Public Health Effects of Radioactive Airborne Effluents from Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plant by Boldsaikhan Purevsuren, Juyoul Kim

“…NRCDose3 was used to estimate radiation exposure doses to the public from gaseous effluents of nuclear power plant during its normal operation while CAP88-PC was used to calculate doses to the public living around coal-fired power plant. …”
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Natural regulatory T cells increase significantly in pediatric patients with parasitic infections: Flow cytometry study by Nadeem Kizilbash, Nida Suhail, A. Khuzaim Alzahrani, W. Jamith Basha, Mohamed Soliman

“…Odds ratios (ORs) were estimated within a 95% confidence interval, and a P value of <0.05 was considered significant. …”
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Seroprevalence of Taenia saginata Cysts in Cattle, Human Hospital Cases, and Risk Factors for Human Taeniasis in Kajiado County, Kenya by Ruphline M. Anyango, Timothy M. Wachira, Gerald M. Muchemi

“…A cross-sectional survey was conducted between June and July 2021 in Kajiado County, Kenya, to estimate the seroprevalence of Taenia saginata cysts in cattle presented for slaughter in Kitengela, Kiserian, and Keekonyokie slaughterhouses; determine the annual hospital reported cases of T. saginata in humans that visited all level 4 hospitals in Kajiado County between 2015 and 2021; and assess the risk factors for Taenia saginata in humans. …”
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The Persistence of Silodosin Monotherapy and the Reasons for Withdrawal from Treatment of Previously Untreated Japanese Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Suggestive of Ben... by Yoshinori Tanaka, Yasushi Tanuma, Naoya Masumori

“…The persistence rate was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. If silodosin had to be terminated or a patient did not come to the hospital, the reason was determined. …”
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Papillary lesions of the canine mammary gland: description and casuistry by M.C. Flecher, F. R. Souza, N.M. Avelar, T.C.M. Lopes, K.Y. R. Nakagaki, G.D. Cassali

“…Overall survival was estimated using Kaplan-Meier curves and comparisons between groups were performed using the Cox Mantel log-rank test (p < 0.05 were considered significant). …”
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Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of Aging by Arnold B. Mitnitski, Alexander J. Mogilner, Kenneth Rockwood

“…Of note, the slope of the index is insensitive to the individual nature of the deficits, and serves as an important prognostic factor for life expectancy. The formula for estimating an individual�s life span given the frailty index value is presented. …”
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Predicted distribution of curl-leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) in the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. by Robert E Kissell, Michael T Tercek, David P Thoma, Kristin L Legg

“…A combination of probability density estimation and vector analysis was used to predict curl-leaf mountain mahogany distribution across the species range relative to climate space and how that relationship would affect curl-leaf mountain mahogany at a local scale. …”
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Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Rivaroxaban versus Acenocoumarol in the Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation in Spain by Carlos Rubio-Terrés, Ruth Graefenhain de Codes, Darío Rubio-Rodríguez, Thomas Evers, Santiago Grau Cerrato

“…**Methods:** A Markov model was designed and populated with local cost estimates, efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban in stroke prevention in NVAF compared with adjusted-dose warfarin clinical results from the pivotal phase III ROCKET AF trial and utility values obtained from the literature. …”
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Impact of laparoscopic surgeries on optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) in children by Mohsina Yasmeen, Sumaiya Sabreen, Akshay Bettanayaka, Saraswathi Nagappa

“…Later, pneumoperitoneum was established by maintaining the intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) at 12 cmH2O. Again, ONSD was estimated at 15 minutes of pneumoperitoneum and observed for any variation from the previous readings. …”
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THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: PAST AND FUTURE by I. P. Smirnov

“…The attention is drawn to discrepancy of estimates of the undertaken reform, a vagueness of its aims and pseudo-reformatory installations of the separate entered legal acts, and also the fact that the expected results of transformations aren’t even hypothetically formulated. …”
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A Hybrid Random Forest and Least Squares Support Vector Machine Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Slope Stability Prediction: A Case Study in Sichuan–Tibet H... by Tao Shu, Wei Tao, Haotian Lu, Hao Li, Jingxuan Cao

“…Slope stability estimation is an engineering problem that involves several parameters. …”
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The dynamics of a delay model of hepatitis B virus infection with logistic hepatocyte growth by Steffen Eikenberry, Sarah Hews, John D. Nagy, Yang Kuang

“…With this modelformulation all model parameters can be estimated from biological data; we also simulatea course of lamivudine therapy and find that the model gives good agreement with clinicaldata. …”
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Leveraging Social Engineering Techniques for Ethical Purposes:  An Approach to Develop Fake Android App for Collecting Valuable Data Discreetly by Hussein Abdulkhaleq Saleh alsharya

“…The minimum SDK version required to run EDC is level 16. The total estimated time to complete the fake UI process (cumulative user engagement time) is 57-60 seconds, where each activity takes 8 seconds based on the adopted development approach. …”
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The interplay of perceived benefit, perceived risk, and trust in Fintech adoption: Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa by Thomas Appiah, Veronica Venyo Agblewornu

“…The FSQCA results confirm the principle of equifinality as there are multiple causal configurations that can lead to high Fintech adoption. The estimated PLS-SEM model exhibits robustness, as there are no issues regarding unobserved heterogeneity, common method bias, or multicollinearity. …”
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The Ural Population Project. Demography and Culture From Microdata in a European-Asian Border Region by Elena Glavatskaya, Julia Borovik, Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…The burial records show cases of the Spanish flu in 1918–1919, but on a lower level than in the West, supporting recent theories that estimates of flu mortality may be too high. Based on the tax revisions, polygyny was officially recognized among the indigenous Siberian people. …”
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Investigation of the trends and associated factors of ovarian cancer in Indonesia: A systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study 1990-2021. by Brahmana Askandar Tjokroprawiro, Khoirunnisa Novitasari, Renata Alya Ulhaq, Hanif Ardiansyah Sulistya, Santi Martini

“…Despite diagnosis and treatment advances, survival rates have not increased over the past 32 years. This study estimated and reported the global burden of ovarian cancer during the past 32 years to inform preventative and control strategies.…”
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The causal association of cheese intake with type 2 diabetes mellitus: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Tao Zhong, Yu-qing Huang, Guiming Wang

“…The sensitivity analyses included MR-Egger regression, weighted median, weighted mode, and leave-one-out. MR estimations of causation were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). …”
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Role of Traffic Emission on Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Pollutant Concentration on Urban Road Network: A Case of Beijing by Zirui Wang, Huixin Zhou, Yang Si, Yahui Li

“…In this research, traffic emission was an estimate based on network-wide traffic status which was calculated from vehicle trajectories and spatial variance-covariance matrix. …”
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Reduction in Aviation Volume due to COVID-19 and Changes in Air Pollution near the International Airport in Taiwan by Tuan Hung Ngo, Wen Chi Pan, Alexander Waits

“…We applied cluster analysis to identify TPE contribution to the major air pollutants and estimated their relationship with the number of passengers as a proxy to the flights number. …”
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Dynamiques spatiales récentes du Parc National du Banco (PNB) et stratégies de gestion communautaire durable de ses ressources forestières (District d’Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire)... by Nakouma Sako, Gérard Beltrando

“…The results of the investigations into the perception of the populations also state that 67% of the questioned people estimate that the improvement of the current policy of management of the PNB and its installation constitutes adequate means for its conservation and its durable development.…”
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