Role of dietary and nutritional interventions in ceramide-associated diseases by Shengnan Wang, Zihui Jin, Biyu Wu, Andrew J. Morris, Pan Deng

“…Ceramides are important intermediates in sphingolipid metabolism and serve as signaling molecules with independent biological significance. Elevated cellular and circulating ceramide levels are consistently associated with pathological conditions including cardiometabolic diseases, neurological diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. …”
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Investigating the influence of reference group judgements of global warming on consumers by Maria A.O. Dos Santos

“…Findings: Descriptive statistics revealed that the greatest reference group influence on consumers about global warming was experts in the field. Independent t-test results on gender revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in responses between males and females, while one way ANOVA tests revealed that there were significant differences in responses between groups belonging to different ethnic groups and generation cohorts. …”
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Comparative analysis of the Streptococcus pneumoniae competence development in vitro versus in vivo during pneumonia-derived sepsis by Sook Yin Chong, Shi Qian Lew, Tauqeer Alam, Christopher A. Gaulke, Gee W. Lau

“…We examined existing RNA-Seq data and performed validation using RNA obtained from an independent replicate experiment.Results and discussionOur analysis revealed both similarities and differences in the expression of “early”, “late”, and “delayed” competence between in vitro versus during pneumonia-derived sepsis. …”
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of the Reinforced Concrete Continuous Bridge Piers Based on Machine Learning and Symbolic Regression Fusion Algorithms by Hanbo Zhu, Changqing Miao

“…In the fragility analysis, researchers mostly chose and constructed seismic intensity measures (IMs) according to past experience and personal preference, resulting in large dispersion between the sample of engineering demand parameter (EDP) and the regression function with IM as the independent variable. This problem needs to be solved urgently. …”
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Military Interventions As Omitted Variable Of Inversed Democratic Peace: An Empirical Evidence by Srđan Korać, Nenad Stekić

“…We deploy three variables: 1) Foreign policy similarity, to determine whether the intervening actor (USA) had similar or different foreign policy goals at the beginning of interventions; 2) Political regime similarity, to indicate whether there were any deviations in the quality of political regime between the intervening state and the target country, as indicated by the democratic peace postulates; 3) military interventions (independent variable). Foreign policy score includes S score dataset developed by Curtis S. …”
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Kenneth S. Adeyemi, Lateef Olabisi Adedeji

“…Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine the association between the dependent variable of financial performance proxied by the return on assets and independent variables represented by equity capital and leverage ratios while asset tangibility and liquidity were used as control variables. …”
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Assist-as-needed control based on region attractor for power-assist of knee joint taking into account differences in human and orthotic motion by Ken MASUYA, Yuta IDE, Masafumi OKADA

“…AAN controllers are often designed to be time-independent so that the wearer can act whenever he/she wants. …”
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Laboratory Markers in the Prediction of Acute Perforated Appendicitis in Children by Jing Yang, Chong Liu, Yuxia He, Zhangqiao Cai

“…The logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent risk factors. Results. Of all patients, 613 children were perforated. …”
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HYEI: A New Hybrid Evolutionary Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Fuzzy Knowledge Discovery by D. Jalal Nouri, M. Saniee Abadeh, F. Ghareh Mohammadi

“…Due to overcoming the gaps related to ineffectiveness of current algorithms for analysing high-dimension independent datasets, a new hybrid approach, named HYEI, is presented to discover generic rule-based systems in this paper. …”
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Process Optimization for Development of Guar Gum-Based Biodegradable Hydrogel Film Using Response Surface Methodology by Junaid Aman, Navin Chandra Shahi, Umesh Chandra Lohani, Divya Balodhi, Rajat Singh, Naveen Kumar, Mohd Ishfaq Bhat, Avvaru Praveen Kumar

“…In the current study, a guar-gum-based biodegradable hydrogel film was prepared using an initiator (potassium persulfate), crosslinker (N-N methyl bis acrylamide), and plasticizer (glycerol) for packaging of fruits and vegetables. The effect of independent variables (initiator, crosslinker, and plasticizer) on the biodegradation (% wt. loss), color difference (ΔE), hardness (N), swelling index (%), and transparency (%) of the film was studied using Box–Behnken design, random surface methodology (RSM). …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…The development of Romanticism delivered a new orientation that called National Romanticism by maintaining the freedom of individual, sovereignty, and independent of human rights. This study took data from three Walt Whitman poems; Patriotic, War Democracy, and Poem of America. …”
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The Power of Discourse in Postmetaphysics: Between Dialectical Materialism and Transcendentalism by A. S. Merzenina

“…It is concluded that post-metaphysics as a “weak thought” can change and weaken political structures without completely dialectically moving into political onto-theology, but it cannot be a field completely independent of metaphysics or replace it.…”
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Specificity of overcoming behavior within relationship to tolerance to uncertainty of convicted men by A. A. Shylina, O. M. Skliarov

“…The t-criterion Student for independent groups and the Spearman correlation analysis were used for mathematical and statistical processing. …”
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Factors Influencing the Intention of Perinatal Nurses to Adopt the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Southeastern Quebec, Canada: Implications for Practice by Guylaine Chabot, Marie Lacombe

“…Hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses were performed to assess the relationship between key independent variables and nurses’ intention to adopt the BFHI in their practice. …”
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Features of social management of Russian regional processes in the modern digital era by D. V. Shelokov

“…Their interconnected totality is expressed not only in the specificity of a particular society culture, but also in individual norms and rules, regulating contacts in various spheres of social interaction (including in the model of administrative-territorial division based on them, applied styles and technologies of management). This is an independent basis for the formation of a set of objective indicators of the social management performance, the totality of which is a system. …”
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Secrecy Throughput in Inhomogeneous Wireless Networks with Nonuniform Traffic by Qiuming Liu, Li Yu, Peng Yang, Zuhao Liu

“…We investigate the secrecy throughput of inhomogeneous wireless network, especially in cases of independent and uniform eavesdropper with single antenna and multiple antennas. …”
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Coevolving Dynamics between Epidemic and Information Spreading considering the Dependence between Vigilance and Awareness Prevalence by Yixiao Zhang, Xing Lu, Ni Cui, Jingtai Tang, Xiyun Zhang

“…Previous models for this coevolving usually introduced the dependence between these two processes by setting a lower but time-independent infection rate for individuals with awareness. …”
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Parental influence and self-efficacy for determining children's career interests in era society 5.0 by Mudhar Mudhar, Dimas Ardika Miftah Farid, Elia Firda Mufidah

“…They can determine the type of career independently based on the knowledge they get from the internet. …”
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A big data dynamic approach for adaptive music instruction with deep neural fuzzy logic control by Dong Li, Zhenfang Liu

“…The instructions are adaptable depending on the error and level independent of different suggestions. The suggestions are replicated for similar issues across various music learning classrooms, retaining the constant fuzzification. …”
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CνB Damping of Primordial Gravitational Waves and the Fine-Tuning of the CγB Temperature Anisotropy by A. E. Bernardini, J. F. G. Santos

“…Both scenarios are supported by a simplified analytical framework, in terms of a scale independent dynamical variable, kη, that relates cosmological scales, k, and the conformal time, η. …”
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