Meteorological-Hydrological-Agricultural Drought Analysis of Devegeçidi Reservoir by Nermin Şarlak, Abdullah Muratoğlu, Şahnaz Tiğrek

“…Standard Precipitation Index (SPI), Palmer (PDSI) and self-calibrated Palmer (sc-PDSI) drought indices were applied to reveal the relationship between hydrological drought problem and precipitation data. …”
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Platelet Counts and Liver Enzymes after Bariatric Surgery by Hans-Erik Johansson, Arvo Haenni, Björn Zethelius

“…Ten morbidly obese patients (body mass index, BMI: 53.5±3.8 kg/m2) who underwent BPD-DS were evaluated preoperatively (baseline) and 1 year (1st followup) and 3 years (2nd followup) after surgery and compared with 21 morbidly obese patients (BMI: 42.3±5.2 kg/m2) who underwent RYGBP. …”
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Target Threat Assessment in Air Combat Based on Improved Glowworm Swarm Optimization and ELM Neural Network by Yuan Cao, Ying-Xin Kou, An Xu, Zhi-Fei Xi

“…Then, the threat assessment index functions of angle, speed, distance, altitude, and air combat capability are constructed, respectively, and the sample data of air combat target threat assessment are obtained by combining the structure entropy weight method. …”
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Metabolomic profile and its association with the diagnosis of prostate cancer: a systematic review by Angela Patricia Salinas Pita, Mildrey Mosquera Escudero, Eliecer Jiménez-Charris, Herney Andrés García-Perdomo

“…Low concern was found regarding applying the index test and the reference standard in assessing the risk of bias. …”
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CLIMATIC PATTERN ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL AND DRY SPELLS DURING THE AGRICULTURAL SEASON IN MALAWI by Medrina Linda Mloza Banda, Wim Cornelis, Henry R. Mloza Banda

“…The results highlight that climatic frameworks for analysing rainfall and dry events must consider multi-index analyses and cannot be uniformly applied across geographically diverse areas or assumed to be homogeneous within regions.…”
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Education for sustainable development: analyzing research trends in higher education for sustainable development goals through bibliometric analysis by Mestawot Beyene Tafese, Erika Kopp

“…Gericke is identified as the most prolific author, followed by notable contributions from Leal and Kopnina, who have the highest H-index impact. Regarding publication volumes, China, Spain, and Germany are the leading countries. …”
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The triterpenoids-enriched extracts from Antrodia cinnamomea mycelia attenuate alcohol-induced chronic liver injury via suppression lipid accumulation in C57BL/6 mice by Yange Liu, Ronglong Chen, Lanzhou Li, Ruitao Dong, Hui Yin, Yawen Wang, Anhui Yang, Jianbin Wang, Changtian Li, Di Wang

“…In long-term alcohol consumption mice, the significantly lost body weight, increased organ indexes, hepatic alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels were all remissed after 6-week ACT orally administration, showing its hepatoprotective property. …”
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Grazing reduces shrub-facilitated diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in semiarid ecosystems by Jiancai Sun, Rentao Liu, Marcelo Sternberg, Lei Zhou, Zhimin Yang

“…There was significantly greater α and β diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in shrub understory than in open spaces in ungrazed plots, whereas no significant difference in either index was observed between microhabitats in grazed plots. …”
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Estimation of population structure in emmer wheat germplasm conserved in the National Genebank of India by Jatin Tanwar, Sandhya Tyagi, Shivani Sharma, Preeti Jakhar, Gaurav Kumar, Sherry R. Jacob, Amit Kumar Singh, Shailendra K. Jha, Jyoti Kumari

“…A cluster analysis based on Jaccard’s dissimilarity index identified two clusters which were in congruence with the population structure. …”
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Effects of IQW and IRW on Inflammation and Gut Microbiota in ETEC-Induced Diarrhea by Naiyuan Liu, Lingsi Zhou, Jun Fang, Hongmei Jiang, Gang Liu

“…In the IRW-ETEC and IQW-ETEC groups, the Shannon index decreased (P<0.05). IQW and IRW increased the abundance of Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Clostridiales, Lachnospiraceae, and Alloprevotella; contrastingly, it decreased the abundance of Epsilonproteobacteria, Erysipelotrichales, Prevotellaceae, and Flavobacteriaceae compared to the ETEC group (P <0.05). …”
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Análisis de eventos extremos de precipitación en la provincia de Alicante (1981–2020) by Esther Sánchez-Almodóvar

“…Previo al análisis, se ha llevado a cabo un control de calidad de la base de datos mediante el cálculo del Real Precision Index (RPI). El análisis de los extremos de precipitación se realizó utilizando el software Rstudio. …”
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Increased Serum Soluble (Pro)renin Receptor Levels in Patients with Sarcopenia by Satoshi Morimoto, Haruki Sasaki, Chikahito Suda, Atsuhiro Ichihara, Nobuyuki Ura

“…Lean body mass ratio (lean body mass/body weight), an index of muscle mass, was independently significantly and negatively correlated with serum soluble (P)RR concentrations in all patients. …”
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Health profile assessment of school children of Jodhpur District of Rajasthan by Shazia Shafi, Pankaja Raghav, K H Naveen, Yachana Chowdhary, Ashish Pundhir

“…Background: The health and nutritional status of young children is an index of national investment within the development of its future manpower. …”
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Spatial Morphology and Geographic Adaptability of Traditional Villages in the Hehuang Region, China by Xinhong Zhang, Haiqin Yang, Yuyuan An

“…Accordingly, this study employs Hehuang region, China, as a case study, adopting an integrated approach that combines morphological type analysis and boundary shape index. This comprehensive methodology systematically investigates the spatial morphological features and reveals the geographic adaptability of the two types of traditional villages, which are river valley and mountain types. …”
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Optimization of Extraction Process of Methyl Eugenol and Asarinin in Asarum with Deep Eutectic Solvent Based on the Response Surface Methodology by Huiwei Bao, Yang Xu, Yuejie Wang, Tao Zhang, Enpeng Wang, Xin Huang, Changbao Chen, Fangxin Liu

“…Under the optimum extracting process conditions, the contents of methyl eugenol and asarinin were 1.9428 mg/g and 0.9989 mg/g, respectively, and the comprehensive index was 2.3280 (RSD of 1.91%). The results were close to the predicted values of the response surface model, demonstrating the applicability of the model. …”
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Bridging the Maturity Gaps in Industrial Data Science: Navigating Challenges in IoT-Driven Manufacturing by Amruta Awasthi, Lenka Krpalkova, Joseph Walsh

“…The gaps or maturity levels among industries show a substantial discrepancy in this analysis, which is classified into three types: Industry 4.0 maturity levels, data maturity or readiness condition index, and industrial data science and analytics maturity. …”
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Effectiveness of Contralaterally Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation versus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Upper Limb Motor Functional Recovery in Subacute Stroke... by Songhua Huang, Peile Liu, Yinglun Chen, Beiyao Gao, Yingying Li, Chan Chen, Yulong Bai

“…Fugl-Meyer Assessment of upper extremity (FMA-UE), action research arm test (ARAT), Barthel Index (BI), and surface electromyography (sEMG) were assessed at baseline and end of intervention. …”
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Estimating the Impact of Aging on Visual Function Using Useful Field of View (UFOV) with a Focus on the Population of Gangwon-do in Korea by Sang-Bin Na, Seong-Youl Choi, Da-Bin Jeon, Soo-Jin Moon, Jin-Keun Kim

“…Results: Findings after analyzing UFOV subtest differences by age group revealed significant differences in the visual function index of the young, later-middle-aged, and elderly in all three tests, and the difference between the later-middle-aged and old groups was only found in divided attention. …”
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Retrospective observational study of the association between changes in physical activity and frailty in middle-aged and older adults: evidence from the Korean Longitudinal Study o... by Eun-Cheol Park, Ye Jun Jung, Junhyuk Kim, Yun Seo Jang

“…Objectives This study aimed to investigate the relationship between changes in physical activity and frailty among middle-aged and older adults in Korea, using panel data from the 2006–2022 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA).Design Retrospective observational study.Setting For this longitudinal panel study, data were sourced from the KLoSA dataset.Participants We analysed data from 5594 participants (2855 males and 2739 females) extracted from KLoSA data collected between 2006 and 2022.Primary and secondary outcome measures The frailty index was calculated based on 6 clinical domains comprising 34 age-related health deficits. …”
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Different Flooding Conditions Affected Microbial Diversity in Riparian Zone of Huihe Wetland by Bademu Qiqige, Jingjing Liu, Ming Li, Xiaosheng Hu, Weiwei Guo, Ping Wang, Yi Ding, Qiuying Zhi, Yuxuan Wu, Xiao Guan, Junsheng Li

“…This study investigated the effects of wetted state (WS); wetting–drying state (WDS); and dried state (DS) on the diversity of soil bacteria, fungi, and archaea. The Shannon index of bacterial diversity was not significantly different in various flooding conditions (<i>p</i> > 0.05), however, fungal diversity and archaeal communities were significantly different in different flooding conditions (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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