The Reach of Depression Screening Preceding Treatment: Are There Patterns of Patients' Self-Selection? by Dea Ajduković, Mirjana Pibernik-Okanović, Mario Šekerija, Norbert Hermanns

“…Willingness to accept treatment was predicted by professional status (OR = 3.24, 95% CI = 1.53–6.87), education (OR = 1.21, 95% CI = 1.05–1.38), and BMI (OR = .91, 95% CI = .85–.98). …”
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The Association between Vitamin D Hypovitaminosis and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Saudi Diabetic Patients Type II by Abeer Ahmed Alrefai, Elsayed Elsalamony, Sameer H. Fatani, Zeinab A. Kasemy, Abdulaziz Fatani, Hala Fawzy Mohamed Kamel

“…There is a considerable association between lifetime and 10 years of ASCVD risk with hypovitaminosis D in T2DM, regardless of the deficiency levels which could be predicted by the diabetes duration.…”
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A quality by design HPLC method for cephalosporin analysis in pharmaceuticals and water samples with environmental impact assessment by Ali Alqahtani, Taha Alqahtani, Adel Al Fatease, Enas H. Tolba

“…A Box–Behnken experimental design was employed to optimize three chromatographic parameters: mobile phase composition, flow rate and buffer pH. The predicted optimal conditions involved using a mobile phase of acetonitrile and 0.04 M phosphate buffer at pH 6 in a 7:93 (v/v) ratio, pumped at 1.3 mL/min through a Nucleosil C18 (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 μm) column with UV detection at 240 nm. …”
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New Leakage Model for Naturally Fractured Formations Considering the Effects of Dual-System Hydro-Mechanical Coupling by Hao Peng, Qian Li, JiaJia Gao, Hu Yin, Jun Wang

“…The new model may be utilized to simulate various problems related to the invasion of drilling fluids into the fractures, including predicting the dynamic width of natural fracture and borehole ballooning/breathing phenomena.…”
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A comprehensive analysis and comparative study of the trends in thyroid cancer burden in China and globally from 1990 to 2021, with projections for the next 15 Years by Yulai Yin, Xiaoyu Zhang

“…While the age-standardized mortality rate for females is projected to decline significantly, the mortality rate for males is predicted to stabilize.ConclusionBetween 1990 and 2021, the number of thyroid cancer cases has increased both in China and globally, while the mortality rate has shown a marked decline. …”
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Defense Budget Gaps and Legal Implications of Alternative Financing in Indonesia: A Legal Reform Perspective by Aris Marsudiyanto, Athor Subroto, Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro, A. Hanief Saha Ghafur

“…Using the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) approach, we predict future budget availability and compare it with the projected defense needs, revealing a significant gap. …”
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The Complex Neural Network Model for Mass Appraisal and Scenario Forecasting of the Urban Real Estate Market Value That Adapts Itself to Space and Time by Leonid N. Yasnitsky, Vitaly L. Yasnitsky, Aleksander O. Alekseev

“…On the other hand, there are several dynamic models taking into account the overall state of the economy and designed to predict and study the overall price situation in real estate markets. …”
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Using unmanned aerial vehicles to estimate body volume at scale for ecological monitoring by Thomas C. Stone, Katrina J. Davis

“…We apply and validate this method on the grey seal Halichoerus grypus, a pinniped species that spends much of its time at sea but is predictably observable during its annual breeding season. …”
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MED-AGNeT: An attention-guided network of customized augmentation of samples based on conditional diffusion for textile defect detection by Jun Liu, Haolin Li, Hao Liu, Jiuzhen Liang

“…Ultimately, AGNet’s true positive rate (TPR), positive predictive value (PPV), and f-measure exceed those of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms by 1.88%, 0.05%, and 0.77%, respectively, and with a consistent model architecture, its parameter quantity is reduced by 56%.…”
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Evaluation of Risk Factors of Peri-Implant Disease Using a New Manual Risk Assessment Model: A Clinical study by Mahima Jain, Mohd Shafiq Bin Shaffa’ee, Ashita Uppoor, Swati Pralhad, Sangeeta U. Nayak, Sharon Saldanha

“…Implants are being widely used as a treatment option and are considered the best line of treatment owing to their high level of predictability. However, over 5 years, 0–14.4% of dental implants have demonstrated peri-inflammatory reactions associated with loss of crestal bone and ultimately loss of the implant. …”
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Primary prevention of sexually transmitted infections in Switzerland: practices of family physicians and their determinants—a national cross-sectional survey by Hanna Vautrin, Nicolas Senn, Christine Cohidon

“…One hundred and seventy Swiss GPs, from a random sample from professional lists stratified by canton, participated in the present study.Primary and secondary outcome measures Prevention practices against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) performed by GPs through advice provided as well as their vaccination practices. Predictive factor of these practices through their links with the doctors’ relevant characteristics and their opinions about STI prevention.Results Approximately 80% consider prevention in the area of affective and sexual life to be part of their duty and discuss it easily with patients. …”
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Blind Spot in the Radar of MEST-C Score: Type and Severity of Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in IgA Nephropathy by Iram Asrar, Mudassar Hussain, Aurangzeb Afzal, Usman Hassan, Sheeba Ishtiaq

“…The updated version of predictive classification for immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) prognosis “The Oxford Classification” identifies five histopathological features including mesangial hypercellularity (M), endocapillary proliferation (E), segmental glomerulosclerosis (S), tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis (T) and crescents (C), the MEST-C. …”
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Genomic insights into the probiotic potential and genes linked to gallic acid metabolism in Pediococcus pentosaceus MBBL6 isolated from healthy cow milk. by Md Morshedur Rahman, Naim Siddique, Soharth Hasnat, Md Tanvir Rahman, Mustafizur Rahman, Munirul Alam, Ziban Chandra Das, Tofazzal Islam, M Nazmul Hoque

“…Antimicrobial efficacy was evaluated through in-vitro and in-vivo studies, alongside in-silico exploration for potential mastitis therapy. We predicted 1,906 genes and 204 SEED sub-systems involved in carbohydrate metabolism and vitamin B complex biosynthesis, with a focus on lactose metabolism in MMBL6. …”
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Analysis of the use of digital technologies at enterprises of the shipbuilding industry of the military-industrial complex by Lipatnikov Vitalii, Smirnova Ol'ga, Lebedkin Pavel

“…The introduction of various digital products made it possible to predict the final performance characteristics of the manufactured product. …”
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The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health by Nathan Brown, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Peter Crow, Stephen Parnell

“…Methods are increasingly available to predict species distributions from large datasets, but more work is needed to understand how these apply to rare events such as new introductions. …”
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Why PD-L1 expression varies between studies of lung cancer: results from a Bayesian meta-analysis by Preston Ngo, Wendy A. Cooper, Stephen Wade, Kwun M. Fong, Karen Canfell, Deme Karikios, Marianne Weber

“…Using the 22C3 antibody as a benchmark, we predicted that 58.3% (95% CrI 49.8–66.1%) and 27.0% (95% CrI 21.2–33.1%) of NSCLC will have PD-L1 tumour proportion scores at the ≥ 1% and ≥ 50% threshold. …”
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Influence of thermal ageing on tensile-plastic flow and work hardening parameters of Indian reduced activated Ferritic Martensitic steel by Sahoo K.C., Laha K.

“…Conclusively, the Voce relation proved efficacious in predicting the yield stress (YS) and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of both the thermally aged and N&T INRAFM steel at varying temperatures.…”
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Damage symptoms, development, and reproductive performance of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on fodder maize and cob by Hend O. Mohamed, Hassan F. Dahi, Azza A. Awad, Walaa E. Gamil, Bassam F. Fahmy

“…The results of this study could play a significant role in predicting the damage and reproductive performance of FAW in maize fields during their developmental growth, which will further help in developing effective integrated management techniques against this pest.…”
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Emphysema is associated with thoracic vertebral bone attenuation on chest CT scan in HIV-infected individuals. by Alycia Petraglia, Joseph K Leader, Matthew Gingo, Meghan Fitzpatrick, John Ries, Cathy Kessinger, Lorrie Lucht, Danielle Camp, Alison Morris, Jessica Bon

“…In non-HIV infected smokers, emphysema has been shown to independently predict low BMD. We hypothesized that emphysema would independently associate with thoracic vertebral bone attenuation, a surrogate for bone mineral density, in HIV-infected individuals.…”
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In vitro and In silico investigation deciphering novel antifungal activity of endophyte Bacillus velezensis CBMB205 against Fusarium oxysporum by Vibha R, Daniela Loaiza Granada, Sinosh Skariyachan, Ujwal P, Sandesh k

“…In the present study, the endophytic bacterium was isolated from Globba racemosa and their antagonistic activities against Foc were studied, and the probable molecular mechanism of antagonism was predicted by molecular docking studies. The 16SrRNA sequencing confirmed the endophytic isolate to be Bacillus velezensis CBMB205 (EG2). …”
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