Linguistic-cultural validation of a French version of the oral health assessment tool by Rapp Lucie, Vergnes Jean-Noel, Monsarrat Paul, Kémoun Philippe, Balardy Laurent, Lacoste-Ferré Marie-Hélène

“…Internal consistency was considered good in the retrospective sample (Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.73) and excellent in the prospective sample (Cronbach’s alphas were 0.90 for each examiner). …”
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Characterization and comparison of fecal microbiota in horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction and age‐matched controls by Wenqing Wang, Justine Gibson, Sara Horsman, Deirdre Mikkelsen, François‐René Bertin

“…Microbial analysis used 16S rRNA sequencing to determine the relative abundance at genus and phylum levels, assess alpha and beta diversity and identify core microbiota. …”
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The efficiency of tracking gold exchange-traded funds in the Tehran Stock Exchange: analysis of tracking error and double beta model by Meysam Kaviani, Seyed Fakhreddin Fakhrehosseini, Sama Najafpoor

“…The results also show that the alpha coefficients of ETFs in some funds in the down market are negative and not significant, which indicates the low performance of this fund under the down market conditions, while the alpha in the funds in the up market regime indicates that the proper performance of this fund in the market is bullish. …”
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Development and validation of a patient experience assessment questionnaire for evaluating hospital care in Iran by Faezeh Nezamdoost, Ali Vafaei Najar, Marziye Zarqi, Jamshid Jamali, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaei, Elaheh Hooshmand

“…Reliability was determined using internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) and stability (intra-cluster correlation coefficient) measures. …”
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Usability and psychometric properties of a battery of tools to assess intelligence, executive functioning, and sustained attention in Tanzanian children. by Georg Loss, Hannah Cummins, Nicolaus Gutapaka, Jane Nyandele, Sylvia Jebiwott, Deborah Sumari, Thabit Athuman, Omary Juma, Susanne P Martin-Herz, Ally Olotu, Michelle S Hsiang, Günther Fink

“…We assessed internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha and convergent validity using standard correlation analysis. …”
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Psychometric properties of the nursing start-up attitude scale in Iranian nursing students by Iman Jafari, Mehdi Jafari-Oori, Abbas Ebadi

“…The five factors extracted in the exploratory factor analysis, which accounted for 80.74% of the explained variance, were subsequently confirmed in the confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was found to be 0.85. Additionally, the interclass correlation coefficient for the total scale was 0.812, and there were no ceiling or floor effects observed (0%). …”
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Dietary Patterns and Fitness Level in Mexican Teenagers by César Estrada-Reyes, Patricia Tlatempa-Sotelo, Roxana Valdés-Ramos, María Cabañas-Armesilla, Rafael Manjarrez-Montes-de-Oca

“…Dietary patterns were obtained by factorial analysis. The ALPHA-FIT battery was used to measure the fitness level. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the CFAbd-Score for gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis by Flávia N.S. Infante, Elizete A. Lomazi, Carlos Zagoya, Franziska Duckstein, Daniela O. Magro, Fernando Pessotto, Antônio F. Ribeiro, José D. Ribeiro, Jochen G. Mainz

“…Internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) were good for abdominal pain: 0.84; abdominal bloating: 0.73; flatulence: 0.76; heartburn: 0.81, and low for reflux: 0.54. …”
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Genetic characterization of a rare case of pheochromocytoma in a pulmonary transplant patient by Stéfanie Parisien-La Salle, Florence Perreault, Gilles Corbeil, Julie Morisset, Charles Poirier, Catherine Beauregard, Agnès Räkel, Marjorie Labrecque, Martine Tétreault, Martine Tétreault, Christian Cohade, Pasquale Ferraro, Isabelle Bourdeau

“…Chronic hypoxia can lead to gain of function somatic variants in the EPAS1 gene that encodes for hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha (HIF-2α), involved in PPGL tumorigenesis.ObjectiveTo describe a rare case of PCC in a pulmonary transplant patient and characterize the tumour’s genetic background.Clinical CaseA 47 year-old man underwent a lung transplant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. …”
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Impact of tiered restrictions in December 2020 on COVID-19 hospitalisations in England: a synthetic control study by Daniel Hungerford, Benjamin Barr, Mark Green, Marta García-Fiñana, Iain Buchan, Xingna Zhang

“…The effects were similar across different levels of neighbourhood deprivation and prevalence of the Alpha variant.Conclusions Regionally targeted Tier 3 restrictions in England had a moderate but significant effect on reducing hospitalisations. …”
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Blowing Out the Candle: How to Quench Galaxies at High Redshift—An Ensemble of Rapid Starbursts, AGN Feedback, and Environment by Lucas C. Kimmig, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Benjamin Seidel, Lucas M. Valenzuela, Klaus Dolag, Andreas Burkert

“…We predict that relics of such high- z quenched galaxies should best be characterized by a strong alpha enhancement.…”
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A meta-analysis of the effectiveness and side effects of hip arthroscopy and open surgical dislocation in the management of femoroacetabular impingement by Chenlie Ni, Haiqing Lin, Haibo Yin

“…Conclusion Alpha angle improvement, mHHS, NAHS after 12 months of follow-up, rate of recurrence, and rate of Complication are some of the indicators of the study’s results point to the possibility that hip arthroscopy may be effective for patients with FA impingement; hence, these conclusions required to be corroborated by additional superior-quality studies.…”
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Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms of Taxol Synthesis in Taxus wallichiana var. Mairei by Tao Wang, Yiming Chen, Weibing Zhuang, Fengjiao Zhang, Xiaochun Shu, Zhong Wang, Qing Yang

“…Our results indicated that high expressions of the genes taxadienol acetyltransferase (TAT), taxadiene 5-alpha hydroxylase (T5H), 5-alpha-taxadienol-10-beta-hydroxylase (T10OH), and 2-debenzoyl-7,13-diacetylbaccatin III-2-O-benzoyl-transferase (DBBT), which catalyze a series of key acetylation and hydroxylation steps, are the main cause of high taxol content in JXS. …”
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Functional mass spectrometry indicates anti-protease and complement activity increase with COVID-19 severity by Douglas D. Fraser, Douglas D. Fraser, Swapan Roy, Matt Kuruc, Maritza Quintero, Logan R. Van Nynatten, Gediminas Cepinskas, Gediminas Cepinskas, Haiyan Zheng, Amenah Soherwardy, Devjit Roy

“…Our data suggests that within 48 h of hospital admission, COVID-19 patients undergo a protease storm with significantly elevated neutrophil elastase (p < 0.001) and lymphocyte granzyme B (p < 0.01), while, anti-protease activity is significantly increased, including alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT; p < 0.001) and alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (ACT; p < 0.001). …”
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Effect of attenueted parapoxvirus ovis on levels of some serum cytokines and antibody response in sheep by Kamil Atlı, Atilla Şimşek

“…, IL-12, IFN-γ, TNF-α from proinflammatory cytokines (Th1) and IL-4 and IL-10 from antiinflammatory cytokines (Th2) were determined by ELISA.…”
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Features of therapy selection in patients with glaucoma and “dry eye” syndrome by Zh.G. Oganezova, E.A. Egorov

“…<br> <br> <b>Key words:</b> POAG, neuroprotection, alpha-agonists, dry eye syndrome, brimonidine, Luxfen.…”
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Developing a Standard Tool for Measuring Health Literacy Related to Transfusion-Transmitted Infections by Leila Manzouri MD, Saman Masoudifar PhD, Narges Roustaei PhD, Fariba Rad PhD

“…Finally, the structural validity of the tool was checked by performing a confirmatory factor analysis and its reliability by calculating Cronbach's Alpha. Results The CVR and CVI had an average of 0.86 and 0.93 respectively. …”
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Battery for fall risk assessment in older adult people—BARQ: analysis of reliability and objectivity by Andrea Carmen Guimarães, Brisa D’Louar Costa Maia, Karollyni Bastos Andrade Dantas, Gustavo Costa Santos, Letícia Moreira Américo, Nelzy Aparecida Silva Werner, Lucio Flávio Gomes Ribeiro da Costa, César Augusto da Silva Santos, Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas, Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas

“…Cronbach’s alpha coefficients indicated nearly perfect reliability for mobility (0.97) and visual acuity (0.96). …”
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NTCR Behavior of La-Doped BaBiO3 Ceramics by Ying Luo, Xvqiong Li, Xinyu Liu

“…The resistivity and the coefficient of temperature sensitivity first decreased with increasing x in the range of x<0.03 and then increased with further increase in x. However the alpha parameter value increased to a maximum value and then decreased again.…”
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Particle filter-based multi-path time-varying channel blind equalization in stable noise by Nan XIA, Tian-shuang QIU, Jing-chun LI

“…The contribution of the novel algorithm can be summarized as follows: the blind sequential algorithm was derived which performs the maximum a posteriori (MAP) symbol detection in symmetric-alpha-stable (SaS) distribution noise; and the joint posterior distribution of the Gaussian approximation for SaS distribution noise and the joint posterior distribut nknown channel and noise parameters were derived and presented. …”
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