Association between gamma-glutamyl transferase levels and the retinal age gap by Kai Yang, Xiaoxuan Zhu, Ziyu Li, Wei Lian, Jinxia Yan, Shasha Ding, Zhenqing Wang, Yudie Wang, Jiaqi Ai, Zhengyang Guo, Binbin Su, Jia Qu, Fan Lu, Lele Cui, Ming Li

“…A total of 4,081 fundus images from 4,081 participants who were enrolled from May to October 2023 had available GGT data, and these images were used to investigate the association between GGT levels and the retinal age gap.ResultsThe trained model in this study achieved excellent performance, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.42 ± 0.08 years. The mean age of the participants in the analysis dataset was 43.7 ± 10.4 years, and 1987 (48.7%) participants were women. …”
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Pengaruh Pemberian Mesenchymal Stem Cells Wharton's Jelly terhadap Ekspresi Gen Sirtuin 1 pada Tikus Model Alzheimer by Havina Nurul Aizah, Amel Yanis, Hirowati Ali, Tofrizal Tofrizal, Cimi Ilmiawati, Dessy Arisanty

“…Results: This study found that the mean ± standard error value of the Sirtuin-1 gene in three groups were 0.18±0.04; 0.16±0.03; and 0.36±0.06 respectively. …”
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Delays during emergency obstetric care and their determinants among mothers who gave birth in South Gondar zone hospitals, Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study design by Gebrehiwot Ayalew Tiruneh, Mengstu Melkamu Asaye, Abayneh Aklilu Solomon, Dawit Tiruneh Arega

“…Conclusion Delay during emergency obstetric care was found to be 59.7 percent. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Four Different Abutment Screw Torques on Screw Loosening in Single Implant-Supported Prosthesis after the Application of Mechanical Loading by Behnaz Ebadian, Amirhossein Fathi, Saba Khodadad

“…Moreover, no significant difference was observed between groups 2 and 3 (p>0.05), but a significant difference was found between groups 1 and 3 and other groups (p<0.05). Conclusion. The increase in the torque value increased the torque loss. …”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of the nurses’ competency in patient education scale: a sequential exploratory mixed-method study by Zahra Farsi, Reza Momen, Seyedeh Azam Sajadi, Reza Negarandeh

“…Conclusion This scale was developed to assess nurses' competency in patient education.…”
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Covid-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among medical students of Faisalabad by Mohi Ud Din, Umer Shahid, Abdul Qudoos, Roman Ahmed, Muazzama Sohail, Saima Javed

“…Confidence interval was set to be 95% with 5% margin of error. Results: More than half of the participants i.e. 214 (54.7) have got Sinopharm vaccine. …”
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Automated craniofacial biometry with 3D T2w fetal MRI. by Jacqueline Matthew, Alena Uus, Alexia Egloff Collado, Aysha Luis, Sophie Arulkumaran, Abi Fukami-Gartner, Vanessa Kyriakopoulou, Daniel Cromb, Robert Wright, Kathleen Colford, Maria Deprez, Jana Hutter, Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh, Christina Malamateniou, Reza Razavi, Lisa Story, Joseph V Hajnal, Mary A Rutherford

“…<h4>Results</h4>Automated labels were produced for all 132 subjects with a 0.3% placement error rate. Seven measurements, including anterior base of skull length and maxillary length, showed significant differences with large effect sizes between T21 and control groups (ANOVA, p<0.001). …”
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Automated pipeline for leaf spot severity scoring in peanuts using segmentation neural networks by Joshua Larsen, Jeffrey Dunne, Robert Austin, Cassondra Newman, Michael Kudenov

“…Conclusion Results indicated that the model and image processing pipeline can serve as an alternative to human scoring. …”
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Anxiety among pregnant women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. by Hanna Melesse, Tigest Shifraw, Yemane Berhane

“…Poisson regression with a robust error variance estimate was used to calculate the prevalence ratio to identify the associated factors; the results were presented with an adjusted prevalence ratio (APR) and a 95% CI.…”
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Morphometric Analysis of Corneal Nerves Condition after Laser Keratorefractive Surgery by S. E. Avetisov, A. A. Tyurina, Z. V. Surnina, O. M. Dovgileva, E. V. Sukhanova

“…Patients and methods. 40 eyes of 20 patients received LASIK to correct a mean refractive error of –4.5 ± 1.9 diopters (range, –2.25 to –8.25 diopters). …”
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Evaluating post-traumatic growth among healthcare workers by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Potoglou, Argyroula Kalaitzaki, Vasiliki Yotsidi, Maria Theodoratou

“…The confirmatory factor analysis of the PTGI confirmed its five-factor structure (χ2189 = 1233.642, p < 0.0001), root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA = 0.229, p < 0.0001), and internal consistency (Cronbach α = 0.971). …”
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Features of water extracts sample preparation of solar panels components for biotesting by M. Semenova, A. Smirnov, I. Vezhenkova, T. Kustov, A. Kovalevskaya

“…To assess the effect of the extraction medium, an experiment was carried out with the replacement of distilled water as an extract with mineral water of the Bonaqua brand and 1% acetone solution.RESULTS. The error probability of the hypothesis about the influence of temperature and exposure time factors of the extract on the toxicity index was calculated at given significance levels. …”
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Current interdisciplinary approaches to the diagnosis of stress-related disorders: designing a study and developing the protocol for an experiment with the EyeLink 1000 Plus eye tr... by O.V. Zborovska, N.V. Rodina, O.E. Dorokhova, V.V. Kolesnichenko, V.F. Ambartsumian

“…The experiment protocol includes the prosaccade task to assess the saccade latency, fixation duration, peak saccade velocity, and error rate. Screening psychodiagnostic questionnaires (the OPANA, IMZ-38 and PCL-5) and valid professional psychodiagnostic methods of Integral Instrumental Psychodynamic Diagnosis (IIPD) technology are used to form the experimental groups. …”
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Index or illusion: The case of frailty indices in the Health and Retirement Study. by Yi-Sheng Chao, Hsing-Chien Wu, Chao-Jung Wu, Wei-Chih Chen

“…We are concerned the processing of frailty data may introduce measurement error and bias. We aim to review the assumptions, interpretability and predictive power of FIs regarding mortality.…”
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The Impact of a Volleyball-Specific Fatigue Protocol on the Balance, Proprioception, and Performance of Volleyball Players at High and Low Risk for ACL Injuries by Hamid Alizadeh Darabi, Ebrahim Mohammad Ali Nasab Firouzjah, Sajad Roshani

“…Forty volleyball players from Urmia were selected and divided into low- and high-risk groups based on ACL injury potential, assessed using the Landing Error Scoring System (LESS). A LESS score below 6 indicated low risk, while above 6 indicated high risk. …”
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ACCREDIT: Validation of clinical score for progression of COVID-19 while hospitalized by Vinicius Lins Costa Ok Melo, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do Brasil, PhD

“…Conclusion: The prognostic model was considered good enough to be recommended for clinical use in patients during hospitalization (https://pedrobrasil.shinyapps.io/INDWELL/). …”
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Salivary clearance of caffeine in children by Basant K. Puri, Christopher R. Heard, Jean A. Monro

“…Methods: Following at least 24 h’ abstinence from dietary caffeine, nine boys (mean (standard error) age 9.6 (1.1) y) and eight girls (mean age 11.0 (1.2) y), none of whom was a smoker or suffered from chronic hepatic disease, ingested an oral caffeine dose titrated by body mass, namely 3 mg kg−1. …”
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Prevalence and ultrasonographic patterns of gynecological emergencies in southeastern Nigeria by Emmanuel Odumeru, Xavier Akimuhana, Eric Kirezi, Costelia Njoku

“…Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and percentage were used for the prevalence and anthropometric data; a Standard Error of Mean (SEM) at a 95% Confidence Interval (CI) and Pearson’s Correlation established the relationship, and the p value was set at <0.05. …”
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Test-retest and intrasession reliability of assisted sprint outcome measurements using a motorized resistance device by Ola Eriksrud, Frederic Westheim

“…Intrasession and test-retest reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), coefficient of variation (CV), typical error (TE), smallest worthwhile (SWC) and moderate worthwhile change (MDC). …”
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The Persian Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire: Validation in Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain by Sarvenaz Karimi-Ghasemabad, Behnam Akhbari, Ahmad Saeedi, Saeed Talebian Moghaddam, Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari

“…The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for test-retest reliability was 0.90. The standard error of measurement and the minimal detectable change was found to be 3.26 and 9.04, respectively. …”
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