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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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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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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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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Spiritual intelligence: a scoping review on the gateway to mental health by Cristina Teixeira Pinto, Lúcia Guedes, Sara Pinto, Rui Nunes

“…Selected references were independently assessed by two reviewers, with any disagreements resolved by a third reviewer. …”
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Decoupled level and flow rate control of a two-tank system in beverage production: A comparative analysis of Fuzzy-PID and GA-PID for minimum time operation. by Tamiru Demelash Kassie, Mebratu Sintie Geremew, Kassahun Ashagrie Chanie

“…The decoupling control scheme (Pre-compensator (dynamic) decoupling) is used to reduce the correlation between the controlled and manipulated variables by diagonalizing the system. The two independent SISO systems are further controlled by different controllers so that the system can trace the set point and yield a good time response. …”
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Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Adjustment among Doctors and Nurses in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rawalpindi-Pakistan: A Cross Sectional Study by Naushaba Malik, Minaal Ahmed Malik, Shahbakht Aftab, Rida Noor, Usman Khalid, Tayyaba Shahzad

“…The relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological adjustments among the two groups was assessed by applying an independent T-test. Results: The current study explored that doctors were emotionally intelligent and psychologically well-adjusted as compared to nurses. …”
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Elderly Self-Help Groups: A Community-Based Education and Peer Support Program for Hypertension Control, Supporting SDG 3 on Health and Well-being by Heni Kusumawardani Lita, Hasra Azera, Triyanto Endang, Iskandar Asep

“…An SHG intervention was given for this investigation. The paired and independent t-tests were utilised in the analysis. According to the study's findings, the SHG significantly reduced older adults's blood pressure compliance for both the systole and diastole of their blood pressure (p = 0.004) and p = 0.003). …”
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CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN LISTED INDIGENOUS OIL AND GAS FIRMS by Abubakar Ajide ARIKEWUYO, Abdullahi Adio Babatunde, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri

“…The data was analyzed using panel data regression technique to examine the extent of the impact of the independent variables on the dependent variables. The study revealed that at 0.05 significant level, Short-term Debt (STD) and Equity (EQ) have a positive and significant impact on the financial performance of listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria in terms of Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) while Long-term Debt (LTD) had a negative significant impact on the financial performance in terms of Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) of listed indigenous oil and gas firms in Nigeria. …”
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Genetic Selection Pressure on TLR9 Gene Increases Individual Susceptibility to Systemic Inflammatory Disease: A Case Study of Kano State Population by Yusuf Jibril Habib, Mohammed Sani Jaafaru

“…The mutant allele was more common (67%) and gender-independent. The gradual incidence of changed alleles in both identities suggests the population was chosen to survive tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. …”
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The prognostic value of ferritinemia level in patients with chronic hepatitis C by N. C. Sargsyants, E. H. Grigoryan

“…Application of logistical regression analysis demonstrated, that the baseline ferritin level is independent predictor of sustained virologic response at treatment by pegilated interferon α-2a with ribavirin.…”
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Evaluation of pediatric migraine triggers: a single-center study by Hey-Joon Son, Joo-Ok Jin, Kon-Hee Lee

“…Statistical analyses were performed using the independent sample Student t test and linear-by-linear association test. …”
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Effects of elastic anisotropy on the small fatigue crack deflection behavior of α-brass by Jinta Arakawa, Ryushin Kamada, Ryo Yabuki, Yuki Ogawa, Hiroyuki Akebono, Atsushi Sugeta

“…Furthermore, it was also suggested that this prediction is useful independent of grain size and the magnitude of the anisotropy of the crystal grain.…”
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Knowledge and Attitudes About Emergency Contraception Among Married Women in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey by Yeşim Bayoğlu Tekin, Ülkü Mete Ural, Işık Üstüner, Gülşah Balık, Figen Kır Şahin, Emine Seda Güvendağ Güven

“…The frequency distribution of dependent (knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs) and independent (age, gravidity, parity, income and education level, contraceptive methods) variables was calculated. …”
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ATTITUDES TOWARD COVID-19 BOOSTER DOSE VACCINES ACCEPTANCEAMONG HEALTHCARE STUDENTS, KARACHI: A CROSS-SECTIONALANALYSIS by Arif Ali, Benish Zia, Shayan Ali, Ali Ahmed, Naqiha Shabbir

“…The questionnaire collected data on demographics, COVID-19 vaccine characteristics, and attitudes towards the COVID-19 booster dose. Independent sample t-tests and ANOVA tests were used to compare the mean attitude scores among groups using SPSS. …”
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The adoption of telemedicine by healthcare practitioners in South Africa by Margaret Cullen, Andre Calitz, Sasha Boucher, Prashna Buddan

“…Main findings: The study established that the independent factors of Performance Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Social Media Technology and Attitude all have a significant positive relationship with the dependent factor, Behavioural Intention to adopt telemedicine. …”
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“When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy”: experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria by Friday Okonofua, Lorretta Ntoimo, Louise Bury, Suzanna Bright, Lesley Hoggart

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The potential for productive use of the digital service LearningApps in teaching foreign languages by Natalia A. Katalkina, Nadezhda V. Bogdanova

“…Gamification of the process of teaching foreign languages using the digital service LearningApps has shown that the productive use of this resource allows not only to speed up the process of automating grammatical skills, but also to develop the creative potential of students in the course of their independent creation of online games, as well as to ensure autonomy and individualization of learning process.…”
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An adaptive least-squares algorithm for the elliptic Monge–Ampère equation by Caboussat, Alexandre, Gourzoulidis, Dimitrios, Picasso, Marco

“…The error indicator is based an independent formulation of the Monge–Ampère equation under divergence form, which allows to explicit a residual term. …”
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Analysis of Melanin Concentration on Reflective Pulse Oximetry Using Monte Carlo Simulations by Maximilian Reiser, Oliver Amft, Andreas Breidenassel

“…We conclude that skin tone-adapted calibration should be applied to make reflective pulse oximeter applicable to any human, independent of skin pigmentation.…”
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