Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Characteristics of University Students in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Elena Hadjimbei, George Botsaris, Vassilis Gekas, Andrie G. Panayiotou

“…Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was evaluated using the validated KIDMED index. BMI was estimated based on weight and height measurements. …”
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Serum Activins and Follistatin during the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Genotypes 1 and 4 and Their Correlations with Viral Load and Liver Enzymes: A Preliminary Report by Bassem Refaat, Adel Galal El-Shemi, Ahmed Mohamed Ashshi, Adnan AlZanbagi

“…Serum candidate proteins were measured using ELISA and liver fibrosis was assessed by AST platelet ratio index (APRI). Results. CHC significantly increased activins and decreased follistatin compared to negative control (P<0.05). …”
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Multivariate CNN-LSTM Model for Multiple Parallel Financial Time-Series Prediction by Harya Widiputra, Adele Mailangkay, Elliana Gautama

“…At the macroeconomic level, the movement of the stock market index, which is determined by the moves of other stock market indices around the world or in that region, is one of the primary factors in assessing the global economic and financial situation, making it a critical topic to monitor over time. …”
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Digital Camouflage Pattern Design Based on the Biased Random Walk by Yuanying Gan, Chuntong Liu, Zhenxin He, Hongcai Li, Zhongye Liu

“…The quantitative analysis results show that the mean heart rate of the digital camouflage pattern based on multiscene design is at least 31.0% higher than that of the original background segmentation texture, and the standard deviation index of equivalent diameter is increased by 14.9% on average. …”
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Osmopriming duration in Araçá-boi seeds germination by Marcela Liege da Silva, Edvan Alves Chagas, Elias Ariel de Moura, Pollyana Cardoso Chagas, Oscar José Smiderle, Rosemary Vilaça Vilaça

“…Throughout of 70 days were evaluated the germination percentage and germination rate (index). The experiment is based on a completely randomized in a factorial analysis 4x3 with four replications of 10 seeds. …”
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Study on the performance and mechanism of aging asphalt with organic–inorganic composite rejuvenator by Benan Shu, Guodong Zeng, Leifeng Li, Maocong Zhu, Yunlong Ma

“…In this instance, the residual penetration rate was increased by 29%, and the viscosity aging index was reduced by 23%. The fatigue life of the regenerated asphalt was increased by 22%, reaching a total of 1610 cycles. …”
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Abdominal pseudocyst: a rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt by Omar Al-Mahrouqi, Tariq Al-Saadi

“…Accurate history taking, precise clinical examination of signs and symptoms, abdominal imaging, and a high index of suspicion are key components of an APC diagnosis. …”
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Experimental Study on Oxygen-Enriched Sintering of Vanadium-Titanium Magnetite by Hao Liu, Yuelin Qin, Xinlong Wu, Bing Xie

“…Sintered ore drum strength increases from 65.33% to 68.00%, antiwear index decreases to 0.47%, and low-temperature reduction pulverability decreases from 65.07% to 62.85%. …”
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Music videos as cultural artefacts of the eighties by Retha Van Niekerk

“…In the theoretical model three levels of meaning, namely denotative, connotative and mythical, are distinguished with certain qualititative elements defined on each level The denotative level or the level of reality contains iconic signs, indexical signs and symbolical signs. Other qualitative elements include characters, setting, and descriptions of primary movements. …”
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of the Reinforced Concrete Continuous Bridge Piers Based on Machine Learning and Symbolic Regression Fusion Algorithms by Hanbo Zhu, Changqing Miao

“…Secondly, the modified Park–Ang damage index was taken as EDP, and the symbolic regression method was used to fit the functional relationship between the composite intensity measures (CIMs) and EDP. …”
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Identifying and ranking indicators affecting the environment with the aim of providing a guide on the establishment and operation of exhibition sites using BWM multi-criteria decis... by Davoud Adineh, Reza Amirnezhad, Keyvan Saeb, Aptin x Aptin Rahnavard, Farid Gholamreza Fahimi

“…For this purpose, the most important environmental criteria influenced by the industry were first identified through the Delphi method and were then classified into nine main priority groups based on multi-criteria decision-making and the best/ worst method(BWM[1]) method. The environmental index of the region was thus selected as the most important criterion whereas the social and economic indices were determined to be the least important criteria. …”
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Diagnostic Performance of Three rK39 Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Two Direct Agglutination Tests for the Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Southern Iran by Zahra Rezaei, Bahman Pourabbas, Vera Kühne, Parham Pourabbas, Philippe Büscher

“…The VL patients were defined as individuals with a positive result of the immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT), having clinical signs and symptoms and appropriate response to treatment. The index tests were two direct agglutination tests, DAT-ITM (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium) and DAT-KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and three rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), Kalazar Detect (InBios International Inc., USA), IT Leish (Bio-Rad, catalog 710124), and Leishmania test (Cypress Diagnostic Company, Belgium). …”
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A Novel Improved Threshold Adaptive Forgetting Variable Step Size Blind Separation Model for Weak Signal Detection by Tianyi Yu, Houming Wang, Shunming Li, Jiantao Lu, Siqi Gong, Yanfeng Wang, Guangrong Teng

“…In ILWT, a threshold function containing an adjustment factor is proposed to reduce the constant deviation so as to ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio and low distortion after denoising. Then, the separation index (SI) is constructed according to the convergence conditions of the BSS model. …”
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Study on Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Sandstone under Freezing and Thawing by Ziyi Wang, Ping Liu, Chang Luo, Yichao Jia, Zhen Chen

“…The test results show that, except that the mass change is less than that of yellow sandstone, the physical index degradation degree of green sandstone is higher than that of yellow sandstone, and the frost resistance is less than that of yellow sandstone. …”
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Multiparametric Ultrasound (mpUS) of a Rare Testicular Capillary Hemangioma by Paul Spiesecke, Thomas Fischer, Carsten Stephan, Andreas Maxeiner, Bernd Hamm, Markus Lerchbaumer

“…Proliferative activity was quantified to 3–5% by Ki-67 index. Two days after surgery, the patient could leave the hospital in subjective wellbeing. …”
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Response of Sorghum to Cold Stress at Early Developmental Stage by Amandin Rutayisire, Geoffrey Lubadde, Alice Mukayiranga, Richard Edema

“…Results showed that emergence and vigor are the best surrogate traits for selecting cold-tolerant genotypes. Using rank summation index, we were able to identify the best cold-tolerant sorghum genotypes (IS 25557, IS 25558, IS 25546, BM6, BM 29, IESV 90042LT, and Cytanobe) that can be used in future breeding programs and enhance adaptation and expansion of sorghum production further into the highland regions of Africa.…”
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Spin angular momentum of Gaussian beams with several polarization singularities by A.A. Kovalev, V.V. Kotlyar

“…We also obtain an expression for the orbital angular momentum density and find it to be defined by the spin angular momentum density, multiplied by –m/2, with m being the upper index of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam, equal to the number of the polarization singularities. …”
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Liver Cirrhosis/Severe Fibrosis Is a Risk Factor for Anastomotic Leakage after Colorectal Surgery by Samuel Andreas Käser, Irina Hofmann, Niels Willi, Felix Stickel, Christoph Andreas Maurer

“…A temporary loop ileostomy was constructed in 257 cases (13.7%) either due to Mannheimer Peritonitis-Index > 29 or rectal anastomosis below 6 cm from the anal verge. …”
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Factors Predetermining Increased Aqueous Humour Flare in Long-Term Glaucoma Treatment by G. Pakuliene, L. Kuzmiene, I. Januleviciene

“…The number of used antiglaucomatous medications correlated moderately with the aqueous humour flare. The BAK index showed weak positive correlation with aqueous humour flare. …”
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Path–Based Continuous Spatial Keyword Queries by Fangshu Chen, Pengfei Zhang, Chengcheng Yu, Huaizhong Lin, Shan Tang, Xiaoming Hu

“…To overcome the above challenges, we first propose a backbone road network index structure (BNI), which supports the distance computation efficiently and offers a global insights of the whole road network. …”
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