Monitoring Brazilian Food Security Based on Emergy Concepts: A Proposed Approach by Rafael Araujo Nacimento, Mario Duarte Canever, Luiz Carlos Terra dos Santos, Cecília Almeida, Feni Agostinho, Biagio Fernando Giannetti

“…The results indicate that processed food items such as oils and butter generally provide greater net emergy benefits to consumers compared to fresh food items like meat, bananas, tomatoes, and potatoes, which often favor the supply chain. …”
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Burden, Positive Aspects, and Predictive Variables of Caregiving: A Study of Caregivers of Patients with Pediatric Glaucoma by Yingting Zhu, Jinyun Gao, Xinyan Li, Qiongman Yang, Yu Lian, Huiming Xiao, Wenmin Huang

“…The CBI and the PAC scores were analyzed in relation to each other and different characteristics of the patients with PG and their caregivers through a generalized linear regression model. Result. Most of enrolled 57 caregivers were found to act with a moderate level of burden and benefits. …”
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Research and application of big data platform technology based on multi-centre collaborative computing by RUAN Yilong, XU Xueling, FA Hu, DONG Silun, JIANG Lei, YANG Lei, YAN Yuanyuan

“…At the same time, the computing load dataset of the platform has generalized characteristics, which can flexibly cope with the data processing requirements in different scenarios. …”
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Contradictory links between lipid levels and bone health: atherogenic index of plasma and bone microarchitecture by Bo Xu, Guo-Liang Ma, Xin Chen, Bo-Wen Yang, Dian Zhang, Xiao-Kuan Qin, Tai-Wei Lou, Wei-Li Duan, Le Yu, Min-Shan Feng, He Yin, Xu Wei, Li-Guo Zhu

“…Methods Based on data from 3,162 Americans, multivariable logistic regression and a generalized additive model (GAM) were used to analyze AIP, BMD, and TBS. …”
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Spinal Excitability Changes after Transspinal and Transcortical Paired Associative Stimulation in Humans by Maria Knikou

“…TEP recruitment input-output curves revealed a generalized depression of TEPs in most ankle muscles of both legs after both PAS protocols that coincided with an increased gain only after transcortical-transspinal PAS. …”
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Selective Ensemble Learning Method for Belief-Rule-Base Classification System Based on PAES by Wanling Liu, Weikun Wu, Yingming Wang, Yanggeng Fu, Yanqing Lin

“…In the base classifier selection stage, the trained base classifier is binary coded, and the number of base classifiers participating in integration and generalization error of the base classifier is used as the objective function for multi-objective optimization. …”
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Sociological Explanation of the Role of Counseling and Cultural Centers in Iranian Young Athletes\' Unprofessional Behaviors and Lawlessness by Ali Ghanbari Barzian, Mostafa Zahirinia

“…Conclusions: The findings generally show that counseling centers can play a decisive role in preventing unprofessional and illicit behaviors of athletes.…”
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Current trends in surface air temperature changes in the Barents and Kara Seas region by T.K. Karandasheva, B.V. Ivanov, V.I. Demin, A.D. Revina, I.A. Ilyushchenkova, A.R. Antsiferova

“…Linear trends of SAT for the year are generally determined by the tendencies observed in October-February. …”
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Metronomic Cyclophosphamide and Methotrexate Chemotherapy Combined with 1E10 Anti-Idiotype Vaccine in Metastatic Breast Cancer by Jorge L. Soriano, Noyde Batista, Eduardo Santiesteban, Mayté Lima, Joaquín González, Robin García, Yohanka Zarza, María V. López, Myriam Rodríguez, Jorge L. Loys, Narciso Montejo, Frank Aguirre, Amparo Macías, Ana M. Vázquez

“…Overall toxicity was generally mild. Metronomic chemotherapy combined with 1E10-Alum vaccine immunotherapy might be a useful therapeutic option for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer due to its potential impact on survival and patient quality of live, low toxicity and advantages of the administration.…”
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Encefalopatía como forma de presentación de la COVID-19 by Jorge Félix Nuñez Martínez, Catherine Madruga Vásquez, Raity Hernández Fernandez, Guillermo Pérez Ciprián, Iliana Bouza Denis

“…La evolución puede ser favorable con el uso de medidas generales y antiedema cerebral.…”
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Lens-Free On-Chip Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Large Phase Objects Based on a Biplane Phase Retrieval Method by Yufan Chen, Xuejuan Wu, Yang Chen, Wenhui Lin, Haojie Gu, Yuzhen Zhang, Chao Zuo

“…However, in LFOCM, the phase recovered by iterative phase retrieval techniques is generally wrapped into the range of −<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>π</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>π</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>, necessitating phase unwrapping to recover absolute phase distributions. …”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY BANKS IN NIGERIA by S.L ADAM, I. A MUHAMMED, Eunice T OLUGANNA, H.K.K ABDULKAREEM

“…The study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) for a period of seven years (2012-2018). …”
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L-shaped association between ankle-brachial index and coronary heart disease in Chinese adults with hypertension by Wei Zhou, Yumeng Shi, Chao Yu, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis involving 10,900 hypertensive patients, with CHD as the primary outcome. A generalized additive model (GAM) and fitted smoothing curve were employed to assess linearity and delineate the dose–response association between ABI and CHD. …”
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Elevation variations in volatile components of St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) by Oktay Demir, Ayşegül Tekeş, Sermin Göksu Karagöz, Serkan Gülsoy, Münevver Arslan, Nazlı Öğüt, Şükran Oğuzoğlu

“…While it is seen the main components of the essential oils of flowers and leaves are similar in the altitude groups, the alteration is generally in other chemical components. It was concluded this variability in the composition and ratios is significantly dependent on elevation-dependent climatic conditions and the phenological state of the plant shaped by their combination.…”
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Fire Model Test on Temperature Field in the Rescue Station of an Extralong Railway Tunnel by Yanhua Zeng, Kelin Liu, Yong Fang, Xianfu Zhang, Yun Bai

“…A rescue station is necessary for an extralong railway tunnel, whose length is generally greater than 20 km. In the rescue station, passenger evacuation, fire fighting, and protection of passengers are organized. …”
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Bryophytes as Indicators of Disturbance in One of the Last Remnants of the Mountain Forests of El Oro Province, Ecuador by Ángel Benítez, Richard Nagua, Jefferson Medina, Gregorio Lapo, Erika Yangua-Solano, Rolando Andrade-Hidalgo

“…Changes in species richness and diversity were analyzed using generalized linear models (GLMs), and changes in species composition, using multivariate analysis. …”
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Establishment of Novel Limbus-Derived, Highly Proliferative ABCG2+/ABCB5+ Limbal Epithelial Stem Cell Cultures by Eung Kweon Kim, Ga-Hyun Lee, Boram Lee, Yong-Sun Maeng

“…Homeostasis and regeneration of corneal epithelia are sustained by limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs); thus, an LESC deficiency is a major cause of blindness worldwide. Despite the generally promising results of cultivated LESC transplantation, it has been limited by variations in long-term success rates, the use of xenogeneic and undefined culture components, and a scarcity of donor tissues. …”
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Market Power, NAIRU, and the Phillips Curve by Derek Zweig

“…We employ Bayesian vector autoregression (“BVAR”) to expose empirical interrelationships between unemployment, inflation, and interest rates. Generally, we do find short-run behavior consistent with the Phillips curve, though it tends to break down over the longer term. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation for the Threat Degree of a Thermal Reservoir to Deep Coal Mining by Yun Chen, Xinyi Wang, Yanqi Zhao, Haolin Shi, Xiaoman Liu, Zhigang Niu

“…The evaluation results show that the threat degree of the roof in the eastern region is generally greater than that in the western region and that the closer it is to the coal seam outcrop line, the higher the threat degree is; near the boreholes, in the areas Qs1,Qs5, Qs8, Sx1, Tk5, Zc4, and Zc7, which are close to the hidden outcrop line of the coal seam, the classification characteristic value of the threat degree is greater than 3.5, which is in the high-threat zone for disasters caused by roof thermal storage aquifers during coal seam mining. …”
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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

“…The non-linear link between NAFLD and the GGT/HDL-C ratio was examined using generalized additive models. There was a non-linear association between GGT/HDL-C and the risk of NAFLD, and all regression models demonstrated a strong relationship between GGT/HDL-C levels and the risk of liver fibrosis, the degree of hepatic steatosis, and the prevalence of NAFLD. …”
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