Decrease in phase angle after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is related to increase of anti-inflammatory status by Amanda Cristina Araújo Gomes, Amanda Machado Fiorotti, Amanda Motta de Bortoli, Beatriz Bobbio de Brito, João Arthur Souza Fiorido, Luciane Bresciani Salaroli, Andressa Bolsoni Lopes, Fabiano Kenji Haraguchi

“…Assessments included serum levels of alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), C-reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), adiponectin, and resistin, as well as anthropometric data and body composition. …”
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Diseño de una escala para evaluar las necesidades de enfermería para relacionarse con la familia del paciente en cuidados intensivos by Jaime Alberto Ramírez Niño, Olga Janneth Gómez Ramírez

“…La confiabilidad del instrumento se definió con un alpha de Cronbach final de 0,898 y un coeficiente de correlación intraclase (test-retest) de 0,986. …”
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Cross Talk between Proliferative, Angiogenic, and Cellular Mechanisms Orchestred by HIF-1α in Psoriasis by Azael Torales-Cardeña, Isaí Martínez-Torres, Sandra Rodríguez-Martínez, Fernando Gómez-Chávez, Juan C. Cancino-Díaz, Ernesto A. Vázquez-Sánchez, Mario E. Cancino-Díaz

“…Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease where the altered regulation in angiogenesis, inflammation, and proliferation of keratinocytes are the possible causes of the disease, and the transcription factor “hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha” (HIF-1α) is involved in the homeostasis of these three biological phenomena. …”
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Heterosis and heritability of traits contributing to select high yielding drought stress tolerance sweetpotato breeding lines by Mahaman Mourtala Issa Zakari, Emeka Benjamin Utobo, Zangui Souley Moussa, Josefina Ndamononghenda Abed, Ifeanyi Maxwell Nwankwo Innocent, Happiness Ogba Oselebe

“…Experiments were conducted at six locations in Niger (Kollo, Kalapate, Bengou, and Bangui) and Nigeria (Abakaliki and Umudike). …”
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Validation of the Bedtime Procrastination Scale Among Korean High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jaeeun Song, Oli Ahmed, Taeyeop Lee

“…Additionally, the BPS demonstrated strong reliability (Cronbach’s alpha=0.824). Bedtime procrastination was significantly correlated with depression (r=0.31, p<0.001) but not with viral anxiety. …”
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The Short-Term Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Electroencephalography in Children with Autism: A Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial by Anuwat Amatachaya, Mark P. Jensen, Niramol Patjanasoontorn, Narong Auvichayapat, Chanyut Suphakunpinyo, Suparerk Janjarasjitt, Niran Ngernyam, Benchaporn Aree-uea, Paradee Auvichayapat

“…Previous studies showed significantly less alpha activity in autism than normal children. Therefore, we studied the effects of anodal tDCS on peak alpha frequency (PAF) related to autism treatment evaluation checklist (ATEC). …”
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Exploring undergraduate students’ general attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence: A perspective from Vietnam by Tien Le Minh

“…The results indicated a Cronbach’s Alpha value of 0.705 for the total variable, demonstrating acceptable reliability. …”
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Multiple positive solutions for a nonlocal problem with fast increasing weight and critical exponent by Xiaotao Qian, Zhigao Shi

“…Abstract In this paper, we are concerned with the following nonlocal problem: − ( a − ϵ ∫ R 3 K ( x ) | ∇ u | 2 d x ) div ( K ( x ) ∇ u ) = λ K ( x ) f ( x ) | u | q − 2 u + K ( x ) | u | 4 u , x ∈ R 3 , $$ -\left (a-\epsilon \displaystyle \int _{\mathbb{R}^{3}} K(x)| \nabla u|^{2}dx\right )\text{div}(K(x)\nabla u)=\lambda K(x)f(x)|u|^{q-2}u+K(x)|u|^{4}u, \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{3}, $$ where a , λ > 0 $a, \lambda >0$ , 1 < q < 2 $1< q<2$ , K ( x ) = exp ( | x | α / 4 ) $K(x)=\exp ({|x|^{\alpha}/4})$ with α ≥ 2 $\alpha \geq 2$ , ϵ > 0 $\epsilon >0$ is small enough, and f ( x ) ≥ 0 $f(x)\ge 0$ satisfies some integrability condition. …”
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Adaptation of Organizational Social Entrepreneurship Scale into Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study by Ömer İşcan, Şahin Gafuroğlu

“…In the second step of the psychometric evaluation, the reliability evaluation was provided with the Cronbach Alpha coefficient, also known as the internal consistency coefficient. …”
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Depression-induced changes in directed functional brain networks: A source-space resting-state EEG study by Zhongwen Jia, Lihan Tang, Jidong Lv, Linhong Deng, Ling Zou

“…Compared to healthy controls, we observed an increased intensity of PTE information flow between the left and right hemispheres in the theta and alpha frequency bands in depressed subjects. The intensity of information flow between anterior and posterior regions within each hemisphere was reduced. …”
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Anaemia of inflammation preceding dyspnoea, dry cough and weight loss in primary pulmonary lymphoma by Ami Schattner, Ariel Rokach, Fiona Vernea, Maria Spector, Kalman Filanovsky

“…Globulins increased, due to an increase in the alpha1, alpha2 and gamma fractions, and mild hyponatraemia developed due to the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) secondary to the intrathoracic disease. …”
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Development of Assessment Tool to Measure Children’s Knowledge on Dengue Prevention Activities in Malaysia by H. Siti Nur Farhana, J. Noorlaile, K. Manimaran, S. Kamarul Zaman, A. Normawati, Albeny Joslyn Panting

“…Twelve (12) pictorials with descriptions were developed to capture children’s understanding of the correct method of dengue prevention activities. Cronbach’ alpha test was used to assess the internal consistency of the items, and the test and retest reliability method was used to measure the consistency of the questionnaire. …”
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Validation of a Survey Questionnaire on Organ Donation: An Arabic World Scenario by Rajvir Singh, Tulika Mehta Agarwal, Hassan Al-Thani, Yousuf Al Maslamani, Ayman El-Menyar

“…Construct validity was established by principal component analysis (PCA), whereas internal consistency was checked by Cronbach’s Alpha and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). …”
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Dihadron correlations in small-x DIS at NLO: transverse momentum dependent fragmentation by Paul Caucal, Farid Salazar

“…Our calculation demonstrates that the coefficient of the Sudakov double logarithm for this process is − α s 2 π C F + N c 2 $$ -\frac{\alpha_s}{2\pi}\left[{C}_F+\frac{N_c}{2}\right] $$ instead of − α s N c 4 π $$ -\frac{\alpha_s{N}_c}{4\pi } $$ when back-to-back jets are measured in the final state. …”
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On the number of residues of certain second-order linear recurrences by Accossato, Federico, Sanna, Carlo

“…As a corollary, we deduce that for all integers $a_1 \ge 1$ and $k \ge 2$ there exists $\xi \in \mathbb{R}$ such that the sequence of fractional parts $\bigl (\mathrm{frac}(\xi \alpha ^n)\big )_{n \ge 0}$, where $\alpha :=\big (a_1 + \sqrt{a_1^2 + 4}\,\big ) / 2$, has exactly $k$ limit points. …”
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Abnormal power and spindle wave activity during sleep in young smokers by Youwei Dong, Yongxin Cheng, Juan Wang, Zhiwei Ren, Yiming Lu, Kai Yuan, Kai Yuan, Fang Dong, Dahua Yu

“…Power spectral analysis and sleep spindle detection are used to analyze EEG activity during sleep.ResultsCompared to the non-smokers, young smokers showed increased alpha power in the frontal and central regions and decreased delta power in the central region. …”
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Identification of Type VI Collagen Synthesizing Cells in Human Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis Using Renal Biopsy Sections by Mohammed Shawkat Razzaque, Takehiko Koji, Takashi Harada, Takashi Taguchi

“…Type VI collagen‐specific oligonucleotide probes and monoclonal antibody were used to assess the relative expression of mRNA for \alpha1 (VI) chain and its translated protein in paraffin‐embedded renal biopsy sections of DN. …”
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Purslane Weed (Portulaca oleracea): A Prospective Plant Source of Nutrition, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, and Antioxidant Attributes by Md. Kamal Uddin, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, Md Sabir Hossain, Most. Altaf Un Nahar, Md. Eaqub Ali, M. M. Rahman

“…It is very good source of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and gamma-linolenic acid (LNA, 18 : 3 w3) (4 mg/g fresh weight) of any green leafy vegetable. …”
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Gravitational wave luminosity distance for Starobinsky gravity in viscous cosmological models by Jia-nan Chi, Ya-Bo Wu, Yu Sang, Xue Zhang, Yi-liang Hu, Wen-zhong Liu, Bo-hai Chen

“…Evidently, both of them are affected by $$\alpha $$ α and $$\eta $$ η . It worth stressing that the results given by us can reduce to ones in documents [13, 22, 30]. …”
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Pulsating Different Curves of Zero Velocity around Triangular Equilibrium Points in Elliptical Restricted Three-Body Problem by A. Narayan, Amit Shrivastava

“…The stability of the triangular points under the photogravitational and oblateness effects of both the primaries around the binary systems Achird, Lyeten, Alpha Cen-AB, Kruger 60, and Xi-Bootis, has been studied using simulation techniques by drawing different curves of zero velocity.…”
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