Comparison of Natural Radioactivity of Commonly Used Fertilizer Materials in Egypt and Japan by Nabil M. Hassan, Byung-Uck Chang, Shinji Tokonami

“…The radiological hazards of radium equivalent activity (Raeq), external (Hex) and internal (Hin) indexes, alpha and gamma indexes, and annual effective dose, due to the presence of these radionuclides, were calculated and compared with each other.…”
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Spatial Dependency of Eco-Efficiency of Agriculture in São Paulo by Carlos Rosano Peña, Carlo Aleksandr Rosano de Almeida, Evaldo César Cavalcante Rodrigues, André Luiz Marques Serrano

“…This research presents an eco-efficiency index for the municipalities of São Paulo, indicating how much it would be possible to maximize economic and environmental objectives, taking into account the best practices for the municipalities of this region. …”
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Assessing business activity of the Russian industry by A. S. Dikarev

“…The directions for forming new ways of domestic industry effective development through assessing the entrepreneurial confidence index on the part of enterprises of extractive and manufacturing industries have been analyzed. …”
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Assessment of Groundwater Quality of Outer Skirts of Kota City with Reference to its Potential of Scale Formation and Corrosivity by Nitin Gupta, S. M. Nafees, M. K. Jain, S. Kalpana

“…The Langelier saturation index (LSI) and Ryznar saturation index (RSI) were calculated and discussed with respect to saturation level.…”
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Hotel employees: A systematic literature review by Sérgio Borralha, Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, João Viseu

“…This review was conducted through the databases Web of Knowledge, Web of Science (Social Sciences Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline), and Science Direct. …”
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Evaluating the Development Level of Agriculture in Kermanshah Province's Townships by Jafar Tavakkoli

“…Furthermore Pearson correlation approved positive so that a significant relation was seen between infrastructure and institutional indexes with other agricultural sub-sectors development. …”
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Bibliographic and printing activities of the central library of the Academy of Sciences Lit. SSR in 1946-1985 by Adolfas Ivaškevičius

“…In 1956, this bibliographical index was published. Since then, such indices have been published annually. …”
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Oral hygiene and smoking habit as risk factors of periodontal disease. by Maricela Seijo Machado, Marta M. Bosch Pons, Esther M. Castillo Betancourt, Sahily Espino Otero, Alicia Quiñones Betancourt

“…<strong>Method:</strong> Descriptive, cross-sectional, epidemiological study including 95 smokers from Palmira municipality; January-November, 2007. Peridontal treatment index was used in the community, as well as the simplified buccal hygiene index. …”
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Physicochemical Studies of Some Schiff Bases Derived From 6-Ethylbenzene 1,3-diol by Shipra Baluja

“…The physicochemical properties such as density, refractive index, conductance, heat of solution etc., of these schiff bases were determined…”
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Multiple Solutions for Boundary Value Problems of th-Order Nonlinear Integrodifferential Equations in Banach Spaces by Yanlai Chen

“…The boundary value problems of a class of th-order nonlinear integrodifferential equations of mixed type in Banach space are considered, and the existence of three solutions is obtained by using the fixed-point index theory.…”
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Application Value of NT-proBNP Combined with NLR in Evaluation of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Zhiyong Li, Hui Rong, Wenxun Wu, Ting Huang, Jun Xu

“…NT-proBNP combined with NLR has high value in the evaluation of MACE in elderly CHF patients and can be used as an auxiliary predictive index in clinic.…”
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Prevention and treatment of recurrent fractures after percutaneous vertebroplasty with denosumab in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures by Shouyu Xiang, Cheng Tang, Long Ling, Wei Liu, Bingwen Bai, Yanming Cao

“…[Results] There was no significant preoperative on BMD, VAS score, ODI index,beck values, sagittal cobb angle, PINP and β-CTX levels between the two groups before the surgery(P>0.05); After postoperative follow-up of 6 months, BMD in the observation group was higher than that in the control group (P<0.05), while VAS score, ODI index, PINP and β-CTX levels were lower than those in the control group (P<0.05).At 1 year postoperative follow-up, BMD and beck values in the observation group were higher than those in the control group (P<0.05), while fracture rate, VAS score, ODI index, sagittal cobb angle and PINP and β-CTX levels were lower than those in the control group(P<0.05). …”
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Geographic Socioeconomic Influences on Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis in an Academic and Safety Net Hospital System by Joseph Kim, Song Zhang, Ang Gao, Donglu Xie, Salahuddin Kazi, David R. Karp, Christie M. Bartels, E. Blair Solow

“…Objective The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) on disease activity and cardiovascular comorbidity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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A Strategy to Revalue a Wood Waste for Simultaneous Cadmium Removal and Wastewater Disinfection by Aleksandra Ivanovska, Sonja Veljović, Biljana Dojčinović, Nenad Tadić, Katarina Mihajlovski, Maja Natić, Mirjana Kostić

“…Mulberry is characterized by the lowest crystallinity index which can be ascribed to the highest crystallite size disabling crystallite denser packaging, while myrobalan plum has about 23% lower crystallite size that enables crystallite better packaging, thus resulting in a 42.4% higher crystallinity index compared to the mulberry. …”
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A Method for Quantifying Automobile Brake Creep Groan Intensity Based on Friction-Induced Vibration and Noise by Lijun Zhang, Jianfeng Wu, Dejian Meng

“…Analytically, four vibration indexes and four noise indexes are established to evaluate the intensity of creep groan, the validity of which is verified by linear regression analysis. …”
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Diffuseness of coronary artery disease impacts on immediate hemodynamic and predicted clinical outcomes by Shigetaka Kageyama, Pruthvi Chenniganahosahalli Revaiah, Tsai Tsung-Ying, Kotaro Miyashita, Akihiro Tobe, Neil O’Leary, Johan H. C. Reiber, Shengxian Tu, Azfar Zaman, Manel Sabaté, Helge Möllmann, Faisal Sharif, Julien Lemoine, Adrian Wlodarczak, Scot Garg, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W. Serruys

“…In multivariable analysis, low QFR PPG index (diffuse disease) was an independent determinant of a post-PCI QFR < 0.91 (per 0.1 decrease of QFR PPG index, OR:9.8, 95% CI 3.0–32.2, p < 0.001). …”
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Dental caries and related factors in the elderly of the Azar cohort population: A cross-sectional study. by Maryam Hosseinpour Sarmadi, Nasrin Sharififard, Zeinab Mahboobi, Elnaz Faramarzi, Aylin Bilehjani

“…However, no significant relationship was found between the DMFT index and the variables in the multiple regression analysis.…”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a theory of planned behavior model-based instrument for evaluation of determinants of oral health behaviors in mothers of children younge... by Rusul Abdulameer Hadi Al-Sarray, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Muhammad Alzubidi, Mahdia Gholami, Simin Z. Mohebbi

“…In terms of construct validity, the results were as follows: the Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) was 0.942, the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) was 0.900, the Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) was 0.921, and the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) was 0.046. …”
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The Role of Atrial Fibrillation and Oral Anticoagulation Status in Health‐Related Quality of Life 12 Months After Ischemic Stroke or TIA by Manuel C. Olma, Lena Steindorf‐Sabath, Serdar Tütüncü, Claudia Kunze, Cornelia Fiessler, Paulus Kirchhof, Joanna Dietzel, Johannes Schurig, Patrick Oschmann, Ludwig Niehaus, Christian Urbanek, Götz Thomalla, Darius G. Nabavi, Joachim Röther, Ulrich Laufs, Roland Veltkamp, Peter U. Heuschmann, Karl Georg Haeusler, Matthias Endres, for the MonDAFIS Investigators

“…HRQOL was measured using the EQ‐5D‐3L‐questionnaire (including EQ‐index/EQ‐VAS) at baseline and after 12 months using multivariable linear mixed models. …”
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Diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma using liquid biopsy-based biomarkers: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Yutong Jiang, Yutong Jiang, Shangwen Qi, Shangwen Qi, Rongrong Zhang, Rongrong Zhang, Ruixia Zhao, Yu Fu, Yuxuan Fang, Yuxuan Fang, Mingyi Shao

“…“mRNA exhibited significantly superior performance in distinguishing HCC from liver disease patients (superiority index:10.621 (95% CI [7-11])) compared to other diagnostic biomarkers for HCC. …”
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