Oral Submucous Fibrosis Association with Sociodemographic and Personal Habits of Dental Patients Visiting Tertiary Care Hospital in Hyderabad by Hassan Shahid, Abubakar Abdullah, Naveed Irfan, Sadia Hassan, Zafar Abbas, Syed Muhammad Ahmed Bukhari

“… Introduction: Sociodemographic and personal habits are variable among patients with oral submucous fibrosis and are important to know to see the pattern of these factors in oral submucous fibrosis in local population. …”
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The results of hemostasis assessment using thromboelastography in patients with COVID-19 by V. N. Gorodin, D. L. Moysova, A. D. Surkova

“…To compare the independent variable in more than two samples, a multivariate ANOVA analysis of variance was performed with the calculation of the Kruskal-Wallis test. …”
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Coupling of fatigue crack growth and crack nucleation fatigue approach for non-crystallising rubber under fully relaxing uniaxial loading with multiaxial stress–strain state of 3D... by Tadej Kocjan, Marko Nagode, Jernej Klemenc, Simon Oman

“…As is common in fatigue testing, the tests were performed at variable frequencies depending on the magnitude of the load and the limits of the testing machine. …”
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Contrasting sulfur isotope signatures in two arid basins separated by the Qilian mountains by Yuxin Hao, Shijiao Niu, Haixia Zhu, Xiying Zhang, Sen Wang, Xiangrui Kong

“…The δ34S values differ in distribution between the two regions: the Qaidam Basin shows higher and more clustered values (+ 9.11‰ to + 20.23‰), indicating a relatively closed system, while the Alxa Plateau includes lower and occasionally negative values (− 2.30‰ to + 11.43‰), reflecting more variable sulfur inputs and open-system conditions. …”
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Does Seawater Nitrogen Better Predict the Baseline Farmed Yield for Sugar Kelp (<i>Saccharina latissima</i>) Rather than the Final Yield? by Tiffany Stephens, Yaoguang Li, Charles Yarish, Matthew C. Rogers, Schery Umanzor

“…Recent interest in scaling commercial kelp industries in Western cultures is juxtaposed by the apparent challenges in achieving more consistent and predictable yields. As such, site-level factors are a dominant and recurring conversation amongst stakeholders. …”
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Unraveling Omnivory and Community Interactions Between Primary Producers and an Apex Predator by Ashlee J. Mikkelsen, Andreas Zedrosser, Agnieszka Sergiel, Keith A. Hobson, Nuria Selva, Anne G. Hertel

“…The variation in the proportion of moose in the diet slightly decreased throughout the study, while the proportion of bilberry became increasingly more variable. Our results highlight that even though vegetative diet components are typically considered less important to predator ecology, brown bear diet in Sweden responded to changes in berry availability, regardless of prey availability. …”
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Characteristics of non-drinking and drinking adults in Taiwan and their implications in alcohol epidemiological studies. by Tsung Yu, Tzu-Jung Wong, Hsing-Yu Yang

“…Moderate drinkers had even more smoking and betel nut chewing behaviors. Male moderate drinkers also reported more comorbidities than non-drinkers.…”
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PENGARUH TATA RUANG DAN KOMUNIKASI INTERN TERHADAP EFEKTIVITAS KERJA GURU DI SMK NEGERI 9 SEMARANG by Ade Rustiana, Nela Harni Rosmawati

“…In this study, the independent variables are spatial and internal communications, while the dependent variable is the employment effectiveness of teachers. …”
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Swiss-German Additive Focus Particle 'auch' in bi-/multilingual Speakers: The Role of Language Typology, Language Dominance and Proficiency by Giulia Berchio, Audrey Bonvin, Raphael Berthele

“…While the comparison groups show similar results regarding the left-of-entity positioning of auch, bilingual data show that this position is more used by Swiss German-Italian speakers. Moreover, the more proficient in German and dominant in Swiss German both groups of bilinguals are, the more they use auch in this position. …”
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Microgrid Multivariate Load Forecasting Based on Weighted Visibility Graph: A Regional Airport Case Study by Georgios Vontzos, Vasileios Laitsos, Dimitrios Bargiotas, Athanasios Fevgas, Aspassia Daskalopulu, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas

“…The motivation for this research stems from the urgent need to enhance the accuracy and reliability of load forecasting in microgrids, which is crucial for optimizing energy management, integrating renewable sources, and reducing operational costs, thereby contributing to more sustainable and efficient energy systems. The proposed methodology employs visibility graph transformations, the superposed random walk method, and temporal decay adjustments, where more recent observations are weighted more significantly to predict the next time step in the data set. …”
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Examining interaction effects among land-use policies to reduce household vehicle travel: An exploratory analysis by Kwangyul Choi, Robert Paterson

“…Though this paper uses data from just one MSA and thus is merely suggestive, it does point to a possibly more nuanced use of the commonly prescribed planning and design policy variable to account for variation in effectiveness based on differences in development intensity. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Beekeepers on Pesticide Risk Mitigation and Bee Mortality in Southwest Ethiopia by Mohammed Abajebel Taha, Seblework Mekonen, Gudina Terefe Tucho

“…Those with training were 3.85 times more likely to practice risk mitigation, while those with good knowledge were 4.18 times more likely, and those with positive attitudes toward risks of pesticides on bee health were 2.41 times more likely to practice. …”
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Effectiveness of dogmatic criminal law reasoning in the permanent structure of the general theory of crime and punishment through plithogenic n-SuperHyperGraphs by Luis A. Crespo-Berti, Josía Jeseff Isea Argüelles, Marco Patricio Villa Zura

“…In this way, one can assess elements of crime and punishment more than via the binary yes/no determination of classical legal dogmatics. …”
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Spherical-deconvolution informed filtering of tractograms changes laterality of structural connectome by Yifei He, Yoonmi Hong, Ye Wu

“…Except for tracking algorithms, different fiber filtering methods, along with the various biological features themselves, displayed more variable patterns of laterality change. In conclusion, this study provides valuable insights into the intricate relationship between fiber filtering and laterality changes in brain structural connectivity. …”
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Family events and child behavior in late childhood: a cross-sectional study by Rikuya Hosokawa, Riho Tomozawa, Megumi Fujimoto, Toshiki Katsura

“…Multiple regression analysis was conducted with the number of family events experienced by children as the explanatory variable and their emotional and prosocial behavior as the objective variables. …”
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Environmental Taxes Impact on the Population Health Protection: Cross-Country Analysis by Iryna Tenytska, Maksym Palienko

“…With each passing year, solving the demographic problem and the problem of population health is becoming more urgent, posing new challenges to politicians, producers and society. …”
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Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities have worse appendicitis outcomes by Su Yeon Lee, Emily A Byrd, Jonathan E Kohler

“…We hypothesized that children with NDD are more likely to present with more severe appendicitis and have worse clinical outcomes. …”
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Increased Visual Response Delay Impact on Sensorimotor Control in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis by Julie C. Wagner, Frankie M. Ingram, Vincenzo Daniele Boccia, Matilde Inglese, Maura Casadio, Camilla Pierella, Andrea Canessa, Robert A. Scheidt, Scott A. Beardsley

“…Upper extremity dysfunction in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) has previously been linked to slower, more variable movement, increased visual response delays (Tv), and neuroimaging evidence of altered brain activity; yet no one knows how these aspects relate to each other. …”
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Anatomia di una scelta irrazionale Verso una nuova ipotesi di studio sul decision making e il disfunction effect by 1 Martina Messina, 2 Silvia Dell'Orco, 1Tilde Annunziato, 1Carmen Giannetti, 1Yari Mirko Alfano, 1Maria Guastaferro, 1Teresa Longobardi, 1Vania Costa, 1Alfonso Davide Di Sarno, 1Enrico Moretto, 1Margherita Rosato, 1Giuseppina Di Ronza, 1Barbara Vitulano, 1Daniela Iennaco

“…It is expected to reduce the disturbance variables and be able to obtain more precise measurements, overcoming the problems related to the verbal formulation of the decision task, more and more often posed as a fundamental criticism to the study of decision making.…”
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Alcohol and electric scooter injuries in an emergency department: a prospective observational study by Jenny Liu, Alexandra Rajevic, Philip von Arbin, Kristian Ängeby

“…Abstract Background Variable prevalences of alcohol use have been reported among injured electric scooter (e-scooter) riders in emergency departments (ED) worldwide. …”
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