Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…After adjusting for sex, race and ethnicity, household income, education level, body mass index (BMI), and recent health checkup, veteran status was associated with a small but significantly larger amount of average weekly moderate PA (2.2 minutes, P=0.0058) but not average weekly vigorous PA (−0.02 minutes, P=0.98). …”
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Assessment of High-resolution Local Emissions and Land-use in Air Quality Forecasting at an Urban, Coastal, Desert Environment by Christos Fountoukis, Yasir Mohieldeen, Luis Pomares, Ivan Gladich, Azhar Siddique, Adam Skillern, Mohammed A. Ayoub

“…The ability of the model to forecast the air quality health index in this urban, coastal, hot desert climate is encouraging for future applications of this modeling platform as an early warning system (EWS).…”
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Investigation of atmosphere middle level changes center affecting on dry day of Zab catchment using PCA by nader parvin

“…In this study, the annual rainfall data for selected stations Zab River Basin during the period 2015-1986 were the standard time. After indexing and spatial-temporal threshold, 184 days without rainfall were selected in the wet period of three severe drought in the region. …”
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Prevalence of caries and social classes in a group of children under 6 years old in southern Chile by Gloria Analia González Nieto

“…Clinical records were reviewed and 44 records were analyzed. The ceod index and social risk survey of Graffar attached were taken into account. …”
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Pediatric sleep outcomes after endoscopy-directed simultaneous lingual tonsillectomy and epiglottopexy by Matthew Maksimoski, Sarah E. Maurrasse, Stephen R. Hoff, Jennifer Lavin, Taher Valika, Dana M. Thompson, Jonathan B. Ida

“…Median reduction in obstructive apnea–hypopnea index (oAHI) with the procedure was 69.9%. Four patients (16.7%) had postoperative concern for dysphagia, but all objective swallowing evaluations were normal and no dietary modifications were necessary. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Traffic Congestion for Mixed Traffic Flow with Connected Automated Vehicles: A Cell Transmission Model Approach by Yunxia Wu, Yalan Lin, Rong Hu, Zilan Wang, Bin Zhao, Zhihong Yao

“…Moreover, taking the moving bottleneck on the expressway as an example, the congestion characteristics of mixed traffic flow are analyzed using multiple indexes, such as average travel speed, congestion delay, and congestion scale. …”
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Influence of Drought Stress and Rehydration on Moisture and Photosynthetic Physiological Changes in Three Epilithic Moss Species in Areas of Karst Rocky Desertification by Chunlei Cong, Tianlei Liu, Xianqiang Zhang

“…Results show that the three kinds of plant rock mosses of leaf water potential (Ψs), free water content (Va), total water content, and relative water content (RWC) decreased; bound water (Vs), water saturation deficit (WSD), and Vs/Va ratio increased; transpiration rate (Tr) fell slightly, under drought stress. The physiological indexes of water have different degrees of recovery after rehydration. …”
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Research Areas on Transition to Renewable Energy Sources in Bibliographic Publications by Mammadov Nurmammad, Akbarova Samira

“…The article provides a bibliometric analysis of current research issues on the technological aspects of energy transition using metadata of publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection abstract database over the past 4 years using the VOSviewer program. …”
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Freeze-Thaw Effects on Stability of Open Pit Slope in High-Altitude and Cold Regions by Yong Hong, Zhushan Shao, Guangbin Shi, Yong Dou, Weiqin Wang, Wen Zhang

“…To achieve this purpose, a linear relationship between the geological strength index (GSI) and the Tianshan slope rock mass rating (TSMR) system is established considering the effect of the freeze-thaw action by introducing a freeze-thaw correction coefficient δ. …”
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Obesity and the Incidence of Bladder Injury and Urinary Retention Following Tension-Free Vaginal Tape Procedure: Retrospective Cohort Study by Vladimir Revicky, Sambit Mukhopadhyay, Frances de Boer, Edward P. Morris

“…Rate of urinary retention was 9% (31/342). Body mass index (BMI), age, type of analgesia, concomitant prolapse repair, and previous surgery were factors studied. …”
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Metasurface-Enabled Microphotonic Biosensors via BIC Modes by Francesco Dell’Olio

“…These unique properties result in increased refractive index sensitivity and low detection limits, essential for monitoring biomolecules in clinical diagnostics, environmental analysis, and food safety. …”
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Research and DSP Implementation of Speech Enhancement Technology Based on Dynamic Mixed Features and Adaptive Mask by Jie Yang, Yachun Tang

“…The experimental results indicate that the performance indexes of the proposed method are significantly improved compared with the existing speech enhancement methods, which verifies the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method.…”
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Severe malocclusion and oral health-related quality of life in adolescents aged 12-15 years by Cibele da Cruz Prates OLIVEIRA, Marijara Vieira de Sousa OLIVEIRA, Carlos Antônio Amaro LIRA, Niely Enetice de Sousa CATÃO, Luana de Carvalho LOURENÇO, Rebecca Durand Garrido RAMALHO, Alessandro Leite CAVALCANTI, Alidianne Fábia Cabral CAVALCANTI

“…The presence of malocclusion was assessed using the Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI), and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) was analyzed using the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP). …”
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A Correlation Analysis-Based Structural Load Estimation Method for RC Beams Using Machine Vision and Numerical Simulation by Chun Zhang, Yinjie Zhao, Guangyu Wu, Han Wu, Hongli Ding, Jian Yu, Ruoqing Wan

“…Therefore, a new correlation index model is initially introduced to quantify the correlation between the two types of images in the proposed method. …”
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Run-Time Value Chain Analysis and Cost Accounting via Microservices in Agile Manufacturing by Salman Javed, Cristina Paniagua, Imran Javed, Jan van Deventer, Jerker Delsing

“…The approach is validated through a proof-of-concept implementation of the VCA system integrated with the Eclipse Arrowhead framework and simulating Fischertechnik indexed line milling, drilling, and conveying operations. …”
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Ejaculate Oxidative Stress Is Related with Sperm DNA Fragmentation and Round Cells by Valeria Maria Iommiello, Elena Albani, Alessandra Di Rosa, Alessandra Marras, Francesca Menduni, Giovanna Morreale, Shanti Lia Levi, Benedetta Pisano, Paolo Emanuele Levi-Setti

“…Oxidative stress levels from N1 (low) to N4 (high) were assessed in ejaculates using oxiSperm; DFI (sperm DNA fragmentation index) as assessed by the SCSA (Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay) was used for evaluation of sperm chromatin integrity. …”
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Obesity Increases Prevalence of Colonic Adenomas at Screening Colonoscopy: A Canadian Community-Based Study by Theodore F. Shapero, Grant I. Chen, Tim Devlin, Alison Gibbs, Iain C. Murray, Stanley Tran, Corey Weigensberg

“…We evaluated 2020 subjects undergoing first screening colonoscopy. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated at enrolment. Hyperlipidemia (HL), hypertension (HT), and diabetes mellitus (DM) were identified. …”
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Programmed Cell Death, Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and p53 Expression in Mouse Colon Mucosa during Diet-Induced Tumorigenesis by Mauro Risio, Ivana Sarotto, Francesco Paolo Rossini, Harold Newmark, Kan Yang, Martin Lipkin

“…In order to evaluate the roles both of cell proliferation and programmed cell death (PCD) in WD‐induced tumorigenesis, immunohistochemical detection of proliferating nuclear antigen (PCNA), in situ end labeling (TUNEL) of DNA breaks, and p53 protein were carried out in mouse colonic mucosa during prolonged feeding of two WDs. PCNA Labeling Index of colonic crypts was significantly higher in WD‐treated animals than in controls only at the beginning of the nutritional study, the gap rapidly bridged by increased cell proliferation spontaneously occurring in the colonic mucosa during aging. …”
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Quality Parameters of Juice Obtained from Hydroponically Grown Tomato Processed with High Hydrostatic Pressure or Heat Pasteurization by Maja Jeż, Wioletta Błaszczak, Kamila Penkacik, Ryszard Amarowicz

“…The total polyphenols content (TPC), total phenolic index (TPI), Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (ABTS) and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) were analysed in the fresh and processed juices stored for 0, 7 and 14 days. …”
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Does Motor Training of the Nonparetic Side Influences Balance and Function in Chronic Stroke? A Pilot RCT by Shanta Pandian, Kamal Narayan Arya, Dharmendra Kumar

“…The balance ability was assessed using Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and Functional Reach Test (FRT) while the functional performance was measured by Barthel Index (BI). Result. After intervention, the experimental group exhibited significant (P<0.05) change on BBS (5.65 versus 2.52) and BI (12.75 versus 2.16) scores in comparison to the control group. …”
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