Molecular caracterization of a corn core collection–landraces subgroup by Ronaldo Rodrigues Coimbra, Glauco Vieira Miranda, Newton Portilho Carneiro, Cláudia Teixeira Guimarães, Derly José Henriques da Silva, Elainy Cristina Alves Martins Oliveira

“…Genetic diversity of the collection was quantified with the UPGMA method, using the Jaccard Index to quantify dissimilarity. The core collection was divided into four sub-populations by grain type, and into six sub-populations based on ecogeographic origin. …”
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Serum adiponectin levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Ganesh Veluri, Kiranmayi S Vinapamula, P VLN Srinivasa Rao, Sirisha Kommireddy, Suchitra Musturu Manohar, Pullaiah Pasupuleti

“…Materials and Methods: Forty RA patients (newly diagnosed n = 20, RA in clinical remission n = 20) and thirty age-, gender-, and body mass index (BMI)-matched apparently healthy controls were included. …”
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Influence of Temperature and Purity of Polyacrylic Acid on its Adsorption and Surface Structures at the ZrO/Polymer Solution Interface by M. Wiśniewska, S. Chibowski

“…These result from changes in the polydispersity index of filtered PAA and the blocking of some active sites on the oxide surface by inorganic contamination present in the non-filtered PAA samples. …”
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Insights into sensitizing and eliciting capacity of gastric and gastrointestinal digestion products of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) proteins in BALB/c mice by Yao Liu, Songyi Lin, Kexin Liu, Shan Wang, Wang Li, Na Sun

“…As compared with the SPS groups, the GDS/GIDS groups caused lower specific immunoglobulins (IgE/IgG1) levels (P < 0.05), but higher than the control groups, indicating that the digestion products sensitized the mice. Meanwhile, spleen index, mouse mast cell protease-1 (mMCP-1) concentration and proportion of degranulated mast cells were significantly reduced in the GDS/GIDS groups (P < 0.05); simultaneously, allergic symptoms, vascular permeability and histopathological changes of tissues were alleviated. …”
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Using Improved Ant Colony Algorithm to Investigate EMU Circulation Scheduling Problem by Yu Zhou, Leishan Zhou, Yun Wang

“…The results reveal that improved ACA method can solve the model with less time and the quality of each representative index is much better, which means that efficiency of the improved ACA method is higher and better scheduling scheme can be obtained.…”
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Dynamic Cross-Correlation between Online Sentiment and Stock Market Performance: A Global View by Kewei Xu, Yuanyuan Pang, Jiatong Han

“…We use Daily Happiness (DHS), an index derived from Twitter posts through textual analysis as a proxy of online sentiment. …”
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Atherosclerosis in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis by Ewa Jednacz, Lidia Rutkowska-Sak

“…Some studies revealed higher carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) index values in children with JIA. In view of the fact that atherosclerotic process begins as early as in childhood, the introduction of appropriate preventive measures in children is a matter of utmost importance.…”
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Identifying Risk Factors for Secondary Infection Post-SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients With Severe and Critical COVID-19 by Mingquan Guo, Mingquan Guo, Menglu Gao, Jing Gao, Tengfei Zhang, Xin Jin, Jian Fan, Qianying Wang, Xin Li, Jian Chen, Zhaoqin Zhu

“…By clinical examination index analysis of patients, combined with the integrative analysis with RNA-seq analysis in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell isolated shortly from initial infection, this study showed that the antibiotic catabolic process and myeloid cell homeostasis were activated while the T-cell response were relatively repressed in those with the risk of secondary infection. …”
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Quantitative valve motion assessment in adolescents using point-of-care ultrasound: short communication by Antonio Riera, Lei Chen, Donald S. Wright, Julie I. Leviter

“…Correlations with age, height, weight, body mass index, and heart rate were examined. Twenty subjects were enrolled. …”
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Green Spectrophotometric Determination of Organophosphate in Selected Fruits and Vegetables by Hemraj Sharma, Hari Prasad Sapkota, Kanchan Paudel, Anusha Raila, Sujata Kandel, Pramod Chaudhary, Kritika Bhattarai

“…The greenness of the methods was estimated using an ecoscale (84), the Green Analytical Procedure Index, and AGREE (0.89), which were found to be excellent green method based on spectrophotometric determination. …”
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Study of living standards in Sahebgharaniyeh neighborhood of Tehran by Mehran Mohammadi, Naser eghbali, mahmood rezaii

“…But with 95 percent confidence, Sahebgharriyeh neighborhood can be considered as individual and social security indexes, identity and sense of place belonging, facilities and services needed, and the status of the visual landscape and the environmental pollution of the habitat.…”
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Evaluating the Performance of Emergency Centers during Coronavirus Epidemic Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods (Case Study: Sari City) by SeyedAmir Hosseini, Hassan Ahmadi Choukolaei, Peiman Ghasemi, Helia Dardaei-beiragh, Soheil Sherafatianfini, Adel Pourghader Chobar

“…The reason for the superiority of this center over Center B can be considered the better performance of this center in terms of prevention indicators and better performance of the center’s vehicles (Ambulance A-1 and Ambulance A-2) in the performance index by observing the standards.…”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…While the ashes of Columbia became a climactic episode in the narrative of the Lost Cause, the burning of New York City indexed the problematic memorialization of antistate and anti-Black violence.…”
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Innovation Efficiency of High-Tech SMEs Listed in China: Its Measurement and Antecedents by Lixia Liu, Yaming Hou, Xueli Zhan, Zongxian Wang

“…Innovation efficiency is an important index to measure the innovation performance of high-tech enterprises. …”
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Understanding the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Identifying Appropriate Spatial Units while Studying the Influence of the Built Environment on the Traffic System State by Tian Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Haobin Jiang, Peng Jing

“…The results show that the index variation is more dependent on the scale of the spatial unit than on zoning type. …”
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Alcohol Consumption and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men by Erin K. Howie, Xuemei Sui, Duck-chul Lee, Steven P. Hooker, James R. Hébert, Steven N. Blair

“…In the Cox proportional hazards model adjusted for age, year of examination, body mass index (BMI), smoking, family history of CVD, and aerobic fitness, there were no significant differences in risk of all-cause mortality across alcohol intake groups. …”
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Assessing Structural Components of Investment and Innovation Provision of Economic Security in the Basic Types of Economic Activity by Ruslan Kolishenko, Olya Ilyash, Ruslan Lupak, Iryna Dzhadan

“…Taking into account the multidimensionality of economic security of the basic types of economic activity, a methodological approach has been proposed in order to evaluate its investment and innovation provision, which incorporates Hellwig's scientific developments in calculating the taxonomic index of the level of economic development. The results of a systemic and structural analysis of investment and innovation provision of economic security of the basic types of Ukraine’s economic activity have been grouped by quantitative and qualitative parameters. …”
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Overweight among Four-Year-Old Children in Relation to Early Growth Characteristics and Socioeconomic Factors by Jörgen Thorn, Maria Waller, Maria Johansson, Staffan Mårild

“…To assess early growth characteristics and socioeconomic factors of children in relation to body mass index (BMI) and presence of overweight among four-year-old children. …”
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Pengembangan Buku Panduan Konseling Kognitif Behavioral Teknik Cognitive Restructuring Untuk Meningkatkan Resiliensi Akademik Siswa SMA by Serafina Elasa Budiono, Kadek Suranata, Dewi Arum Widhayanti Metra Putri

“…Data analysis related to the validity and effectiveness of the guidebook was carried out using the calculation of the Content Validity Ratio, Content Validity Index, and t-test. The results of the CVR analysis showed that all questionnaire item statements were accepted and the CVI calculation results were 0.94 in the very good category. …”
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From fluorescence to biomass: A comprehensive analysis via crop modeling and sensing techniques by Georgios Ntakos, Egor Prikaziuk, Nastassia Vilfan, Tamme van der Wal, Christiaan van der Tol

“…By incorporating dynamic photosynthetic parameters, leaf area index (LAI) retrieval, and crop modeling techniques to scale assimilation from the leaf to the canopy level, we successfully reduced the discrepancy between simulated and measured dry matter production in 16 out of 18 cases, offering significant advantages over fixed, literature-based photosynthetic parameter values.…”
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