Morphometric Changes in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease who Died Related to Diabetes Mellitus, Arterial Hypertension and Obesity by Ivette Gómez Fernández, Adys Castro Barberena, Greta Margarita Arrechea García, Georgina Jiménez Estrada, Javier Martínez Navarro, Domingo Fuentes Febles

“…The variables studied were: age, sex, weight and height for the calculation of the body mass index, personal pathological history, the clinical stage of chronic kidney disease and renal morphometry to each organ separately, the measurements made were: weight, longitudinal diameter, transverse diameter, thickness or thickness of the renal cortex. …”
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Improving the resilience of urban transportation to natural disasters: the case of Changchun, China by Ziyang Wan, Qiuling Lang, Yichen Zhang, Jiquan Zhang, Yanan Chen, Gexu Liu, Huanan Liu

“…Based on the meteorological and traffic data of Changchun City in the past 10 years, key indicators such as traffic network density, emergency resource distribution, traffic flow, and extreme weather frequency were selected in this study. The weights were calculated by the improved hierarchical analysis method (AHP) and entropy weighting method, and finally the traffic resilience of Changchun city was quantitatively analyzed. …”
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Status Epilepticus due to Intraperitoneal Injection of Vehicle Containing Propylene Glycol in Sprague Dawley Rats by Evon S. Ereifej, Seth M. Meade, Cara S. Smith, Keying Chen, Nanette Kleinman, Jeffrey R. Capadona

“…The World Health Organization suggests a maximum dose of 25 mg/kg/day of propylene glycol taken orally and no more than 25 mg/dL in blood serum, whereas the animals used in our study got a calculated maximum 0.52 g/kg (25 times lower dose). …”
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Effect of Neodymium Nanoparticles on Elastic Properties of Zinc-Tellurite Glass System by Abdulbaset A. Abdulla Awshah, Halimah Mohamed Kamari, Chan Kar Tim, Nurisya Mohd Shah, S. H. Alazoumi, Umar Saad Aliyu, Muhammad Noorazlan Abd Azis

“…The elastic properties were calculated from the measured density and ultrasonic velocity at 5 MHz frequency. …”
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Applying baseflow approach to the environmental flow needs of the Similkameen River Watershed in British Columbia, Canada by Hongli Chen, Qiang Li, Qiaoqiao Wang, Xuanjiao Chai, Yaping Wang

“…New hydrological insights for the region: This study presents a reliable scheme for evaluating EFN based on a baseflow calculation using discrete conductivity data. The impacts of licensed water usage on the EFN in the watershed were examined in three tributaries, revealing that current licensed withdrawals exceed water availability during the fall-winter. …”
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Short-Term Health Impact Assessment of Urban PM10 in Bejaia City (Algeria) by Fatima Benaissa, Cara Nichole Maesano, Rezak Alkama, Isabella Annesi-Maesano

“…Annual mean level of PM10 (81.7 µg/m3) was calculated from objective measurements assessed in situ. …”
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Validation of a tri-axial accelerometer for measuring physical activity in patients with subacute stroke by Yosuke Kimura, Yosuke Kimura, Yoshiki Suzuki, Yoshiki Suzuki, Hiroki Kubo, Hiroki Kubo, Keishi Yoshida, Keishi Yoshida, Tomohiro Ota, Tomohiro Ota, Natsuki Shimizu, Natsuki Shimizu, Masashi Kanai, Masashi Kanai

“…Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated for each task, and Bland–Altman plots were used to assess the agreement between the two methods.ResultsThe ASP demonstrated good concurrent validity, with correlation coefficients of 0.71 and 0.74 for the sitting reaching task, 0.75 and 0.79 for the standing reaching task, and 0.83 and 0.85 for walking when the ASP was placed on the paretic and non-paretic sides, respectively. …”
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Validity and Reliability of Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2) in Iranian People with Parkinson’s Disease by Maryam Mehdizadeh, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Sepide Goudarzi, Ainaz Moshtagh, Farzaneh Dehghanian Nasrabadi, Sayed Amir Hasan Habibi, Ghorban Taghizadeh

“…The association between SF-MPQ-2 and other scales such as Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory, Douleur Neuropathic 4, Brief Pain Inventory, King’s Pain Parkinson’s Disease Scale, and Visual Analog Scale-Pain was considered to calculate convergent validity. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were assessed by Cronbach’s alpha and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), respectively. …”
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Chemical compatibility at the interface of garnet-type Ga-LLZO solid electrolyte and high-energy Li-rich layered oxide cathode for all-solid-state batteries by Natalia B. Timusheva, Alexander A. Golubnichiy, Anatolii V. Morozov, Arseniy S. Burov, Dmitry A. Aksyonov, Aleksandra A. Savina, Roman G. Markopolskii, Artem M. Abakumov

“…Li2ZrO3 was discovered for the first time as a reaction product, and its formation in the case of Li-rich layered cathode material was rationalized with DFT + U calculations. The results were also compared with those obtained for a typical layered high-energy-density cathode material LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811).…”
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Well-Production Forecasting Using Machine Learning with Feature Selection and Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization by Ruibin Zhu, Ning Li, Yongqiang Duan, Gaofeng Li, Guohua Liu, Fengjiao Qu, Changjun Long, Xin Wang, Qinzhuo Liao, Gensheng Li

“…Subsequently, Pearson correlation coefficients were utilized to eliminate linearly irrelevant features and optimize the dataset. By calculating the gray correlation degrees, maximum mutual information, feature importance, and Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) values, an in-depth analysis of various dominant factors was conducted. …”
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Hydrogen absorption kinetics and microstructural features of TiFe0.8Mn0.2 alloy by Ryun-Ho Kwak, Taeyang Kwak, Da Hye Lee, Sojin Jung, Jang-Won Kang, Seongtak Kim, Tae-Wook Na, Seok Su Sohn, Hyung-Ki Park, Taejun Ha

“…During the annealing treatment, TiFe0.8Mn0.2 alloy changes in terms of the equilibrium phase fraction and chemical composition were predicted through Thermo-Calc software calculation. When the samples were hydrogenated under 40 bar of hydrogen at 20 °C, the 20 h annealed sample absorbed 1.6 wt% H2 within the longest time among the three samples. …”
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Predictors of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations among a Sample of Egyptian Schoolchildren by Mones M. Abu Shady, Mai M. Youssef, Ebtissam M. Salah El-Din, Ola M. Abdel Samie, Hala S. Megahed, Samar M. E. Salem, Manal A. Mohsen, Ali Abdel Aziz, Safinaz El-Toukhy

“…Body mass index (BMI) was calculated; serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], serum calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone were measured. …”
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Normalized difference vegetation index prediction using reservoir computing and pretrained language models by John Olamofe, Ram Ray, Xishuang Dong, Lijun Qian

“…In this study, we examined plant health prediction through the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) calculated from satellite image derived reflectance values in the near-infrared and red spectra. …”
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Effects of Ni content on the microstructure and properties of laser powder bed fusion-processed Fe–18Cr–XNi alloys by Yongchao Lu, Xiaoqun Li, Yazhou He, Yaqing Hou, Fafa Li, Yao Lu, Hao Zhang, Lanting Zhang, Hong Wang, Hang Su

“…A phase transformation from BCC (2–4Ni) to BCC + FCC (6–10Ni), and finally to FCC (12Ni), was observed. Thermodynamic calculations indicate that the phases present correspond to those predicted for equilibrium conditions in the high-temperature range of 1250°C–1350 °C. …”
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Maternal mortality burden study from direct causes. Cuba, 2005-2018 by Lisbeth Fernández González, José Luis Peñalvo, Armando Humberto Seuc Jo, Delia María Gálvez Medina, Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni

“…The mortality ratio, years of life potentially lost due to mortality, the trend, the percentage and the average were calculated.<br /><strong>Results</strong>: during the years 2005-2018, 463 women died in Cuba from direct obstetric causes. …”
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Illicit drug use derived from wastewater-based epidemiology in Iran, their removal during wastewater treatment, and occurrence in receiving waters by Anvar Asadi, Shabnam Zarei, Nebile Daglioglu, Evsen Yavuz Guzel, Neda Ravankhah

“…The detected concentration in raw wastewater was converted into the quantity of illicit drugs per capita using back-calculation. There was no detection of cocaine, its metabolite benzoylecgonine, or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine in any of the samples. …”
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Oncogenic PIK3CA corrupts growth factor signaling specificity by Ralitsa R Madsen, Alix Le Marois, Oliwia N Mruk, Margaritis Voliotis, Shaozhen Yin, Jahangir Sufi, Xiao Qin, Salome J Zhao, Julia Gorczynska, Daniele Morelli, Lindsay Davidson, Erik Sahai, Viktor I Korolchuk, Christopher J Tape, Bart Vanhaesebroeck

“…We introduce a kinetic, single-cell framework for precise calculations of PI3K-specific information transfer for different growth factors. …”
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Risk Balancing of Cold Ischemic Time against Night Shift Surgery Possibly Reduces Rates of Reoperation and Perioperative Graft Loss by Nikos Emmanouilidis, Julius Boeckler, Bastian P. Ringe, Alexander Kaltenborn, Frank Lehner, Hans Friedrich Koch, Jürgen Klempnauer, Harald Schrem

“…The risk of surgery at 3 AM–6 AM outweighs prolonged CIT when confined within 23.5 hours as determined by a new mathematical approach to calculate turning points of nonlinear time related risks. …”
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Pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with immunotherapy efficacy in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jialin Su, Yuning Li, Shuhua Tan, Tianli Cheng, Yongzhong Luo, Lemeng Zhang

“…The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated to evaluate the predictive value of NLR in prognosis and immunotherapy efficacy. …”
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Megestrol acetate for appetite stimulation and weight gain in older adults with unintentional weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Larissa de Freitas do Lago-Abreu, Raphael Lopes Olegário, Luciana Lilian Louzada Martini, Einstein Francisco Camargos

“…We used the PEDro scale to assess methodological quality of the included studies and calculated measures of heterogeneity, such as the tau-squared (τ2), I-squared (I2), and Q test, to assess consistency across studies. …”
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