weihong Qiu, Haomin Yang, Wuqing Huang, Yizhen Hu, Zhangyu Zou, Weimin Ye

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Association between joint exposure to ambient air pollutants and carotid plaque: The mediating role of cardiometabolic risk factors by Yunfei Li, Ze Han, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yueruijing Liu, Zhiyuan Wu, Jinqi Wang, Xia Li, Xiuhua Guo, Lixin Tao

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EFFICACY OF TAX PAYERS’ PERCEPTION ON TAX COMPLIANCE LEVEL AMONG SMEs IN ILORIN METROPOLIS by Daud Omotosho Saheed, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Majeed Ajibola Ibrahim, Ifedolapo Oluwasolape Omotosho

“…A closed ended questionnaire was used for data collection while analyses was done through descriptive as well as inferential statistics with Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). …”
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Variation in Clinical Presentation, Metabolic Profile, Hormonal Parameters and Inflammatory Markers in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Women with and without Polycystic Ovary Morphology... by Sweekruti Jena, Ipsita Mishra, Anoj Kumar Baliarsinha, Debarchan Jena, Madhumita Debata

“…The mean hs-CRP was found to be higher in Group 2, which was statistically significant (P = 0.005). The mean AMH was higher in Group 1, which was statistically significant (P = 0.002). …”
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Modeling optimal combination of breast and cervical cancer screening strategies in China by Xuewei Liu, Yanbo Wang, Bei Gao, Xinlin Lu, Yuan Wang, Wenli Lu

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Luteal Phase Stimulation in the Same Cycle Is an Effective Strategy to Rescue POSEIDON Poor Responders with No Embryos after the First Follicular Stimulation by Abha Majumdar, Gaurav Majumdar, Neeti Tiwari, Anu Singh, Shweta Mittal Gupta, Ruma Satwik

“…Blastocysts produced in both the phases were subsequently vitrified. Statistical Analysis Used: The paired t-test was used for comparing means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for different parameters. …”
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Prevalence and socioeconomic determinants of awareness and visitation of community clinic among ever married women: evidence from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2017–201... by Md Akib Al-Zubayer, Hasibul Hasan Shanto, Rabeya Kumkum, Sk Tasnuva Alam, Benojir Ahammed

“…This study aims to investigate the prevalence and determinants of awareness and visitation of community clinics (CCs) in Bangladesh.Design A population-based cross-sectional study.Setting The data were collected from the most recent Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2017–2018.Participants This study’s participants are 18 893 women aged 15–49 years throughout all administrative regions.Primary and secondary outcome measures The outcomes are awareness and visitation of CCs, defined as if women are aware and visit of CCs.Materials and methods Descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate binary logistics analysis were used to determine the prevalence and associated factors of awareness and visitation of CCs.Results The prevalence of awareness and visitation to CCs were 60.26% and 15.92%, respectively. …”
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