Plasma levels of immunosuppressive mediators during cardiopulmonary bypass by E. Borrelli, P. Giomarelli, A. Naldini, E. Luzzi, S. Silvestri, M. Gardinali, V. Bocci

“…Conversely, the proliferation, index of peripheral mononuclear cells had already decreased 30 min after CPB was started and remained depressed throughout the CPB time. …”
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A Four-Zone Model and Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Solution Multiplicity of Buoyancy Ventilation in Underground Building by Yuxing Wang, Chunyu Wei

“…We find that the unstable equilibrium point interval is divided into two different subintervals corresponding to the saddle point of index 2 and the saddle focal equilibrium point of index 2, respectively. …”
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Effects of Environmental Factors on Nutrients Release at Sediment-Water Interface and Assessment of Trophic Status for a Typical Shallow Lake, Northwest China by Dekun Hou, Jiang He, Changwei Lü, Ying Sun, Fujin Zhang, Khureldavaa Otgonbayar

“…Modified Carlson’s trophic state index (TSIM) and comprehensive trophic state index (TSIC) were applied to ascertain the trophic classification of the studied lake, and the values of TSIM and TSIC ranged from 53.72 to 70.61 and from 47.73 to 53.67, respectively, which indicated that the Daihai Lake was in the stage of hypereutropher.…”
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Socioeconomic disparities in multimorbidity of chronic diseases in the RaNCD cohort study by Roya Safari Faramani, Keyvan Samian, Farid Najafi, Yahya Salimi, Mitra Darbandi

“…The normalized concentration index (NCI) was used to assess the extent of socioeconomic disparities in multimorbidity. …”
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Temporal Dynamics and Trend Analysis of Areal Rainfall in Muger Subwatershed, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia by Alene Moshe, Manamno Beza

“…The study was run over the following procedures to handle the main objective: (1) determining the areal rainfall from gauged point rainfall using the Thiessen polygon method, (2) grouping the months in the season according to the study area, (3) evaluating the temporal dynamics of annual and seasonal areal rainfall using the coefficient of variation (CV), standard anomaly index (SAI), and precipitation concentration index (PCI), and (4) analyzing the trend of annual and seasonal areal rainfall using modified Mann–Kendall’s (modifiedmk) test in RStudio. …”
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Prognostic Value of Transcranial Doppler in the Survival of Patients with Spontaneous Cerebral Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage by Julio López Argüelles, Erélido Hernández Valero

“…The existence of correlation between the pulsatility index values and average speed with the average speed was evaluated. …”
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A Comparative Study of Hybrid Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems to Predict the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rocks by Annabelle Graham, Emma Scott

“…Performance indices such as R2, RMSE, NMSE, MAE, and n_10 index were used to assess the predictive capability of models indicating that ANAS with maximum  ÿ R2all=0.987 and minimum RMSEall=3.103, has the most optimal prediction performance for practical applications.…”
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Ecological influences on regeneration dynamics in the sundarbans, Bangladesh: Exploring biotic and abiotic factors across time and space by MD. Najmus Sayadat Pitol, Mominul Islam Nahid, MD. Akramul Islam, SK. MD. Mehedi Hasan, Sheikh Mohammed Rabiul Alam

“…We found that the biodiversity of the Sundarbans remained relatively stable over time, with a high Müeller-Dombois Similarity Index and low Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity Index across years and zones. …”
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Comparison of Vitamin-D binding protein levels in gingival crevicular fluid of pre- and postmenopausal women with and without chronic periodontitis: A clinico-biochemical study by Kaviya Balasubramaniyam, Sankar Lakshmi Sree, Kavitha Jayavel, V. Krishnan, Rajasekar Sundaram

“…Materials and Methods: Fifty-two female participants aged 35–60 were selected from outpatients’ clinics and divided into premenopausal and postmenopausal groups. Plaque index, gingival bleeding index, probing pocket depth, and clinical attachment level were measured. …”
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Hypertension-Related Gene Polymorphisms of G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 4 Are Associated with NT-proBNP Concentration in Normotensive Healthy Adults by Junichi Yatabe, Midori S. Yatabe, Minoru Yoneda, Robin A. Felder, Pedro A. Jose, Hironobu Sanada

“…There was no significant association between any of the hypertension-related gene polymorphisms and central systolic blood pressure, cardioankle vascular index, augmentation index, plasma aldosterone concentration, or an oxidative stress marker, urinary 8-OHdG. …”
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A Modified Time Reversal Method for Guided Wave Detection of Bolt Loosening in Simulated Thermal Protection System Panels by Guan-nan Wu, Chao Xu, Fei Du, Wei-dong Zhu

“…In this paper, the peak amplitude of the focalized wave packet in the reconstructed signal is calculated and utilized as tightness index. By bonding PZT transducers at different joint locations inside the structure, multiple tightness indices, where each tightness index presents the correlation between the current joint condition to its healthy condition at the joint, can be obtained. …”
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Digital Technology Empowers Grain Supply Chain Optimization Simulation by Xiaoyan Xu, Zhongye Sun

“…The LST, combined with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), has initially constructed a temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) model; it has constructed five subsystems including arable land, production capacity, import, population, and consumption. …”
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Impact of Bifidobacterium longum NSP001 on DSS-induced colitis in conventional and humanised mice by Menglin Chen, Hong Yao, Huizi Tan, Wenqi Huang, Quanyong Wu, Shaoping Nie

“…But the abnormal thymus index, and colonic production of ZO-1 and iNOS were improved only in colitis mice treated with B. longum NSP001 and humanised microbiome. …”
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Construction and Application of Relationship Model between Development of Mining Industry and Carbon Emission of Energy Consumption by Lili Wei, Guangyu Jia, Xiaohui Xu, Lingyun Zhao

“…At the same time, the energy efficiency decoupling index and energy structure decoupling index are introduced to explain the causes of carbon emission decoupling. …”
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Fitting the Integrated Model of Location of the Pre-urban Areas with Emphasis on Environmental Balance by Atefeh Moradi, Mariam Daneshvar, Seyed Abdol-Hadi Daneshpour, Hooman Bahmanpour

“…Also, the mean of the common index index was 1.147 and the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.9184. …”
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The study of drought effects on the economic, social and environmental conditions of rural areas, from the viewpoint of heads of households by bahman shafii, hamid barghi, yusef ghanbari

“…Finally, drought affected by socioeconomic and social indicators of 0. 97, and environmental index was 0. 87, so the drought in the studied villages areas had the greatest impact on economic and social indicators, and As a result, it has been placed on an environmental index.…”
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A Double-Layer Optimization Method for Cascading Failure Prevention Considering Transient Stability by Huiqiong Deng, Zhiwei Liang, Hui Wu, Junfu Shen

“…In terms of algorithms, the paper uses the Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) algorithm with higher precision and accuracy to solve the inner model and innovatively introduced the Practical Dynamic Security Region (PDSR), which uses PSASP software for offline calculation and online application, as a dynamic analysis method to quickly realize transient stability constraint to solve the outer model. Three evaluation indexes of the preventive optimization effect can be obtained by this method; dispatchers can plan more flexible and reliable optimal dispatching schemes through these indexes, to comprehensively improve the safety margin of cascading failure prevention in the current operating state and enhance the risk resistance ability of the power grid. …”
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Droplet and creaming stability of fish oil-loaded gelatin/surfactant-stabilized emulsions depends on both the adsorption ways of emulsifiers and the adjusted pH by Ting Zhang, Mengzhen Ding, Xichang Wang, Jian Zhong

“…The results demonstrate that initial droplet stability and droplet storage stability, and creaming stability of the pH-adjusted emulsions are dependent on both the adsorption ways of emulsifiers and the adjusted pH: (1) Competitively stabilized emulsions have more stable droplets than synergetically stabilized emulsions; (2) SDS-dominant competitively stabilized emulsions have more stable droplets than gelatin-dominant emulsions; (3) Basic pH-adjusted emulsions have more stable droplets than acidic pH-adjusted emulsions; (4) The synergetically stabilized emulsions at acidic pH have significantly higher creaming indexes than that at basic pH; and (5) The competitively stabilized emulsions have high or similar creaming indexes to that at acidic pH. …”
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Drought characteristics and propagation under anthropogenic impacts: A regional-scale modelling analysis in four Large Basins of China by Haoran Hao, Ningpeng Dong, Mingxiang Yang, Xin Huang, Hejia Wang, Hao Wang

“…We first identify the meteorological droughts and hydrological droughts using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Streamflow Index (SSI), respectively. …”
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Environmental adaptability of spring durum wheat (<I>Triticum durum</I> Desf.) cultivars developed in Saratov by S. N. Gaponov, G. I. Shutareva, N. M. Tsetva, I. S. Tsetva, I. V. Milovanov, N. A. Burmistrov, E. S. Zhiganova, N. S. Solovova

“…Grain quality indicators were measured on the devices: Infratec 1241 for protein, Glutomatic for the index of gluten (IG), and Spekol 10 for the yellowness index (b%).Results. …”
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