Joint Effect of Maternal Tobacco Smoking and Pregestational Diabetes on Preterm Births and Congenital Anomalies: A Population-Based Study in Northern Italy by Lucia Borsari, Carlotta Malagoli, Martha M. Werler, Kenneth J. Rothman, Marcella Malavolti, Rossella Rodolfi, Gianfranco De Girolamo, Fausto Nicolini, Marco Vinceti

“…We measured interaction between PGD and maternal smoking, by calculating excess prevalence and prevalence ratio due to interaction, relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI), attributable proportion (AP), and the synergy index (S). Analyses were performed in the overall study population and in the subgroup whose PGD was validated through diabetes registers. …”
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The molecular prognostic scoring system for normal karyotype myelodysplastic syndromes by Wei Wang, Yudi Zhang, Wenli Yang, Xiaozhen Liu, Lingxu Jiang, Wei Lang, Yingwan Luo, Xinping Zhou, Lu Wang, Li Ye, Ying Xu, Liya Ma, Hongyan Tong

“…Methods A total of 237 NK MDS patients from our center were used as the training set to screen for key variables and develop a prognostic model with overall survival (OS) as the endpoint. The C-index was used as the main evaluation metric to assess the model’s performance. …”
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Mastalgia Assesment and Hormonal Correlations in Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Emel Kıyak Çağlayan, Levent Seçkin, Ayşe Yeşim Göçmen, Aylin Okur, Ergin Arslan, Halil İbrahim Serin, Kasım Çağlayan, Yaprak Engin Üstün

“…Age of the patients were noted, complaints of mastalgia were questioned and hormonal parameters (Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Luteinizing Hormone (LH), Estradiol (E2), Testosterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulphate (DHEAS), Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Body Mass Index (BMI)) were recorded. RESULTS: Frequency of mastalgia was found as 24.4% in PCOS group and 33.3% in control group and there is no statistical difference (p>0.05). …”
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Treatment of patients with tumor/treatment-related hypothalamic obesity in the first two years following surgical treatment or radiotherapy by Hermann L. Müller, Julian Witte, Bastian Surmann, Manuel Batram, Kylie Braegelmann, Mathias Flume, Julia Beckhaus, Nicolas Touchot, Carsten Friedrich

“…We analyze German claims data to better understand treatment pathways for patients living TTR-HO during the two years following the index surgical treatment. A database algorithm identified patients with TTR-HO in a representative German payer claims database between 2010 and 2021 (n = 5.42 million patients). …”
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Species Diversity, Structure, and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Saleda Yohans Church Forest, South Wollo, Ethiopia by Amare Bitew Mekonnen, Ali Seid Mohammed, Aster Demissew

“…The Shannon–Wiener diversity index and evenness values of the forest were found to be 3.82 and 0.84, respectively. …”
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Diet diversity score might be associated with reproductive health in women and infant outcomes: a systematic review by Paniz Ahmadi, Niloofar Bayat, Behnood Abbasi

“…Lifestyle and diet may affect the reproductive cycle. A dietary index called Diet Diversity Score (DDS) may be related to various reproductive outcomes. …”
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Changes in Quality and Flavor of Chopped Chili Peppers in Ceramic Jars during Fermentation by WANG Hongwei, LIU Hongjuan, QIN Yeyou, XU na, HU Jialiang, YUAN Xiao, LIU Yang, JIANG Liwen

“…In order to investigate changes in the quality, flavor and major aroma components of pickled chilies in ceramic jars during fermentation, this study used headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) to analyze the volatile substances of pickled chilies in ceramic jars from a certain producer after storage for 1–5 years and determined their physicochemical indexes and total bacterial counts. The results showed that the levels of soluble salt-free solids, total acids, total esters, amino nitrogen and total colony count of chopped chili peppers kept changing with storage time, and the quality and aroma kept improving in the first three years, and then the quality declined in the fourth year. …”
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Complete Denture Fabrication Using Digitally Fabricated Copy Dentures for a Patient with Moderate Dementia by Korehide Arai, Yuto Tanaka, Shinsuke Matsuda, Tomohiko Okamura, Kazufumi Iwayama, Yoshiaki Ono

“…She had moderate dementia with difficulty in communication (Mini-Mental State Examination, 16; Barthel Index, 15). The closed impressions and jaw record were taken with the digitally fabricated copy dentures as follows. …”
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Assessment of Cytogenotoxicity of Plastic Industrial Effluent Using Allium cepa Root Tip Cells by Jibril Sani Mohammed, Yahaya Mustapha, Madu Abdulkarim Him, Zandam Nuhu Danladi

“…With rising effluent concentrations, the mitotic index (M.I.) rapidly dropped. Chromosomal abnormalities were caused by the plastic effluent in the root cells of Allium cepa, especially sticky chromosome and binucleated cells being the most frequently seen at lower concentrations of 15%. …”
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A Hybrid Approach Integrating Multiple ICEEMDANs, WOA, and RVFL Networks for Economic and Financial Time Series Forecasting by Jiang Wu, Tengfei Zhou, Taiyong Li

“…The proposed MICEEMDAN-WOA-RVFL remarkably outperforms the compared single and ensemble benchmark models in terms of forecasting accuracy and stability, as demonstrated by the experiments conducted using various economic and financial time series, including West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices, US dollar/Euro foreign exchange rate (USD/EUR), US industrial production (IP), and Shanghai stock exchange composite index (SSEC).…”
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Comparison of Pregnancy Outcome between 4 and 6 cm Cervical os Dilatation to Demarcate Active Phase of Labour: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nadzirah Mohd Fathil, Rahana Abd Rahman, Azmawati Mohd Nawi, Ixora Kamisan Atan, Aida Hani Kalok, Nor Azlin Mohamed Ismail, Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, Farin Masra, Zuhailah Muhammad, Shuhaila Ahmad

“…Both groups were similar in mean maternal age, mean gestational age at delivery, ethnicity, median haemoglobin level at delivery, body mass index, and parity. There were significantly more participants in group 1 who needed oxytocin augmentation (p<0.001) for the longer mean duration (p=0.015), use of analgesia (p<0.001), and caesarean section rate (p=0.002). …”
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Safety and Efficacy of Epithelium-On Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking Using a Multifactorial Approach to Achieve Proper Stromal Riboflavin Saturation by Aleksandar Stojanovic, Xiangjun Chen, Nan Jin, Ting Zhang, Filip Stojanovic, Sten Raeder, Tor Paaske Utheim

“…Mean spherical equivalent decreased by 0.74 D, and mean cylindrical reduction was 1.15 D. Irregularity index and asymmetry from Scheimpflug-based topography and Max-K at the location of cone from Placido-based topography showed a significant decrease. …”
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Improved Outcome of Severe Acute Pancreatitis in the Intensive Care Unit by Polychronis Pavlidis, Siobhan Crichton, Joanna Lemmich Smith, David Morrison, Simon Atkinson, Duncan Wyncoll, Marlies Ostermann

“…On admission to ICU, the median Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score was 17, the pancreatitis outcome prediction score was 8, and the median Computed Tomography Severity Index (CTSI) was 4. Forty patients (80%) tolerated enteral nutrition, and 46% received antibiotics for non-SAP reasons. …”
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Risk Factors for Urgency Incontinence in Women Undergoing Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery by Leslie M. Rickey, Liyuan Huang, David D. Rahn, Yvonne Hsu, Heather J. Litman, Elizabeth R. Mueller

“…Demographic data, POP-Q measures, and validated measures of symptom severity and quality of life were collected. Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 were measured in TOMUS. …”
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Air temperature estimation based on environmental parameters using remote sensing data by Chenoor Mohammadi, Manouchehr Farajzadeh, Yousef Ghavdel Rahimi, Abbas Ali Aliakbar Bidokhti

“…This study is aimed at estimating monthly mean air temperature (Ta) using the MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), latitude, altitude, slope gradient and land use data during 2001-2015. …”
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Security evaluation on type‐1 and type‐1‐like 4‐branch generalized Feistel structures and application to reduced‐round Lesamnta‐LW‐BC by Xuan Shen, Guoqiang Liu, Xiaofeng Wang, Bing Sun, Jun He

“…For these two structures, 21‐round impossible differential distinguishers are constructed when the linear layers P satisfy γ(P) ≥ 2, where γ(P) denotes the primitive index of P. Especially, when γ(P) = 2, the 21‐round distinguisher of the type‐1 structure is one round longer than before. …”
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Fleece-Lined Whelping Pools Associated with Reduced Incidence of Canine Hip Dysplasia in a Guide Dog Program by Lynna C. Feng, Alexandra Philippine, Elizabeth Ball-Conley, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere

“…Bayesian regression modeling of the CHD diagnoses and PennHIP distraction index scores identified that dogs in the fleece group had a lower risk for CHD diagnosis but similar PennHIP scores compared to the newspaper group. …”
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Effective energy consumption parameters in residential buildings using Building Information Modeling by N. Amani, A.A. Reza Soroush

“…Autodesk Revit 2020 software was also used to obtain the results of climate data analysis and building energy consumption index. Finally, the most optimal mode was selected by examining different energy consumption modes. …”
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Three-Dimensional Shapes and Cell Deformability of Rat Red Blood Cells during and after Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest by Hui Jai Lee, SangYun Lee, HyunJoo Park, YongKeun Park, Jonghwan Shin

“…Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) techniques based on laser interferometry were used to measure the three-dimensional refractive index (RI) tomograms of the RBC, from which structural and biochemical properties were retrieved. …”
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Predicting Adjustment of students based on School Culture: the mediating role of Quality of life at School by Seyed Alireza Ghasemi, Hossein Khosravi, Minoo Miri, Hadi Pourshafei, Faezeh Khosravi

“…The path coefficient of the indirect relationship between school culture and adjustment, through the mediating variable of quality of life in school, is significant at the alpha level of0.01. The goodness-of-fit index of the root of the approximation error is equal to0.076 and the standard root of the residual variance is equal to0.054, which indicates the good fit of the model. …”
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