Serum calcium and its relationship with immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels in prepartum buffaloes from the Venezuelan humid tropics by Juan Pablo Uzcátegui-Varela, Anacelmira Urbina Andueza, Janeth Caamaño Carrero

“…The sampling consisted of collecting 6 milliliters (mL) of blood by jugular venipuncture in tubes without anticoagulant; then, the serum was separated by centrifugation at 3,300 r.p.m. for 20 minutes at 25 °C using a BOECO®-Germany centrifuge. …”
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Exploring cement Production's role in GDP using explainable AI and sustainability analysis in Nepal by Ramhari Poudyal, Biplov Paneru, Bishwash Paneru, Tilak Giri, Bibek Paneru, Tim Reynolds, Khem Narayan Poudyal, Mohan B. Dangi

“…The SET (Stacking) Ensemble model gained a testing R2 score (0.9372) and a testing RMSE (9019.76). …”
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Assessment of Atrial Conduction Times in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Parkinson’s Disease by Yiğit Çanga, Ayşe Emre, Gülbün Asuman Yüksel, Mehmet Baran Karataş, Nizamettin Selçuk Yelgeç, Ufuk Gürkan, Ali Nazmi Çalık, Hülya Tireli, Sait Terzi

“…There were significant positive correlations between disease severity (UPDRS score) and PWD (r=0.34, p=0.041), left intra-atrial (r=0.39, p=0.005), and interatrial EMD (r=0.35, p=0.012). …”
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Assembly and comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) revealing repeat-mediated recombination and gene transfer by Huajie Zhang, Minghui Yan, Lijuan Li, Zhuo Jiang, Ye Xiong, Yusheng Wang, Caleb Onoja Akogwu, Olutayo Mary Tolulope, Hao Zhou, Yanxia Sun, Hengchang Wang

“…Conclusions In this study, we presented the mitogenome of R. idaeus for the first time based on data obtained from Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing platforms. …”
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Mega-events and the climate: what’s the game? by David Gogishvili, Martin Müller

“…A., Matthews, T. K. R., Mears, S. A., Mullan, D. J., & Taylor, L. (2023). …”
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Pushing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to the Limit: 140 pc Resolution Observations of a z = 6.6 Quasar–Galaxy Merger Resolve Strikingly Different Morphologies of... by Romain A. Meyer, Bram Venemans, Marcel Neeleman, Roberto Decarli, Fabian Walter

“…The dust continuum emission is compact with ~80% recovered within $r\lt 0\mathop{.}\limits^{^{\prime\prime} }3$ (1.6 kpc), whereas the [C ii ] emission profile is composed of a central Gaussian ( $r\lt 0\mathop{.}…”
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Association of C1q/TNF-Related Protein-9 (CTRP9) Level with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Zexuan Li, Yunhui Du, Lixin Jia, Jingyao Fan, Ruifeng Guo, Xinliang Ma, Xiao Wang, Shaoping Nie, Yongxiang Wei

“…Correlation analysis showed that CTRP9 levels were negatively correlated with AHI (r=−0.238, P=0.003) and oxygen desaturation index (r=−0.234, P=0.004) and positively correlated with left ventricular ejection fraction (r=0.251, P=0.004) in all subjects. …”
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Total Adiponectin Is Inversely Associated with Platelet Activation and CHA2DS2-VASc Score in Anticoagulated Patients with Atrial Fibrillation by Roberto Carnevale, Daniele Pastori, Mariangela Peruzzi, Elena De Falco, Isotta Chimenti, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Ernesto Greco, Antonino G. M. Marullo, Cristina Nocella, Francesco Violi, Pasquale Pignatelli, Camilla Calvieri, Giacomo Frati

“…Serum APN and plasmatic sCD40L were inversely correlated (R −0.626, P<0.001). A progressive increase of sCD40L across tertiles of CHA2DS2-VASc score was observed (rS 0.473, P<0.001), whilst APN was inversely correlated (rS −0.463,  P<0.001). …”
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Multiplex Bead Array Assay for Detection of 25 Soluble Cytokines in Blister Fluid of Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 by Claudia Heijmans-Antonissen, Feikje Wesseldijk, Renate JM Munnikes, Frank JPM Huygen, Patrick van der Meijden, Wim C. J. Hop, Herbert Hooijkaas, Freek J. Zijlstra

“…Levels of IL-6 and TNF-α simultaneously measured by ELISA (Sanquin Compact kit) and by multiplex-25 bead array assay (Biosource) were highly correlated (r=0.85, P<.001 for IL-6 and r=0.88, P<.001 for TNF-α). …”
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Evaluating Ultrafine Particles and PM2.5 in Microenvironments with Health Perspectives: Variability in Concentrations and Pollutant Interrelationships by Sheng Xiang, Shaojun Zhang, Yu Ting Yu, Hui Wang, Ye Deng, Qinwen Tan, Zihang Zhou, Ye Wu

“…ΔPM2.5, PNCd,sfb vs. ΔPM2.5). Here, the R2 showed a comparable seasonal trend (winter lower than autumn) and similar magnitude as the literature, but no strong correlation (R2 < 0.15) was found. …”
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Systematic review of amyloid-beta clearance proteins from the brain to the periphery: implications for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and therapeutic targets by Letian Huang, Mingyue Liu, Ze Li, Bing Li, Jiahe Wang, Ke Zhang

“…Furthermore, correlations were observed between amyloid-beta levels and the levels of TREM2 (r = 0.16, 95% CI: 0.04–0.28, P = 0.009, I2 = 74.7%), neprilysin (r = –0.47, 95% CI: –0.80–0.14, P = 0.005, I2 = 76.1%), and P-glycoprotein (r = –0.31, 95% CI: –0.51–0.11, P = 0.002, I2 = 0.0%) in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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AI Chatbots and Cognitive Control: Enhancing Executive Functions Through Chatbot Interactions: A Systematic Review by Pantelis Pergantis, Victoria Bamicha, Charalampos Skianis, Athanasios Drigas

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Personality traits and their relationship with oral health related quality of life among adolescents in Saudi Arabia by Danah Sahmi Alhajri, Danah Abdullatif Alhammad, Lulwah Fouad Alabdulqader, Reem Rashed Alasbly, Muhanad Alhareky, Mazin Algahtani, Asim Al-Ansari, Muhammad Ashraf Nazir

“…Bivariate analyses showed that neuroticism was negatively correlated with OHRQoL (r = -0.455, P < 0.001), whereas extraversion (r = 0.182, P < 0.001) and conscientiousness (r = 0.110, P = 0.047) were positively correlated with OHRQoL. …”
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Estimation Model for Cotton Canopy Structure Parameters Based on Spectral Vegetation Index by Yaqin Qi, Xi Chen, Zhengchao Chen, Xin Zhang, Congju Shen, Yan Chen, Yuanying Peng, Bing Chen, Qiong Wang, Taijie Liu, Hao Zhang

“…For dry biomass, the exponential function model (<i>y = 9.1565 × 10⁻⁵∙exp(1.1146x)</i>) was the most precise, achieving an <i>R</i>² value of 0.8456 and the lowest <i>RMSE</i> value of 0.0076. …”
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Activity of trypsin inhibitors in common bean seeds (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from the VIR collection: variability and source material for breeding by T. V. Buravtseva, G. P. Egorova, M. O. Burlyaeva, M. A. Nikishkina

“…The results of the correlation analysis showed that the values of correlation coefficients were unstable over the years of study, and did not allow us to reveal stable relationships between TIA in bean seeds and meteorological conditions (-0.39 ≤ r ≤ 0.41), morphological (0.03 ≤ r ≤ 0.23) and economically valuable (-0.05 ≤ r ≤ 0.21) traits. …”
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Prevalence of obesity according to body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio in Peru: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Luisa Erika Milagros Vásquez-Romero, Fiorella E. Zuzunaga-Montoya, Joan A. Loayza-Castro, Enrique Vigil-Ventura, Willy Ramos, Víctor Juan Vera-Ponce

“…The highest reported prevalence of obesity by WHtR was 85.4 %. Nonetheless, only a fraction of these studies were published in the last five years, and few specifically focused on obesity as the primary objective. …”
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Effect of Acupuncture Stimulation of Hegu (LI4) and Taichong (LR3) on the Resting-State Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease: Beyond the Default Mode Network by Shaozhen Ji, Hao Zhang, Wen Qin, Ming Liu, Weimin Zheng, Ying Han, Haiqing Song, Kuncheng Li, Jie Lu, Zhiqun Wang

“…And the impaired connectivity in the lFPN, rFPN, SMN, and VN was found in AD patients compared with those in HCs. …”
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Relationship between Serum Levels of OPG and TGF-β with Decreasing Rate of BMD in Native Chinese Women by Xi-Yu Wu, Yi-Qun Peng, Hong Zhang, Hui Xie, Zhi-Feng Sheng, Xiang-Hang Luo, Ru-Chun Dai, Hou-De Zhou, Xian-Ping Wu, Er-Yuan Liao

“…At all skeletal sites tested, there was a negative correlation between BDR and serum levels of both OPG (r=−0.122 to –0.230, all P = 0.007–0.000) and TGF-β2 (r=−0.100 to –0.173, all P = 0.029–0.000) and a positive correlation between BDR and serum TGF-β1 (r=0.245−0.365, all P=0.000). …”
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Evaluación de la contaminación urbana por emisiones sonoras registradas con sonómetro y nodos sensores by Julia Martínez Gavilanes, Omar Delgado Inga, Ismael Vanegas Galindo, Darío Espinoza Saquicela, Francisco Salgado Castillo

“…Se obtuvo un alto coeficiente de correlación (r = 0,8) y de determinación (R2>0,6), entre los datos levantados con sensor y sonómetro. …”
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The food environment in favelas is associated with the presence of arterial hypertension and diabetes in socially vulnerable women by Luiz Gonzaga Ribeiro Silva-Neto, Risia Cristina Egito de Menezes, Juliana Souza Oliveira, Nathalia Paula de Souza, Thays Lane Ferreira dos Santos, Telma Maria de Menezes Toledo Florêncio

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