Connection Number- Based Topological Indices of Cartesian Product of Graphs by Aiman Arshad, Aqsa Sattar, Muhammad Javaid, Mamo Abebe Ashebo

“…In this article, we study with the Cartesian product of complete graphs, with path graphs, and find their general result of connection number (CN)-based TIs, namely, first connection- based Zagreb index (1st CBZI), second connection- based Zagreb index (2nd CBZI), and third CBZI (3rd CBZI) and then modified first connection- based Zagreb index (CBZI) and second and third modified CBZIs. …”
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Open Trial of Cyclosporine in Patients with Severe Active Crohn's Disease Refractory to Conventional Therapy by Kevork M. Peltekian, C. Noel Williams, Allan S. MacDonald, Peter D. Roy, Elizabeth Czolpinska

“…T he remaining 10 patients all improved within four weeks as measured by three different clinical indices: Crohn's Disease Activity Index, Simple Index of Crohn's Disease Activity and Mean Score of Therapeutic Goals (MSTG). …”
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Comparison of the Oral Hygiene Status in Children With and Without Juvenile Diabetes - A Comparative Study by Lavanya Govindaraju, Deepa Gurunathan

“…Sixty-six children diagnosed with juvenile diabetes were compared with the age and sex matched 66 healthy controls with respect to the oral hygiene index, gingival index and DMFT/def index. Mean of the obtained scores of the variables were compared between the groups using Mann–Whitney test with significance level set at 5%. …”
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Quasi-Babinet principle in dielectric resonators and Mie voids by Masoud Hamidi, Kirill Koshelev, Sergei Gladyshev, Adrià Canós Valero, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen, Yuri Kivshar, Thomas Weiss

“…Recently, cavities in high-index dielectrics have been shown to resonantly confine light inside a lower-index region. …”
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Research on Small Sample Nonlinear Cointegration Test and Modeling Based on the LS-SVM Optimized by PSO by Jungang Du

“…Then, we carry out empirical research on the ship maintenance cost index and the several price indexes. Based on the judgment of the type of cointegration test relationship, the test of the nonlinear cointegration test relationship of small samples is realized, and the NECM for predicting the ship maintenance cost index is established as well, which is compared with the VAR model of linear vector. …”
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Some Bond Incident Degree Indices of Cactus Graphs by Akbar Ali, Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti, Naveed Iqbal, Tariq Alraqad, Jaya Percival Mazorodze, Hicham Saber, Abdulaziz M. Alanazi

“…The obtained results cover several well-known indices including the general zeroth-order Randić index, multiplicative first and second Zagreb indices, and variable sum exdeg index.…”
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Ductile–Brittle Transition Temperature of Epoxy Asphalt Concrete of Steel Bridge Deck Pavement Based on Impact Toughness by Shunxian Zhang, Wen Nie, Aimin Sha, Weixiong Li, Wei Jiang

“…To solve the common low-temperature cracking problem of epoxy asphalt concrete pavement on the steel bridge deck, based on the principle of fracture mechanics and energy method, this paper puts forward the impact toughness as the evaluation index of crack resistance of epoxy asphalt concrete and verifies the feasibility of this index through theoretical analysis and experiment. …”
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Evaluation of Cruise Ship Supply Logistics Service Providers with ANP-RBF by Liling Huang, Yong Tan, Xu Guan

“…This requires building of a solid evaluation index system of logistics service providers (LSPs) in the cruise ship supply chain. …”
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Breeding Sites of Aedes aegypti: Potential Dengue Vectors in Dire Dawa, East Ethiopia by Dejene Getachew, Habte Tekie, Teshome Gebre-Michael, Meshesha Balkew, Akalu Mesfin

“…The larval indices, house index, container index, and breteau index, varied from 33.3 to 86.2, from 23.2 to 73.9, and from 56.5 to 188.9, respectively. …”
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The Impact of Socio-Economic and Climate Change on Poverty in Indonesia by Watemin,, Slamet Rosyadi and Lilis Siti Badriah

“…The Central Bureau of Statistics and Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) reports are the sources of research data. …”
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Characterization of a Mixture of Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) and Oat Extrudate Flours: Antioxidant and Physicochemical Attributes by Marisol P. Castro-Mendoza, Heidi M. Palma-Rodriguez, Erick Heredia-Olea, Juan P. Hernández-Uribe, Edgar O. López-Villegas, Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar, Apolonio Vargas-Torres

“…The results showed that a higher moisture content increased the hardness, water absorption index, and density of the extrudates; however, the solubility and expansion indexes showed an inverse pattern. …”
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Ten Years After the 2008 Crisis: Has Risk Aversion Won? by Eliana Marcia Martins Fittipaldi Torga, Carolina Magda da Silva Roma, Paula Magda Roma, Bruno Pérez Ferreira

“…Mean return of portfolio, risk through standard deviation, Sharpe index, and risk-adjusted return were calculated for evaluation purposes. …”
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Prediction of Stope Stability Using Variable Weight and Unascertained Measurement Technique by Qian Kang, Yunmin Wang, Shuwen Zhang, Chengzhi Pu, Chuxuan Zhang

“…And each index is divided into 5 grades by assignment value and the classification method of standardization. …”
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Optimal Road Toll Design from the Perspective of Sustainable Development by Lin Cheng, Fei Han

“…In order to simultaneously consider the impacts of all these three indicators on sustainability of transportation system, we integrate them into a sustainable development index (SD-index) by a linear combination, and then we establish the corresponding bilevel optimization model. …”
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Agreement Between Isokinetic Dynamometer and Hand-held Isometric Dynamometer as Measures to Detect Lower Limb Asymmetry in Muscle Torque After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruc... by Angelica Ivarsson, Anna Cronström

“… # Result Bland & Altman plots showed wide limits of agreement between the instruments for both flexion and extension limb symmetry index. Cohen´s Kappa coefficient revealed a poor to slight agreement between the extension limb symmetry index values (0.136) and a fair agreement for flexion limb symmetry index values (0.236). …”
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A radiomics and deep learning nomogram developed and validated for predicting no-collapse survival in patients with osteonecrosis after multiple drilling by Fan Liu, De-bao Zhang, Shi-huan Cheng, Gui-shan Gu

“…Model performance was evaluated using the concordance index (C-index), area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), net reclassification index (NRI), integrated discrimination improvement (IDI), calibration curves, and Decision Curve Analysis (DCA). …”
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Multiple Comorbidities, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Essential Tremor: A Retrospective Observational Study in a Large US Comme... by Dingwei Dai, Ali Samiian, Joaquim Fernandes, Henriette Coetzer

“…The earliest claim date with ET diagnosis was identified as the index date. An index date was assigned randomly for each non-ET patient. …”
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Physical behaviours during pregnancy may alter the association of maternal insulin sensitivity with neonatal adiposity: a prospective pre-birth cohort of mother-child pairs by Piraveena Satkunanathan, Catherine Allard, Myriam Doyon, Patrice Perron, Luigi Bouchard, Marie-France Hivert, Tricia M. Peters

“…We also observed potential interactions of sleep and sedentary behaviour at V2 with Matsuda index for the association with birthweight z-score. …”
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Impact of cariprazine on body weight and blood pressure among adults with bipolar I disorder, schizophrenia, or major depressive disorder in a real-world setting by Christoph U. Correll, Andrew J. Cutler, François Laliberté, Guillaume Germain, Sean D. MacKnight, Julien Boudreau, Sally W. Wade, Nadia Nabulsi, Huy-Binh Nguyen, Mousam Parikh

“…Methods Symphony Health’s Integrated Dataverse® with electronic medical record access (3/1/2015–10/31/2018) was used to identify adults (≥ 18 years) diagnosed with BP-I depression, BP-I mania/mixed, schizophrenia, or MDD, with ≥ 2 cariprazine dispensings (first dispensing = index) and continuous clinical activity for ≥ 12 months pre-index (baseline) and ≥ 3 months post-index. …”
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Diversity of lithophytic moss species in karst regions in response to elevation gradients. by Yalin Jin, Xiurong Wang

“…Among them, wefts and turfs appeared in all elevations, while a small amount of Pendants appeared in the area of elevational gradient I (970-1151m), and the most abundant life form was found in the range of elevational gradient III (1334-1515m); (3) Patrick richness index and Shannon-Wiener diversity index were highly significantly (p<0.01) positively correlated, both of which increased and then decreased with elevation, reaching a maximum at elevation gradient III (1334-1515m); The Simpson dominance index had a highly significant (p<0.01) negative correlation with the Patrick richness index and the Shannon-Wiener diversity index, which showed a decreasing and then increasing trend with increasing altitude; Pielou evenness index showed no discernible trend; (4) β diversity study revealed that while the similarity coefficient tended to decrease with increasing altitude, the species composition of bryophytes increased. …”
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