A nomogram to predict sarcopenia in middle-aged and older women: a nationally representative survey in China by Jiayi Yang, Zihao Chen, Xinxin Dai, Liyao Jiang, Liyan Dai, Yu Zhao

“…In addition, this study integrated these sarcopenia-related variables into a comprehensive index, and ROC analysis results showed that the AUC of the composite index was 0.738.ConclusionsThis study found that sarcopenia in Chinese women may be closely related to age, waist, education, marriage, area, stroke, physical pain, depression, and region. …”
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Accent Choices of English Majors in the Netherlands: Patterns and Motivations by Gezina Christien Dorothé Huttenga, Dick Smakman

“…Interviews demonstrated that students held traditional connotations toward accents of English: Received Pronunciation indexed tradition and formality and related characteristics while general American indexed dynamism, internationalism, and related characteristics. …”
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Multiview Graph Learning for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ Credit Risk Assessment in Supply Chain Finance by Cong Wang, Fangyue Yu, Zaixu Zhang, Jian Zhang

“…Traditional methods mix all indicators from different index systems. They cannot give a quantitative result on how these index systems work. …”
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Epidemiological trends and predictions of urinary tract infections in the global burden of disease study 2021 by Yining He, Jing Zhao, Lanhui Wang, Chao Han, Ruxue Yan, Peiqi Zhu, Tianyang Qian, Siyao Yu, Xiaolin Zhu, Weiming He

“…The estimated annual percentage change was used to depict temporal trends, whereas Pearson correlation analysis explore its correlation with the human development index (HDI), the SDI, and age-standardised rates (ASRs). …”
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Bambara groundnut starch-soluble dietary fibre nanocomposite stabilised emulsions: Optimisation of emulsion stability and studies on time-dependent rheological properties by Yvonne Maphosa, Oladayo Adeyi, Daniel Imwansi Ikhu-Omoregbe, Victoria A. Jideani

“…The stability of these emulsions was evaluated using the initial mean backscattering index (BSAVO), Turbiscan stability index (TSI) and hysteresis loop area (HLA). …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation in Patients with Linear Morphea Treated with Methotrexate and High-Dose Corticosteroid by Mohammad Shahidi-Dadras, Fahimeh Abdollahimajd, Razieh Jahangard, Ali Javinani, Amir Ashraf-Ganjouei, Parviz Toossi

“…The effectiveness of the treatment was evaluated by MRI, modified LS skin severity index (mLoSSI), and localized scleroderma damage index (LoSDI). …”
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Effect of Pea Resistant Starch on Emulsion Gel Properties and in Vitro Digestibility of Myofibrillar Proteins by CHEN Jinyu, HU Fangyang, JI Zhirui, WU Zijian

“…These results indicated that pea RS3 addition can contribute to the production of high-quality meat products with a low glycemic index without reducing protein digestibility.…”
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Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype in Adolescents Aged 15 to 18 Years by Caridad Hernández Gutiérrez, Elodia Rivas Alpízar, Teresita Rodríguez Izaguirre, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> a relationship between a family history of diabetes mellitus, obesity, body mass index above the 90th percentile value and presence of the phenotype was established.…”
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Prognostic Implication of Preoperative Behavior Changes in Patients with Primary High-Grade Meningiomas by Andrej Vranic, Frederic Gilbert

“…Preoperative behavior changes did not correlate with duration of symptoms, tumor cleavability, tumor malignancy grade, and Ki67 proliferation index. They were not significantly related to overall survival or recurrence-free survival of patients with primary high-grade meningiomas. …”
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Humification of poultry waste and rice husk using additives and its application by Maryam Mushtaq, M. K. Iqbal, A. Khalid, R. A. Khan

“…The germination index (GI) of enriched compost (C/N:10.8) was significantly greater than unenriched compost (C/N:23.43). …”
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The Local Triangle Structure Centrality Method to Rank Nodes in Networks by Xiaojian Ma, Yinghong Ma

“…The experiments prove that the LTSC is an efficient and accurate ranking method which provides a more reasonable evaluating index to rank nodes than some previous approaches.…”
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Serum Concentrations of Betatrophin and Its Association with Indirect Indices of Insulin Resistance and Beta Cell Function in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Agnieszka Adamska, Agnieszka Łebkowska, Małgorzata Jacewicz, Anna Krentowska, Justyna Hryniewicka, Sławomir Wołczyński, Maria Górska, Irina Kowalska

“…IR was assessed by HOMA-IR and Matsuda index. Insulin secretion was evaluated with HOMA-B. …”
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Probiotics supplementation for management of type II diabetes risk factors in adults with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trial by Chengcheng Zhang, Yingyue Sheng, Jinchi Jiang, Yuzheng Xue, Leilei Yu, Fengwei Tian, Jianxin Zhao, Hao Zhang, Jian Jin, Qixiao Zhai

“…The FBG-reducing effect decreased as the baseline body mass index (BMI) and mean age of the participants increased. …”
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A prediction model of liver fat fraction and presence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among patients with overweight or obesity by Jie Chen, Jiang Yue, Jingjing Fu, Shengyun He, Qianjing Liu, Minglan Yang, Wang Zhang, Hua Xu, Qing Lu, Jing Ma

“…By establishing a threshold value of 10.96, determined through Youden’s index, we have achieved a sensitivity of 69.57% and a specificity of 88.24%. …”
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Evaluation of the Obesity Prevention, Blood Glucose, and Blood Lipid Control of Vietnamese Rice Varieties in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice by Thuy Linh Nguyen, Khanh Son Trinh

“…In this study, the higher the amylose and fiber contents were, the lower glycemic index, triglycerides, LDL, and LDL/HDL values were. …”
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Identification Method of Highway Accident Prone Sections Under Adverse Meteorological Conditions Based on Meteorological Responsiveness by Yanyang Gao, Chi Zhang, Maojie Ye, Bo Wang

“…The technique, anchored in data mining’s support index, pioneers the concept of meteorological responsiveness, which includes the elucidation of its mechanisms and the development of computational methodologies. …”
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Elevational patterns of orchid diversity in mid-subtropical mountain forests of eastern China by Qinghua Zhan, Haihong Liao, Yuelong Liang, Zhong Zhang, Xingui Le, Yu Xiong, Lin Cheng, Wenqi Ding, Jian Lu, Yadong Zhou, Boyun Yang

“…In this study, we conducted an investigation of orchids across more than 1900 5 m × 5 m plots in six mountains located in central China, spanning an elevational range from 166 m to 1930 m, and then converted these survey data into the distribution data in 100 m elevational bands to study the trend of species richness (S), Shannon-Wiener index (H'), Simpson index (D), and Pielou evenness (e) of orchids variation along the elevational gradients. …”
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Hypertension Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Middle-Aged Adults in Chongqing, China by Xianglong Xu, Yunshuang Rao, Zumin Shi, Lingli Liu, Cheng Chen, Yong Zhao

“…Hypertensive respondents with high education, marital status, breastfeeding, higher incomes, good quality of sleep, positive relationship with family, and higher body mass index have better HRQOL in middle-aged people with hypertension. …”
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Geochemical-based appraisal of karst groundwater quality, west Nile Valley, central Egypt, for drinking and irrigation by Hassan Alzahrani, Abdullah Basaloom, Sayed Mosaad

“…The Drinking Water Quality index (DWQI) indicated that 75 % of groundwater samples are appropriate for drinking, especially in the southern and middle of the study area. …”
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Phytotoxicity of exotic species on the physiological potential of crambe seeds (Crambe abyssinica Hochs) by Silvana Fraga Silva, Halina Stéffany Lopes Costa, Jesimiel Silva Viana, Sebastião Medeiros Filho

“…The first and second germination counts were evaluated in the fourth and tenth days respectively; germination rate index (GRI), allelopathic effect index (AEI), seedling length and dry mass. …”
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