Association between sleep duration and patterns and obesity: a cross-sectional study of the 2007–2018 national health and nutrition examination survey by Qiaoli Xu, Zhijin Lin, Yani chen, Meixue huang

“…Abstract Objective We intend to explore whether sleep duration and sleep patterns were associated with obesity among the adult American population. Methods Our study analyzed data from 4540 adults (2007–2008, 2015–2018) in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database. …”
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Association of neutrophil-to-albumin ratio with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in community-dwelling individuals with chronic kidney disease: evidence from the NHANES 1999–... by Yu Han, Xiaocui Jiao, Mingyue Yang, Chao Liu, Deyun Zhao

“…Restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis was conducted to investigate potential nonlinear relationships and segmented Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to evaluate threshold effects. Additionally, stratified analyses were performed to examine the relationship between NPAR and mortality across different subgroups. …”
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Acoustic, aerodynamic, and vibrational effects of ventricular folds adduction in an ex vivo experiment by Zhixue Xiao, Jing Kang, Jinglin Su, Pingjiang Ge, Siyi Zhang

“…Methods The excised models of mild and severe ventricular adduction were established. …”
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Adaptive User Pairing With Non-Orthogonal Medium Access Choices for Balanced Coexistence of Mission-Critical and eMBB Services in Cellular IoT by Farnaz Khodakhah, Aamir Mahmood, Patrik Osterberg, Mikael Gidlund

“…Uniform and convex distributions confirm method robustness, maintaining low or zero outage probabilities across all <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$p_{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> values. …”
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Gluten Contamination of Labelled Gluten-Free Food Products Marketed in China by Yanjun Li, Qing Liu, Samuel Godefroy, Jingguang Li, Yan Chen

“…However, when the threshold was 10 mg/kg and 5 mg/kg, the McNemar <i>x</i>² test showed significant differences between the proportions of positive results of the two ELISA platforms and R5 Méndez (<i>p</i>-value < 0.05); using R5 Méndez as the reference, the two ELISA platforms showed 53.1% to 70.3% positive predictive values, suffering the drawback of high false-positive results. …”
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Olfactory functioning in early multiple sclerosis: Sniffin&amp;rsquo; Sticks Test study by Batur Caglayan H, Irkec C, Nazliel B, Akyol Gurses A, Capraz I

“…We collected demographic and clinical data from participants and administered the Sniffin&amp;rsquo; Sticks Test.Results: We found no differences between the MS and control groups in odor discrimination, odor identification, and threshold discrimination identification scores, but odor threshold (OT) scores were higher in the control group than in the MS group (P=0.49). …”
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Fabrication of hydrogel mini-capsules as carrier systems [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Gaia Petrucci, Stefano Palagi, Elisa Roberti, Francesco Bianciardi

“…By varying the concentration of calcium ions, we obtain shells of different thicknesses. To estimate it, we have developed a method using the colour intensity from microscope images. …”
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Unraveling the Scale Dependency of SIF-Based Phenology: Amplified Trends and Climate Responses by Xiufeng Chen, Yanbin Yuan, Tao Xiong, Sicong He, Heng Dong

“…Therefore, in this study, two phenological metrics for the Start of Growing Season (SOS) and the End of Growing Season (EOS) were extracted from the phenology of deciduous forests in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, utilizing SIF products at scales of 1 km, 5 km, and 50 km, and applying the Savitzky-Golay filtering method along with the dynamic threshold method. Our results showed that the 1-km resolution SIF had a significant advantage over the 5-km and 50-km resolution SIFs in terms of consistency with the extracted phenology results from the Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) sites, with mean absolute errors (MAEs) of 4.48 and 15.49 days for SOS and EOS, respectively. …”
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A phosphoprotein gene RT-qPCR assay for detecting all lineages of peste des petits ruminants virus by Jiao Xu, Yonggang Zhao, Huicong Li, Qinghua Wang, Jiarong Yu, Yingli Wang, Jingyue Bao, Zhiliang Wang

“…The results of the specificity test indicated that only the different lineages of PPRV could be detected using the developed method, with no cross-reaction observed with other viruses. …”
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Holographic tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing by Maria Isabel Álvarez-Castaño, Andreas Gejl Madsen, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Viola Sgarminato, Antoine Boniface, Jesper Glückstad, Christophe Moser

“…This method works by projecting intensity patterns, computed via a reverse tomography algorithm, into a photocurable resin from different angles to produce a desired 3D shape when the resin reaches the polymerization threshold. …”
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Greigite (Fe3S4) Formation in Artificial Sediments via Solid‐State Transformation of Lepidocrocite by Sophie C. Roud, Stuart A. Gilder, SoHyun Park

“…The average particle size of 20–50 nm determined by X‐ray powder diffraction and electron microscopy accords with theoretical predictions of the SP/SD threshold size in greigite. The method constitutes a novel approach to synthesize greigite and to investigate its formation in sediments.…”
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Short-term forecast of wind power based on the division of wind speed fluctuation characteristics by QIAO Titang, XIE Lirong, YE Jiahao, GAO Yang, DAI Bing

“…In order to solve the problem that the wind power is difficult to predict accurately due to the drastic change of wind speed, a short-term wind power prediction method based on the division of wind speed fluctuation characteristics is proposed. …”
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Electrowetting display of multiscale Gamma based on dynamic histogram equilibrium by Mingzhen Chen, Zhixian Lin, Shanling Lin, Jianpu Lin, Tailiang Guo

“…The existing optimization methods of active luminous display do not consider the properties of reflective passive display. …”
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Who’s afraid of Dura Mater? by Mario Emilio Zernotti, Javier Gavilán

“…Objectives: To overcome the fear associated with conventional nomenclature related to different anatomic positions for Bonebridge. Methods: Bonebridge is an active transcutaneous semi-implantable bone conduction device available for clinical use since 2012. …”
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Exact Solutions of Nonlinear Equation of Rod Deflections Involving the Lauricella Hypergeometric Functions by Giovanni Mingari Scarpello, Daniele Ritelli

“…The stress induced in a loaded beam will not exceed some threshold, but also its maximum deflection, as for all the elastic systems, will be controlled. …”
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Evaluating the impact of official development assistance on ecological environments in agricultural and renewable energy sectors by Rongrong Li, Jiaqi Guo, Qiang Wang

“…Abstract This study examines the complex interactions between official development assistance (ODA) and the ecological environment of recipient countries, mainly focusing on agricultural economic development and renewable energy. Using dynamic threshold models and robust statistical methods, the analysis uncovers the nuanced effects of ODA across various dimensions. …”
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Error Correction of Transversal cnot Gates for Scalable Surface-Code Computation by Kaavya Sahay, Yingjia Lin, Shilin Huang, Kenneth R. Brown, Shruti Puri

“…A transversal controlled-not (tcnot) gate on two surface codes introduces correlated errors across the code blocks and thus requires modified decoding compared to established methods of decoding surface-code quantum memory (SCQM) or lattice-surgery operations. …”
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Signs of Nervous System Sensitization in Female Runners with Chronic Patellofemoral Pain by Brian J. Eckenrode, David M. Kietrys, Allison Brown, J. Scott Parrott, Brian Noehren

“…Secondary hyperalgesia, a sign of central sensitization, was observed via differences in pressure pain threshold testing for the PFP group at the uninvolved knee (p=0.012 to p=0.042), involved extremity remote sites (p=0.001 to p=0.006), and uninvolved extremity remote sites (p=0.013 to p=0.021)…”
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Polarizabilities from kaon Compton scattering by Dominik Stamen, Jan Luca Dammann, Yannis Korte, Bastian Kubis

“…Abstract The polarizabilities of light pseudoscalar mesons can be extracted from differential cross sections for Compton scattering near threshold. While this has been accomplished for charged pions employing Primakoff reactions, a corresponding measurement for kaons will be affected by the presence of the $$K^*(892)$$ K ∗ ( 892 ) resonance not too far from threshold. …”
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Invasiveness risk assessment of non-native fishes using the AS-ISK model in the rivers of the southern basin of the Caspian Sea by Hossein Rahmani, Seyed Daryoush Moghaddas

“…The threshold score was calculated using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. …”
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