Reliability and validity validation of the Chinese version of the family vitiligo impact scale by Jian Sun, Linna Li, Xue Tian, Yuping Fu

“…Respondents completed the Chinese versions of the FVIS and Family Dermatology Life Quality Index (FDLQI). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confrmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to test the construct validity of the scale, and the content validity of the scale was assessed through the content validity index. …”
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Relationship between multiple morbidities and performance on the Timed Up and Go test in elderly patients: a cross-sectional study by Arsalan Tariq, Sayed Alireza Mousavi Zadeh, Muhammad Ammar, Nafisehsadat Mousavizadeh, Arash Hajary, Somayeh Mohamadi

“…All analyses were performed using SPSS software.Results A total of 160 participants (mean age: 67.2±6.9 years and body mass index (BMI): 28.7±4.9 kg/m²) were included. Those with TUG test times under 10 s had lower CCI scores (5.06±1.8) and frailty index (0.15±0.07), compared with those with longer times (CCI: 8.6±4.3 and frailty index: 0.42±0.1). …”
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Delving into biomarkers and predictive modeling for CVD mortality: a 20-year cohort study by Zhen Wu, Abdullahi Mohamud Hilowle, Ying Zhou, Changlin Zhao, Shuo Yang

“…Model performance was evaluated using the concordance index (C-index), sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, with internal validation conducted through bootstrap sampling. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial to examine medical mask use as source control for people with respiratory illness by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Yi Zhang, Quanyi Wang, Bayzidur Rahman, Haiyan Zhang, Holly Seale, Daitao Zhang, Yanhui Chu

“…Rationale Medical masks are commonly used by sick individuals with influenza-like illness (ILI) to prevent spread of infections to others, but clinical efficacy data are absent.Objective Determine whether medical mask use by sick individuals with ILI protects well contacts from related respiratory infections.Setting 6 major hospitals in 2 districts of Beijing, China.Design Cluster randomised controlled trial.Participants 245 index cases with ILI.Intervention Index cases with ILI were randomly allocated to medical mask (n=123) and control arms (n=122). …”
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Equity and efficiency of public health resource allocation in China by Minghua Zhou

“…Results The Theil index of public health resource allocation by population in China ranges from 0.006 to 0.049, and the Theil index contribution rate of the number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, and registered nurses within region is less than 28.76%. …”
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Insulin Resistance Markers to Detect Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Male Hispanic Population by Maritza Pérez-Mayorga, Jose P. Lopez-Lopez, Maria A. Chacon-Manosalva, Maria G Castillo, Johanna Otero, Daniel Martinez-Bello, Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Daniel D. Cohen, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

“…The triglycerides/glucose (TyG) index and triglycerides/HDL-c (TG/HDL) ratio are markers correlated with IR. …”
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Characteristics and association mechanisms of the transition between dominant morphology and recessive morphology of rural settlements by ZHANG Bailin, ZHANG Xinyu, ZHAO Yining, LIU Hongwu

“…[Results] (1) From 1980 to 2020, the dominant morphology and recessive morphologies index of rural settlements in Tianjin showed an upward trend. …”
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Incremental Healthcare Costs and Outpatient Antifungal Treatment of Patients with Aspergillosis in the United States by Emily Durden, Donna McMorrow, Paul Juneau, Robert Fowler, Paresh Chaudhari, David Horn

“…Patients had ≥6 months of pre-index and ≥1 month of post-index continuous health plan and pharmacy benefit enrollment and no pre-index diagnosis of aspergillosis. …”
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Burden and Associated Factors of Tuberculosis Among Household Contacts of Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients of Aligarh by Simon Jude, Ali J. Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohammad Shameem

“…Results: Within this investigation, a total of 103 individuals who tested positive for sputum smear were identified as index cases, alongside 405 household contacts of these index cases. …”
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Effect of Loading Rates on Mechanical Characteristics and Rock Burst Tendency of Coal-Rock Combined Samples by Jiang Hu, Jingang Li

“…And the rock burst energy index increases first and then decreases with the increase of loading rates. …”
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Functional Evaluations in the Monitoring of the River Ecosystem Processes: The Adige River as a Case Stu by M.G. Braioni, G. Salmoiraghi, F. Bracco, M. Villani, A. Braioni, L. Girelli

“…Indices were applied to evaluate the wild state and ecological quality of the banks (wild state index, buffer strip index) and the landscape quality of wide areas of the fluvial corridor (environmental landscape index). …”
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Study on GIS Visualization in Evaluation of the Human Living Environment in Shenyang-Dalian Urban Agglomeration by Kang Hou, Jieting Zhou, Xuxiang Li, Shengbin Ge

“…The results show that the human living environmental evaluation (HLEE) indexes of Dalian, Shenyang, and Liaoyang are higher than other counties. …”
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Dissociable effects of perceived control on reward-related neural dynamics under risk and ambiguity by Shiting Chen, Menglin Wu, Jianbiao Zhao, Guanglong Liu, Wendeng Yang, Ya Zheng

“…However, the control effect was more pronounced during feedback anticipation (indexed by the stimulus-preceding negativity) and outcome appraisal (indexed by delta oscillation) in the ambiguous context compared to the risky context. …”
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The Semidiurnal Tidal Response of the Low Latitude Ionosphere to Northern Hemisphere Polar Vortex Strength (2020–2023) From COSMIC‐2 Global Ionospheric Specification by Deepali Aggarwal, Jens Oberheide, Nicholas Pedatella, Benjamin C. Martinez

“…Our study can potentially improve ionospheric space weather predictability because the NAM index can be known a few days in advance.…”
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The Seepage Evolution Mechanism of Variable Mass of Broken Rock in Karst Collapse Column under the Influence of Mining Stress by Li Xiao-Lei, Li Xin-Lei, Wang Yue, Peng Wei-Hang, Fan Xuan, Cao Zheng-Zheng, Liu Rui-Fu

“…The research results indicate that the loss ratio of mass is inversely proportional to the Talbol power index, and grain mass loss rate increases with the decrease of the Talbol power index. …”
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A Vibration Reliability Analysis Method for the Uncertain Space Beam Structure by Yanyu Mo, Shuxiang Guo, Cheng Tang

“…Then the uncertain structure is modeled as a series system and a system reliability index is proposed to evaluate the safety of the structure. …”
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Assessing and visualizing fragility of clinical results with binary outcomes in R using the fragility package. by Lifeng Lin, Haitao Chu

“…With the growing concerns about research reproducibility and replicability, the assessment of scientific results' fragility (or robustness) has been of increasing interest. The fragility index was proposed to quantify the robustness of statistical significance of clinical studies with binary outcomes. …”
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Impact of Hypoxia on the Community Structure of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria by Nkwoji Joseph Ahamefula

“…Benthic macro- invertebrate community was dominated by the molluscs. Margalef’s index of species richness ranged from 0.79 to 2.57 while Shannon-Wiener index ranged from 0.40 to 2.19. …”
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Soil nematodes in the field and fallow - density and diversity by Krassimira Ilieva-Makulec, Renata Franczak, Grzegorz Makulec

“…Shannon-Weaver diversity index, Sørensen’s index of similarity and Maturity index were also calculated. …”
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Modeling and simulation for toxicity assessment by Cristina Anton, Jian Deng, Yau Shu Wong, Yile Zhang, Weiping Zhang, Stephan Gabos, Dorothy Yu Huang, Can Jin

“…In this paper we propose a mathematical model to study the effect of toxicants with various initial concentrations on the cell index. This model is based on the logistic equation and linear kinetics. …”
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