Prevalence of disability in Iranian older adults in Tehran, Iran: A population-based study by Vahid Rashedi, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Mahshid Foroughan, Ahmad Delbari, Reza Fadayevatan

“…The participants’ mean age was 68.93 years (SD = 7.27) and the participants’ mean of Body Mass Index (BMI) was 26.21 kg/m2 (SD = 4.40). Based on the results, the overall prevalence of disability was 11%. …”
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Improved early postoperative cognition in elderly gastrointestinal patients: a randomized controlled trial on the role of ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block by Ruyue Xue, Yuexian Li, Mei Zhan, Lin Yang, Defeng Sun

“…The perioperative recordings included mean arterial pressure, heart rate, and the bispectral index. Blood samples were analyzed for interleukin-6 (IL-6), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and malondialdehyde (MDA).ResultsThe SGB group had a significantly lower incidence of POCD on postoperative day one (p < 0.05). …”
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Premorbid predictors of death at initial presentation of coronary heart disease in the Women's Health Initiative study by Ming-Li Chen, Jin Li, Kruthika R. Iyer, Catherine Tcheandjieu, Shirin Jimenez, Elias Levy Itshak Salfati, Liana C. Del Gobbo, Marcia L Stefanick, Manisha Desai, Xiaonan Xue, Themistocles L Assimes

“…A five-year increase in age, smoking 5 to 34 cigarettes per day, and a standard deviation (SD) increase in the Cornel voltage product, an electrocardiographic measure highly correlated with left ventricular mass index on echocardiography, each independently increased the relative risk (RR) of dying from one's initial presentation of CHD by 46 % (95 % confidence interval [CI], 35 to 58 %), 30 % (8 to 51 %,), and 17 % (7 to 28 %), respectively. …”
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Identification of the sex determination region and the development of a marker to distinguish males and females in megai abalone (Haliotis gigantea) by Taito Kina, Motoyuki Hara, Shotaro Hirase, Kiyoshi Kikuchi

“…By calculating the fixation index value between 10 females and 10 males, we identified a genomic region spanning approximately 2 Mb that exhibited nucleotide sequence divergence between the sexes on chromosome 18. …”
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Atherogenic Risk Factors in Medical Students by Airam Navarro Palacios, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Rafael Comas Valdespino, Girelda Cordero López, Alain Landrian Davis, Adrian Landrian Davis

“…The variables considered were: sex, body mass index (BMI), smoking habit, arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, nutritional habits, alcohol consumption and family pathological history.…”
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Locating temporary population centers after an earthquake in urban settlements Case Study: Sabzevar City by javad jamalabadi, mahammad salmanimoghaddam, Ali shekari badi, marzieh Nodeh

“…The most important parameters in this research are population density indexes, grade 1 arterial pathways, and suitable area. …”
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Digitalization of the Workflow for Drone-Assisted Inspection and Automated Assessment of Industrial Buildings for Effective Maintenance Management by Jorge Torres-Barriuso, Natalia Lasarte, Ignacio Piñero, Eduardo Roji, Peru Elguezabal

“…As a result, this procedure yields the so-called Intervention Urgency Index (IUI), which allows prioritizing the maintenance actions associated with the damage while also considering economic criteria. …”
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Comprehensive assessment to reveal the salt tolerance potential of cultivated eggplants and their wild relatives by Esra Cebeci, Hatice Filiz Boyaci, Sevinc Kiran, Sekure Sebnem Ellialtioglu

“…In eggplant, Na+ is a majorly harmful ion and there is a negative correlation between leaf Na+ content and plant tolerance index. The low Na+ concentration in roots of BB and S. linnaeanum caused high K+ and Ca2+ concentrations in their leaves. …”
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Study on the Regulation Effect of Optogenetic Technology on LFP of the Basal Ganglia Nucleus in Rotenone-Treated Rats by Zongya Zhao, Yanxiang Niu, Peiqi Chen, Yu Zhu, Liangliang Shi, Xuewei Zhao, Chang Wang, Yehong Zhang, Zhixian Gao, Wenshuai Jiang, Wu Ren, Renjun Gu, Yi Yu

“…Approximate entropy and fractal dimension algorithm can be used as an effective index to study LFP changes in rotenone-treated rats.…”
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Emergency Department Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol and Drug Use with a Brief Tablet-Based Questionnaire by Joshua W. Elder, Evan F. Wu, James A. Chenoweth, James F. Holmes, Aman K. Parikh, Aimee K. Moulin, Tommie G. Trevino, John R. Richards

“…Inclusion criteria were age ≥18, Emergency Severity Index 2–5, and English comprehension. Subjects were excluded if they had evidence of acute intoxication and/or received sedating medication. …”
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Monitoring for 5-aminosalicylate nephrotoxicity in adults with inflammatory bowel disease: prognostic model development and validation using data from the Clinical Practice Researc... by Abhishek Abhishek, Richard D Riley, Christian D Mallen, Guruprasad P Aithal, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Maarten W Taal, Tim Card, Matthew D Stevenson

“…Nine predictors were included in the final model, including chronic kidney disease stage 3 and hazardous alcohol use as strong predictors. Age and Body Mass Index were weak predictors. The optimism-adjusted calibration slope, C and D statistics in the development and validation data were 0.90, 0.64 and 0.98, and 1.01, 0.66 and 0.94 respectively.Conclusion This prognostic model used information from routine clinical care and performed well in an independent validation cohort. …”
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Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria by Joel-Medewase Victor Idowu, Wada Zechariah Ojima, Sayomi Bukola Adetutu, Adetoye Mayowa Mary, Ashaolu Joseph Oluwakayode, Olowolafe Tubosun Alex

“…Improving women’s empowerment indices, such as the Gender Inequality Index (GII), employment, and literacy, offers a promising avenue to curtail neonatal mortality rates in Nigeria and across SSA sustainably. …”
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Silver Nanoparticles Stabilized by Poly (Vinyl Pyrrolidone) with Potential Anticancer Activity towards Prostate Cancer by Ahmed A. H. Abdellatif, Ahmed Abdelfattah, Abdellatif Bouazzaoui, Shaaban K. Osman, Issa Saad Al-Moraya, Abdulaziz M. Saleh Showail, Mansour Alsharidah, Ashraf Aboelela, Osamah Al Rugaie, Tarek M. Faris, Hesham M. Tawfeek

“…The synthesized AgNPs-PVP were stable, spherical in shape, with particle sizes of 122.33 ± 17.61 nm, a polydispersity index of 0.49 ± 0.07, and a negative surface charge of −19.23 ± 0.61 mV. …”
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Haemodynamic changes of interatrial shunting devices for heart failure: a systematic review and meta‐analysis by Tieci Yi, Min Li, Fangfang Fan, Lin Qiu, Zhi Wang, Haoyu Weng, Xiaoke Shang, Changdong Zhang, Wei Ma, Yan Zhang, Yong Huo

“…Secondary endpoints included (i) other haemodynamic indexes, including cardiac output (CO), right atrial pressure (RAP), and mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) by right heart catheterization, and (ii) change from baseline in 6 min walk distance (6MWD). …”
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Optimal Pricing Strategy of Electric Vehicle Charging Station for Promoting Green Behavior Based on Time and Space Dimensions by Xiaomin Xu, Dongxiao Niu, Yan Li, Lijie Sun

“…Taking the optimization of the comprehensive index as the objective function, the TOU pricing optimization model of EVs is constructed. …”
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Associated Factors for Erectile Dysfunction Occurrence in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Cross-sectional Study by Ali Hamidi Madani, Fardin Mirbolouk, Mona Naghshbandi, Tolou Hasandokht, Mahboobe Gholipour, Mohammad Sajjad Zabihi, Mohammad Hamidi Madani

“…Demographic information were collected using a checklist, and the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-15) questionnaire  was used to determine the participant’s ED status. …”
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Effect of Intervention of Vaccination and Treatment on the Transmission Dynamics of HBV Disease: A Mathematical Model Analysis by Firaol Asfaw Wodajo, Temesgen Tibebu Mekonnen

“…Both local and global asymptotic stability conditions for disease-free and endemic equilibria are determined. The sensitivity index shows that the transfer rate from exposed class to acute infective class and transfer rate from exposed class to chronic infective class are the most dominant parameters contributing to the transmission of HBV. …”
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The "hypnotic state" and eye movements: Less there than meets the eye? by Etzel Cardeña, Barbara Nordhjem, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Kenneth Holmqvist

“…Kallio and collaborators claimed recently that they had found a reliable index for "the hypnotic state" through eye-tracking methods. …”
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Association of Visceral Adipose Tissue With Hypertension: Results From the NHANES 2011–2018 and Mendelian Randomization Analyses by Jia Liao, Miaohan Qiu, Jing Li, Yi Li, Yaling Han

“…Furthermore, VAT mass exhibited greater accuracy than body mass index (BMI) in predicting hypertension (areas under the curve [AUC]: 0.701 vs. 0.676, p for comparison < 0.001). …”
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Automated karyogram analysis for early detection of genetic and neurodegenerative disorders: a hybrid machine learning approach by Sumaira Tabassum, M. Jawad Khan, Javaid Iqbal, Asim Waris, M. Adeel Ijaz

“…We also used a structural similarity index measure and template matching to identify the part of the abnormal chromosome that differed from the normal one. …”
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