Plant Growth Promoting and Abiotic Stress Tolerant Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Rhizobial Isolates from Some Areas of South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia by Asmamaw Menelih, Faris Hailu, Mussa Adal

“…Regarding phosphate solubilization, only 48 (46.7%) solubilized phosphate with a solubilization index ranging from 2.1 to 2.7 mm. Twenty-four (50%) of the isolates were found to be hydrogen cyanide producers. …”
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Frailty Status, Not Just Age, is Associated With Postoperative Opioid Consumption: A Retrospective, Population-based Analysis by Kyle R. Latack, MD, Ryan Howard, MD, Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD, Samantha Cooley, MSW, Vidhya Gunaseelan, MBA, MS, MHA, Michael Englesbe, MD, Jennifer Waljee, MD, MPH, MS

“…Our primary exposure was frailty status defined by the modified frailty index (mFi-5) criteria. Other covariates included patient demographic and clinical attributes, procedural factors, discharge opioid prescription size, and postoperative complications. …”
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Prevalence, Patterns, and Factors Associated with Peripheral Neuropathies among Diabetic Patients at Tertiary Hospital in the Kilimanjaro Region: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study... by Ahlam A. Amour, Nyasatu Chamba, Johnstone Kayandabila, Isaack A. Lyaruu, Dekker Marieke, Elichilia R. Shao, William Howlett

“…The severity of neuropathy increased with the increase in age >40 years (p < 0.001) and increase in body mass index (p<0.001) and duration of diabetes; duration >7 years (p <0.006). …”
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Unveiling the Landscape of Sustainable Logistics Service Quality: A Bibliometric Analysis by Shereen Abdelaziz, Munjiati Munawaroh

“…This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of 546 Scopus-indexed documents published between 1994 and 2024, systematically uncovering key research trends, thematic clusters, and gaps in SLSQ. …”
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Clinical analysis of different intestinal reconstruction methods after primary cytoreductive surgery combined with rectal resection for advanced ovarian cancer by Huimin Wang, Xiaocen Li, Ying Jiang, Jinxin Chen, Rong Cao, Jingru Zhang

“…The colostomy group had a lower serum albumin level, larger volume of ascites, higher likelihood of multiple intestinal resections and lower likelihood of rectal resection, lower peritoneal cancer index, more intraoperative blood loss, transfusions and infusions, lower likelihood of optimal cytoreductive surgery and shorter interval time to chemotherapy than the other two groups (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Intragastric botulinum toxin injection: a promising alternative for obesity treatment? by Hakan Balbaloglu, Ilhan Tasdoven, Ipek Yorgancioglu

“…The inclusion criteria were being aged 18–65 and having a body mass index (BMI) over 25 kg/m 2 . Patients with specific medical conditions or incomplete records were excluded. …”
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Cities as innovation poles in the digital transition. The Italian case by Giuseppe Borruso, Ginevra Balletto

“…This research combined an analysis of innovative cities in Italy, based on the innovation index (ICity Rank) with demographic data, considering metropolitan cities and their functional urban areas (FUAs), along with a set of mid-sized cities identified as 'innovative' and dynamic. …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Trans-Sacral Epiduroscopic Laser Decompression Compared to Percutaneous Epidural Neuroplasty by Bong Ju Moon, Seong Yi, Yoon Ha, Keung Nyun Kim, Do Heum Yoon, Dong Ah Shin

“…The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for leg pain; Oswestry Disability Index (ODI); 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12); preoperative and postoperative 4-, 12-, and 24-week Macnab criteria; and preoperative and 24-week postoperative lumbar spinal MRIs after SELD were obtained. …”
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Grazing by non‐native ungulates negatively impacts vegetation important to a native species of concern by Phillip A. Street, Levi Jaster, Thomas E. Dilts, Tessa L. Behnke, James S. Sedinger

“…We surveyed the landscape using distance sampling for livestock and horse feces as an index of use. In addition, we surveyed the herbaceous understory of random sites as well as sites chosen by female Greater sage‐grouse to nest and brood their chicks. …”
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Evaluating 28-Days Performance of Rice Husk Ash Green Concrete under Compression Gleaned from Neural Networks by Sharanjit Singh, Harish Chandra Arora, Aman Kumar, Nishant Raj Kapoor, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Krishna Kumar, Hardeep Singh Rai

“…Various statistical parameters including correlation coefficient (R), root means square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), Nash-Sutcliffe (NS), and the a20-index have been used to assess the performance of the developed ANN model. …”
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Neuropathic pain among patients with primary knee osteoarthritis: Results of a cross-sectional study from a tertiary care center in Southern India by R Vignesh Narayan, Molly Mary Thabah, Murali Poduval

“…The Indian version of Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) was used to assess pain, stiffness, and physical function. …”
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Combined effect of healthy lifestyles and obesity on cardiometabolic risks in Chinese rural adults by Hui Fan, Xingyu Zhang, Chongjian Wang, Chunlei Han

“…We calculated the number of healthy lifestyle factors for each participant or used the latent class analysis to identify clustering classes of healthy lifestyle. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), blood pressure, blood lipid, and fasting blood glucose were measured. …”
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Exploring Seasonality Indices for Low-Flow Analysis on Tibagi Watershed (Brazil) by Alexandre Sokoloski de Azevedo Delduque de Macedo, Michael Männich

“…This study investigated the seasonality of low-flow discharges in the Tibagi watershed, Paraná, Brazil, through the analysis of three indices: Seasonality Ratio (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>R</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), Seasonality Index (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>I</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), and Seasonality Histogram (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>H</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>). …”
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FERA-Net: A Novel Algorithm for Mars Water-Ice Cloud Segmentation Integrating Feature Enhancement, Residual, and Attention Mechanisms by Xu Ma, Jialong Lai, Zhicheng Zhong, Feifei Cui

“…Specifically, the F1-score increases from 75.16&#x0025; to 89.73&#x0025; (an improvement of 19.4&#x0025;), and the Jaccard index improves from 78.93&#x0025; to 90.01&#x0025; (an increase of 14.1&#x0025;).This research provides theoretical support for in-depth exploration of the Martian atmospheric environment and water cycle, and it can assist in planning and executing future Mars exploration missions.…”
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Metabolic consequences and nailfold capillary changes in children with familial Mediterranean fever by Ahmed S. Abo Hola, Rania S. El Zayat, Wafaa Ahmed Shehata, Mai I. Elashmawy, Noha E. Khalaf, Heba M. S. El Zefzaf

“…Results During attack-free periods, patients exhibited higher total leucocytic counts, ESR, CRP, SAA, HOMA-IR, total cholesterol (TC), non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C), Castelli’s risk index I (CRI I), and atherogenic coefficient (AC), and a lower hemoglobin level than controls. …”
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Comparison of Time to Pregnancy in In Vitro Fertilisation between Endometriosis and Nonendometriosis by Hartanto Bayuaji, Artha Falentin Putri Susilo, Kevin Dominique Tjandraprawira

“…Both groups had similar median age and body mass index at presentation. There was no significant difference in the TTP between endometriosis and nonendometriosis groups (57.7 vs. 70.9 months, p=0.060), further confirmed by a Cox regression test incorporating confounders (IVF protocol (OR: 1.482, 95% CI 0.667–3.292, and p=0.334) and type of the cycle (OR 1.071, 95% CI 0.803–1.430, and p=0.640)). …”
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Ascorbic Acid Reduces the Blood Boss After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Insights From a Randomized Controlled Trial by Pooya Hosseini-Monfared, MD, Alireza Mirahmadi, MD, Mohammad Mehdi Sarzaeem, MD, Soheil Pourshahryari, MD, Parisa Aminnia, MD, Mohammad Poursalehian, MD, Seyed Morteza Kazemi, MD

“…Patient-reported outcomes such as Oxford Knee Score, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index, Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, and Forgotten Joint Score were used to evaluate the postoperative pain and function in the 6-month follow-up. …”
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Key CT markers for predicting haemorrhagic transformation after ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study in China by Ming Liu, Qian Wu, Yanan Wang, Junfeng Liu, Chenchen Wei

“…The coexistence of the three key factors might be a valuable index for identifying individuals at high bleeding risk and guiding further treatments.…”
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Efforts to strengthen anatomic pathology diagnostic services for cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol by Katherine Van Loon, Elia John Mmbaga, Marcia Edelweiss, Dianna L. Ng, Asteria Herman Kimambo, Edda Vuhahula, Beatrice Paul Mushi, Omolade Adegoke, Johanna Goldberg, Pendo M. Ibrahim, Zainab Illonga, Julia Jackman, Luisa Jamisse

“…MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central and African Index Medicus will be searched for articles published in English and Portuguese with no limitations placed on date or publication type. …”
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Phytotoxic Effects of Polystyrene Microplastics on Growth Morphology, Photosynthesis, Gaseous Exchange and Oxidative Stress of Wheat Vary with Concentration and Shape by Komal Riaz, Tahira Yasmeen, Kotb A. Attia, Itoh Kimiko, Muhammad Saleem Arif

“…A concentration-dependent reduction in the leaf area index (LAI) was also observed. Interestingly, increasing the PS concentration tended to up-regulate the activity of antioxidant enzymes for all shapes, indicating potential complexity and a highly time-dependent response related to various reactive oxygen species (ROS). …”
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