Analysis of International Competitiveness of Multinational Corporations Based on Rough Sets by Jing Zhao, Ning Qi

“…At present, domestic and foreign scholars have basically formed a series of assessment methods and models of investment environment assessment, but most of these assessment methods are affected by the differences in the degree of subjective factors of evaluators and the establishment of index weights in the assessment process. In most cases, more reliance is placed on subjective, artificial assignments and scoring loops. …”
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Evolution of power as an indicator of structural transformations: political and managerial aspect by V. V. Tyan

“…Soviet rule, effective in mobilizing society, with real achievements, did not escape a critical number of negative indexes. Almost one hundred percent legitimization of the Soviet government did not remove doubts about its strength. …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of Public Road Transportation Systems in India Using Multicriteria Decision-Making Techniques by Anand Kumar, Gurmeet Singh, Omkarprasad S. Vaidya

“…Finally, we analyzed the performance of the DMUs across the two consecutive years using the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI). Our key findings are as follows: First, the performance of all DMUs has improved in the second year with respect to the first year; second, significant improvement is observed in the “expenses” functional head which carries a substantial weight among the functional heads; third, barring few DMUs, the performance of the majority of DMUs has worsened in the “accident” functional head; fourth, while few DMUs have been consistently very good performers in both the years, there are also few DMUs which have consistently performed poorly in both the years. …”
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Assessing vulnerability and climate risk to agriculture for developing resilient farming strategies in the Ganges Delta by Uttam Kumar Mandal, Fazlul Karim, Yingying Yu, Amit Ghosh, Taslima Zahan, Sonali Mallick, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Priya Lal Chandra Paul, Mohammed Mainuddin

“…Among the 89 administrative units analyzed, five upazilas in Bangladesh and two blocks in India were identified under very high vulnerability index, covering 18.6% the area and 8.13% of the total population. …”
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Frequency of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria isolated from the Kınalıada Coastal Areas of the Sea of Marmara, Türkiye by Pelin Saliha Çiftçi Türetken, Gülşen Altuğ, Selma Dilara Karaman Baş

“…All bacterial isolates showed resistance to more than three antibiotic derivatives, and the Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (MAR) index was determined to be in the range of 0.67–1. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Relationship between Bursting Proneness and Mechanical Parameters of Coal by Hongwei Wang, Jiaqi Song, Zeliang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shaozhen Zhang, Yaodong Jiang

“…The results reveal that the coal cohesion, which combines the common advantages of the four proneness indices, can be used as bursting proneness index. In the research of heterogeneity, the coal bursting proneness will decrease with the increasing of cohesion scatter degree. …”
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Logistic Regression Model Using Scheimpflug-Placido Cornea Topographer Parameters to Diagnose Keratoconus by Emre Altinkurt, Ozkan Avci, Orkun Muftuoglu, Adem Ugurlu, Zafer Cebeci, Kemal Turgay Ozbilen

“…Baiocchi Calossi Versaci front index (BCVf) had the highest AUROC value (0.976) in the study. …”
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Physiological Aldosterone Concentrations Are Associated with Alterations of Lipid Metabolism: Observations from the General Population by M. Hannich, H. Wallaschofski, M. Nauck, M. Reincke, C. Adolf, H. Völzke, R. Rettig, A. Hannemann

“…The associations of aldosterone with serum lipid concentrations were assessed in multivariable linear regression models adjusted for sex, age, body mass index (BMI), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and HbA1c. …”
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Predicting home delivery and identifying its determinants among women aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan African countries using a Demographic and Health Surveys 2016–2023: a machine... by Adem Tsegaw Zegeye, Binyam Chaklu Tilahun, Makida Fekadie, Eliyas Addisu, Birhan Wassie, Berihun Alelign, Mequannet Sharew, Nebebe Demis Baykemagn, Abdulaziz Kebede, Tirualem Zeleke Yehuala

“…Association rules findings showed that inadequate antenatal care visits, marital status married, no education, mobile phone, television, electricity, poor wealth index, infrequent television viewing, and rural residence were predictor of home delivery. …”
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A scoping review of conventional and laser acupuncture as a modality of treatment for migraine by Chizoba ANYIMUKWU, Vinayak K. NAHAR, Sunita KAPUR, Manoj SHARMA

“…The inclusion criteria for including interventions in this study were: (a) published in English language between 2013 and January 2018; (b) indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL, AltHealthWatch, and SCOPUS; (c) quantitative evaluations of acupuncture as a modality of treatment; (d) original, peer-reviewed research articles; and (e) utilized patients diagnosed with migraine. …”

Disseminated Gastrointestinal Basidiobolomycosis: A Case Report with Review of Diagnostic Clues by Neda Soleimani, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Hamed Nikoupour, Faranak Derakhshan, Mojtaba Shafiekhani, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Seyed Mohamad Sakhaei, Mahsa Farhadi

“…The exact transmission route of gastrointestinal cases is not clear, and diagnosis always requires a high index of suspicion because it tends to mimic other inflammatory and neoplastic conditions. …”
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Influences on safety of intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring practices: a scoping review by Cathy Winter, Mary Dixon-Woods, Isla Kuhn, Guillaume Lamé, Elisa Liberati, Jenni Burt, Sarah Kelly, Alice Egerton, Tim J Draycott, Harry Kyriacou, Kathryn Jones, Harry Dunn, Xueying Nancy Zheng, Zi Qi Kok

“…We aimed to identify the range of influences on the safety of using EFM-CTG in practice.Design Scoping review to identify influences related to the practice of intrapartum EFM.Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, British Nursing Index, Cochrane Library, from 1 January 2001 to 25 August 2024, and grey literature.Eligibility criteria Articles that reported potential influences on the clinical practice of intrapartum EFM-CTG in hospital-based intrapartum maternity care settings, including primary studies, secondary analyses, reviews, reports, conference abstracts and investigations relevant to maternity and obstetrics, in English. …”
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Microcrack feature extraction method for chaotic optical surface of silicon nitride ceramic bearing roller based on multi-scale wavelet transform enhancement and optimized PSO-FCM... by Yi Jiang, Mengtao Tang, Wenjie Dong, Guoxing Tang, Weiwen Hu, Jiao Li

“…The experiment showed that the reinforcement index RESE and PSNR in the chaotic optical surface microcracks of silicon nitride ceramic bearing rollers reach 15.76 and 24.19, respectively, effectively overcoming the problems of chaotic features in the surface microcracks while retaining the defect features. …”
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Association of inflammatory markers and endothelial dysfunction with depression in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease by Julcileia Imara D De Carvalho Muenho, Marisol Peña Sanchez, Alina González-Quevedo Monteagudo, Danay Martínez Puentes, Sergio González García, Marianela Arteche Prior, Asdrubal Arias Morales

“…Demographic variables, risk factors, etiology and location of the infarction, neurological deficiency, disability for activities of daily living (Barthel index), neuropsychological (depression by Beck inventory and Hamilton test) were collected. …”
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PID CONTROLLER FOR SPEED CONTROL OF PMSM BASED ON MAYFLY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM by Fatimah F. Jaber

“…Furthermore, the system's optimal ITAE index value, as determined by the MA technique, is smaller (0.794) as compared to other techniques 1.503 and 1.906 respectively. …”
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Rectal Application of Ozone to Patients with Diabetes Mellitus by Omar Morejón Barroso, Imandra María García Menéndez, Leticia Varela Castro, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares

“…Demographic variables were collected: age and sex; clinics: hemochemical parameters, time of evolution of the disease and nutritional status; as neurovascular complications: diabetic foot, diabetic polyneuropathy and diabetic retinopathy; treatments: hypoglycemic; modifiable risk factors: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcoholism, physical exercise; calculation of body mass index. The results found were expressed mainly through tables and graphs as the main resources of the statistical language. …”
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Tracing the Landscape of Research in Meniere Disease: A Visualized Analysis by Shadman Nemati, Sina Sarli, Roghayeh Ghorbani Bousari

“…Materials & Methods: Documents related to MD were searched in the topic search (TS) format indexed in the Scopus database from 1970 until 2023. …”
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Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in War-Affected Urban Settings of Tigray, Ethiopia by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet, Yibrah Hagos Gebresilassie, Mekonen Aregai Gebreselassie

“…The Food Insecurity Access Scale (FIAS), Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), and Food Consumption Score (FCS) were employed to assess the levels of food security, while the Livelihood Coping Strategy Index (LCSI) was used to identify coping strategies. …”
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Motivation of nursing undergraduate program entrants: A scoping review protocol. by Leonila Santos de Almeida Sasso, Ana Caroline Dos Santos Costa, Ana Maria Rita Pedroso Vilela Torres de Carvalho Engel, Emília Batista Mourão Tiol, Fabrício Renato Teixeira Valença, Natalia Almeida de Arnaldo Silva Rodrigues Castro, João Daniel de Souza Menezes, Cíntia Canato Martins, Carlos Dario da Silva Costa, Maria Aurélia da Silveira Assoni, William Donegá Martinez, Patrícia da Silva Fucuta, Vânia Maria Sabadoto Brienze, Alba Regina de Abreu Lima, Júlio César André

“…The search will be carried out in the following databases: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, Lilacs Esp, National Library of Medicine (PubMed), ScienceDirect, Scopus, and the Web of Science platform. …”
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Effect of N-Acetylcysteine on Dyslipidemia and Carbohydrate Metabolism in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats by Anderson Kiyoshi Kaga, Pedro Octavio Barbanera, Nágilla Orleanne Lima do Carmo, Lucas Rodolfo de Oliveira Rosa, Ana Angélica Henrique Fernandes

“…The aim of this study was to assess the effect of NAC on the lipid profile and the atherogenic index (AI) in streptozotocin- (STZ-) induced diabetic rats. …”
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