The Association of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte and Platelet/Lymphocyte Ratios and Hematological Parameters with Diagnosis, Stages, Extrapulmonary Involvement, Pulmonary Hypertension, Res... by Celalettin Korkmaz, Sinan Demircioglu

“…A positive moderate correlation was detected between NLR and CD4/CD8 in blood, while there was a strong positive correlation between CD4/CD8 in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and positive moderate correlation between PLR and CD4/CD8 in BAL. …”
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The Use of Granular Cyclopentanone as Alternative to Artificial Source of Carbon Dioxide in Improved Passive Outdoor Host Seeking Device (POHD) by Stella T. Kessy, Bruno A. Nyundo, Ladslaus L. Mnyone, Issa N. Lyimo

“…The granular cyclopentanone strongly enhanced/potentiated the attractiveness of POHD baited with Mbita blends against mosquitoes compared to that of POHD baited with Ifakara blend. …”
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Understanding hospital length of stay in trauma laparotomy patients: a National Trauma Database Study by Jeremy Grushka, Kosar Khwaja, Hayaki Uchino, Evan G Wong

“…Penetrating mechanisms, particularly stab wounds, were strongly associated with a short HLOS. Additionally, isolated abdominal trauma, splenic injuries or spleen-related procedure were more likely to result in a short HLOS. …”
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Development of a zoonotic influenza distribution assessment and ranking system (ZIDAR): Technical application in Nepal to support cross-sectoral risk-based surveillance by Adam Charette-Castonguay, Dipendra Gautam, Binay Shrestha, Hemant Chandra Ojha, Barun Kumar Sharma, Mukul Upadhayaya, Sujan Rana, Roshika Shrestha, Lok Bandu Chaudhary, Bhawana Kandel, Rudra Prasad Marasini, Sharmila Chapagain, Tulsi Ram Gompo, Surendra Karki, Apsara Poudel, Saugat Shrestha, Avinash Sunny Kayastha, Arun Kumar Govindakarnavar, Reuben Samuel, Allison Gocotano, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Nilesh Buddha, Edwin Ceniza Salvador, Manish Kakkar, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães

“…The ZIDAR Nepal model's predictive accuracy, determined by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, demonstrated strong performance: 0.87 and 0.85 for the wildlife and animal components, respectively. …”
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First Measurements of Ambient PM2.5 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Using Field-calibrated Low-cost Sensors by Celeste McFarlane, Paulson Kasereka Isevulambire, Raymond Sinsi Lumbuenamo, Arnold Murphy Elouma Ndinga, Ranil Dhammapala, Xiaomeng Jin, V. Faye McNeill, Carl Malings, R. Subramanian, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…The raw PurpleAir data from September 2019 through February 2020 strongly correlated with the BAM-1020 measurements (R2 = 0.88) but also exhibited a mean absolute error (MAE) of approximately 14 µg m−3. …”
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siRNA-mediated inhibition of hTERT enhances the effects of curcumin in promoting cell death in precursor-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells: an in silico and in vitro study by Muhammad Hossein Ashoub, Ali Afgar, Alireza Farsinejad, Razieh Razavi, Samira Anvari, Ahmad Fatemi

“…Molecular docking revealed strong curcumin-protein interactions (∆G = -34.24 kcal/mol for hTERT). …”
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New Composite Indexes through Factor Analysis Simplifying the Interpretation of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes of Surgical Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients Complet... by Wai-Wang Chau, Bobby Kin-Wah Ng

“…Reliability tests showed very strong internal consistency. Skewness and kurtosis showed data in both indexes were normally distributed. …”
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Diabetes beliefs, perceived risk and health behaviours: an embedded mixed-methods analysis from the Richmond Stress and Sugar Study by Briana Mezuk, Katherine Khosrovaneh, Viktoryia A Kalesnikava

“…Perceived diabetes risk was not associated with engagement in preventive behaviours; however, having a family history of diabetes was strongly related to perceived risk (OR: 3.35, 95% CI: 1.42 to 7.86). …”
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Introducing an integrated approach for fire safety assessment in healthcare facilities by interval valued neutrosophic-AHP and Fuzzy Inference System by Samaneh Salari, Ali Karimi

“…Furthermore, the operating room, laundry, post-NICU 1 and 2, and waste disposal were classified as critical, with more than 50 % falling within the major risk class. A strong correlation coefficient of 99.1 % was observed between the Fire Risk Magnitude (FRM) obtained using the proposed farmwork and the FRM for occupants obtained using the FRAME technique. …”
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An assessment of South African policy and strategic framework for the development of a sufficient, equitably distributed and well-performing health workforce for the implementation... by S V Mokoena, P Naidoo

“…To determine whether SA possesses a strong and competent policy and strategic framework that would guide the development of a sufficient, fairly distributed and well-performing health workforce. …”
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A case of de novo neuroendocrine prostate cancer presented with elevated level of serum CEA carrying BRCA2 mutation: case report and literature review by Weizhe Han, Nihati Rexiati, Fang Yu, Yongzhi Wang, Yueli Tian, Jianyuan Wu, Gang Wang, Tao Liu, Zhonghua Yang

“…Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining and next generation sequencing demonstrated a strong expression of chromogranin A (CgA), synaptophysin (SYN) and CEA, and a germline mutation in BRCA2, respectively. …”
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Enhancing individual task performance and productivity: an ethnographic observational study of supported employment among social services clients in Finland by Pirjo Juvonen-Posti, Mirkka Vuorento

“…The supervisors appeared to have a strong grasp of each employee’s task-specific productivity level. …”
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Reductive acetogenesis is a dominant process in the ruminant hindgut by Qiushuang Li, Jiabin Huo, Gaofeng Ni, Fan Zhang, Shizhe Zhang, Xiumin Zhang, Rong Wang, Jinzhen Jiao, Zhongtang Yu, Xuanxuan Pu, Yipeng Yue, Emilio M. Ungerfeld, Xiaoli Zhang, Jian Wu, Zhiliang Tan, Chris Greening, Min Wang

“…Moreover, comparative analysis across multiple ruminant species confirmed a strong enrichment of reductive acetogens in the hindguts, suggesting a conserved functional role. …”
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PC-YOLO11s: A Lightweight and Effective Feature Extraction Method for Small Target Image Detection by Zhou Wang, Yuting Su, Feng Kang, Lijin Wang, Yaohua Lin, Qingshou Wu, Huicheng Li, Zhiling Cai

“…Experiments have shown that PC-YOLO11s exhibits excellent performance in small object detection tasks, with strong accuracy improvement and good generalization ability, which can meet the needs of small object detection in practical applications.…”
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Kuantifikasi Pengaruh Understandability dan Maintainability pada Evolusi Perangkat Lunak by Mochammad Adhy, Bayu Priyambadha, Fajar Pradana

“…From the conducted experiment on three types of software in software evolution process shows that spearman’s rank correlation of 0,95 which means understandability has a very strong correlation with maintainability. …”
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Amino acid profiles and growth performance of spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus fed on combination of three mollusk meals by Agus Kurnia, Wellem Henrik Muskita, Muhaimin Hamzah, Laode Baytul Abidin, Ruslaini Ruslaini, Suaida Suaida, Rahel Amanda

“…The quality of the protein is strongly depending on the amino acid compositions and concentrations. …”
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Psychological Distress and Online Academic Difficulties: Development and Validation of Scale to Measure Students’ Mental Health Problems in Online Learning by Mihai Curelaru, Versavia Curelaru

“…Also, correlations analysis between mental health problems occurred in online learning context and other measures indicated a strong negative relation with online course satisfaction and weak negative relations with subjective academic performance, perceived social competence, and perceived digital competence. …”
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Study on stress corrosion behavior and failure mechanism of galvanized bolts in complex coal mine environments by Zhe He, Nong Zhang, Zhengzheng Xie, Chao Ma, Changliang Han, Fan Zhang, Huiqing Wang, Saad S. Alarifi

“…Additionally, HIC-sensitive structures (tempered martensite) and typical features of HIC (white spots) were found in the galvanized bolts, providing strong evidence of HIC occurrence during their service in the mine. …”
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Low presence of potentially toxic elements in Singapore urban garden soils by Tiong Ann Goh, Sorain J. Ramchunder, Alan D. Ziegler

“…Provenance tracking with Pb isotopes indicated Pb in gardens was both anthropogenic and natural, but spatially variable. The lack of strong spatial clustering of areas with the highest PTE concentrations was inconsistent with a common point source of contamination. …”
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An association study of polymorphisms in the P2RX7 gene in an Iranian population with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus by Homa Noori, Majid Rajabian, Mahdi Majidpour, Mahboobeh Sabeti Akbar-Abad, Ramin Saravani

“…Furthermore, the interaction analysis indicated that TCrs1718119/TCrs17525809, TCrs1718119/TTrs17525809 and TTrs1718119/TCrs17525809 genotype combinations strongly correlated with high T2DM risks by 7.80, 1.75 and 2.92 folds, respectively. …”
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