Optimum Nitrogen and Density Allocation for Trade−Off Between Yield and Lodging Resistance of Winter Wheat by Haitao Liu, Shufang Sun, Min Jin, Chunhui Li, Jiayu Wang, Haixing Cui, Yong Li, Zhenlin Wang

“…Eventually, the breaking strength was reduced by 1.74 g/cm resulting in a reduction of 0.09 in the lodging resistance index. The yield reached 10.17 t/ha due to an increase in spike number by 100.33 plants/m², achieving an optimal balance between yield and lodging resistance in this experiment. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of very early-onset colorectal cancer and its risk factors from 1990 to 2019: A systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 201... by Zhen Junhai, Meng Yang, Tan Zongbiao, Yan Wenxuan, Li Tiange, Wu Yanrui, Liu Chuan, Dong Weiguo

“…Diet low in milk, diet low in calcium, alcohol use, and high body-mass index were the main contributors to deaths and DALYs. …”
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Hydrogeochemical and GIS Analysis of Groundwater Quality for Drinking and Irrigation Purposes in Kuzhithuraiyar Sub-Basin, Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India by R. Athsha Great Raxana, Venkateswaran Sellamuthu, Muralitharan Jothimani

“…This study assesses the groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation purposes based on the analytical results, water quality index, Wilcox plot, and irrigation parameters such as electrical conductance, Kelly’s ratio, sodium absorption ratio values, magnesium hazards, bicarbonate, and the residual sodium carbonate index. …”
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Identification of positive childhood experiences with the potential to mitigate childhood unhealthy weight status in children within the context of adverse childhood experiences: a... by Brooklyn M. Mellar, Maryam Ghasemi, Pauline Gulliver, Barry Milne, Fiona Langridge, Tracey McIntosh, Christa Fouche, Boyd Swinburn, Ladan Hashemi

“…This study aims to develop an exploratory PCEs Index with the potential to protect against or mitigate the association between ACEs and unhealthy weight status. …”
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The structural characteristics of dietary fibers from Tremella fuciformis and their hypolipidemic effects in mice by Shanshan Zhang, Xinle Xu, Xu Cao, Tingting Liu

“…Compared with the high-fat control (HCM) group, the arteriosclerosis index (AI) and liver index (LI) of the SDF group mice showed significant differences, indicating that SDF has a good auxiliary effect of lowering blood lipids. …”
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A Review of Potentially Toxic Elements in Sediment, Water, and Aquatic Species from the River Ecosystems by Md Muzammel Hossain, Iffat Jahan, Mudasir A. Dar, Maruti J. Dhanavade, Al Fattah Bin Mamtaz, Stephen J. Maxwell, Song Han, Daochen Zhu

“…A number of rivers with PTEs showed ecological risk as a consequence of the sediment’s potential ecological risk (PER), the pollutant load index (PLI), and the geoaccumulation index (Igeo). …”
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Effects of adding silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix protein concentrate on sensory, texture and cooking properties of pasta and its shelf life by Mahsasadat Mousavi Sane, Seyedeh Zahra Mirhosseini Roudbaraki, Mohammad Ali Nematollahi, Seyed Vali Hosseini

“…The effects of adding FPC to pasta on its sensory (flavor, smell, taste, and color), textural (adhesion, hardness, and flexibility), and physicochemical (cooking time, water absorption percentage, swelling index, and cooking loss) properties were investigated. …”
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Macrofaunal biopores: Diversity and regeneration rates across diverse pedoclimatic conditions studied with repacked soil cores by Charlotte Védère, Hanane Aroui Boukbida, Yvan Capowiez, Sougueh Cheik, Guillaume Coulouma, Rinh Pham Dinh, Séraphine Grellier, Claude Hammecker, Thierry Henry Des Tureaux, Ajay Harit, Jean Louis Janeau, Pascal Jouquet, Jean Luc Maeght, Pascal Podwojewski, Cornelia Rumpel, Stéphane Sammartino, Norbert Silvera, Siwaporn Siltecho, Lotfi Smaili, Bounsamay Soulileuth, Nicolas Bottinelli

“…After 12 months, biopores were characterized by X-ray computed tomography and grouped according to their diameter, length and sphericity index using principal component analysis followed by K-means clustering. …”
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CARDIAC-STAR: prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidities in patients with HR + /HER2 − metastatic breast cancer by Susan Dent, Avirup Guha, Heather Moore, Doris Makari, Rachael McCaleb, Irene Arias, Stella Stergiopoulos, Benjamin Li, Michael Fradley

“…Claims-based algorithms identified patients with newly diagnosed HR + /HER2– mBC between January 2016 and December 2022. The index date was defined as the first date of an mBC claim during this period. …”
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Taking stock of vaccine hesitancy among migrants: a scoping review protocol by Charles S Wiysonge, Sten H Vermund, Akhenaten Siankam Tankwanchi, Anelisa Jaca, Heidi J Larson

“…Studies published in English or French between January 1999 and December 2019 will be drawn from most or all of the following multidisciplinary databases: Africa-Wide Information, Allied and Complementary Medicine, Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Literature in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, Medline, Proquest Theses/Dissertations, PsycInfo and Web of Science. …”
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Detection of Burned Areas by Remote Sensing Techniques: İzmir Seferihisar Forest fire case study by Aslı Sabuncu, Haluk Özener

“…In this study, the capacity of Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) indices and differenced Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (dNDVI) derived from Landsat 5 images have been analyzed in order to assess the fire severity. …”
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The Relationship Between Body Composition, Physical Activity, Self-Esteem, and Body Image in Female and Male Adolescents by Ligia Rusu, Denisa Piele, Eva Ilie, Gheorghe Ionescu, Mihnea Ion Marin, Mihai Robert Rusu, Mirela Lucia Calina

“…Regarding the physical activity index, females carried out on average 1.5 days of intense physical activity over 7 days, and males were involved in intense physical activity for 2 days. …”
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Effect and curative effect of Sanqitongshu capsule combined with argatroban on neurological deficits elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke by Fang Hu, Yunping Liu, Jia Li, Hui Xuan, Huijuan Wang, Xuehai Lv

“…[Results] After treatment, the total effective rate of the study group was significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.05).The NIHSS score, plasma fibrinogen level, plasma viscosity, erythrocyte aggregation index and the expression levels of ET-1, CD41, CD62P and sICAM-1 in peripheral blood in the two groups were significantly decreased (P<0.05), and these indicators in the study group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.05).There was no significant difference in the incidence rate of adverse reactions between the two groups (P>0.05). …”
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The effects of meteorological drought on oak forest dieback in Ilam province by shamsallah Asgari, tayeb razi, Mohamadreza Jafari, Ali Akbar noroozi

“…The analysis utilizes the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) to identify the frequency of droughts during different time periods. …”
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Hereditary angioedema diagnosis evaluation score (HADES): A new clinical scoring system for predicting hereditary angioedema with C1 inhibitor deficiency by Ricardo Zwiener, MD, Rafael Zamora, MD, Carlos María Galmarini, MD, PhD, Laura Brion, PhD, Laura Arias, MD, Andrea Pino, MD, Paula Rozenfeld, PhD

“…Results: The study included 2423 individuals (1642 suspected index cases and 781 family cases). Only patients with confirmed HAE types I or II (n = 499) were included in the final analysis; acquired angioedema/F12 gene variants were excluded. …”
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Serum levels of interleukin-6 type cytokines and soluble interleukin-6 receptor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by T. Robak, A. Gladalska, H. Stepień, E. Robak

“…We found positive correlation between IL-6 and sIL-6R concentrations and Ritchie's index and a lack of such correlation with LIF and CNTF. …”
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Changes in sediment connectivity and its impact on sediment transport in a typical watershed of Southern Jiangxi Province, China by Fei Sheng, Tingxin Yi, Yanyan Wang, Haijin Zheng, Shiyu Liu, Xiaofei Nie, Longsong Hu, Haifeng Li

“…The hotspot area of the index of sediment connectivity (IC) showed significant spatial expansion. …”
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Association Between Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Burden and Outcomes in Heart Failure by Carine E. Hamo, Xiyue Li, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Samrachana Adhikari, Saul Blecker

“…Severely uncontrolled comorbidities were defined as systolic blood pressure ≥160 mm Hg, hemoglobin A1c ≥8%, and body mass index ≥35 kg/m2. Cox regression models were used to assess the association between cardiometabolic comorbidity burden and time to all‐cause and HF hospitalization at 1 year, adjusting for age, sex, race or ethnicity, and insurance status, smoking, prior hospitalization, and Elixhauser comorbidity index. …”
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A nomogram for predicting mortality risk in geriatric patients with hip fractures complicated by pneumonia: A multicenter study by Kaiming Zhang, Xiangwei Li, Yujia Xiao, Cheng Zhou, Yu Liu, Fan Zhen, Hao Zhang, Mao Nie

“…Multiple logistic regression showed that age, BMI, total hip arthroplasty, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were independent risk factors for inpatient mortality in the P group; these factors were incorporated in the nomogram. The C-index of the nomogram was 0.868 (95% CI: 0.802–0.933), and the C-index of internal bootstrapping validation was 0.851 (95% CI: 0.793–0.908), indicating the effectiveness of the nomogram in predicting patient prognosis. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Intra-articular Injection with Autologous Platelet-rich Plasma vs Hyaluronic Acid vs Platelet-derived Growth Factors in Early Osteoarthritis of Knee... by Vidya S Konana, Harish S Yallapura, Sriharsha Bettaswamy, Srinivas P Sivaram, Darshan G Thimmegowda

“…In the HA group, the total WOMAC index decreased from 42.95 ± 3.49 to 21.29 ± 21.29, from 41.52 ± 4.17 to 18.91 ± 1.4 in the PRP group, and from 43.82 ± 4.67 to 18.91 ± 2.44 in the activated PRP group after 3 months (<i>p</i>-value is significant). …”
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