Burden and Associated Factors of Tuberculosis Among Household Contacts of Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients of Aligarh by Simon Jude, Ali J. Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohammad Shameem

“…Results: Within this investigation, a total of 103 individuals who tested positive for sputum smear were identified as index cases, alongside 405 household contacts of these index cases. …”
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Impact of Obesity Visceral Adiposity and Metabolic Syndrome on Male Fertility by Esra Bahar Gur, Ebru Sahin Gulec, Sadik Ince, Mehmet Zeynel Keskin, Ahmet Demir, Baris Sengul, Mehmet Serkan Gur

“…Participants' body mass index, waist circumference, and waist/hip ratio were determined. …”
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The influence of sex on sleep characteristics in the adult and older adult population: findings from the EPISONO sleep study by Mayra dos Santos Silva, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Monica Levy Andersen, Monica Levy Andersen, Sergio Tufik, Sergio Tufik, Dalva Poyares, Dalva Poyares

“…Age was shown to be an influencing factor for changes in arousal index and apnea-hypopnea index. This study prospectively evaluated, with full-night PSG, the sleep of the general population and reported significant findings according to sex and age, suggesting that some sleep parameters change differently in men and women, as we age.…”
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Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis in diagnostic accuracy studies: A guide to interpreting the area under the curve value by Şeref Kerem Çorbacıoğlu, Gökhan Aksel

“…The Youden index can be used to identify the optimal cutoff value. …”
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The Effect of Sensorimotor Synchronization on Gait Spatiotemporal Parameters in Women with Multiple Sclerosis by Mozhgan Memarmoghadam, Mansoureh Shahraki, Behzad Mohammadi Orangi, Luca Correale, Leonardo A. Peyré-Tartaruga

“…Therefore, this study investigates the effect of synchronization with rhythmic visual stimulus on gait spatiotemporal parameters, bilateral symmetry, and locomotor rehabilitation index in women with MS. Materials and Methods: Spatiotemporal parameters, bilateral symmetry and the locomotor rehabilitation index were obtained before and after 6 weeks (three times per week, 30 min each session) of locomotor training. …”
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Analysis of Viability of Core Inflation Components Based on Excluded Items in Uganda. by Munyambonera, Ezra, Mukiza, Chris Ndatira, Niyimpa, Ediga Mfite

“…The study further indicated that inclusion of the EFU and food items found to be less volatile and highly persistent, did not yield significantly different results when comparing means of the recompiled and existing core index at 5 percent level of significance. However, the recompiled core index was more precise than the existing core index because the standard error was reduced by 7 percent. …”
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Comparison of the Oral Hygiene Status in Children With and Without Juvenile Diabetes - A Comparative Study by Lavanya Govindaraju, Deepa Gurunathan

“…Sixty-six children diagnosed with juvenile diabetes were compared with the age and sex matched 66 healthy controls with respect to the oral hygiene index, gingival index and DMFT/def index. Mean of the obtained scores of the variables were compared between the groups using Mann–Whitney test with significance level set at 5%. …”
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Quasi-Babinet principle in dielectric resonators and Mie voids by Masoud Hamidi, Kirill Koshelev, Sergei Gladyshev, Adrià Canós Valero, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen, Yuri Kivshar, Thomas Weiss

“…Recently, cavities in high-index dielectrics have been shown to resonantly confine light inside a lower-index region. …”
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Ten Years After the 2008 Crisis: Has Risk Aversion Won? by Eliana Marcia Martins Fittipaldi Torga, Carolina Magda da Silva Roma, Paula Magda Roma, Bruno Pérez Ferreira

“…Mean return of portfolio, risk through standard deviation, Sharpe index, and risk-adjusted return were calculated for evaluation purposes. …”
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Agreement Between Isokinetic Dynamometer and Hand-held Isometric Dynamometer as Measures to Detect Lower Limb Asymmetry in Muscle Torque After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruc... by Angelica Ivarsson, Anna Cronström

“… # Result Bland & Altman plots showed wide limits of agreement between the instruments for both flexion and extension limb symmetry index. Cohen´s Kappa coefficient revealed a poor to slight agreement between the extension limb symmetry index values (0.136) and a fair agreement for flexion limb symmetry index values (0.236). …”
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Econometric Assessment of the Impact of Competitiveness on the Income of the Population in Azerbaijan by Yadulla Hasanli, Sardar Shabanov

“… The concept of global competitiveness index (GCI) was proposed in 2004. The GCI index is calculated by the World Economic Forum since 2007. …”
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Multiple Comorbidities, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Essential Tremor: A Retrospective Observational Study in a Large US Comme... by Dingwei Dai, Ali Samiian, Joaquim Fernandes, Henriette Coetzer

“…The earliest claim date with ET diagnosis was identified as the index date. An index date was assigned randomly for each non-ET patient. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Manual and Electric Toothbrushes in Blind Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial by PS Thanalakshme, R Ramesh

“…Key parameters- Plaque Index (PI), Patient Hygiene Performance (PHP) index, Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index, and Ayesha’s Oddbods Dental Anxiety Scale (AODAS) were measured at baseline, three months, and six months. …”
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Evaluation of the combined toxicity of compound pollutants of azole fungicides to Raphidocelis subcapitata by Huang Yongxiang, Guo Dijie, Qin Litang

“…Model Deviation Ratio (MDR) was used to quantitatively evaluate the toxic interaction of binary mixtures of azole fungicides, as well as the equivalent graph method, Toxic Unit (TU) method, additivity Index method (AI), Toxicity Index (MTI) and Combination Index (CI) methods were used to analyze the combined toxicity and toxic interaction of the mixture. …”
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Mesalazine use tactics in the ulcerative colitis patients by A. V. Korolev, O. Z. Okhlobystina, L. N. Androsova, O. S. Shifrin

“…The efficacy has been demonstrated in a huge number of studies, the indications for the administration have been determined and are dependent on the disease activity index. 5-АSA are used in moderate rate of the inflammatory activity. …”
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Economic Importance of Genetic Improvements in Milk Production, Reproduction, and Productive Life by Albert De Vries

“…These traits are combined in economic selection indexes to rank bulls and cows for total profitability. …”
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Economic Importance of Genetic Improvements in Milk Production, Reproduction, and Productive Life by Albert De Vries

“…These traits are combined in economic selection indexes to rank bulls and cows for total profitability. …”
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Comparison of Language Models for English-Latvian Semantic Search by Kucheravy Artem, Jēkabsons Gints

“…In this study, ten language models are explored and compared in an English-Latvian semantic information retrieval setting, where the indexed collection of documents is written in English while the query documents are written in Latvian. …”
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Analysis and Evaluation of Seawater Quality in the Northwest of Hainan by HUANG Xia, ZHENG Ruixi

“…To assess the current water quality and eutrophication level of the inshore waters in northwestern Hainan, based on the monitoring results of 23 water quality monitoring stations, the single factor standard index method and the water environment comprehensive index method were used to analyze and evaluate the water quality status of this sea area. …”
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Distribution Characteristics of Nutrients and Eutrophication Assessment in Yueqing Bay by YAO Kaixue, YIN Rui, WANG Yang, CHEN Feng, LI Zhenhua

“…Based on the Marine environment monitoring data of Yueqing Bay in spring, summer, autumn and winter from 2018 to 2019, the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of nutrient salts (dissolved inorganic nitrogen, DIN) and active phosphate (DIP) in the sea were analyzed, and the pollution degree, eutrophication degree and nutrient structure of the sea area were evaluated by single factor index method, eutrophication index method and potential eutrophication model. …”
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