Risk Factors for Persistent or Recurrent Central Serous Chorioretinopathy by Jia Yu, Gezhi Xu, Qing Chang, Xiaofeng Ye, Lei Li, Chunhui Jiang, Qi Zhao

“…Using multivariate analysis, male sex (odds ratio (OR), 95% confidence interval: 5.63 [1.02–31.02]; p=0.047), older age (OR: 1.14 [1.03–1.25]; p=0.008), and higher Insomnia Severity Index score (OR: 1.30 [1.05–1.60]; p=0.015) were found to be independently associated with persistent or recurrent CSC. …”
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Elevated GGT to HDL ratio as a marker for the risk of NAFLD and liver fibrosis by Yanyan Xuan, Fangfang He, Qing Liu, Dandan Dai, Dingting Wu, Yanmei Shi, Qi Yao

“…In the U.S. population, an increased risk of NAFLD, the severity of hepatic steatosis, and the risk of liver fibrosis are independently correlated with an elevated GGT/HDL-C ratio.…”
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The Association between Seasonal Variation in Vitamin D, Postural Sway, and Falls Risk: An Observational Cohort Study by Marie-Louise Bird, Keith D. Hill, Iain Robertson, Madeleine J. Ball, Jane K. Pittaway, Andrew D. Williams

“…In a longitudinal observational study, eighty-eight independently mobile community-dwelling older adults (69.7 ± 7.6 years) were evaluated on five occasions over one year, measuring postural sway (force platform), vitamin D levels, fall incidence, and causes and adverse outcomes. …”
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Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 by Apostolos Pourtsidis, Dimitrios Doganis, Margarita Baka, Despina Bouhoutsou, Maria Varvoutsi, Maria Synodinou, Panagiota Giamarelou, Helen Kosmidis

“…Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are rare in children and account for approximately 5–10% of all soft tissue sarcomas in adults. MPNSTs may occur independently but individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) have a significantly increased risk. …”
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Rethinking Assessment Concepts in Dental Education by Mohamed El-Kishawi, Khaled Khalaf, Dana Al-Najjar, Zahra Seraj, Sausan Al Kawas

“…The following key terms, clinical skills, preclinical, dental students, and assessment, were included in the search. Two reviewers independently screened all the articles retrieved following very specific inclusion criteria. …”
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Incorporation of Histogram Intersection and Semantic Information into Non-Negative Local Laplacian Sparse Coding for Image Classification by Ying Shi, Yuan Wan, Xinjian Wang, Huanhuan Li

“…Additionally, image representation and classification often operate independently, potentially resulting in the loss of semantic relationships. …”
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Steeper Iris Conicity Is Related to a Shallower Anterior Chamber: The Gutenberg Health Study by Alexander K. Schuster, Norbert Pfeiffer, Stefan Nickels, Andreas Schulz, Philipp S. Wild, Maria Blettner, Karl Lackner, Manfred E. Beutel, Thomas Münzel, Urs Vossmerbaeumer

“…Multivariable analyses were carried out to determine independently associated systemic and ocular factors for iris conicity in phakic eyes. …”
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Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome provides new insights into convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis by Federico A Vignale, Andrea Hernandez Garcia, Carlos P Modenutti, Ezequiel J Sosa, Lucas A Defelipe, Renato Oliveira, Gisele L Nunes, Raúl M Acevedo, German F Burguener, Sebastian M Rossi, Pedro D Zapata, Dardo A Marti, Pedro Sansberro, Guilherme Oliveira, Emily M Catania, Madeline N Smith, Nicole M Dubs, Satish Nair, Todd J Barkman, Adrian G Turjanski

“…The structure reveals that convergent solutions have evolved for substrate positioning because different amino acid residues facilitate a different substrate orientation such that efficient methylation occurs in the independently evolved enzymes in YM and coffee. While our results show phylogenomic constraint limits the genes coopted for convergence of caffeine biosynthesis, the X-ray diffraction data suggest structural constraints are minimal for the convergent evolution of individual reactions.…”
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Integrative analysis of ferroptosis in the hypoxic microenvironment of gastric cancer unveils the immune landscape and personalized therapeutic strategies by Xiao Xu, Liangling Fa, Xiaoxiao Sun, Fangfang Yang, Yongrui Liu, Jifu Song, Yongli Zhao, Jigang Dong, Jigang Dong

“…Notably, patients with high ferroptosis-hypoxia risk scores (FHRS) displayed significant levels of hypoxia and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), which were associated with unfavorable prognosis, increased chemoresistance, and heightened immunosuppression.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that ferroptosis under hypoxic conditions significantly affects the modulation of the tumor immune microenvironment. The FHRS can independently predict prognosis in gastric cancer. Assessing the molecular status of ferroptosis-hypoxia in individual patients will help in selecting more suitable immunotherapy regimens by providing a better understanding of TME characteristics and predicting immunotherapeutic outcomes.…”
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The economic situation of state farms and collective farms Altai Territory in the second half of 1980s by D. S. Orlov, A. A. Chirkov

“…Attempts were made to introduce self-financing and contracting, elements of economic lease were introduced, and the economic independence of agricultural enterprises was expanded. …”
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Development and functional validation of a disulfidoptosis-related gene prognostic model for lung adenocarcinoma based on bioinformatics and experimental validation by Tao Shen, Tao Shen, Zhuming Lu, Sisi Yang, Dongxi Zhang, Yongwen Ke, Zhuowen Chen, Jinqiang Wu, Jinqiang Wu, Weidong Wu

“…A six-gene signature was developed, which classified LUAD patients into high- and low-risk groups, showing significant survival differences. The risk score independently predicted LUAD prognosis and correlated with immunotherapy responses. …”
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Mid-latitude clouds contribute to Arctic amplification via interactions with other climate feedbacks by David B Bonan, Jennifer E Kay, Nicole Feldl, Mark D Zelinka

“…Traditional feedback analyses, which assume that individual climate feedback mechanisms act independently and add linearly, suggest that clouds do not contribute to Arctic amplification. …”
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Anthropomorphism Index of Mobility for Artificial Hands by Immaculada Llop-Harillo, Antonio Pérez-González, Verónica Gracia-Ibáñez

“…The AIM evaluates the topology of the whole hand, joints and degrees of freedom (DoFs), and the possibility to control these DoFs independently. It uses a set of weighting factors, obtained from analysis of human grasping, depending on the relevance of the different groups of DoFs of the hand. …”
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Path Planning for Fully Autonomous UAVs-A Taxonomic Review and Future Perspectives by Geeta Sharma, Sanjeev Jain, Radhe Shyam Sharma

“…Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on advanced path planning to operate independently, especially in unfamiliar settings without human intervention. …”
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Patient-Related Determinants of Glycaemic Control in People with Type 2 Diabetes in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review by Mohammed J. Alramadan, Afsana Afroz, Sultana Monira Hussain, Mohammed Ali Batais, Turky H. Almigbal, Hassan Ahmad Al-Humrani, Ahmed Albaloshi, Lorena Romero, Dianna J. Magliano, Baki Billah

“…MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and Cochrane CENTRAL databases were searched from their date of inception to May 2016. Two researchers independently identified eligible studies and assessed the risk of bias. …”
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The epidemiology of cervical cancer among indigenous women living in Latin America: A systematic review by Iria Riberio Novais, Camila Olegario Coelho, Carla Fabrine Carvalho, Fernanda Surita, Diama Bhadra Vale

“…Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the evidence contained in 10 databases spanning 2003–2019. Two reviewers independently compared papers' titles and abstracts against the inclusionary criteria, and a third reviewer resolved discrepancies. …”
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Rapid Flood Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 and Landsat-8 Images (Case study: Kashkan River, Poldakhter City) by Peyman Peymankhah, Sara Attarchi, Meysam Moharrami

“…Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors are an essential data source for flood crisis planners and experts, because they have the ability to image the earth's surface independently of weather conditions and time of the day. …”
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Publicly Available Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Rehabilitation Protocols Show High Variability and Frequent Divergence from the 2020 ASSET Recommendations by Nabil Mehta, Alexander J Acuna, Johnathon R McCormick, William E Harkin, Hasani W Swindell, Steven F Defroda, Mike Reinold, Gregory P Nicholson, Grant E Garrigues

“…Each collected protocol was independently reviewed by two authors to identify recommendations regarding immobilization, initiation, and progression of passive (PROM) and active range of motion (AROM), as well as the initiation and progression of strengthening and post-operative exercises and activities. …”
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Resource Allocation in D2D-Enabled 5G Networks Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning by Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, Alex Yaw Boakye, Benedict Appati, Jochebed Akoto Opoku, Justice Owusu Agyemang, Gordon Owusu Boateng, James Dzisi Gadze

“…Decentralized execution enhances scalability and system robustness by enabling agents to learn and act independently without relying on communication with other agents. …”
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