ROLLING REGRESSION CAPM ON ZAGREB STOCK EXCHANGE – CAN INVESTORS PROFIT FROM IT? by Tihana Škrinjarić

“…Weekly data on five sector indices from Zagreb Stock Exchange and the market index CROBEX with 91 day T-bill rates have been used for the period January 2012 – April 2018 in order to evaluate rolling regression CAPM on the Croatian market. …”
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Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines by Changqing Lin, Jian Zhen Yu, Eddie Lee, Pak-Wai Chan, Jackie Wai-Yin Ng, Ying-Wa Chan, Tianshu Zhang, Yiang Chen, Hanzhe Chen, Zijing Zhang, Samuel Ho-Kwong Chui, Jimmy C. H. Fung, Wenqing Liu, Alexis K. H. Lau

“…These analyses prompted the development of a real-time chemical-wind index to identify the occurrence of air pollution associated with volcanic emissions. …”
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Chrysene alters the expression pattern of HSP70 genes in mandarin fish by Yufei Liu, Tiantian Chen, Jinliang Zhao, Xiaowu Chen

“…There are 16 HSP70 genes in mandarin fish, and their protein three-dimensional structures were constructed. The aliphatic index of the 16 mandarin fish HSP70sranges from 73.50 (HSPa4b) to 99.46 (HSPa13), and all are hydrophilic proteins, with seven of them being unstable proteins. …”
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The Virtual Meets the Real in Sports World: Is There a Circular Effect Between Traditional Sports and eSports Fan Identification? by Andre Ferreira Gavinho Cardoso, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

“…The Points of Attachment Index was applied with the theoretical background used mainly being the Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979). …”
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Primary Nasal Tuberculosis by Varun Jerath, Bipin Kishore Prasad, Yamuna Ranganathan, Sunil Goyal

“…One should have a high index of suspicion in patients living in endemic areas not responding to routine treatment and presenting with nasal mass and crusting …”
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Weight bias and stigma in healthcare professionals: a narrative review with a Singapore lens by Anthony James Goff, Yingshan Lee, Kwang Wei Tham

“…Two databases (PubMed and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [CINAHL]) were searched. …”
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A Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: A Retrospective Study by Ling Y, Miao X, Zhou X, Ma J, Lin Z, Li Q, Zhang M, Ma Y, Chen B

“…The prognostic model demonstrated concordance Index (C-index) of 0.731 and 0.679 in the development and validation cohorts, respectively. …”
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Esophageal lesions at irritable bowel syndrome by M. G. Mnatsakanyan, O. V. Tashchyan, Yu. A. Morozova, A. P. Pogromov, G. M. Dyukova, D. V. Khalyapina

“…Methods of investigation included clinical examination, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGDS) colonoscopy, X-ray investigation of the upper gut, 13С-urease breath test for Helicobacter pylori, 24-hour combined intraluminal рН-impedance recording with estimation of qualitative and quantitative indicators of refluxes and index of symptom-association probability (SAP). Psychometric components were estimated as well: anxiety and depression scores, scores of alexithymia, associated symptoms, quality of life, degree of hyperventilation, index of visceral sensitivity, degree of pain by visual analog scale. …”
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Predicting cardiovascular outcomes in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes by combining risk factor trajectories and machine learning algorithm: a cohort study by Qi Huang, Xiantong Zou, Zhouhui Lian, Xianghai Zhou, Xueyao Han, Yingying Luo, Shuohua Chen, Yanxiu Wang, Shouling Wu, Linong Ji

“…Results The ML-CVD-C score achieved a C-index of 0.80 (95% CI: 0.78–0.82) in the testing cohort, significantly outperforming the ML-CVD-C (base) score, China-PAR, and PREVENT, which had C-index values of 0.62–0.65. …”
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Environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural drivers of monkeypox transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a One Health perspective by Guangyu Lu, Zeyin Chong, Enyu Xu, Ce Na, Kaixuan Liu, Liying Chai, Pengpeng Xia, Kai Yang, Guoqiang Zhu, Jinkou Zhao, Olaf Müller

“…The GM (1, n) model, based on the proportion of primary forest, index of economic well-being, and mean annual precipitation, predicted the epidemic trend (revealed relative error: 2.69). …”
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Association Between Vaso-Occlusive Crises and Opioid Prescriptions Among Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Retrospective Claims-Based Study by Hyeun Ah Kang, Jamie C. Barner, Kristin M. Richards, Menaka Bhor, Jincy Paulose, Abdullah Kutlar

“…**Methods:** This was a retrospective cohort study using Texas Medicaid medical and prescription claims between September 2011 and August 2016. The index date was the first SCD diagnosis. Patients (2–63 years) with at least one inpatient or two outpatient SCD diagnoses, who were continuously enrolled during 12 months postindex, were included in the study. …”
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New strategies in management of severe alcoholic hepatitis by P. Ye. Tkachenko, I. I. Komkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The mean score of Maddrey index (MI) was 58,5±26,8. The second group included 20 patients as well (11 men and 9 women, mean age — 46,10±10,47 years). …”
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Optimization of the Fermentation Process for Pine-needle Sweet-potato Glutinous Rice Wine and Analysis of Its Antioxidant Activity by Jie YOU, Rusheng XIE, Weibin WU

“…Objective: In order to improve the flavor and efficacy of traditional sweet-potato glutinous rice wine, optimize the fermentation process of pine-needle sweet-potato glutinous rice wine and evaluate its physicochemical indexes and antioxidant activity. Methods: Based on the traditional fermentation of sweet-potato rice wine, the fermentation conditions were optimized using a single-factor experiment and the response surface method. …”
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Comparison of Healthcare Encounters and Drug Persistence in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Receiving Oral Selexipag, Inhaled Iloprost, or Parenteral Treprostinil: A... by Ci Song, Peter Kunovszki, Amélie Beaudet

“…Patients were categorized into index-drug cohorts based on first pharmacy claims for selexipag, inhaled iloprost, or parenteral treprostinil. …”
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Exploration of pulse wave analysis under reactive hyperemia and close to an arteriovenous fistula: a comparative analysis by Veit Busch, Sandra Müller, Joachim Streis, Timm H. Westhoff, Thomas Felderhoff, Felix S. Seibert, Stefan Reuter, Niklas Mueller

“…In addition, the augmentation index was evaluated (only) under physiological conditions. …”
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Features of the Expression of Second-Type Melatonin Receptors by Esophagus Epiteliocytes in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by O. A. Karpovich, T. T. Shtabinskaya, V. I. Shishko, Ya. A. Kolodzeysky

“…The control group consisted of 18 patients without GERD, comparable with the main groups by gender, age and body mass index. In order to determine the expression of MTNR1B, esophagogastroduodenoscopy with the collection of biopsy material from the mucous membrane of the distal esophagus was performed. …”
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Examining the Leverage Effect, Dynamic Conditional Correlation, and Volatility Spillover Among Selected Indices of the Tehran Stock Exchange: Evidence from the ARMA-DCC-GJR-GARCH M... by Gholamhosein Golarzi, Seyed Ramin Abolfazli

“…These ten industry indices collectively constitute over 75 percent of the overall Tehran Stock Exchange index. MethodsIn this study, the ARMA (1,1) form was utilized to construct the mean model. …”
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Temporal associations between microclimate, adult Aedes mosquito indices, and dengue cases at the residence level in Malaysia: Implications for targeted interventions. by Nur Athen Mohd Hardy Abdullah, Nazri Che Dom, Biswajeet Pradhan, Siti Aekball Salleh, Rahmat Dapari

“…<h4>Results</h4>The study indicated there are positive correlations between the adult index (AI) of Ae. albopictus, their preceding values and rainfall at an NDH. …”
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Relationship Between Single-Leg Vertical Jump and Drop Jump Performance, and Return to Sports After Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using Hamstring Graft by Shunsuke Ohji, Junya Aizawa, Kenji Hirohata, Takehiro Ohmi, Tomoko Kawasaki, Hideyuki Koga, Kazuyoshi Yagishita

“…Performance variables were also assessed, including SL hop distance, jump height in SL vertical jump, and reactive strength index (RSI; jump height/contact time) in SL drop jump. …”
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Formation of digital literacy components of future teachers in the course of studying the university-wide discipline “Digital Technologies in Education” by Natalya I. Isupova, Tatyana N. Suvorova

“…Statistically significant differences in the qualitative changes that occurred in the level of the digital literacy index of students in the experimental group trained in accordance with the proposed approach were revealed (χ2 = 9.570; α 0.05). …”
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