Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ameliorated the negative effects of a low-protein diet on growth performance, antioxidant capacity, immune status, and gut microbiota of laying chicks by Lele Hou, Huiling Qiu, Jihong Dong, Huawei Liu, Shansong Gao, Fu Chen

“…Furthermore, L. plantarum supplementation increased the liver index, GSH-Px and T-AOC activity in serum, and changed the microflora structure, diversity, and polyketose unit bioanabolic metabolism of 17% protein +1.0 × 109 CFU/kg L. plantarum (LPL) compared to the 17% protein group (LP). …”
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Abundance, Species Diversity, and Distribution of Diurnal Mammals in Humbo Community-Based Forest Area, Southern Ethiopia by Adanech Lemma, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign

“…The highest Shannon-winner diversity index and evenness were obtained in the bushland habitat (1.70 and 2.21) during wet and dry seasons, respectively. …”
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Preparation of WO3/rGO/BiOBr and its photocatalytic degradation performance for ciprofloxacin wastewater by ZHOU Chaoyun, LING Yulin, JIANG Wenxue, ZHOU Jianhong

“…Using the removal rate of ciprofloxacin(CIP) as the optimization index, single factor experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of composite material ratio, dosage, solution pH, and light conditions on the photocatalytic degradation performance of CIP by WRB. …”
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Metabolic Activity in Human Intermuscular Adipose Tissue Directs the Response of Resident PPARγ⁺ Macrophages to Fatty Acids by Xiaoying Chen, Sebastian Ludger Schubert, Aline Müller, Miguel Pishnamaz, Frank Hildebrand, Mahtab Nourbakhsh

“…Elevated fatty acid levels lead to significant increases in PPARγ⁺ populations, which are correlated with the donor’s body mass index (BMI). <b>Conclusions</b>: PPARγ⁺ macrophages represent a distinctly specialized population of regulatory cells that reside within human IMATs in accordance with their metabolic status. …”
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Novel Predictive Strategy Using CA19-9 and Fecal Elastase Levels to Make Treatment Decisions for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective Study by Hyung Sun Kim, Woojin Kim, Won-Gun Yun, Hye-Sol Jung, Youngmin Han, Mirang Lee, Wooil Kwon, Jin-Young Jang, Joon Seong Park

“…The cutoff points of preoperative CA19-9 and FE-1 levels were extracted from the Youden index and previous studies. Cox proportional hazard models were used to investigate the association between preoperative tumor marker levels and survival after surgery. …”
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Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with tinnitus in the UK: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Peter M Allen, David M Baguley, Gerhard Andersson, Eldré W Beukes, Vinaya Manchaiah

“…The main outcome measure is the Tinnitus Functional Index. Process evaluation of the intervention will also be conducted. …”
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Detection and quantification of pathogens in saliva of adolescents with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional study by Rosemeire Arai Yoshida, Tiago Bertola Lobato, Renata Gorjão, Lucas Santiago França, Lívia Araujo Alves, Maria Teresa Botti Rodrigues Santos

“…Initially, saliva was collected from the CP (n = 34) and control groups (n = 31), followed by the gingival index (GI) for distribution of the groups of individuals with CP and control with gingivitis (bleeding on probing ≥ 10%) and without gingivitis. …”
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Prevalence of Dental Caries in Schoolchildren from the Galapagos Islands: ESSO-Gal Cohort Report by Ana Armas-Vega, Juan Marcos Parise-Vasco, María Cristina Díaz-Segovia, David Alejandro Arroyo-Bonilla, María José Cabrera-Dávila, María Christel Zambrano-Bonilla, Ingrid Ordonez-Romero, Andrea Caiza-Rennella, Andrea Zambrano-Mendoza, Celia Ponce-Faula, Andrés Viteri-García

“…The prevalence of dental caries was assessed using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS II) criteria, while the presence of dental biofilm was assessed using the Silness–Löe index. Descriptive statistics, including frequency analysis and measures of central tendency and dispersion, were performed. …”
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Policy relevant crop diversity monitoring based on earth observation and farmers’ declarations by Marijn van der Velde, Martin Claverie, Raphaël d’Andrimont, Melissande Machefer, Simona Bosco, Rui Catarino, Frank Dentener, Vincenzo Angilieri

“…We compute a new EU-wide overview of crop diversification for 2018 using the Shannon diversity index based on 10 m resolution EO crop map. For the EU as a whole, the effective number of species broadly ranges from 2.6 (p10) to 5.3 (p90) with a median of 3.9. …”
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Intervertebral disc regeneration – Is it possible? by Dragos Schiopu, Arnaud Devriendt, Clara Van Vyve, Tamas S. Illes

“…The dGEMRIC studies in degenerative and control discs, visual analogue scale (VAS), Oswestry disability index (ODI), lumbar lordosis, and disc thickness were reviewed before and after surgery. …”
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Insight, Cognitive Insight and Sociodemographic Features in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Presenting with Reactive and Autogeneus Features by Katre ÇAMLI, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR, A. Emre SARGIN

“…Although there was no significant difference for the composit index points, which is the subtraction of the two subscales, the p value was close to the limit. …”
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Three-Dimensional Teaching Method for Art Design Major from the Perspective of “Internet Economy” by Xike Zhang

“…In view of the relevant teaching problems in the field of art and design, in order to study the teaching methods and contents of art design major from the perspective of the Internet economy, the evaluation indexes corresponding to the Internet are introduced into the partial least squares regression (PLS) path analysis model based on the relevant theoretical basis of the Internet. …”
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APPLICATION OF SINMAP AND ANALYSIS OF MODEL SENSITIVITY – CASE STUDIES FROM GERMANY AND CHINA by BENNI THIEBES, RAINER BELL, THOMAS GLADE, JIAN WANG, SHIBIAO BAI

“…In this study, the physically-based model SINMAP (Stability Index Mapping) was applied to two study areas with different geo-environmental conditions; one in the Swabian Alb, Germany, and one in Youfang catchment, Wudu county, Western China. …”
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Thermodynamic analysis and energy balance for environmental sustainability of simple gas turbine inlet cooling system in AFAM power plant by Aniekan Ikpe, Imoh Ekanem, Enefiok Usungurua

“…The refrigeration method, which had an input condition of 15℃, obtained a Sustainability Index (SI) of 2.243. The spray cooling technique had a slightly lower SI of 2.17, followed by the fogging method with a SI of 2.165. …”
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Scar Healing after Breast Reconstruction: A 5-year Follow-up in Asian Patients by Risa Murakami, Tomohiro Shiraishi, Mikiko Imamura, Akihiko Takushima, Hirotaka Suga

“…There was no significant association between abnormal scars and age or body mass index. Conclusions: Even in Asian patients with persistent hypervascularity of breast scars, most cases improve within 5 years after reconstruction. …”
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An Evaluation of the Responsiveness and Discriminant Validity of Shoulder Questionnaires among Patients Receiving Surgical Correction of Shoulder Instability by Kyle A. R. Kemp, David M. Sheps, Lauren A. Beaupre, Fiona Styles-Tripp, Charlene Luciak-Corea, Robert Balyk

“…Forty-three patients (32 M, 13 F; mean age  =  26.00  ±  8.19 years) undergoing arthroscopic Bankart repair completed three validated shoulder questionnaires (Western Ontario Shoulder Instability index (WOSI), American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment form (ASES), Constant score) preoperatively, and at 6, 12, and 24 months postoperatively. …”
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Adapting a style based generative adversarial network to create images depicting cleft lip deformity by Abdullah Hayajneh, Erchin Serpedin, Mohammad Shaqfeh, Graeme Glass, Mitchell A. Stotland

“…Perceptual Path Length and the novel Divergence Index of Normality measures also assessed the performance of the novel image generator. …”
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Study on Safety Performance of Building Finish Layer under Thermomechanical Coupling Condition by Kai Yan, Yansong Hu, Kaozhong Zhao, Xin Lin

“…A systematic evaluation index system is established. The results of this study provide a basis for subsequent related research work and engineering applications.…”
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Identification of LSA Data Retrieval Method and Temporal Graph for Document Retrieval by Shahla Rezvani, Nader Naghshineh, Ahmad Khalilijafarabad

“…Regarding the results of the current study on application of latent semantic indexing (LSA) information retrieval model, which was ultimately used to retrieve expert authors, the performance of LSA-based retrieval model outperformed the baseline model. …”
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Pregnancy and Postpartum Trends in Self‐Measured Blood Pressure and Derived Indices: The BOSHI Study by Seiya Izumi, Misato Nishimura, Noriyuki Iwama, Hasumi Tomita, Hirotaka Hamada, Taku Obara, Mami Ishikuro, Takahisa Murakami, Michihiro Satoh, Takuo Hirose, Masatoshi Saito, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Shinichi Kuriyama, Nobuo Yaegashi, Kazuhiko Hoshi, Yutaka Imai, Hirohito Metoki, the BOSHI Study Group

“…During pregnancy, the pulse rate (PR) showed an inverted U‐shaped trend and then sharply increased rapidly until the first postpartum day after delivery. The Shock Index showed a similar trend to that of the PR, decreased from labor until postpartum Day 8, and plateaued thereafter. …”
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