Association between obesity and thyroid nodules in children and adults living in iodine-sufficient areas: analysis of cross-sectional data from Tianjin, China by Yang Wang, Fang Li, Dandan Zhang, Wenfeng Li, Yani Duan, Yushan Cui

“…The restricted cubic spline model indicated that the risk of thyroid nodules and multiple thyroid nodules in children increased with the increase of BMI-z-score and BSA. …”
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The association between visceral fat metabolic score and stroke: mediation by declining kidney function by Yue Cao, Weixing Wen, Hao Zhang, Weiwen Li, Guolin Huang, Yuli Huang

“…Sensitivity analyses using PSM and multiple imputations confirmed the robustness of the results. …”
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Passing It On by Walter W. Powell

“…Mentorship is not about imparting knowledge top-down, but about creating an environment where people feel comfortable to ask hard questions and learning flows in multiple directions.…”
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Three periodic solutions to an eigenvalue problem for a class of second-order Hamiltonian systems by Giuseppe Cordaro

“…We establish a multiplicity result to an eigenvalue problem related to second-order Hamiltonian systems. …”
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On Homoclinic Solutions for First-Order Superquadratic Hamiltonian Systems with Spectrum Point Zero by Feng Li, Juntao Sun

“…The existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for a class of first-order periodic Hamiltonian systems with spectrum point zero are obtained. …”
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One-sided complements and solutions of the equation aXb=c in semirings by Sam L. Blyumin, Jonathan S. Golan

“…Given multiplicatively-regular elements a and b in a semiring R, and given an element c of R, we find a complete set of solutions to the equation aXb=c. …”
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To a Question on the Communication und Morality Culture by D. N. Belova

“…In the article the author researches the moral aspect intracultural and cross-cultural communicative interaction as a multiple-factor phenomenon; analyzes the causes of moral degradation of modern society. …”
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Mandibular First Molar with a Single Root and Single Canal by Chandrasekaran Sooriaprakas, Suma Ballal, Natanasabapathy Velmurugan

“…Successful endodontic management of mandibular first molar with a single root and single canal is diagnosed with the aid of dental operating microscope and multiple angled radiographs. In addition all the mandibular molars and premolars were single rooted on either side.…”
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Teletransporter and origami by A. M. Kardash

“…The weakness of the experiment lies in the implicit dualism and the uncritical premise of multiple implementations in the conditions. The assumption about the qualitative identity of bodies after teleportation through the category of mereorganic continuity is criticized.…”
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The long-term impact of childhood sexual assault on depression and self-reported mental and physical health by Oluwasegun Akinyemi, Temitope Ogundare, Mojisola Fasokun, Fadeke Ogunyankin, Nkemdirim Ugochukwu, Walia Ajisafe, Seun Ikugbayigbe, Oluebubechukwu Eze, Kakra Hughes, Miriam Michael

“…The findings underscore the cumulative impact of multiple CSA exposures on health outcomes and emphasize the need for trauma-informed healthcare, early intervention, and public health strategies to mitigate the long-term consequences of CSA.…”
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Fatal Disseminated Kaposi's Sarcoma due to Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome following HAART Initiation by Fatuma Catherine Atieno Odongo

“…The patient rapidly progressed to death in 5 days after worsening pulmonary infiltrates and multiple organ failure.…”
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A note on epidemic models with infective immigrants and vaccination by Eunha Shim

“…Conditions for the existence of multiple endemic steady states and a fold bifurcation are discussed.…”
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Fixed Point Theorems and Uniqueness of the Periodic Solution for the Hematopoiesis Models by Jun Wu, Yicheng Liu

“…We present some results to the existence and uniqueness of the periodic solutions for the hematopoiesis models which are described by the functional differential equations with multiple delays. Our methods are based on the equivalent norm techniques and a new fixed point theorem in the continuous function space.…”
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Abundant Exact Solition-Like Solutions to the Generalized Bretherton Equation with Arbitrary Constants by Xiuqing Yu, Fengsheng Xu, Lihua Zhang

“…Taking full advantage of the Riccati equation which has more new solutions, abundant new multiple solition-like solutions are obtained for the generalized Bretherton equation.…”
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A Schur method for the solution of the matrix Riccati equation by Mohsen Razzaghi

“…The solution to the Riccati equation is given in terms of multiple of two matrices. These matrices are found using a Schur-type decomposition for Hamiltonian matrices. …”
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Extinction in Nonautonomous Discrete Lotka-Volterra Competitive System with Pure Delays and Feedback Controls by Ling Zhang, Zhidong Teng, Tailei Zhang, Shujing Gao

“…New sufficient conditions for which a part of the n-species is driven to extinction are established by using the method of multiple discrete Lyapunov functionals.…”
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Applications and challenges in designing VHH-based bispecific antibodies: leveraging machine learning solutions by Michael Mullin, James McClory, Winston Haynes, Justin Grace, Nathan Robertson, Gino van Heeke

“…The development of bispecific antibodies that bind at least two different targets relies on bringing together multiple binding domains with different binding properties and biophysical characteristics to produce a drug-like therapeutic. …”
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PyMem: A Graphical User Interface Tool for Neuromemristive Hardware–Software Co-Design by Aswani Radhakrishnan, Jushnah Palliyalil, Sreeja Babu, Anuar Dorzhigulov, Alex James

“…To simplify the design and development of neuromemristive architectures, we present a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) called “PyMem” that uses Keras Python to implement multiple memristor models on multiple neural architectures that can be used to analyze their working under a wide range of hardware variability. …”
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A Novel Polyacrylamide Magnetic Nanoparticle Contrast Agent for Molecular Imaging using MRI by Bradford A. Moffat, G. Ramachandra Reddy, Patrick McConville, Daniel E. Hall, Thomas L. Chenevert, Raoul R. Kopelman, Martin Philbert, Ralph Weissleder, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Brian D. Ross

“…A novel Polyacrylamide superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle platform is described which has been synthetically prepared such that multiple crystals of iron oxide are encapsulated within a single Polyacrylamide matrix ( P oly A crylamide M agnetic [PAM] nanoparticles). …”
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A Group Rotate-Vector Algorithm for Mixed-Variable Optimization Problems by Zhongming Li, Lutao Yan, Haiyuan Li, Lianxin Wang

“…The proposed group rotate-vector algorithm (GRV) is evaluated through the solution of multiple 0-1 programming problems and mixed-variable optimization problems. …”
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