A Prediction Model for Prediabetes Risk in Middle-Aged and Elderly Populations: A Prospective Cohort Study in China by Jiahua Wu, Jiaqiang Zhou, Xueyao Yin, Yixin Chen, Xihua Lin, Zhiye Xu, Hong Li

“…WC, FHD, HbA1c, and FPG are independently correlated with the risk of prediabetes. …”
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Mobile Service Robots for Older Adults’ Mobility: Investigation of Their Attitude for Daily Assistance in Residential Environments by Vedia Durmaz, Yasemin Afacan, Parla Özkul

“…The solution is to provide independence in built environments where older adults live and experience during their daily lives. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nomogram Model for Predicting the Risk of Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction within 1 Year by Yue Hu, Xiaotong Wang, Shengjue Xiao, Chunyan Huan, Huimin Wu, Tao Xu, Minjia Guo, Hong Zhu, Defeng Pan

“…Finally, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC), calibration plot, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to validate the nomogram. Independent risk factors for HF readmission of patients with HFrEF within 1 year of hospital discharge were as follows: age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, left ventricular ejection fraction, and angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors. …”
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Management of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Spain: Challenges for Treat and Extend Implementation in Routine Clinical Practice by A. García-Layana, J. García-Arumí, M. S. Figueroa, L. Arias Barquet, J. M. Ruíz-Moreno, L. Monclús-Arbona, The Spanish AMD Multicenter Group

“…A two-round Delphi study conducted through a questionnaire-based survey designed from literature review and validated by an independent Steering Committee. Results. Forty-nine retina specialists experienced in wAMD participated by answering the two-round study questionnaire. …”
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Organic Glass-Forming Liquids and the Concept of Fragility by Alba-Simionesco, Christiane

“…We observe that all data can be placed on master-curves that depend only on a single density- and species-dependent and T-independent effective interaction energy, $E_{\infty }(\rho )$. …”
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Depth-electrode stimulation and concurrent functional MRI in humans: Factors influencing heating with body coil transmission by Hiroyuki Oya, Ralph Adolphs, Matthew A. Howard, J. Michael Tyszka

“…We report a series of temperature measurements conducted in human brain phantoms at two independent imaging centers to characterize factors effecting RF heating of electrically long leads with body coil transmission at 3 Tesla for temporal RMS RF transmit fields (B1+rms) up to 3.5 µT including multiband echo planar imaging and 3D T2w turbo spin echo imaging. …”
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Studies on Hydration Swelling and Bound Water Type of Sodium- and Polymer-Modified Calcium Bentonite by Yong Wan, Dongdong Guo, Xinminnan Hui, Lei Liu, Yuan Yao

“…A uniform linear relationship exists between the FSI and corresponding total peak area of NMR (independent of ion valence, concentration, and bentonite type). …”
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A systematic scoping review to identify the design and assess the performance of devices for antenatal continuous fetal monitoring. by Kajal K Tamber, Dexter J L Hayes, Stephen J Carey, Jayawan H B Wijekoon, Alexander E P Heazell

“…Following the deletion of duplicates, the articles' titles and abstracts were screened and suitable papers underwent a full-text assessment prior to inclusion in the review by two independent assessors.<h4>Results</h4>The literature searches generated 4,885 hits from which 43 studies were included in the review. …”
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Establishment of a Risk Prediction Model for Pulmonary Infection in Patients with Advanced Cancer by Liangliang Yang, Xiaolong Xu, Qingquan Liu

“…The sample included 2755 patients with advanced cancer. An independently validated dataset included 1166 patients with advanced cancer. …”
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Sleep Disturbance and Its Clinical Implication in Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity: Comparison with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis by Ho-Joong Kim, Seok-Jun Hong, Joon-Hee Park, Hojoon Ki

“…Multiple regression analysis was performed with VAS for back pain as the dependent variable and age, sex, PSQI, and VAS for leg pain as the independent variables in the ASD group. Results. 33 (75.0%) and 32 (72.7%) patients were classified as poor sleepers in the ASD group and the LSS group, respectively. …”
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Imaging lipid rafts reveals the principle of ApoE4-induced Aβ upregulation in human neurons by Se-In Lee, Heejin Lim, Na Yeon Kim, Jichang Yu, Joonho Cho, Hyein Lee, Dae Won Moon, Jinsoo Seo

“…In this study, we developed a protocol for imaging APP on lipid rafts using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and found that astrocyte ApoE4 contributes to an increase in APP localization on lipid rafts, subsequently elevating Aβ42 synthesis in a clathrin-independent manner in neurons.…”
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The Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Pearson’s Chi-Square and Categorical Dependent Variable Models Analyzed for Domains---Effective Clinical Care and Efficiency/Cost Reductio... by Amrita Shenoy

“…The Categorical Dependent Variable Method examined the association between the dependent and independent variables. **Results:** The Pearson’s chi-square test showed statistically significant distributions between ECC and E/CR when analyzed with the types of quality measures. …”
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Reductive roasting of iron-rich manganese oxide ore with elemental sulfur for selective manganese extraction by You Z., Li G., Peng Z., Qin L., Zhang Y., Jiang T.

“…Lower sulfur addition (S/Mn molar ratio<1.0) results in higher selectivity, which is independent of roasting temperature. More than 95% manganese and less than 10% iron were extracted through acid leaching under the roasting conditions of 400-600°C with S/Mn molar ratio of 0.6. …”
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Collaboration between general practitioners and social workers: a scoping review by Birgitta Weltermann, Patrick Mark, Samira Sommer, Cornelia Löwe

“…Literature written in English and German since the year 2000 was included. Two independent researchers screened all abstracts for collaboration between general practitioners and social workers. …”
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Verfahren der Modusdarstellung in Gioseffo Zarlinos Musici quinque vocum moduli by Roman Lüttin

“…Musici quinque vocum moduli, published in 1549, is Gioseffo Zarlino’s first independent publication and is also the earliest evidence of Glarean’s reception in Italy. …”
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Clinical Factors of Blood Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury and Changes in Levels of Treg-Related Cytokines by Lifang Sun, Yu Liu

“…Logistic regression analysis showed that HLA antibody II and increased CD4 + CD25 + Treg were independent risk factors of TRALI (P<0.05). The levels of CD4 + CD25 + Treg, IL-10, and TGF-β in the death group were significantly higher than those in the survival group (P<0.05). …”
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Clinical Diagnostic Value of Quantitative Hepatitis B Virus Core Antibody Test in Chronic Viral Hepatitis B by Xi Su, Huangping Chen, Zifei Zhu, Wanying Xie, Jianqiao Peng, Xinping Ma, Wenwen Jin, Wei Shi, Zhonghua Deng, Cunyan Li

“…Logistic regression models showed that HBcAb, HBsAg, HBV DNA, ALT, and AST were the independent variables, respectively, and when combined, they provided high diagnostic accuracy for the staging of CHB. …”
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Effect of a closed-loop medication order executive system on safe medication administration at a tertiary hospital: a quasi-experimental study by Xuwen Yin, Haiyan Song, Jieyu Lu, Jing Yang, Rong Wang, Zheng Lin, Shudi Jiang, Hui Yuan, Xumei Wang, Dongmei Xu, Chunhong Gao, Yuan Zhou, Jiayi Xu, Chen Chen, Chenyu Gu, Qingqing Diao, Fang Li, Zejuan Gu

“…Root cause analysis and descriptive statistics were used to assess changes in types, stages, and causes of ME rates. The independent samples t -test was used to analyze secondary outcomes. …”
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Laryngeal Carcinoma Characteristics Associated with Positive Margins and Endoscopic Understaging by Nia Labaš, Andro Košec, Mirta Peček, Tomislav Gregurić, Siniša Stevanović

“…NBI demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy, correlating with histopathological results and serving as an independent predictive factor for positive margins. …”
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Effects of occlusal hypofunction on root surface area in patients exhibiting anterior crossbite in skeletal Class III malocclusion: a CBCT study by Nawa Ponyiam, Wikanda Khemaleelakul, Thanapat Sastraruji, Kachaphol Kuharattanachai, Kanich Tripuwabhrut

“…The RSAs of each tooth type from the two groups were illustrated and compared using independent t-tests (p < 0.05).Results The RSAs of the maxillary second molars in the skeletal Class III group were significantly higher than those in the skeletal Class I group. …”
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