Measuring up: Ensuring Intra- and Interobserver Reliability in Stretched Penile Length with the SPLINT Technique by Prabudh Goel, Prativa Choudhury, Vivek Verma, Shivani Phugat, Mani Kalaivani, Teg Rabab Singh, Kanika Sharma, Vishesh Jain, Devendra Kumar Yadav, Anjan Kumar Dhua, Sandeep Agarwala

“…A similar pattern of variability was observed for T-vs-T measurements. The reliability (%) of the SPL by experts is consistently more than that of trainees across all age groups; however, the difference ameliorates with the age of participant. …”
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Negative Predictors of Heart Rate Variability and Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure and Mid-Range Ejection Fraction:A Cross-Sectional and Descriptive Study by Rani Jose Kochupurayil, Neetha Kamath, Ashraf Safia Manzil, Fatima D’Silva, Basavaraj Utagi

“… Introduction. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a health indicator and a predictor for sudden cardiac death among patients with Heart Failure with mid-range Ejection fraction (HFmrEF). …”
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CYP2C19 variability and clinical outcomes of clopidogrel, proton pump inhibitors, and voriconazole in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Harri Hardi, Agian Jeffilano Barinda, Agian Jeffilano Barinda, Liganda Endo Mahata, Liganda Endo Mahata, Zahra Fitrianti

“…IntroductionPolymorphism in CYP2C19 is more prevalent in East Asia than in other regions of the world. …”
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Cross-Stressful Adaptation to Drought and High Salinity Is Related to Variable Antioxidant Defense, Proline Metabolism, and <i>Dehydrin b</i> Expression in White Clover by Yao Ling, Duo Wang, Yan Peng, Dandan Peng, Zhou Li

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Effect of C-344T polymorphism of aldosterone synthase gene on variability of antihypertensive therapy with angiotensin II receptor blockers: open randomized controlled clinical tri... by E. V. Rebrova, E. V. Shikh, N. B. Lazareva

“…There was a trend toward a slightly more pronounced decrease in the daytime HR in the heterozygotes receiving irbesartan by a mean of 1.9 bpm compared to the CC homozygotes (p=0.059). …”
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Association between various blood glucose variability-related indicators during early ICU admission and 28-day mortality in non-diabetic patients with sepsis by Jingyan Zhou, Zhiheng Chen, Hao-Neng Huang, Chun-Quan Ou, Xin Li

“…Results There is a J-shaped relationship between hospital mortality risk and glucose variability-related indexes in ICU patients with sepsis. …”
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Effects of acupuncture and moxibustion on heart rate variability in chronic fatigue syndrome patients: Regulating the autonomic nervous system in a clinical randomized controlled t... by Tong Li, Gerhard Litscher, Yudian Zhou, Yanjuan Song, Qing Shu, Li Chen, Qi Huang, Yayuan Wang, Haoran Tian, Rufeng Teng, Hua Wang, Fengxia Liang

“…Acupuncture targeting both the Zusanli and Guanyuan points proved more effective than acupuncture targeting a single point, with this difference reflected in the distinct regulatory effects on the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. …”
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The Value of Clinical Variables and the Potential of Longitudinal Ultrasound Carotid Plaque Assessment in Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event Prediction After Uncomplicated Acute Co... by Leonid L. Bershtein, Alexey N. Sumin, Anna V. Kutina, Marina D. Lunina, Dmitrii S. Evdokimov, Tatyana V. Nayden, Viktoriya E. Gumerova, Igor N. Kochanov, Arkadii A. Ivanov, Svetlana A. Boldueva, Ekaterina D. Evdokimova, Elizaveta V. Zbyshevskaya, Alina E. Evtushenko, Vartan K. Piltakyan, Sergey A. Sayganov

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: In typical contemporary patients with uncomplicated interventionally treated ACS, diabetes, decreased EF, Charlson comorbidity index, non-prescription of beta-blockers at discharge, and three or more uncontrolled risk factors after 6 months were the most important clinical predictors of MACEs. …”
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Fruit traits of different variants of Zanthoxylum planispinum var. dingtanensis in the karst plateau valley area of Guizhou Province, Southwest China by Youyan Guo, Guangguang Yang, Yurong Fu, Shunsong Yang, Yanghua Yu, Mingfeng Du, Yaqi Zhou

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Genome-wide iterative fine-mapping for non-Gaussian phenotypes by Shuangshuang Xu, Jacob Williams, Allison Tegge, Marco A. R. Ferreira

“…After that, the variable selection step selects a more focused list of genetic variants using the estimated null proportion to appropriately control for genome-wide multiplicity. …”
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A New Statistical Modelling Approach to Explain Willingness-to-Try Seafood Byproducts Using Elicited Emotions by Silvia Murillo, Ryan Ardoin, Bin Li, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul

“…Traditional stepwise variable selection was compared to variable selection using raw mean difference > 0.2 units and Cohen’s <i>d</i> > 0.50 constraints for SB-elicited emotions. …”
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Model‐based ordination for phenological studies: From controlling sampling bias to inferring temporal associations by Hao Ran Lai

“…I further take this opportunity to borrow a key innovation in model‐based ordination and joint species distribution modelling—generalised linear latent variable models (GLLVM)—to illustrate its ability to extract more information out of multispecies phenological data beyond circular statistics. …”
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The impact of air pollution on employment mobility of college graduates in the Yangtze River Delta by Bing Zeng, Wenhui Gao, Binyu Wei, Xiaojie Shu

“…Also, graduate students are more susceptible to the effects of air pollution than undergraduates. …”
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A Forecast Model for COVID-19 Spread Trends Using Blog and GPS Data from Smartphones by Ryosuke Susuta, Kenta Yamada, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu

“…Our findings reveal that the adaptive model more effectively captures long-term trends, achieving approximately 90% accuracy in forecasting infection rates seven days in advance. …”
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The demographic approach to the quality of official ethnicity data in Serbia - a research proposal by Trnavčević Nevena, Knežević Aleksandar

“…We contend that the results presented in the paper constitute a sufficient argument for a broader methodological discussion regarding the necessity of demographic research into ethnicity data to create a “more objective” demographic picture of minorities. …”
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Data Temperature Informed Streaming for Optimising Large-Scale Multi-Tiered Storage by Dominic Davies-Tagg, Ashiq Anjum, Ali Zahir, Lu Liu, Muhammad Usman Yaseen, Nick Antonopoulos

“…We identify new metadata variables and user-defined variables to extend the current data temperature value. …”
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Screening and characterization of the scFv for chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting CEA-positive carcinoma by Chengcheng Zhang, Linling Wang, Qianzhen Zhang, Junjie Shen, Xia Huang, Meiling Wang, Yi Huang, Jun Chen, Yanmin Xu, Wenxu Zhao, Yanan Qi, Yunyan Li, Yanjiao Ou, Zhi Yang, Cheng Qian

“…During CAR-T cell production culture, hMN-14 CAR-T cells exhibit a larger proportion of memory-like T cells, while M5A CAR-T cells showed a more differentiated phenotype, suggesting a greater tonic signal of M5A scFv. …”
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Calibration of the Composition of Low-Alloy Steels by the Interval Partial Least Squares Using Low-Resolution Emission Spectra with Baseline Correction by M. V. Belkov, K. Y. Catsalap, M. A. Khodasevich, D. A. Korolko, A. V. Aseev

“…Reducing the effect of redundancy of wideband emission spectra on the results of quantitative analysis was achieved by searching combination moving window containing one spectral variable more than the optimal number of latent variables for the wideband multivariate model. …”
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Tree species classification using intensity patterns from individual tree point clouds by Andreas Tockner, Ralf Kraßnitzer, Christoph Gollob, Sarah Witzmann, Tim Ritter, Arne Nothdurft

“…Explainable elements are a soft classifier on classification probabilities and detailed analysis of variable importance and minimal variable depth. The overall classification accuracy was 89.8% for nine species, with greater values for the four major species (spruce, pine, oak, and beech). …”
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X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Dwarf Nova Z Chamaeleontis in Quiescence and Outburst Using the XMM-Newton Observatory by Şölen Balman, Eric M. Schlegel, Patrick Godon, Jeremy J. Drake

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