Association between Helicobacter pylori infection, serum thyroid-stimulating hormone, and thyroxine in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000 by Ting Lu, Shunshun Lu, Jieqiong Lin, Xiaona Shao, Dahua Chen, Jianwei Shen

“…Q1: OR = 0.579; 95% CI, 0.403–0.831) and in multivariate regression models (Q4 vs. …”
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Comparative Study of Generalized Sum Graphs via Degree-Based Topological Indices by Muhammad Javaid, Saira Javed, Ebenezer Bonyah

“…This family of graphs is obtained by the lexicographic product of the graph QαH1 and H2, where QαH1 is constructed with the help of the generalized line superposition operation Qα on H1. …”
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Long-Term Homogeneity and Trends of Hydroclimatic Variables in Upper Awash River Basin, Ethiopia by Mekonnen H. Daba, Gebiaw T. Ayele, Songcai You

“…The MK revealed significant decreasing trends of annual rainfall in Addis Alem (Q = −19.81), Akaki (Q = −5.60), Hombole (Q = −9.49), and Ghinch (Q = −12.38) stations. …”
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Quick sequential organ failure assessment score combined with other sepsis-related risk factors to predict in-hospital mortality: Post-hoc analysis of prospective multicenter study... by Ryo Ueno, Takateru Masubuchi, Atsushi Shiraishi, Satoshi Gando, Toshikazu Abe, Shigeki Kushimoto, Toshihiko Mayumi, Seitaro Fujishima, Akiyoshi Hagiwara, Toru Hifumi, Akira Endo, Takayuki Komatsu, Joji Kotani, Kohji Okamoto, Junichi Sasaki, Yasukazu Shiino, Yutaka Umemura

“…A logistic regression model was used to assess the predictive value of qSOFA for in-hospital mortality in models based on the following combination of predictors: 1) qSOFA-Only; 2) qSOFA+Age; 3) qSOFA+Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS); 4) qSOFA+Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI); 5) qSOFA+lactate levels; 6) qSOFA+Age+CCI+CFS+lactate levels. …”
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Chromosomal Abnormalities in Syndromic Orofacial Clefts: Report of Three Children by Rathika Damodara Shenoy, Vijaya Shenoy, Vikram Shetty

“…Emanuel syndrome or supernumerary der (22)t(11; 22), the prototype of complex small supernumerary marker disorders, was seen in one child. Duplication 4q27q35.2 with concomitant deletion 21q22.2q22.3 and duplication 12p13.33p13.32 with concomitant deletion 18q22.3q23 seen in the remaining two children are not reported in literature. …”
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Exploration of different quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based genotyping methods to distinguish Apcmin/+ mice from wildtype mice. by Yuting Sun, Tingyu Zhou, Silin Ye, Effie Yin Tung Lau, Yao Zeng, Jessie Qiaoyi Liang

“…However, despite the widespread availability of quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) instruments in biomedical laboratories, the lack of professional analytical tools impedes the application of qPCR in genotyping. …”
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Weak neutral current axial form factor using ν ¯ ν $$ \left(\overline{\nu}\right)\nu $$ -nucleon scattering and lattice QCD inputs by Raza Sabbir Sufian, Keh-Fei Liu, David G. Richards

“…We then perform a phenomenological analysis, where we combine the strange quark electromagnetic form factor from lattice QCD with (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering differential cross section from MiniBooNE experiments in a momentum transfer region 0.24 ≲ Q2 ≲ 0.71 GeV2 to determine the neutral current weak axial form factor G A Z Q 2 $$ {G}_A^Z\left({Q}^2\right) $$ in the range of 0 ≲ Q2 ≤ 1 GeV2. …”
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Cardiovascular Malformations in CHARGE Syndrome with DiGeorge Phenotype: Two Case Reports by Kazushi Yasuda, Eiji Morihana, Naoki Fusazaki, Shiro Ishikawa

“…CHD7 gene mutation is identified in approximately two-thirds of patients with CHARGE syndrome, and chromosomal microdeletion at 22q11.2 is found in more than 95% of patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Rare Familial Unbalanced Translocation of Chromosomes 7 and 12 by Berrin Tezcan, Foteini Emmanouella Bredaki

“…Genome-wide array analysis and cytogenetic results from the amniotic fluid showed unbalanced translocation in chromosomes 7 and 12 with deletion of an approximately 16.5 Mb and a duplication of 6.1 Mb, respectively, Arr 7q34q36.3(142,668,576-159,161,648)x1,12q24.32q24.33(127,708,720-133,777,560)x3, karyotype (der (7) t(7;12) (q34;q24)pat). …”
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Association between serum testosterone changes and parameters of the metabolic syndrome by Sohei Kuribayashi, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Hiroaki Kitakaze, Go Tsujimura, Takahiro Imanaka, Norichika Ueda, Kentaro Takezawa, Hiroshi Kiuchi, Ayaka Tachi, Jiro Sakamoto, Toyofumi Abe, Go Tanigawa, Yasushi Miyagawa, Takashi Fujimoto, Norio Nonomura

“…The median ΔTT were –1.22 for Q1, –0.35 for Q2, +0.19 for Q3, and +1.43 for Q4. …”
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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras by Timothy R. Baker, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Perpetra Akite, Miguel Alexiades, Everton Almeida, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Christian Amani, Ana Andrade, Luiz Aragao, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Suspense A. Averti Ifo, Gerardo A. C. Aymard, Michel Baisie, William Balee, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Olaf Banki, Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely Barroso, Jean-Francois Bastin, Hans Beeckman, Serge Begne, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Nicholas Berry, Wemo Betian, Vincent Bezard, Lilian Blanc, Pascal Boeckx, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Foster Brown, Musalmah Bt. Nasaradin, Benoit Burban, David F. R. P. Burslem, Plinio Camargo, Jose Luis Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Carlos Ceron, Victor Chama Moscoso, Colin Chapman, Jerome Chave, Eric Chezeaux, Murray Collins, James Comiskey, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Flavia R. C. Costa, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Lola da Costa, Douglas C. Daly, Martin Dančák, Armandu Daniels, Greta Dargie, Stuart Davies, Charles De Canniere, Thales de Haulleville, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Marie-Noel K. Djuikouo, Jean-Louis Doucet, Vincent Droissart, Gerald Eilu, Thaise Emillio, Julien Engel, Bocko Yannick Enock, Fidele Evouna Ondo, Corneille Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Muhammad Fitriadi, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Ernest G. Foli, Gabriella Fredriksson, David R. Galbraith, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Christelle Gonmadje, Rene Guillen Villaroel, Jefferson Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan Hamilton, Olivier Hardy, Terese Hart, Radim Hédl, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Claude Marcel Hladik, Eurídice Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Wannes Hubau, Muhammad Idhamsyah, Sascha A. Ismail, Kath Jeffery, Eliana Jimenez, Tommaso Jucker, Elizabeth Kearsley, Lip Khoon Kho, Timothy Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Miguel Leal, Simon L. Lewis, Stanislav Lhota, Jeremy Lindsell, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Jon Lovett, Richard Lowe, William E. Magnusson, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew Marshall, Colin Maycock, Faustin Mbayu, Casimiro Mendoza, Irina Mendoza Polo, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Sam Moore, Patrick Mucunguzi, Jacques Mukinzi, Pantaleo Munishi, Laszlo Nagy, Petrus Naisso, David Neill, Adriano Nogueira Lima, Percy Nunez Vargas, Lucas Ojo, Walter Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Julie Peacock, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Antonio Pena Cruz, Colin Pendry, Toby Pennington, Maria Cristina Penuela-Mora, Pascal Petronelli, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance, G. John Pipoly, Nigel Pitman, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Ghillean T. Prance, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Lan Qie, Simon A. Queenborough, Terry Sunderland, Carlos Quesada, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Rafael Salomao, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Muhd Shahruney Saparudin, Juliana Schietti, Ricardo A. Segovia, Julio Serrano, Rafizah Serudia, Douglas Sheil, Natalino Silva, Javier Silva Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Murielle Simo-Droissart, James Singh, Bonaventure Sonké, Thaise Emilio Lopes De Sousa, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu Sukri, Terry Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Michael Swaine, Hermann Taedoumg, Joey Talbot, Sylvester Tan, James Taplin, David Taylor, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Armando Torres-Lezama, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Darlington Tuagben, Peter van de Meer, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter van der Hout, Mark van Nieuwstadt, Bert van Ulft, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ronald Vernimmen, Barbara Vinceti, Simone Vieira, Ima Celia Guimaries Vieira, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Jason Vleminckx, Lee White, Simon Willcock, Mathew Williams, John T. Woods, Tze Leong Yao, Ishak Yassir, Roderick Zagt, Lise Zemagho

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On the k-Error Linear Complexity of Binary Sequences Derived from the Discrete Logarithm in Finite Fields by Zhixiong Chen, Qiuyan Wang

“…Let Fq be the finite field with q=pr elements, where p is an odd prime. For the ordered elements ξ0,ξ1,…,ξq-1∈Fq, the binary sequence σ=(σ0,σ1,…,σq-1) with period q is defined over the finite field F2={0,1} as follows: σn=0,  if  n=0,  (1-χ(ξn))/2,  if  1≤n<q,  σn+q=σn, where χ is the quadratic character of Fq. …”
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Quantitative LAMP and PCR Detection of Salmonella in Chicken Samples Collected from Local Markets around Pathum Thani Province, Thailand by Virun Vichaibun, Panan Kanchanaphum

“…The conventional LAMP, qLAMP, and qPCR methods detected Salmonella in all the chicken samples. …”
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Further Results on Resistance Distance and Kirchhoff Index in Electric Networks by Qun Liu, Jia-Bao Liu, Jinde Cao

“…The objective of the present work is to obtain the resistance distance and Kirchhoff index for composite networks such as Q-vertex corona and Q-edge corona networks.…”
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Distinguishing Majorana bound states from Andreev bound states through differential conductance and current noise spectrum by Huajin Zhao, Junrong Wang, Hong Mao, Jinshuang Jin

“…Furthermore, we identify the critical quality factors $q_{\mathit{c}}$ and $q_{{\textit{S}}}$ associated with the emergences of ZBP and RDD, respectively. …”
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A curious property of series involving terms of generalized sequences by Odoardo Brugia, Piero Filipponi

“…Here we are concerned with series involving generalized Fibonacci numbers Un  (p,q) and generalized Lucas numbers Vn  (p,q). The aim of this paper is to find triples (p,q,r) for which the series Un  (p,q)/rn and Vn  (p,q)/rn (for r running from 0 to infinity) are unconcerned at the introduction of the factor n. …”
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A Best Possible Double Inequality for Power Mean by Yong-Min Li, Bo-Yong Long, Yu-Ming Chu

“…We answer the question: for any p,q∈ℝ with p≠q and p≠-q, what are the greatest value λ=λ(p,q) and the least value μ=μ(p,q), such that the double inequality Mλ(a,b)<Mp(a,b)Mq(a,b)<Mμ(a,b) holds for all a,b>0 with a≠b? …”
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Photometric Determination of Unresolved Main-sequence Binaries in the Pleiades: Binary Fraction and Mass-ratio Distribution by Rongrong Liu, Zhengyi Shao, Lu Li

“…Accurate determination of binary fractions ( f _b ) and mass ratio ( q ) distributions is crucial for understanding the dynamical evolution of open clusters. …”
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Constructing irreducible polynomials with prescribed level curves over finite fields by Mihai Caragiu

“…We use Eisenstein's irreducibility criterion to prove that there exists an absolutely irreducible polynomial P(X,Y)∈GF(q)[X,Y] with coefficients in the finite field GF(q) with q elements, with prescribed level curves Xc:={(x,y)∈GF(q)2|P(x,y)=c}.…”
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Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Boundedness of Commutators of the General Fractional Integral Operators on Weighted Morrey Spaces by Zengyan Si, Fayou Zhao

“…We prove that b is in Lipβ(ω) if and only if the commutator [b,L-α/2] of the multiplication operator by b and the general fractional integral operator L-α/2 is bounded from the weighted Morrey space Lp,k(ω) to Lq,kq/p(ω1-(1-α/n)q,ω), where 0<β<1, 0<α+β<n,1<p<n/(α+β), 1/q=1/p-(α+β)/n, 0≤k<p/q, ωq/p∈A1, and rω>(1-k)/(p/(q-k)), and here rω denotes the critical index of ω for the reverse Hölder condition.…”
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