Short Stature Homeobox-Containing Haploinsufficiency in Seven Siblings with Short Stature by Elizabeth S. Sandberg, Ali S. Calikoglu, Karen J. Loechner, Lydia L. Snyder

“…Here, we report 7 siblings with SHOX deficiency due to a point mutation in the SHOX gene. Index case was a 3-year-old male who presented for evaluation of short stature. …”
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Accessibility Assessment of Prehospital Emergency Medical Services considering Supply-Demand Differences by Zhaoqing Shen, Ge Gao, Zhen Wang

“…The needs of typical population densities are taken into account and adjusted by the weighting index. The validity of the model is verified, with the prehospital emergency medical service in the West Coast New District of Qingdao as an example. …”
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PM10 AIR POLLUTION IN MASHAD CITY USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND MAKOV CHAIN MODEL

“…The best MLP artificial neural network model predicted the amount of pollutant particles with a coefficient of determination (R2) 0.88, index of agreement of  0.91 and a mean square error of  2.26. …”
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Respiratory Motion Compensation Using Diaphragm Tracking for Cone-Beam C-Arm CT: A Simulation and a Phantom Study by Marco Bögel, Hannes G. Hofmann, Joachim Hornegger, Rebecca Fahrig, Stefan Britzen, Andreas Maier

“…We observed an improvement of about 14% using the structural similarity index. In a real phantom study, using the artiCHEST phantom, we investigated the visibility of bronchial tubes in a porcine lung. …”
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The immunity-promoting activity of porcine placenta in mice as an immunomodulator for functional foods by Zhiwei Zhou, Dan Wang, Wei Liu, Lang He, Pengkuan Liang, Junli Hao, Qun Sun

“…Mice model experiment revealed that compared with the control, the PPH treatment significantly improved the spleen index (P < 0.05) by increasing the phagocytic rate of macrophages from 20 % to 60 % and the conversion rate of T lymphocytes from 8 % to 60 %. …”
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A Pediatric Patient with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Comorbid Depression and Substance Abuse by Caitlin E. Leconte, Joshua W. Ng, Ann M. Manzardo, Mitchell M. Douglass

“…Patient presented with apnea–hypopnea index greater than 50 and started on bilevel-positive airway pressure (BiPAP) prior to admission. …”
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Prevalence of dental caries among different stage students in College of Dentistry, Hawler Medical University. by Mahmood Fawzi Abdul‐Jabbar, Blend Hussein Mohammad, Mansour Hadi Mohammad

“…Methods: 148 were collected, and the DMFT index scored for them. From which 62 of them were males and 86 females. …”
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Emergency Sonography Aids Diagnostic Accuracy of Torso Injuries: A Study in a Resource Limited Setting by Charles Edward Tunuka, Robert Wangoda, Sam Bugeza, Moses Galukande

“…This study compares EFAST (the index test) with the routine standard of care (SoC) investigations (the standard reference test) for torso trauma injuries. …”
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An Extended FMEA Model for Exploring the Potential Failure Modes: A Case Study of a Steam Turbine for a Nuclear Power Plant by Huai-Wei Lo, James J. H. Liou, Jen-Jen Yang, Chun-Nen Huang, Yu-Hsuan Lu

“…The original risk priority number (RPN) can be expanded by including the entropy weights in the risk index. Furthermore, to rank the risk priorities in a rational manner, a modified technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (modified TOPSIS) is adopted. …”
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Exposure to Volatile Essential Oils of Myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) Leaves for Improving the Postharvest Storability of Fresh Loquat Fruits by Nadire Pelin Bahadırlı, İbrahim Kahramanoğlu, Chunpeng Wan

“…Exposure to myrtle leaves (3% w/w) and myrtle leaf vapor (2 min) was also noted to provide higher efficacy for reducing the weight loss, decay incidence, and browning index.…”
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A comprehensive dataset of above-ground forest biomass from field observations, machine learning and topographically augmented allometric models over the Kashmir HimalayaZenodo by Syed Danish Rafiq Kashani, Faisal Zahoor Jan, Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, Nadeem Ahmad Najar, Irfan Rashid

“…Additionally, newly developed species-specific allometric models, improved through the integration of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and topographical augmentation are provided to improve AGB estimation accuracy. …”
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Motor Cortex Plasticity during Unilateral Finger Movement with Mirror Visual Feedback by Hatice Kumru, Sergiu Albu, Raul Pelayo, John Rothwell, Eloy Opisso, Daniel Leon, Dolor Soler, Josep Maria Tormos

“…In addition, MVF induced cortical disinhibition of the ipsilateral hemisphere to the index finger performing the motor task, which was greater when compared to the BVF and restricted to the homologue first dorsal interosseous muscle. …”
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Intelligence and obesity during the obesity epidemic by Rebecca B. Clarke, Gunhild T. Okholm, Erik L. Mortensen, Merete Osler, Cathrine L. Wimmelmann, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

“…Abstract Several studies conducted during the last 50 years have shown that lower intelligence is associated with a higher body mass index (BMI). During this period, the prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased considerably. …”
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Integration of Kinetic Analysis of Reaction Curve with a Proper Classical Approach for Enzymatic Analysis by Xiaolan Yang, Gaobo Long, Hairong Jiang, Pu Liao, Fei Liao

“…To quantify an enzyme after optimizations of initial substrate concentration and reaction duration, the classical initial rate method works when an estimated initial rate locates within the linear range; otherwise, kinetic analysis of reaction curve applies after the conversion of the quantification index with optimized parameters. This integration strategy has ideal linear ranges and practical efficiency for quantifying an enzyme at moderate substrate levels and for quantifying a substrate at moderate cost on tool enzyme; it has promise to simultaneous assays of multiple enzymes in one reaction vessel each time and ,thus, potential applications to concurrently quantify multiple serum enzymes, screen inhibitors against multiple enzyme targets, and detect multiple serum components by enzymeimmunoassay.…”
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A novel scoring system proposal to guide treatment of dogs with hepatoid gland tumors by Lorella Maniscalco, Matteo Olimpo, Lorenza Parisi, Paolo Buracco, Eugenio Mazzone, Greta Martinelli, Marina Martano, Selina Iussich, Emanuela Morello

“…The evaluation of the Ki67 index was not useful to predict prognosis in this study.…”
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Lauric Acid-Modified Nitraria Seed Meal Composite as Green Carrier Material for Pesticide Controlled Release by Bo Bai, Xiaohui Xu, Jingjie Hai, Na Hu, Honglun Wang, Yourui Suo

“…Deltamethrin (DEL), a representative insoluble pyrethroid insecticide in water, was deliberately selected as the index pesticide to evaluate the loading and releasing efficiency of LA-NSM. …”
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Emergence of Warm Inflation in Curved Space-Time between Accelerating Branes by Aroonkumar Beesham

“…According to experimental data, the N≃50 case leads to ns≃0.96, where N and ns are the number of e-folds and the spectral index, respectively. This standard case may be found in the range 0.01<Rtensor‐scalar<0.22, where Rtensor‐scalar is the tensor-scalar ratio. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Overweight and Obesity among Somalis in Norway and Somaliland: A Comparative Study by Soheir H. Ahmed, Haakon E. Meyer, Marte K. Kjøllesdal, Ahmed A. Madar

“…The prevalence of obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2) was 44% and 31% in women in Norway and Somaliland, respectively. …”
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Efficacy of Topical Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy in the Treatment of Experimental Dry Eye Syndrome Model by Emrullah Beyazyıldız, Ferda Alpaslan Pınarlı, Özlem Beyazyıldız, Emine Rümeysa Hekimoğlu, Uğur Acar, Muhammed Necati Demir, Aynur Albayrak, Figen Kaymaz, Güngör Sobacı, Tuncay Delibaşı

“…Schirmer test, break-up time score, ocular surface evaluation tests, and corneal inflammatory index scoring tests were applied to all rats at baseline and after treatment. …”
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Poverty and its Alleviating Strategies among Rural Farming Households in Benue State, Nigeria by Samuel Upev, Amurtiya Michael, Shuaibu Mshelia, Justice Onu

“…Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measurement index, and the Binary Logistic regression model. …”
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