A Volume Challenge Reveals the Diagnosis of Pediatric Restrictive Cardiomyopathy by Elyssa Cohen, Conor P. O’Halloran, Philip T. Thrush, T. Marsha Ma, Paul Tannous

“…Baseline invasive hemodynamics demonstrated a normal cardiac index and pulmonary vascular resistance but was notable for mildly elevated right and left end-diastolic pressures. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Human Activities on Water Quality Parameters of River Kiruruma in Kabale District. by Tugume, Alex

“…The mean values of water Temperature, pH, Alkalinity, Acidity, Total hardness, Sulphate, Chloride, TDS, and phosphorus were found to be 28.36° C, 6.25, 275.63ppm, 19.75ppm, 259.29ppm, 70.74ppm, 534.63ppm, 778.83ppm & 0.904ppm, respectively. Water Quality Index (WQI) values were found to be 99.92, which indicates that the water quality is not good.…”
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A Survey of Avian Fauna in Kabale Municipality, South Western Uganda by Sarah, Nachuha, Fortunate, Twagiramaria

“…Birds were categorized into families and the Shannon–Weaver (H') diversity index and the abundance of all the species was calculated. …”
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Evaluation of oral health status in patients with type 2 diabetes by Tahmineh Khoshbakhti, Vajehallah Raeesi, Gholamreza Sharifzadeh, Leili Alizadeh

“…The mean score of dry mouth and DMFT indexes were 3.38±2.64, 2.17±1.09 and 19.33±9.54, 15.48±6.93 in the case and control groups respectively. …”
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Psychological discomfort in carriers and non-carriers of the Huntington disease mutation and its relationship with disease burden by Y. Rodríguez-Agudelo, M. Chávez-Oliveros, A. Ochoa-Morales, L. Martínez-Ruano, A. Camacho-Molina, F. Paz-Rodríguez

“…The correlations between disease burden and psychological distress occur in the domains; obsessions and compulsions, interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, global severity index and positive somatic distress index. A low correlation is observed between the burden of disease and the scores obtained in psychological discomfort. …”
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Heavy metals in sediments and fishery catches from the Beibu Gulf, China: Bioaccumulation, potential risks, and human by Zhao Shuwen, Huang Liangliang, Wang Caiguang, Yang Yiheng, Yang Xi

“…The contents of studied HMs reached China’s national first-class benchmark of marine sediment quality. The ecological risk index (RI) of HMs from surface sediments ranged from 17.77 to 133.88, with a mean value of 56.45, which portrayed minor potential.…”
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Flt3/Flt3L Participates in the Process of Regulating Dendritic Cells and Regulatory T Cells in DSS-Induced Colitis by Jing-Wei Mao, Yu-Shuang Huang, Hai-Ying Tang, Jian Bi, Yan-Fei Liu, Ying-De Wang

“…In this study, we observe the disease activity index (DAI) and histological scoring, detect the amounts of DCs and T-regs and expression of Flt3/Flt3L, and investigate Flt3/Flt3L participating in the process of DCs regulating T-regs in DSS-induced colitis. …”
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A Novel Complementary Method for the Point-Scan Nondestructive Tests Based on Lamb Waves by Rahim Gorgin, Zhanjun Wu, Yuebin Zheng

“…Subsequently, a damage presence probability index (DPPI) based on the energy of captured responses was defined for each area. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Return and Volatility Nexus among Cryptocurrency Market by Xin Sui, Guifen Shi, Guanchong Hou, Shaohan Huang, Yanshuang Li

“…In this context, combining the spillover index method introduced by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) and the complex network analysis framework, we examined the volatility connectedness and the topological structure among the top ten cryptocurrencies before and during the COVID-19 crisis. …”
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A-priori multi-objective optimization for the short-term dispatch of distributed energy resources by G. Carpinelli, A.R. Di Fazio, S. Perna, A. Russo, M. Russo

“…In order to exploit the flexibility provided by distributed energy resources (DERs), a multi-objective optimization (MOO) approach is proposed to minimize the bus voltage deviations, the network losses, and the current security index. Effective linear power flow equations are included into both the objective functions and the inequality constraints of the MOO model, thus yielding benefits in terms of reduced model dimension and computational complexity. …”
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Volatility spillovers and conditional correlations between oil, renewables and stock markets: A multivariate GARCH-in-mean analysis by Wenxue Wang, Peter G. Moffatt, Zheng Zhang, Muhammad Yousaf Raza

“…We investigate linkages between three different markets: renewable energy (represented by a range of renewable energy ETFs); traditional energy (represented by crude oil ETF); and common stocks (represented by the S&P 500 Index ETF). We use daily data from 2008 to 2021. …”
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Lateral Change Detection of Ghezlozan River Channel from 1993 to 2013 by fariba Esfandiary Darabad, Masoud Rahimi, khodadad lotfy, ebadi elhameh

“…Also, in this study, sinusoidal index was used to study the shape of the duct flat, based on which there are 15 sinusoidal transects.…”
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Original Approach for Automated Quantification of Antinuclear Autoantibodies by Indirect Immunofluorescence by Daniel Bertin, Noémie Jourde-Chiche, Pierre Bongrand, Nathalie Bardin

“…For the discrimination of positive and negative samples, we propose here an original approach named Immunofluorescence for Computed Antinuclear antibody Rational Evaluation (ICARE) based on the calculation of a fluorescence index (FI). Methods. We made comparison between FI and visual evaluations on 237 consecutive samples and on a cohort of 25 patients with SLE. …”
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Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla’s ups and downs in financialised capitalism by Tobias Klinge, Stefan Ouma, Reijer Hendrikse

“…Among these, meticulously maintained narratives, boosted by social media, attracted dedicated followers, while the rise of new retail trading platforms and excitement around Tesla’s index inclusion helped in producing its stock ‘mementum’. …”
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Impact of Land Use Change on the Local Climate over the Tibetan Plateau by Jiming Jin, Shihua Lu, Suosuo Li, Norman L. Miller

“…Observational data show that the remotely sensed leaf area index (LAI) has a significant downward trend over the east Tibetan Plateau (TP), while a warming trend is found in the same area. …”
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Experimental Investigation into Limit Void Ratio Characteristics of Calcareous Sands considering Various Factors by Baojian Li, Gang Lei, Panpan Guo, Gaoyun Zhou, Zhe Wang, Xiaonan Gong

“…Relative density is an important index affecting the mechanical behaviors of calcareous sands. …”
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Predicting Tunnel Squeezing Using Multiclass Support Vector Machines by Yang Sun, Xianda Feng, Lingqiang Yang

“…This study presents a modified application of a multiclass support vector machine (SVM) to predict tunnel squeezing based on four parameters, that is, diameter (D), buried depth (H), support stiffness (K), and rock tunneling quality index (Q). We compiled a database from the literature, including 117 case histories obtained from different countries such as India, Nepal, and Bhutan, to train the multiclass SVM model. …”
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Prurigo Pigmentosa: A Clinicopathological Report of Three Middle Eastern Patients by N. Almaani, A. H. Al-Tarawneh, H. Msallam

“…In view of the largely nonspecific clinical and histological features, a high index of suspicion is required as many cases of prurigo pigmentosa are probably undiagnosed.…”
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Banana Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composites: Mechanical Properties and Fire Retardancy by Tuan Anh Nguyen, Thi Huong Nguyen

“….% banana fiber gives a limiting oxygen index of 20.8% and satisfactory thermal stability.…”
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The Dynamics of Labor Income Share in an Era of Robotic Automation: A Panel Data Analysis in High-Level Automation Countries by Erkişi Kemal, Çetin Melike

“…Focusing on China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the United States – countries responsible for 79.2% of global industrial robotic installations from 2010 to 2023 – our analysis employs key variables such as labor income share, annual industrial robot installations, gross fixed capital formation, researchers in research and development, human capital index, and trade of goods and services. Estimations using Arellano-Bond, Generalized Estimating Equations, Driscoll-Kraay, and Arellano-Froot-Rogers methods reveal a consistent negative association between labor income share and robotic capital. …”
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