Sagittal Abdominal Diameter, Waist Circumference, and BMI as Predictors of Multiple Measures of Glucose Metabolism: An NHANES Investigation of US Adults by Shelby A. Firouzi, Larry A. Tucker, James D. LeCheminant, Bruce W. Bailey

“…Due to the ease of taking SAD measurements, we recommend that healthcare providers use this simple method to more precisely predict diabetes risk, especially among overweight and obese adults.…”
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USING HEATING AND VACUUM AS A NEW SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SHORT COOKING TIME FOR PRODUCING BLACK HONEY by Tarek FOUDA, Ali HASSAN, Mohamed GEASA

“…The data shows an increasing of evaporation rate of water from sugar cane juice at vacuum pressure more than from atmospheric pressure. At vacuum pressure samples, evaporation rate ranged from 4.53to 26 gH2O/min. …”
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Adaptive ensemble spatial analysis by Alvaro F. Egaña, María Jesús Valenzuela, Mohammad Maleki, Juan F. Sánchez-Pérez, Gonzalo Díaz

“…The results obtained verify a good performance in the ability to capture the relevant spatial aspects, even in challenging conditions such as non-stationary cases or when there are few samples to perform the inference. In turn, the level of errors in validation contexts is similar to those obtained with traditional geostatistics (Ordinary Kriging method), in synthetic contexts that are suitable for the use of geostatistical techniques. …”
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Effect of grain refinement by ECAP on the corrosion resistance of anodic coating of AA6063 prepared by pulse constant voltage anodizing process by Maryam Mehdizade, Ali Reza Eivani, Mansour Soltanieh

“…The processed substrates were anodized using a two-step anodizing method under constant pulse voltage and identical electrochemical conditions. …”
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Multi-Scale Spatial Perception Attention Network for Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Classification by Yang Li, Jian Luo, Haoyu Long, Qianqian Jin

“…However, neural networks that combine CNNs and Transformers face classification accuracy and generalization limitations when dealing with imbalanced class samples, particularly in few-shot training scenarios. …”
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Contamination of the Surfaces of a Health Care Environment by Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Bacteria by Laila Chaoui, RajaaAit Mhand, Fouad Mellouki, Naima Rhallabi

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2017 to April 2018. Samples were collected by swabbing the hospital surfaces, and the isolated bacteria were checked for their susceptibility to antibiotics by the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method following the standards of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). …”
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Concordance of diagnostic tests, ultrasound of urinary tract versus non-contrast CT in urolithiasis in a four-level center in Bogotá, Colombia by Hugo López, Juliana Arenas, María P. Torres, Alejandra Niño-Alarcón

“…The objective of this research is to make a study of diagnostic concordance between urinary tract ultrasound and non-contrast CT in a fourth-level center in Bogotá. Method: Retrospectively, a base is developed with a sample of all the patients who were taken to non-contrast CT and renal ultrasound at the same time for a clinical course suggestive of stone disease. …”
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GSF-YOLOv8: A Novel Approach for Fire Detection Using Gather-Distribute Mechanism and SimAM Attention by Caixiong Li, Dali Wu, Xing Zhang, Peng Wu

“…It also focuses on hard samples to reduce the impact of easily misclassified samples, thereby enhancing the model’s performance in complex fire detection. …”
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Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable? by Marta Alcaide, Oscar F. Garcia, Olga Gomez-Ortiz, Fernando Garcia

“…This study aims to analyze how two main parenting dimensions, warmth and strictness, are related to the psychosocial adjustment of children.MethodA sample of 1,224 Spanish adolescents and young adults was examined, divided into two groups: adolescents aged 12–18 years (51.14%) and young adults aged 19–35 years (48.86%). …”
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Living under threat: adolescents’ continuous traumatic stress reactions in relation to violence exposure by Inga Truskauskaite, Monika Kvedaraite, Aviva Goral, Ieva Daniunaite

“…CTS reactions have never been studied in relation to violence exposure in adolescent samples.Objective: We aimed to validate the Lithuanian version of the Continuous Traumatic Stress Response (CTSR) scale in the adolescent sample, to explore the adolescents’ CTS reactions using the person-oriented approach, and to study the relationship between different types of violence and CTS reactions.Method: In total, 321 adolescents (M(SD)age = 14.19 (1.26)) from Lithuania were included in the current study, of which 181 (56.4%) were female, 135 (42.1%) were male, and 54.5% (n = 175) were continuously exposed to violence over their lifetime. …”
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Prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pigs and workers at abattoirs in Trinidad and Tobago by Alva Stewart-Johnson, Francis Dziva, Woubit Abdela, Saed Rahaman, Abiodun Adesiyun

“…Resistance of the S. aureus and MRSA isolates to 16 antimicrobial agents was determined using the disc diffusion method. Results: Of the 929 pigs and 44 humans sampled, MRSA strains were isolated at a frequency of 0.9% (8/929) and 2.3% (1/44) respectively. …”
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Rab27a was identified as a prognostic biomaker by mRNA profiling, correlated with malignant progression and subtype preference in gliomas. by Hongjun Wang, Yan Zhao, Chuanbao Zhang, Mingyang Li, Chuanlu Jiang, Yongli Li

“…In this set, 220 gliomas, consisting of 97 WHO Grade II gliomas, 34 WHO Grade III gliomas, and 89 WHO Grade IV gliomas, were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. To validate the protein expression of Rab27a, we assayed another 162 glioma samples by immunohistochemistry. …”
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Development of value added cassava-based foods enriched with Irish potato peels and moringa leaves for sustainable food security and improved nutrition by Lilian Daniel Kaale, Maria Eduardo

“…The results showed that solar drying method preserved nutrients in the dried samples compared to their fresh state. …”
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Physical simulation test of multi-stage staged fracturing for shale horizontal wells by GUO Tiankui, SUN Yueming, LIU Xuewei, CHEN Ming, LIU Xiaoqiang

“…In order to clarify the influence of in-situ stress difference, displacement and fracturing series on the propagation of staged fractures in shale horizontal wells, we do the research based on a true triaxial hydraulic fracturing test system, using outcrop shale samples (300 mm × 300 mm × 300 mm) as the research object, combined with the new method of fracture-induced stress detection of staged fracturing and the three-dimensional morphological structure of specimens after hydraulic fracturing test. …”
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An examination of psychological distress and moral injury in journalists exposed to online harassment by Anthony Feinstein, Hannah Storm, Jillian Mead, Andrea Sharkey

“…News organizations should do more to address the challenges posed by harassment and better support their journalists.…”
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Hypermethylation at 45S rDNA promoter in cancers. by Trang Thi Quynh Tran, Trang Hien Do, Tung The Pham, Phương Thi Thu Luu, Oanh Minh Pham, Uyen Quynh Nguyen, Linh Dieu Vuong, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Tuan Van Mai, Son Van Ho, Than Thi Nguyen, Lan Thi Thuong Vo

“…Using the bisulfite-based quantitative real-time methylation-specific PCR (qMSP) method after ensuring unbiased amplification and complete bisulfite conversion of the minuscule DNA amount of 1 ng, we established that the rDNA promoter was significantly hypermethylated in 107 breast, 65 lung, and 135 colon tumour tissue samples (46.81%, 51.02% and 96.60%, respectively) as compared with their corresponding adjacent normal samples (26.84%, 38.26% and 77.52%, respectively; p < 0.0001). …”
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A comparison study of 589 and 650 nm on improving stored whole blood stability by irradiation with a low-power diode pumping solid-state laser by Safa Hassan Mohammed, Mustafa Salih Al Musawi, Bassam Talib Al-Gailani

“… Objective: To assess the effects of diode-pumped solid-state laser irradiation with 589nm and 650nm wavelengths on the stability of stored red blood cells in vitro. Method: This is an intervention study that was conducted from April to July 2021 at the Physiology and Medical Physics Laboratory, College of Medicine, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq, and comprised samples of healthy, adult human blood that were put in tubes with citrate-phosphate dextrose-adenine as an anticoagulant. …”
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Enhancing Elementary Students' Numeracy Skills Through The Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) Approach by Tri Suryaningsih, Khoerun Nisa, Rohmat Widiyanto, Asep Ediana Latip, Yubaedi Siron

“… This study investigates the impact of the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) method on fifth-grade students' SDN Cipayung 02 numeracy skills. …”
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Wind Turbine Fault Diagnosis with Imbalanced SCADA Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks by Hong Wang, Taikun Li, Mingyang Xie, Wenfang Tian, Wei Han

“…This makes the SCADA data distribution imbalanced, with significantly more normal data than abnormal data, resulting in a decrease in the performance of existing fault diagnosis techniques. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…Finally, we assessed whether areas prone to changing aircraft noise patterns (i.e. with relief periods from aircraft noise) affected the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in areas with higher noise in the evenings and found the higher risks were only seen in areas with more constant noise levels. More research is needed to investigate potential health benefits of relief periods with lower noise. …”
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