Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain for adults aged 55 and older 1990–2021: an analysis for the global burden of disease study 2021 by Shangbo Xu, Jiaxin Chen, Chicheng Wang, Ye Lin, Weipeng Huang, Haoyue Zhou, Weibiao Ji, Yangbo Chen

“…The age-standardized prevalence rate was 18,282.8 per 100,000 population, marking a 10.4% decrease since 1990. …”
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Why have tobacco control policies stalled? Using genetic moderation to examine policy impacts. by Jason M Fletcher

“…Tobacco use phenotypes included current use, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and blood serum cotinine measurements.<h4>Results</h4>Variation in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor was found to moderate the influence of tobacco taxation on multiple measures of tobacco use. …”
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Heart abnormality classification using ECG and PCG recordings with novel PJM-DJRNN by Nadikatla Chandrasekhar, Sujatha Canavoy Narahari, Sreedhar Kollem, Samineni Peddakrishna, Archana Penchala, Babji Prasad Chapa

“…HD causes more number of deaths per year. Hence, the early detection of HD is needed to increase the survival rate. …”
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ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTIC OF BROWNIES FROM MOCAF AND GREEN BEAN FLOUR by Nezly Nurlia Putri, Nia Ariani Putri, Rahma Hariyanti

“…Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency related to cassava productivity in Indonesia (2014 – 2018) it was in the range of 229.51 – 246.50 tons/year. the average percentage of flour consumption per capita from 2014 –2018 is 19.92%. In addition, the cassava industry had also begun to develop, namely the processing of cassava into Modified Cassava Flour (Mocaf). …”
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Nutritional value and prediction of digestible and metabolizable energy of full-fat deactivated soybeans for pigs by Teresinha Marisa Bertol, Jorge Vitor Ludke, Arlei Coldebella, Herbert Rech

“…Phosphorus also showed association (p<0.05) with DE and ME and the energy applied per kg of sample showed association (p<0.05) with ME and MEn. …”
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Transmutations of Long-Lived and Medium-Lived Fission Products Extracted from CANDU and PWR Spent Fuels in an Accelerator-Driven System by Alper Buğra Arslan, İlayda Yilmaz, Gizem Bakir, Hüseyin Yapici

“…The proton beam power is assumed as 20 MW, which corresponds to 1.24828·1017 protons per second. MCNPX 2.7 and CINDER 90 computer codes are used for the time-dependent burn calculations. …”
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INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES ON POTATO GERMPLASM COLLECTIONS by D. A. Afonnikov, I. V. Totsky, Z. Stasevski

“…The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important food crops, the advantage of which is the ability to give a high yield in a wide range of agroecosystems, high specific production of dry weight per unit of cultivated area. Nowadays potato is considered a source of vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and other nutrients. …”
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Pengaruh Pemberian Ekstrak Daun Pandan Wangi (Pandanus Amarillyfolius Roxb) terhadap Berat Testis dan Diamater Tubulus Mencit (Mus Musculus) by Lili Fajria

“…High-rate population problems in Indonesia nowadays that increased 1.3 percent per year (BPS, 2007) creating a demand for safe, effective, high-reversibility contraception methods which are not influenced by libido and sexual activity. …”
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Desarrollo regional y emprendimiento: evidencia para Colombia by Julian Duran Peralta

“…Por tal motivo, el objetivo fundamental del artículo es avanzar un poco más y evaluar para Colombia el vínculo entre el desarrollo de las regiones y su grado de emprendimiento como una relación endógena o de retroalimentación.Métodos: Se toman como indicadores del nivel de desarrollo regional el PIB per cápita y el volumen de ocupación, mientras que como índice de emprendimiento se utiliza la tasa de empleadores y trabajadores cuenta propia con alto nivel de capital humano. …”
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Study on Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis Method for Marine Fuel Systems Based on DT-SViT-KNN by Shankai Li, Liang Qi, Jiayu Shi, Han Xiao, Bin Da, Runkang Tang, Danfeng Zuo

“…Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves average accuracies of 97.22%, 98.21%, and 99.13% for training sets with 10, 20, and 30 samples per class, respectively, which can accurately classify the fault of marine fuel systems under small samples and has promising potential for applications.…”
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Variations in Naturalistic Driving Behavior and Visual Perception at the Entrances of Short, Medium, and Long Tunnels by Xinsha Fu, Shijian He, Jintao Du, Xiaofei Wang, Ting Ge

“…Using three driving behavior indicators (speed, deceleration, and position) and two visual perception indicators (fixation and saccade), the driving performance of twenty drivers at six tunnels (two tunnels per condition) was comparatively analyzed. The results revealed that the speed maintained by the drivers prior to deceleration with braking under the short-tunnel condition was significantly larger than that under the medium- and long-tunnel conditions and that the drivers had a greater average and maximum deceleration rates under the short-tunnel condition. …”
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Differences in utilisation of digestible macronutrients between two different size classes of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) by Ruben Groot, Philip Lyons, Johan W. Schrama

“…Four different diets ranging in protein, fat and Carb were fed to two size classes of rainbow trout, 30 to 75 g and 92 to 214 g, at three different feeding levels (12, 8 and 4 g/kg0.8 per day). This led to 24 treatments with 2 replictes (tanks). …”
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Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Family/Caregivers of Pediatric Patients Treated for Cancer at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital: Institution-Based Cross-Sectional Stu... by Zenebe Negash MSc, Eden M. Kinfe BSc, Urji Zerihun BSc, Atalay M. Fentie MSc

“…Furthermore, more than half of the participants generate less than $17.86 per month. Nearly fifty percent of family/caregivers of pediatric cancer patients had poor QOL. …”
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Patterns of nucleotide diversity for different domains of centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) gene in Secale L. by S. S. Gatzkaya, E. V. Evtushenko

“…The estimates of nucleotide and haplotype diversity per site for the CENH3 domains are considerably lower in taxa with narrow geographic ranges: S. cereale subsp. dighoricum and S. strictum subsp. kuprijanovii. …”
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Effect of LiO Doping on the Surface and Catalytic Properties of NiO Solid by Hala G. El-Shobaky, Gehan A. Fagal, Amina A. Attia, Neven A. Hassan

“…The catalytic activity, expressed as the reaction rate constant per unit surface area (k), was effectively decreased by the doping process. …”
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Global stellarator coil optimization with quadratic constraints and objectives by Lanke Fu, Elizabeth J. Paul, Alan A. Kaptanoglu, Amitava Bhattacharjee

“…Integrating it in the equilibrium optimization stage can potentially exclude equilibria with difficult-to-design coils, without significantly increasing the computation time per iteration. QUADCOIL finds the exact, global minimum in a large parameter space when possible, and otherwise finds a well-performing approximate global minimum. …”
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Extracranial carotid plaque calcification and its association with risk factors for cerebrovascular events: insights from the ANTIQUE study by David Pakizer, Dana Šalounová, David Školoudík

“…Statistical data were assessed using the χ2-test, Fisher’s exact test, t-test, and Mann–Whitney test to investigate the calcification risk factors.ResultsCompared to the absence of calcifications, spotty calcifications were associated with male sex [odds ratio (OR): 3.72, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06–13.05], while large calcifications were associated with older patients (OR: 1.60 per 5 years of age, 95% CI: 1.20–2.13). Large calcifications were also strongly associated with coronary heart disease (OR: 4.07, 95% CI: 1.15–14.44) and atrial fibrillation (p = 0.025). …”
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OPTIMALIŲ EKSTRAKCIJOS SĄLYGŲ PARINKIMAS KOFEINO KIEKIO NUSTATYMUI ARBATOJE EFEKTYVIOSIOS SKYSČIŲ CHROMATOGRAFIJOS METODU by Inga Stankevičienė, Jolanta Jurkevičiūtė

“…Dėl stimuliuojančio poveikio žmogus vidutiniškai suvartoja nuo 150 iki 225 mg kofeino per dieną. Vienas iš daugiausiai kofeino turinčių augalų yra arbata. …”
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A Framework of Recommendation System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomous Maneuver Decision by Qinzhi Hao, Tengyu Jing, Yao Sun, Zhuolin Yang, Jiali Zhang, Jiapeng Wang, Wei Wang

“…Notably, the prioritized experience replay deep deterministic policy gradient (PER-DDPG) algorithm, employing dense rewards and continuous actions, demonstrated superior performance, achieving a 69% success rate in confrontational scenarios against a versatile expert algorithm after 1000 training iterations, marking an 80% reduction in training time compared to conventional reinforcement learning methods. …”
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Data Clustering Improves Siamese Neural Networks Classification of Parkinson’s Disease by Mohamed Shalaby, Nahla A. Belal, Yasser Omar

“…In addition, applying the Siamese network can overcome the limitation of samples per class in the dataset by guiding the network to learn differences between samples rather than focusing on learning specific classes. …”
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