Efficacy of the Foodbot Factory digital curriculum-based nutrition education intervention in improving children’s nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in elementary school... by Wendy Lou, Michael Farkouh, JoAnne Arcand, Jacqueline Marie Brown, Saman Tahir, Beatriz Franco-Arellano, Ann LeSage, Janette Hughes, Bill Kapralos, Ellen Vogel, Claire Tugault-Lafleur

“…The Foodbot Factory intervention, consisting of serious game (ie, a digital game designed for education) and curriculum-based lesson plans, was developed to support teachers and children ages 8–12 with nutrition education. Pilot data have demonstrated that Foodbot Factory can significantly improve children’s nutrition knowledge, but it has not yet been evaluated in classrooms.Methods and analysis A single-blinded cluster randomised controlled trial was designed in 2022 by a research team based at Ontario Tech University to determine the efficacy of the Foodbot Factory intervention in improving children’s nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. 32 grade 4 and 4/5 classrooms in Ontario will be randomised to receive (1) the Foodbot Factory intervention or (2) a control nutrition education intervention using conventional materials (eg, activity sheets). …”
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Psychological peculiarities of professional development in late adulthood by E. F. Zeer, E. E. Symanyuk, A. A. Ryabukhina, G. I. Borisov

“…The Mann-Whitney U-test, Spearman rank correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis of the obtained data. Maximum likelihood factor analysis was used as well.Results. …”
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Value of triglyceride glucose-body mass index in predicting nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Xiaoyi Qian, Wenwen Wu, Boyang Chen, Simin Zhang, Chunmei Xiao, Long Chen, Jun Chen, Jun Chen, Lingli Ke, Meian He, Xiulou Li, Xiulou Li, Xiulou Li

“…The Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparing non-normally distributed continuous data between groups, while the Chi-square test was used for categorical data. …”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Lumbosacral Complications Following Long‐Segment Spinal Fusion in Adult Degenerative Scoliosis by Tinghua Jiang, Xinuo Zhang, Qingjun Su, Xianglong Meng, Aixing Pan, Hanwen Zhang, Yong Hai

“…Patients were matched to the baseline data using fusion level > 5 as a grouping variable. …”
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Association between the triglyceride-glucose index and its combined obesity indicators and the risk of hypertension in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: A nationwide cross-sect... by Huoping Zheng, Meiling Xu, Jing Yang, Mingjun Xu

“…Logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the association between different TyG indices and obesity-related indicators with the risk of hypertension. …”
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Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding screening and managing diabetic microvascular complications among general practitioners of community health centres: a cross-sectional st... by Hua Yang, Jian Gao, Ying Yu, Cuiling Huang, Chengdian Lan, Zhangyan Chen

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Pattern of Refractive Error among Patients attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Southern Assam, India: A Cross-sectional Study by Nilanjan Kaushik Thakur, Ruma Das Debsikdar, Srawani Sarkar, Surabhi Prasad, S Lakshmi, Devajit Deka

“…Data on uncorrected and corrected visual acuity, age, and sex were gathered. …”
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Anxiety and burnout in infectious disease nurses: the role of perceived stress and resilience by Yalan Huang, Zonghua Wang, Yongguang Li, Zhihan Zhao, Weiyi Wang, Changxia Cai, Xiushuang Wu, Li Liu, Mengting Chen

“…Abstract Background Nurses serving in infectious disease ward represent a distinct occupational group that has attracted considerable attention following epidemic outbreaks. …”
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Morphological and Molecular Diversity of Five Superior Napier Grass Cultivars in Indonesia by M. D. M. Nasution, N. Umami, A. Kurniawati, M. M. Rahman

“…The dendrogram derived from the RAPD data clustered the cultivars into two main groups, with ‘Gama Umami’ and ‘Local’ showing a high similarity coefficient of 0.73, while ‘Purple’ and ‘Pakchong’ formed a distinct sub-cluster with a similarity coefficient of 0.66, and ‘Odot’ exhibited a similarity coefficient of 0.58 with the ‘Purple’ and ‘Pakchong’ sub-cluster. …”
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Investigation of the Soan River Water Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Approach by Zakaullah, Naeem Ejaz

“…The sampling stations were grouped into specific clusters on the basis of the spatiotemporal pattern of water quality data. …”
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Correlation of intracranial and extracranial carotid atherosclerotic plaque characteristics with ischemic stroke recurrence: a high-resolution vessel wall imaging study by Shengyu Shao, Tianle Wang, Li Zhu, Yin Gao, Xian Fan, Yu Lu, Chengqun Qian, Manyu Zhang, Jinhua Qian

“…Clinical and imaging data were compared between the recurrent and nonrecurrent groups. …”
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Inferior vena cava diameter in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease: a retrospective study by Jianan Li, Chi Wang, Hui wu Dong, Jing Qi, Chongyou Rao, Qiuyang Li, Kunlun He

“…We used Cox regression to evaluate the risk of all-cause mortality among groups, and used mediation analysis to examine the mediation role of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and serum albumin in the association between IVC and all-cause mortality. …”
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The relationship between perceptions toward advertising and consumption of energy-dense nutrient-poor foods among adults in the United States: results from a national survey by Chan L. Thai, Jacqui Villarreal, Jacqueline A. Thai

“…The purpose of this study is to explore (1) the differences in perceptions toward and trust in food advertisements between racial/ethnic population subgroups; and (2) the associations between perceptions toward food advertising and the consumption of energy-dense, nutrient poor (EDNP) foods among adults using data from a national data set (n = 1,535).MethodsData from the National Cancer Institute’s Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating (FLASHE) survey were utilized in this secondary data analysis study. …”
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Anogenital distance in water buffalo females and relationship with reproductive performance. Preliminary results by Héctor Nava-Trujillo, Simón Zambrano-Salas, Justin Dijak, Adriana Morgado-Osorio, Quintino D’Andrea

“…Data for this study was registered in a commercial farm in El Vigia, Merida, Venezuela, with crosses of Mediterranean x Murrah water buffalo breeds (Bubalus bubalis). …”
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Association between NAFLD and liver fibrosis with nutritional risk index based on the NHANES 2017–2018 by Jieming Jian, Rui Zhang, Yuan Dong, Hongting Zheng, Xiaoyu Liao

“…Methods Participants were selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data for the 2017–2018 cycle. Association between NRI and both NAFLD and liver fibrosis was evaluated using multiple logistic regression and restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis. …”
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Contemporary manifestations of patriotism with particular information on social media by Julia Nowicka

“…Material and methods The research method used is a critical analysis of the literature on the subject. Particular importance is given to statistical data generated by various research centers. …”
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Capacity Enhancement in 60 GHz Based D2D Networks by Relay Selection and Scheduling by Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Jin Xu, Xiaofeng Tao

“…In current data-centric device-to-device (D2D) communication networks, the devices with intended data communications usually lay in close proximity, unlike the case in voice-centric networks. …”
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Assessment of Near-Bottom Water Quality of Southwestern Coast of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia: A Multivariate Statistical Approach by Chen-Lin Soo, Cheng-Ann Chen, Shabdin Mohd-Long

“…The coastal water quality showed spatial heterogeneity where the cluster analysis grouped the 11 stations into four different clusters. …”
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Identification of key genes affecting intramuscular fat deposition in pigs using machine learning models by Yumei Shi, Yumei Shi, Xini Wang, Shaokang Chen, Yanhui Zhao, Yan Wang, Xihui Sheng, Xiaolong Qi, Lei Zhou, Yu Feng, Jianfeng Liu, Chuduan Wang, Kai Xing

“…In this study, a total of 74 RNA-seq data from muscle tissue samples were used. A total of 155 DEGs were identified using a limma package between the two groups. 100 and 11 significant genes were identified by support vector machine recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) and random forest (RF) models, respectively. …”
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How Do Sociodemographics and Activity Participations Affect Activity-Travel? Comparative Study between Women and Men by Min Yang, Wei Wang, Feifei Yu, Jian Ding

“…This paper concentrates on gender role-based differences in activity-travel behavior in a typical developing country, namely, China. Using data from 3656 cases collected through surveys conducted in Shangyu, data processing, method choice, and descriptive analysis were conducted. …”
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