Weight Change and Predictors of Weight Change Among Patients Initiated on Darunavir/Cobicistat/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide or Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamid... by Bruno Emond, Carmine Rossi, Aurélie Côté-Sergent, Keith Dunn, Patrick Lefebvre, Marie-Hélène Lafeuille, Prina Donga

“…Mean weight and BMI change from pre- to post-index measurements were compared between weighted cohorts at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months post-index using mean differences. …”
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The Increase of Insect Pest Population in Paddy Field Managed with an Ecological Approach using Refugia Plants and Biopesticides by Arieska Wahyu Alprilia, Wiwin Windiyanti, Ramadhani Mahendra Kusuma

“…The analysis includes the species diversity index (Shannon-Winner), species evenness index, species richness index (Margalef), dominance index (Simpson) and similarity index (Bray-Curtis). …”
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Identification and prioritization of effective approaches for public education and participation in household waste management (A case study: Tehran, Iran) by Esmatossadat Hashemi, Hooman Bahmanpour, Amir Hesam Hassani, Amir Hooman Hemmasi

“…The Goodness of Fit Index (GFI=0.91) and the Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI=0.89) also confirmed the goodness of fit of the model. …”
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Electricity Market Management Through Optimum Installation of Distributed Generation Sources and Optimum Placement Based on LMP and ISC by Muhammad Hammad Saeed, Sajid Iqbal, Basheer Ahmed Kalwar

“…Another index used to find desirable locations for DG placement is the customer payment (CP) index, which can be calculated for each bus by multiplying LMP by busload. …”
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Influential Factors of Electronic Cigarette Web-Based Attention in Mainland China: Time Series Observational Study by Zhongmin Zhang, Hengyi Xu, Jing Pan, Fujian Song, Ting Chen

“…Positive spatial autocorrelation existed in the per capita Baidu index of e-cigarettes from 2015 to 2022. The results of the local Moran’s I showed that there were mainly low-low cluster areas of the per capita Baidu index, especially in the central region. …”
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Noninvasive diagnostic methods of liver fibrosis in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis: role of indirect serological markers by A. F. Sheptulina, Ye. N. Shirokova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…According to routine laboratory test data and abdominal ultrasound, indexes of AST to ALT ratio (AAR); AST to platelet count ratio (APRI); platelet count to the spleen diameter ratio - PLT/ SPD and Fibrosis-4 score index (FIB-4) were calculated. …”
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Abnormal glymphatic system in patients with autoimmune encephalitis: Relationship with cognitive performance by Yingchi Zhang, Dianwei Wu, Zhirong Fan, Xiuxiu Leng, Ting Wan, Xiaodan Shi, Xiaomu Wang, Xuan Wang, Changgeng Song, Fang Du, Wen Jiang

“…In the longitudinal study, the ALPS index gradually increased over the follow-up period (P < 0.001), and a low level of the baseline ALPS index was associated with a higher risk of long-term cognitive impairment (HR [95 % CI] = 1.70 [1.12–2.58], P = 0.013). …”
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Evaluasi Manajemen Keamanan Informasi Menggunakan Indeks Keamanan Informasi (KAMI) pada Jaringan (Studi Kasus: UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta) by Rizki Dewantara, Bambang Sugiantoro

“…Evaluation of information security management using the information security index (KAMI) conducted on the network at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta obtained an index result of 407, which is considered still not optimal. …”
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Macrozoobenthic community structure in the mangrove aquatic ecosystem and surrounding area of Pejarakan Village, Bali by Zafirah Aanisah Farih, Samosir Agustinus Mangaratua, Sulistiono Sulistiono, Solihin Iin, Nugroho Thomas, Hestirianoto Totok, Srimariana Endang Sunarwati, Arhatin Risti Endriani, Rastina Rastina, Mubarak Ahmad Shofy, Ismail Ismail

“…The highest density was in January 2024 (289 ind/m2). The diversity index (H') was low-medium (1.99-3.17), the evenness index (E) was high (0,69- 0,96), and the dominance index (C) was low-medium (0,13-0,38). …”
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Spatial and temporal monitoring of drought hazards in Opak Watershed by Suhardono Sapta, Septiariva Iva Yenis, Wijayanti Sovia, Ibriza Naila Maulida, Suryawan I Wayan Koko

“…The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was employed for drought assessment based on rainfall, while the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) evaluated drought via satellite images. …”
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Role of alpha-fetoprotein in complex diagnostics of progressing course of chronic hepatitis B and C by I. A. Belavina, O. P. Dudanova

“…At HA CHB relation of AFP to histological activity (0,93; p&lt;0,01), sclerosis index (0,69; p &lt;0,01), hepatic vascular index (–0,93; p&lt;0,01) was maximal. …”
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Associations of four obesity indices with diabetes mellitus in Korean middle-aged and older adults using the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) by Yiseul Lee, Nam-Kyoo Lim, Hyun-Young Park

“…This study evaluated the association of obesity indices, including body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and a body shape index (ABSI), with DM in Korean middle-aged and older adults. …”
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Higher-form symmetries, Bethe vacua, and the 3d-3d correspondence by Julius Eckhard, Heeyeon Kim, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki, Brian Willett

“…An observable that is sensitive to the higher-form symmetries is the Witten index, which can be computed by counting solutions to a set of Bethe equations that are determined by M3. …”
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Complements and coregularity of Fano varieties by Fernando Figueroa, Stefano Filipazzi, Joaquín Moraga, Junyao Peng

“…We study the relation between the coregularity, the index of log Calabi–Yau pairs and the complements of Fano varieties. …”
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Application and comparison of five risk assessment methods in ferrous metal foundry enterprises with silica dust concentration exceeding the limit posts by Qimeng Li, Xiaoying Li, Ge Qin, Yuanmeng Qi, Jie Liu, Xiaocui Tang, Di Wu, Changfu Hao, Sihua Wang

“…Five occupational health risk assessment (OHRA) methods, including Risk index method, Hazard grading method, International Council on Mining and Metals model, The synthesis index method, and The exposure ratio method, were used to assess the occupational health risk of the workplaces that produced silica dust and the concentration of silica dust exceeded the occupational exposure limits (OELs), and to compare the results of the different methods.ResultsThe risk index assessment method yielded one job of mild hazard, seven job of moderate hazard, fifteen jobs of high hazard, and forty-four jobs of extreme hazard. …”
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Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…The date of the first AposHealth claim was the index date. Data prior to the index date and post-index date were used to monitor changes in HCRU while in treatment. …”
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Health systems efficiency in China and ASEAN, 2015–2020: a DEA-Tobit and SFA analysis application by Jing Kang, Rong Peng, Zhen Li, Fen Huang, Yujun Chen, Jun Feng, Junyuan Wei, Fu Yu, Xiaorong Su, Xianjing Qin, Qiming Feng

“…In the past 6 years, the TFP index of the health system in Malaysia was higher than 1, while the TFP index of other countries was lower than 1. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle indices for hyperinsulinemia and odds of MAFLD in overweight and obese children and adolescents by Ali Nikparast, Maryam Razavi, Parmis Mirzaei, Pooneh Dehghan, Mahdi Amani Farani, Golaleh Asghari

“…The insulinemic potential of the diet and lifestyle was assessed by computing the scores of the empirical dietary index for hyperinsulinemia(EDIH), the empirical lifestyle index for hyperinsulinemia(ELIH), the empirical dietary index for insulin resistance(EDIR), and the empirical lifestyle index for insulin resistance(ELIR). …”
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Wreathing, discrete gauging, and non-invertible symmetries by Julius F. Grimminger, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya

“…These actions are studied in terms of how each permutation cycle acts on the superconformal index of the theory in question. We present a prescription for refining the index with respect to the fugacities associated with the Abelian discrete symmetries that are subgroups of G. …”
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Stock investment funds in Brazil: performance and management expertise by Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Artur Nave

“…In these optimistic scenarios, only the industrial sector index (INDX) provided returns compatible with those of these fund’s portfolios. …”
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