Immediate and long-term effects of zero-drop running shoes on lower extremity biomechanics by Zimeng Liu, Yulin Zhou, Hui Liu, Hui Liu, Peng Cheng, Peng Cheng, Zhiyi Zheng, Quanshou Zeng

“…ObjectiveThe purpose of the study was to investigate the immediate and long-term effects of zero-drop running shoes on lower extremity joint biomechanics.MethodsSeven male runners participated in this study (height: 1.74 ± 0.03 m, weight: 62.5 ± 3.1 kg, body mass index: 20.6 ± 0.7 kg/m2). Kinematic and kinetic data were collected when the participants ran at a speed of 13 ± 0.65 km/h in running shoes with zero and 15 mm drop both immediately and after the 8-week intervention wearing zero-drop running shoes. …”
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AI-driven prediction of drug activity against Toxoplasma gondii: Data augmentation and deep neural networks for limited datasets by Natalia V. Karimova, Ravithree D. Senanayake

“…The predicted pIC50 values were further used to calculate ligand efficiency (LE), binding efficiency index (BEI), lipophilic ligand efficiency (LLE), and surface efficiency index (SEI), identifying the most promising TgDHFR inhibitors for further investigation. …”
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Data-Driven Approach to Evaluate the Level of Service (LOS) of Demand-Responsive Transport for the Disabled (DRTD) with an ANFIS Algorithm by Seohyeon Park, Sooyeon Park, Hosik Choi, Do-Gyeong Kim

“…Four variables, including the number of calls (or requests), the number of vacant vehicles, Medical Infrastructure Concentration Index (MICI), and Disabled Population Concentration Index (DPCI), were used as input variables for the ANFIS-based model. …”
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The Relationship Between Gender and Women’s Tobacco Use: An Ecological Analysis with Country-level Data by Hanife Ece Erik, Tülin Çoban, Lütfiye Hilal Özcebe

“…MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study investigates correlations between the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), and its sub-indicators—critical markers of gender equality—and tobacco prevalence and tobacco-related mortality. …”
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A Study on Travel Time Estimation of Diverging Traffic Stream on Highways Based on Timestamp Data by Sunghoon Kim, Hwapyeong Yu, Hwasoo Yeo

“…First, a divergence detection index (DDI) of data has been developed, and the analysis results show that this new index is useful in finding the threshold of determining data divergence. …”
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Divorce Rates Better Predict Population‐Level Reproductive Success in Little Penguins Than Foraging Behaviour or Environmental Factors by Matthew D. Simpson, Ashton L. Dickerson, Andre Chiaradia, Lloyd Davis, Richard D. Reina

“…Our results suggest that divorce rate could serve as a valuable, noninvasive index of reproductive success in seabirds.…”
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Predicted Mean Vote of Subway Car Environment Based on Machine Learning by Kangkang Huang, Shihua Lu, Xinjun Li, Ke Feng, Weiwei Chen, Yi Xia

“…The RF model with MSE as the evaluation index also had the highest accuracy (R2: 0.7676, MSE: 0.2836). …”
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Modeling inequality levels with the help of spatial and non-spatial indices in northern Khorasan by ali asghar pilehvar

“…Other results of the study indicate that according to the coefficient of variation and determination of z in the cities of North Khorasan province, Bojnourd city has the first rank in 6 indexes of 10 selected indexes and its z value is 8.57 and the clear distance with Shirvan is The title of the second city is with a z = -3.54. …”
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Effect of body composition on fitness performance in young male football players by Huseyin Husrev Turnagol, Süleyman Bulut, Ş. Alpan Cinemre, Muhammed Mustafa Atakan, Evrim Unver, Necip Demırcı

“…There was also negative correlation between repeated sprint performance (measured in time) and lean Mass (LM), lean mass index (LMI), appendicular LM and appendicular LMI (p lt;0.05). …”
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Fountain Water as a Source of Opportunistic Escherichia coli and Aeromonas hydrophila Strains in Atmospheric Air by Iwona Gołaś, Anna Gotkowska-Plachta

“…The values of the MAR index were high in all air samples and similar to those noted in fountain water isolates (0.86–0.87). …”
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Hypertriglyceridemia and hypertension-altered abdominal girdle phenotypes and their association with cardiovascular risk factors in women seen at the Provincial Climacteric Consult... by Elodia María Rivas Álpizar, Karen Lizeth García, Annia Quintana Marrero

“…The analyzed variables were: age, skin color, smoking, arterial hypertension, obesity, physical activity, diabetes mellitus, body mass index, abdominal circumference, total cholesterol, uric acid, and triglycerides. …”
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Research on the Impact of Technological Finance on Financial Stability: Based on the Perspective of High-Quality Economic Growth by Lu Shen, Guohua He, Huan Yan

“…Based on data of 30 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities) collected between 2004 and 2017, this paper adopts the method of factor analysis to construct comprehensive indexes of technological finance and financial stability before calculating green total factor productivity as the index of high-quality development, using the CRS Multiplicative Model. …”
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Use of data mining algorithms in prediction of eggshell thickness from egg quality traits of Potchefstroom Koekoek layers by Kagisho Madikadike Molabe, Thobela Louis Tyasi, Vusi Gordon Mbazima

“…MARS with R2(0.86) revealed yolk ratio, shell weight, egg shape index, yolk ratio, shell ratio, albumen weight and albumen ratio as explanatory variables predicting eggshell thickness. …”
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The scrutiny of geomorphologic effects of Armaghankhane and Taham faults by gholam hassan jafari, Asghar rostamkhani

“…Relative Active Tectonics Index (LAT) showed the whole basin high activity (class2). …”
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Effects of foliar spraying ABA on ultrastructure and photosynthesis of cotton leaves at bolling stage by CHENG Guo, ZHAO Xiushuai, YIN Zi, WANG Xingpeng, HE Shuai

“…After ABA spraying for 4 d, the stomatal density of cotton leaves treated with a high concentration was decreased and the shape index was increased, while that of low concentration treatment was increased. …”
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The global, regional burden of pancreatic cancer and its attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2021 by Weidong Yu, Danyi Zhou, Fanhao Meng, Jinjing Wang, Bo Wang, Jianling Qiang, Lijun Shen, Maofeng Wang, Hezhi Fang

“…In addition, these indicators in the high SDI (Sociodemographic index) region were higher than the global mean. To date, the high fasting plasma glucose remained the major risk factor that influenced the incidence, mortality, DALYs, and prevalence of pancreatic cancer, followed by tobacco and high body mass index (BMI). …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of hedging effects in Asia-Pacific countries amid Sino-US competition: Insights from massive event data. by Qiyue Hu, Lihua Yuan, Bin Liu

“…This study proposes a novel four-quadrant evaluation theoretical framework, and constructs a Geopolitical Relation Index and a Comparative Relation Index based on the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone massive event data. …”
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Dental caries and its relationship with the level of knowledge on the oral health of parents in preschools by Nicollette Vianey Cayo-Tintaya, Tania Adriana Cosme-Raymundo, Rafael Morales-Vadillo

“…A validated questionnaire addressed to the parents was carried out, children were evaluated clinically using the ceo-d index, the data were analyzed statistically and for the possible correlation of the variables the Spearman correlation coefficient statistical test was used. …”
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Landscape ecological risk based on optimal scale and its tradeoff/synergy with human activities: A case study of the Nanjing metropolitan area, China by Xia Wang, Tianke Zhu, Changzheng Jiang

“…The impact of precipitation, temperature, and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) on the tradeoff/synergy between LER and human activities was significant, and the interaction between precipitation and NDVI was the strongest. …”
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Protective Effects of Ophiocordyceps lanpingensis on Glycerol-Induced Acute Renal Failure in Mice by Yanyan Zhang, Yaxi Du, Hong Yu, Yongchun Zhou, Feng Ge

“…Renal conditions were evaluated using kidney index, serum creatinine (Cr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and histological analysis. …”
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