Effect of Muscle Fatigue on Surface Electromyography-Based Hand Grasp Force Estimation by Jinfeng Wang, Muye Pang, Peixuan Yu, Biwei Tang, Kui Xiang, Zhaojie Ju

“…Experiments are conducted in the three cases: (1) pooling training data from all muscle fatigue states with time-domain feature only, (2) employing frequency domain feature for expression of muscle fatigue information based on case 1, and 3) incorporating the quantitative metric of muscle fatigue value as an additional input for estimation model based on case 1. …”
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ADIPOQ rs2241766 Gene Polymorphism and Predisposition to Diabetic Kidney Disease by Qiuxia Han, Wenjia Geng, Dong Zhang, Guangyan Cai, Hanyu Zhu

“…Odds ratios (ORs) with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were pooled by means of fixed- or random-effects models. …”
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Dietary Chicory Inulin-Rich Meal Exerts Greater Healing Effects than Fructooligosaccharide Preparation in Rats with Trinitrobenzenesulfonic Acid-Induced Necrotic Colitis by Bartosz Fotschki, Adam Jurgoński, Joanna Fotschki, Michał Majewski, Katarzyna Ognik, Jerzy Juśkiewicz

“…Both chicory preparations enhanced the production of total short-chain fatty acid (SCFA pool) and concentration of anti-inflammatory propionic acid in the caecal digesta. …”
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Service Quality in Iranian Hospitals From Patients' Perspectives Based on the SERVQUAL Model: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Tara Alizadeh, Marzieh Jahani Sayad Noveiry, Samad Karkhah, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli, Kobra Salami Kohan, Pooyan Ghorbani Vajargah

“…Results In the context of 25 cross‐sectional studies encompassing a collective participant pool of 8021 hospitalized patients in Iranian medical facilities, an assessment of patients' perspectives on the quality of hospital services revealed a mean perception score of 3.54 (SE = 0.08). …”
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Comparison between Intestinal Behçet’s Disease and Crohn’s Disease in Characteristics of Symptom, Endoscopy, and Radiology by Tianyu Zhang, Liwen Hong, Zhengting Wang, Rong Fan, Maochen Zhang, Yun Lin, Mengmeng Cheng, Xiaolin Zhou, Peijun Sun, Xiaoyi Lin, Jie Zhong

“…A differentiation model was established by pooling all valuable parameters together. Diagnostic efficacy was evaluated, and a receiver operating curve (ROC) was plotted. …”
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Intellectual Capital and Firm Performance in the Context of Venture-Capital Syndication Background in China by Yuzhong Lu, Zengrui Tian, Guillermo Andres Buitrago, Shuiwen Gao, Yuanjun Zhao, Shuai Zhang

“…The data were collected from VCS-backed and listed firms in China during 2014 to 2018 applying the pooled OLS model for hypotheses test, Generalized Method of Moments (GMMs) to reduce endogeneity and unobserved factor control, and also return on equity (ROE) instead of ROA for the robustness test. …”
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Prevalence of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Healthcare Workers in Nigeria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Taagbara Jolly Abaate, Dabota Yvonne Buowari, Utchay A. Agiri, Tamunodiepiriye Inimgba, Vivian Ifeoma Ogbonna, Chizaram Onyeaghala, Glory Ovunda Worgu, Abiye Somiari, Emmanuella I. Ezebuiro, Ibe Arthur Onuah

“…A single-arm meta-analysis was performed using a random-effects model.ResultsOf the 206 articles, 22 publications with 20,724 participants were included. The pooled prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was 75% (95% CI: 61%–88%, I2 = 99.69%, P < 0.001). …”
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Anaesthetic Management of a Neonate with Ebstein’s Anomaly Undergoing a Meningomyelocele Surgery: A Case Report by Prakriti, Monika Yadav, Vaishali Gupta, Komal Yadav, Shikha Garg

“…Perioperative considerations for this patient included right-to-left shunting with the possibility of paradoxical emboli, prolonged onset time for intravenous drugs due to pooling and recirculation of blood in the right atrium, increased Pulmonary Vascular Resistance (PVR), perioperative pulmonary hypertension, right and left ventricular dysfunction, and arrhythmias. …”
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Prevalence and natural development of thoracolumbar kyphosis in achondroplasia: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Chady Omara, Rania A. Mekary, Carmen L.A. Vleggeert-Lankamp

“…The primary outcome was the pooled prevalence of TLK, stratified by age. Results: Eight studies, encompassing 852 patients, met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Preliminary Selection of Device Materials to Locally Transform Thermal into SFR Neutron Spectrum by N. Chrysanthopoulou, P. Savva, M. Varvayanni, C. Colin, C. Huot-Marchand, N. Catsaros

“…Many nuclides have been examined with respect to only their neutronic behavior, providing thus a pool of neutronically appropriate materials for consideration in further investigation, such as regarding reactor safety and fabrication issues. …”
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YOLOv8s-Longan: a lightweight detection method for the longan fruit-picking UAV by Jun Li, Jun Li, Jun Li, Kaixuan Wu, Meiqi Zhang, Hengxu Chen, Hengyi Lin, Yuju Mai, Linlin Shi

“…To make the network lightweight and improve its generalization performance, the Average and Max pooling attention (AMA) attention module is designed and integrated into the DenseAMA and C2f-Faster-AMA modules on the proposed backbone network. …”
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Phosphorus Dynamics in Managed and Natural Soils: SEM-PLS Analysis of <i>Vaccinium</i>, Forest, and Grassland Ecosystems by Chun Lu, Soh Sugihara, Satoshi Noma, Haruo Tanaka, Ryosuke Tajima, Shingo Matsumoto, Dai Hirose, Xueyan Zhang, Ning Wang, Takuya Ban

“…In deeper soil layers, pH facilitates phosphorus mobilization from NLP pools, with effects varying across fractions. Long-term studies on Japanese <i>Vaccinium</i> soils reveal that pH and electrical conductivity (EC) management significantly promote NLP-to-LP conversion, primarily through NaOH-Po, thereby improving phosphorus use efficiency. …”
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An effective vessel segmentation method using SLOA-HGC by Zerui Liu, Junliang Du, Weisi Dai, Wenke Zhu, Ziqing Ye, Lin Li, Zewei Liu, Linan Hu, Lin Chen, Lixiang Sun

“…Heterogeneous adaptive pooling (HAP) facilitates accurate vessel edge segmentation through multi-scale feature extraction. …”
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Comparative Approach to Define Increased Regulatory T Cells in Different Cancer Subtypes by Combined Assessment of CD127 and FOXP3 by Marc Beyer, Sabine Classen, Elmar Endl, Matthias Kochanek, Martin R. Weihrauch, Svenja Debey-Pascher, Percy A. Knolle, Joachim L. Schultze

“…We have reported an expanded pool of CD4+CD25high Treg cells in patients with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL), multiple myeloma (MM) as well as its premalignant precursor monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). …”
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The Association between Chronic Arsenic Exposure and Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis by Tanvir Abir, Bayzidur Rahman, Catherine D'Este, Abdulaziz Farooq, Abul Hasnat Milton

“…The extracted odds ratios (OR) comparing the highest exposure categories with the lowest in each study were pooled using the random effects methods of meta-analysis. …”
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Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Triggers Protective Pathways in Pancreatic Beta-Cells Exposed to Glycated Serum by Alessandra Puddu, Roberta Sanguineti, Arianna Durante, Alessio Nencioni, François Mach, Fabrizio Montecucco, Giorgio L. Viviani

“…HIT-T15 cells were cultured for 5 days with glycated serum (GS, consisting in a pool of AGEs), in the presence or absence of 10 nmol/L GLP-1. …”
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The Effect of Exercise Interventions on Sleep Quality and Weight Loss in Individuals with Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials by Soonjo Ka, Yu Hyeon Choe, Young-Im Kim, Nahyun Kim, Minjae Seo, Youngju Choi, Jonghoon Park

“…Data synthesis and meta-analysis were performed using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Version 4 (CMA version 4) software, with outcomes expressed as pooled effect sizes, odds ratios (ORs), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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Somatic copy number deletion of chromosome 22q in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Olivia W Lee, Danielle M Karyadi, Stephen W Hartley, Weyin Zhou, Mitchell J Machiela, Shahriar A Zamani, Liudmyla Yu Zurnadzhy, John N Weinstein, Young Joo Park, Jeong-Sun Seo, Gerry A Thomas, Tetiana I Bogdanova, Mykola D Tronko, Lindsay M Morton, Stephen J Chanock

“…Since its role in PTC is not fully understood, we conducted a pooled analysis of genomic characteristics and clinical correlates in 1094 primary tumors from four published PTC genomic studies. …”
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Psychological, psychiatric, and behavioral sciences measurement scales: best practice guidelines for their development and validation by Alberto Stefana, Stefano Damiani, Umberto Granziol, Umberto Provenzani, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Eric A. Youngstrom, Eric A. Youngstrom, Eric A. Youngstrom, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Paolo Fusar-Poli

“…In the Item Development Phase, the construct is defined, and an initial pool of items is generated, incorporating literature reviews, expert feedback, and target population evaluation to ensure item relevance and clarity. …”
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Chronic effects of school physical activity on cognitive performance in youngs: a systematic review protocol by Fernando William Flores Silva, Ricardo Martins, Rochelle Rocha Costa, Carlos Cristi-Montero, Júlio Brugnara Mello

“…For methodological quality will be using the tool for the assessment of study quality and reporting in exercise training studies. Pooled effect estimates will be calculated from the scores of changes between baseline and end of interventions. …”
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