The effect of using Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBFS) in mortar mixes on setting time by Dafid Irawan, Gigih Priyandoko, Febriana Dominggas Moreira Loe, Firda Hani Ayuningtyas

“…This study uses an experimental method with variations in the GGBFS composition of 0%, 10%, 20%, and 30%. …”
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Awareness of cardiovascular risk among persons with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study by Lena Jutterström, Anna-Lena Stenlund, Julia Otten, Mikael Lilja, Karin Hellström Ängerud

“…Purpose To describe the process of becoming aware of and acting on personal cardiovascular (CVD) risk in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Method A purposive sample of 14 persons living with T2D participated in semi-structured, open-ended, in-dept interviews. …”
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Arterial involvement of lower limbs in peripheral artery disease - the difference between diabetics and non-diabetics by Tanzeela Khan, Naheed Khan, Sajida Qureshi

“…Conclusion: The diabetics were more prone to developing peripheral arterial disease than nondiabetics. …”
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Population Models for Star Formation Timescales in Early Galaxies: The First Step toward Solving Outshining in Star Formation History Inference by Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja, Hakim Atek, Rachel Bezanson, Emilie Burnham, Pratika Dayal, Robert Feldmann, Jenny E. Greene, Benjamin D. Johnson, Ivo Labbé, Michael V. Maseda, Themiya Nanayakkara, Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, John R. Weaver, Katherine E. Whitaker

“…To this end, we introduce a more complete, quantitative population-level approach and demonstrate that it promises to recover the typical amplitude, timescale, and slope of the recent SFH to high accuracy. …”
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Psychometric evaluation of EQ-5D-5L in OHCA survivors from the TTM2 trial: a post hoc analysis by Mattias Bohm, Kristofer Årestedt, Susann Ullén, Niklas Nielsen, Josef Dankiewicz, Hans Friberg, Erik Blennow Nordström, Alain Cariou, Janus Christian Jakobsen, Anders Morten Grejs, Matthias Haenggi, Naomi E. Hammond, Katarina Heimburg, Thomas R. Keeble, Christoph Leithner, Christian Rylander, Johan Undén, Matt P. Wise, Tobias Cronberg, Gisela Lilja

“…The floor effect was 35%. Survivors with more functional dependency and/or cognitive problems reported significantly worse health by EQ LSS, EQ value, and EQ VAS (all, p < 0.001). …”
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Infectious etiology of intussusception in Indian children less than 2 years old: a matched case-control analysis by Ira Praharaj, Samarasimha Nusi Reddy, Nayana Prabhakaran Nair, Jacqueline Elizabeth Tate, Sidhartha Giri, Varunkumar Thiyagarajan, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Rajendiran Revathi, Kalaivanan Maheshwari, Priya Hemavathy, Nirmal Kumar, Mohan Digambar Gupte, Rashmi Arora, Sowmiya Senthamizh, Suhasini Mekala, Krishna Babu Goru, Padmalatha Pamu, Manohar Badur, Subal Pradhan, Mrutunjay Dash, Nirmal Kumar Mohakud, Rajib Kumar Ray, Geetha Gathwala, Madhu Gupta, Ravi Kanojia, Rajkumar Gupta, Suresh Goyal, Pramod Sharma, Mannancheril Abraham Mathew, Tarun John Kochukaleekal Jacob, Balasubramanian Sundaram, Chethrapilly Purusothaman Girish Kumar, Priyadarshini Dorairaj, Ramasubramaniam Pitchumani, Raghul Maniam, Sambandan Kumaravel, Hemant Jain, Jayanta Kumar Goswami, Ashish Wakhlu, Vineeta Gupta, Jie Liu, Eric R. Houpt, Umesh D. Parashar, Gagandeep Kang

“…We conducted post-marketing surveillance for intussusception following rotavirus vaccine, Rotavac introduction in India and evaluated association of intussusception with enteric pathogens. Methods In a case-control study nested within a large sentinel hospital-based surveillance program in India, stool samples from 272 children aged less than 2 years admitted for intussusception and 272 age-, gender- and location-matched controls were evaluated with Taqman array card based molecular assays to detect enteric viruses, bacterial enteropathogens and parasites. …”
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Direct measurement and optimization of the polarization-dependent modulation depth in super-resolution structured illumination microscopy by Linbo Wang, Simin Li, Xiaohu Chen, Xin Jin, Jie Zhang, Hui Li, Gang Wen

“…Here, we first presented a direct measurement method designed to estimate the modulation depth more precisely by shifting illumination patterns with equal phase steps. …”
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Explanatory AI Predicts the Diet Adopted Based on Nutritional and Lifestyle Habits in the Spanish Population by Elena Sandri, Germán Cerdá Olmedo, Michela Piredda, Lisa Ursula Werner, Vincenzo Dentamaro

“…Vegans and vegetarians consumed less junk food, and intermittent fasters were more physically active. The model effectively predicts the Mediterranean diet but struggles with others due to sample imbalance, highlighting the need for larger studies on plant-based and intermittent fasting diets.…”
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Simultaneous Determination of Fifteen Polyphenols in Fruit Juice Using Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Combining Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Micro... by Yuxiu Li, Zengyang He, Youmei Bao, Qingsheng Zhu, Yong Ning, Zhenfeng Tian, Xiaolan Zhu

“…In this method, the targets were first extracted from 1 g of fruit juice sample using 10 mL of 80% ethanol solution by ultrasonic-assisted extraction (UAE). …”
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Total Precipitable Water Retrieval from FY-3D MWHS-II Data by Yifan Zhang, Geng-Ming Jiang

“…The results indicate that the BPNN algorithms developed in this work are valid and superior to the D-matrix method, the Ridge method, the Lasso method, the physical method, the random forest (RF) method, the support vector machine (SVM) method, and the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) method. …”
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Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Escherichia coli from calves in an important meat-producing region in Brazil by Juliane F Tutija, Carlos AN Ramos, Ricardo AA Lemos, Amanda AL Santos, Guilherme H Reckziegel, Mariana G Freitas, Cassia RB Leal

“…The polymerase chain reaction method was used to detect virulence genes. Results: A hundred seventy-six samples were biochemically identified as E. coli and antibiograms were determined. …”
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Determination of the Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of U.S. Tannin-Free Sorghum in Broilers by Santiago Sasia, William Bridges, Mireille Arguelles-Ramos

“…An incomplete block design was implemented using the direct method to assess the SIAD of eight sorghum samples and one corn sample as the standard. …”
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Mycotoxin Residues in Chicken Breast Muscle and Liver by Tina Lešić, Jelka Pleadin, Nina Kudumija, Dora Tomašković, Ana Vulić

“…Mycotoxin concentrations were determined using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) following sample cleanup with immunoaffinity columns while a QuEChERS-based method was applied for CPA. …”
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Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index Assessment in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair by Kenichi Shibata, PT, Masanori Yamamoto, MD, Ai Kagase, MD, Takahiro Tokuda, MD, Hiroshi Tsunamoto, MD, Testuro Shimura, MD, Azusa Kurita, MD, Ryo Yamaguchi, MD, Mike Saji, MD, Masahiko Asami, MD, Yusuke Enta, MD, Masaki Nakashima, MD, Shinichi Shirai, MD, Masaki Izumo, MD, Shingo Mizuno, MD, Yusuke Watanabe, MD, Makoto Amaki, MD, Kazuhisa Kodama, MD, Junichi Yamaguchi, MD, Toru Naganuma, MD, Hiroki Bota, MD, Yohei Ohno, MD, Masahiro Yamawaki, MD, Daisuke Hachinohe, MD, Hiroshi Ueno, MD, Kazuki Mizutani, MD, Toshiaki Otsuka, MD, Shunsuke Kubo, MD, Kentaro Hayashida, MD

“…Objectives: The objectives of this study were to elucidate the clinical association between the degree of GNRI and different etiologies of MR and to clarify the patient samples for whom GNRI is more relevant to clinical outcomes following TEER. …”
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Exploring the Associations of Neck Circumference, Blood Pressure, CRP, and Insulin Resistance on the Visceral Adiposity Index: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Study by Lucas Fornari Laurindo, Francine Cruz Camargo, Alessandra Perfeito, Bruno Benedito Ciano, Clara Tainá Coelho, Gleice Assis Apolinário, Isabela do Nascimento Vicentin, Jéssica Cambui Andreasi, Beatriz Leme Boaro, Ricardo José Tofano, Cláudia Rucco Penteado Detregiachi, Jesselina Francisco dos Santos Haber, Sandra Maria Barbalho, Lance Alan Sloan, Kátia Portero Sloan, Antonelly Cassio Alves de Carvalho, Marie Oshiiwa, Patrícia Cincotto dos Santos Bueno, Tereza Laís Menegucci Zutim, Rebeca Maria Siqueira da Silva, Eduardo Federighi Baisi Chagas, Marcelo Dib Bechara, Karina R. Quesada

“…Results: The sample comprised 268 outpatient cardiology patients (152 men, 116 women). …”
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Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs (PAC). VII. Disentangling Mass and Environment Quenching with the Aid of Galaxy–Halo Connection in Simulations by Yun Zheng, Kun Xu, Donghai Zhao, Y. P. Jing, Hongyu Gao, Xiaolin Luo, Ming Li

“…In Paper V, we addressed this challenge using the Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs method, which integrates spectroscopic and deep photometric surveys. …”
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Effectiveness of parent involvementin providing nutrition and pmk towards body increase in bblr in the perinatology room of tarakan hospital, jakarta by son dari, Rohadi haryanto, Anita Apriliawati

“…  Kata Kunci : Low Born Weight, Parental Involvement, Nutrition, Kangaroo Care Methods…”
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Analysis of the role of science and technology park in the economic development of the region (Case study: Pardis Park, Tehran) by Mohsen Saghaei, Ramin Amininejad, Said Ghasemizadeh

“…It is worth mentioning that according to the snowball method, 50% of the statistical population of 40 experts and managers was randomly surveyed so that the sample population was selected. …”
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Association between the COVID-19 infodemic and depression symptom screening in older adults by Patricia Rodrigues Braz, Tiago Ricardo Moreira, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro, Rosimere Ferreira Santana, Jack Roberto Silva Fhon, Alexandre Favero Bulgarelli, Vilanice Alves de Araújo Püschel, Edna Aparecida Barbosa de Castro, Denise Rocha Raimundo Leone, Ricardo Bezerra Cavalcante

“… Objective: to analyze the profile of exposure to COVID-19 information and its association with depressive symptom screening in a sample of older adults in Brazil. Method: cross-sectional study using data collected through a web-based survey with 3,307 participants recruited via social media and email. …”
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Efficient reduction of β-lactoglobulin allergenicity in milk using Clostridium tyrobutyricum Z816 by Qianru Zhao, Yuwei Wang, Zhengming Zhu, Quanyu Zhao, Liying Zhu, Ling Jiang

“…The results showed more than 92 % of β-LG in actual samples was hydrolyzed, and the gastric and total digestibility of whey protein isolate (WPI) was improved by 85.96 % and 64.51 %, respectively. …”
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