Unity and differentiation of the duration of annual basic leave in Ukraine by S. M. Bortnyk

“…Annual basic leave is granted to all employees without exception, regardless of their place of work, the labor function they perform, the form of ownership of a legal entity, the term of an employment contract or contract, for a working year. Such a year is counted from the date of conclusion of the employment contract (contract) by the relevant employee. …”
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Advancing inclusive research calculator for oncology disease areas: A resource to support the development of enrollment targets in diversity action plans for industry sponsors. by David J Press, Spencer L James, Bruno Jolain, Nicole Richie

“…Descriptive characteristics include frequency counts, age-adjusted incidence rates, incidence rate ratios, and 95% CIs. …”
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The association between physical activity, low-grade inflammation, and labour market attachment among people with multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study from the Lolland-Falster H... by Vivian Rueskov Poulsen, Linda Kjær Fischer, Mette Aadahl, Ole Steen Mortensen, Søren T Skou, Lars Bo Jørgensen, Randi Jepsen, Anne Møller, Therese Lockenwitz Petersen, Jan Christian Brønd, Lars Tang, Mette Korshøj

“…PA was measured as the average counts per minute (CPM) per day during wake time and split in time spent in moderate to vigorous intensity (MVPA) and light intensity (LPA). …”
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Pretreatment Pan-Immune-Inflammation Value Efficiently Predicts Survival Outcomes in Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients Receiving Radiotherapy and Temozolomide by Erkan Topkan, Ahmet Kucuk, Ugur Selek

“…Each eligible patient’s PIV was calculated using the findings of peripheral blood platelet (P), monocyte (M), neutrophil (N), and lymphocyte (L) counts obtained on the first day of therapy: PIV=P×M×N÷L. …”
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White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) and Vibrio sp. in the Fresh Feed Used as Tiger Shrimp, Penaeus monodon, Broodstock Diet by R.W. Haliman

“…The presence of WSSV was detected by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, while the Vibrio sp. was grown in TCBS agar and counted as cfu/g fresh feed. The result shows that all the feed have already infected by WSSV with light infection level. …”
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Distribution of Dopamine Receptor 2 DRD2 rs1800497 Polymorphisms in Professional Football Players by Beste Tacal Aslan, Özlem Özge Yılmaz, Tolga Polat, Çisem Şılar, Başak Funda Eken, Canan Sercan Doğan, Korkut Ulucan

“…When allelic distributions were examined in the athlete group, the A allele was counted as 5 (12%) and the G allele as 37 (88%). In our study cohort, the DRD2 rs1800497 polymorphism was found to be dominated by the GG genotype and the G allele. …”
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Corynebacteria from the respiratory microbiota modulate inflammatory responses and associate with a reduced pneumococcal burden in the lungs by Caroline Bergenfelz, Phuong Do, Liv Larsson, Hanna Ivarsson, Kasper Malmborn, Anders P. Håkansson

“…The inflammatory response and the bacterial burden of both species over time were determined by Western blot, luciferase assay, cytokine bead array, flow cytometry and viable plate counts on blood agar plates.ResultsClinical isolates of Corynebacteria were well tolerated by human cells and mice. …”
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Operational Evaluation of Part-Time Shoulder Use for Interstate 476 in the State of Pennsylvania by Sean Coffey, Seri Park

“…Around major metropolitan areas, the land availability is limited due to high population counts, which makes widening roadways for growing populations complex and expensive. …”
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Association between Platelet to Neutrophil Ratio (PNR) and Clinical Outcomes in STEMI Patients after Successful pPCI: A Secondary Analysis Based on a Cohort Study by Hao Wang, Xiaochun Qing, Hua Wang, Yunfei Gu

“…Two patients were excluded from the final analysis because their platelet counts were unavailable. The average age of the 462 participants was 63±11.92 years, and approximately 76.6% were male. …”
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Tropical fruit-derived Lactiplantibacillus as potential probiotic and antifungal agents against Fusarium oxysporum by R. Vasundaradevi, M. Sarvajith, S. Divyashree, N. Deepa, Premila N. Achar, M. Y. Sreenivasa

“…Abstract Fifty-five lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from seven selected tropical fruits, with Solanum nigrum exhibiting the highest LAB prevalence and Couroupita guianenis and Musa fruits showing the lowest counts. Two strains isolated from Ficus racemosa demonstrated significant antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum. 16S rDNA sequencing identified these strains as Lactiplantibacillus plantarum MYSVCF3 and Lpb. argentoratensis MYSVCF5. …”
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B-doped nano-hydroxyapatite facilitates proliferation and differentiation of osteoblasts by Qiao Kang, Wenhao Wang, Shengtao Wu, Ganggang Hu

“…Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) were subjected to flow cytometry, alizarin red S staining, and cell counting kit-8 assay for proliferation and differentiation determination. …”
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Evaluation of surgical treatment of gout-A retrospective study on 28 cases with tophi. by Ting Zhang, Bin Yang, Xiaohong Xu, Zengfang Zhang, Zhenglun Pan

“…Prolonged hospital stays were associated with elevated leukocyte counts, C-reactive protein (CRP), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) levels, as well as a higher number of surgical sites, rather than serum uric acid (SUA) levels.…”
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The Use of SenseWear Armband for Assessment of Daily Energy Expenditure and the Relation to Body Fat Distribution and Nutritional Intake in Lean Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrom... by Gulcan Arusoglu

“…The measurements of physical activity duration (PAD) (1.40 ± 0.87/2.18 ± 0.99 hours, p=0.002), active energy expenditure (372.35 ± 198.32/494.10 ± 186.50 kcal, p=0.018), and step counting (9370.03 ± 3587.49/11730.90 ± 3564.31 steps, p=0.013) measurement of the PCOS group were lower than the control group, respectively. …”
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Associations of Plasma BDNF and BDNF Gene Polymorphism with Cardiometabolic Parameters in Thai Children: A Pilot Study by Kanjana Suriyaprom, Banchamaphon Pheungruang, Somchai Pooudong, Pumpath Putpadungwipon, Chutima Sirikulchayanonta

“…Children in the obese group had significantly higher white blood cell counts and some cardiometabolic parameters. Although the difference in BDNF level between the nonobese and obese groups was not significant, BDNF level was significantly positively correlated with hematological and cardiometabolic parameters, including blood pressure, triglycerides, and triglycerides and the glucose index. …”
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Synbiotic microcapsule dietary supplementation for prevention against co-infection diseases in Pacific white shrimp: a limited field experiment by Munti Yuhana, Andreas Tambun, Widanarni Widanarni, Usamah Afiff

“…The shrimps that have been treated with daily MS supplementation (A) showed better immune responses i.e., total haemocyte counts, phenoloxidase, respiratory burst, and the lower pathogenic cells abundance in the intestine compared to other treatments groups. …”
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Elevated Proportions of Circulating CXCR5+ Follicular Helper T Cells Reflect the Presence of Airway Obstruction in Asthma by Tsukie Kin Tsukuda, Kimiko Tsuji, Akari Nishimori, Takehiko Ito, Yuka Kobayashi, Taro Suzuki, Akihito Yokoyama

“…Further, these proportions correlated negatively with %FEV1 and positively with blood eosinophil counts. Conclusions. The proportion of circulating follicular helper T cells, but not T helper 2 cells or Group 2 innate lymphoid cells, may reflect the presence of airway obstruction caused by persistent type 2 inflammation.…”
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Automated CAD system for early detection and classification of pancreatic cancer using deep learning model. by Abubakar Nadeem, Rahan Ashraf, Toqeer Mahmood, Sajida Parveen

“…Then refine the geometric structure of the image using morphological operation and extracting the texture features from the image using a gray-level co-occurrence matrix computed by analyzing the spatial relationship of pixel intensities in the refined image, counting the occurrences of pixel pairs with specific intensity values and spatial relationships. …”
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On supergravity and noncritical strings by Andrea Dei, Pietro Ferrero, Leonardo Rastelli

“…The noncritical string can be viewed as a special case of a discrete series of backgrounds labelled by an integer k (which counts the number of NS5 branes in a certain duality frame); the “noncritical” value is k = 2, while for k → ∞ one recovers a weakly-curved 10d target space. …”
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Diagnosis and clinical management of hepatosplenic schistosomiasis: A scoping review of the literature. by Francesca Tamarozzi, Veronica A Fittipaldo, Hans Martin Orth, Joachim Richter, Dora Buonfrate, Niccolò Riccardi, Federico G Gobbi

“…The most common diagnostic approaches to stratify patients based on the risk of variceal bleeding included the use of ultrasonography and platelet counts; on the contrary, evaluation and use of noninvasive tools to guide the choice of therapeutic interventions are lacking. …”
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Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Models for Developing Single-Value and Loop Rating Curves by Majid Niazkar, Mohammad Zakwan

“…Unlike the black box nature of ANN, MGGP offers explicit equations for stream rating curves, which may be counted as one of the advantages of this AI model.…”
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