Oral health in patients with cleft lip and palate: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of periodontal and dental disease and oral microbiota (part 1) by A. Pardo, V. Vanti, F. Lonardi, A. Signoriello, G. Lobbia, G. Lombardo, L. Trevisiol, A. D’Agostino

“…Conclusions Meta-analysis of periodontal parameters (plaque index, gingival index, bleeding index, probing pocket depth, clinical attachment level) revealed an association between orofacial cleft and greater risk for poor oral health and periodontal disease. …”
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Monitoring of ant species surrounding the ports of South Korea by Dayeong Kim, Heejo Lee, Nanghee Kim, Beom-jun Jang, Dong Eon Kim

“…The statistical analysis showed that the highest values by index were for the Incheon Port (0.25), the diversity index was for the Daesan Port (2.00), the evenness index was for the Daesan Port (0.71) and the richness index was for the Gamman Port (2.13). …”
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An adaptive estimation method to predict thermal comfort indices man using car classification neural deep belief by Alireza Entezari, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Khosro Rezaie, Fatemeh Rahimi

“…The results showed that the most severe cold temperature stress on PMV index is in the winter and late autumn and UTCI index in January and February are the coldest stress. …”
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Correlations between Texture Profile Analysis and Sensory Evaluation of Cured Largemouth Bass Meat (Micropterus salmoides) by Meijin Li, Jiajun Huang, Yanan Chen, Xiaoyan Zu, Guangquan Xiong, Hailan Li

“…Texture profile analysis (TPA) and sensory evaluation were performed to evaluate the quality of the cured samples, and the correlations of the indexes in the two methods were analyzed. Two principal components were obtained from the TPA indexes and sensory evaluation indexes, and the cumulative variance contribution rates were 73.87% and 72.99%, respectively. …”
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Investigation and Comparison of Some Laboratories in Terms of Occupational Health and Safety by ELMERI Observation Method by Orkun Dalyan, Mehmet Pişkin, Ömer Faruk Öztürk, Nuray Özkaya

“…The survey data were applied with the ELMERI observation method and the safety indexes of the laboratories were created. According to the data obtained from the ELMERI safety index, the necessary measures to be taken in the laboratories were determined and recommendations were made.According to this research, average index values of laboratories according to categories; training and information 96%, diseases and accidents 94%, biological factors 86%, physical factors 82%, ergonomics 81%, machinery and hand tools 78%, personal protective equipment 75%, waste management 72%, electricity 71%, chemical factors 69%, fire-explosion and emergencies 67%, psychosocial factors 67%, storage 64% and general workplace layout 62%.Although there are occupational safety evaluation studies in the literature using the checklists published by the relevant ministry, there is almost no work to create safety indexes for workplaces by combining the relevant lists with the ELMERI observation method. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficacy of Herbal and Chlorhexidine Mouthwash on Gingival Health by Vaishnavi Senkalvarayan, Priya Kesavan, Jayachandran Dorairaj, R Madhumala, Saranyan Ravi, Ann Theresa Tomy

“…Material and Methods: A group of 45 healthy subjects in the age group of 19–35 years were selected and randomly divided into three groups, Group A - Himalaya complete care mouthwash, Group B - CHX mouthwash, Group C - Distilled water as a control group. Gingival index and plaque index, OHI-s index, and Ainamo and Bay index for bleeding were recorded. …”
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Club Characteristic and the Proximity Effect of Travel Links between Cities in China by Mingxing Chen, Xinyue Luo, Maogui Hu, Xiaoping Zhang

“…Through Tencent’s population migration heat and Baidu map big data, this paper analyzes the regular characteristics of the relations between complex cities based on such index as the rich node propensity index, preference level index, and relative heat index and also investigates the influence of geographical proximity factors on the external relations of different cities. …”
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Monitoring land changes at an open mine site using remote sensing and multi-spectral indices by Ikram Loukili, Ahmed Laamrani, Mustapha El Ghorfi, Saida El Moutak, Abdessamad ghafiri

“…Classification quality was evaluated using accuracy assessment and the Kappa index. Additionally, multi-spectral indices, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), and Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI), were simulated and analyzed across four intervals. …”
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Poland's Competitive Position in Trade in Agri-Food Products with the United Kingdom – Selected Aspects by Justyna Łapińska, Maurycy Graszewicz, Ewa Zdunek-Rosa

“…For this purpose, quantitative indexes of competitive positioning were used, in particular, the trade coverage ratio as well as the revealed comparative advantage indexes – RCAi and LFIi. …”
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An Exponential Varying-Parameter Neural Network for Repetitive Tracking of Mobile Manipulators by Ying Kong, Qingqing Tang, Jingsheng Lei, Ruiyang Zhang

“…Firstly, the repetitive motion scheme for mobile manipulators is formulated into a QP index. Secondly, the QP index is transformed into a time-varying matrix equation. …”
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The Dynamic Cross-Correlations between Mass Media News, New Media News, and Stock Returns by Zuochao Zhang, Yongjie Zhang, Dehua Shen, Wei Zhang

“…We investigate the dynamic cross-correlations between mass media news, new media news, and stock returns for the SSE 50 Index in Chinese stock market by employing the MF-DCCA method. …”
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Fiscal Decentralization and Environmental Pollution: A Spatial Analysis by Xia Chen, Jianmin Liu

“…Based on annual data over the period 2003 to 2017 covering 31 provinces in China, the environmental pollution index and environmental regulation index are constructed. …”
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Diversity of Parasitoids Hymenoptera in Agricultural Ecosystems and Primary Forest in Lubuk Kilangan District, Padang by Hasmiandy Hamid, Alfala Hakiki, Munzir Busniah, Zahlul Ikhsan, Stefan Schmidt

“…The similarity index of both ecosystems is classified in the high category with a value of 0,607.…”
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Brittleness Evaluation of Shale Based on the Brazilian Splitting Test by Bing Hou, Yijin Zeng, Meng Fan, Dandan Li

“…The results show that the tensile brittleness index is more accurate and sensitive to condition changes than the compressive brittleness index. …”
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Dissecting Cowpea Genetic Variability under Moisture Stress Conditions and Implications for Drought Tolerance Breeding by Mary Singini, Michael M. Chipeta, Keston Njira, Lameck Fiwa

“…Nine drought tolerance indices (MP = mean productivity index, GMP = geometric mean productivity index, HM = harmonic mean, STI = stress tolerance index, YI = yield index, YSI = yield stability index, TOL = tolerance index, Yrr = yield reduction ratio, and SSI = stress susceptibility index) were calculated based on grain yield under water stress and nonstress conditions. …”
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Association Between Liver Fibrosis and Risk of Incident Stroke and Mortality: A Large Prospective Cohort Study by Zijie Wang, Zhitao Gong, Jianshang Wen, Shanyu Zhang, Xiao Hu, Wenliang Guo, Yanghua Tian, Qi Li

“…We identified participants at high probability of advanced liver fibrosis using the Fibrosis‐4 index >2.67 or aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index ≥1.0. …”
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Investigating the Suitability of Partial Replacement of Basalt with Scoria as a Base Course Material for a Flexible Pavement. by Wambei, Allan

“…The fundamental tests required for the base course CRR class are plasticity index, particle size distribution, flakiness index, linear shrinkage and ten percent fines value according to the general specifications for roads and bridges of Uganda. …”
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Winegrape similarities and concentrations: A description by German Puga, Kym Anderson

“…In doing so, we summarise a recent scientific journal article (Puga and Anderson 2023), in which we used data on area by variety for virtually all wine-producing countries and did some statistical analyses based on two indexes that we computed with those data. One of these indexes measures varietal similarities between countries, and the other measures varietal concentration within countries. …”
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Some considerations about the assessment of evaluative instruments and the interpretation of their results. by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

“…The usefulness and conveniences of the usage of the difficulty and discrimination indexes in the appraisement and elaboration of evaluative instruments are analysed in this paper. …”
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Unicyclic Graphs with the Fourth Extremal Wiener Indices by Guangfu Wang, Yujun Yang, Yuliang Cao, Shoujun Xu

“…It is shown that, among all unicyclic graphs with n≥8 vertices, C5Sn−4 and C2u1,u2S3,Sn−4 attain the fourth minimum Wiener index, whereas C3u1,u2P3,Pn−4 attains the fourth maximum Wiener index.…”
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