Impacts of stigma and discrimination on people with obesity who smoke cigarettes by Liza A. Kolbasov, Arryn A. Guy, Cara M. Murphy

“…This study examined associations between stigma, discrimination, and health for people with overweight or obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 25) who smoke cigarettes (cigarettes smoked/day ≥ 5) who reported interest in quitting smoking and minimizing weight gain. …”
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Evaluation Model of Enterprise Lean Management Effect Based on Data Mining by Rui Chang

“…Finally, on the basis of fully considering the characteristics of management services, we build a comprehensive evaluation index system for management service providers in terms of service capabilities, service quality, informatization capabilities, and cooperation risks and comprehensively consider the uncertain factors in the decision-making process. …”
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Interhemispheric Pathways Are Important for Motor Outcome in Individuals with Chronic and Severe Upper Limb Impairment Post Stroke by Kathryn S. Hayward, Jason L. Neva, Cameron S. Mang, Sue Peters, Katie P. Wadden, Jennifer K. Ferris, Lara A. Boyd

“…Transcranial magnetic stimulation and diffusion weight imaging indexed structure and function of the corticospinal tract and corpus callosum. …”
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The use of photovoice in research with adolescents living with HIV in Africa: A scoping review by Yolanda R. Mayman, Brian van Wyk

“…Method: Eight electronic databases (ERIC, Ebscohost, PubMed, SCOPUS, CINAHAL, PsycINFO, CABI Direct and Africa Index Medicus) were searched to identify articles that used photovoice methods with ALHIV in Africa to publish between 2000 and 2024. …”
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Plasma Adiponectin and Its Correlation with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Maha Hussein, Aasem Saif, Mona Amin, Osama Khalafallah, Ahmed Hussien, Samar Aboulsoud, Shrook Mousa

“…The significant independent predictors of CIMT were diabetes duration, BMI (body mass index), albumin/creatinine ratio, and cholesterol. …”
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COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE OF WHEAT FLOUR MILLS IN IRAQ FOR THE YEAR 2019 BAGHDAD GOVERNORATE CASE STUDY by Mohammed A.J.A., H.J.MOHAMMED

“…In summary, we conclude that the increase in the quantities of raw wheat in the second period of the sample by 7.0% resulted in a positive effect on the results of technical efficiency TEvrs, and this was also indicated by the results of the Malmquist index. As for the decrease in the results of the average economic efficiency of the sample in the second period due to the low economic efficiency of the mills of the first category, which negatively affected the results of the sample as a whole. …”
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Modification of Coal Samples with Bursting Liability Subjected to Microwave Irradiation by Yingyuan Wen, Weiming Guan, Hongchao Zhao, Honglin Liu, Huwei Li, Qi Qi

“…Test results indicated that both the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) and bursting energy index of raw and water-soaked coal samples were significantly reduced. …”
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Influence of preoperative frailty on quality of life after cardiac surgery: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Kathryn Bezzina, Christophe A Fehlmann, Ming Hao Guo, Sarah M Visintini, Fraser D Rubens, George A Wells, Rosetta Mazzola, Caroline McGuinty, Allen Huang, Lara Khoury, Kevin Emery Boczar

“…Secondary outcomes will include readmission during the year following the index intervention, discharge to a long-term care facility and living in a long-term care facility at one year. …”
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The minimal clinically important difference of the Participation Measurement Scale in chronic stroke by Oyéné Kossi, Soraia M. Silva, Francesco Lena, Mendinatou Agbetou, Thierry Adoukonou, Peter Feys, Félix Nindorera

“…The MCID for the PM-Scale was estimated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and the Youden index. Results: Data were collected from 46 people with chronic stroke, of which 22% were female, with median (Percentile 25, Percentile 75) age of 54 (44; 60) years, and time since stroke is 24 (11; 37) months. …”
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Reduced Gain and Shortened Time Constant of Vestibular Velocity Storage as a Source of Balance and Movement Sensitivities in Gravitational Insecurity by Michael Potegal, Teresa A. May-Benson, Sara Oxborough, Amy Hall, Stefanie McKnight

“…A Provisional Gravitational Insecurity Index (PGrI) was developed, evaluated for psychometrics/demographics, and used to identify otherwise healthy adults with life-long balance challenges as well as sex, age, and ethnicity-matched comparison adults without such challenges. …”
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Anomaly Detection for Time Series with Difference Rate Sample Entropy and Generative Adversarial Networks by Keke Gao, Wenbin Feng, Xia Zhao, Chongchong Yu, Weijun Su, Yuqing Niu, Lu Han

“…The prediction and early warning of coal mine thermodynamic disasters are mainly determined by the changes of the index gas concentration pattern in coal mine mined-out areas collected continuously. …”
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Liposome-like encapsulation of fish oil-based self-nano emulsifying formulation for improved bioavailability by Iqbal Ahmad, Aparana Dogra, Tanya Nagpal, Chandvi Sharma, Sudhakar Singh, Nikhil Shaiva, Gaurav Saini, Kanishk Luhach

“…A Box-Behnken design was employed to optimize the formulation, assessing the impact of lecithin, polyethylene glycol (PEG), propylene glycol ester, and polysorbate on particle size, polydispersity index (PDI), and zeta potential. The optimized formulation exhibited significantly smaller particle sizes (100–300 nm), low PDI (0.149–0.303), and a stable zeta potential(-32.5 to -27.9 mV), potentially contributing to improved absorption and stability. …”
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Nomogram model and risk score predicting overall survival and guiding clinical decision in patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma: an observational study using SEER population-based data... by Yue Yang, Shang Li, Xiao Zhu, Yi Kong, Mingtao Zhang, Xiangping Liang, Zherui Zhang, Shuzhen Tan, Yingqi Li, Yueyuan Zhong, Yingqi Shao, Jiayi Xu, Zesong Li

“…The predictive ability of the nomogram was validated by the Concordance Index. Additionally, the calibration curve and receiver operating characteristic curve were implemented to evaluate the accuracy and discrimination. …”
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Distribution of Abdominal Obesity and Fitness Level in Overweight and Obese Korean Adults by Sue Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Duk-Chul Lee, Hye-Sun Lee, Ji-Won Lee, Justin Y. Jeon

“…After adjustments for age and sex, significant relationships of recovery heart rate and VAT, SAT, and VAT/SAT ratio were found; however, SAT was not significantly associated after further adjustment for body mass index (BMI) (r=0.045, P=0.499), whereas VAT (r=0.232, P<0.001) and VAT/SAT ratio (r=0.214, P=0.001) remained associated. …”
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DARNAUS VYSTYMOSI TIKSLAI IR ĮGYVENDINIMO RODIKLIAI by Irena Klimavičienė, Jūratė Vaičiulėnaitė

“…Darbotvarkės 2030 m. tikslai įgyvendinami nelabai sėkmingai lyginant su Latvija ir Estija; pagal pasaulinį darnaus vystymosi indeksą (Global Index Score - GIS) 2019 m. Lietuva užima 32 vietą tarp 193 šalių. …”
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Levels and associated factors for early cessation of EBF among under six month children in Ethiopia by Fassikaw Kebede Bizuneh, Tsehay Kebede Bizuneh

“…These included infant age 5–6 months (Adjusted odds ratio = 2.14), male infants (Adjusted odds ratio = 0.56), delayed initiation of breastfeeding (Adjusted odds ratio = 156.8), infant co-morbidities (Adjusted odds ratio = 2.3), maternal education level (Adjusted odds ratio = 3.16), lowest wealth index (Adjusted odds ratio = 3.2), and peripheral regions (Adjusted odds ratio = 2.12). …”
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Time series forecasting of Valley fever infection in Maricopa County, AZ using LSTMResearch in context by Xueting Jin, Fangwu Wei, Srinivasa Srivatsav Kandala, Tejas Umesh, Kayleigh Steele, John N. Galgiani, Manfred D. Laubichler

“…Factors, including temperature, precipitation, wind speed, PM10 and PM2.5 concentration, drought, and stringency index, were included in LSTM networks, considering their association with CM prevalence, time-lag effect, and correlation with other factors. …”
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Compressive Strength Prediction of Alkali-Activated Slag Concretes by Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) by Xiaoyu Qin, Qianmin Ma, Rongxin Guo, Zhigang Song, Zhiwei Lin, Haoxue Zhou

“…Both artificial neural network (ANN) and alternating conditional expectation (ACE) models of 3-day (3 d) and 28-day (28 d) compressive strength of AAS were established in this study by using the data reported in related literature, where alkali concentration of activator (Na2O%), modulus of activator (Ms), water/binder ratio (W/B), surface area of slag (SA), and basicity index of slag (Kb) were taken as input parameters. …”
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Seismic Fragility Assessment of RC Plan-Asymmetric Wall-Frame Structures Based on the Enhanced Damage Model by Ning Wang, Xiaoning Huang, Dan Zhang

“…Meanwhile, the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is conducted to create the fragility curves by assuming floor damage factor as seismic performance index. In particular, the randomness of the threshold for floor damage factor is considered during the assessment. …”
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No significant relationship found between spontaneous motor tempo, heartbeat, and individual alpha frequency: an analysis of internal tempos by Tamaka Harada, Giovanna Mioni, Nicola Cellini, Yuko Yotsumoto

“…They then tapped the space key with their index finger at their most comfortable tempo, which we used to determine SMT. …”
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