Mathematical Modeling of Coccidiosis Dynamics in Chickens with Some Control Strategies by Yustina A. Liana, Mary C. Swai

“…On the other hand, sensitivity analysis is carried out to investigate the parameters that impact the transmission of coccidiosis disease using the normalized forward sensitivity index. The parameters that have a greater influence on the effective reproduction number should be targeted for control purposes to lessen the spread of disease. …”
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Appraisal of Periodontal Condition amongst Leather Manufacturing Plant Workers in Central India: A Prevalence Survey by Ashwini Dayma, P. Amith, Venkat Raman Singh, Nilotpol Kashyap

“…The data were collected by means modified World Health Organization (WHO) Oral Health Assessment 1997 Performa and clinical examination with the use of the Community Periodontal Index (CPI). Statistical analyses were used: chi-squared test, Mann–Whitney U test, and Kruskal–Wallis test. …”
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DNA Damage Sensor γ-H2AX Is Increased in Preneoplastic Lesions of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yasunobu Matsuda, Toshifumi Wakai, Masayuki Kubota, Mami Osawa, Masaaki Takamura, Satoshi Yamagiwa, Yutaka Aoyagi, Ayumi Sanpei, Shun Fujimaki

“…In 40 (69.9%) of 58 cases with HCC, the labeling index (LI) of γ-H2AX was above 50% and was inversely correlated with the histological grade. …”
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Predictors of Functional and Quality of Life Outcomes following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery in Parkinson’s Disease Patients: Disease, Patient, and Surgical Factors by Hesham Abboud, Gencer Genc, Nicolas R. Thompson, Srivadee Oravivattanakul, Faisal Alsallom, Dennys Reyes, Kathy Wilson, Russell Cerejo, Xin Xin Yu, Darlene Floden, Anwar Ahmed, Michal Gostkowski, Ayman Ezzeldin, Hazem Marouf, Ossama Y. Mansour, Andre Machado, Hubert H. Fernandez

“…For every 1-point increase in preoperative UPDRS III and for every 1-unit increase in body mass index (BMI), the 6-month functional scores significantly worsened. …”
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Research on the Nonlinear Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Efficiency of China’s Regional Green Economy: Insights from the PSTR Model by Shuangliang Yao, Xiang Su

“…This paper uses the super-efficiency SBM model to measure the green economic efficiency considering undesired output and analyzes the spatial distribution difference of green economic efficiency; secondly, the nonlinear panel threshold model is used to empirically study the nonlinear relationship between environmental regulations and green economic efficiency, and further analyzed the threshold effect of environmental regulations on the efficiency of green economy and concluded as follows. (1) The green economy efficiency index in the eastern region is mostly more significant than 1, and the green economy efficiency in most provinces in the eastern region has improved. …”
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Modern tendencies of functioning of nongovernmental pension funds in the system of obligatory pension insurance by Gulnara Fatkhlislamova

“…Important areas of research are evaluating the effectiveness of the functioning of APFs in the system of compulsory pension insurance from the position of comparing the accumulated return on the NPF portfolio with accumulated inflation for the period analyzed, and also according to the criterion of actually accumulated investment income with indexed income on inflation.…”
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Assessing the impact of drought on Zlatar Lake area changes using Random Forest with Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral data by Nikolić Ratko R.

“…Key indices, including the VV/VH ratio, Normalized Difference Polarization Index (NDPI), and various spectral water indices (NDWI, MNDWI, SWI, NDVI), were used to enhance classification results. …”
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Enhanced Proliferation of Porcine Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induced by Extracellular Calcium is Associated with the Activation of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor and ERK Sign... by Jingjing Ye, Wei Ai, Fenglin Zhang, Xiaotong Zhu, Gang Shu, Lina Wang, Ping Gao, Qianyun Xi, YongLiang Zhang, Qingyan Jiang, Songbo Wang

“…The results demonstrated that 4 mM Ca2+o significantly promoted pBMSCs proliferation by reducing the G0/G1 phase cell percentage and by increasing the S phase cell proportion and the proliferation index of pBMSCs. Accordingly, Ca2+o stimulated the expression levels of proliferative genes such as cyclin A2, cyclin D1/3, cyclin E2, and PCNA and inhibited the expression of p21. …”
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Short-acting growth hormone supplementation for bone age and growth rate in children with idiopathic short stature: a meta-analysis by Lianlian Yang, Fan Yang

“…The study will be strictly screened to ensure that all enrolled research subjects are patients with idiopathic short stature, and the intervention method is defined as short-acting GH replacement therapy, and a reasonable control group is set, such as placebo treatment, to ensure the scientificity and comparability of research results. Outcome index data such as basic characteristics, sample size, follow-up time, and total effective rate of the included studies were extracted. …”
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Spatial Estimation of Trophic State for Reservoir Using Ground Monitoring and Remote Sensing Data by Thong Nguyen Hoang, Van Tran Thi

“…This study aims to determine the trophic state of the reservoir based on the trophic state index (TSI) calculated from ground monitoring data of Secchi depth (SD), total phosphorus (TP), and chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) obtained from 35 points in 2 survey periods during the late rainy season to early dry season 2012–2013 and May 2023. …”
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Study on the Characteristics of Self-Stabilizing Height Distribution for Deep Foundation Pit Vertical Sidewall in Binary Strata of Upper Soil and Lower Rock by Zhang Ziguang, Yihang Li, Jiesheng Zhang, Tao Xu, Guangyong Cao, YiKang Xu

“…A new idea that the vertical soil sidewall height (Hs) and the vertical rock sidewall height (Hr) are used as two independent evaluation indexes, respectively, for deep foundation pit stability in binary strata of upper soil and lower rock has been put forward. …”
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Oxytocin Versus Dinoprostone For Labor Induction in Multiparous Women with Unfavorable Cervix by Gul Nihal Buyuk, Umit Yasemin Sert, Zeynep Asli Oskovi Kaplan, Serkan Kahyaoglu

“…The following data were recorded: age, gestational age, body mass index, the time from the drug administration to the vaginal labor, delivery mode, indications of induction, cesarean indication, birth weight, Apgar score, and need of neonatal intensive care unit. …”
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Scutellarin Prevents Angiogenesis in Diabetic Retinopathy by Downregulating VEGF/ERK/FAK/Src Pathway Signaling by Lingli Long, Yubin Li, Shuang Yu, Xiang Li, Yue Hu, Tengfei Long, Liqin Wang, Wenwen Li, Xiaoxin Ye, Zunfu Ke, Haipeng Xiao

“…Our results indicated that SCU attenuated diabetes-induced HREC proliferation, migration, and tube formation and decreased neovascularization and resistive index in the retina of diabetic rats by oral administration. …”
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Comparison of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery and Conventional Phacoemulsification in Shallow Anterior Chambers and Glaucoma by Zhou Zhou, Li Li, Siming Zeng, Wenjing He, Min Li

“…The outcome measures included pre- and postoperative uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuity (UDVA and CDVA), intraocular pressure (IOP), endothelial cell density (ECD), endothelial cell loss (ECL), and object scatter index (OSI). Results. One hundred and six eyes of 106 patients with a mean anterior chamber depth of 1.54 ± 0.51 mm were included in this study. …”
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The potential of interactive multimedia with contextual teaching and learning approaches in mathematics learning: a systematic literature review by Khairunnisa Hanan Pratiwi, Robinson - Situmorang, Tuti Iriani

“…Scientific journals or conference proceedings are used indexed by Scopus Q1-Q4. The exclusion criteria in this article are articles that do not have a complete structure, review articles or conceptual articles that do not report the results of empirical research. …”
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Physicochemical Properties of Biscuits Enriched with Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana L.) Products and Bioaccessibility of Phenolics after Simulated Human Digestion by Lolita Tomsone, Ruta Galoburda, Zanda Kruma, Kristine Majore

“…After 180-day storage, TPC of biscuits with horseradish root products did not change significantly but in biscuits with horseradish leaf products it decreased by 27–29%. The bioaccessibility index of phenolic compounds after in vitro digestion of enriched biscuits ranged between 2.19 and 2.99. …”
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Clustering by Hybrid K-Means-Based Rider Sunflower Optimization Algorithm for Medical Data by A. Jaya Mabel Rani, A. Pravin

“…In this research, initially, the data preprocessing phase has been carried out to clean the current input medical data, and then in the second phase, important features are chosen with the help of the Tversky index with holoentropy. Finally, medical data clustering has been carried out by using hybrid K-means-based rider sunflower optimization (RSFO) algorithm. …”
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River water quality monitoring using machine learning with multiple possible in-situ scenarios by Dani Irwan, Saerahany Legori Ibrahim, Sarmad Dashti Latif, Chris Aaron Winston, Ali Najah Ahmed, Mohsen Sherif, Amr H. El-Shafie, Ahmed El-Shafie

“…The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of estimating the Gombak River's Water Quality Index (WQI) using machine learning, and to identify appropriate models based on statistical performance metrics. …”
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Association between Visceral Fat and Bone Mineral Density in Both Male and Female Patients with Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency by Linman Li, Li Zhong, Xiaoya Zheng, Wenyi You, Yunting Wang, Jihui Yu, Xun Wu, Wei Ren, Gangyi Yang

“…Further, Pearson correlation analysis showed that the values of age, body mass index (BMI), FM, and VATM correlated negatively with BMD in women with AGHD (all P<0.05); however, this association was not noted in men. …”
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Application of Peaks Over Threshold Method in Flood Frequency Analysis in Seyhan Basin by Gülay Onuşluel Gül, Ali Gül

“…Threshold value was determined through four different methods that include threshold selection plot, mean residual life plot, dispersion index plot as well as the method based on the mean and standard deviation; and autocorrelation analysis has been tested to determine whether the peaks obtained above the threshold are independent. …”
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