LENDING RATE AND COMMERCIAL BANK LENDING IN NIGERIA by Lateef Adewale Yunusa, Mayowa Ebenezer Ariyibi, Kehinde Isiaq Olaiya, Tolulope Oyakhilome Williams

“…The analysis included the macroeconomic variable growth of bank lending, which is a proxy for bank lending, and the independent variables: lending rate, deposit growth, foreign exchange rate, liquidity rate, money supply, and GDP growth. …”
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From caregiving burden to income transformation: intergenerational employment effects of long-term care insurance by Zhiying Li, Longhua Zheng, Hong Xu

“…These insights provide empirical support for optimizing LTCI to foster a more inclusive social security system.…”
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Validating the Social Vulnerability Index for alternative geographies in the United States to explore trends in social determinants of health over time and geographic location by Carmen D. Ng, Pluto Zhang, Stacey Kowal

“…ACS estimates of the 16 variables for 2016–2022 were extracted for counties and ZIP code tabulation areas and for ZIP code geographies, crosswalked to ZIP-5, and aggregated to ZIP-3. …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Diurnal Mood Variation in Chinese Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study by Duan J, Zhang Y, Tao J, Fan X

“…The pattern is associated with more severe depressive symptoms. Feelings of despair are a potential associated factor for diurnal changes in mood, although the discriminatory capacity of this variable is limited. …”
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Optimization of Traffic Flow by Allowing Private Cars to Merge into the Bus Lane at Specific Locations by Zhentao Yin, Kai Yuan, Shenshen Zheng

“…Thus, it is essential to utilize bus lanes more effectively. Previous work focuses on allowing private cars to use bus lanes which may cause bus delays. …”
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Assessing the impact on quality of prediction and inference from balancing in multilevel logistic regression by Carolina Gonzalez-Canas, Gustavo A. Valencia-Zapata, Ana Maria Estrada Gomez, Zachary Hass

“…The class imbalance problem, where one of the two outcome categories occurs much more often than the other, is common in healthcare data, such as when modeling the risk factors for rare diseases. …”
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Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of substance use disorders in a sample of Egyptian adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by Omar E. Arafa, Fatma A. Eldeeb, Hossam A. Hodeib, Mohammad A. Seleem

“…Results Subjects with ADHD and SUD were more likely to be males (86.7%) older than 17 years (73.3%). …”
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Preparation of a self‐supported zeolite glass composite membrane for CO2/CH4 separation by Dudu Li, Mao Ye, Chao Ma, Ning Li, Zhenjie Gu, Zhihua Qiao

“…The (agZIF‐62)0.7(4A)0.3 membrane exhibited good operational stability in the variable pressure test and 48 h long‐term continuous test. …”
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AquaFlowNet a machine learning based framework for real time wastewater flow management and optimization by P. Prabu, Ala Saleh Alluhaidan, Romana Aziz, Shakila Basheer

“…However, most existing methods rely on static or rule-based models, which lack the flexibility to handle fluctuating flow rates, variable environmental loads, and unforeseen disruptions. …”
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Detecting Particle Contamination in Bearings of Inverter-Fed Induction Motors: A Comparative Evaluation of Monitoring Signals by Tomas Garcia-Calva, Óscar Duque-Perez, Rene J. Romero-Troncoso, Daniel Morinigo-Sotelo, Ignacio Martin-Diaz

“…Although existing research predominantly addresses localized faults in mains-fed motors, particularly single-point defects, a comprehensive investigation into particle contamination in bearings of inverter-fed motors is essential for a more accurate understanding of real-world bearing issues. …”
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Prognostic role of vitamin D receptor in digestive system tumours: A systematic review and preliminary meta-analysis. by Miaomiao Zhao, Zhenhua Liu, Hongtai Shi, Jianxiang Song

“…Subgroup analyses showed that tumour type was the variable affecting the association between VDR expression and OS. …”
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Spectrum of liver affection in children with sickle cell disease: case series by Fatma S. E. Ebeid, Noura B. Farghal, Nihal H. Aly

“…Methods This case series presented the characteristics of five children with SCD with variable hepatic manifestation and implemented a diagnostic approach that included testing the transaminases and bilirubin in any patient with any suspicion of liver affection. …”
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Trehalose-6-phosphate synthase gene expression analysis under abiotic and biotic stresses in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) by Shuoshuo Wang, Wenli Li, Han Jin

“…The LsTPS genes were categorized into Classes I and II based on their homology with Arabidopsis, rice, cucumber, watermelon, and tomato. Variable exon numbers were found in the LsTPS genes, with more exons in Class II than in Class I genes. …”
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Photonic Generation of Triangular-Shaped Waveform With Tunable Symmetry Factor Based on Two Single-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator by Chuangye Wang, Tigang Ning, Jing Li, Li Pei, Jingjing Zheng, Guobin Ren, Beilei Wu, Xiaowei Dong

“…An approach to generating triangular-shaped waveform with variable symmetry based on two single-drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator is proposed and analyzed. …”
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Class of Calibrated Estimators of Population Proportion Under Diagonal Systematic Sampling Scheme by Ahmed Audu, Maggie Aphane, Jabir Ahmad, Ran Vijay Kumar Singh

“…The simulation results showed that our proposed estimators under the proposed calibration schemes performed more efficiently on average compared to the traditional unbiased estimator proposed for population proportion under diagonal systematic sampling. …”
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Epidemiology and risk stratification of young infants presenting to the emergency department with hypothermia by Michelle L. Wang, Indi Trehan

“…Infants aged 29‒90 days, compared to 0‒28 days, were more likely to have a urinary tract infection (odds ratio 3.28, 95% confidence interval 1.47‒7.32). …”
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Alternative Therapy for Epstein-Barr Virus Related Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis by Omar Al Asad, Amir Salam, Siva Mannem, Mary Ninan, Avi Markowitz, Bagi Jana

“…HLH can occur as a familial or sporadic acquired disorder. Acquired HLH is more frequently found in adults and is commonly secondary to infections, malignancies, or autoimmune diseases. …”
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Substantiation of parametres of springs vibro tines by L. F. Babitsky, I. V. Sobolevsky, V. A. Kuklin

“…However, the energy costs of a forced drive to work sometimes exceed the energy costs of passive working bodies. Therefore, it is more appropriate to imparting elastic vibration tillage working bodies due to variable soil resistance in accordance with the phases of deformation and destruction of the soil. …”
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Assessing the stability of evoked, induced, and passive MEG responses for repeat testing with optically pumped magnetometers by Natalie Rhodes, Julian Bandhan, Marlee M. Vandewouw, Sebastian C. Coleman, Margot J. Taylor

“…We showed that induced responses were more variable than evoked. Passive MEG power (via movie-watching as a pseudo-resting state metric) particularly in the alpha band, demonstrated high consistency across sessions, aligning with conventional MEG literature. …”
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The auricula as a new surgical landmark for the transverse-sigmoid-sinus-transition by Senne Broekx, Dylan Thomas Stevesyns, Tomas Menovsky

“…Discussion and conclusion: The transverse-sigmoid-sinus-transition seems to be located more anterior and caudal with respect to the most-posterior-part-of-the-auricula, meaning that it can be considered a save landmark. …”
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