Current Practices in Growth Chart Utilization among Healthcare Practitioners in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abeer M. Aljaadi, Rana H. Mosli, Ruba H. Eid, Dania H. Bin-Ali, Essra A. Noorwali, Reem O. Basaqr, Hala Al-Otaibi

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Integrated Bioinformatics Identifies FREM1 as a Diagnostic Gene Signature for Heart Failure by Chenyang Jiang, Weidong Jiang

“…Integrating three machine learning methods, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) algorithm, random forest (RF) algorithm, and support vector machine recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) are used to determine candidate diagnostic gene signals. Then, external independent RNA-seq datasets evaluate the diagnostic value of gene signals. …”
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Children Who Experience Unintentional Injuries: Their Functional Profiles by Sara Rosenblum, Tal Nardi-Moses, Helly Goez, Naor Demeter

“…Parents of children who had been injured expressed significantly more concerns about their children’s daily behavior than did parents of the control group and reported their children as usually, but not always, independent and responsible. Compared with the children in the uninjured group, the children in the injured group had significantly lower executive function abilities in the BRIEF’s eight subscales, total behavioral regulation and metacognitive indices, and global executive function scores (p<.001). …”
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Plasma Adiponectin and Its Correlation with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Maha Hussein, Aasem Saif, Mona Amin, Osama Khalafallah, Ahmed Hussien, Samar Aboulsoud, Shrook Mousa

“…A significant negative correlation was found between adiponectin and CIMT in obese patients with NAFLD (p<0.05), but not in patients with NAFLD and T2DM. The significant independent predictors of CIMT were diabetes duration, BMI (body mass index), albumin/creatinine ratio, and cholesterol. …”
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Antenatal Depression and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care Service in Kochi Health Center, Jimma Town, Ethiopia by Yonas Tesfaye, Liyew Agenagnew

“…Descriptive statistics was done to summarize the dependent and independent variables. Moreover, the chi-square test analysis was done to determine the association between the outcome and explanatory variables. …”
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Unveiling cell-type-specific microRNA networks through alternative polyadenylation in glioblastoma by Mert Cihan, Greta Schmauck, Maximilian Sprang, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro

“…A significant finding was the disconnection between differential APA events and gene expression alterations, indicating that APA operates as an independent regulatory mechanism. We also highlighted the specific genes in neoplastic cells and OPCs that lose microRNA-binding sites due to APA, which are crucial for maintaining stem cell characteristics and DNA repair, respectively. …”
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Rainfall warning Based on indexs teleconnection, Synoptic Patterns of Atmospheric Upper Levels and Climatic elements a case study of Karoun basin by iran salehvand, amir gandomkar, ebrahim fatahi

“…For precipitation modeling, the monthly rainfall data of the Hamadid and Baranzadeh station in the statistical period (1984-2014) for 30 years as a dependent variable and climatic indexes, large-scale climatic signals including sea surface temperatures and 1000 millimeter temperatures Altitude of 500 milligrams, 200 milligrams of omega and climatic elements have been used as independent variables. Due to the nonlinear behavior of rainfall, artificial neural networks were used for modeling. …”
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Soil erosion susceptibility maps and raster dataset for the hydrological basins of North Africa by Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Essam Heggy

“…We validate SESMAR using the Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa) and the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) datasets as well as published peer-reviewed reports across 20 watersheds, demonstrating a robust agreement in assessing the average annual soil loss values and soil erosion classes in local areas covered by independent study teams. Our continental maps show commendable accuracy, supporting scientists, practitioners, and policymakers in their efforts for more resilient land management practices across North Africa to mitigate rising hydroclimatic extremes.…”
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Evaluation of Background Black Carbon Concentration in India by Maji Smaran, V. Vinoj

“…Furthermore, regardless of the season, the level of background BC in India exceeds 75% consistently. An independent evaluation of foreground BC after the removal of the background shows major emissions sources similar to the HTAP_v3 (Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution) BC emission database, indicating the strength of the analysis. …”
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Effect of volume concentration and sonication time on the performance of a hybrid solar collector based hydrogen production system with hybrid nanofluid: An experimental investigat... by Hariharan Ramesh, S. Senthil Raja, R. Gangadevi, M. Baskaran, R. Marimuthu

“…This paper presents the design, construction, and experimental evaluation of an independent device using a PVT solar collector for the generation of environmentally friendly hydrogen using various nanofluids. …”
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Can the monocyte/HDL ratio predict ear effusion in adenoid vegetation patients? by Elif Kaya Çelik, Fatih Öner

“…Objectives This study investigated whether the monocyte/HDL ratio (MHR) could be an independent predictive marker in patients with adenoid vegetation, both with and without otitis media with effusion (OME). …”
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The association between the oral microbiome and hypertension: a systematic review by Sadeq Ali Al-Maweri, Abeer A. Al-Mashraqi, Gamilah Al-Qadhi, Nezar Al-Hebshi, Raidan Ba-Hattab

“…Background This study systematically reviewed the available evidence regarding the potential association between oral microbiota and hypertension.Methods A comprehensive search of online databases was conducted by two independent investigators for all relevant articles. …”
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Higher risk of carotid plaque among lean individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A retrospective study. by Jiangfeng Xue, Lun Zhao, Liang Shao, Huiwang Zhang, Yewei Feng, Ping Shuai

“…Age, gender, systolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, fasting blood glucose, and Fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4) were identified as independent risk factors with cutoff values lower than the normal upper limits. …”
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Effects of Moderate-to-Severe Impairment of the Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and of Proteinuria on the Central Hemodynamics and Arterial Stiffness in Middle-Aged Healthy Ja... by Hirofumi Tomiyama, Mari Odaira, Chisa Matsumoto, Jiko Yamada, Masanobu Yoshida, Kazuki Shiina, Akira Yamashina

“…Thus, proteinuria was found to be an independent risk factor for abnormal central hemodynamics and increased stiffness of the large- to middle-sized arteries, while moderate-to-severe impairment of the eGFR was associated with an increase of the arterial stiffness, but not with abnormality of the central hemodynamics.…”
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The Impact of Race in Male Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcome in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis of 4,279 Patients by Jacob Y. Shin, Lisa A. Kachnic, Ariel E. Hirsch

“…On multivariate analysis, Black race was a significant independent prognostic factor for worse OS. Blacks were less likely to receive lymph node dissection of which patients may derive benefit, though we did not observe receipt of primary treatment, after stratifying for disease stage, to be an underlying factor contributing to racial outcome differences.…”
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HSTCN-NuSVC: A Homogeneous Stacked Deep Ensemble Learner for Classifying Human Actions Using Smartphones by Sarmela Raja Sekaran, Ying Han Pang, Ooi Shih Yin, Lim Zheng You

“…., UCI HAR, and a subject-independent protocol is implemented. The empirical results demonstrate that HSTCN-NuSVC achieves 97.25% accuracy with only 0.51 million parameters. …”
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Effect of Counseling on the Knowledge and Attitude of Childbearing in Single-child Couples in Hamadan City, Iran: An Interventional Study by Sargol Shafiei, Batul Khodakarami, Farzaneh Soltani, Ghodratollah Roshanaei

“…Furthermore, the data collection tool was a researcher-developed questionnaire with three sections: demographics, awareness, and attitudes. Results: The independent t-test revealed that the average score of women's fertility knowledge in the test and control groups, both immediately after the intervention and one month later, exhibited a statistically significant difference. …”
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A Collaborative Privacy Preserved Federated Learning Framework for Pneumonia Detection using Diverse Chest X-ray Data Silos by Shagun Sharma, Kalpna Guleria

“…The proposed federated learning framework has been trained with a pre-trained EfficientNetB3 model in the Independent and Identically Distributed (IID) and non-IID data distributions, while the model updation has been performed using federated proximal aggregation. …”
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Nomogram for Predicting Postoperative Portal Venous Systemic Thrombosis in Patients with Cirrhosis Undergoing Splenectomy and Esophagogastric Devascularization by Miao Chen, Jian-Bo Han, Jia-Kang Zhang, Qing-Hua Shu, Yu-Feng Zhang, Yong-Xiang Yi

“…The results of the multivariate logistic regression suggested that a higher RDW on POD3 (RDW3) (odds ratio (OR): 1.188, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.073–1.326), wider portal vein diameter (OR: 1.387, 95% CI: 1.203–1.642), history of variceal hemorrhage (OR: 3.407, 95% CI: 1.670–7.220), and longer spleen length (OR: 1.015, 95% CI: 1.001–1.029) were independent risk parameters for postoperative PVST. …”
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Comparison Of Orthopantomogram and Lateral Cephalogram for Gonial Angle, Mandibular Ramus Height And Body Length by Mobina Fatima Zulfiqar, Kanwal Zulfiqar, Ulfat Bashir, Uzair Luqman, Zarnab Rizwan

“…(a) body length (Go-Me) (b) ramus height (Co-Go) and (c) gonial angle on both sides. An independent sample t-test was applied to compare mandibular measurements between two radiographs (OPG and lateral cephalograms). …”
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