Prevalence and Severity of Menopausal Symptoms and the Quality of Life in Middle-aged Women: A Study from Sri Lanka by Nirmala Rathnayake, Janaka Lenora, Gayani Alwis, Sarath Lekamwasam

“…Psychological symptoms score and somatovegetative symptoms score were associated with the QOL of premenopausal women (adjusted R2; 0.35). Somatovegetative symptoms score, psychological symptoms score, moderate and vigorous physical activity scores, and monthly income were associated with the QOL in postmenopausal women (adjusted R2; 0.38). …”
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Optimization Research on the Performance of the RC-DTH Air Hammer Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics by Zihao Liu, Yongjiang Luo, Wenchao He, Rui Tao, Jiangfu He, Yongliang Sun, Hongwei Chen, Qianting Hu

“…Conversely, increasing the inlet stroke of the lower chamber (<i>R</i>₁) and the outlet stroke of the upper chamber (<i>F</i>₂) tends to diminish the piston’s impact performance. …”
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Injuries in Left Corticospinal Tracts, Forceps Major, and Left Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus (Temporal) as the Quality Indicators for Major Depressive Disorder by Ziwei Liu, Lijun Kang, Aixia Zhang, Chunxia Yang, Min Liu, Jizhi Wang, Penghong Liu, Kerang Zhang, Ning Sun

“…FMa FA was significantly positively correlated with delayed memory score (r=0.43, P=0.031), and RILF FA was significantly negatively correlated with the FSS score (r=−0.42, P=0.028). …”
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Comparative analysis of visible and near-infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy and prediction of moisture ratio using machine learning algorithms for jujube dried under different conditi... by Seda Günaydın, Necati Çetin, Cevdet Sağlam, Kamil Sacilik, Ahmad Jahanbakhshi

“…For MR prediction, the highest R-values belonged to MLP and RF, with values of 0.9997 and 0.9968, respectively. …”
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Acute recovery of heart rate in a functional fitness session and its relationship with maximum oxygen consumption by Brian Johan Bustos-Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Rafael Enrique Lozano Zapata, Amalia Villamizar Navarro, John Alexander García Galviz

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the maximum oxygen consumption was not significantly related in men (p&gt;0.05), in the case of women it was positive with the recovery heart rate in all periods, but with significance in 1 minute (r = 0 .81; p&lt;0.05) and 3 minutes (r = 0.93; p&lt;0.01).…”
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Comparison of growth curves with non-linear models in japanese quails of different plumage color by Serdar Guler, Emre Arslan, Muhammet Mucahit Sari, Orhan Cetin

“…Coefficient of Determination (R²), Adjusted Coefficient of Determination (R² _adj), Akaike Information Criteria (AIC), Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) and mean square errors (MSE) were determined 0,9968; 0,9952; 24,8801; 24,7179 and 25,9657 for brown; 0,9975; 0,9963; 22,9149; 22,7527 and 19,6099 for yellow plumage-colored quails, respectively. …”
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Extraction of individual Pockels coefficients of thin films via interferometric reflection measurements by Kobe De Geest, Enes Lievens, Ewout Picavet, Klaartje De Buysser, Dries Van Thourhout, Jeroen Beeckman

“…In this work, we demonstrate a new method to extract the r _33 and the r _13 coefficient independently by measuring the change in polarization and amplitude of light reflected at the sample, taking into account multiple reflections and interference effects. …”
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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography training using a silicone simulator fabricated using a 3D printing technique (with videos) by Suk Pyo Shin, Kyong Joo Lee, Min Je Sung, Jong Chan Kim, Guk Bae Kim, Moo Yeop Kim, Sung Yong Han, Sung Ill Jang, Mamoru Takenaka, Chang-Il Kwon

“…Five attempts decreased the insertion time (R = − 0.591, P < 0.001) and cannulation time (R = − 0.424, P = 0.002). …”
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Plasma Chemerin Levels Are Increased in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients with High Thrombus Burden by Ahmet Hakan Ateş, Uğur Arslan, Aytekin Aksakal, Ahmet Yanık, Metin Özdemir, Selim Kul

“…Besides, serum chemerin levels were also found to be significantly correlated with CRP r=0.47,p<0.001 and peak CK-MB r=0.376,p<0.001 levels. …”
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Evalu ation of potato hybrids according to tuber flesh darkening and other useful agronomic characters under the conditions of Kirov Province by N. F. Sintsova, I. V. Lyskova, E. I. Kratyuk, V. M. Arkhipov

“…A statistically significant relationship was observed between the darkening of boiled tubers and the content of crude protein (r = 0.74) and vitamin C (r = 0.79). Hybrid 179-10 was identified for high productivity (32.5 t/ha) and crude protein content (1.54%), while the highest resistance to the darkening of raw and boiled potato tubers was registered in hybrid 72-13.…”
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Hybrid Analysis of Biochar Production from Pyrolysis of Agriculture Waste Using Statistical and Artificial Intelligent-Based Modeling Techniques by Hani Hussain Sait, Ramesh Kanthasamy, Bamidele Victor Ayodele

“…When compared to the optimized ANN, the response surface quadratic model with an R² of 0.989 had better prediction of biochar yield. …”
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Normative Reference Values and Validity for the 30-Second Chair-Stand Test in Healthy Young Adults by Donald H. Lein Jr., Mansour Alotaibi, Marzouq Almutairi, Harshvardhan Singh

“…The 30CST performance was negatively associated with 5xSTS (*r*=-0.79 *p*=0.01) and positively associated with LSUT performances (*r*=0.51, *p*=0.01) when using Pearson correlations. …”
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Effect of Weight Loss on Serum Osteocalcin and Its Association with Serum Adipokines by Mohammed S. Albadah, Hafedh Dekhil, Shaffi Ahamed Shaik, Mohammed A. Alsaif, Mustafa Shogair, Shahid Nawaz, Assim A. Alfadda

“…The changes in uOC levels were negatively correlated with changes in serum triglycerides (r=-0.51, P<0.001) and positively correlated with changes in BAP (r=0.52, P<0.001). …”
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The reliability, sensitivity and specificity of fluorescent oxidation products for measuring global oxidative stress in vivo by Bing Liang, Juan Zhang, Xue Shen, Xiaohua Zhang, Ann M. Vuong, Linghua Yang, Xinyan Shi, Xueru Ge, Huan He, Tong Liu, Shuman Yang

“…FlOP_360 (r = 0.225, P = 0.045), but not FlOP_320 and FlOP_400, were significantly correlated with c-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation. …”
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Digital mapping of soil organic carbon in a plain area based on time-series features by Kun Yan, Decai Wang, Yongkang Feng, Siyu Hou, Yamei Zhang, Huimin Yang

“…The RFSTB (RF + Conventional variables + Time-series variables + Boruta algorithm) model was identified as the optimal model, with R2 increasing by 65.45 % and RMSE decreasing by 47.12 %. …”
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Climate change impact assessment on groundwater level changes: A study of hybrid model techniques by Stephen Afrifa, Tao Zhang, Xin Zhao, Peter Appiahene, Mensah Samuel Yaw

“…The effectiveness of the HM techniques was assessed using the evaluation metrics of mean absolute error (MAE), coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute percent error (MAPE), and root mean square error (RMSE). …”
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Bacterial diversity determination using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods by M. Ghiasian, A. Akhavan Sepahy, M.A. Amoozegar, S. Saadatmand, M. Shavandi

“…Prokaryotes diversity in Mud volcano has been studied by cultivation techniques, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of PCR-amplified fragments of 16S rRNA genes. Total cell abundance in the mud volcano from 1×101-6×101per milliliter was determined by 4', 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole direct count. …”
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Antioxidant, Anti-α-Glucosidase, Anti-Tyrosinase, and Anti-Acetylcholinesterase Components from Stem of <i>Rhamnus formosana</i> with Molecular Docking Study by Chia-Hsuan Tsai, Ya-Lun Liou, Sin-Min Li, Hsiang-Ruei Liao, Jih-Jung Chen

“…This study explores the inhibitory effects of various solvent extracts and bioactive components of <i>R. formosana</i> on α-glucosidase, tyrosinase, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and antioxidant activity. …”
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Is the Rate of Early mobilization in Hip fracture patients using Alfentanil Better than standard opioid analgesia (REHAB)? A protocol for a prospective cohort study by Nikhil Agarwal, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, Nick D. Clement

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Impact TB co-infections on immune tolerance among people living with HIV: a systematic review by Yimam Getaneh, Siti qamariyah Khairunisa, Dominicus Husada, Kuntaman Kuntaman, Maria Inge Lusida

“…F., Meintjes, G., & Wilkinson, R. J. (2012). HIV-1 and the Immune Response to TB. …”
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