Associations Between Uraemic Toxins and Gut Microbiota in Adults Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis by Philippa James, Jordan Stanford, Ojas V. A. Dixit, Mary Ann Nicdao, Brett McWhinney, Kamal Sud, Michele Ryan, Scott Read, Golo Ahlenstiel, Kelly Lambert, Claire O’Brien, Katrina Chau

“…This study aimed to identify associations between uraemic toxins, diet quality, symptoms and the gut microbiota in individuals initiating peritoneal dialysis. A cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from participants in a longitudinal study was conducted. …”
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Analytical Inertia Identification of Doubly Fed Wind Farm with Limited Control Information Based on Symbolic Regression by Mengxuan Shi, Yang Li, Xingyu Shi, Dejun Shao, Mujie Zhang, Duange Guo, Yijia Cao

“…Based on this, a nonlinear function library reflecting frequency-active power dynamic is constructed, and a symbolic regression model representing the system’s inertia response characteristics is established by correlating operational data. …”
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Advanced Classifiers and Feature Reduction for Accurate Insomnia Detection Using Multimodal Dataset by Ameya Chatur, Mostafa Haghi, Nagarajan Ganapathy, Nima TaheriNejad, Ralf Seepold, Natividad Martinez Madrid

“…Here we show that using the hybrid approach of incorporating both recursive feature elimination (RFE) and principal component analysis (PCA) on sleep and heart data features yields outstanding results, with the multi-layer perception (MLP) achieving an accuracy of 95.83% and an F1 score of 0.93. …”
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Immunodeficiency Disorders in Congenital Heart Diseases (Review) by Elena A. Degtyareva, Bupe M. Mwela, Andrey P. Prodeus, Dmitry Yu. Ovsyannikov, Marina G. Kantemirova, Olga V. Alekseeva, Dmitry A. Kudlay, Alexey I. Kim, Inessa E. Nefedova, Tatiana V. Rogova, Margarita R. Tumanyan, Ilya A. Korsunskiy

“…Violations were more often related to T-cell function and immunoglobulin deficiency (especially the IgG and IgG4 subgroups). …”
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Genome‐scale metabolic modeling reveals key features of a minimal gene set by Jean‐Christophe Lachance, Dominick Matteau, Joëlle Brodeur, Colton J Lloyd, Nathan Mih, Zachary A King, Thomas F Knight, Adam M Feist, Jonathan M Monk, Bernhard O Palsson, Pierre‐Étienne Jacques, Sébastien Rodrigue

“…Using sequence and structural homology, the set of metabolic functions its genome encodes was identified, allowing the reconstruction of a metabolic network representing ˜ 30% of its protein‐coding genes. …”
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Research on Spatial Distribution, Accessibility and Resource Equity of Compulsory Education Schools in Megacities: A Case Study of Wuhan by Wei Ping, Huang Jing, Yan Jiaqin, He Sanwei

“…Integrating Point of Interest data of primary and secondary schools, educational resources, road network information, this study uses GIS methodologies, such as the nearest neighbor index, coefficient of variation, kernel density analysis, service area network analysis, and an improved 2SFCA method to evaluate the spatial distribution characteristics of compulsory education resources in Wuhan and the accessibility and resource distribution equilibrium across districts. …”
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Effects of Acute Time-Restricted Eating on Inflammation in Individuals With Psoriasis: Protocol for a Case-Control, Prospective Study by Sinibaldo Romero Arocha, Kim Han, Rebecca D Huffstutler, Geethika P Thota, Natalie A Macheret, Amber B Courville, Robert J Brychta, Kong Y Chen, Stephanie T Chung, Laura C Coates, Alexander J Clarke, Michael N Sack

“…The integrated bioinformatics analyses will be reported once the data analysis is completed. ConclusionsThis clinical protocol was designed to characterize the effects of short term (3-day) TRE on psoriasis, independent of weight loss, by comparing immune cell regulatory responses between healthy individuals and those with psoriasis. …”
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Dynamic epigenomic landscape and gene regulatory networks during embryonic development in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) as revealed by histone modification profiling... by Jiale Shi, Zhangru Qi, Miaomiao Yin, Qifan Zeng, Jingjie Hu, Zhenmin Bao, Zhi Ye

“…Functional annotation of cis-regulatory elements based on histone marks identified candidate enhancers and regulatory loci linked to these key genes. …”
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Prognostic and immune modulatory effects of ammonia-induced cell death in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Qian Chengqun, Wang Xijun, Fan Yangyang, Yang Xiaoqin, Cheng Min, Xu Jun

“…Single-cell transcriptomic data were also used to examine ACD-associated gene expression in distinct cellular populations. …”
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CHANGES IN MORPHODENSITOMETRIC PARAMETERS OF THE PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS IN RATS UNDER STRESS OF DIFFERENT DURATIONS by І. Федоряк, Р. Булик

“… Paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus play the important role in both endocrine regulation of the tropic function of the adenohypophysis and the organism's neuroendocrine response to stress of various origins, particularly sustained photoperiod disturbances. …”
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Effect Evaluation of Staged Fracturing and Productivity Prediction of Horizontal Wells in Tight Reservoirs by Yuan Zhang, Jianyang Chen, Zhongbao Wu, Yuxiang Xiao, Ziyi Xu, Hanlie Cheng, Bin Zhang

“…Due to the interference of multiple physical parameters and the complex functional relationship in the development of tight reservoir fracturing, the traditional prediction method has low accuracy and it is difficult to establish an accurate mapping relationship. …”
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Evaluación de los patrones de movimiento fundamentales en niños: comparación de género en escolares de Educación Primaria (Assessment of fundamental movement patterns in children:... by Miguel García-Jaén, Sergio Sellés-Pérez, Juan Manuel Cortell-Tormo, Alberto Férriz-Valero, Roberto Cejuela

“…Finally, a statistical data analysis was developed. The obtained results showed that females had higher total composite scores in the seven FMS test compared with males (15.3 ± 1.999 vs. 13.75 ± 1.970, p = .017). …”
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A Novel Alpha-Power X Family: A Flexible Framework for Distribution Generation with Focus on the Half-Logistic Model by A. A. Bhat , Aadil Ahmad Mir , S. P. Ahmad , Badr S. Alnssyan , Abdelaziz Alsubie , Yashpal Singh Raghav

“…Graphical tools such as fitted density curves, Q–Q and P–P plots, survival functions and box plots further support the suitability of the model for real-world data analysis.…”
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Adaptation of the Listening Comprehension Test to Turkish Culture by Yasemin Yüzbaşıoğlu, Halime Miray Sümer Dodur, Serpil Çelikten Demirel, Özlem Altındağ Kumaş

“…The results for the assumptions were satisfactory. Then, general model-data fit, item-based model-data fit, discrimination parameters, difficulty parameters and information functions were examined with factor loadings.Findings: The results showed that item parameters were in the expected ranges in practical applications, and test information function peaked at lower ability level similar to the original measurement tool. …”
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Investigating the prevalence and associated factors of elevated liver enzymes and dyslipidemia during pregnancy by Ananya Dutta Mou, Nurshad Ali

“…Abstract Liver dysfunctions during pregnancy can either be pregnancy-specific or preexisting in acute or chronic form. Data on the prevalence of abnormal liver functions and dyslipidemia during pregnancy in Bangladesh are scarce since these tests are not typically done in routine prenatal screening. …”
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A Comparative Study of Plantar Arch Index, Weight Distribution, Equilibrium Performance, and Selected Musculoskeletal Disorders in Active and Non-active Adolescences by Ali Fattahi, Haniyeh Zehtab Asghari, Zahra Koreili

“…The subjects demographics included the non-active adolescence with Mean±SD of Age: 12.46±1.10, Mean±SD of Height: 157.69±8.48 cm, and Mean±SD of Weight: 46.65±8.45; the active group with Mean±SD of Age: 12.26±1.13, Mean±SD of Height: 153.91±10.09, and with Mean±SD of Weight: 44.52±7.76. For statistical analysis of data, K-S test for normal distribution of data and used t-test to compare the two groups of active and non-active and U Mann–Whitney at the significance level of 0.05.  …”
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Development and evaluation of a Physiotherapy-led, WHO-ICOPE-Based, Person-Centered Integrated Care Program (PTICOPE) module to enhance intrinsic capacity in older adults: Protocol... by Nurhazrina Noordin, Akkradate Siriphorn, Yu Chye Wah, Maria Justine

“…Secondary outcomes will evaluate QoL, activities of daily living, urogenital health, and oral health at baseline and 12th week. The normality of data will be checked. The independent t-tests, Chi-square tests, paired t-tests, and Repeated measures ANOVA will be used for data analysis, with a significant level at p < 0.05.…”
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Interleukin Family-Based Signature Relates to Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Spatial Distribution and Immune Therapy Response in Pancreatic Carcinoma by Cheng Y, Xiao S, Li X, Wang B, Lei Y, Sun P, Ma L, Zhu Y

“…The model was validated using clinical data and a meta-analysis of seven public PC datasets (HR= 1.27). …”
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Disturbances of visual perception in non-demented patients with Parkinson’s disease by R. Timofejavaitė, V. Vilda, A. Liveikienė, R. Kaladytė-Lokominienė

“…Mild cognitive impairment, disorders of language and executive function were diagnosed more frequently in PD group. …”
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Predicting disinfection by-products (DBPs) in supply water within a real water distribution network using an artificial neural network by F. Khan, M.F.R. Zuthi, M.S. Rahman, M.A. Akbor, M.D. Hossain, M.N.I. Bhuiyan

“…Furthermore, the findings indicate that the prediction capability of the model improves as the volume of data increases. Performance analysis revealed that using all nine input parameters together resulted in the most accurate predictions of TTHM concentrations. …”
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