OIL PRICES AND THEIR LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH MACROECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INDICATORS by Vesna Bucevska, Borjan Gjelevski, Lea Matevska

“… The objective of this paper is to find out whether there is a long-term relationship or in other words cointegration, between the prices of oil futures and the following factors: the consumer price index (CPI), the exchange rate of the USD to the EUR, the prices of gold, and the price of Bitcoin. …”
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A Fatal Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy after Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity by Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Nikolaos Georgopoulos

“…It is traditionally described in chronic alcohol abusers; however obesity surgery is an emerging cause, as the number of bariatric procedures increases. A high index of clinical suspicion is required, since initial symptoms may be nonspecific and the classic triad of ophthalmoplegia, gait and stance disorders, and mental confusion is present only in one-third of patients. …”
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Numerical analysis of the effect of opposite baffles on the heat transfer enhancement of non-newtonian Nano fluid through a backward facing step by Kourosh Javaherdeh, Mehdi Moslemi, Motahare Mahmoodnezhad

“…Raising the Reynolds number and the nanofluid volume fraction causes the mean Nusselt numbers and the Performance Evaluation Index to increase. The outcomes indicate that using a pair of opposite baffles must be more beneficial than the other number of baffles.…”
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Study protocol of associated criteria used in investigating septic transfusion reactions (STRs): A scoping review about available evidence. by Dilaram Acharya, Antoine Lewin, Amaury Gaussen, Gilles Lambert, Christian Renaud, Karlitaj Nawej, Thomas G Poder

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This scoping review will include indexed and grey literatures available in English or French language from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2021. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Hospital Waste Ash-Modified Asphalt Mixtures by Daniel Oguntayo, Olumide Ogundipe, Oluwasegun Aladegboye, Gabriel Ogunkunbi, Yusuf Babatunde, Olawale Aransiola

“…The performance of the mixtures was evaluated with the Marshall, Cantabro, and retained strength index (RSI) tests. The Marshall parameters indicate that the modified asphalt mixtures met the General Specification for Roads and Bridges of Nigeria with satisfactory results. …”
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Modification des conditions de maturation du raisin en Bourgogne viticole liée au réchauffement climatique by Malika Madelin, Benjamin Bois, Jean-Pierre Chabin

“…The results show a latitudinal and vertical transfer of the temperatures and vine’s indexes over a 20-30 year period as well as a double effect of climate warming in the maturation stage attributed to the increase in temperatures and the time shift of this period (which occurs most often in August).…”
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The Problem of Confounding in Studies of the Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Pregnancy Outcome by Bengt Källén

“…Such confounders can be found in maternal characteristics like age, parity, smoking, use of alcohol, and body mass index, subfertility, and previous pregnancies including previous birth of a malformed child, socioeconomy, race/ethnicity, or country of birth. …”
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THE EFFECT OF STRANDED ASSETS IMPAIRMENT ON FIRM VALUE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE RISK DISCLOSURE TRANSPARENCY WITH APPLIED EVIDENCE FROM EGYPTIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY by Huda M. Abdallah, Samhi Abdelaty Difalla, Mukhtar Suleiman, Abdalaziz M. Alhaggan

“…The climate disclosure index was used to determine the disclosure level of climate change risk according to the Egyptian Financial Supervision Authority's decisions. …”
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Quantifying Cross-Correlations between Economic Policy Uncertainty and Bitcoin Market: Evidence from Multifractal Analysis by Junjun Ma, Tingting Wang, Ruwei Zhao

“…We investigate the dynamic correlation between the Bitcoin price (BTC) and the U.S. economic policy uncertainty index (USEPU) from the perspective of multifractality. …”
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Fundamentalist Signals in Volatility Scenarios: Evidence in the Brazilian Stock Market by Edson Bastos, Patricia Bortolon, Vinicius Maia

“…This article investigates whether the usefulness of fundamentalist signals to predict returns are altered in context of high volatility and also considering the sensitivity of assets to the IVol-BR volatility index. In times of high volatility, investors could make their decisions based on risk aversion and not only on the fundamentals signals of companies. …”
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Practical Evaluation Method for the Pouring Scheme of a Long-Span Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Arch Bridge by Xinyu Yao, Tianzhi Hao, Nianchun Deng

“…Furthermore, a comprehensive objective function-rationalization index was proposed, based on which a practical evaluation and determination method for pouring scheme of the long-span concrete-filled steel tube arch bridge was developed. …”
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An Empirical Analysis of Oil and Stock Markets’ Volatility Based on the DGC-MSV-t Model by Jing Zhang, Ya-Ming Zhuang, Jia-Bao Liu

“…We investigate the spillover effect between crude oil future prices, crude oil spot prices, and stock index by using the multivariate stochastic volatility model. …”
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Would Phrynops geoffroanus’ plastron formula and morphological diversity be preserved under anthropic conditions? by Mauro Sérgio Cruz Souza Lima, Ulisses Caramaschi, Jonas Pederassi, Joara de Sousa Andrade, Diogo Brunno e Silva Barbosa

“…In this work, the plastron formula and the diversity index associated with the allometric condition are established for the species. …”
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Hypogammaglobulinemia in a Family with Crohn’s Disease by Robert Enns, Guido van Rosendaal

“…The presented patient was the index case in a family who has both hypogammaglobulinemia and Crohn’s disease. …”
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Geopolitical turmoil and energy dynamics: Analyzing the impact on inflation in selected European economies by Cumali Marangoz

“…The analysis displays the diverse impact of gas prices on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a gauge for inflation, in the short, medium, and long term. …”
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iAMCTD: Improved Adaptive Mobility of Courier Nodes in Threshold-Optimized DBR Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks by N. Javaid, M. R. Jafri, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim, T. A. Alghamdi, M. Ali

“…In order to tackle flooding, path loss, and propagation latency, we calculate optimal holding time ( H T ) and use routing metrics: localization-free signal-to-noise ratio (LSNR), signal quality index (SQI), energy cost function (ECF), and depth-dependent function (DDF). …”
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Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…This case illustrates a rare presentation of vocal fold involvement without direct invasion from a continuous site and highlights the importance of a high index of suspicion for disseminated coccidioidomycosis with prompt antifungal treatment in order to avoid the very high morbidity and mortality in such cases.…”
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Plasticity, Swell-Shrink, and Microstructure of Phosphogypsum Admixed Lime Stabilized Expansive Soil by Jijo James, P. Kasinatha Pandian

“…The effect of stabilization was studied by performing index tests, namely, liquid limit, plastic limit, shrinkage limit, and free swell test, on pulverized remains of failed unconfined compression test specimens. …”
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Nonself-Adjoint Second-Order Difference Operators in Limit-Circle Cases by Bilender P. Allahverdiev

“…We consider the maximal dissipative second-order difference (or discrete Sturm-Liouville) operators acting in the Hilbert space ℓ2𝑤(ℤ) (ℤ:={0,±1,±2,…}), that is, the extensions of a minimal symmetric operator with defect index (2,2) (in the Weyl-Hamburger limit-circle cases at ±∞). …”
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Utilizing Semantic Segmentation to Analyse Google Street View Imagery for Health-Oriented Urban Planning by Siyi Qi

“…This study uses Copenhagen Municipality as a case study to explore the Green View Index (GVI) by analyzing Google Street View (GSV) images using semantic segmentation. …”
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