Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Age, post-void residual volume and median voided volume were included in detrusor overactivity main model, while age and storage symptoms subscore predicted detrusor overactivity sensitivity analysis 2. …”
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Intervention effect and mechanism of Dracocephalum moldavica L. extract on bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats by Xiaoyu SUN, Li CHEN, Ruifang GAO, Hui YU, Min JIN

“…A rat model of pulmonary fibrosis was constructed using bleomycin (5 mg·kg−1) intratracheal instillation, and an equal volume of saline was instilled into the control group. …”
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Comprehensive prognosis assessment of cardiovascular magnetic resonance parametric mapping in light chain amyloidosis by Xiao Li, Yubo Guo, Kaini Shen, Sisi Huang, Yajuan Gao, Lu Lin, Jian Wang, Jian Cao, Xinxin Cao, Zhengyu Jin, Zhuoli Zhang, Akos Varga-Szemes, U. Joseph Schoepf, Jian Li, Yining Wang

“…The statistical analyses included T2, extracellular volume, and native T1 as variates under investigation, adjusted for well-established prognostic markers. …”
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The Effect of Adding Surfactants on Appearance Specification and Nutrients Content of Processed Corn Grain using Steam-Flaked Technique by Farzaneh Mohamady, Mohsen Danesh Mesgaran, Seyed Alireza Vakili, Abdolmansour Tahmasebi, Mohammadreza Hosseindokht

“…Flaked corn grain treated with Tween 80 (TW80) had significantly (P< 0.05) higher volume compared with those of the others. The CP content of LN was higher than those of SD, TW80 and AL. …”
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Development of a comprehensive model to predict stock prices in the stock market with an interpretive structural modeling approach by Shiva Rezaeyan, Mohammad Taleghani, Azita Sherej Sharifi

“…These indicators included exponential moving averages, price channel indicator, relative strength indicator, equilibrium trading volume indicator, price indicator, price-to-earnings ratio (P/E), operating profit-to-sales ratio, gross profit-to-sales ratio, company sales growth rate, share purchase-to-sales ratio, dividend per share (DPS), money flow index (MFI), earnings per share (EPS), exchange rate, and trading volume. …”
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Geometry-symmetry-free and material-symmetry-guaranteed polariton-induced transparency by Xingyu Tang, Huaping Wang, Zhenyang Cui, Sihao Xia, Zhiwei He, Song Han, Hongsheng Chen, Yingjie Wu

“…In this study, we theoretically achieve geometry-symmetry-free and material-symmetry-guaranteed PIT based on volume-confined phonon polaritons (vPhPs) in stacked bilayer α-MoO3 structures. …”
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Prevalence of thyroid diffuse goiter and its association with body mass index and the presence of cysts and nodules in children and adolescents: the Fukushima Health Management Sur... by Nana Nakahata, Mahiro Asano, Norikazu Abe, Haruka Ejiri, Hisashi Ota, Satoshi Suzuki, Ayako Sato, Rina Tazaki, Natsuki Nagamine, Chisato Takahashi, Yukie Yamaya, Manabu Iwadate, Takashi Matsuzuka, Tetsuya Ohira, Seiji Yasumura, Satoru Suzuki, Fumihiko Furuya, Hiroki Shimura, Shinichi Suzuki, Susumu Yokoya, Hitoshi Ohto, Kenji Kamiya

“…However, the prevalence of diffuse goiter and the relationships between diffuse goiter, thyroid volume, cysts and nodules, and anthropometric measurements in children are not well known. …”
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Effect of modified Morita therapy combined with motor imagery training on pulmonary rehabilitation of elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (改良森田疗法结合运动想象在老年慢性... by ZHOU Chunxiang (周春香), SUN Renjuan (孙仁娟), ZHOU Ru (周茹), TANG Jinghua (唐静华), DING Yexia (丁叶霞), ZHANG Xiaofeng (张晓枫), ZHANG Jianxia (张剑霞)

“…Results After intervention, the value of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced expiratory volume in one second/predicted value ratio(FEV1%pred), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1/FVC of the observation group were higher than those of the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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Exploring the effect of cold stress on the semen quality parameters of buffalo bulls by Karpenahalli Ranganatha Sriranga, Pawan Singh, Ravinder Singh, Tejeshwari Satpute, Prince Vivek, Tushar Kumar Mohanty, Pradeep Kumar, Ranjit Singh Kataria, Megha Pande, Manishi Mukesh

“…Routine seminal attributes, viz., semen volume, sperm concentration, mass activity, individual motility, viability, acrosome integrity, and hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST), were evaluated immediately after semen collection, and diluted semen was cryopreserved for further studies. …”
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Exploring in vivo human brain metabolism at 10.5 T: Initial insights from MR spectroscopic imaging by Lukas Hingerl, Bernhard Strasser, Simon Schmidt, Korbinian Eckstein, Guglielmo Genovese, Edward J. Auerbach, Andrea Grant, Matt Waks, Andrew Wright, Philipp Lazen, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Gilbert Hangel, Fabian Niess, Yigitcan Eryaman, Gregor Adriany, Gregory Metzger, Wolfgang Bogner, Małgorzata Marjańska

“…The average total NAA (tNAA = NAA + NAAG) signal-to-noise ratio over the whole volume of interest was 12.1± 8.9 and the full width at half maximum of tNAA was 24.7± 9.6 Hz for the 2.75 × 2.75 × 2.75 mm³ resolution. …”
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Development of financial performance of food retailers as an attribute behind the increase of food insecurity in selected Central and Eastern European Countries by Oksana Dubanych, Jan Vavřina, Josef Polák

“…Specifically, Return on Sales for food retailers located in the Czech Republic and Hungary was generally below 2%, offset by higher Total Asset Turnover figures, consistent with the need to extend the volume of goods for sale. Development in profitability in selected newer EU member states is just as significantly similar to the situation in Ukraine. …”
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CASE STUDY: DEVELOPING TANZANIA’S TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TIMS) by Glenn ROBINSON

“…Developing effective congestion relief strategies requires going beyond the collection of geotechnical like shoulder width, guardrails, vegetation, road length and width, culverts, volume, drainage, terrain, rail crossing, number of lanes, bridges locations, and type of terrain. …”
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Ceramic bricks using pistachio shells as controlled porosity former by Nancy Quaranta, Marta Caligaris, Miguel Unsen, Hugo López, Gisela Pelozo, Adrián Cristóbal

“…It focuses on the characteristics of the ceramic pieces obtained with different residual biomass contents (from 5 to 20% by volume). The specimens were shaped by uniaxial pressure of 25 MPa, and then were treated at 950°C for 3h. …”
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Altered Structural and Functional Connectivity of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: An fMRI Study by Chengqing Zhong, Rong Liu, Cheng Luo, Sisi Jiang, Li Dong, Rui Peng, Fuqiang Guo, Pu Wang

“…A FC analysis was subsequently performed, with seeding at the regions that demonstrated between-group differences in gray matter volume (GMV). Then, the observed structural and FCs were associated with the clinical manifestations. …”
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Applied research note: Predicting carcass portion weights for purebred turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) lines using a 2D imaging system by Shai Barbut, Emily M. Leishman, Ryley J. Vanderhout, Benjamin J. Wood, Christine F. Baes

“…Recently, there has been increasing interest in using computer vision systems to assess parameters such as size, weight, volume, and grade of poultry meat. The present study developed mathematical equations to predict turkeys’ (4,000) meat yield using a non-invasive real-time 2D carcass imaging system. …”
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Social Anxiety Symptoms in The Visually Impaired Versus Healthy Control: Saudi Arabian Samples by Alsubaie SS

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Optimizing Extractability, Phytochemistry, Acute Toxicity, and Hemostatic Action of Corn Silk Liquid Extract by Zead Helmi Abudayeh, Uliana Karpiuk, Viktoriia Kyslychenko, Qais Abualassal, Loay Khaled Hassouneh, Sami Qadus, Ahmad Talhouni

“…The technological parameters and quality indicators of corn silk were evaluated in this study: specific density, volumetric density, bulk density, porosity, spatial layer, free volume of the layer, the absorption coefficient, weight loss on drying, and extractives. …”
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