Thinning enhances whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) growth and resin duct defenses by Nickolas E. Kichas, Erin K. Shanahan, Sharon M. Hood

“…Small diameter (<5 cm dbh) whitebark pine in the treatment experienced a dramatic growth release with over 90% increase in basal area increment (74% increase in ring width index). Thinning also created conditions favorable for whitebark pine seedling and sapling establishment. …”
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Assessing the Short-Term Efficacy and Safety of Guselkumab for Moderate-to-Severe Plaque Psoriasis: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Jing Yang, Zongming Wang, Xilin Zhang

“…The results indicated that guselkumab had better efficacy than placebo or adalimumab for Psoriasis Area and Severity Index score reductions from baseline of 75% (PASI 75) (OR=61.37, 95% CI=31.15 to 120.91; OR=3.08, 95% CI=2.35 to 4.06), Investigator’s Global Assessment scores of 0 or 1 (IGA 0/1) (OR=65.75, 95% CI=45.54 to 94.95; OR=2.79, 95% CI=2.17 to 3.59), and Dermatology Life Quality Index scores of 0 or 1 (DLQI 0/1) (OR=29.64, 95% CI=18.80 to 46.73; OR=1.86, 95% CI=1.50 to 2.31). …”
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Growth, Yield-Related Traits and Yield of Lowland Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties as Influenced by Inorganic NPS and N Fertilizer Rates at Babile, Eastern Ethiopia by Mekuannet K. Belay

“…Grain yield and harvest index were statistically affected by interaction effects of variety × NPS and N in both years. …”
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Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Use in Patients with Schizophrenia and Criminal Justice System Encounters by Madhav P. Bhatta, Saroj Bista, Antoine C. El Khoury, Eric G. Hutzell, Neeta Tandon, Douglas Smith

“…The incidence of arrests was lower in the 6-month (27 vs 85 arrests), 1-year (46 vs 132 arrests) and 2-year (88 vs 196 arrests) periods post-index LAI medication than in the corresponding periods pre-index LAI medication among individuals with a history of prior arrest. …”
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Insights into the contribution of multiple factors on Ixodes ricinus abundance across Europe spanning 20 years using different machine learning algorithms by Samantha Lansdell, Abin Zorto, Misaki Seto, Edessa Negera, Saeed Sharif, Sally Cutler

“…To assess which ML model was most suited to prediction of I. ricinus abundance, four performance metric values were calculated per model: Normalised Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE), Scatter Index (SI), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and R2, all of which describe the statistical relationship between predicted and actual I. ricinus abundance values. …”
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Aluminium adjuvants versus placebo or no intervention in vaccine randomised clinical trials: a systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis by Christian Gluud, Marija Barbateskovic, Sara Russo Krauss, Janus C Jakobsen, Sesilje Bondo Petersen, Sarah Louise Klingenberg, Snezana Djurisic, Mette Kenfelt, De Zhao Kong

“…Objectives To assess the benefits and harms of aluminium adjuvants versus placebo or no intervention in randomised clinical trials in relation to human vaccine development.Design Systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis assessing the certainty of evidence with Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE).Data sources We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, BIOSIS, Science Citation Index Expanded and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science until 29 June 2021, and Chinese databases until September 2021.Eligibility criteria Randomised clinical trials irrespective of type, status and language of publication, with trial participants of any sex, age, ethnicity, diagnosis, comorbidity and country of residence.Data extraction and synthesis Two independent reviewers extracted data and assessed risk of bias with Cochrane’s RoB tool 1. …”
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Composition of the sputum bacterial microbiome of patients with different pathomorphological forms of non-small-cell lung cancer by V. G. Druzhinin, E. D. Baranova, P. S. Demenkov, L. V. Matskova, A. V. Larionov

“…The sputum microbiomes of patients with different histological types of lung cancer and controls did not show significant differences in terms of the species richness index (Shannon); however, the patients differed from the controls in terms of evenness index (Pielou). …”
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Trends and socioeconomic inequalities of recommended antenatal care services utilization in Ethiopia: A decomposition analysis using Ethiopian nationwide Demographic Health Surveys... by Yawkal Tsega, Abel Endawkie, Gebeyehu Tsega, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Yeshimebet Ali Dawed, Chad Stecher

“…The relative estimated CIX for wealth index, mothers education, Ethiopian administrative regions, and residence were 0.15 (P < 0.001), 0.14 (P < 0.001), 0.07(P < 0.001), and -0.11(P < 0.001), respectively. …”
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Impact of Scleroderma‐Associated Autoantibodies on Clinical Outcome Assessments: Post Hoc Analysis From a Randomised, Double‐blind, Placebo‐controlled, Phase 3 Trial of Tocilizumab... by Basmah Al Dulaijan, Suiyuan Huang, Celia J. F. Lin, Christopher P. Denton, Dinesh Khanna

“…We assessed the impact of baseline SSc‐Abs on six COAs: modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS), forced vital capacity (FVC%), Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index, patient and clinical global assessments, and American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Composite Response Index in Systemic Sclerosis (CRISS). …”
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Deformations and seepage-induced erosion of fractured rocks in fault under confined settings by Wenbin SUN, Dianjin TIAN, Cheng MA, Yanchao XUE, Can YANG, Kaipeng ZHU

“…The evolutionary trend of the void rate of the rock samples was closely related to their particle size distributions, with the Talbot index (n) correlating positively with the overall void rate of the samples. …”
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups and biological assessment of water quality in the Hulan River Basin by Peilun Li, Shuhan Xiong, Jiacheng Liu, Xiangsheng Meng, Anqi Wang, Chunfeng Wang, Yanshen Zhang, Jilong Wang

“…The Hilsenhoff Biological Index and Shannon-Wiener Index assessments indicated water quality ranging from good to excellent in the upstream, moderate in the midstream, and moderate to poor in the downstream. …”
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Using airborne LiDAR and enhanced-geolocated GEDI metrics to map structural traits over a Mediterranean forestZenodo by Aaron Cardenas-Martinez, Adrian Pascual, Emilia Guisado-Pintado, Victor Rodriguez-Galiano

“…Trends for foliage height diversity (FHD; RMSE = 2.1) and leaf area index (LAI; RMSE = 1.6 m2/m2) were less consistent than those for canopy height but confirmed the enhancement derived from collocation. …”
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Clinical profile and outcomes in patients with moderate to severe aortic stenosis with or without concomitant chronic kidney disease by Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Ching-Hui Sia, Nicholas Wen Sheng Chew, Tze Sian Liong, Zi Yun Chang, Chi Hang Lee, Wen Ruan, Edgar Lik-Wui Tay, William Kok-Fai Kong, Huay Cheem Tan, Tiong-Cheng Yeo, Kian Keong Poh

“…Methods: Consecutive patients (n = 727) with index echocardiographic diagnosis of moderate to severe AS (aortic valve area <1.5 cm2) were examined. …”
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Cancer Burden Disease Attributable to PM2.5 and Health Risk by PM2.5-bound Toxic Species in Two Urban Chilean Municipalities by Ye Li, Franz Muñoz-lbañéz, Ana Maldonado-Alcaíno, Darby Jack, Beizhan Yan, Li Xu, Marco Acuña, Manuel Leiva-Guzman, Ana Valdés, Dante D. Cáceres

“…Abstract This study aimed to estimate the environmental cancer disease burden in adults attributable to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure using Ostro’s function methodology, and health risk indexes for particle-bound toxic chemicals through hazard quotients (HQ, HI) and carcinogenic risk (CR, CRI) indexes from EPA guidelines, of two urban Chilean Municipalities: Coyhaique and Independencia. …”
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Access to evidence-based care: a systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings by Eduardo Huaman, Lacey LaGrone, Megan Wojick, Hannah Conner, Ashley Farley, Marianne Luyo, Sam Thomas-Pate

“…The 500 most frequently indexed were reviewed. The mean APC for a fully open access surgical journal was US$1574 and for a hybrid surgical journal was US$3338. …”
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The global air pollution and undernutrition among children under five by Rozhan Khezri, Sepideh Jahanian, Mitra Gholami, Fatemeh Rezaei

“…The scatter plots were utilized to depict the prevalence of wasting and stunting in children under five years old across studied countries concerning air pollution, Human Development Index (HDI), and Socio-Demographic Index (SDI). The prevalence of wasting was higher in countries with higher exposure to PM2.5 (R2 = 0.13, p < 0.001), less HDI (R2 = 0.20, p < 0.001), and less SDI (R2 = 0.16, p = 0.005). …”
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Analysis of Urban Residents' Sports Consumption Demand Based on Intercepted Regression Model by Qing Liu

“…We also summarize the present research on the correlation and the influence mechanism of the real estate price and the consumption improvement and choose the index which reflects the present state of the real estate industry and the consumption of the inhabitant. …”
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Correlation between intestinal stem cell niche changes and small bowel crypt failure in patients with treatment-naïve celiac disease by Prasenjit Das, Sudha Battu, Lalita Mehra, Alka Singh, Muzaffar Ahmad, Ashish Agarwal, Ashish Chauhan, Anam Ahmad, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Siddhartha Datta Gupta, Vineet Ahuja, Govind Makharia

“…However, the Ki67 proliferation index, expressions of WNT-activator RSPO1, and position-4 cell marker Bmi1 did not significantly alter in patients’ biopsies as compared to controls (P = 0.001). …”
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Burnout among Nurses Working in Ethiopia by Abrha Hailay, Woldu Aberhe, Guesh Mebrahtom, Kidane Zereabruk, Guesh Gebreayezgi, Teklehaimanot Haile

“…A search strategy was implemented using electronic databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Africa-Wide Information, and African Index Medicus) which were systematically searched online to retrieve related articles using keywords. …”
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Expression of Dual-Specificity Phosphatase 9 in Placenta and Its Relationship with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Qiang Wei, Xiaomin Pu, Li Zhang, Yi Xu, Meifan Duan, Yuemei Wang

“…Placental DUSP9 mRNA levels in all 33 women correlated moderately with delivery gestational week (R=0.465, P=0.006), fasting plasma glucose (R=0.350, P=0.046), 1-hour postload plasma glucose (R=0.363, P = 0.038), and 2-hour postload plasma glucose (R=0.366, P=0.036), but not with maternal age, preconception body mass index, prenatal body mass index, or neonatal birth weight. …”
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