Towards fiscal sustainable practices in Mexico: The quality of municipal tax regulation and tiered tariffs improve income from solid waste management services by Sergio López-Olvera, Juan Carlos Olivo-Escudero, Mauricio Hernández-Marroquín, Fausto Rafael López-Olvera, Yessica Lourdes Vallejo-Rivera, Marco Antonio Rodríguez-Gómez, Pedro Hipólito Rodríguez-Herrero

“…Data from municipal financial reports was extracted from official government websites and analyzed using statistical methods in R, including variance analysis and t-tests. …”
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Association between CAPN-10 gene variant and diabetes mellitus in Nigeria: a review by David Olufemi Adebo, Mathew Folaranmi Olaniyan, Christian Onosetale Ugege, Odekunle Bola Odegbemi

“…Materials and methods A comprehensive literature search yielded 150 studies, from which 45 met inclusion criteria, encompassing approximately 25,000 individuals, including 10,000 diagnosed with T2DM. Statistical analyses assessed the association between CAPN-10 SNPs (UCSNP-43, UCSNP-19, UCSNP-63) and T2DM risk. …”
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Increased Intra-Abdominal Pressure as One of the Links in the Pathogenesis of Secondary Diffuse Purulent Peritonitis by D. V. Cherdantsev, O. V. Ovchinnikova, Yu. G. Trofimovich, I. G. Noskov, O. V. Pervova, A. A. Kovalenko

“…Secondary purulent peritonitis is a severe and fairly common form of abdominal infection with high mortality. According to statistics, hospitalization of patients with signs of local or diffuse peritonitis is more than 15 % among patients with acute surgical pathologies. …”
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Substantial Variation Exists in Clinical Exposure to Chief Complaints Among Residents Within an Emergency Medicine Training Program by Corlin M. Jewell, Amy T. Hummel, Dann J. Hekman, Benjamin H. Schnapp

“…We calculated descriptive statistics for the top 10 most encountered domains for comparison among residents. …”
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Peering into the Black Box: Forward Modeling of the Uncertainty Budget of High-resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres by Arjun B. Savel, Megan Bedell, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Peter C. B. Smith, Jacob L. Bean, Lily L. Zhao, Kaze W. K. Wong, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line

“…., the lack of exoplanetary spectra visible by eye and the statistically complex process of telluric removal—can make interpreting them difficult. …”
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Clinical efficacy and safety study of vNOTES for benign ovarian tumors in obese patients by Fei Wang, Yuqin Liu, Yue Xing, Dongdong Wang, Xue Bai, Linlin Li, Chunhua Ma, Yongjuan Sun, Yufang Bai, Liehong Wang

“…Key parameters such as operative time, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, hospitalization duration, postoperative anal exhaust time, postoperative visual analog scale (VAS) score, and SF-36 score were analyzed. No statistical differences were observed between the two groups regarding baseline characteristics such as age, body mass index (BMI), tumor diameter, parity, and history of pelvic surgery. …”
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Mortality Prediction in the Emergency Service Intensive Care Patients with Possible COVID-19: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Mehmed Ulu, M. Kaya, Y. Tunc, H. Yildirim, A. Halici, A. Coskun

“…CONCLUSION: There was no statistically significant difference on mortality between positive and negative group. …”
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SleepNow – A combined cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and physical exercise intervention in men with metastatic prostate cancer: results from a feasibility randomized con... by Beverley Lim Høeg, Katrine Bjerre Løppenthin, Josée Savard, Christoffer Johansen, Jesper Frank Christensen, Mads Nordahl Svendsen, Niels Holländer, Pernille Envold Bidstrup

“…The intervention group showed improvements in insomnia, sleep quality, fatigue, anxiety, depression and health-related quality-of-life but between-group differences were not statistically significant. Interpretation: The SleepNow intervention is the first to combine nurse-delivered CBT-I and physical exercise and was acceptable and potentially efficacious. …”
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Cardiovascular diseases health literacy among Italian navy personnel: A cross-sectional survey by L. Rondinini, V. Di Fiore, M. Pasquale, G. Cruschelli, D. Rocchi, F. Baglivo, A. Baggiani, A.D. Porretta

“…It was designed to elicit open-ended and closed-ended responses on their knowledge of CVD, its risk factors, and associated diagnostic thresholds. Statistical analyses included logistic regression conducted with R software. …”
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Panoramic radiographic features for machine learning based detection of mandibular third molar root and inferior alveolar canal contact by A. Canberk Ulusoy, Tuğçe Toprak, M. Alper Selver, Pelin Güneri, Betül İlhan

“…Eligibility was assessed through statistical analysis and radiologists evaluations. Clinical feedback from radiologists on these features provides insights for future improvements. (3) ANNs, two custom CNNs, seven established DL models, and their combinations were used for automatic M3M-IAC contact determination with extracted features, semantic annotations, and ROIs. …”
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Striking a balance between aesthetics and safety: a comparative study on the maternal and neonatal outcomes of mini-incision cesarean section by ChunLan Yuan, ShiMei He, WenQian Jian, MeiRong He, HuiFang Huang, JianChun Huang, MeiPing He, KaiSun Zhao

“…Furthermore, the rate of forceps-assisted delivery was significantly higher in the mini-incision group (P < 0.05 for both comparisons). However, no statistically significant differences were observed between the two groups in terms of intraoperative blood loss or maternal and neonatal outcomes, including neonatal complications, incidence of wound infection, and other maternal outcomes. …”
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Effects of in-feed zeolite treatment on some biomarkers in dairy cows with subclinical mastitis by Dražen Đuričić, Silvijo Vince, Nino Maćešić, Damjan Gračner, Mislav Kovačić, Ivan Folnožić, Sonja Perkov, Marko Samardžija

“…PON1 activity was statistically significantly lower (p < 0.001) in the cows from the SCM group than in the CPL and CON groups. …”
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Meningkatkan Minat Belajar Siswa Sekolah Dasar dalam Sains Melalui Integrasi Model SAVI-Mind Mapping by Mokhammad Rizqi Zidane, Putri Arwinda Putri, M. Muhlis, Nadia Putri Mulyani Posangi, Nurma Yuliana

“…Learning interest questionnaires revealed 79% positive responses (strong category) and 55% for negative statements (moderately strong category). Statistical analysis demonstrated a significant influence of the SAVI-mind mapping model on science learning interest, with a sig. value (2-tailed) of 0.000 < 0.05, leading to the acceptance of Ha and rejection of H0. …”
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The effect of water consumption on the aqueous layer of the tear film by Urvashni Nirghin, Sikelela E. Dlamini, Nontobeko Mkhize, Tabitha Munsami, Nosipho Nzama, Renaishia Pillay

“…Conclusion: This study showed that water consumption has a statistically significant increase on the aqueous tear volume. …”
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EARice10: a 10&thinsp;m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 2023 by M. Song, M. Song, M. Song, L. Xu, L. Xu, J. Ge, J. Ge, J. Ge, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, H. Zhang, L. Zuo, L. Zuo, J. Jiang, J. Jiang, J. Jiang, Y. Ding, Y. Ding, Y. Ding, Y. Xie, Y. Xie, Y. Xie, F. Wu, F. Wu

“…The reliability of the product was verified by <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>²</span> values ranging between 0.94 and 0.98 with respect to official statistics and between 0.79 and 0.98 with respect to previous rice mapping products. …”
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Correlation Between Shoulder Pain Severity, Acromion Morphology, and Acromiohumeral Distance Using MRI: A Study at Haji Adam Malik Hospital Medan in 2022 by Husnul Fuad Albar, Geon Rendy, Iman Dwi Nanto

“…A total of 38 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of shoulder pain underwent shoulder MRI examinations and were assessed using the ASES score. Statistical analysis included assessing data normality and performing Spearman correlation analysis. …”
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Effect of probiotic-fermented milk containing Lactiplantibacillus pentoses strain HBUAS 53657 on serum glutathione peroxidase activity and pancreatic histopathology in hyperglycemi... by Rita Yaswir, Eti Yerizel, Netti Suharti, Cimi Ilmiawati

“…Serum GPx activity was assessed via spectrophotometry, Langerhans islet area was measured using ImageJ, and islet damage was evaluated using the Ningrum Score. Statistical analysis was performed using One-Way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests. …”
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Awareness of medical students about standard isolation precautions In Sulaimani City by Bushra M. Ali, Saman A. Mohammed, Balen Tayb Abdullah, Osama Muhammed, Mutasam Fabian, Muhammed Rauf

“…Chi-square test used to get the association, P value which is equal or less than 0.05 was regarded statistically significant. Majority of medical students had accepted knowledge (67 %), their attitude was positive (70 %), and had low practice (35 %). …”
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Tumor resting-state fMRI connectivity to extralesional brain is associated with cognitive performance in glioma patients by Chuh-Hyoun Na, Hans Clusmann, Martin Wiesmann, Kerstin Jütten, Verena Mainz

“…While postoperative performance tended to be worse, deterioration was not statistically significant between timepoints. EL FC did not differ between groups, but conEL FC (p < .045) was increased in patients as compared to controls. …”
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PCR-detection rates of T. pallidum ssp. pallidum in swab samples from the Czech Republic (2004–2022): Combined RPR, IgM, and PCR tests efficiently detect active syphilis by Eliška Vrbová, Petra Pospíšilová, Eliška Dastychová, Martina Kojanová, Miluše Kreidlová, Daniela Vaňousová, Filip Rob, Přemysl Procházka, Alena Krchňáková, Vladimír Vašků, Radim Strnadel, Olga Faustmannová, Monika Dvořáková Heroldová, Ivana Kuklová, Hana Zákoucká, David Šmajs

“…In IgM-positive patients, a statistically significant association with PCR-positivity was found in samples from seropositive (p = 0.033) and serodiscrepant (RPR negative) patients (p = 0.0006). …”
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