The Risk Factors for Mortality among Septic Trauma Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the National Trauma Data Bank by Nadim Kattouf, Mohamad Assaf, Saadeddine Haidar, Rana Bachir, Mazen El Sayed, Ralph BouChebl

“…Multivariate analysis was used to determine the risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality. Results. 1782 trauma patients developed sepsis. 567 patients (31.8%) died during their hospital stay. …”
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Ações sustentáveis das Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior: uma análise das propostas dos Planos de Logística Sustentável by Elenise Ribes Rickes, Rodrigo da Rocha Gonçalves, Cassius Rocha de Oliveira, Daniel Poletto Tesser

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Application of Flower Pollination Algorithm for Solving Complex Large-Scale Power System Restoration Problem Using PDFF Controllers by G. Ganesan Subramanian, Albert Alexander Stonier, Geno Peter, Vivekananda Ganji

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Application of attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in semi-quantification of blood lipids and characterization of the metabolic syndrome. by Tz-Ping Gau, Jen-Hung Wen, I-Wei Lu, Pei-Yu Huang, Yao-Chang Lee, Wei-Po Lee, Hsiang-Chun Lee

“…In the regression models, HGBT best predicted the targets of TG, CHOL, HDL-C, LDL-C, and VLDL-C with R2 values of 0.854 (0.12), 0.684 (0.08), 0.758 (0.10), and 0.419 (0.11), respectively. …”
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Triglyceride-glucose index in predicting the risk of new-onset diabetes in the general population aged 45 years and older: a national prospective cohort study by Yingqi Shan, Qingyang Liu, Tianshu Gao

“…Finally, ROC curves were applied in order to construct a predictive model for diabetes. Results A total of 1054 (17.9%) participants developed diabetes throughout the 9-year follow-up. …”
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Identification of Spectrally Similar Materials From Multispectral Imagery Based on Condition Number of Matrix by Maozhi Wang, Shu-Hua Chen, Jun Feng, Wenxi Xu, Daming Wang

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Bioremediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Solution and Aged Refuse by Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: Further Insights into <i>Sporosarcina pasteurii</i> by Dingxiang Zhuang, Weiheng Yao, Yan Guo, Zhengzheng Chen, Herong Gui, Yanyang Zhao

“…It also achieved remediation rates of 74%, 84%, and 62% for exchangeable Cd, Pb, and Zn in aged refuse, respectively. …”
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Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio associated with disease activity in patients with Takayasu’s arteritis: a case-control study by Juan Du, Lili Pan, Taotao Li, Hua Liao

“…NLR also exhibited a positive relationship with Kerr’s score (r=0.284, p=0.002), hs-CRP (r=0.313, p=0.006) and ESR (r=0.249, p=0.019). …”
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KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF MODERN CONTRACEPTIVES AMONG MOTHERS OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN ENUGU STATE; SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA by UCHENNA TERESA OKONKWO, HELEN NNADI, CHIOMA AKAEBE

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Evaluation of Water Quality of Water Storage Cisterns in Apartments (Case Study of Kermanshah City) by Mohana Faraji, Milad Roshanbas, Mitra Javan

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Telephone consultations with otolaryngology – head and neck surgery reduced emergency visits and specialty consultations in northern Alberta by Peter George Jaminal Tian, Dean Eurich, Hadi Seikaly, Douglas Boisvert, John Montpetit, Jeffrey Harris

“…Results Overall, 62.3% (1064/1709) of telephone consultations reduced ED visits consisting of advice being provided (n = 884; 83.1%) and referral to specialty clinics (n = 180; 16.9%). …”
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Localization and detection of deepfake videos based on self-blending method by Junfeng Xu, Xintao Liu, Weiguo Lin, Wenqing Shang, Yuefeng Wang

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Transmutations of Long-Lived and Medium-Lived Fission Products Extracted from CANDU and PWR Spent Fuels in an Accelerator-Driven System by Alper Buğra Arslan, İlayda Yilmaz, Gizem Bakir, Hüseyin Yapici

“…The ADS is operated under subcritical mode until the value of keff increases to 0.984, and the maximum operation times are obtained as 3400, 3270, and 5040 days according to the spent fuel cases of A, B, and C, respectively. …”
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Studying agronomic characters in new millet accessions from the VIR collection at Yekaterinino Experiment Station of VIR by T. V. Kulemina

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Comparative mitogenome analysis of two ectomycorrhizal fungi (Paxillus) reveals gene rearrangement, intron dynamics, and phylogeny of basidiomycetes by Qiang Li, Yuanhang Ren, Dabing Xiang, Xiaodong Shi, Jianglin Zhao, Lianxin Peng, Gang Zhao

“…Evolutionary analysis revealed that the nad4L gene had undergone strong positive selection in the two Paxillus species. In addition, 10.64 and 36.50% of the repetitive sequences were detected in the mitogenomes of P. involutus and P. rubicundulus, respectively, which might transfer between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. …”
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Patterns of nucleotide diversity for different domains of centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) gene in Secale L. by S. S. Gatzkaya, E. V. Evtushenko

“…In the case of βCENH3, the mean values for NTT (πtot = 0.0168–0.0062) are lower than for HFD (πtot = 0.0259–0.084). The estimates of nucleotide and haplotype diversity per site for the CENH3 domains are considerably lower in taxa with narrow geographic ranges: S. cereale subsp. dighoricum and S. strictum subsp. kuprijanovii. …”
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The Association between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Hemoglobin A1c Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Stage 1–5 Chronic Kidney Disease by Farshad Kajbaf, Romuald Mentaverri, Momar Diouf, Albert Fournier, Said Kamel, Jean-Daniel Lalau

“…The mean HbA1c value was 6.7±1.0% in vitamin D sufficiency, 7.3±1.5% in insufficiency, and 8.4±2.0% in deficiency (P<0.0001). There was a negative correlation between 25(OH)D and HbA1c levels for the population as a whole (r=-0.387, P<0.0001) and in the CKD severity subgroups (r=-0.384, P<0.0001 and r=-0.333, P<0.0001 for CKD stages 1–3 and 4-5, resp.). …”
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Nutrition Knowledge among College of Basic Education Students in Kuwait: A Cross-Sectional Study by Wafaa Husain, Fatemah Ashkanani, Maryam A. Al Dwairji

“…The mean score of the students was 40.06 ± 9.89 out of 84 points. Females scored significantly higher than males, at 41.10 ± 9.29 and 38.72 ± 10.48, respectively (p = 0.007). …”
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A Novel Smartphone-Based Color Test for Detection of Color Vision Defects in Age Related Macular Degeneration by Vassilios Karampatakis, Diamantis Almaliotis, Leonidas Karamitopoulos, George Kalliris, Stavroula Almpanidou

“…The areas under the curve (AUC) were estimated to be 0.897 [95% CI: 0.841–0.952], 0.943 [95% CI: 0.901–0.984], and 0.931 [95% CI: 0.886–0.977] for the red, green, and blue color, respectively. …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

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