Median effective dose of remimazolam combined with sufentanil for inhibiting laryngeal mask airway insertion responses in children of different ages by Hongyun Li, Jinxia Wang, Rong Wei, Yan Jiang

“…Thereafter, probit regression was performed to calculate the median effective dose (ED50) and 95% effective dose (ED95) with the corresponding 95% CIs. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted waist-index and symptoms of sleep apnea in US adults: results from 2015–2018 national health and nutrition examination survey by Edmore Madondo, Paddington T. Mundagowa, Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Debra Bartelli, Yu Jiang, Fawaz Mzayek

“…Methods Data from the 2015–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys were analyzed. WWI was calculated as WC (cm)/√weight (kg). A weighted multivariable logistic regression model and smooth curve fitting were used to investigate the association between WWI and sleep apnea symptoms. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION'S INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS INVESTMENT POTENTIAL IN WARTIME by Ruslan Boiko, Roman Martsenyuk, Arsen Protsykevych

“…The following methods of economic analysis were used in the study: analysis and synthesis (to ensure a systematic approach when characterising the investment environment of the region), statistical analysis and calculation (when analysing the volume, dynamics and structure, factors and functional features of the formation of the investment environment of the regional economy), strategic management (to determine the strategic goal, objectives, mechanisms, instruments and expected results of the regional investment policy in wartime). …”
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Permeability Characteristics of Combined Coal with Different Water Contents by Hongyu Pan, Yao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yan Cao, Yuhang Chu, Shihua Yang

“…The flow rate of coal under different water content combinations was measured, and the permeability, pressure gradient, and seepage velocity of the samples were calculated. The relationships among porosity, permeability, pressure gradient, and seepage velocity were analyzed. …”
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Preoperative assessment of liver regeneration using T1 mapping and the functional liver imaging score derived from Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced magnetic resonance for patient with hepatoce... by Qian Li, Tong Zhang, Shan Yao, Feifei Gao, Lisha Nie, Hehan Tang, Bin Song, Bin Song, Yi Wei

“…T1 relaxation time of liver before gadoxetic acid injection (T1pre) and during the hepatobiliary phase (T1HBP), reduction rate (Δ%) and FLIS were calculated, their correlations with liver fibrosis stage, hepatic steatosis, and liver regeneration, quantified as regeneration index (RI), were assessed by Kendall’s tau-b correlation test or Spearman’s correlation test. …”
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Risk factors for mediastinal lymph node metastasis and lung metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma patients: who benefits from preoperative computed tomography? by Yoko Omi, Juro Yanagida, Yusaku Yoshida, Kiyomi Horiuchi, Takahiro Okamoto

“…Relative risk (RR) was calculated based on RFs. MLNM and lung metastases were detected in 1.2% and 3.3% of patients, respectively. cT3-4, cN1, central LN metastasis, and lateral LN metastasis were RFs for MLNM in all patients (p < 0.05, p < 0.05, p < 0.05, p < 0.01) and older patients (age: ≥55 years) (p < 0.01, p < 0.05, p < 0.05, p < 0.05). cT3-4, cN1, gross extrathyroidal extension, central LN metastasis, and lateral LN metastasis were RFs for lung metastasis in all patients (p < 0.01, p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.01, p < 0.01, respectively). cN1 and gross extrathyroidal extension, central LN metastasis, and lateral LN metastasis were RFs in older patients (p < 0.01, p < 0.01, p < 0.05, p < 0.01), while lateral LN metastasis was an RF for lung metastasis in those of <55 years of age (younger patients) (p < 0.05). …”
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A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study of the Performance of the Widal Test and the Typhidot Immunoassay for Typhoid Fever Diagnosis in the West Region of Cameroon by Karimo Ousenu, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Leonard Fonkeng Sama, Marcel Nsangou Ndam, Thibau Florant Tchouangueu, Christopher Bonglavnyuy Tume

“…The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the positive and negative tests were calculated as well as Cohen’s kappa for agreement between the two tests. …”
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Longitudinal Assessment of Alterations in Peripheral Inflammatory Markers Over a Hospitalization Period in Patients with Schizophrenia by Süleyman Dönmezler, Oya Güçlü, İmren Kurt, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk

“…Inflammatory markers such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratios (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratios (MLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios (PLR), C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratios (CAR), and systemic immune inflammation indices (SII) were calculated at the time of hospital admission and after three weeks. …”
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Bridging past and present: exploring Cannabis traditions in Armenia through ethnobotanical interviews and bibliographic prospecting by Manica Balant, Teresa Garnatje, Daniel Vitales, Marine Oganesian, Joan Vallès, Nina Stepanyan-Gandilyan, Airy Gras

“…Since the data acquisition was different, the quantitative analyses (calculation of the number of use reports and percentages) were performed separately. …”
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The pattern of genetic diversity of different breeds of pigs based on microsatellite analysis by V. R. Kharzinova, N. A. Zinovieva

“…To estimate the allele pool of each population, the average number of alleles (NA), the effective number of alleles (NE ) based on the locus, the rarified allelic richness (AR), the observed (HO ) and expected (HE ) heterozygosity, and the fixation index (FIS) were calculated. The degree of genetic differentiation of the breeds was assessed based on the pairwise values of FST and D. …”
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Étude des diarrhées en milieu périurbain à Abidjan par l’approche écosanté by Brama Koné, Mohamed Doumbia, Ibrahima Sy, Kouassi Dongo, Yveline Agbo-Houenou, Pascal Valentin Houenou, Benjamin Fayomi, Bassirou Bonfoh, Marcel Tanner, Guéladio Cissé

“…Il s’agit des enfants qui mangent sans se laver les mains, des mouches qui pullulent et couvrent les repas consommés, des poubelles sans fermeture et couvertes de mouches, de déchets solides et points d’eaux stagnantes qui couvrent toute la surface habitée du village.Ces résultats ont permis, à travers un processus transdisciplinaire et participatif incluant les communautés et autres parties prenantes, la mise en place d’actions de renforcement de capacités des villageois pour faire face aux maladies diarrhéiques.…”
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Cognitive Performance in Hot-Humid Environments of Non-Air-Conditioned Buildings: A Subjective Evaluation by Hui Zhu, Yichao Wang, Da Yuan, Kun Gao, Quanna Liao, Masanari Ukai, Fan Zhang, Songtao Hu

“…The results of cognitive tasks (response time and accuracy) were recorded online automatically, with which the cognitive performance index (CPI) was calculated. The results showed that five items of NASA-TLX, namely mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, effort, and frustration, were negatively related to air temperature (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and they were also observed to have quasi-inverted-U relationships with exposure time. …”
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Changes in sarcopenia and incident cardiovascular disease in prospective cohorts by Qingyue Zeng, Lijun Zhao, Qian Zhong, Zhenmei An, Shuangqing Li

“…Cox proportional hazards models were employed to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), adjusting for potential confounding factors. …”
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Response of Carrot (Daucus carota L.) to Supplementary Irrigation under Rain-Fed Agriculture at Jimma and Gera, Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia by Etefa Tilahun Ashine, Minda Tadesse Bedane, Adissu Asefa Mengesha

“…Crop water requirement (ETc) was calculated from reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and crop coefficient (Kc) using CropWat 8.0 software. …”
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Epidemiology of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in Iran: Four‐Year National Cancer Registry Data Report (2014–2017) by Mohammad Sajed Dehghan Banadaki, Vahid Rahmanian, Saeed Hosseini, Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini, Narjes Hazar

“…The age‐standardized rate (ASR) of STS incidence was calculated for each location using the World Standard Population. …”
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REGIONAL FACTORS OF MECHANISMS TRANSFORMATION FOR STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR OF UKRAINE by Tetyana Calinescu, Olena Zelenko, Serhii Pidmohylnyi

“…Results of the study: it is determined that the formation of economic security of entrepreneurial activity in the industrial sector of Ukraine at the regional level is carried out by increasing the volume of sales of products/services against the background of ensuring the resource, production, scientific, technical, human resources potential, provided that the welfare of employees and the absence of inflation; an instrumentarium for assessing the status of economic security of entrepreneurial activity in the industrial sector at the regional level has been defined, which provides for the analysis of individual coefficients with a threshold value, as well as the calculation of an integral indicator of the status of economic security of entrepreneurial activity in the industrial sector of the region; the article characterises modern factors of formation of economic security of entrepreneurial activity at the level of regions of Ukraine, in particular, the most promising branches of the industrial sector for a particular region of Ukraine and the standard of living of the economically active population with the status of internally displaced persons. …”
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ABCD3-I and ABCD2 Scores in a TIA Population with Low Stroke Risk by Fredrik Ildstad, Hanne Ellekjær, Torgeir Wethal, Stian Lydersen, Hild Fjærtoft, Bent Indredavik

“…In a subset of patients with complete data for both scores (n=305), we calculated the AUC statistics of the ABCD3-I score and compared this with the ABCD2 score. …”
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Comparative effects of different dietary pectin types on growth performance and intestinal health in pearl gentian grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus♀ × E. lanceolatus♂) by Lulu Zhu, Xiaoxue Meng, Xuehan Wang, Jiongting Fan, Beiping Tan, Junming Deng

“…Daily growth coefficient and feed conversion ratio were calculated to assess growth performance, while intestinal mucosal barrier function as well as intestinal physical, chemical, immune, and biological barrier was evaluated to assess intestinal health. …”
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Estimating the Prevalence of Schizophrenia in the General Population of Japan Using an Artificial Neural Network–Based Schizophrenia Classifier: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey by Pichsinee Choomung, Yupeng He, Masaaki Matsunaga, Kenji Sakuma, Taro Kishi, Yuanying Li, Shinichi Tanihara, Nakao Iwata, Atsuhiko Ota

“…The crude prevalence of schizophrenia was calculated through the proportion of positive cases detected by the SZ classifier. …”
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A study on the variability and correlation of ocular biological measurement parameters in adult myopic patients by Fangxing Zhou, Nan Chen, Hui Qian, Di Gong, Kunke Li

“…Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated to analyze the correlations between parameters, and linear regression and ROC curve analyses were performed.ResultsSignificant differences (p &lt; 0.05) were found among mild, moderate, and high myopia groups in parameters such as DS, DC, AL, K1, Km, ACD, CRC, and AL/CRC. …”
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