Evolution of access to prenatal care in Pernambuco: maternal schooling as a marker of health inequities by Daniella Oliveira Albuquerque Lins, Maria Tatiane Alves da Silva, Lívia Teixeira de Souza Maia

“…Among women with no formal education, prenatal coverage was 47.85%, while for those with more than 12 years of education, it reached 78.15%. The Concentration Index (CIX=0.0979; p<0.001) suggests that 9.79% of prenatal access is concentrated among women with higher education levels. …”
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Use of Condition-Specific Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Trials among Patients with Wrist Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review by Steven M. McPhail, Karl S. Bagraith, Mandy Schippers, Paula J. Wells, Anna Hatton

“…The DASH, MHQ, and AUSCAN Osteoarthritis Hand Index instruments were supported by the most favourable empirical evidence for validity, reliability, and responsiveness. …”
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Relative Permeability of Porous Media with Nonuniform Pores by He Chen, Minghui Yang, Ke Chen, Chao Zhang

“…Moreover, the index factor can be captured by a newly defined parameter, called the nonuniformity factor, which is used to establish an extended Darcy’s law. …”
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Study on Prediction of Outburst Risk of Excavation Face by Initial Gas Emission by Lu Gao, Xiangtao Kang, Meng Tang, Jinguo Hu, Jiachi Ren, Cunliu Zhou

“…The initial borehole gas flow can not only reflect the outburst risk but also reveal the possible location of the outburst, which has obvious advantages over other outburst prediction indexes.…”
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Systemic Vascular Function Is Associated with Muscular Power in Older Adults by Kevin S. Heffernan, Angela Chalé, Cynthia Hau, Gregory J. Cloutier, Edward M. Phillips, Patrick Warner, Heather Nickerson, Kieran F. Reid, Jeffrey T. Kuvin, Roger A. Fielding

“…Measures of vascular endothelial function included brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and the pulse wave amplitude reactive hyperemia index (PWA-RHI). Augmentation index (AIx) was taken as a measure of systemic vascular function related to arterial stiffness and wave reflection. …”
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Relationship between Abdominal Pressure, Pulmonary Compliance, and Cardiac Preload in a Porcine Model by Joost Wauters, Piet Claus, Nathalie Brosens, Myles McLaughlin, Greet Hermans, Manu Malbrain, Alexander Wilmer

“…Central venous and pulmonary wedge pressure increased with increasing IAP and correlated inversely (r=-0.31) with stroke index (SI). Global end-diastolic volume index was unaffected by IAP and correlated best with SI (r=0.52). …”
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Sex Differences in Vascular Compliance in Normal-Weight but Not Obese Boys and Girls: The Effect of Body Composition by Jeanie B. Tryggestad, David M. Thompson, Kenneth C. Copeland, Kevin R. Short

“…Measurements of large and small artery elastic index (LAEI and SAEI, resp.) and reactive hyperemia index (RHI) were obtained at rest, along with anthropometric and biochemical information. …”
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Crisis Analysis and Prevention and Control of Financial Leverage Imbalance in Shareholder Equity Pledge Based on the DANP Model by Fang Fang

“…The DANP financial leverage imbalance early warning model is introduced to analyze the impact of shareholder equity pledge on financial leverage imbalance crisis by combining the financial leverage effect and potential risks of shareholder equity pledge, optimize the financial leverage imbalance early warning evaluation index system, preprocess the early warning evaluation indicators, determine the constant weight of each evaluation index, and obtain the final financial leverage imbalance crisis early warning evaluation value based on the determined constant weight. …”
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Heavy metal concentrations in fishes from Zakrzówek Reservoir and the Vistula River near Kraków: Human risk assessment by Łuszczek-Trojnar Ewa, Drąg-Kozak Ewa, Szczerbik Paweł, Klaczak Artur, Lelonek Anna, Duda Kinga, Adamska Patrycja

“…The highest heavy metal concentrations were found in hard tissues, such as bone and scales, and the lowest was in muscle tissue. Metal pollution index (MPI), estimated daily intake (EDI), target hazard quotient (THQ), and hazard index (HI) analyses showed no significant non-carcinogenic risk to human health from the consumption of the muscle meat of the fishes analyzed. …”
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Ecofriendly Biochar as a Low-Cost Solid Lubricating Filler for LDPE Sustainable Biocomposites: Thermal, Mechanical, and Tribological Characterization by Hany S. Abdo, Ibrahim A. Alnaser, Asiful H. Seikh, Jabair A. Mohammed, Sameh A. Ragab, Ahmed Fouly

“…Tensile strength, hardness, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), melting flow index (MFI), tensile test, flexural test, and frictional tests were used to characterize the biocomposites’ mechanical, thermal, and tribological properties. …”
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Enzyme-induced calcium carbonate precipitation treated loess fly ash-based geopolymer for airport slope stabilization: Evaluation of wetting deformation and vibratory disintegratio... by Jiulong Gao, Jiading Wang, Dengfei Zhang, Fei Wang, Lirong Qi

“…The vibratory disintegration tests showed that the appropriate EICP formula reduced the water erodibility of LFG, thus improving its resistance to disintegration with a maximum index of 77.65 %. However, vibration decreased the disintegration resistance index, particularly at resonance (f = 20 Hz). …”
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FBG-Based UV-Curing Kinetics Analysis by Exothermic Behavior by Wen Yan, Zhenhua Bi, Ying Song, Xinpu Zhang

“…Compared with curing process evaluation based on refractive index variation, this FBG-based exothermic behavior monitoring has the ability to extract more details of the curing process, and some curing stages with negligible refractive index changes also can be distinguished. …”
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Deep eutectic solvent extraction and biological activity of polysaccharides from Tenebrio molitor by Shengru Yang, Xu Li, Qiaoli Li

“…The DESs were characterized by measuring their pH, viscosity, conductivity, refractive index, and density. The optimal extraction agent and parameters were determined. …”
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Exclusive Enteral Nutrition versus Infliximab in Inducing Therapy of Pediatric Crohn’s Disease by Youyou Luo, Jindan Yu, Jingan Lou, Youhong Fang, Jie Chen

“…In a prospective study of children initiating EEN or infliximab therapy for CD, we compared clinical outcomes using the pediatric Crohn’s disease activity index (PCDAI), growth improvement, endoscopic mucosal healing, and adverse effects. …”
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Fluoroscopy Assisted Minimally Invasive Transplantation of Allogenic Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Embedded in HyStem Reduces the Progression of Nucleus Pulposus Degeneration in the Da... by Rifa Aquidah Subhan, Karunanithi Puvanan, Malliga Raman Murali, Hanumantha Rao Balaji Raghavendran, Samuel Shani, Basri Johan Jeet Abdullah, Azlina Amir Abbas, Jamal Azmi Mohamed, Tunku Kamarul

“…Histological score of the degenerative index was significantly (P<0.05) lower in group I (8.6 ± 1.8) than that in groups II (11.6 ± 2.3) and III (18.0 ± 5.7). …”
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Nonlinear Effects of Governmental and Civil Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity in China by Xubin Lei, Shusheng Wu

“…This paper employs metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index to measure green total factor productivity and then builds panel model to investigate the nonlinear effects of both governmental and civil environmental regulation on green total factor productivity in 30 provinces of China in 2007–2016, where the threshold variables are environmental awareness and regulatory foundation. …”
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Morphologic and hemodynamic analysis of intracranial mirror aneurysms by Spitz L., Schmidt J., Korte J., Berg P., Behme D., Neyazi B., Preim B., Saalfeld S.

“…Morphologic parameters like size, undulation index, and aneurysm angle had a higher influence. …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by A.J. Alieva, Kh.S. Alieva, M.G. Ashrafov, N.Kh. Mustafazade

“…Using the variational method, the optimal dependence of the reflection index of terrestrial objects on the zenith angle of the UAV position relative to the object under study is investigated. …”

Development and Validation of the Patient Experience Assessment Scale (PXAS) in Tertiary Care Hospital - Oman by Naima Khamis Al-Bulushi MD, FFR RCSI, Zainab Ali Al-Mukhaini MD, DCH, DTM&H, MSc, PhD, Jehan Al Fannah BSc, MSc, MBA, Afaf Ali Al Zadjali BSN, MBA, Huda Al Zidi BSc, Zubaida Mahmood Al-Balushi NNP BSN, MBA, Aida Khalfan Al-Hadidi IBCLC, Samir Al-Adawi BSc, MSc, PhD

“…The content and face validity were evaluated using the content validity index (CVI) and the face validity index. SPSS analyzed data for reliability and test-retest over 3 to 4 weeks. …”
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Comparison of Mirroring and Overlapping Analysis and Three-Dimensional Soft Tissue Spatial Angle Wireframe Template in Evaluating Facial Asymmetry by Gengchen Yang, Liang Lyu, Aonan Wen, Yijiao Zhao, Yong Wang, Jing Li, Huichun Yan, Mingjin Zhang, Yi Yu, Tingting Yu, Dawei Liu

“…The wireframe template was established by identifying 34 facial landmarks and then forming a template on the face with the MeshLab 2020 software. The angle asymmetry index was automatically scored using the template. …”
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