Vitamin D Deficiency in Lebanese Adults: Prevalence and Predictors from a Cross-Sectional Community-Based Study by Asma Arabi, Nariman Chamoun, Mona P. Nasrallah, Hani M. Tamim

“…A random sample of Lebanese adults residing in the Greater Beirut area was selected based on area probability and multistage cluster sampling. Data from 446 participants (68% females) with mean age 45.3 ± 15 years were used for the analyses. …”
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Performance Study of Ultraviolet AlGaN/GaN Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Superlattice Tunneling Junction by Zhuang Zhao, Yang Liu, Peixian Li, Xiaowei Zhou, Bo Yang, Yingru Xiang, Junchun Bai

“…In addition, a dielectric layer is introduced to evaluate the effect of stress changes on the tunneling probability and current spread in TJ. At a current of 140 mA, this method demonstrates effective current expansion. …”
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Fault-Tolerant One-Way Noiseless Amplification for Microwave Bosonic Quantum Information Processing by Hany Khalifa, Riku Jantti, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…We analyze the performance of our device practically by considering detection inefficiency and dark count probability. We further examine the potential usage of our device in low-power quantum sensing applications and remote secret key generation (SKG). …”
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Investigating Measures to Revive Urban and Rural Tourism in The Post-Corona Era by Jamaleddin Honarvar

“…The statistical population of the study is experts and specialists in the field of tourism, who conducted 50 in-depth interviews using non-probability sampling and purposefully. The qualitative method of grand theory, Strauss and Corbin method, was used to analyze the information. …”
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Analying the vulnerability of the lorestan province due to changes in effective rainfalls, based on USDA method by ali saadat, mohamad saligheh, mohamadhosin nassrzadeh

“…Relation humidity got decreased in the second compared to the first period, and wind speed increased by studying the process of the data changes, it became evident that climate change leads to the increased inconsistent rainfalls in the studied climate variables indicate that under the effect of climate change , Based on Vibol method, droughts caused by effective rainfalls were calculated, and the probability of effective rainfalls in 5 time periods was accounted for. …”
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Application of Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Hybrid Reliability Analysis Based on Dynamic Substructural Extremum Response Surface Decoupling Method for a Blisk of the Aeroengi... by Bin Bai, Wei Zhang, Botong Li, Chao Li, Guangchen Bai

“…The model includes random variables and interval variables to determine the interval failure probability and the interval reliability index. The extremum response surface function and its flow chart of mixed reliability analysis are given. …”
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Effect of Vitamin D on Fasting Blood Sugar and HbA1c in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Rabab Zehra, Zareen Naz, Samina Mohyuddin, Saima Zainab, Aarfa Amjad, Ittafaq Hussain

“…In this study 80 patients were selected by non-probability purposive sampling method and open EPI 3.01 version was used to estimate the sample size. …”
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Autologous Stem Cell Therapy in Critical Limb Ischemia: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Baocheng Xie, Houlong Luo, Yusheng Zhang, Qinghui Wang, Chenhui Zhou, Daohua Xu

“…Meta-analysis showed that cell therapy significantly increased the probability of ulcer healing (RR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.45–2.06), angiogenesis (RR = 5.91, 95% CI = 2.49–14.02), and reduced the amputation rates (RR = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.46–0.76). …”
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Preoperative predictive factors of cystobiliary fistulas in liver hydatid cysts: results of a monocentric study by Mohamed Salah Jarrar, Ines Karmani, Mehdi Chahed, Malek Barka, Mohamed Hedi Mraidha, Radhouane Toumi, Ameni Beizig, Khayri Dhouioui, Sabri Youssef

“…In univariate analysis, alkaline-phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl-transferase, alanine-transferase elevated levels and multiple type were factors associated with occult fistula, but gamma-glutamyl-transferase level was the only predictor in multivariate analysis.Conclusion These predictive factors could contribute to determine preoperative probability of occult fistula, thus indicating additional intraoperative procedures to ensure its identification.…”
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Measurement of population agglomeration, dynamic change characteristics, and motivations in metropolitan agglomerations-A case study of the Xi'an metropolitan area. by Ke Liu, Xu Bo, Wang Zhaoping, Ran Du, Chen Heng

“…Moreover, there was an obvious "club convergence" phenomenon in the population agglomeration levels of different urban agglomerations. The probability of the population agglomeration level remaining stable was at least 53.85%, indicating that there was a "Matthew effect" in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. …”
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Reverse Dipping of Blood Pressure in Patients of Hypertension with and without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Kanwal Shahid, Nauman Ismat Butt, Tooba Iqbal, Rubaba Khan, Anum Rasheed, Iqra Azam

“…Ninety patients with hypertension of both sexes, aged 18-85 years were enrolled using non-probability consecutive sampling technique. Blood sample for fasting and random glucose levels were gathered. …”
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Application of Multimedia Quality Evaluation Relying on Intelligent Robot Numerical Control Technology in New Energy Power Generation System by Ruijuan Sun, Xiaoyuan Dang

“…Secondly, the influence of random faults between units on the subsequent loading rate was studied through probability calculation. The start-stop factors of conventional units were comprehensively analyzed. …”
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Absence of the interthalamic adhesion (ITA) as a neuroanatomical association or risk factor for neuropsychiatric disorders: A systemic review and meta-analysis by Adil Asghar, Ravi K. Narayan, Pankaj Kumar, Kumar S. Ravi, R. Shane Tubbs, Apurba Patra, Shagufta Naaz

“…Results: The incidence of absent ITA was 15.3% in healthy subjects and 28.76% in neuropsychiatric subjects. The relative probability of AITA was 2.30 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.96–2.70] in neuropsychiatric illness. …”
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Use of Nomogram to Predict the Risk of Lymph Node Metastasis among Patients with Cervical Adenocarcinoma by Yongju Tian, Yiping Hao, Qingqing Liu, Ruowen Li, Zhonghao Mao, Nan Jiang, Bingyu Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Xiaofang Zhang, Baoxia Cui

“…Both univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to analyze the selected key clinicopathologic features and develop a nomogram and underwent internal validation to predict the probability of LNM. Results. Lymphovascular invasion (LVI), tumor size≥4 cm, and depth of cervical stromal infiltration were independent predictors of LNM in cervical AC. …”
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Mechanical Recanalization following i.v. Thrombolysis: A Retrospective Analysis regarding Secondary Hemorrhagic Infarctions and Parenchymal Hematomas by J. Höltje, F. Bonk, A. Anstadt, C. Terborg, C. Pohlmann, P. P. Urban, R. Brüning

“…There was no significant difference in the probability of intracranial bleeding after successful (thrombolysis in cerebral infarctions 2b and 3) or unsuccessful recanalization. …”
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Stable Stratified Correlation and Linear Negative Correlation Between Serum Albumin and Risk of All-Cause Death in Patients with Ischaemic Stroke by Gaihong Xu, Juan Zhang

“…Kaplan–Meier survival analysis revealed that with the extension of follow-up time, the higher the albumin, the slower the survival probability decreased (P < 0.001). RCS also established a linear negative correlation between albumin and the risk of all-cause death (P for nonlinearity = 0.092). …”
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Microevolutionary differentiation of cereal tetraploid species by formation of recombinant genomes by N. I. Dubovets, Ye. A. Sycheva

“…Evidence that joint growing of tetra ploid amphidiploids having a common (pivotal) genome in their composition and differing in secondary (differential) genomes leads to their hybridization with high probability has been found. The forms developed are characterized by a very wide range of variability caused by different combinations of chromosomes and chromosome segments in dif­ferential genomes yet maintain the same structure of the pivotal genome. …”
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Maximising informativeness for target capture-based phylogenomics in Erica (Ericaceae) by Seth D. Musker, Nicolai M. Nürk, Michael D. Pirie

“…Comprising just over 300 genes, the targets had excellent recovery rates in roughly 90 Erica species as well as outgroups from Calluna, Daboecia, and Rhododendron, and had high information content as measured by parsimony informative sites and Quartet Internode Resolution Probability (QIRP) at shallow nodes. Notably, QIRP was positively correlated with intron content, while including introns in targets—rather than recovering them via exon-flanking “bycatch”—substantially improved intron recovery. …”
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Performance characteristics of the fork-join queuing system by V. I. Klimenok

“…The special interest of the study is to obtain the lower and upper bounds of the mean sojourn time of a customer in the system.Methods. Methods of probability theory, queuing theory and matrix theory are used.Results. …”
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An External Archive-Based Constrained State Transition Algorithm for Optimal Power Dispatch by Xiaojun Zhou, Jianpeng Long, Chongchong Xu, Guanbo Jia

“…The external archive strategy is adopted for maintaining the diversity of solutions to increase the probability of finding the optima of power dispatch optimization problem. …”
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