Associations of four obesity indices with diabetes mellitus in Korean middle-aged and older adults using the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) by Yiseul Lee, Nam-Kyoo Lim, Hyun-Young Park

“…The integrated discrimination index (IDI) and category-free net reclassification improvement (cfNRI) and area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were analyzed by age group to investigate index-specific model performance. Results Among the 160,585 participants, 13,846 had DM (6,837; men [11.86%] and 7,009 women [6.81%]). …”
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Lung-homing nanoliposomes for early intervention in NETosis and inflammation during acute lung injury by Jungbum Kim, Donghyuk Seo, So-Yeol Yoo, Hye-Jin Lee, Jisun Kim, Ji Eun Yeom, Jae-Young Lee, Wooram Park, Kyung Soo Hong, Wonhwa Lee

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Eating Habits, Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Clinical and Laboratory Comparisons by O. V. Gaus, M. A. Livzan

“…The average content of dopamine in blood plasma in patients with IBS was 28.83 [20.08; 41.54] ng/ml, in healthy individuals — 58.20 [48.15; 66.62] ng/ml.Conclusion. …”
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Do the Street Sweeping and Washing Work for Reducing the Near-ground Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants? by Sheng-Lun Lin, Yunzhou Deng, Ming-Yeng Lin, Shih-Wei Huang

“…The effects of street sweeping and washing on pollutant levels are evaluated. The X Road with sewage ditch was selected for the stationary samplings to determine the differences between the atmospheric PM2.5 mass concentration, their composition, and potential sources before/after street cleaning processes, as well as the effect of the sewage existence. …”
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Unraveling the heterogeneity of WHO grade 4 gliomas: insights from clinical, imaging, and molecular characterization by Haihui Jiang, Xijie Wang, Xiaodong Chen, Shouzan Zhang, Qingsen Ren, Mingxiao Li, Ming Li, Xiaohui Ren, Song Lin, Yong Cui

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The experimental and numerical studies on the effects of the operating conditions on the performance of breastshot waterwheel by Agato Agato, Deendarlianto Deendarlianto, Indarto Indarto, Alfeus Sunarso

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ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ЦИФРОВИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ У ПІДГОТОВЦІ МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ ДО ФОРМУВАННЯ ТРУДОВИХ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТЕЙ УЧНІВ З ОБМЕЖЕНИМИ МОЖЛИВОСТЯМИ ЗДОРОВ’Я... by Валентина Степанівна Пісняк

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Prevalence and correlates of facemask usage during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. by Nelson Onira Alema, Christopher Okot, Emmanuel Olal, Eric Nzirakaindi Ikoona, Freddy Wathum Drinkwater Oyat, Steven Baguma, Denish Omoya Ochula, Patrick Odong Olwedo, Johnson Nyeko Oloya, Francis Pebalo Pebolo, Pamela Okot Atim, Godfrey Smart Okot, Ritah Nantale, Judith Aloyo, David Lagoro Kitara

“…The reported prevalence of facemask wearing in public among respondents was high [88.7%,95%CI:86%,-91%]. A multivariate analysis found that obese respondents and those who were receptive (agreed) to the lockdown measures were respectively,1.12 times more likely to wear facemasks [aPR = 1.12,95%CI:1.04-1.19;p < 0.01], and1.23 times more likely to wear facemasks [aPR = 1.23, 95%CI:1.07-1.41;p < 0.01]. …”
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Synergistic Emission Reduction of Particulate Pollutants in Coal-fired Power Plants Using Ultra-low Emission Technology by Leixing Tao, Yanyan Wang, Chunmei Yue, Zhigang Shen, Zhichao Liu, Qizhen Liu, Junchao Lu, Jian Wang, Honglei Ding, Weiguo Pan

“…The emitted TPM (the sum of CPM and FPM) was reduced by 82%, with an average measured concentration of 7.36 ± 3.56 mg m−3. …”
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Prophylactic antibiotics in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Reducing postoperative infection risk–A meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis by Shufeng Wang, Qing Gao, Xiaogang Qi, Lihua Hong, Hai Huang

“…Trial sequential analysis revealed relative risk reductions of 33.09 % for IC and 27.96 % for SSI. Trial sequential analysis suggesting that the current evidence is robust. …”
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Silver-blend hydroxyapatite bio-ceramics for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue by Manoj V. Junnarkar, Prateek V. Sawant, Mahadev A. Parekar, Avadhut V. Kardile, Ashish B. Thorat, Ramakant P. Joshi, Ravindra U. Mene

“… In this article, nanostructured hydroxyapatite (HAp) and Ag-doped HAp are synthesized via a wet chemical precipitation route and ion-exchange methods to analyze their photocatalytic performance via the degradation of organic dyes. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and scanning electron microscope (SEM)/energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) are used to analyze the structural, functional, morphological, and elemental properties of the samples. …”
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Biodegradability of Cellulose Fibers, Films, and Particles: A Review by Martin A. Hubbe, Jesse S. Daystar, Richard A. Venditti, Joel J. Pawlak, Marielis C. Zambrano, Morton Barlaz, Mary Ankeny, Steven Pires

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Evaluating knowledge gains from structured sexual and reproductive health education among in-school adolescents in Southeast Nigeria by Chibuike Agu, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Ifunanya Clara Agu, Godstime Eigbiremolen, Ugenyi Iloabachie, Ozioma Nwankpa, Obinna Onwujekwe

“…Results A significantly higher proportion of respondents who participated in the intervention (94.16%) demonstrated good knowledge of SRH compared to those who did not participate (85.77%), with a p-value of 0.002. …”
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Application of and research on 5G mobile nursing stations in clinical settings by Chunrong Li, Lichan Li, Jiexia Li, Rui Huang, Jianying Qin, Lirong Chen, Fujia Qin

“…These times were significantly different from those of the control group, which were 59.84 ± 5.76 s, 35.30 ± 2.31 s, 58.58 ± 3.59 s, and 128.51 ± 6.19 s, respectively (P < 0.05). …”
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Comprehensive analysis of differential mRNA and circRNA profiles in primary and metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors by Gang Li, Jing Zhang, Bentuo Zhang, Dan Wang, Zequn Wang, Yan Pan, Lijie Ma

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Impact of Seasonal Variations on Semen Parameters: A Retrospective Analysis of Data from Subjects Attending a Tertiary Care Fertility Centre by Anitha Malathi, Ramesh P. Iyer, Reji Mohan, Sheila Balakrishnan

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Histological assessment of a novel restorative coronary artery bypass graft in a chronic ovine model by Yu Sato, Matthew Kutnya, Biniyam Abebe, Mohammed S. El Kurdi, Martijn Cox, Richard W. Bianco, Bart Meuris, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W. Serruys, Renu Virmani

“…The cross-sectional area of the SVG lumen was significantly larger than XABGs (48.2 mm2 vs 12.9 mm2, p = 0.0018), consistent with a reduced angiographic flow velocity in SVG. …”
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Clinical and Cost Burden of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: Descriptive Analysis Using a US Administrative Claims Database by Sue Perera, Liyuan Ma, Raj Punwaney, Sulabha Ramachandran

“…Patients in the primary cohort incurred greater annual healthcare service costs (1.6 times greater, all causes) and healthcare resource utilization compared with the sicca-free comparator cohort. …”
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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…Experimental results show that MLHI-Net outperforms other advanced segmentation networks in Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) and Pixel Accuracy (PA) on the CityWater and USVInland datasets, with MIoU of 97.86% and PA of 98.92% on the CityWater dataset, and MIoU of 98.12% and PA of 99.10% on the USVInland dataset. …”
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Crystal structure modulating performances for 213-nm GeO2 solar-blind photodetectors via DC reactive magnetron sputtering method by Chengming Wei, Jiabao Liu, Xinru Lan, Cheng Yang, Shuiping Huang, Dongdong Meng, Zhengwei Chen, Hongguang Duan, Xu Wang

“…Here, we have fabricated quartz and rutile-GeO2 thin films utilizing the magnetron sputtering based synthetic strategy, which exhibit ultra-wide bandgap energies of 5.51 and 5.88 eV. On the foundation of these ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, obvious photoresponse characteristics have been achieved at 213 nm and the quartz-GeO2 device exhibits better performances including a short fall time of 148.5 ms, a high photo-dark current ratio of 86.65, large photoresponsivity of 4.56 A/W, and high detectivity of 6.78 × 1013 Jones, which can be attributed to the less oxygen defect exists in the quartz-GeO2 film due to the oxygen-rich growth condition and the better lattice matching with sapphire. …”
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