Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of the synergistic effects of pollution control and carbon reduction in China by Qinggang Meng, Xiaolan Chen, Hui Wang, Wanfang Shen, Peixin Duan, Xinyue Liu

“…Subsequently, a modified coupling coordination degree (CCD) model is used to calculate the CCD of PCCR in China from 2011 to 2021. …”
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Frequencies and ethnic distribution of ABO and RhD blood groups in China: a population-based cross-sectional study by Min Liu, Jue Liu, Shikun Zhang, Qiaomei Wang, Haiping Shen, Yiping Zhang

“…We aimed to evaluate the distribution of ABO and RhD blood groups among Chinese ethnic groups.Design A population-based cross-sectional study.Setting Data on ABO groups and ethnicities were obtained from the National Free Preconception Health Examination Project (NFPHEP) with participants from 220 counties of 31 provinces in ChinaParticipants There were 3 832 034 participants aged 21–49 years who took part in the NFPHEP from January 2010 to December 2012 and were included in this study.Outcome Measures The proportion of ABO and RhD blood groups among different ethnic groups was calculated.Results ABO and RhD blood distribution was significantly different among nine ethnic groups (P<0.001). …”
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of exercise-based intervention to prevent gestational diabetes in women with overweight or obesity by Teresa E. Santa Cruz, Cristina Sarasqueta, Juan Carlos Muruzábal, Eukene Ansuategui, Olga Sanz

“…Summary risk ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. Main Results. Seven studies covering 1162 patients were identified. …”
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Prognostic Features and Potential for Immune Therapy in Metastatic Mismatch Repair‐Deficient Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis of a Large Consecutive Population‐Based Pat... by Erkki‐Ville Wirta, Hanna Elomaa, Jukka‐Pekka Mecklin, Toni T. Seppälä, Marja Hyöty, Jan Böhm, Maarit Ahtiainen, Juha P. Väyrynen

“…CD3 and CD8 immunohistochemistry were analyzed to calculate T‐cell densities in the tumor center and invasive margin, and G‐cross function values to estimate cancer cell–T‐cell co‐localization. …”
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Correlation-guided decoding strategy for low-resource Uyghur scene text recognition by Miaomiao Xu, Jiang Zhang, Lianghui Xu, Wushour Silamu, Yanbing Li

“…The role of the CGD decoder is to perform correlation calculations using the outputs from the Transformer decoder and the encoder to optimize the final recognition performance. …”
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Association Between Triglyceride Glucose Index and Hypertension According to Different Diagnostic Criteria by Hao H, Geng H, Ma M

“…TyG and TyG-BMI, indicators of insulin resistance (IR), were calculated using triglyceride (TG), fasting blood glucose (FPG), and body mass index (BMI). …”
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Association between systemic inflammatory response index and glaucoma incidence from 2005 to 2008 by Xiang Li, Yi Qing Sun, Xiao Dan Zhong, Zhi Jie Zhang, Jia Feng Tang, Zhan Yang Luo

“…SIRI and other inflammatory indices, including the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), were calculated from blood samples. Logistic regression models were employed to assess the relationship between these indices and glaucoma, adjusting for demographic and health-related variables.ResultsA significant positive association was found between elevated log2SIRI levels and the prevalence of glaucoma (Model 3: OR 1.24, 95% CI 1.07–1.44, p < 0.005). …”
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Thyroid Dysfunction in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional, Epidemiological, Pan-India Study by Vaishali Deshmukh, Faraz Farishta, Milind Bhole

“…Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and fasting plasma insulin were used for the calculation of homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). …”
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Cost-effectiveness of oral versus injectable disease modifying therapies in relapsing multiple sclerosis: a systematic review analysis by Mehdi Rezaee, Ramin Ravangard, Seyyed Morteza Mojtabaeian, Abdosaleh Jafari

“…The amount of INMB (incremental net monetary benefit) in the comparisons between oral and injectable drugs showed that the highest and lowest amount of INMB calculated between) Fingolimod and injectable drugs, respectively, compared to (interferon β-1a) 98,253 and (Ocrelizumab) -212,417, the highest amount in dimethyl fumarate is also against (peginterferon β-1a) 191,470 and the lowest against (alemtuzumab) -124,333, Teriflunomide against injectable drugs is the highest against (peginterferon β-1a) 89,956 and the lowest (Ocrelizumab) − 194,169, as well as Cladribine compared to injectable drugs, the highest was compared to (interferon β-1a) 236,430 and the lowest (Ocrelizumab) was 23,965. …”
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Effect of Joint Geometrical Parameters on Hydraulic Fracture Network Propagation in Naturally Jointed Shale Reservoirs by Zhaohui Chong, Qiangling Yao, Xuehua Li

“…The hydraulic parameters used in the model are validated through comparing the breakdown pressure derived from numerical modeling against that calculated from the theoretical equation. Sensitivity analysis is performed on the geometrical parameters of the joints. …”
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Greenhouse gas offsets distort the effect of clean energy tax credits in the United States by Emily Grubert, Wilson Ricks, Danny Cullenward

“…Life cycle analysis is a decision support tool that is increasingly prominent in energy and environmental policies, but it is not an objective, quantitative calculator. Seemingly minor choices about life cycle system boundaries and baseline assumptions, such as whether unabated methane emissions are assumed to continue indefinitely, have gigatonne-scale effects on expected GHG outcomes. …”
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Statewide Variation in Practices and Charges for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Maryland, United States: A Retrospective Study by Grace Lassiter, Eric Etchill, Tamir Sholklapper, Charbel Chidiac, Joseph Canner, Daniel Sangkyu Rhee

“…The predicted incremental cost of early vs. delayed VATS was calculated. Results: Overall, 354 admissions were identified, with 211 (59.6%) receiving CT management and 143 (40.4%) undergoing VATS. …”

Association between cardiovascular health and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a nationwide cross-sectional study by Lian-Zhen Huang, Ze-Bin Ni, Wei-Feng Huang, Li-Ping Sheng, Yan-Qing Wang, Jin-Yan Zhang

“…Weighted binary logistic regression was employed to calculate the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) to investigate the association of CVH with MASLD. …”
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Transition zone-based prostate-specific antigen density for differentiating clinically significant prostate cancer in PI-RADS score 3 lesions by Yongming Jin, Fei Chen, Gang Xu, Chaogang Wei, Congsong Dong

“…The diagnostic performances of prostate-specific antigen density (PSAD), TZ-adjusted PSAD (TZPSAD), and TZ-ratio (TZ volume/whole gland prostate volume) were analyzed. We calculated the sensitivity and specificity for each variable, the overall accuracy was evaluated with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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Prospective observational study to compare subclavian vein collapsibility index with inferior venacava collapsibility index in predicting hypotension after induction of general ana... by Manjunath C. Patil, Kola Hari Poornima, Raghavendra H. Kalal

“…Using ultrasonography, diameters of subclavian vein and inferior venacava during one respiratory cycle were recorded and their collapsibility indices were calculated. Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), and Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) were noted at every 2 minutes interval after induction of general anesthesia. …”
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Antibacterial and photocatalytic activities of biosynthesized zinc oxide nanoparticle using novel plant P. macrosolen L. leaf extract by Abel Saka Gungure, Leta Tesfaye Jule, N. Nagaprasad, Krishnaraj Ramaswamy, Shanmugam Ramaswamy

“…The energy band gap of the biosynthesized ZnO Nanoparticles, calculated using the Tauc relation, was found to be 3.0 eV, indicating the presence of a blue shift. …”
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Dynamic damage characteristics of coal and rock mass under shock wave pulsating load by Xiankai BAO, Bin JIANG, Wu ZHANG, Xiangyu SONG, Jinchang ZHAO, Chaoyun YU, Tong ZHANG

“…Based on CT scans and the ABAQUS numerical simulation software,damage variables for coal rock mass with different hydraulic and electrical parameters were calculate and then evaluate the dynamic damage and crack initiation and propagation morphologies and evolutionary properties of coal rock mass. …”
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A hybrid fuzzy decision-making approach for evaluating the suppliers based on industry 5.0 and viable supply chain dimensions: a case study in medical devices manufacturing by Zeinab Asadi, Hassanali Aghajani, Mohammad Valipourkhatir, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

“…In this regard, in the first stage, according to the literature and experts, the main indicators of the research problem are extracted, and their weights are calculated using the fuzzy best-worst method. In the next stage, the feasible suppliers are evaluated by employing the fuzzy VIKOR method. …”
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Based on the Gaussian Fitting Method to Derive Daily Evapotranspiration from Remotely Sensed Instantaneous Evapotranspiration by Suhua Liu, Hongbo Su, Renhua Zhang, Jing Tian, Shaohui Chen, Weimin Wang, Lijun Yang, Hong Liang

“…To make more scientific assessments, percent errors were calculated on the estimation accuracy, which ranged from 0% to 18%, with more than 80% of locations having the percent errors within 10%. …”
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Optical Observations of Sputtered Au-nanostructures and Characterizations by Sabah Jameel Mezher, Mohammed O. Dawood, Bahjat B. Kadhim

“…The thicknesses of the three films prepared at different sputtering times (10, 15, and 20 seconds) were calculated using the theoretical deposition formula method. …”
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