Road Traffic Accident Traumatic Vehicle Seat Belt Abdominal Wall Hernia by Mahmoud R. Manasra, Roua E. Farah, Arein A. Abufara, Bara M. AbuIrayyeh, Rahaf E. Farah, Mohammed A. Maraqa

“…The radiological investigative modality of CT scan has the highest index of diagnosing accompanied intra-abdominal visceral injuries. …”
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Design and Bulk Sensitivity Analysis of a Silicon Nitride Photonic Biosensor for Cancer Cell Detection by Prasanna Kumaar S., Sivabramanian A.

“…The silicon nitride (SiN4) Mach–Zehnder interferometer utilizes the refractive index of different cancer cells (1.39–1.401) to determine the bulk sensitivity. …”
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Feasibility Study on Crack Detection of Pipelines Using Piezoceramic Transducers by Guofeng Du, Qingzhao Kong, Timothy Lai, Gangbing Song

“…A wavelet packet-based crack severity index was also built to quantitatively identify the pipeline damage condition at various crack depths.…”
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Assessment of Lower Sakarya River Water Quality in Terms of Irrigation Water by Çiğdem Özer, Rabia Köklü

“…On the basis of these standards, irrigation water quality was interpreted by using evaluation criteria such as Electrical conductivity (EC), and Total Hardness (TH) values, Schoeller Diagram, Sodium Adsorption Rate (SAR), Sodium percentage (% Na), Magnesium Ratio (MR), Potential Salinity (PS) and Kelley index (KI).…”
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A Few Remarks on the Poetics of Turbulence in Richard Powers’ Operation Wandering Soul by Jean-Yves Pellegrin

“…This imperative, which testifies to narrative’s desire for closure and meaning, may be construed as an index of the way narrative order attempts to subdue all turbulence by covering up its proliferating chaos with perfunctory linearity and cosmetic endings. …”
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Structural Damage Detection under Short Time Load Using Cascade-Forward Network by Seyed Sina Kourehli

“…In this paper, a new damage identification method proposed based on a short time load excitement and dynamic time history response of structures as a damage index. To solve the equation of motion of structure, the state space method was used. …”
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Development Path Planning of Sports and Wellness Town under the Background of Computer Virtual Reality Technology by Lichun Chen, Bingxu Lu

“…Moreover, in order to deal with unknown time-varying actuator faults and uncertain disturbances of the system, an improved cost function is constructed in this article, which guarantees the expected performance index of the original system. In addition, this article uses the single-network ADP algorithm to solve the event-triggered HJB equation and adopts a new weight update law. …”
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Microspatial Distributional Patterns of Vectors of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil by Maria Rita Donalisio, A. Townsend Peterson, Pietra Lemos Costa, Fernando José da Silva, Hélio França Valença, Jeffrey J. Shaw, Sinval P. Brandão Filho

“…To summarize vegetation characteristics and phenology, we calculated the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index from Landsat images. Using niche modeling approaches, we assessed suites of environmental factors to identify areas of transmission risk. …”
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Le passif peut-il éclairer les esprits ? by Valentina Vapnarsky

“…The hypothesis put forward is that linguistic modes of reference to spirits and to their actions are jointly constitutive of the forms and gradations of agency that are assigned to them, insofar as they index, qualify or obliterate typified and contextual relationships of agency between the speaker, other participants in the speech event, and spirits.…”
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Identifying barriers in the field of electronic payments based on blockchain technology: A multi-criteria decision-making approach by Amir Mohammad Yektaei Rudsari, Naser Safaei, Majid Mirzaei Ghazani

“…The privacy compliance index has the greatest impact on other indicators. …”
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Associations between handedness and brain functional connectivity patterns in children by Dardo Tomasi, Nora D. Volkow

“…Compared to right-handers, left-handers had increased global functional connectivity density in the left-hand motor area and decreased it in the right-hand motor area. A connectivity-based index of handedness provided a sharper differentiation between right- and left-handers. …”
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Associations of cachexia and frailty with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Tracy L. Peters, Weihong Qiu, Haomin Yang, Wuqing Huang, Yizhen Hu, Zhangyu Zou, Weimin Ye

“…There was a greater risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among individuals with cachexia and frailty status after adjusting for age, sex, income (pounds), body mass index, UK Biobank centers and smoking status. Among individuals with frailty status: a grip strength of < 21 kg, a slow walking speed, and exhaustion (more than half the days or nearly every day) increase the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. …”
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Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Trends in US Adolescents and Their Association with Insulin Resistance-Related Parameters by Andrew A. Bremer, Peggy Auinger, Robert S. Byrd

“…Main outcome measures included SSB consumption trends, a homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance, blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index, and fasting concentrations of total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Differentiated Per-Lane Speed Limits on Traffic Safety of Freeways with Considering the Compliance Rate by Meiyu Liu, Jing Shi

“…The current study focused on understanding the impacts of the configuration of the differentiated per-lane speed limit (DPLSL) and its compliance rate on traffic safety indexes, including lane-changing frequency, the coefficient of variation of speed, and incident rate of dangerous situations. …”
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Investigating the Feasibility of Urumia Urban Areas Livability using RALSPI Model by Farzaneh Sasanpour, Sara Alizadeh, Hourieh Aarabi Moghadam

“…Firstly, after devising 24 factors in 4 aspects (Physical-Environmental, Economic, Social and Health) this index was evaluated in urban areas by using newly invented model RALSPI with descriptive-analytical approach. …”
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Determination of the caries risk in children under 5 years of age in schools of the northern of Quito, Ecuador by Alex Esteban Carrera, Francisco Carcelén Arce, Ana María Cabezas, María Fernanda Chavez Campuzano, María Jose Jarrin, Alessandro Dourado Loguercio, Ana del Carmen Armas Vega

“…Meanwhile, the clinical examination determined that the temporal teeth caries index was 4.62 with the presence of a plaque in 86% of the evaluated population. …”
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PRESERVATION OF THE GENE POOL OF PLANTS UNDER IN PERMAFROST CONDITIONS: STATE, ADVANTAGES, AND PROSPECTS by B. M. Kershengolts, I. F. Zhimulev, N. P. Goncharov, R. V. Chzhan, G. V. Filippova, A. A. Shein, I. A. Prokopiev

“…The effect of long-term storage of seeds of three leguminous species (Pisum sativum, Lens culinaris, and Cicer arietinum) on physiological (germination) and cytological (mitotic index) parameters of seeds and seedlings derived from them was studied. …”
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Evaluation of Price Prediction of Houses in a Real Estate via Machine Learning by A. A. Ibrahim, O. A. Ayilara-Adewale, A. A. Alabi, D. A. Olusesi

“…House pricing using such methods as House Pricing Index and Random Forest Machine Learning Technique has been discussed, a new approach is proposed as a model utilizing the Extra Tree regression because it introduces an additional level of randomness in the tree-building process. …”
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis and Hydrocephalus in a Vegan Secondary to Acquired Hyperhomocystinaemia by W. D. D. Priyankara, A.V. I. Chandimal, F. G. Sivagnanam, E. M. Manoj

“…Replacement of vitamin B12, folic acid, pyridoxine along with anticoagulation and control of intracranial pressure with external ventricular drain lead to dramatic improvement of his neurology. Therefore, high index of suspicion is crucial for a better outcome in otherwise irreversible neurological damage in acquired hyperhomocystinaemia.…”
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Screen of propionate-producing probiotic strains in attenuating murine colitis by modulating immune response and restoring the intestinal barrier by Ting Shu, Xizi Song, Silu Zhang, Xiaoli Zhou, Zhizhu Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Hu Canying, Jie Pan, Xiaoshuang Dai, Yan Tan, Wu Xiyang, Huicui Meng, Guoxun Xiao, Huaijie Hao

“…Furthermore, their therapeutic effects were verified by reduced body weight loss, shortening of the colon length, Disease Activity Index score and improvement in histological analysis.…”
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