Development and validation of risk models to predict chronic kidney disease among people living with HIV: protocol for a systematic review by A P Kengne, Adesola Z Musa, Babatunde L Salako, Nasheeta Peer, Oluwatosin Olaseni Odubela, Nkiruka Odunukwe

“…This study will systematically review published prediction models developed and/or validated for prevalent and incident CKD in PLWH, describe their characteristics, compare performance and assess methodological quality and applicability.Methods and analysis Studies with predictive models of interest will be identified by searching MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane library and Scopus from inception to May 2022. …”
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Temporal variations landscape metrics of vegetation riparian areas in Gharesou River, Ardabil Province by Raoof Mostafazadeh, Fariba Esfandiary, Mahnaz Hamzeei, Nazila Alaei

“…Landscape connectivity index was 91.52% to 95.49% in this region during the study period, indicating the removing small patches of vegetation communities around the river. …”
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Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adolescents from a Doctor's Office by Marlene Ferrer Arrocha, Elikana Kiplagat Chirchir, Maylín Isabel Alonso Martínez, Héctor Pérez Assef

“…The variables studied were: age, sex, personal and family history of diabetes mellitus, weight, height, waist circumference, body mass index, blood pressure, presence of central obesity and waist/height ratio, consumption of fruits and vegetables, and physical activity. …”
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Iron deficiency anaemia and its associated risk factors among lactating mothers in Ghana by Mensah K, Abbam G, Gadzeto FF, Marfo L, Daud S, Kuntah S, Bani SB, Dzamesi HK, Apodola FA, Badu A, Chukwurah FE

“…Full blood count analysis, serum ferritin, malaria and other measurements such as Body Mass Index (BMI) and diet assessment were done for all the participants. …”
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Reliable Quantized Fuzzy Controller Design for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Systems With Markovian Jumps and Dynamic Event Triggered Mechanism by Rabeh Abbassi, Mourad Kchaou, Hamdi Gassara, Houssem Jerbi

“…The proposed approach is based on the following key attributes: 1) An event-triggered mechanism that establishes a suitable condition for independent signal transmission from each sensor node to the controller; 2) A stochastic failure model that describes actuator failures; 3) A non-stationary Markov chain that reflects the asynchronous relationship between the system and controller modes; 4) A mode-dependent Lyapunov function is used to establish sufficient conditions to show that the resultant closed-loop system is stochastically mean-square stable with a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> level of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ l_{2}-l_{\infty } $ </tex-math></inline-formula> performance index; 5) The theoretical findings are validated by a real numerical example of the Van Der Pol circuit, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.…”
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Regulation of Exogenous Strigolactone on Storage Substance Metabolism and Endogenous Hormone Levels in the Early Germination Stage of Rice Seeds Under Salt Stress by Jianqin Zhang, Dianfeng Zheng, Naijie Feng, Aaqil Khan, Rui Deng, Jian Xiong, Linchong Ding, Zhiyuan Sun, Jiahuan Li, Xiaohui Yang, Chen Wu

“…The results showed that salt stress significantly reduced the germination rate, germination potential, germination index, radicle length, germ length, and fresh and dry weights of the radicle and germ under salt stress. …”
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EARice10: a 10&thinsp;m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 2023 by M. Song, M. Song, M. Song, L. Xu, L. Xu, J. Ge, J. Ge, J. Ge, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, L. Zuo, L. Zuo, J. Jiang, J. Jiang, J. Jiang, Y. Ding, Y. Ding, Y. Ding, Y. Xie, Y. Xie, Y. Xie, F. Wu, F. Wu

“…A new synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based rice distribution mapping index (SRMI) was firstly proposed and combined with optical indices to generate representative rice samples. …”
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Encapsulation of betalains from beetroot stem by spray drying using Aloe vera gel as carrier by José Carlos Castillo-Altamirano, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Madrigal, Armando Quintero-Ramos, Martha Graciela Ruiz Gutiérrez

“…The obtained powders were evaluated for water activity (aw), moisture (M), pH, glass transition temperature (Tg), bulk density (BD), water solubility index (WSI), color parameters, betacyanin (BC) and betaxanthin (BX) contents, antioxidant activity (AA) and morphology. …”
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Research on Neural Network Prediction Model of Whole Process Risk Management Based on Building Information Model by Shihong Huang, Chengye Liang, Jiao Liu

“…The risk management evaluation index system is constructed and identified, and assessment, early warning, prevention, and control of risk management are applied and analyzed throughout the process. …”
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SNAP and/or WIC Participation and Diet Quality in Mother-Child Dyads living in Greater Boston after Pandemic: A Mixed-Method Study by Thanit Vinitchagoon, Fang Fang Zhang, Rebecca C. Fauth, Erin Hennessy, Ana G. Maafs, Emma M. Browning, Christina D. Economos

“…Analysis of covariance using generalized linear models was employed to compare differences in Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) scores based on SNAP and/or WIC participation, and thematic analysis was used for coding themes. …”
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Design of Hydraulic Bulging Die for Automobile Torsion Beam and Optimization of Forming Process Parameters by Kefan Yang, Youmin Wang, Kexun Fu

“…Maximum thinning and maximum thickening rates are taken as hydraulic pressure expansion evaluation indexes to complete the orthogonal experiments. Main molding process parameters are analyzed via orthogonal experiment results and optimized by employing the Taguchi method. …”
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Performance augmentation of triangular solar still using sensible energy storage materials: thermo-exergo-economic and sustainability analyses by Sharma, Naveen, Patel, Ashutosh, Deep, Raman, Gautam, Shivam

“…Furthermore, the exergetic sustainability of the TSS was explored using improvement potential and sustainability index parameters. Moreover, the TDS and pH values of the yield produced from TSS, with and without SHSMs, adhere to water quality standards.…”
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Predicting child mortality determinants in Uttar Pradesh using Machine Learning: Insights from the National Family and Health Survey (2019–21) by Pinky Pandey, Sacheendra Shukla, Niraj Kumar Singh, Mukesh Kumar

“…The most effective model identified key determinants of under-five mortality, including breastfeeding status, number of births in the preceding five years, child's gender, birth intervals, antenatal care, birth order, type of water source, and maternal body mass index. Conclusion: Machine learning models provide valuable insights into the determinants of under-five mortality, with the logistic regression model demonstrating superior predictive performance. …”
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Rag‐bull rider optimisation with deep recurrent neural network for epileptic seizure detection using electroencephalogram by Prabin Jose Johnrose, Sundaram Muniasamy, Jaffino Georgepeter

“…The features like Holoentropy, relative energy, fluctuation index, tonal power ratio, spectral features along with the proposed Taylor‐based delta amplitude modulation spectrogram (Taylor‐based delta AMS) are mined from each channel. …”
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Cytomegalovirus Infection and Its Relationship with Leukocyte Telomere Length: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zhu Lin, Hongmei Gao, Bing Wang, Yongqiang Wang

“…We further tested if obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI), and smoking could modify this relationship. …”
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Evaluation of the role of cultural-religious indices in tourism development with an emphasis on the Chehel Dokhtar ritual in Khorram Abad city by ali amiri, mandana masoudi rad, somayeh bakhshizadeh, hosein zaree

“…The results of one sample T-test at the significant level of 0.000 indicate the impact of all three indicators of abilities and potentials in the chehell manbarr, visual beauties and custodians of urban organizations such as Culture and Islamic Guidance, Municipalities and other related organizations Is above average; Also according to the results of one-way analysis of variance at the error level below 0.05% , it is vary the effect of the index of abilities and potentials in the chehell manbarr ceremonies, and the effect of metropolitan organizations such as culture and Islamic guidance and municipality according to the educational levels of the respondents. …”
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Exploring social media appearance preoccupation in relation to self-esteem, well-being, and mental health by Rosa Angela Fabio, Rosa Tripodi

“…Participants and procedure A sample of 401 Italian participants, aged 18 to 54, completed the demographic questionnaire, the Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale (SMAPS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWBI), the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y2 (STAI-Y2). …”
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The effects of PISA on global basic education reform: a systematic literature review by Jian Li, Eryong Xue, Siyuan Guo

“…The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Scopus databases were searched for empirical research written in English, focusing on basic education, and including search terms such as PISA, educational reform, and policy. …”
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Fruit and seed diversity of introduced Phoenix dactylifera in Yuanjiang of Yunnan Province by DING Bing, LI Lianfang, WANG Kanglin, WANG Wenjun, YANG Liying, WU Chengpeng

“…The methods of Shannon- Wiener index and principal component analysis etc. were employed to interpret the diversity of FSTs, and primarily to determine the excellent individual plants in the population. …”
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Prognostic prediction for inflammatory breast cancer patients using random survival forest modeling by Yiwei Jia, Chaofan Li, Cong Feng, Shiyu Sun, Yifan Cai, Peizhuo Yao, Xinyu Wei, Zeyao Feng, Yanbin Liu, Wei Lv, Huizi Wu, Fei Wu, Lu Zhang, Shuqun Zhang, Xingcong Ma

“…The top five significant variables included surgery, response to neoadjuvant therapy, chemotherapy, breast cancer molecular subtypes, and M stage. The C-index of RSF model was 0.7704 and the area under curve (AUC) values for 1, 3, 5 years in training and validation datasets were 0.879–0.955, suggesting the excellent predictive performance of RSF model. …”
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