Analysis of drought and extreme precipitation events in Thailand: trends, climate modeling, and implications for climate change adaptation by José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, David Mendes, Helder Dutra Porto, Kelvy Rosalvo Alencar Cardoso, José Augusto Ferreira Neto, Emannuel Bezerra Cavalcante da Silva, Marlúcia de Aquino Pereira, Monica Cristina Damião Mendes, Bernardo Bruno Dias Baracho, Punyawi Jamjareegulgarn

“…The climate indices used were Consecutive Dry Days (CDD), Maximum Number of Consecutive Summer Days (CSU), Consecutive Wet Days (CWD), Warm Spell Duration Index (WSDI), and Maximum Number of Consecutive Wet Days (WW) derived from simulations of an ensemble composed of six models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) via the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with the backpropagation method. …”
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Does Health System Responsiveness Differ between Insured and Uninsured Outpatients in Primary Health Care Facilities in Asagirt District, Ethiopia? A Cross-Sectional Study by Wubshet Debebe Negash, Asmamaw Atnafu, Desale Bihonegn Asmamaw, Chalie Tadie Tsehay

“…Using quantile regression, a specific association between health insurance and the health system responsiveness index was examined, adjusting for sociodemographic, quality, and satisfaction-related factors. …”
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Relationship between dietary intake and growth and development in Chinese pupils by Wen Fang, Ye Fu, Qin Li, Menghan Cheng, Miao Zhang, Yu Lu

“…Among all pupils, meat intake was positively correlated with chest circumference (β = 0.420, 95% CI: 0.119, 0.721) and negatively correlated with standing long jump(β = −1.991, 95% CI: −3.902, −0.080); milk intake was positively correlated with waist circumference (β = 0.470, 95% CI: 0.007, 0.932); soybean intake was negatively correlated with body fat rate (β = −0.583, 95% CI: −1.125, −0.042), fat weight (β = −0.262, 95% CI: −0.517, −0.006), and waist circumference (β = −0.607, 95% CI: −1.050, −0.164); and vegetable intake was negatively correlated with height (β = −0.290, 95% CI: −0.496, −0.084), and positively correlated with stature-sitting height index and waist circumference (p < 0.05). Certain associations retained significance even after stratified analysis based on gender and frequency of dietary intake.ConclusionDietary diversity score and their respective food groups such as meat, milk, coarse grain, soybean and vegetable will impact growth and development indicators, requiring purposefully controlled dietary intake.…”
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Prediction model and scoring system for in-hospital mortality risk in infants with heart failure aged 1–36 months: A retrospective case-control study by Meng Wei, Shuai Shang, Huasheng Lv, Xiaoyan Liang, Yanmei Lu, Baopeng Tang

“…The model evaluation results for the train and test sets of infant and toddler heart failure patients are as follows: C-index values for discrimination in the train and test sets are 0.721 and 0.728, respectively. …”
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Contemporary Results of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Obese Patients by T. Owais, M. El Garhy, P. Lauten, M. Haensig, H. Lapp, P. C. Schulze, T. Kuntze

“…We investigated the influence of body mass index (BMI) on 1-year outcomes after TF-TAVR. Methods. …”
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Quantification of ecosystem services from mangrove silvofishery by E. Sumarga, D. Rosleine, G.B. Hutajulu, R.P. Plaurint, Tsabita ., M. Basyuni, S.H. Larekeng, M.F. Taqiyudin, N.N. Shohihah, H. Ali

“…The Blanakan mangroves are home to a total of 23 bird species, contributing to a species diversity index of 2.1. Two species with significant conservation value were found: the critically endangered Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo euryzona) and the vulnerable Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata).CONCLUSION: The results emphasize the importance of advancing and advocating for silvofishery as a primary alternative in Indonesia's mangrove conservation and rehabilitation initiatives, enhancing coastal environmental management. …”
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The effects of cow manure vermicompost and municipal solid waste compost on peppermint (Mentha piperita L.) in Torbat-e-Jam and Rasht regions of Iran by Hossein Ayyobi, Jamal-Ali Olfati, Gholam-Ali Peyvast

“…Plant growth in the Rasht region had the highest number of lateral branches (18), fresh (10.51 g) and dry weight (4.64 g) of plant, fresh (2,102.9 kg ha-1 ) and dry (928.67 kg ha-1 ) yield, leaf area index (0.17) and carotenoids (531.82 mg 100 g-1 ), while the highest oil per plant (0.24 ml plant-1 ) and oil yield (18.49 ml m-2 ), chlorophyll a (7.37 mg 100 g-1 ), b (4.07 mg 100 g-1 ) and total chlorophyll (11.44 mg 100 g-1 ), total phenol (7.48 mg gallic acid equivalent 100 g-1 ) and antioxidant capacity (71.89 (% of inhibition) were obtained from plants grown in the Torbat-e-Jam region. …”
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Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Associated Fibrosis Stages Among US Adults Using Imaging-Based vs Biomarker-Based Noninvasive Tests by Jesse Fishman, Tom O'Connell, Christina M. Parrinello, Jonathan J. Woolley, Eric Bercaw, Michael R. Charlton

“…Participants with presumed NAFLD (steatosis and without alternative causes of liver disease) were identified, among whom NASH was predicted based on FAST score, Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4), and AST-to-Platelet Ratio Index (APRI) cutoffs across 11 scenarios. Among NASH participants, fibrosis stages were explored based on distribution across the spectrum of liver-stiffness measurements. …”
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Construction and Application of Enterprise Internal Audit Data Analysis Model Based on Decision Tree Algorithm by Yuna Si

“…The number of rules generated by the CART algorithm is the least because of the model characteristics of its binary tree and the characteristics of using the Gini index as the criterion for the selection of splitting attributes. …”
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Activation of ClO₂ by Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron for Efficient Soil Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degradation: New Insight into the Relative Contribution of Fe(IV) and... by Xiaojun Hu, Xiaorong Xing, Fan Zhang, Bingzhi Li, Senlin Chen, Bo Wang, Jiaolong Qin, Jie Miao

“…The lettuces grown in ClO₂/nFe⁰-treated soil displayed better results in bioassay indexes than those grown in ClO₂-treated soil. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Visual Performance and Optical Quality with a Rotationally Asymmetric Multifocal Intraocular Lens and an Apodized Diffractive Multifocal Intraocular Lens by Xiao Wang, Haixia Tu, Yong Wang

“…The Chinese version of the visual function index-14 (VF-12-CN) and spectacle independence were assessed in all patients. …”
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Establishment and validation of HPLC methods for the determination of folic acid and parabens antimicrobial agents on folic acid oral solution by Wenhong Wu, Ying Liang, Renbang Zhao, Yude Shi, Jiahui Hou, Jiumei Peng, Jiadi Pan, Xiaoyi Li, Jingjing Zhou

“…In addition, the blue applicability grade index (BAGI) and analytical greenness (AGREE) metric tools were used to evaluate the greenness and environmental friendliness of the developed methods. …”
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Results of the ORION open comparative randomized trial: evaluation of efficacy of the Russian drugs Altevir and Phosphogliv in combined treatment of chronic hepatitis C by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, P. O. Bogomolov, I. G. Nikitin, A. O. Buyeverov, A. V. Lapshin

“…Significant decrease of histological activity index in patients with 2/3 genotype of CHC in both groups and change of this score in the group, that received standard AVT in combination to phosphogliv was revealed as well, was much more significant in comparison to the group receiving standard treatment alone. …”
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Response Time Threshold for Predicting Outcomes of Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Ling Hsuan Huang, Yu-Ni Ho, Ming-Ta Tsai, Wei-Ting Wu, Fu-Jen Cheng

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis with Youden Index was performed to calculate optimal cut-off values for ambulance response time that predicted survival to hospital discharge. …”
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Establishment and validation of predictive model of ARDS in critically ill patients by Senhao Wei, Hua Zhang, Hao Li, Chao Li, Ziyuan Shen, Yiyuan Yin, Zhukai Cong, Zhaojin Zeng, Qinggang Ge, Dongfeng Li, Xi Zhu

“…Multiple ML classification models were integrated to analyze and identify the best models. Several evaluation indexes were used to compare the model performance, including the area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve (AUC) and decision curve analysis (DCA). …”
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Dermatologic Adverse Events Following Afatinib in a Woman with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report by Tsaqilah L, Putri AD, Avriyanti E

“…Significant clinical improvement and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) score was seen on the fourth week of observation. …”
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Identification of GPD1L as a Potential Prognosis Biomarker and Associated with Immune Infiltrates in Lung Adenocarcinoma by Zhengyang Fan, Song Wu, Hongyang Sang, Qianping Li, Shaofei Cheng, Hongling Zhu

“…Based on multivariate analysis, the C-indexes and calibration plots of the nomogram demonstrated an effective prediction performance for LUAD patients. …”
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Comparing the Scores of The Functional Movement Screen™ in Individuals with Low Back Pain versus Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khalid M. Alkhathami, Bijad Alqahtani

“…Further research is needed to assess the association of cofounders, such as age, gender, and body mass index, with the FMS™ score among LBP patients and controls…”
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The trajectory of changes in cognitive frailty and factors influencing it in elderly patients with cerebral infarction by Shengnan Xu, Qin Liang, Li Zhang, Shihua Liu

“…[Objective] The trajectory of cognitive frailty in elderly patients with cerebral infarction was analyzed, and the influencing factors were discussed. [ Methods] A total of 100 elderly patients with cerebral infarction hospitalized in Suzhou Hospital of Anhui Medical University from January to September in 2023 were selected for the study.Clinical data were collected on the patients, and cognitive frailty was assessed using the Frailty Screening Scale and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Questionnaire (MoCA) at the time of admission and 1, 3, 6 months after treatment.Failty score ≥3 scores and MoCA <26 scores were defined as cognitive fraily.Potential categories of cognitive frailty change trajectories were identified by latent category growth modeling, and multifactorial logistic regression analyzed the factors influencing patients' cognitive frailty change trajectories. [ Results] The trajectory of cognitive frailty change in elderly patients with cerebral infarction identified by model fitting can be categorized into a group with a persistently low level of frailty (30 cases), a group with a slow rise in frailty (52 cases), and a group with a persistently high level of frailty (18 cases).Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that older age, poor sleep quality, and the number of comorbid chronic diseases > 4 were all risk factors for the development of persistent low levels of cognitive frailty into a slow rise in cognitive decline in elderly patients with cerebral infarction (P<0.05), Higher body mass index and high self-care ability were both protective factors for the development of persistent low levels of cognitive decline into a slow rise in cognitive decline in elderly patients with cerebral infarction (P<0.05).Older age, poor sleep quality and the number of comorbid chronic diseases >4 were risk factors for the progression of persistent low levels of cognitive decline to persistent high levels of cognitive decline in elderly patients with cerebral infarction (P < 0.05), and higher self-care ability were protective factors for the progression of persistent low levels of cognitive decline to persistent high levels of cognitive decline in elderly patients with cerebral infarction (P < 0.05). …”
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Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and migrants in regular and irregular situations: a mixed-method multicountry study by Biraj Man Karmacharya, Karl Blanchet, Jai K Das, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Maria Midea M Kabamalan, Nguyen Toan Tran, Zahra A Padhani, Anjali Joshi, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Enrique Teran, Pierina Benavente, Vinay N Kampalath, Moussa Lonkila Zan, Elżbieta Anna Czapka, Cheryl Martens, Vicente B Jurlano

“…Phase 2 (June–August 2022) included a cross-sectional study among refugees and migrants in regular (MIRS) and irregular situations (MIIS) and used descriptive analysis and a COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Index (CVEI).Results A total of 1378 individuals responded to the survey (43.8% MIRS, 31.2% MIIS and 25% refugees). 87% reported receiving at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. …”
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