Assist-linked brief intervention to reduce risky pattern of substance use in male workers employed at a tertiary care hospital in India: A randomized controlled trial by Sambhu Prasad, Debasish Basu, Surendra K. Mattoo, B. N Subodh

“…In Phase-I, a random list of 400 employees was generated from the entire pool of male hospital workers, of which 360 participated. …”
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A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis on the Efficacy of Medications in the Treatment of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation in Japan by Atsushi Nakajima, Ayako Shoji, Kinya Kokubo, Ataru Igarashi

“…Two reviewers independently screened and assessed articles, abstracted data, and assessed the risk of bias. We pooled data by random-effects meta-analyses and also performed a Bayesian network meta-analysis to indirectly compare data. …”
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Global birth prevalence of major congenital anomalies: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaolong Xie, Jiao Pei, Li Zhang, Yang Wu

“…Data from eligible studies were pooled in meta-analysis to get global estimates of birth prevalence and prevalence in subgroups of geographic regions, countries with varying income levels and time periods. …”
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The efficacy and safety of fluvoxamine in patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials. by Qiufeng Zhou, Guozheng Zhao, Yu Pan, Ying Zhang, Yuehua Ni

“…The risk ratio (RR) and mean difference (MD) was analyzed and calculated with a random effect model.<h4>Results</h4>We pooled 4,711 participants from six RCTs (2,382 in the fluvoxamine group and 2,329 in the placebo group). …”
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Changes of soil organic carbon and aggregate stability along elevation gradient in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations by Xiaoqing Cao, Yuting Xu, Fei Wang, Zhili Zhang, Xiaoniu Xu

“…The physical protection of silt + clay fractions and the active carbon pools may be the main mechanisms for organic carbon preservation in the Dabie Mountains. …”
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Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is associated with circulating ultra-large von Willebrand multimers and ADAMTS13 inhibition. by Deirdre Larkin, Bas de Laat, P Vince Jenkins, James Bunn, Alister G Craig, Virginie Terraube, Roger J S Preston, Cynthia Donkor, George E Grau, Jan A van Mourik, James S O'Donnell

“…Mixing studies were performed using P. falciparum patient plasma and normal pooled plasma, in the presence or absence of exogenous recombinant ADAMTS13. …”
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Automatic Sleep Stage Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Fine-Grained Segments by Zhihong Cui, Xiangwei Zheng, Xuexiao Shao, Lizhen Cui

“…Next, each segment in this series is individually put into the designed CNN and feature maps are obtained after two blocks of convolution and max-pooling as well as a full-connected operation. Finally, the results from the full-connected layer of each segment in the input time sequence are put into the softmax classifier together to get a single most likely sleep stage. …”
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Multiple Roles of the Y Chromosome in the Biology of Drosophila melanogaster by Roberto Piergentili

“…Nonetheless, a more accurate analysis reveals that this chromosome can influence several complex phenotypes: (1) it has a role in the fertility of both sexes and viability of males when over-represented; (2) it can unbalance the intracellular nucleotide pool; (3) it can interfere with the gene expression either by recruiting proteins involved in chromatin remodeling (PEV) or, to a higher extent, by influencing the expression of up to 1,000 different genes, probably by changing the availability of transcription factors; (4) it plays a major role (up to 50%) in the resistance to heat-induced male sterility; (5) it affects the behavior; and (6) it plays a role in genetic imprinting. …”
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A deep learning based model for diabetic retinopathy grading by Samia Akhtar, Shabib Aftab, Oualid Ali, Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Sagheer Abbas, Taher M. Ghazal

“…The model also contains max pooling, drop out and fully connected layers. Our proposed RSG-Net model achieved a testing accuracy of 99.36%, specificity of 99.79% and a sensitivity of 99.41% in classifying diabetic retinopathy into 4 grades and it achieved 99.37% accuracy, 100% sensitivity and 98.62% specificity in classifying DR into 2 grades. …”
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Investigation of Performance and Residual Stress Generation of AlSi10Mg Processed by Selective Laser Melting by Lianfeng Wang, Xiaohui Jiang, Yihong Zhu, Zishan Ding, Xiaogang Zhu, Jing Sun, Biao Yan

“…With the increase of preheating temperature, the molten pool in the side surface is obviously elongated and highly unevenly distributed. …”
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Psychometric validation of the continuum beliefs of mental illness scale (CB-MIS) and its associations with stigma by Lina-Jolien Peter, Thomas McLaren, Samuel Tomczyk, Holger Muehlan, Silke Schmidt, Georg Schomerus

“…Methods To develop such a scale, a pool of 37 items adapted from other studies on continuum beliefs, was initially examined in expert discussions and a convenience sample (N = 227, M age=32 years, 80.6% female). …”
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Fall detection method based on spatio-temporal coordinate attention for high-resolution networks by Xiaorui Zhang, Qijian Xie, Wei Sun, Ting Wang

“…Long-term dependencies in horizontal, vertical, temporal directions are captured through three one-dimensional global pooling operations. Then the long-range relationships and channel correlations among features are captured by cascading and slicing operations. …”
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The impact of depression and anxiety disorders on postoperative outcomes for patients having total hip or knee arthroplasty: Protocol of a meta-analytic study from cohort studies. by Liang Lin, Qing Zhang, Min Xu, Zhihong Xiao, Guosong Xu, Zubing Mei

“…Meta-analysis will be conducted using a random-effects model to calculate pooled risk estimates and 95% confidence intervals for each outcome. …”
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Iron:The missing link of depression prevention and treatment by reza pakzad, Mohammadamin Jandaghian Bidgoli, fatemeh abdi, negin shaterian

“…To assess source of heterogeneity, meta-regression was used. The pooled standardized mean difference (PSMD) was calculated by considering the random effects model. …”
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The Addition of Opuntia ficus-indica Ethanolic Extract to a Skimmed Milk-Based Extender Impacts Ram Sperm Quality by Larbi Allai, Xavier Druart, Pinar Terzioğlu, Noureddine Louanjli, Boubker Nasser, Mehmet Ozturk, Bouchra El Amiri

“…The ejaculates with more than 70% motility were pooled, extended with skim milk (SM) extender without (control) or supplemented with 1–8% of ETHEX (37°C; 0.8 × 109 sperm/mL). …”
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Outplanting Performance of the Bornean Tropical Indigenous Species Shorea macrophylla (de Vriese) P. S. Ashton in relation to Seedling Age by Mugunthan Perumal, Mohd Effendi Wasli, Soo Ying Ho

“…Nonetheless, the overall pooled mean survival rates declined from 61.7 to 44.6% after 12, 24, and 42 months of outplanting. …”
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Phenological assessment of early-maturing soybean accessions (<i>Glycine max</i> (L.) Merr.) under the conditions of Moscow Province by E. V. Vlasova, Yu. V. Gorbunova, I. V. Seferova

“…The main method of finding sources of earliness for crop production and breeding is the evaluation of the gene pool under the required conditions.Materials and methods. …”
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Combined balloon plus stent technique for treatment of intracranial aneurysm: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mohammad Amin Habibi, Mohammad Reza Arshadi, Hossein Gharedaghi, Farhang Rashidi, Ali Asgarzadeh

“…Results Eleven studies comprising 481 aneurysms were included. The pooled angiographic outcome rate, according to Raymond–Roy occlusion classification (RROC), for RROC1 was 64% (95% CI 50–79%, p-heterogeneity < 0.001, I2 = 87%), while for the RROC2 was 18% (95% CI 14–23%, p-heterogeneity = 0.12, I2 = 1%), and the RROC3 rate was 17% (95% CI 3–30%, p-heterogeneity < 0.001, I2 = 100%). …”
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Assessing the irrigation water requirement and irrigation water use at a house scale in Las Vegas Valley by Rubab Saher, Thomas Ott

“…Comparing recommended irrigation rates with irrigation water requirement and irrigation water use showed that 30 houses over-irrigated six and a half Olympic swimming pools. The study concluded that the higher resolution irrigation model with a spatial resolution of 1 m and 3 m could help monitor irrigation water use. …”
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Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of NIM‐1324 an Oral LANCL2 Agonist in a Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Phase I Clinical Trial by Andrew Leber, Raquel Hontecillas, Nuria Tubau‐Juni, Josep Bassaganya‐Riera

“…NIM‐1324 did not increase total AE rates in individual cohorts or pooled active groups in SAD or MAD with no SAEs in the study. …”
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