Identification of Anoikis-Related Genes in Chronic Kidney Disease Based on Bioinformatics Analysis Combined with Experimental Validation by Liu H, Mei M, Zhong H, Lin S, Luo J, Huang S, Zhou J

“…And then, we adopted the quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) assay to validate the hub genes among several CKD animal models. …”
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Pharmacokinetics of 7,8-dihydroxyflavone in neonatal mice with hypoxia-ischemia related brain injury by Sin Yin Lim, Cameron O. Scarlett, Sefer Yapici, Peter Ferrazzano, Peter Ferrazzano, Pelin Cengiz, Pelin Cengiz

“…A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method was developed to quantitate the drug concentration in plasma samples, as well as in samples from the left and right brain hemispheres. …”
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A Stepwise decision tree model for differential diagnosis of Kimura’s disease in the head and neck by Rui Luo, Gongxin Yang, Huimin Shi, Yining He, Yongshun Han, Zhen Tian, Yingwei Wu

“…., skin thickening, lesion morphology, lymphadenopathy, MRI signal intensity) and quantitative variables (e.g., age, lesion size, apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs), wash-in rate, time to peak (TTP), time-signal intensity curve (TIC) patterns) examined. …”
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Cell-free fat extract prevents diminished ovarian reserve by inhibiting granulosa cell senescence by Mengyu Liu, Hanfei Zhu, Xiaowei Zhou, Jingru Duan, Yuhong Shen, Aijun Zhang

“…CEFFE demonstrated favorable safety in the Prophylactic group and their offspring, with no significant adverse effects on organ morphology or coefficients, except for increased liver weight in treated mice. …”
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Psychometric validation of the Worst Itch Numerical Rating Scale (WI-NRS) and other patient-reported outcome measures for assessing severity and impact of pruritus in patients with... by Heather Gelhorn, Brooke M. Currie, Donald M. Bushnell, Mona L. Martin, Fatoumata Fofana, Hayley Karn, Marlyn J. Mayo, David E. Jones, Megan M. McLaughlin, Robyn von Maltzahn

“…Fatigue, also frequent in PBC, can be exacerbated by sleep interference due to nighttime pruritus. Quantitative numerical rating scales (NRS) are appropriate for assessing unidimensional patient-reported outcome (PRO) concepts and are easily interpreted. …”
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Socioecological factors linked to co-occurring early childhood sleep health disparities and developmental outcomes: protocol for the sleep in preschoolers cross-sectional study by Darko Stefanovski, Ignacio E Tapia, Wanjikũ F M Njoroge, Rebecca Waller, Tiffani J Johnson, Eberechukwu A Uwah, Olivia Cicalese, Brizhay Davis, Megha Neelapu, Gabriel Steinberg, Arun Handa, Jodi A Mindell, Ariel A Williamson

“…Primary outcomes include individual differences in neurobehavioural and social-emotional functioning in these groups of Black and White preschoolers, and multilevel socioecological factors associated with variation in outcomes. Quantitative data will be analysed using descriptive analyses, linear regression and comparison of model coefficients. …”
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Factors associated with multibacillary leprosy in a region of northeastern Brazil by Janiel Conceição da Silva, Rayanne Alves de Oliveira, Lívia Fernanda Siqueira Santos, Livia Maia Pascoal, Floriacy Stabnow Santos, Ana Cristina Pereira de Jesus Costa, Ismália Cassandra Costa Maia Dias, Isaura Leticia Tavares Palmeira Rolim, Iolanda Graepp Fontoura, Ariadne Siqueira de Araujo Gordon, Jaisane Santos Melo Lobato, Francisca Aline Arrais Sampaio Santos, Janaína Miranda Bezerra, Volmar Morais Fontoura, Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Leonardo Hunaldo dos Santos, Marcelino Santos Neto

“…Methodology: This is a cross-sectional, analytical, and retrospective study, with a quantitative approach, carried out in 16 municipalities in the southwest of Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil. …”
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Electroplasticity constitutive modeling of aluminum alloys based on dislocation density evolution by Yanli Song, Long Chen, Chuanchuan Hao, Lin Hua, Hainan Xu, Jue Lu, Zhongmei Wang, Jianguo Lin, Yanxiong Liu, Lechun Xie

“…The tensile deformation behaviors of AA 6061-T6 and AA 7075-T6 under the effect of a pulsed electrical current were quantitatively predicted using the proposed constitutive model. …”
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EVALUATION OF EXPRESSION OF 4 MIRNAS IN CYTOLOGICAL SAMPLES AS AN ADDITIONAL METHOD OF CERVICAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS by P. A. Arkhangelskaya, R. B. Samsonov, T. A. Shtam, M. S. Knyazeva, M. K. Ivanov, S. E. Titov, N. N. Kolesnikov, E. V. Bakhidze, I. V. Berlev, A. А. Mikhetko, S. L. Vorobyev, A. V. Malek

“…Estimation of ratios between expression levels of miRNA pairs: 126/375; 20а/375; 126/145 allows to differentiate with high confidence borderline states of severe intraepithelial dysplasia and invasive cervical carcinoma (coefficients of quantitative interpretation of the error curve were 0.8, 0.75, 0.72, respectively).Conclusions. …”
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Effects of a Complex Feed Additive on Productivity and Blood Parameters of Laying Hens Using Stochastic Fractal-based Neural Network Model by Larisa Karpenko, Alesya Bakhta, Olga Babich, Stanislav Sukhikh, Nikolay Vorobyov, Ilya Nikonov, Solomonida Borisova, Darren Griffin, Michael Romanov

“…Also, correlation coefficients were highly positive in relation to certain zootechnical indicators, suggesting that feed additive intake may have led to changes in these performance traits. …”
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A multiplex assay of leptin, resistin, and adiponectin by immunoaffinity enrichment and targeted mass spectrometry by Jie Pu, Xinxin Yang, Tai-Tu Lin, Thomas L. Fillmore, Marina A. Gritsenko, Shane S. Kelly, Adam C. Swensen, Tujin Shi, Stephen R. Master, James P. DeLany, Bret H. Goodpaster, Wei-Jun Qian, Jun Qu

“…Comparative analysis with individual immunoassays demonstrated strong correlation, with all correlation coefficients (r) being equal to or greater than 0.869. …”
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Path Analysis of Morphological Traits on Weight Traits of Breeding Mya japonica by Xiaoyan XU, Meirong DU, Tinghao WANG, Zengjie JIANG

“…Pathway analysis, which was developed by the quantitative geneticist Wright in the 1920s, identifies the correlations between parameters and categorizes their correlation coefficients into direct and indirect influences through other parameters to create the optimal regression equations. …”
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Do job resources buffer the harmful effects of job demands on burnout complaints? A 1-year cohort study of Swedish healthcare professionals by Britta E Gynning, Elin Karlsson, Kevin Teoh, Per Gustavsson, Filip Christiansen, Emma Brulin

“…Results: The experience of control at work buffered the impact of several job demands, including quantitative demands (Beta coefficients [B] =−0.034, 95 % confidence interval [CI] [−0.05; −0.01]), illegitimate work tasks (B=−0.018, 95 % CI [−0.04;−0.01]), effort-reward imbalance (B = −0.050, 95 % CI [−0.08; −0.01]), and work-life Interference (B = −0.023, 95 % CI [−0.04; −0.004]) on subsequent burnout complaints. …”
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CT-based AI framework leveraging multi-scale features for predicting pathological grade and Ki67 index in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a multicenter study by Huancheng Yang, Yueyue Zhang, Fan Li, Weihao Liu, Haoyang Zeng, Haoyuan Yuan, Zixi Ye, Zexin Huang, Yangguang Yuan, Ye Xiang, Kai Wu, Hanlin Liu

“…The AI framework comprised an image processor, a 3D-kidney and tumor segmentation model by 3D-UNet, a multi-scale features extractor built upon unsupervised learning, and a multi-task classifier utilizing XGBoost. A quantitative model interpretation technique, known as SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), was employed to explore the contribution of multi-scale features. …”
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Causal association of obesity-related anthropometric traits with myopia and the mediating role of educational attainment: a Mendelian randomization study by Yi Lu, Can-Can Zhang, Run-Ting Ma, Yuan-Jing Li, Wen-Ping Li, Die-Wen-Jie Hu, Lian-Hong Zhou

“…The mediation effect of EA in the BMI-EA-MSE model was calculated by the product of coefficients method. Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL)-MR, reverse MR, and Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression (LDSC) were performed to assess the robustness. …”
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Factores psicosociales asociados con la alimentación saludable y la práctica de actividad física en escolares (Psychosocial factors associated with healthy eating and physical act... by María de los Angeles Fuentes Vega

“…Methodology: non-experimental research with a quantitative approach, the sample consisted of 110 schoolchildren in fourth, fifth and sixth grade of primary school in three public schools, with a mean age of 9.95 (SD = 0.95), who answered three instruments: PA self-efficacy questionnaire, questionnaire on eating habits and PA, and the pictorial questionnaire of children's PA. …”
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Enhancing medical assessment strategies: a comparative study between structured, traditional and hybrid viva-voce assessment by Kavita Rasalkar, Sunita Tripathy, Sulekha Sinha, Bikramaditya Mukherjee, Nagamma Takkella, Elvis Vishal Dadel, Monit Sundriyal, Swetanka Prasad

“…Feedback was obtained through a mixed questionnaire with quantitative (Likert scale) and qualitative (open-ended) items on the examination methods. …”
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Exploring the dynamics of stroke survivors’ care dependency, fatigue, and coping strategy in their caregivers: a structural equation modeling analysis by Jinyao Wang, Shuangyan Tu, Jun Cui, Rong Yang, Yan Jiang, Lihong Zhao

“…It showed that the direct effect path coefficients of patients’ care dependency on caregivers’ fatigue (β = −0.22, 95% confidence interval (CI): −0.367, −0.097, p = 0.002) and negative coping (β = −0.31, 95% CI: −0.438, −0.155, p = 0.003) were statistically significant. …”
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A novel FFQ for Brazilian adults based on the Nova classification system: development, reproducibility and validation by Evelyn Oliveira da Silva Frade, Kamila Tiemann Gabe, Caroline dos Santos Costa, Daniela Neri, Euridice Martínez-Steele, Fernanda Rauber, Josiane Steluti, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Maria Laura da Costa Louzada

“…We estimated the intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for both analyses and assessed the agreement of classification into quintiles using the prevalence-and-bias-adjusted kappa coefficients for criterion validity analysis. …”
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Development and Validation of the Resident Healthcare-Seeking Culture Scale (RHCS) Among Chinese Demographics in the Community Setting by Xu H, Feng J, Qiu L, Yan S, Li L, Tian Q, He Y, Lu Z

“…The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the total scale was 0.83. Split-half reliability was 0.87. …”
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