Alterations of Serum Bile Acid Profile in Patients with Crohn’s Disease by Rui Sun, Jingjing Jiang, Ling Yang, Lu Chen, Hong Chen

“…The correlation analysis showed that the SBA, DCA, GDCA levels, and DCA/(DCA + CA) ratio had an inverse relationship with Crohn’s Disease Activity Index. Conclusion. The BA profile exhibits significant alterations in CD patients. …”
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Review of presentations and radiotherapy outcomes of patients with malignant spinal cord compression by Louisa M. Mbokazi, Sheynaz Bassa, Krishanthavathie Pillay

“…Background: Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) is the commonest radiotherapy emergency. A high index of suspicion, prompt diagnosis, early referral and treatment is important to restore quality of life and improve survival in patients with MSCC. …”
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Extracting Regular Building Footprints Using Projection Histogram Method from UAV-Based 3D Models by Yaoyao Ren, Xing Li, Fangyuqing Jin, Chunmei Li, Wei Liu, Erzhu Li, Lianpeng Zhang

“…Subsequently, we employ 2D indexing and counting grids for efficient data processing and utilize a sophisticated connected component labeling algorithm to precisely identify the extents of the roofs. …”
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The Effect of Chronic Inhouse Biomass Fuel Smoke Exposure on Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon in Women Living in the Eastern Region of Turkey by Tayyar AKBULUT, Faysal SAYLIK

“…The presence of biomass exposure, body mass index, white blood cell count, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, C-reactive protein, serum creatinine, and hypertension were independent predictors of SCF. …”
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Estimating the Pile Settlement Using a Machine Learning Technique Optimized by Henry's Gas Solubility Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization by Saravana Kumar, Savarimuthu Robinson

“…Also, test phase results showed the better performance of SVR-HGSO with an MAE index of 0.278, which is 57.10% lower than the other one. …”
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Women’s empowerment in livestock sector as a tool to enhance child’s nutrition: a review by Fatema Tuj Zohora Hira, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum

“…While the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index is widely employed in various contexts, there remains a need to further explore WE in the livestock sector. …”
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Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen by John K. Young

“…Subsequent printings have included more names—first Eric Garner then John Crawford, killed by a police officer while carrying a BB gun in an Ohio Walmart—and eventually sixteen more memorials, including Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray, with a fading stream of “In Memory” stretched across the remainder of the page, and with the recto reading, “because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying.”This paper traces the post-publication variants in Citizen as an index of the book’s attempts to remake itself in response to new tragedies, and to portray white violence more broadly than in the “justice system” alone. …”
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How does BMI correlate with menarche onset? Evidence from the Italian HBSC cross-sectional study by Domitilla Marconi, Dario Lipari, Andrea Pammolli, Paola Dalmasso, Paola Nardone, Alessio Vieno, Rita Simi, Giacomo Lazzeri

“…Our study aims to investigate the relationship between body mass index and age at onset of menarche; Methods We used a unique standardized national dataset on adolescent girls participating in the Italian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study. …”
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Smartphone-based health monitoring in India: Data collection and evaluation for pulse rate estimation by Achal Shetty, Sanjana S. Narasimhamurthy, KS Nataraj, Srilakshmi M. Prabhu, Neha Jagadeesh, Kunal Katre, Sumit Kumar, Neelesh Kapoor, Sudhir P. Haladi, Sankalp Gulati

“…Methods: Data collection considered Indian patients with various medical conditions, body mass index profiles, blood pressure levels, ages, and smoking habits, reflecting a broad demographic spectrum. …”
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Disease Burden and Harm of Osteoarthritis by WU Haotian, LIN Jianhao

“…Besides, postmenopausal women, individuals with high body mass index, and residents in rural and mountainous areas are also at relatively higher risk of osteoarthritis. …”
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Meals in children’s education units: planning, production process, distribution and adequacy of the main meal by Estefanini Libia Siqueira Teixeira de Almeida, Michelle Franklin Silva Fontes, Adriana Versiani dos Anjos, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira

“…It was investigated whether the production and nutritional adequacy indexes were consonant with the guidelines of the National School Meals Program (PNAE), by means of direct weighing of five menus for the main meal that were gathered randomly. …”
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Enhanced characterization of non-metallic inclusions in ultra-high-strength steels using advanced synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy and chemometric analysis by Mourad Kharbach, Mohammed Alaoui Mansouri, Ekta Rani, Harishchandra Singh, Tuomas Alatarvas, Brice Sarpi, Lin Zhu, Yuran Niu, Alexei Zakharov, Ilkka Launonen, Marko Huttula, Mikko J. Sillanpaa, Samuli Urpelainen

“…The challenge of assigning calcium phase identities to the spectra extracted by MCR-ALS is addressed using a comprehensive reference database and the Hit Quality Index (HQI), which effectively matches most NMIs before annealing to the calcium phosphate phase. …”
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Chromogranin A: From Laboratory to Clinical Aspects of Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors by Paola Di Giacinto, Francesca Rota, Laura Rizza, Davide Campana, Andrea Isidori, Andrea Lania, Andrea Lenzi, Paolo Zuppi, Roberto Baldelli

“…Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are characterized by having behavior and prognosis that depend upon tumor histology, primary site, staging, and proliferative index. The symptoms associated with carcinoid syndrome and vasoactive intestinal peptide tumors are treated with octreotide acetate. …”
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Improving dexamethasone drug loading and efficacy in treating rheumatoid arthritis via liposome: Focusing on inflammation and molecular mechanisms by Mohammad Yasin Zamanian, Hamidreza Zafari, Maria K. Osminina, Alla A. Skakodub, Raed Fanoukh Aboqader Al‐Aouadi, Maryam Golmohammadi, Nikta Nikbakht, Iman Fatemi

“…The liposomal formulation also shows better hemocompatibility, fewer adverse effects on body weight and immune organ index, and a longer circulation time with higher bioavailability. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of urban expansion and its impact on farmlands in the central Ethiopia metropolitan area by Kalid Hassen Yasin, Anteneh Derribew Iguala, Tadele Bedo Gelete

“…The study employed an analytical framework incorporating multiple methodologies: intensity analysis at interval, categorical, and transitional levels to quantify urban growth trajectories; gradient direction and distance analyses to examine spatial expansion patterns; and Land Expansion Index (LEI) and Landscape Dynamic Typology (LDT) metrics to characterize the urban morphology and spatial dynamics of the study area. …”
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Not “Much Room” in the Heart: A Rare Case of a Massive Intracardiac Candida Mass by Ali Haider Jafry, Sardar Hassan Ijaz, Murtaza Mazhar, Areeba Shahnawaz, Ali Yousif

“…CIE may be an insidious complication of indwelling central venous catheters, necessitating a high index of suspicion. Conservative management, with antifungal therapy, can yield favorable outcomes in poor surgical candidates.…”
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Analyzing the hydro-morphological indicators of the Balharoud river with the aim of determining the trend and causes of riverbed change by Tayebeh Kiani, Mohsen Pourbashir Hir

“…In this research, the Balehradud Border River, which forms 62 km from Iran's border with the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ardebil province, be studied based on the substitution approach by studying the hydromorphic indices of the Sinuosity coefficient, bending radius and central angle for the period 1955 and 2016 respectively using the map of Protocol 1/25000 and satellite imagery of ETM. And the indexes were calculated in AutoCAD and Arc maps software. …”
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Gestational Weight Gain among Healthy Pregnant Women from Asia in Comparison with Institute of Medicine (IOM) Guidelines-2009: A Systematic Review by Priyanka Arora, Bani Tamber Aeri

“…The findings highlight the need for appropriate GWG limits across the different body mass index levels specifically for Indians and other Asian population. …”
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Failure Mechanism of the Qianjiangping Slope in Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China by Zhenhua Zhang, Mingming Qian, Song Wei, Juxiang Chen

“…In order to clarify the influence degrees of each of three conditions (reservoir impoundment, rainfall, and combined effect of reservoir impoundment and rainfall) on the failure of the Qianjiangping slope and reveal the failure mechanism of the slope, underground water tables and stresses in the slope were calculated under the three conditions, respectively, based on fluid-solid coupling theory using the Abaqus software in this paper; then, the failure approach index (FAI) was adopted to analyze the failure characteristics of the slope under each of the three conditions. …”
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Phillyrin ameliorates DSS-induced colitis in mice via modulating the gut microbiota and inhibiting the NF-κB/MLCK pathway by Tong Li, Guiqiu Hu, Shoupeng Fu, Di Qin, Zheyu Song

“…This effect was manifested as reduced weight loss, a shortened colon, increased secretion of inflammatory factors, increased intestinal permeability, and an enhanced disease activity index in mice with ulcerative colitis (UC). Molecular investigations have determined that PHY mitigates the nuclear translocation of nuclear factor kappa B, thereby downregulating myosin light-chain kinase-driven myosin light-chain phosphorylation. …”
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