Detection of Water Contamination Events Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Alternating Trilinear Decomposition Algorithm by Jie Yu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Dibo Hou, Fang Chen, Tingting Mao, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang

“…The method based on conventional index and UV-vision has been widely applied in the field of water quality abnormality detection. …”
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Association Between Sociodemographic Variables, Healthy Habits, and Stress with Risk Scales for Liver Disease Associated with Metabolic Dysfunction by Ángel Arturo López-González, Emilio Martínez-Almoyna Rifá, Hernán Paublini Oliveira, Cristina Martorell Sánchez, Pedro Juan Tárraga López, José Ignacio Ramírez-Manent

“…Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 16,708 Spanish workers to assess how sociodemographic variables (age, gender, and socioeconomic status), healthy habits (smoking, Mediterranean diet adherence, and physical activity), and stress correlate with values from three MAFLD risk scales: fatty liver index (FLI), hepatic steatosis index (HSI), and lipid accumulation product (LAP). …”
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Effect of Ultrasonic Treatment Combined with Peracetic Acid Treatment Reduces Decay and Maintains Quality in Loquat Fruit by Chen Ling, Jia Xu, Shuang Shao, Li Wang, Peng Jin, Yonghua Zheng

“…The results showed that treatment with UT or PA alone significantly reduced both decay and browning index in loquat fruit compared with the control. …”
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Analysis of the Water Footprint of Central and Eastern Europe Countries by Damian Panasiuk, Petro Skrypchuk, Barbara Kucharska, Olena Suduk

“…A positive value of this index was also recorded for Slovakia and negative for Lithuania and Ukraine (-282 m3/person/year). …”
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Crash Risk Prediction Model of Lane-Change Behavior on Approaching Intersections by Yingshuai Li, Jian Lu, Kuisheng Xu

“…This paper defines the Integrated Conflict Risk Index (ICRI), which takes into account the probability and severity of risk. …”
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Strongyloides Colitis as a Harmful Mimicker of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Julio Poveda, Farah El-Sharkawy, Leopoldo R. Arosemena, Monica T. Garcia-Buitrago, Claudia P. Rojas

“…There is overlapping histomorphology between Strongyloides colitis and inflammatory bowel disease; a low index of suspicion can lead to misdiagnosis and fatal consequences. …”
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Pancreatitis in systemic lupus erythematosus: Clinical characterization and outcome analysis in concurrent pancreatitis and lupus by Sheba Charles, Benzeeta Pinto, Vineeta Shobha

“…Conclusions: Pancreatitis in SLE is associated with disease activity. High index of suspicion, early diagnosis, and institution of steroids and immunosuppressive therapy lead to a good outcome.…”
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Landscape architecture education and democracy by Zydi Teqja, Albert Karaj

“…A good association between the number of landscape architecture programs and democracy index is verified for former communist countries. …”
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Loading-Rate Dependence of Rocks in Postfailure Region under Triaxial Compression by Yang Tang, Seisuke Okubo, Jiang Xu, Hailong Zhang, Shoujian Peng

“…To study the loading-rate dependence of four types of rocks in the peak and postfailure regions, the alternative strain rate test method is employed in conducting triaxial compressive tests under different confining pressure and moisture conditions. An index of the loading-rate dependence in the postfailure region is proposed, and the effects of confining pressure and moisture condition on the index are analyzed. …”
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Terahertz Sensor Study Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Ruiqi Zhao, Guizhen Lu, Hongcheng Yin, Jingjing Liang, Dongdong Zeng, Huaibao Xiao

“…The momentum matching condition at the current study does not consider the effect of sample refractive index and the resonance position has a significant error. …”
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Clinical Aspects of Trace Elements: Zinc in Human Nutrition - Assessment of Zinc Status by Michelle M Pluhator, Alan Br Thomson, Richard N Fedorak

“…Laboratory analysis of zinc status is difficult because no single biochemical criterion can reliably reflect zinc body stores. Many indexes have been examined in the hopes of discovering a method for the assessment of zinc nutriture. …”
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Characteristics of Heavy Metals and Pb Isotopic Composition in Sediments Collected from the Tributaries in Three Gorges Reservoir, China by Bo Gao, Huaidong Zhou, Yong Huang, Yuchun Wang, Jijun Gao, Xiaobo Liu

“…The assessment by Potential Ecological Risk Index showed that Hg and Cd were the predominant elements in tributary sediments in TGR. …”
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Meteorological drought assessment using SPI and RDI indices in the Ourika Basin, Morocco by Khrabcha Abdelali, Oumou Abdellah, Essahlaoui Ali, Essahlaoui Narjisse, Kassou Amina, Mouzoun Ouafae, Alitane Abdennabi, El Hafyani Mohammed, Iharzi Chaimae, Van Rompaey Anton

“…The severity and duration of droughts are estimated using two drought indices: The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI). …”
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Numerical and Experimental Identification of Seven-Wire Strand Tensions Using Scale Energy Entropy Spectra of Ultrasonic Guided Waves by Ji Qian, Xin Chen, Limin Sun, Guowen Yao, Xu Wang

“…Mode separation and frequency band loss of L(0,1) were then found for increasing tension, and UGW scale energy entropy spectra were extracted to establish a tension identification index. A good linear relationship was found between the proposed identification index and tensile force, and effects of propagation distance and propagation path were analyzed. …”
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Experimental Research on the Influence of Temperature on the Static Properties of Skarn by Lei Liu, Xiang Meng, Hao Qin, Zhaozhao Chang

“…With the temperature increasing, various static mechanical indexes of Skarn will be greatly affected. Meanwhile, the different cooling methods are not related to the change trend of the mechanical properties of Skarn under high temperature.…”
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Fucoidan alleviated colitis aggravated by fiber deficiency through protecting the gut barrier, suppressing the MAPK/NF-κB pathway, and modulating gut microbiota and metabolites by Weiyun Zheng, Shuangru Tang, Xiaomeng Ren, Xiaomeng Ren, Shuang Song, Shuang Song, Chunqing Ai, Chunqing Ai

“…Undaria pinnatifida fucoidan (UPF) alleviated colitis symptoms in mice that fed with a fiber deficient diet (FD), characterized by increased weight gain and reduced disease activity index, liver and spleen indexes, and histological score. …”
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Nomogram for predicting postoperative ileus after radical cystectomy and urinary diversion: a retrospective single-center study by Xiaoyu Sun, Chang Liu, Changwen Zhang, Zhihong Zhang

“…Using multivariate logistic regression analysis, we found that the independent risk factors for postoperative ileus after radical cystectomy included age > 65.0 years, high or low body mass index, constipation, hypoalbuminemia, and operative time. …”
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Assessing structural integrity of non-homogeneous systems by means of Acoustic Emissions and Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics by Stavros K Kourkoulis, Ermioni Pasiou, Ilias Stavrakas, Dimos Triantis

“…It was concluded that the temporal evolution of the entropic index provides very good insight into the level of damage ac­cumu­lated in the loaded structure, independently of whether the structure is homogeneous or not, providing an interesting pre-failure indicator. …”
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Study of Suspension Parameters Matching to Enhance Vehicle Ride Comfort on Bump Road by Jin Gao, Xiaoping Qi

“…The resulting ΔRmsLocal and ΔRmsGlobal are used as evaluation indexes of the vehicle ride comfort. The sensitivity analysis yields the magnitude of the influence of the suspension parameters on the evaluation indexes. …”
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Popular Song Composition Based on Deep Learning and Neural Network by Jun Kuang, Tingfeng Yang

“…Finally, the ideal popular piano music scores are divided into online music lover scores and offline professional ratings. The score index is obtained, and each index is weighted by the entropy weight method.…”
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