Allometric models for estimating aboveground biomass and carbon stocks of the semi-arid savanna woody species, Detarium microcarpum Guill. et Perr. by Adama Taonda, Issouf Zerbo, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traore, Fousseni Folega, Anny Estelle N'Guessan, Justin N'Dja Kassi, Adjima Thiombiano

“…Three equations were tested with a diameter at the breast (dbh) alone, height (ht) as additional (dbh*ht), and diameter in combination with height (dbh2*ht) as predictors using log-transformed data with a power function. …”
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The Impact of Tax Morality on Tax Evasion: Evidence of EU Countries by Oleksiy Mazurenko, Inna Tiutiunyk, Lilia Derkach

“…A set of direct and indirect factors that affect the changing trends of the main indicators of its functioning and determine the key vectors of state policy define the pace of the country’s economic development. …”
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Hybrid molecule SA-10 and its PLGA nanosuspension protect human and rodent retinal ganglion cells against neuronal injury by Jennifer H. Pham, Wei Zhang, Kim-Tuyen T. Le, Bindu Kodati, Charles E. Amankwa, Biddut DebNath, Gretchen A. Johnson, Thien T. Bui, Rachel Y. Gitter, Jonah P. Gutierrez, Brendon R. Hatfield, Rojan Satyal, Ella R. Sinnott, Raghu R. Krishnamoorthy, Suchismita Acharya, Dorota L. Stankowska

“…SA-10, a dual-acting compound with ROS scavenging and NO-donating properties, was evaluated to enhance RGC survival and function in models of oxidative stress, ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, and neurotrophic factor (NF) deprivation. …”
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Quantification of respiratory parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy Quantificação de parâmetros respiratórios em pacientes com epilepsia do lobo temporal by Fulvio Alexandre Scorza, Ana Maria Fonseca Abreu, Marly de Albuquerque, Julio B Cota Pacheco, Renato Breviglieri, Josemir Wanderley Sander, Antônio Carlos da Silva, Esper Abrão Cavalheiro, Ricardo Mario Arida

“…Dysfunction affecting cardiac or pulmonary systems has been postulated as a major factor in sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Whilst the majority of studies of cardiorespiratory function have focused on changes during seizures, here we investigate whether epilepsy influences basal respiratory parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) during the interictal period. …”
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Improving outcomes for people with autism spectrum disorders by reducing mental health problems: the IAMHealth research programme including one RCT by Emily Simonoff, Gillian Baird, Bryony Beresford, Tony Charman, Martin Knapp, Andrew Pickles, Carol Povey, Tom Purser, Paramala Santosh, Vicky Slonims, Stephen Scott

“…A subset completed the questionnaire on two occasions to obtain test–retest reliability. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified the structure which was replicated in an independent sample using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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Psychosis proneness, loneliness, and hallucinations in nonclinical individuals. by Sarah Hope Lincoln, Taylor Johnson, Sarah Kim, Emma Edenbaum, Jill M Hooley

“…Hallucinations occur along a continuum of normal functioning. Investigating the factors related to this experience in nonclinical individuals may offer important information for understanding the etiology of hallucinations in psychiatric populations. …”
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A feature extraction method based on improved resonance sparse decomposition for early faults in rolling bearings by SUN Meng, GAO Bingpeng, CHENG Jing

“…Firstly, taking the squared envelope spectrum correlated kurtosis (SE-SCK) negative value of the low resonance component as the objective function, IGTO was used to simultaneously optimize the quality factor <inline-formula><alternatives><math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M4"><mi>Q</mi></math><graphic specific-use="big" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="alternativeImage/C5FF0B59-9E2C-4918-8B97-9DFF64EDE211-M004.jpg"><?…”
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Beläggsmodellen i svenska nationella prov by Frank Bach

“…Confirmatory factor analysis shows that the tests are mainly one-dimensional, which has the consequence that the “Beläggsmodell” does not fulfill any meaningful function. …”
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A Transcriptomic Signature of Depressive Symptoms in Late Life by Stuart Matan-Lithwick, Melissa C. Misztal, Mu Yang, Thomas DeLong, Shreejoy Tripathy, Jeffrey T. Dunn, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager, Yanling Wang, Daniel W. Fisher, Hongxin Dong, Daniel Felsky

“…Bulk tissue RNA sequencing was analyzed against depressive symptoms measured prior to death, controlling for Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology, medication status, and lifestyle factors. Sex-stratified models were also tested. Results: Increased abundance of the Prader-Willi syndrome–associated gene PWAR1 (corrected p = 5.47 × 10−3) and CTDSPL2 (corrected p = .03) were associated with a higher burden of depressive symptoms in the combined sample. …”
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Item condition of the autonomic nervous system in patients with hypertension stage II low additional cardiovascular risk depending on the status of smokers by E. A. Poznanskaya, V. V. Syvolap

“…Research devoted to the study of influence of risk factors , including smoking, on the structural and geometric and functional changes of the heart is not enough. …”
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Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: Fetal Diagnosis, Associations, and Postnatal Outcome: A Fetal Heart Society Research Collaborative Study by Jennifer Cohen, Bhawna Arya, Richard Caplan, Mary T. Donofrio, Dina Ferdman, Jamie K. Harrington, Deborah Y. Ho, Whitnee Hogan, Lisa K. Hornberger, Simone Jhaveri, Stacy A. S. Killen, Christopher L. Lindblade, Erik Michelfelder, Anita J. Moon‐Grady, Sheetal Patel, Emilio Quezada, Christina Ronai, Aura A. Sanchez Mejia, David N. Schidlow, Corey Stiver, Varsha Thakur, Shubhika Srivastava

“…On univariable analysis, fetal factors associated with fetal death or death/transplant by 1 year included ≥ mild tricuspid regurgitation, pulmonary atresia, aortic obstruction, fetal arrhythmia, and worsening hemodynamics on serial fetal echocardiogram (defined as worse right ventricular function, tricuspid regurgitation, or effusion). …”
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Cytomegalovirus Worsens Necrotizing Enterocolitis Severity in Mice via Increased Toll-Like Receptor 4 SignalingSummary by Daniel Scheese, Peng Lu, Hannah Moore, Koichi Tsuboi, Cody Tragesser, Johannes Duess, Zachariah Raouf, Maame F. Sampah, Daphne Klerk, Mahmoud El Baassiri, Hee-seong Jang, Sierra Williams-McLeod, Asuka Ishiyama, Steve N. Steinway, Sanxia Wang, Menghan Wang, Thomas Prindle, Jr., William B. Fulton, Chhinder P. Sodhi, David J. Hackam

“…Previous authors have shown an increased risk of NEC in human infants after cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, which can affect mitochondrial function. We now seek to explore the impact and the mechanisms of CMV infection on NEC severity and its relationship with TLR4 signaling and mitochondria function. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Socio-Demographic Characteristics on the Quality of Life Among Patients with Kidney Stones by Susan Mohammadi-Kebar, Farhad Pourfarzi, Saber Nasiri

“…A sign test evaluated patients' quality of life pre- and post-treatment changes. …”
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Ligilactobacillus salivarius LZZAY01 accelerated autophagy and apoptosis in colon cancer cells and improved gut microbiota in CAC mice by Wenhong Yang, Tao Li, Shixiang An, Rong Chen, Yuxin Zhao, Jiaxian Cui, Mingyu Zhang, Jingkun Lu, Yunpeng Tian, Lili Bao, Pengwei Zhao

“…The levels of autophagy and apoptosis proteins, tight junction proteins, and inflammatory factors were detected by western blotting, immunofluorescence assay, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Comparative efficacy of interventional therapy with or without targeted immunotherapy in Child-Pugh B hepatocellular carcinoma patients: a single-center, retrospective study by Xu-Wei Guo, Man Zhao, Xiao-Ling Duan, Guang-Jie Han, Jin-Feng Wang, Jian-Fei Shi, Xin Han, Fei Yin, Guang Yang

“…Independent influencing factors were discerned through multifactorial COX regression analysis. …”
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The effect of physical exercise on cardiopulmonary fitness in burn patients: A meta-analysis. by Da Huang, XiaoXiang Wan, Juan Xu

“…This is demonstrated by improvements in aerobic capacity, exercise performance, and respiratory function. The most effective approach may involve combining prolonged resistance with aerobic exercise. …”
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Emergence and characterization of a ST852 Klebsiella quasipneumoniae clinical isolate coharboring blaNDM-1 and blaKPC-2 in China by Chongmei Tian, Yaping Zhao, Su Dong, Zhixin You, Jingbai Chen, Hongfeng Xu, Yuejuan Fang, Yapei Zhang

“…Insertion sequences (ISs) were identified using ISFinder. Bacterial virulence factors were identified using a virulence factor database (VFDB). …”
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Effectiveness of care coordination interventions delivered to stroke survivors in low and middle-income countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. by Stephanopoulos Kofi Junior Osei, Anthony Danso-Appiah

“…The review will also explore how factors -such as stroke type, severity, and the nature of care coordination interventions (including the specific components) influence clinical, functional and psychosocial outcomes. …”
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Ambient ammonium exposure is associated with physical dysfunction in older adults in China by JiaHao Shi

“…These findings underscore the necessity for specific environmental strategies focused on ammonia reduction to alleviate age-related functional deterioration and foster healthy aging.…”
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Lay understanding and perceptions of child protection: Limited awareness of restorative principles by Stacey Politis, Diane Sivasubramaniam, Taylor Gogan, Nina Papalia

“…Objective: We explored lay people's A Priori understanding of the role of CP and tested public understanding of the risk factors for child abuse. …”
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