Impact of Mobile Phone Usage on Sleep Quality Among Medical Students Across Latin America: Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study by Juan S Izquierdo-Condoy, Clara Paz, H A Nati-Castillo, Ricardo Gollini-Mihalopoulos, Telmo Raul Aveiro-Róbalo, Jhino Renson Valeriano Paucar, Sandra Erika Laura Mamami, Juan Felipe Caicedo, Valentina Loaiza-Guevara, Diana Camila Mejía, Camila Salazar-Santoliva, Melissa Villavicencio-Gomezjurado, Cougar Hall, Esteban Ortiz-Prado

“…The overall mean Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score was 7.26, indicating poor sleep quality. …”
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The role of smart electricity meter data analysis in driving sustainable development by Archana Y. Chaudhari, Preeti Mulay, Shradha Chavan

“…The performance of CGMIC compared with DBSCAN on silhouette score and Davis Bouldin index metrics. The insight of this research contributes directly to sustainable development goals. …”
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Air Pollution Forecasting Using Artificial and Wavelet Neural Networks with Meteorological Conditions by Qingchun Guo, Zhenfang He, Shanshan Li, Xinzhou Li, Jingjing Meng, Zhanfang Hou, Jiazhen Liu, Yongjin Chen

“…In this study, we used correlation analysis and artificial neural networks (ANNs; including wavelet ANNs [WANNs]) to identify the linear and nonlinear associations, respectively, between the air pollution index (API) and meteorological variables in Xi’an and Lanzhou. …”
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Effect of weight loss on the course of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: results of 6-month follow-up by L. V. Chesnokova, I. M. Petrov, I. A. Troshina, M. V. Goncharova, I. V. Medvedeva

“…Weight loss for 5% and over at steatosis stage of NAFLD is characterized by decrease ofbiochemical cardio-vascular risk markers, in addition the group with 40 min/day physical exercises inefficacy had lower level of insulin resistance index and TNF-α along with higher levels of NO metabolites.…”
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How to Handle Data Imbalance and Feature Selection Problems in CNN-Based Stock Price Forecasting by Zinnet Duygu Aksehir, Erdal Kilic

“…Stock market forecasting is a time series problem that aims to predict possible future prices or directions of an index/stock. The stock data contains high uncertainty and is influenced by too many factors; hence it isn’t easy to achieve the goal by traditional time series methods. …”
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Benefits of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis’s floral volatile components on human emotions and moods by Yan Cai, Hannan Chen, Xin Zhang, Wanning Bu, Wei Ning

“…The findings revealed that the subjects in both the olfactory group (G1) and the control group (G2) exhibited a decrease in blood pressure, pulse, β wave power, and skin electrical signal, alongside an increase in α wave power and heart rate variability (HRV) index. Notably, G1 saw a rise in α wave power by 0.17 µV2/Hz and G2 experienced an increase in HRV index by 0.184, while the power of β wave decreased by 2.589 and 0.01 µV2/Hz, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of herbal (neem) and chemical (chlorhexidine) chips as local drug delivery agents in the treatment of chronic periodontitis: A clinical and microbiologic... by Jammula Surya Prasanna, Jilkapally SaiPriya

“…Parameters evaluated were plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), probing pocket depth (PPD), and clinical attachment level (CAL). …”
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Evaluating the role of inflammatory biomarkers as a diagnostic tool in peri-implantitis by Ayan Saxena, Pavitra Kumar Rastogi, Nand Lal, Umesh Pratap Verma, Rameshwari Singhal, Md. Kaleem Ahmad

“…Results: Clinical parameters like Modified Plaque Index (MPI), Modified Bleeding Index (MBI) and Probing Pocket Depth (PPD) were statistically significantly higher in the peri-implantitis group as compared to the healthy implant group and healthy teeth group. …”
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Feasibility and safety of zero-fluoro, “apron-less” approach to repeat pulmonary vein isolation procedures using radiofrequency energy after initial cryoballoon ablation by Vedran Velagic, Vedran Pasara, Ivan Prepolec, Andrija Nekic, Zvonimir Katic, Davor Milicic

“…Index CB ablation resulted with low rates of PV reconnections and mid-term results after repeat procedures are favourable.…”
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Impact of Different Metabolic Indicators on Ventricular Repolarization Indices in Obese Children: A Case Control Study by Asmaa A El Sehmawy, Rasha Abd El Samad Fawaz, Nadia Ahmed Agiba, Eman Aziz Elsherbiny, Nglaa Fathi Agaba, Doaa Sayed Mohammed, Haidy Mahmoud Nasr, Fatma Elzhraa AE Diab, Amal M Ahmed, Shorouk Issa Mahfouz, Heba T Okda, Doaa Sadek Ahmed

“…A significant positive correlation was detected between QTc and JTc dispersion and the following variables: waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR index, and LDL. …”
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Response of some wheat cultivars to plot orientation and foliar boron levels by Lana Dhahir Mohammed, Sami Mohammad Amin Mohammed Amin

“…The results showed that Leaf area, LAI, weight of leaf, light extinction coefficient, flag leaf length, fertility, number of spike and harvest index significantly increased in EW (East-West) compared to SN (South-North) row direction. …”
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The evolution and driving mechanism of education inequality in China: From 2003 to 2020. by Yuanzhi Guo, Xuhong Li

“…Therefore, we construct a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of regional educational development, reveal the regional inequalities in China's educational development, and employ spatial econometric model to dissect the factors influencing the regional inequalities. …”
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INTERNET FINANCIAL REPORTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Tarik Zaimović, Azra Zaimović, Anela Fazlić

“…Furthermore, our estimations revealed that profitability measured by return on equity and market activity represented by share turnover significantly affect the IFR index for companies traded on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE); with companies traded on the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE), size measured by total asset, as well as market activity measured by share turnover, have a positive effect on the IFR index. …”
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Optimizing chickpea yield prediction under wilt disease through synergistic integration of biophysical and image parameters using machine learning models by RN Singh, P. Krishnan, C. Bharadwaj, Sonam Sah, B. Das

“…Thermal and visible images were collected alongside the measurement of crop biophysical parameters, including leaf area index (LAI), photosynthesis, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, relative leaf water content (RWC), membrane stability index (MSI), and NDVI, for 85 chickpea genotypes with varying levels of wilt resistance. …”
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The Most Important Measures in Reducing Infection Control in the Anesthesia Work Environment: An Evidence-Based Study by Younes Barazesh, Parisa Moradimajd, Azam Saei, Jamileh Abolghasemi, Mohammad-Mahdi Azizi-Darbandi

“…The content validity of anesthesia procedures requiring infection control guidelines was reported with a content validity index (CVI) of more than 0.79 and a content validity ratio (CVR) of more than 0.59. …”
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Agriculture Based Food Producing Countries Are Less Secured in Food by Jesmin Aktar, Khan Md Shaiful Islam

“…Methods: Data was collected from the publication of EIU Global Food Security Index and World Bank. A total number of 113 countries were considered for the data on food security index (FSI), per capita income, and percent employment in agriculture. …”
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The impact of staple crop price instability and fragmented policy on food security and sustainable development: a case study from Bangladesh by Zia Ahmed, Abdul Kadir, Rafiul Alam, Hafiz-Al-Rezoan, Md. Aminul Haque Laskor

“…Seasonality has a limited effect on rice prices, while the private sector dominates imports of both rice and wheat. The consumer price index (CPI) demonstrates that food inflation is gradually rising in rural areas and corresponds with the trend in urban Bangladesh. …”
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INTERNET FINANCIAL REPORTING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Tarik Zaimović, Azra Zaimović, Anela Fazlić

“…Furthermore, our estimations revealed that profitability measured by return on equity and market activity represented by share turnover significantly affect the IFR index for companies traded on the Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE); with companies traded on the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE), size measured by total asset, as well as market activity measured by share turnover, have a positive effect on the IFR index. …”
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Supplemental technologies of liver ultrasound investigation at the 1-st type tyrosinemia in pediatrics by G. M. Dvoryakovskaya, S. A. Ivleva, I. V. Dvoryakovsky, S. I. Polyakova

“…Plotting of histograms and density probability functions of various zones of liver parenchyma allows to establish the stage of fibrosis. The density index provides quantitative characteristic of fibrosis stage.Results. …”
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Association of blood pressure and left ventricular mass with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis by Weiting Huang, Calvin Chin, Rehena Sultana, Chirk Jenn Ng, Jonathan Jiunn Liang Yap, Enver De Wei Loh, Swee Yaw Tan, Siew Ching Kong, Khung K Yeo

“…This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with LV mass and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, in an Asian population free of baseline cardiovascular disease.Methods The SingHEART study is a population-based cohort in which individuals underwent ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring, cardiac MRI to measure indexed LV mass index (LVMI) and coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring. …”
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