Impact of non-pharmacological interventions on the first wave of COVID-19 in Portugal 2020 by Dinis B. Loyens, Constantino Caetano, Carlos Matias-Dias

“…The counterfactual scenario estimated that the lockdown prevented 118052 (95%CrI: 99464; 145605) cases between 24th February and 6th April. …”
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis by J. Čemerkaitė, I. Kaukėnaitė, R. Liutkevičienė

“…The incidence of NMOSD ranges from 0.039 to 0.73 per 100,000 adult population, and the highest incidence estimates are associated with African and Asian ethnicities. …”
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The Economic and Humanistic Burden of Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis by Nupur Greene, Lita Araujo, Cynthia Campos, Hannah Dalglish, Sarah Gibbs, Irina Yermilov

“…Pediatric-onset MS (POMS), defined as onset of MS before 18 years of age, is estimated to account for 2% to 5% of the MS population worldwide. …”
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Understanding City-Wide Ride-Sourcing Travel Flow: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach by Chuqiao Chen, Simon Hu, Washington Y. Ochieng, Na Xie, Xiqun (Michael) Chen

“…The bus station builds on locations with high demand, but its capacity is not large enough to reduce the ride-sourcing flow to a low level, which results in a positive coefficient. (c) Based on the estimated coefficients, the prediction of ride-sourcing flows is feasible, supporting the impact analysis for urban land use and transportation planning. …”
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Kynurenines and aerobic exercise capacity in chronic kidney disease: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study. by Helena Wallin, Eva Jansson, Sophie Erhardt, Carin Wallquist, Britta Hylander, Stefan H Jacobson, Kenneth Caidahl, Anette Rickenlund, Maria J Eriksson

“…Kidney function was evaluated by glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and estimated GFR. The CKD 2-3 group and healthy controls repeated tests after five years. …”
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Two Cases of Severe Hypertension in JAK2 Mutation-Positive Myeloproliferative Neoplasms by Raunak Rao, Spoorthy Kulkarni, Ian B. Wilkinson

“…Cardiac output was measured at 5 L/min using an inert gas rebreathing method, providing an estimated peripheral vascular resistance of 1840 dynes/s/cm5. …”
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Effects of Metabolism-Related Indicators on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Nonobese Population Based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by XingWang Zhu, HaiPing Wang, HongLong Zhang, Guole Nie, Jun Yan, Xun Li

“…We used logistic regression models, Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR), and the weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression model to estimate the association between metabolism-related indicators and NAFLD in the nonobese population. …”
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Modeling the Hydrological Process of the Genale Dawa-3 Dam Watershed, Ethiopia by Ashenafi Dechasa, Wakjira T. Dibaba, Alemu O. Aga, Mezgebu Geme Worku, Miliyon Dida Feye, Firaol Bedada Kopesa, Bekele Terefe Gebisa, Brook Legese, Amare Tura Abate

“…A yearly water balance analysis revealed that evapotranspiration was the primary route of precipitation loss, followed by surface runoff, groundwater movement, and overall water yield. The study estimated the total water potential of the watershed to be 2.45 BMC. …”
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Simulation of Daily Rainfall from Concurrent Meteorological Parameters over Core Monsoon Region of India: A Novel Approach by Utpal Misra, Atri Deshamukhya, Sanjay Sharma, Srimanta Pal

“…The weight matrices of the feedforward MLP model are estimated at a particular location (22.5°N, 82.5°E). …”
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Effectiveness and Safety of Nonvitamin K Oral Anticoagulants Rivaroxaban and Apixaban in Patients with Venous Thromboembolism: A Meta-Analysis of Real-World Studies by Olivia Wu, Stephen Morris, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Flemming Skjøth, Alex Evans, Kevin Bowrin, Piotr Wojciechowski, Wojciech Margas, Maria Huelsebeck

“…Hazard ratios (HRs) for the comparison between NOACs and SoC were extracted from the relevant studies or estimated based on the reported binary data. The between-treatment contrasts were reported as HRs with associated 95% confidence intervals. …”
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Influence of transient conditions on thermal comfort evaluations: Field study in university buildings by Keovathana Run, Franck Cévaër, Jean-François Dubé

“…These findings suggested that, in field studies, data collected from short-term thermal experience performed reasonably well in estimating comfort temperatures. The calculations’ assumptions, however, remained a limitation of this paper.…”
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METHOD AND ALGORITHMS OF CALCULATION OF PARAMETERS OF RELIABILITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MULTIVARIATE DATA by E. M. Farhadzadeh, A. Z. Muradaliyev, T. K. Rafiyeva, S. A. Abdullayeva

“…Formation of a set of relevant kinds of attributes is demonstrated on behalf of an estimation of average duration of idle time during emergency repair made for the analysis of the law of alterations by months of year when the calculation of a parameter of individual reliability for the third power unit in case of failure of boiler facility, representation of set of realizations of duration of idle time in emergency repair clusters. …”
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Understanding the Impact of Urinary Incontinence in Persons with Dementia: Development of an Interdisciplinary Service Model by Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Elizabeth Coulthard, Elizabeth Mallam, Hilary Archer, Marcus J. Drake

“…Prevalence of urinary symptoms such as incontinence (UI) in patients with dementia is estimated to exceed 50%. The resultant psychological and socio-economic burden can be substantial. …”
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Diagnostic value of the appendicitis inflammatory response (AIR) score. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Roland E. Andersson, Joachim Stark

“…The risk of bias was estimated via the QUADAS-2 tool. The ROC areas of the AIR score and the Alvarado score were compared. …”
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The Impact of Socioeconomic Inequalities on the Risk of Hypertension in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Kabir Hossain, Tonmoy Alam Shuvo, Asma‐Ul Hosna, Dipu Rani Dey

“…The I2 statistic measured between study heterogeneity, and pooled effect estimates were obtained using the DerSimonian and Laird random effects model to address this variability. …”
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Environmental Covariates for Sampling Optimization and Pest Prediction in Soybean Crops by Cenneya Lopes Martins, Maiara Pusch, Wesley Augusto Conde Godoy, Lucas Rios do Amaral

“…However, a multi-objective optimized sampling design, tailored to refine configurations for identifying and estimating variograms and spatial trends essential for spatial interpolation, produced the most accurate predictions. …”
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Disulfidptosis-related immune patterns predict prognosis and characterize the tumor microenvironment in oral squamous cell carcinoma by Xuechen Wu, Boxin Liu, Shi-Zhou Deng, Tengteng Xiong, Lin Dai, Bo Cheng

“…Additionally, the risk score, ssGSEA, ESTIMATE, and CIBERSORT were used to evaluate the intrinsic molecular subtypes, immunological checkpoints, abundances of tumor-infiltrating immune cell types and proportions between the two risk groups. …”
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In vitro antitumor effects of methanolic extracts of three Ganoderema mushrooms by Elshahat A. Toson, Amira A. El-Fallal, Marwa A. Oransa, Hoda M. El-Gharabawy

“…Therefore, the antitumor activity of the methanolic fruiting body extracts of three Ganoderma spp. will be evaluated by estimating cell viability, cell cycle parameters and the mode of cellular death. …”
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Exact controllability for systems describing plate vibrations. A perturbation approach by Bournissou, Megane, Ervedoza, Sylvain, Tucsnak, Marius

“…When applied to systems described by the classical Kirchhoff equations, our abstract results, combined with some elliptic Carleman-type estimates, yield exact controllability in arbitrarily small time, provided that the system described by the wave equation in the same spatial domain and with the same control operator is exactly controllable. …”
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The co-occurrence of multimorbidity and polypharmacy among middle-aged and older adults in Canada: A cross-sectional study using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and... by Kathryn Nicholson, Jennifer Salerno, Sayem Borhan, Benoit Cossette, Dale Guenter, Meredith Vanstone, John Queenan, Michelle Greiver, Michelle Howard, Amanda L Terry, Tyler Williamson, Lauren E Griffith, Martin Fortin, Saverio Stranges, Dee Mangin

“…Across both cohorts and age groups, females had consistently higher estimates of multimorbidity, polypharmacy and the co-occurrence of multimorbidity and polypharmacy.…”
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