Testosterone deficiency and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Irina A. Khripun, Sergey V. Vorobyev, Yanina Allahverdieva

“…BACKGROUND: Current studies investigated diseases associated with testosterone (T) deficiency; however, data on the combination of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with hypogonadism and diabetes mellitus (DM) in men are extremely limited. …”
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Dynamic frailty risk prediction in elderly hip replacement: a deep learning approach to personalized rehabilitation by Xujing Lv, Hongmei Li, Yue Li, Ruibing Zhuo, Yiting Yue, Ying Wang, Xiaoyun Zheng, Huanling Gao

“…Clinical, biochemical, demographic, and surgical data were collected at preoperative and postoperative stages. …”
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Aurora kinase-a expression heterogeneity and potential benefit of combination therapy in prostate adenocarcinoma by Ru Chen, Qianyi Qiu, Weiting Xie, Jun Lin, Rong Liu, Jianhui Chen, Shaoxing Zhu, Yiming Su

“…However, its heterogeneous expression and combination therapy benefit in prostate adenocarcinoma (PRAD) is unclear.MethodsIn this study, we integrated TCGA pan-cancer multi-omics data and GEO data to analyze the RNA, methylation, protein expression, and genomic alteration characteristics of AURKA. …”
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Immunosenescence-Related Gene MAFF is Involved in Immune Regulation and Malignant Progression in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma by Fenglin Zhang, Kexin Liu, Mengfan Ao, Jiangang Zhao, Xinghe Liao, Ping Li, Hao Chen

“…Functional enrichment analysis using KEGG and GO, GSEA, survival analysis, and the design of an immunosenescence-linked risk signature using Lasso-Cox regression is part of the analytical approach. …”
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A Prospective Study of Lumbar Facet Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis and Stenosis: Early Cost-effective Assessment from the Total Posterior Spine Sys... by Jared D. Ament, Amir Vokshoor, Yaser Badr, Todd Lanman, Kee D. Kim, J. Patrick Johnson

“…The base case analysis utilized SF-36 survey data from the RCT. Both cost and QALY outcomes were discounted at a yearly rate of 3% to reflect their present value. …”
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Perceived Quality and Competitive Advantage in Beer Products In Kabale District, South Western Uganda by Moses, Agaba, Alex, Kanyesiime

“…The inferential analysis was conducted using multiple regression analysis and the t-statistic and the p-value were adopted to test the hypotheses of the study. …”
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Examining upper echelons managers’ characteristics on financial restatements by Syarifah Saffa’ Najwa Tuan Besar, Mazurina Mohd Ali, Erlane K Ghani

“…The results show that only CEO’s characteristics in terms of educational and functional background significantly affect the financial restatements of the listed firms but the results are positive. …”
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Solubility Characteristics and Microstructure of Bitumen: A Review by Han Liu, Haibo Ding, Yanjun Qiu, Hinrich Grothe

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Collaborative Superpixelwised PCA for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Chao Yao, Junrui Gu, Zehua Guo, Miao Ma, Qingrui Guo, Gong Cheng

“…Next, the mean vectors of samples within each superpixel are utilized to model the manifold structure of the data. Then, a novel objective function is formulated, which aims to simultaneously preserve the obtained manifold structure between superpixels and the structure within each superpixel. …”
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A preliminary estimate of the environmental burden of disease associated with exposure to pyrethroid insecticides and ADHD in Europe based on human biomonitoring by Anthony Purece, Sofie Theresa Thomsen, Dietrich Plass, Anastasia Spyropoulou, Kyriaki Machera, Philippe Palmont, Amélie Crépet, Rafiqa Benchrih, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Nina Wieland, Paul Scheepers, Deepika Deepika, Vikas Kumar, Gerardo Sanchez, Jos Bessems, Dario Piselli, Jurgen Buekers

“…Based on an exposure-response function from a single European study and on available quality-assured and harmonized HBM data collected in France, Germany, Iceland, Switzerland, and Israel, a preliminary estimate of the environmental burden of disease for ADHD associated with pyrethroid exposure was made for individuals aged 0–19 years. …”
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Regulation of land use conflicts at indigenous peoples lands based on blockchain platform, russian arctic case study by A. V. Evseev, T. M. Krasovskaya, V. S. Tikunov, I. N. Tikunova

“…The procedure of conflict detection and forecast for a certain territory is based on separate data sets analysis by independent stakeholders. But nowadays regional data sets are centralized, often not updated in time, not easy to reach. …”
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An integrated workflow for charting the human interaction proteome: insights into the PP2A system by Timo Glatter, Alexander Wepf, Ruedi Aebersold, Matthias Gstaiger

“…However, global AP‐MS analysis of human protein complexes is hampered by the low throughput, sensitivity and data robustness of existing procedures, which limit its application for systems biology research. …”
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Research on Temperature Control Method of Rice Noodles Extruder Based on APSO-MPC by Mengyao Zhang, Yunren Yang, Guohua Gao, Zhenlong Li, Yakai He, Peigang Li, Huangzhen Lv

“…The APSO algorithm is further selected to perform the adaptive parameter identification of the model based on the collected input/output data. Then, aiming at high-precision temperature control, the objective function is constructed by combining the temperature prediction value and the reference trajectory, and the objective function is optimized to obtain the optimal control sequence. …”
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An immediate–late gene expression module decodes ERK signal duration by Florian Uhlitz, Anja Sieber, Emanuel Wyler, Raphaela Fritsche‐Guenther, Johannes Meisig, Markus Landthaler, Bertram Klinger, Nils Blüthgen

“…Altogether, our findings suggest that ILGs function as a gene expression module to decode ERK signal duration.…”
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Older People’s Capacities and Intergenerational Mutual Support Provision in Vietnam by Trinh Thai Quang, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan

“…Data from Vietnam National Ageing Survey 2011 were used for analysis with a sample of 2,700 participants aged 60 and older. …”
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Racial Swearing in Compliments on X: A Pragmatic Perspective by Aprilia Kartika Putri, Anggi Triandana, Siti Fitriah, Yoga Mestika Putra, Jeliana Veronika Sirait

“…The results of the data analysis are presented by using informal method. …”
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Design of a Classification Recognition Model for Bone and Muscle Anatomical Imaging Based on Convolutional Neural Network and 3D Magnetic Resonance by Ting Pan, Yang Yang

“…After that, a new activation function Mish is introduced, and its advantages over other activation functions are experimentally demonstrated. …”
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Fault diagnosis and inference of hoist main bearing based on transfer learning and ontology by Fei DONG, Di ZHANG, Kunpeng GE, Junjie CHEN, Xinyue XU

“…To overcome the challenges still faced by data-driven hoist main bearing fault diagnosis methods, including data imbalance due to a lack of fault samples under real operating conditions, diagnostic performance degradation of fault diagnosis models caused by significant differences in data sample distribution under varying conditions, single fault diagnosis function, and a lack of reasoning analysis and localization for the causes of hoist main bearing system failures, a new fault diagnosis and reasoning method for hoist main bearing systems is studied, which includes two aspects: ① Bearing fault diagnosis based on convolutional neural network transfer learning and domain adaptation. …”
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Efficacy of Nirmatrelvir tablet/Ritonavir tablet in patients infected with COVID-19 aged 90 years and older by WEI Xueman, ZHANG Jingxiang, LIU Tan

“…A retrospective research method was employed to gather and compare patitents’ clinical laboratory data before and after antiviral treatment, such as blood routine tests, inflammatory markers, coagulation function tests, liver and renal function tests, electrolyte levels, and blood gas analysis, between the drug group and the control group. …”
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Association between cardiometabolic index and overactive bladder in adult American women: A cross-sectional study. by Junhua Li, Min He, Yu Zhou

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional analysis was performed using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) covering the years 2007 to 2018, including 6323 female participants. …”
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