Characterization of filter photometer artifacts in soot and dust measurements – laboratory and ambient experiments using a traceably calibrated aerosol absorption reference by J. Yus-Díez, L. Drinovec, L. Drinovec, L. Alados-Arboledas, G. Titos, E. Bazo, A. Casans, D. Patrón, X. Querol, A. Gonzalez-Romero, C. Perez García-Pando, C. Perez García-Pando, G. Močnik, G. Močnik

“…The values of the cross-sensitivity parameter <span class="inline-formula"><i>m</i>_s</span> at 450 and 808 nm were 3.0 % and 1.5 % for the AE33 and 2.4 % and 0.9 % for the CLAP.…”
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Effects of the sampling time on the vaginal microbiota in healthy pregnant women: a prospective observational studyAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Hiroshi Mori, MD, Eiji Shibata, PhD, Emi Kondo, MD, Mitsumasa Saito, PhD, Kiyoshi Yoshino, PhD, Kazumasa Fukuda, PhD

“…Median bacterial counts in vaginal fluids at wake-up and bedtime were 3.9 × 109/g and 3.6 × 109/g, respectively, with no significant difference. …”
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HIV Incidence and Associated Risk Factors Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in Tianjin, China: Retrospective Cohort Study by Yan Guo, Hui Gong, Xiangyu Yan, Xinying Zhang, Tielin Ning, Zhongquan Liu, Long Li, Jie Yang, Liu Li, Changxu Ma, Zhuang Cui, Maohe Yu

“…The segmented HIV incidence rates were 3 (95% CI 1.5‐4.5), 2.4 (95% CI 1.5‐3.3), and 2.7 (95% CI 1.5‐3.9) per 100 PYs for 2017‐2018, 2019‐2020, and 2021‐2022, respectively. …”
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Adaptation of ENDS Device Measurements into Puffing Topography Variables and Clinical Implications by Oldham Michael J., Cook David K., Liang Qiwei, Fraley Norman, Singletary Buddy, Anderson Samuel, Vinnakota Abhiraj, Gillman I. Gene

“…The gap wave was created from the ISO 20768 square wave puffing regimen with a 0.5-s gap in the middle of the 3-s puff (gap puffing regimen with a 2.5-s puff duration), and all puff regimens were 3 seconds in duration. For each puffing regimen, the gravimetrically determined device mass loss and aerosol collected mass was compared to the estimate of generated aerosol mass provided by the JUUL2® device. …”
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Quantitative study of changes in the hippocampus after whole-brain radiotherapy via multisequence magnetic resonance imaging radiomics by Rui Liu, Guan-Zhong Gong, Shan-Shan Du, Kang-Ning Meng, Ruo-Zheng Wang, Yong Yin

“…Results: (1) The average MRIpost and MRIfollow hippocampal volumes were 3.32 ± 0.49 cm3 and 2.95±0.45 cm3, respectively, which were 1.68 % and 12.51% lower than the MRIpre volume (3.41 ± 0.49 cm3), respectively (p < 0.05). (2) Radiomics analysis revealed that 88 features were significantly different (p < 0.05) across the MRIpre, MRIpost, and MRIfollow scans. …”
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Role of Cylindrospermopsis sp. in vertical nitrogen changes observed in tropical oxidation wastewater treatment ponds by M. Srichomphu, O. Phewnil, T. Pattamapitoon, Ratcha Chaichana, K. Chunkao, W. Wararam, N. Dampin, P. Maskulrath

“…The number of populations at the depths of 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150 centimeters were 3.2 × 107, 1.6 × 107, 1.1 × 107, 5.5 × 107, and 1.1 × 108 cells per cubic meter, respectively.CONCLUSION: The different densities of Cylindrospermopsis sp. found at different depths throughout the treatment pond are related to the nitrogen dynamics of the water body. …”
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Divergent effects of 3-nitrooxypropanol on enteric methane emissions in Holstein and Brown Swiss cows, and its lack of synergy with acacia tannin extract by M.Z. Islam, S.E. Räisänen, T. He, C. Kunz, Y. Li, X. Ma, A.M. Serviento, K. Wang, M. Wang, Z. Zeng, M. Niu

“…A 3-NOP × Breed interaction was observed in CH4 production (g/d), with a 21.7% reduction in HF, and a 13.0% reduction in BS. Similarly, there were 3-NOP × Breed tendencies in CH4 yield and intensity (g/kg ECM), with reductions in HF cows of 21.8 and 23.4%, respectively, compared to 11.0 and 10.8% in BS cows. …”
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Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) vs. Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR): evaluating the predictive power of SII and NLR in severity of acute ischaemic stroke based on NIH... by Arbaz Hassan, Anfal Hamza, Kiran Khan, Aiza Shafique, Faiza Naz, Rameen Riaz, Fazeel Shabbir, Muhammad Zafar Majeed Babar, Muhammad Saleem, Hafiz Haseeb Ahsan, Ghulam Mustafa, Hafiz Muhammad Usama Amjad

“…Median and IQR of NLR and SII were 3.75 (2.18–6.83) and 7.83 × 105 (3.79 × 105–1.38 × 106), respectively. …”
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Job characteristics model-based study of the intrinsic motivations for primary care practitioners by Shichao Zhao, Jing Ping, Hong Zhu, Wanting Ji, Yuyan Wang, Ying Wang

“…Scores for task significance, feedback, and autonomy were 3.91 ± 0.76, 3.46 ± 0.83, and 3.43 ± 0.79, respectively. …”
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Prevalence and Independent Predictors of Anxiety and Depression Among Elementary and High School Educators: Cross-Sectional Study by Belinda Agyapong, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Adedamola Orimalade, Raquel da Luz Dias, Yifeng Wei, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong

“…In addition, respondents with low resilience were 3.01 times more likely to experience likely GAD than those with normal to high resilience (OR 3.01, 95% CI 2.03-7.62). …”
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A Phase I Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics of BGT-002, a Novel ATP-Citrate Lyase Inhibitor, in Healthy Chinese Subjects by Liu Y, Yu C, Zhang Y, Xie Z, Wang Y, Qian H, Liang L, Liu Y, Chen Q, Jia J, Yan S, Lai X, Li W, Li J, Zhang Y, Nan F, Yu C

“…In Part II, the accumulation index (Rac) of Cmax and AUCtau following 14 days of consecutive administration were 3.53 to 3.62 and 5.29 to 5.59, respectively, with a dose-proportionality PK profile. …”
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Time course of changes in lipid profile measures in patients with early psoriatic arthritis during adalimumab therapy by E. I. Markelova, D. S. Novikova, T. V. Korotaeva, E. Yu. Loginova

“…There were no significant changes in the level of LDL-C and HDL-C, and CA, their medians at the beginning and end of therapy were 3.3 [2.8; 4.1] and 3.6 [3.3; 4.1]; 3.0 [1.2; 1.  5] and 1.3 [1.2; 1.6]; 2.6 [2.3; 3.6] and 3.2 [2.4; 3.6] mmol/L, respectively. …”
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Propranolol vs flunarizine vs flunarizine plus propranolol in migraine without aura prophylaxis. a double-blind trial Ensaio duplo-cego comparando propranolol, flunarizina e flunar... by Carlos Alberto Bordini, Marco Antônio Arruda, Marcelo Cedrinho Ciciarelli, José Geraldo Speciali

“…Fourty-five migraine without aura patients underwent a parallel double-blind trial aiming the comparison of the effects of propranolol 60 mg/day to flunarizine 10 mg/day and to propranolol 60 mg/day plus flunarizine 10 mg/day simultaneously. There were 3 groups, each one with 15 patients. After a 20-day-baseline period, each group received one kind of treatment during 120 days. …”
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Assessment of Health and Community Services Provided for Families in Internal Displaced Camps in Baghdad City by Huda Baqer Hassan, Karim Ghadban Sagam

“…Results: The results of the study revealed that a health center and a detachment of security inside is provided in four of the study camps and the lack of serious consumer association humanitarian organization within the study camps and indicated results related to the displaced that the 5-10 % of family heads is work after displacement in camp of Al-Jamea and Prophet Younis and that the proportion of 51.6% of family in Prophet Yunus have eldely persons, 90% of family in study camps is not have continuous income , the findings of present study revealed that a high percentage of students in the five camps and that the proportion of ongoing study were 3.6% and 19.2 only in Zayouna and Al-Nedia camp, concerning health and community services was the proportion of 26.3 % of the displaced families not have vocabulary ration card and 69.2 %of them not received the assistant from neighboring families and 81% did not include recently visited by governmental persons and the proportion of 76.3% %not covered by humanitarian aid, and 20% did not received displaced grant. …”
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The Predictive Value of TyG Index and NLR for Risk of CHD and the Severity of Coronary Artery Lesions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Li H, Chen M, Wang Y, Cui W, Lou Y, Chen D, Deng H, Shen Z

“…The odds ratios(OR) for the highest tertile compared to the lowest tertile of TyG index and NLR were 3.61(95% CI:2.41– 5.40) and 1.62(95% CI:1.25– 2.09).The TyG index exhibited a significant correlation with CHD severity in T2DM patients (OR:2.96, 95% CI:1.19– 7.32; P=0.019). …”
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All-Cause Mortality Risk in Elderly Patients with Femoral Neck and Intertrochanteric Fractures: A Predictive Model Based on Machine Learning by Min A, Liu Y, Fu M, Hou Z, Wang Z

“…There were 6 variables that remained in the model for intertrochanteric fractures: age (HR 1.048, 95% CI 1.014– 1.083, p = 0.006), AMI (HR 4.631, 95% CI 2.190– 9.795, P &lt; 0.001), COPD (HR 3.818, 95% CI 1.516– 9.614, P = 0.004), CHF (HR 2.743, 95% CI 1.510– 4.981, P = 0.001), NOAF (HR 1.748, 95% CI 1.033– 2.956, P = 0.037), FBG (HR 1.116, 95% CI 1.026– 1.215, P = 0.011). There were 3 variables that remained in the model for femoral neck fractures: age (HR 1.145, 95% CI 1.097– 1.196, P &lt; 0.001), HbA1c (HR 1.264, 95% CI 1.088– 1.468, P = 0.002), BNP (HR 1.001, 95% CI 1.000– 1.002, P = 0.019). …”
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Effects of herbicide diclofop-methyl on oxidative stress and microcystin release in cyanobacterium Microsystis aeruginosa by Ye Jing, Liu Chaonan, Liu Weiping

“…The concentrations of MDA were 3.47, 1.86 and 10.61 folds compared to the control after 24 h treatment of 1, 2 and 5 mg/L diclofop-methyl. …”
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A Study on Risk Assessment Myopic Score at Tertiary Eye Care Center by Niravkumar Mehta, Payal Patel, Paras Desai

“…The mean changes in spherical equivalent refraction were −3.44 ± 2.04 D and -3.34 ± 1.90 D for the right and left eyes, respectively. …”
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Combined Analysis of Transcriptome and Mendelian Randomization Reveals AKT1 and PPARG as Biomarkers Related to Glucose Metabolism in Sepsis by Ma J, Li W, Ma Q, Ding L, Wang Z, Wang R, Huang Y, Ma G, Gao J

“…Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was performed to validate the expression of biomarkers in sepsis and control group.Results: There were 3,899 differential expressed genes (DEGs) in sepsis, with 141 related to glucose metabolism. …”
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Participatory Intervention Development of a Peer-Guided Self-Help App for Anxiety Disorders: Mixed Methods Study by Laura Duddeck, Timo Stolz, Christian Zottl, Thomas Berger, Johanna Boettcher

“…In stage 3 (N=126), engagement was low—average log-ins were 3.15 (SD 14.37), with only 20 (SD 15.9) participants completing follow-ups. …”
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