Diabetes mortality burden attributable to influenza in China: A population-based time-series analysis by Suijun Tong, Peng Yin, Jianhong Li, Zhenping Zhao, Yuchang Zhou, Maigeng Zhou

“…Methods: Data from the National Influenza Surveillance Center was collected for the period between 2015 and 2019 and weekly diabetes-related deaths were calculated from China's Disease Surveillance Points System (CDSP). …”
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DNA PROTECTIVE ACTIVITY OF Artemisia spp HAIRY ROOT EXTRACTS by Duplij V., Afanasieva K., Chopei M., Matvieieva N. A.

“…To calculate this value, linear regression was applied to the linear interval of radical scavenging activity. …”
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Association of pan-immune-inflammatory value with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: findings from NHANES 2017–2020 by Lian-Zhen Huang, Ze-Bin Ni, Qi-Rong Yao, Wei-Feng Huang, Ji Li, Yan-Qing Wang, Jin-Yan Zhang

“…Methods The cross-sectional study included 6462 adults aged ≥ 20 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–2020. PIV was calculated based on blood count data. Weighted multivariable logistic regression was employed to calculate the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) to investigate the association of PIV and MASLD. …”
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Overlying strata movement law and rockburst prevention & control for fully mechanized top coal caving face in extra-thick coal seams by Hai Rong, Longyue He, Yadi Wang, Xiangzhi Wei, Shilong Wei, Suihan Yang, Jincheng Li, Linlin Chen

“…Subsequently, a UDEC calculation model is established to comprehensively investigate the instability characteristics of the overlying hard rock strata. …”
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RECIST 1.1 versus mRECIST for assessment of tumour response to molecular targeted therapies and disease outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review and... by Yao Yang, Yuping Bai, Hongli Yu, Qiang Zhu, Xiaoyu Xie, Yuemin Feng

“…The agreement of tumour response is moderate for objective response (k=0.499) and perfect for progressive disease (k=0.901), calculated from 8 studies including 372 patients. OS was significantly longer in response group than non-response group according to mRECIST (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.41 to 0.78, p=0.0004) calculated from 7 studies including 566 patients, however, the RECIST1.1 could not distinguish the OS well (HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.44 to 1.05, p=0.08). …”
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Estimation and Analysis of Caspian Region\'s Future Rainfalls by Using General Atmospheric Circulation Models. by alimohammad khorshiddoust, behrooz sarraf, bagher ghermez cheshmeh, fatemeh jafarzadeh

“…The estimation errors of the SDSM model were calculated monthly by MBE and MAE criteria, and then compared. …”
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Safety and efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 93,057 minor stroke patients by Mostafa Hossam El Din Moawad, Talal Salem, Anas Alaaeldin, Youssef Elaraby, Peter D. Awad, Amr Ahmed Khalifa, Ahmed El Naggar, Khaled Ashraf Mohamed, Mohamed Elhalal, Mostafa Badr, Ramy Abdelnaby

“…While for the continuous variables, we calculated the mean difference (MD) of these variables. …”
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An integrated approach to predict genetic risk for Mosquito-Borne diseases in the local Population of Tehsil Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by Rabea Basri, Muslim Bin Aqeel, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Sadiq Noor Khan, Ayesha Obaid, Rubina Parveen, Muhammad Mohsin, Wajeeha Akhtar, Abdal Hussain Shah, Tahira Sher Afghan, Amir Alam, Saira Khan, Anam Naz

“…Furthermore, the cumulative allele frequency of all susceptibility and protection-related variants was calculated in diverse ethnic groups and the relationship with mosquito-borne disease-associated morbidity and mortality was examined to determine whether results are consistent with founder effect in these populations. …”
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Photochemical oxidation and landfarming as remediation techniques for oil-contaminated soil by M. Mambwe, K.K. Kalebaila, T. Johnson

“…To establish the processes’ effectiveness and kinetics, the oil residue was calculated at 7-day intervals for 35 days.FINDINGS: Initial oil concentration was 56.6 milligrams per kilogram, and degradation rates ranged from 23.91-80.47 percent. …”
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Baseline Smartphone App Survey Return in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study Offspring and Omni 1 Study: eCohort Study by Jian Rong, Chathurangi H Pathiravasan, Yuankai Zhang, Jamie M Faro, Xuzhi Wang, Eric Schramm, Belinda Borrelli, Emelia J Benjamin, Chunyu Liu, Joanne M Murabito

“…We calculated standardized scores for the PROMIS surveys. …”
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Temperature, violent crime, climate change, and vulnerability factors in 44 United States cities by Seulkee Heo, Hayon Michelle Choi, Jesse D. Berman, Michelle L. Bell

“…The Uniform Crime Reporting Program data were used to calculate daily city-specific number of violent crimes (n = 2,447,458 incidents). …”
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Effect of High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Depression after Cerebral Infarction by JIANG Linlin, NIU Lingchuan, WANG Yule, YANG Baotong, LI Hao, LI Jiani

“…Compared with the control group, the MoCA scores and subitem scores of MoCA (such as attention/calculation and delayed memory) of the observation group were significantly higher (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), and HAMD score and P300 latency were significantly lower, the difference was statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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High-Grade Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia: Impact of Colposcopic Lesion Area on Systemic Immune Responses by Mantoani PTS, Micheli DC, Jammal MP, Vieira JH, Michelin MA, Ferreira CGX, Silva HN, Murta EFC, Nomelini RS

“…ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves were calculated to determine whether there existed a cut-off value for serum cytokines in patients with colposcopic lesion area smaller vs larger than 1 cm2. …”
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Advanced analysis via statistical physics model to study the efficiency of catechol removal from wastewater using Brazil nut shell activated carbon by Salah Knani, Ismahene Ben Khemis, Wassim Zahrouni, Besma Graba, Ridha Selmi, Safwat A. Mahmoud, Abdulaziz Alenazi, Abdulmajeed Alshammari, Guilherme Luiz Dotto

“…These results were utilized to elucidate the role of surface functionalities through statistical physics calculations. All these experimental adsorption isotherms were fitted and interpreted via a monolayer model with one energy, which was chosen as the optimal model. …”
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Analysis of changes in the genome of the Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus (Flaviviridae: <i>Orthoflavivirus</i>) during laboratory practices for virus preservation by Zhanna S. Tyulko, Artem V. Fadeev, Aleksei G. Vasilenko, Ekaterina A. Gradoboeva, Valerii V. Yakimenko, Andrey B. Komissarov

“…Linked nucleotide substitutions were identified by calculating the mutual information for each pair of columns in the array of aligned nucleotide sequences. …”
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The association of Helicobacter pylori infection with the risk of anemia in children: systematic review and meta-analysis by Muluken Walle, Addisu Tesfaye, Melaku Mekonnen Agidew, Muluken Semaw, Surafel Mekuria, Fasil Getu

“…The pooled odds ratio (OR) was calculated to evaluate the associations of H. pylori infection with Anemia. …”
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Determination of distance away and depth of transmitters relative to a vertical acoustic telemetry array in the open ocean by Eric V. C. Schneider, Brendan S. Talwar, David M. Bailey, Shaun S. Killen, Dale M. Webber, Courtney E. MacSween, Travis E. Van Leeuwen, Frank I. Smith

“…This new ‘vertical acoustic array’ (VAR) allows for the calculation of a transmitter’s distance from the array and depth with average error around these metrics ranging from 16.2 to 54.8 m (distance error) and 8.6 to 61.5 m (depth error) within the tested range (~ 500 m radius around the array, ~ 300 m deep). …”
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GAJARDOITE-(NH4), (NH4)As3+ 4O6Cl2[(Ca0.5□0.5)(H2O)5], A NEW MINERAL FROM THE KHOVU-AKSY DEPOSIT, EASTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA by A.V. Kasatkin, V.V. Gurzhiy, N.V. Chukanov, A.A. Agakhanov, R. Škoda, D.I. Belakovskiy

“…The Mohs hardness is ~1½. The calculated density (Dcalc) is 2.583 g/cm3 .Gajardoite-(NH4) is optically non-pleochroic, uniaxial (–), ω = 1.745(10), ε = 1.558(5) (589 nm). …”
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Interventions for SARS-CoV-2 prevention among Jailed adults: A network-based modeling analysis by Isaac Schneider, Karina Wallrafen-Sam, Shanika Kennedy, Matthew J. Akiyama, Anne C. Spaulding, Samuel M. Jenness

“…The cumulative incidence, number of infections averted (NIA), and percentage of infections averted (PIA) were calculated comparing interventions against a base scenario without them. …”
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Pediatric reference values for total psoas muscle area in Korean children and adolescents by Jisoo Kim, Mi-Jung Lee, Hyun Ji Lim, Yonghan Kwon, Kyunghwa Han, Haesung Yoon

“…Total psoas muscle area (tPMA) was calculated as bilateral psoas muscle areas drawn semi-automatically at the levels of L3–4 and L4–5. …”
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