Assessment of Ki-67 expression in cases of prostatic carcinoma and its correlation with clinical outcomes by Sumaira Siddiqui

“…The mean Ki-67 staining index was 15.22% among the cases. The cases with High Ki-67 Staining index had a significantly higher rate of distant metastasis, poor disease-specific survival, and overall survival compared to cases with low Ki-67 staining index. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Kannada Version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire-Short Form by B. Sapna, D. S. Gazala Sulthana

“…Results: An acceptable item-level content validity index (I-CVI values ranging from 0.83 to 1) and scale-level content validity index (S-CVI values ranging from 0.98 to 0.99) were obtained. …”
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The spatio-temporal trend of climate and characterization of drought in Borana Zone, Ethiopia by Sewmehon Sisay Fanta, Mamuye Busier Yesuf, Mulatu Tesfahun Merkos, Tamene Adugna Demissie

“…The standard Precipitation and Evaporation index (SPEI) and self calibrated Palmer’s Droguht Severity Index (scPDSI) were selected to compute the drought’s magnitude. …”
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Environmental DNA-based assessment of multitrophic biodiversity in a typical river located in the Loess Plateau, China: Influence of PAHs and suspended sediments by Qian Li, Yulu Tian, Yongrong Hao, Chengkai Qu, Rungnapa Tagun, Hisato Iwata, Jiahua Guo

“…In terms of biodiversity, the richness and Shannon index of algae (Chlorophyta and Dinophyceae) were positively associated with acenaphthene (ACE) levels. …”
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Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among US Adolescents With Alopecia Areata by Markqayne Ray, Elyse Swallow, Kavita Gandhi, Christopher Carley, Vanja Sikirica, Travis Wang, Nicolae Done, James Signorovitch, Arash Mostaghimi

“…**Methods:** IBM MarketScan® Commercial and Medicare databases were used to identify patients aged 12-17 years with ≥2 claims with AA/AT/AU diagnosis (prevalent cases), from October 1, 2015, to March 31, 2018, enrolled for ≥12 months before and after the first AA diagnosis (index). Patients were matched 1:3 to non-AA controls on index year, demographics, plan type, and Charlson Comorbidity Index. …”
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Determinants of Indonesian Government Bond Yield by Hestiani Wulandari, Noer Azam Achsani, Moch. Hadi Santoso

“…These factors included the short-term interest rate, consumer price index, industrial production index, exchange rate, BI rate, stock price index, foreign exchange reserves, the Fed rate, the world oil price and US bond yields. …”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a theory of planned behavior model-based instrument for evaluation of determinants of oral health behaviors in mothers of children younge... by Rusul Abdulameer Hadi Al-Sarray, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Muhammad Alzubidi, Mahdia Gholami, Simin Z. Mohebbi

“…In terms of construct validity, the results were as follows: the Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) was 0.942, the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) was 0.900, the Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) was 0.921, and the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) was 0.046. …”
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Assessing the Economic Burden and Health Care Utilizations of U.S. Veteran Patients with Schizophrenia by Lin Xie, M. Furaha Kariburyo, Juan Du, Yuexi Wang

“…Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were identified, and the initial diagnosis date was designated as the index date. A group of patients without schizophrenia of the same age, region, gender and index year were identified and matched by baseline Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) score, as the comparison group. …”
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Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping by Sean Fox, Felix Agyemang, Laurence Hawker, Jeffrey Neal

“…The index provides estimates of relative risk within or between countries and changes how we understand the geography of risk by identifying ‘hotspots’ characterised by high population density and high levels of social vulnerability. …”
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An In-depth Analysis of Rendered Models using Blender : A Research Result by Oluwafunmilayo Raheem, Bourdillon Omijeh, Chinagorom Ibeachu

“…To evaluate the efficiency of the virtual reality system we compared the web application with other existing web applications using parameters such as Accuracy, Precision, Jaccard index, Dice co-efficient, Processing time, and user rating. …”
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Short-term and long-term revision rates after lumbar spine discectomy versus laminectomy: a population-based cohort study by Yao-Chun Hsu, Feng-Chen Kao, Chang-Bi Wang, Yuan-Kun Tu, Pao-Hsin Liu

“…This difference persisted over the first year following the index surgery (3.38% vs 2.57%). One year afterwards, the revision rates were similar between the discectomy (9.75%) and laminectomy (9.69%) groups. …”
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Role of the CHADS-VASc score in predicting hospital stay and 90-day readmission among patients with atrial fibrillation in Syria by Ibrahim Antoun, Alamer Alkhayer, Alkassem Alkhayer, Yaman Mahfoud, Ahmed Kotb, Riyaz Somani, G André Ng, Mustafa Zakkar

“…Methods This retrospective cohort study included patients with index admission for AF to Latakia’s tertiary center (May 2021–November 2023). …”
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Comparison of time-to-event machine learning models in predicting biliary complication and mortality rate in liver transplant patients by Aref Andishgar, Sina Bazmi, Kamran B. Lankarani, Seyed Alireza Taghavi, Mohammad Hadi Imanieh, Gholamreza Sivandzadeh, Samira Saeian, Nazanin Dadashpour, Alireza Shamsaeefar, Mahdi Ravankhah, Hamed Nikoupour Deylami, Reza Tabrizi, Mohammad Hossein Imanieh

“…RSF with Ridge achieved the highest performance (C-index: 0.699) for BC prediction, while RSF with RSF had the highest performance (C-index: 0.784) for mortality prediction. …”
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Study on needle anatomical structure and drought resistance of 15 spruce species by ZHAO Li, BAO Xiulan, WANG Fude, FU Sheng, LIU Lijie, HUO Kaiyu

“…The mesophyll had no differentiation of palisade tissue and spongy tissue. (2) There were significant differences in different indexes of the anatomical structure of the needles among the 15 spruce species. …”
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Research productivity and gender of research award recipients in international ophthalmology societies by Albert Y Wu, Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Dipti Satvi Venkatesh, Ankita Biyani, Sanyam Ratan, Gun Min Youn

“…The main outcome measures were gender distribution of award recipients per year, mean h-index per year, mean m-quotient per year, mean h-index by society, and mean m-quotient by society.Results Out of 2506 recipients for 122 awards, 1897 (75.7%) were men and 609 (24.3%) were women. …”
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Evaluating different drought products for assessing drought and implications on agriculture in Nepal by Shishir Chaulagain, Manoj Lamichhane, Urusha Chaulagain, Sushant Gyawali, Sadina Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad Pandey

“…By utilizing Soil Water Deficit Index (SWDI) alongside Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and Standardized Flow Index (SFI), this research highlights the complex progression from meteorological to agricultural and hydrological droughts. …”
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Assessment of forest soil contamination by heavy metals in the Polish National Park near Warsaw by Aneta Łukaszek-Chmielewska, Joanna Rakowska, Marzena Rachwał, Olga Stawarz

“…The soil quality assessment was conducted by calculating indicators of contamination including the geo-accumulation index, contamination factor, degree of contamination, ecological risk of individual heavy metals and potential ecological risk index. …”
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Monocyte Chemiluminescence Traits in Gastric Cancer by O. V. Smirnova, A. A. Sinyakov, V. V. Tsukanov

“…Opsonized zymosan-induced chemiluminescence enhancement was measured as a ratio of the areas under the induced vs. spontaneous chemiluminescence curves, the activation index. Statistical significance was estimated with the Mann—Whitney criterion (p < 0.05).Results. …”
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Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas by A. Kashyap, K. L. Cook, M. D. Behera

“…To determine how the lower–middle reaches of the upper Indus River responded to this flood event, we employed the enhanced vegetation index (EVI) and the normalized difference water index (NDWI) as change indicator metrics. …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…The earliest ASCVD diagnosis date was identified as the index date. Qualified patients were ≥18 years of age and had ≥12 months of health plan enrollment before and after the index date. …”
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