RETRACTED: Associations of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms with risk of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analy... by Yanjun Du, Peizhen Geng, Qunqun Chen, Laixi Han, Lu Liu, Maoquan Yang, Mingzhu Tan, Jun Meng, Xiaojuan Sun, Lidan Feng

“…Crude odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated to determine the relationship of interest. Pooled analyses suggested that the ApaI polymorphism decreased the overall AD risk, and the TaqI increased the overall PD susceptibility. …”
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<i>Salmonella</i> bacteria in farm animal feeds. Review by N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova, G. S. Skitovich, О. А. Akulich

“…It was found that the overall pooled prevalence estimates of Salmonella was 0.14: with a prevalence of 0.18 in raw feed components, 0.09 – in finished feed and 0.08 – in swabs from the surfaces of feed production equipment. …”
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CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS’ PERCEPTION OF THE MARKETING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN ABUJA, NIGERIA by Emmanuel Chidiebere EZE, Onyinye SOFOLAHAN, Onyealilam Peter ONYEAGAM, Usman MUHAMMED

“…The study revealed that maintaining a strong pool of professionals to boost the company image, developing non-economic or social bonds with clients, including ‘political’ offers in bids, having a project signboard, developing a marketable name as well as equipment branding, claim aversion, and free design contribution are the specific marketing strategies employed by construction firms. …”
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Observations of Microlensed Images with Dual-field Interferometry: On-sky Demonstration and Prospects by Przemek Mróz, Subo Dong, Antoine Mérand, Jinyi Shangguan, Julien Woillez, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski, Frank Eisenhauer, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Zexuan Wu, Zhuokai Liu, Hongjing Yang, —, Guillaume Bourdarot, Denis Defrère, Antonia Drescher, Maximilian Fabricius, Paulo Garcia, Reinhard Genzel, Stefan Gillessen, Sebastian F. Hönig, Laura Kreidberg, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Dieter Lutz, Florentin Millour, Thomas Ott, Thibaut Paumard, Jonas Sauter, T. Taro Shimizu, Christian Straubmeier, Matthias Subroweit, Felix Widmann, (The GRAVITY+ Collaboration), Michał K. Szymański, Igor Soszyński, Paweł Pietrukowicz, Szymon Kozłowski, Radosław Poleski, Jan Skowron, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Mariusz Gromadzki, Krzysztof Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Marcin Wrona, Mateusz J. Mróz, (The OGLE Collaboration), Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, (KMTNet Collaboration)

“…The recent development of a dual-field interferometer, GRAVITY Wide, has made it possible to reach out to significantly fainter objects and increase the pool of microlensing events amenable to interferometric observations by 2 orders of magnitude. …”
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Prevalence of non-contrast CT abnormalities in adults with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dean A Fergusson, Dar Dowlatshahi, Brian Dewar, Michel Shamy, Naomi Niznick, Risa Shorr, Ryan Daniel Gotesman

“…Prevalence estimates across studies will be pooled using a random-effects model and subgroup analysis will be performed to assess the impact of age, sex, publication year and study design on prevalence of vascular lesions. …”
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Tumor budding is a prognostic marker for overall survival and not for lymph node metastasis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Systematic Review Update and Meta-Analysis by Gouri S. Panchannavar, Punnya V. Angadi

“…Meta-analysis revealed a pooled estimate i.e odds ratio of 2.10 (CI - 0.00 - 4.20) for TB and LNM while for overall survival, it was 2.29 (CI-1.81–2.76). …”
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Limbal Stem Cells from Aged Donors Are a Suitable Source for Clinical Application by Nuria Nieto-Nicolau, Eva M. Martínez-Conesa, Ricardo P. Casaroli-Marano

“…To evaluate the suitability of aged cadaveric donors for LSCT, we compared three pools of LSC from donors of different ages (<60 years, 60–75 years, and >75 years). …”
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Chemical Process Fault Diagnosis Based on Improved ResNet Fusing CBAM and SPP by Xiaochen Yan, Yang Zhang, Qibing Jin

“…Finally, based on the backbone path of the network, the branching path after spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) is introduced to enable the network to extract features from different angles of the feature map and further aggregation, which improves the robustness of the model. …”
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HandSegNet: Hand segmentation using convolutional neural network for contactless palmprint recognition by Koichi Ito, Yusei Suzuki, Hiroya Kawai, Takafumi Aoki, Masakazu Fujio, Yosuke Kaga, Kenta Takahashi

“…HandSegNet employs a new CNN architecture consisting of an encoder–decoder model with a pyramid pooling module. Through performance evaluation using a set of synthesised hand images, HandSegNet exhibited the best segmentation results of 98.90% and 93.20% for accuracy and intersection over union, respectively. …”
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT FEEDING LEVELS ON PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF PEKIN DUCKS IN KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ by Azad Sh. S. Al-Dabbagh, Sardar. Y. T. Al- Sardary

“…The birds at seven-day-old were assigned to 9 indoor pens of (1×2.2m) with outdoor and swimming pool (1×9.8m) and Each box represented an indoor replicate with 30 ducklings. …”
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Differential phase angle spectrum for liquid detection in functionalized surface roughness polymeric electrode by Gomez-Sanchez John Alexander, Bueno Luciano de Souza Ribero

“…These electrodes could be applied to make measurements in aqueous media such as ponds, pools, lakes, rivers, and oceans to detect contaminants, as well as in human fluids to recognize metabolites in sweat, urine, saliva, and blood.…”
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Preexposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Acceptability among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Persons in India: Systematic Review and Meta-analys... by Adhish Kumar Sethi, Partha Haldar, Shashi Kant, Sanjay Kumar Rai, Shobini Rajan, Parveen Kumar

“…All were conducted in settings where PrEP was not available. The pooled prevalence among MSM and TG was 18.7% (95% confidence interval [CI] 8.7%, 28.7%) for awareness and 79.8% (95% CI 57.4%, 100.0%) for willingness to use daily oral PrEP. …”
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Selection of sampling sites in Germany for the International Moss Survey 2020 using statistics and decision modelling by Stefan Nickel, Winfried Schröder

“…In addition, twelve sites were selected from the pool of the total of 400 moss collection sites in 2015. …”
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Gamma-knife radiosurgery for jugular foramen schwannomas. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Timoleon Siempis, Spyridon Voulgaris, George A. Alexiou

“…Results: Eight (8) studies with a total of 375 patients met the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were included in the analysis. Pooled overall tumour control rate was 93.2 % (95 % CI 89.8–96.6) after a weighted mean follow-up of 54.07 months (95 % CI 46.8–61.3). …”
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Public-Private Partnership as a Model of Public Infrastructure Development by A. S. Bednyakov

“…A public-private partnership (PPP), a long-term pooling of public and private partners’ resources, sharing risks, responsibilities, and results, is a successful tool employed in many countries to develop public infrastructure. …”
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Gut microbiota dysbiosis, sarcopenia, osteoporosis and osteosarcopenia in older people: A systematic review protocol. by Nailton José Neto, Mário Duarte Brito, Cristiano Dos Santos Gomes, Luana Caroline de Assunção Cortez Corrêa, Gerlane Coelho Bernardo Guerra, Ricardo Oliveira Guerra

“…If sufficient studies, homogeneity and heterogeneity analysis will be performed to conduct Meta-analysis and pooled OR, RR and HR measures will be provided.…”
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Impact of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions on gender-specific school attendance and learning outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. by Dinaol Bedada Dibaba, Bezatu Mengistie Alemu, Sisay Abebe Debela

“…Based on the observed results, diversity will be checked among the outcomes of the study and based on that random-effect model will be used to estimate the pooled effect size. I will, therefore, make use of the Egger and Begg tests for checking statistical asymmetry. …”
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Temperature Profile Measurement in Simulated Fuel Assembly Structure with Wire-Mesh Technology by Hiroki Takiguchi, Masahiro Furuya, Takahiro Arai

“…To evaluate the followability of measurement in a transient temperature change process, we fabricated a 16 × 16 wire-mesh sensor device and measured the hot-water jet-mixing process into the cold-water pool in real time and calculated the temperature profile from the temperature calibration line obtained in advance from each measurement point. …”
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Content Validity and Cognitive Interview Process of Semistructured Interview to Evaluate Psychosocial Factors Associated with Mental Health among Undergraduate University Students by Fayaz Ahmad Paul, Indrajeet Banerjee, Arif Ali, Danishwar Rasool Dar, Aadil Bashir, Priyanka Saikia

“…The study unfolded in three phases: (1) the creation of a 71-item pool, (2) content validity determination using the content validity index and content validity ratio, and (3) cognitive interviews. …”
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The Possible Crystallization Process in the Origin of Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, and Mobile Elements by Akari Yoshimura, Masayuki Seki

“…The emergence process can be considered analogous to crystallization, where genetic and biochemical systems stabilize as organisms evolve from their common ancestor, the LUCA, which was a non-free-living pool of single operon type genomes including double-stranded (ds) DNA at an ancient submarine alkaline vent. …”
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