Determinants of Dietary Diversity Practice among Pregnant Women in the Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2021: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Tolesa Gemeda Gudeta, Ayana Benti Terefe, Girma Teferi Mengistu, Seboka Abebe Sori

“…To determine factors associated with dietary diversity, bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models were used to obtain crude odds ratio (COR), adjusted odds ratios (AOR), and 95 percent confidence intervals (CIs). …”
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Easy Data Augmentation untuk Data yang Imbalance pada Konsultasi Kesehatan Daring by Anisa Nur Azizah, Misbachul Falach Asy'ari, Ifnu Wisma Dwi Prastya, Diana Purwitasari

“…We also verified the EDA results by measuring coherences of texts before and after augmentation using a topic modeling of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to ensure topic consistency. …”
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Synergy of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies to Advance Sustainable Development Goals for Future Coastal Urbanization and Environmental Challenges in a Riverine Megacity by Minza Mumtaz, Syed Humayoun Jahanzaib, Waqar Hussain, Sadia Khan, Youssef M. Youssef, Saleh Qaysi, Abdalla Abdelnabi, Nassir Alarifi, Mahmoud E. Abd-Elmaboud

“…This study addresses this gap through an innovative integration of multitemporal Landsat imagery (5, 7, and 8), SRTM-DEM, historical land use maps, and population data using the MOLUSCE plugin with cellular automata–artificial neural networks (CA-ANN) modelling to monitor LULC changes over three decades (1990–2020) and project future changes for 2025, 2030, and 2035, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Karachi, southern Pakistan, one of the world’s most populous megacities. …”
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Risk of All-Cause Mortality in US Adults With Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry: An Observational Study by Xiao S, Ou J, Qiu W, Ye C, Li N, Chen S, Lai Y, Deng Z, Wu F, Shen Y

“…We used Cox proportional hazards regression models to compare all-cause mortality between the groups. …”
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Effects of cold-water immersion on health and wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Tara Cain, Jacinta Brinsley, Hunter Bennett, Max Nelson, Carol Maher, Ben Singh

“…Meta-analyses were conducted using RevMan software (version 5.4), applying random effects models to calculate standardized mean differences (SMD) between pre- and post-CWI exposure outcomes. …”
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Evolution du comportement de manipulation chez les strepsirrhiniens by Louise Peckre, Anne‑Claire Fabre, Anthony Herrel, Christine Wall, Emmanuelle Pouydebat

“…Les strepsirrhiniens représentent donc un excellent modèle pour mieux comprendre les facteurs sociaux et écologiques conduisant à l’évolution des capacités de préhension. …”
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The Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) Active Galactic Nuclei Catalog: The Fourth Data Release by Chenxu Liu, Karl Gebhardt, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Dustin Davis, Donald P. Schneider, Matt J. Jarvis, Daniel J. Farrow, Steven L. Finkelstein, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, The HETDEX Collaboration

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ON THE THIN PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND ITS THICKENINGS by Zenonas Norkus

“…While vindicated by the main methodological principle of the rational choice approach in the social sciences - to keep the models as simple as possible and to make them complex only as much as necessary - the assumptions abovementioned are counterintuitive if the rational choice theory is considered as normative theory. …”
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Changes in the critical nutrient content of packaged foods and beverages after the full implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling and Advertising Law: a repeated cross-sectional... by Natalia Rebolledo, Pedro Ferrer-Rosende, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Camila Corvalán

“…To assess the changes in proportions, we used Firth’s bias-reduced logistic regression models and the Cochran-Armitage test for trends. Quantile regression was used to evaluate changes in nutrient content. …”
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Federally qualified health center patients’ experiences with remote patient monitoring as part of telehealth services for self-measured blood pressure monitoring by Natalia I. Heredia, Maria E. Fernandez, Ella R. Garza, Jabria Pittman, Fernanda Velasco-Huerta, Tracy L. Judd, Jocelyn Hunyadi, Elvis Longanga Diese, Deevakar Rogith, William B. Perkison, Susan H. Fenton

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Vingt ans de pédagogie au Parc zoologique et botanique de Mulhouse : la place des Primates by Corinne Di Trani‑Zimmermann

“…Par exemple, les Primates se sont révélés être des modèles extrêmement utiles pour affirmer ou développer la reconnaissance de l’appartenance de l’homme à cet ordre, en particulier dans la petite enfance. …”
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Descemet Endothelial Thickness Comparison Trial 1 (DETECT 1): outcome masked, placebo-controlled trial comparing two types of corneal transplant surgeries and effect of rho kinase... by Thomas M Lietman, Jennifer Rose-Nussbaumer, Bennie H Jeng, Benjamin F Arnold, Winston Chamberlain, Charles C Lin, Jennifer Y Li, William Gensheimer, Jameson Clover, Nicole Varnado, Sarah Abdelrahman

“…Secondary outcomes include visual acuity at different time points, vision-related quality of life, endothelial cell morphology and cost-effectiveness.Results The study outcomes will be analysed using mixed effects linear regression models, taking into account the treatment arms and relevant covariates. …”
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The impact of same‐day and rapid ART initiation under the Universal Health Coverage programme on HIV outcomes in Thailand: a retrospective real‐life cohort study by Sirinya Teeraananchai, David C. Boettiger, Cheewanan Lertpiriyasuwat, Rattaphon Triamwichanon, Patchara Benjarattanaporn, Nittaya Phanuphak

“…Factors associated with VF were analysed using competing risk models considering death and loss to follow‐up (LTFU) as competing events. …”
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Peer- and community-led responses to HIV: A scoping review. by George Ayala, Laurel Sprague, L Leigh-Ann van der Merwe, Ruth Morgan Thomas, Judy Chang, Sonya Arreola, Sara L M Davis, Aditia Taslim, Keith Mienies, Alessandra Nilo, Lillian Mworeko, Felicita Hikuam, Carlos Garcia de Leon Moreno, José Antonio Izazola-Licea

“…In addition, treatment services should strive to integrate specific peer- and community-led components informed by differentiated care models. Future research is needed and should focus on generating additional quantitative evidence on cost effectiveness and on the synergistic effects of bundling two or more peer- and community-led interventions.…”
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NOX4 modulates breast cancer progression through cancer cell metabolic reprogramming and CD8+ T cell antitumor activity by Yingying Xiong, Yiming Weng, Shan Zhu, Jian Qin, Jia Feng, Xiaopeng Jing, Chao Luo, Wei Gong, Rui Sun, Min Peng

“…Although NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4) has been implicated in various oncogenic processes, its exact function in breast cancer progression, metabolic reprogramming, and immune modulation remains unclear.MethodsWe used murine 4T1 and EO771 breast cancer models to generate NOX4 knockout (KO) cell lines via CRISPR/Cas9. …”
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Ethnoracial disparities in childhood growth trajectories in Brazil: a longitudinal nationwide study of four million children by Helena Benes Matos da Silva, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro-Silva, Juliana Freitas de Mello e Silva, Irina Chis Ster, Poliana Rebouças, Emanuelle Goes, Maria Yury Ichihara, Andrêa Ferreira, Julia M. Pescarini, Rosemeire Leovigildo Fiaccone, Enny S. Paixão, Maurício L. Barreto

“…Nonlinear mixed effect models were used to estimate childhood growth trajectories, among different maternal ethnoracial groups (White, Asian descent, Black, Pardo, and Indigenous), using the raw measures of weight (kg) and height (cm) and the length/height-for-age (L/HAZ) and weight-for-age z-scores (WAZ). …”
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High risk for life-threatening adverse events of fluoroquinolones in young adults: a large German population-based cohort study by Julia Wicherski, Jonas Peltner, Cornelia Becker, Katrin Schüssel, Gabriela Brückner, Andreas Schlotmann, Helmut Schröder, Winfried V. Kern, Britta Haenisch

“…Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated from piece-wise exponential additive mixed models with smooth non-linear effects for person-time and age and adjusted for comorbidities, year and quarter at index. …”
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Comparative safety of the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kris Aubrey-Bassler, John-Michael Gamble, Jennifer R Donnan, Catherine A Grandy, Eugene Chibrikov, Carlo A Marra, Karissa Johnston, Michelle Swab, Jenna Hache, Daniel Curnew, Hai Nguyen

“…Six large databases were searched from inception to May 2018. Random effects models were used to estimate pooled relative risks (RRs).Intervention SGLT2 inhibitors, compared with placebo or active comparators.Primary outcomes Acute kidney injury (AKI), diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), urinary tract infections (UTI), bone fractures and lower limb amputations.Results We screened 2418 citations of which 109 were included. …”
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Protein arginine methyltransferase 7 linked to schizophrenia through regulation of neural progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation by Ting Shen, Jing Yu, Bin Xie, Cuiping Huang, Jingjie Cui, Kefu Liu, Chunyu Liu, Chao Chen

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Genomic strategies to facilitate breeding for increased β-Glucan content in oat (Avena sativa L.) by Sumandeep Kaur Bazzer, Guilherme Oliveira, Jason D. Fiedler, Raja Sekhar Nandety, Jean-Luc Jannink, Melanie Caffe

“…The comparison of multiple GS scenarios indicated that using a specific set of markers as a fixed effect in GS models did not increase the prediction accuracy. However, the use of multi-environment data in the training population resulted in an increase in prediction accuracy (0.61–0.72) as compared to single-year (0.28–0.48) data. …”
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