Neckties and Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Young Healthy Males: A Pilot Randomised Crossover Trial by Mark Rafferty, Terence J. Quinn, Jesse Dawson, Matthew Walters

“…Reactivity was calculated using breath hold index (BHI) and paired “t” testing used for comparative analysis. …”
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Formes et fonctions de la « donnée » dans trois webs environnementaux sud-américains (Argentine, Bolivie, Brésil) by Pierre Gautreau, Marta Severo, Timothée Giraud, Matthieu Noucher

“…In order to maintain its centrality in the circulation of information, its strategies range from the indexing of public and private data to digital “soft power” actions through dissemination of reference datasets.…”
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Lactobacillus fermentum B153 from human colostrum modulates intestinal immunity and gut microbiota in obese mice model by Juqing Huang, Xiaohui Cai, Xiaoyan Liu, Gongti Lai, Xuefang Guan, Bingyan Chen, Qi Wang

“…The results indicate that treatment with L. fermentum B153 significantly decreased the perirenal adipose index and increased the villus height to crypt depth (V/C) ratio in both the ileum and jejunum of obese mice. …”
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Environmental problems indicator under environmental modeling toward sustainable development by P. Sutthichaimethee, W. Tanoamchard, P. Sawangwong, P Pachana, N. Witit-Anun

“…Overall, the lowest environmental cost for all categories, except Natural Resource Materials, was for petroleum and refineries. Based on the cost index, coconut farming gained the highest Real Benefit to the farm owner, while pipelines and gas distribution had the lowest Real Benefit. …”
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A Practical and Economical Ultra-wideband Base Station Placement Approach for Indoor Autonomous Driving Systems by Shengchuan Jiang, Cong Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Chenwei Wang, Yuchuan Du

“…The adopted positioning method of a UWB system is the time difference of arrival (TDOA), and the evaluation index of positioning accuracy is the horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP). …”
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State of health estimation of individual batteries through incremental curve analysis under parameter uncertainty by Yue Zhao, Qian Li, Xiaohui Li, Ge Zhang, Hang Shi, Qinghua Li

“…Specifically, various Health Index sets (HIs) reflecting Incremental Capacity morphological features are extracted from the charging curves of LIBs. …”
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On Determinants of Exchange Market Pressure in Turkey: The Role of Model Uncertainty by Gülden Poyraz, Ahmet İncekara

“…To this end, the determinants of the exchange market pressure index (EMPI) in Turkey for the period of 2010M1-2020M3 are identified using the Bayesian model averaging which takes into account the role of model uncertainty. …”
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Research on the Simulation Application of Data Mining in Urban Spatial Structure by Jun Zhang, Xin Sui, Xiong He

“…Through kernel density analysis and spatial correlation index, the distribution and aggregation characteristics of different types of POI data in urban space were analyzed and the spatial analysis and correlation characteristics among different functional centers of the city were obtained. …”
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On the Eccentric Connectivity Polynomial of ℱ-Sum of Connected Graphs by Muhammad Imran, Shehnaz Akhter, Zahid Iqbal

“…The eccentric connectivity index (ECI) can also be acquired from ξcG,y by taking its first derivatives at y=1. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Statins by V. V. Genkel, I. I. Shaposhnik

“…According to the results of clinical studies, atorvastatin administration to IBD patients resulted in a statistically significant decrease in the serum markers of inflammation and the activity index of ulcerative colitis. Retrospective clinical studies demonstrated different effects of statins on the risk of IBD.Conclusions. …”
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Non-hierarchic document clustering by Gareth Jones, Alexander M. Robertson, Chawchat Santimetvirul, Peter Willett

“…There have been many attempts over the years to use such procedures for the organisation of document databases, so that documents with large numbers of index terms in common are grouped together. In this paper, we consider the use of a genetic algorithm, henceforth a GA, for document clustering. …”
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Identifying, Evaluating and Ranking Effective Factors in Improving the Quality of War Tourism in Iran (Rahyan Noor Travels) by Mohammad Ghasemi, Mohammad Mehdi Mohtadi

“…Findings: According to the results, optimizing camp time has been selected as the first and most crucial factor, with a relative proximity index of 0.53467. Originality/Value: Optimizing the duration of the camps leads to the appropriate timing of these camps by carefully examining the dispatched groups; the first important step in improving the quality of these camps can be taken according to the desired criteria.…”
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Faecalibacterium longum alleviates high-fat diet-induced obesity and protects the intestinal epithelial barrier in mice by Haoyu Wang, Shengnan Yu, Kunyi Zhao, Tongyuan Hu, Zhinan Wu, Hewei Liang, Xiaoqian Lin, Luwen Cui, Jingtong Yao, Xiaomin Liu, Xin Tong, Ningning He, Liang Xiao, Karsten Kristiansen, Shangyong Li, Yuanqiang Zou

“…Here we show that Faecalibacterium longum CM04–06 out of 29 strains of the Faecalibacterium genus annotated in CGR2 exhibited the strongest inverse correlation with body mass index (BMI) in a cohort of 1120 han Chinese individuals. …”
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A Study on the Measurement and Influencing Factors of Innovation Governance Performance of Hubei Province in China Based on Technology Heterogeneity by Zelei Xiao, Ye Wang, Lin Yu, Qi Xiong, Hua Jiang

“…Based on the existing efficiency measurement methods, this study measures the innovation efficiency performance and subsequently the innovation performance by using the optimized Färe-Primont index for a sample of 28 manufacturing industries in Hubei. …”
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Modeling and assessment of new urbanist principles in center neighborhoods in Kashan by Mohsen Shaterian, yones gholami, azam nazari

“…The principles of modernism in town, the stand by weight of the total facade nodal regression 0.98 has most effective and the index of participation due to lack of poll officials on matters related to the principles of new urbanism is a minimal role in the neighborhood.…”
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Surface Organic Modification of TiO2 Powder and Relevant Characterization by Hong Zhou, Sijia Sun, Hao Ding

“…Then, modification effects were characterized according to the changes in wetting contact angle and activation index of TiO2 before and after modification. Moreover, the modification mechanisms of sodium stearate and sodium oleate were studied by analyzing the characteristics of TiO2 surface functional groups in modification system and effects of modifiers. …”
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Modelling of the Annual Mean Urban Heat Island Pattern for Planning of Representative Urban Climate Station Network by János Unger, Stevan Savić, Tamás Gál

“…A Landsat satellite image (from June 2006) was used in order to evaluate normalized difference vegetation index and built-up ratio by cells. The pattern of the obtained UHI intensity values show concentric-like shapes when drawn as isotherms, mostly increase from the suburbs towards the inner urban areas. …”
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Chemical Composition, Antibacterial Test, and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oils from Fresh and Dried Stropharia rugosoannulata by Lei Wei, Wei Wang, Yueying Hou, Xiaoyang Xie, Xiao Li, Fei Chen, Zhiyao Wang, Yong Zhou, Feifei Li, Bingnian Jing

“…The essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with Kovats retention index. The oils’ antibacterial test was evaluated by the microdilution method against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and antioxidant activity was determined through DPPH radical scavenging activity and ferric reducing power. …”
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A Quantitative Method to Delineate the Influence Area of Work Zone Considering Route Choice Inertia and Elastic Demand by Guanfeng Wang, Hongfei Jia, Jingjing Tian, Yu Lin, Ruiyi Wu, Zhendong Liu, Heyao Gao

“…To address this issue, the node synthesized indexes (NSI) are deployed as a variability measure that captures both the change of link flow and origin-destination (OD) demand. …”
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MICROBIAL AIR POLLUTION IN THE DENTAL CENTER OF A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY by Ada Romero Coasaca, Raúl Castro Yanahida, Mariela Ladera Nieto, d Hillsman Ángeles Zorrilla, Diego Ángeles Romero

“…The samples were collected in five moments during the period from August to November in the 2017 year, outcomes were expressed in CFU/plate/hour and the Index of Microbial Air contamination (IMA) level was established. …”
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