Hydrochemical Characteristics and Formation of the Madeng Hot Spring in Yunnan, China by Ren Zhenhua, Zhou Xun, Yang Miaolin, Wang Xiaocui, Zheng Yuhui, Li Xiaolu, Shen Ye

“…Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes indicate that the hot water is of meteoric origin. It is estimated that the elevation of the recharge area of the hot spring is approximately 3800 m, the age of the hot water is some 140 years, the temperature of the geothermal reservoir is 75°C–80°C, the mixture ratio of cold water is approximately 80%, and the circulation depth of the thermal groundwater is 1870 m. …”
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Efficient and Effective Diabetes Care in the Era of Digitalization and Hypercompetitive Research Culture: A Focused Review in the Western Pacific Region with Malaysia as a Case Stu... by Boon-How Chew, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Dhashani A/P Sivaratnam, Nurul Iftida Basri, Geeta Appannah, Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof, Subashini C. Thambiah, Zubaidah Nor Hanipah, Ping-Foo Wong, Li-Cheng Chang

“…There are approximately 220 million (about 12% regional prevalence) adults living with diabetes mellitus (DM) with its related complications, and morbidity knowingly or unconsciously in the Western Pacific Region (WP). The estimated healthcare cost in the WP and Malaysia was 240 billion USD and 1.0 billion USD in 2021 and 2017, respectively, with unmeasurable suffering and loss of health quality and economic productivity. …”
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Spatiotemporal variation in size-dependent growth rates in small isolated populations of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) by Elizabeth A. Mittell, Camille A. Leblanc, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Moira M. Ferguson, Katja Räsänen, Michael B. Morrissey

“…Here, we implemented a Bayesian state-space model using individual-level data from 20 populations of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) across 15 capture occasions, which allowed us to: (i) integrate over the uncertainty of missing recapture records; (ii) robustly estimate size-dependence; and (iii) include a covariate (water temperature) that contained missing data. …”
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Decrease of PPARδ in Type-1-Like Diabetic Rat for Higher Mortality after Spinal Cord Injury by Cheng-Chia Tsai, Kung-Shing Lee, Sheng-Hsien Chen, Li-Jen Chen, Keng-Fan Liu, Juei-Tang Cheng

“…Survival rates were also estimated. A lower expression of PPARδ in spinal cords of STZ-diabetic rats was observed. …”
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Epidemiological perspectives of amyloidosis in Argentina: a cohort study analysing incidence and mortality patterns among a population affiliated to a medical care programme by María Lourdes Posadas-Martínez, Delfina Cirelli, Florencia De Florio, María Adela Aguirre, Elsa Mercedes Nucifora, Patricia Beatriz Sorroche, María Soledad Sáez, Valeria Inés Aliperti, Jimena Vicens, Marcelina Carretero

“…Background Data on the epidemiology of amyloidosis are scarce worldwide, making it difficult to understand its true incidence and mortality.Aim The aim of this study is to estimate the incidence and mortality rate of systemic amyloidosis in people affiliated to a Medical Care Program in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.Methods This is a hospital-based prospective study. …”
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Fibrinogen: A Marker in Predicting Diabetic Foot Ulcer Severity by X. H. Li, L. Y. Guan, H. Y. Lin, S. H. Wang, Y. Q. Cao, X. Y. Jiang, Y. B. Wang

“…A retrospective study was designed to examine the utility of fibrinogen in estimating disease severity in patients with DFU admitted to our hospital between January 2015 and January 2016. …”
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Hydrological changes in the Upper Yellow River under the impact of upstream cascade reservoirs over the past 70 years by Jing Hu, Xiong Zhou, Yujun Yi, Chunhui Li, Xuan Wang, Qiang Liu, Jiansu Mao

“…The proposed QS-QD method quantitatively estimates monthly flow variations and effectively addresses the limitations of RVA variation based on frequency. …”
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Hydrogen Storage Enhancement Attained by Fixation of Ti on MWNTs by J. J. Pérez-Bueno, M. L. Mendoza López, K. M. Brieño Enriquez, J. Ledesma García, L. A. Godínez Mora-Tovar, C. Angeles Chavez

“…The results revealed that hydrogen adsorption, estimated from voltamperometry, was five times higher on Ti-MWNTs than on bare nanotubes.…”
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Risk Factors Associated with Dengue Transmission and Spatial Distribution of High Seroprevalence in Schoolchildren from the Urban Area of Medellin, Colombia by Leidy Diana Piedrahita, Ivony Y. Agudelo Salas, Katherine Marin, Andrea I. Trujillo, Jorge E. Osorio, Sair Orieta Arboleda-Sanchez, Berta Nelly Restrepo

“…During 2010 in Medellin, the younger population presented a particularly high dengue incidence rate. This study estimated dengue virus (DENV) transmission in schoolchildren (aged 5–19 years) in Medellin from 2010 to 2012. …”
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Ethnic Differences in Risk Factors for Obesity among Adults in California, the United States by Liang Wang, Jodi Southerland, Kesheng Wang, Beth A. Bailey, Arsham Alamian, Marc A. Stevens, Youfa Wang

“…Using data from the 2011-2012 California Health Interview Survey, we examined differences in risk factors for obesity among Whites, Latinos, Asians, and African Americans among 42,935 adults (24.8% obese). Estimates were weighted to ensure an unbiased representation of the Californian population. …”
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A nonrevisiting genetic algorithm based on multi-region guided search strategy by Qijun Wang, Chunxin Sang, Haiping Ma, Chao Wang

“…To fully exploit the search history, several optimal solutions in the BSP tree are archived to represent the most potential search regions and estimate the fitness landscape in the search space. …”
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Community-Acquired Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Compared with Adenovirus and Norovirus Gastroenteritis in Italian Children: A Pedianet Study by D. Donà, E. Mozzo, A. Scamarcia, G. Picelli, M. Villa, L. Cantarutti, C. Giaquinto

“…Only few studies that assess the burden of RV gastroenteritis at the community level have been carried out. Objectives. To estimate incidence, disease characteristics, seasonal distribution, and working days lost by parents of RV, AV, and NV gastroenteritis leading to a family pediatrician (FP) visit among children < 5 years. …”
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Knowledge-Based Deep Learning for Time-Efficient Inverse Dynamics by Shuhao Ma, Yu Cao, Ian D. Robertson, Chaoyang Shi, Jindong Liu, Zhi-Qiang Zhang

“…Computational musculoskeletal modeling has been widely used as a powerful non-invasive tool to estimate them through inverse dynamics using static optimization, but the inherent computational complexity results in time-consuming analysis. …”
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Investigating the impact of modified cassava starch with tannic acid and heat moisture treatment on physicochemical and in vitro starch digestibility by Mardiah Rahmadani, Rusli Fidriyanto, Nahrowi, Lilis Khotijah, Anuraga Jayanegara

“…These modifications also significantly (p < 0.01) decreased the digestibility index of starch, rapidly digestible starch, and estimated glycaemic index (GI). Additionally, all treatments exhibited improved water-holding capacity, reduced crystallinity, and altered pasting behavior. …”
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Aqueous extracts from indigenous plant in Burkina Faso with bio-herbicide properties to reduce Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth propagation by Tinkoudougou Cathérine Sawadogo/Ilboudo, Djibril Yonli, Soumaïla Sourabie, Patrice Zerbo, Hamidou Traoré, Joseph Issaka Boussim

“…It is the most widespread species in fields in Burkina Faso and grows on all types of soil inducing losses estimated at 35–40% on sorghum and millet. The substantial reductions in yield caused by S. hermonthica contribute significantly to an insufficient food supply for the populations in the area. …”
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Comparison of Procleix Ultrio Elite and Procleix Ultrio NAT Assays for Screening of Transfusion Transmitted Infections among Blood Donors in India by Rahul Chaurasia, Diptiranjan Rout, Shamsuz Zaman, Kabita Chatterjee, Hem Chandra Pandey, Abhishek Kumar Maurya

“…NAT yields detected were subjected to viral load estimation and to other serological markers. Results. …”
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Distribution network fault comprehensive identification method based on voltage–ampere curves and deep ensemble learning by Jian Wang, Bo Zhang, Dong Yin, Jinxin Ouyang

“…Moreover, the proposed method has significant advantages over the impedance method and artificial neural network method for fault section identification and fault distance estimation. The proposed method has good adaptability and generalization ability to different systems and real-world data. …”
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Enhancing Microgrid Protection With Impedance-Based Blocking: An Embedded Validation on a Dual-Layer Architecture by Thiago S. Menezes, Ricardo A. S. Fernandes, Denis V. Coury

“…Intelligent electronic devices close to the DERs receive voltage and current phasors, allowing the estimation of the impedance value used in the blocking strategy. …”
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Rapid Visual Screening for Seismic Assessment of Hospital Buildings: A Case Study of Kabul City by Abdul Ali Raoufy, Ali Kheyroddin, Hosein Naderpour

“…The existing hospital buildings evaluated at level 1 and level 2 were estimated to be seismically vulnerable in the event of a possible destructive earthquake; the seismic vulnerability of these buildings was obtained to be different. …”
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Polymorphisms of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Moroccan Patients with Gastric Pathology: New Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in TNF-α−193 (G/A) by A. Essadik, H. Jouhadi, T. Rhouda, S. Nadifiyine, A. Kettani, F. Maachi

“…Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using logistic regression analysis. The TNF-α−238 (G/A) genotype was significantly associated with a high risk of gastritis and gastric cancer (GC) (P=0.001 and P=0.002, resp.). …”
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