Ethics and Bioethics. Bases for Informed Consent in Orthodontics by Virginia Pentón García, Zhenia Véliz Äguila, Bárbara Prado Lemus, Ledys Mary Herrera

“…The quality and scientific development of health assistance in Cuba are reflected in its health index which is an expression of respect for all those who give and receive health services in the country. …”
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A New Approach to the Approximation of Common Fixed Points of an Infinite Family of Relatively Quasinonexpansive Mappings with Applications by Wei-Qi Deng

“…By using a specific way of choosing the indexes, we propose an iteration algorithm generated by the monotone CQ method for approximating common fixed points of an infinite family of relatively quasinonexpansive mappings. …”
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Glossopharyngeal Dystonia Secondary to a Lurasidone-Fluoxetine CYP-3A4 Interaction by Sean Paul, Brian K. Cooke, Mathew Nguyen

“…In this case, we report a glossopharyngeal dystonia secondary to a lurasidone-fluoxetine CYP-3A4 interaction to highlight the importance of maintaining an index of suspicion for laryngeal dystonia, a potentially fatal dystonia.…”
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Liouville Theorem for Some Elliptic Equations with Weights and Finite Morse Indices by Qiongli Wu, Liangcai Gan, Qingfeng Fan

“…Suppose that 1<p<N+2/N-2, α>(N-2)(p+1)/2-N for N≥3 or p>1, α>-2 for N=2; we will show that this equation does not possess nontrivial bounded solution with finite Morse index.…”
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Optimizing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk Assessment in Hypertension: Development of a Predictive Nomogram in China by Yang Y, Sun X, Liang J, Liao WF, Ye W, Zheng Z, Du L, Chen M, Zhang Y, Lin W, Huang J, Yao W, Chen R

“…The C-index is 0.840 in the training group and 0.808 in the validation group. …”
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Functionally important respiratory symptoms and continued cigarette use versus e-cigarette switching: population assessment of tobacco and health study waves 2-6Research in context by James D. Sargent, Kristin Lauten, Kathryn C. Edwards, Susanne E. Tanski, Todd A. MacKenzie, Laura M. Paulin, Mary F. Brunette, Maciej L. Goniewicz, Amanda Malasky, Debra Stark, Fernando B. de Moura, Holly Griffin, Kimberly H. Nguyen, Eric Backlund, Heather L. Kimmel, John H. Kingsbury, Jenny E. Ozga, K Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland

“…A 9-point wheezing/nighttime cough index was dichotomized based on index scores of ≥2 or ≥3, previously associated with poorer functional health. …”
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Novel type 2 diabetes prediction score based on traditional risk factors and circulating metabolites: model derivation and validation in two large cohort studiesResearch in context by Ruijie Xie, Christian Herder, Sha Sha, Lei Peng, Hermann Brenner, Ben Schöttker

“…In internal validation within the UKB, adding these metabolites significantly increased the C-index (95% confidence interval (95% CI)) of the clinical CDRS from 0.815 (0.800, 0.829) to 0.834 (0.820, 0.847) and the continuous net reclassification index (NRI) with 95% CI was 39.8% (34.6%, 45.0%). …”
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Penggunaan Internet Dikalangan Siswa SD di Kota Ternate: Suatu Survey, Penerapan Algoritma Clustering dan Validasi DBI by Firman Tempola, Miftah Muhammad, Abdul Mubarak

“…Untuk penerapan algoritma clustering k-means pada 32 sekolah SD di Kota Ternate diperoleh cluster terbaik saat pembagian 4 cluster, hal ini berdasarkan nilai davies bouldin index yang diperoleh sebesar 0,773 lebih kecil dibandingkan dengan pembagian cluster lainnya.   …”
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Conformity of Islamic Banks with AAOIFI Standards for General Presentation and Disclosure in Turkey and Bahrain by Yusuf Avşar, Ozan Özdemir

“…Due to the average compliance level achieved by Islamic banks (using the unweighted disclosure index) in Turkey (54.6%), and since all banks in Turkey apply international financial reporting standards and international accounting standards, it is found that there is a relation between AAOIFI and International Accounting Standards Board standards even though they are different. …”
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The Regularity of the Site of Impaction in Recurrent Gallstone Ileus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Reported Cases by Nasser A. N. Alzerwi, Bandar Idrees, Saeed Alsareii, Yaser Aldebasi, Afnan Alsultan

“…With a focus on mortality and the site of impaction, this study consolidates the key clinical characteristics of index GSI (IGSI) and RGSI. Methods. A meta-analysis of cases reported on RGSI was performed. …”
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Oral 5-Aminosalicyclic Acid Versus 6-Methylprednisolone in Active Crohn's Disease by Jürgen Schölmerich, Harro Jenss, Franz Hartmann, Hanne Döpfer, The German 5-ASA Study Group

“…The Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI) and the van Hees index were not significantly different in both treatment groups at the entrance examination (median CDAI 232 in the 5-ASA group and 220 in the methylprednisolone group). …”
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A Scalable Blockchain Framework for ELA Assessment by Chunxia Tian

“…Firstly, the hierarchical analysis method is used to construct the evaluation index system of students’ English ability, and then the ability classification indexes are divided into 5 levels.The network achieves the classification of students’ English proficiency through the associative memory of the classification criteria, and the classification results are compared with those of the BPNN model. …”
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TAXATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by Adebowale Ogunsola

“…Results also revealed that the influence of CITX on poverty index is negligible, while VATX and EDTX have negative and positive insignificant influence on poverty index respectively. …”
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Safety evaluation of ethanol extract from Artocarpus altilis leaves as a herbal medicine candidate: Studies in acute and subchronic toxicity by Fitrya Fitrya, Elfita Elfita, Ferlinahayati, Salma Fayzah Septami, Umi Tsalsa Sabrina, Fatma Sri Wahyuni, Annisa Amriani, Rennie Puspa Novita

“…Mortality, variations in body weight, hematological and biochemical markers, organ index, and the histology of vital organs were all used to study toxic symptoms. …”
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The beneficial effects of Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) on diet-induced obesity in mice are related to the modulation of gut microbiota composition by Yiming Zhou, Haoyu Lu, Shen Zhao, Beibei Yan, Hong Wang, Xiaoli Zhou, Ying Xiao

“…The effects of Tartary buckwheat on biochemical indexes and intestinal microflora in mice were studied. …”
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Open-label use of Anakinra (Kineret) in the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis by Craig Davis Scoville, John Partridge Dickson

“…Efficacy of response was determined if patients showed >30% improvement in the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index and/or Australian/Canadian Osteoarthritis Hand Index scoring with treatment. …”
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Effects of Milling Methods and Cultivars on Physicochemical Properties of Whole-Wheat Flour by Min Jeong Kang, Mi Jeong Kim, Han Sub Kwak, Sang Sook Kim

“…The color, particle size, starch damage (SD), falling number (FN), water absorption index (WAI), water solubility index (WSI), pasting and Mixolab® properties, and dough extensibility of WWF were measured. …”
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N − 1 Security Criteria Based Integrated Deterministic and Probabilistic Framework for Composite Power System Reliability by Tanmay Jain, Kusum Verma, Mahendra Bhadu

“…Further, for each contingency, a performance index is determined using both approaches to assess the severity of the contingency that occurred on the power system. …”
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Janus flame-retardant polyester fabric with one-way water transfer for fog collection: Influence of plasma duration, aluminum phosphate, and TiO2 nanoparticles by Najmeh Izadi, Majid Montazer, Aminoddin Haji

“…AP gave the fabric great flame resistance and a limiting oxygen index (LOI) of 32.8 %. Mechanical properties were unaffected, but air permeability and the CIE whiteness index decreased.…”
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Impact of stock market indices and raw material prices on the yield movements of Caterpillar company securities by Petrović Nevena, Novićević-Čečević Bojana, Krstajić Goran

“…The results show that the prediction accuracy of the proposed model, with four additional predictors, is 13.3% higher than the benchmark model, which only used the SPY market index (SPDR S&P 500 ETF) to explain the variability in CAT stock returns. …”
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