Association between Obesity, Serum Lipids, and Colorectal Polyps in Old Chinese People by Wen Yang, Yan Chang, Haiyan Huang, Yuzhu Wang, Xiaohong Yu

“…The aim of our study was to examine the association of body mass index (BMI) and serum lipids with the colorectal polyps in old Chinese people. …”
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A Case of Early Disseminated Neurological Lyme Disease Followed by Atypical Cutaneous Manifestations by Vamsi Kantamaneni, Vikas Sunder, Mohammad Bilal, Scott Vargo

“…There should be a high index of suspicion for early disseminated LD, as presentations can be atypical.…”
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Increased Kappa/Lambda Hybrid Antibody in Serum Is a Novel Biomarker Related to Disease Activity and Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Lang Yi, Mingju Hao, Tian Lu, Guigao Lin, Lida Chen, Ming Gao, Gaowei Fan, Dong Zhang, Guojing Wang, Xin Yang, Yulong Li, Kuo Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yanxi Han, Lunan Wang, Jinming Li

“…Serum κ/λ hybrid antibody levels were significantly correlated with clinical indexes and inflammatory markers in RA. Further analysis showed a positive correlation between κ/λ hybrid antibody levels and the 28-joint disease activity score (DAS28). …”
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The Burden of NAFLD and Its Characteristics in a Nationwide Population with Type 2 Diabetes by Gabriele Forlani, Carlo Giorda, Roberta Manti, Natalia Mazzella, Salvatore De Cosmo, Maria Chiara Rossi, Antonio Nicolucci, Paolo Di Bartolo, Antonio Ceriello, Pietro Guida, AMD-Annals Study Group

“…After exclusion of 5967 cases (high or uncertain alcohol intake), in 38,880 the Fatty Liver Index (FLI) was used as a proxy for the diagnosis of NAFLD. …”
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Alcohol Consumption Is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Chinese Patients with T2DM by Shanshan Yang, Shuang Wang, Bo Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Yuping Cai, Zhengguo Yang

“…Additionally, after adjusting for age, gender, region, occupation, smoking status, body mass index, weight change, and duration of diabetes, the OR of peripheral artery disease after >20 years of alcohol consumption was 3.48 (95% CI: 1.09–11.15). …”
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Comprehensive evaluation of seasonal forecasts from NMME and statistical models over the Blue Nile Basin and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) watershed by Mekonnen Gebremichael, Yu-Chuan Tien, Vahid Nourani

“…A simple statistical model, which uses June-July-August forecasts and Indian Dipole Mode Index (DMI) observations from the prior September-October-November as predictors, outperforms the dynamic NMME models in many performance metrics. …”
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Integration of Andrographis paniculata as Potential Medicinal Plant in Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) Plantation of North-Western Himalaya by Chandra Shekher Sanwal, Raj Kumar, S. D. Bhardwaj

“…The growth parameters, namely, plant height and number of branches per plant, were recorded as significantly higher on western aspect and lowest on northern aspect except for leaf area index which was found nonsignificant. However under all tillage practices all the growth parameters in both understorey and open conditions were found to be nonsignificant except for plant height which was found to be significantly highest under deep tillage and lowest under minimum tillage. …”
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Seasonal Abundance and Host-Feeding Patterns of Anopheline Vectors in Malaria Endemic Area of Iran by Hamidreza Basseri, Ahmad Raeisi, Mansoor Ranjbar Khakha, Abaas Pakarai, Hassanzehi Abdolghafar

“…The overall human blood index was 37.50%, 19.83%, 16.4%, and 30.1% for An. fluviatilis, An. stephensi, An. culicifacies, and An. d'thali, respectively. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Change Monitoring of Drought Grade Based on ERA5 Analysis Data and BFAST Method in the Belt and Road Area during 1989–2017 by Changdi Xue, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Jiang

“…In this study, the ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis data were used, and the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index was combined with Breaks for Additive Seasonal and Trend (BFAST) to study the temporal and spatial distribution of the 1989–2017 monthly scale of drought in different climate regions of the Belt and Road region. …”
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Study on strength properties of lightweight foamed composite with 0.6% volume fraction treated kenaf fibre by Chong Hao Yee Richmond, Lim Siong Kang, Yew Ming Kun, Lim Jee Hock

“…By the 28-day mark, the compressive strength of LFC-TKF 0.6 showed a moderate improvement of 4%, while the flexural and splitting tensile strengths significantly increased by 56% and 62%, respectively, compared to LFC-Control. A performance index evaluation emphasizes the contribution of TKF in enhancing LFC's mechanical strength at the same densities. …”
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Green Supplier Selection for Process Industries Using Weighted Grey Incidence Decision Model by Jing Quan, Bo Zeng, Dai Liu

“…First, an overall green supplier selection index system for process industries is considered; then a weighted grey incidence decision-making model with improved grey incidence coefficients and weighted degree of grey incidence is provided. …”
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Benchmark dataset on feeding intensity of the pearl gentian grouper(Epinephelus fuscoguttatus♀×E. lanceolatus♂) by Haijing Qin, Yunchen Tian, Jianing Quan, Xueqi Cong, Qingfei Li, Jinzhu Sui

“…In order to solve these problems, this study constructs a benchmark dataset of the feeding intensity of pearl gentian groupers in a factory circulating water environment, which is divided into feeding fish groups and fish aggregation areas by training Unet semantic segmentation network and compares standard clustering algorithms through clustering evaluation indexes to maximally select the optimal clustering method and the number of clusters that are suitable for this paper's dataset. …”
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Assessment of Gap between Knowledge and Practices among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients at a Tertiary-Care Hospital in Bangladesh by Farzana Saleh, Ferdous Ara, Fadia Afnan

“…The study therefore assessed the association between knowledge and practices in terms of Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC) among 500 diagnosed T2 DM using a cross-sectional design. …”
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Safety Assessment of Ancient Buildings under Adjacent Subway Blasting Construction Based on the Optimized Fuzzy Optimal Method by Bo Wu, Pingting Liu, Wei Huang, Guowang Meng

“…To analyze the structural safety of ancient buildings under blasting vibration and to protect the precious ancient buildings, a risk assessment model of ancient buildings with 20 relevant assessment indexes was initiatively built in this study. To be specific, the relative factors of blasting, the factors of ancient buildings, and other factors (e.g., religion) were comprehensively considered in the model. …”
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Dynamic Contagion of Systemic Risks on Global Main Equity Markets Based on Granger Causality Networks by Qiuhong Zheng, Liangrong Song

“…A total of 156 Granger causal networks of stock markets are constructed by using the Granger causality test and time series sliding window based on stock index data of 34 major stock markets in the world from 2004 to 2017. …”
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The Investigation of a Method to Improve Static Stiffness of Automobile Body Use Eigenvalue Decomposition of the stiffness matrix. by Akira SATOMURA, Kohei FURUYA, Shinichi MARUYAMA, Shinji NISHIWAKI

“…However, when designing the mutual average compliance defined by the sum of the weights of displacements including displacements other than the external force acting point, it is difficult to derive a design plan because the strain energy, which is a general rigidity index, is not proportional to the mutual average compliance. …”
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The Relation between Obesity and Survival after Surgical Resection of Hepatitis C Virus-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Hiroki Nishikawa, Akira Arimoto, Tomoko Wakasa, Ryuichi Kita, Toru Kimura, Yukio Osaki

“…They included 60 patients (25.8%) with a body mass index (BMI) of > 25 kg/m2 (obesity group) and 173 patients with a BMI of < 25 kg/m2 (control group). …”
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Nanomodification analysis of pore structure in GO-enhanced CWRB based on metal intrusion and BSE imaging with deep learning by Jiajian Yu, Yi Gong, Yuan Gao, Hao Sui, Xiaoli Xu, Yanming Liu

“…The reinforcing effects of GO tend to be more efficient under a low Talbot grading index. The proposed BSE characterization combined with the deep learning-based approach can achieve up to 91 % recognition accuracy to identify the GO-reinforced specimens. …”
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Countermeasures to Decrease Water Cut and Increase Oil Recovery from High Water Cut, Narrow-Channel Reservoirs in Bohai Sea by Gaocheng Feng, Yuhui Zhou, Weiying Yao, Lingtong Liu, Zhao Feng, Yanjun Yi, Yi Feng

“…Herein, three optimization strategies were developed based on the proposed development mode: a seepage field optimization strategy was developed based on the quantified injection-production index; a well pattern optimization strategy for narrow-channel reservoirs was developed to overcome the production energy refueling problem; an injection-production measure optimization strategy was developed to tap the different types of remaining oil. …”
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The Stigma and Self-Stigma Scales for attitudes to mental health problems: Psychometric properties and its relationship to mental health problems and absenteeism. by Alys E. Docksey, Nicola S. Gray, Helen B. Davies, Nicola Simkiss, Robert J. Snowden

“…The Stigma and Self-Stigma scales (SASS) measure multiple aspects of stigmatic beliefs about mental health problems, including cognitive aspects of stigma towards others (Stigma to Others) and emotional stigma toward others (Social Distance), anticipated stigma by others, self-stigma, avoidant coping strategies, and help-seeking intentions, alongside an index of social desirability. The properties of the SASS were investigated by employees of a large UK government organization. …”
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