Dietary inflammatory index and Alzheimer's disease mortality in a prospective cohort by Ruitong Liao, Jinzhao Yang, Xiaoping Huang, Yue Xu, Qianqian Ji, Qi Liu, Shan Xu, Peiyi Liu, Yiqiang Zhan

“…Restricted cubic spline analysis explored the non-linear association of DII with AD mortality, and stratified analyses identified higher-risk subgroups. …”
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Association Between Chronic Pain, Coping Strategies, and Sleep Quality in Rural Chinese Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Tao X, Cheng C, Bai J

“…Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, Stepwise multiple linear regression, and mediation analysis were used to analyze the data.Results: A total of 158 participants (48.7% female) were included in the study. …”
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Molecular genetic predictors of progression of triple negative breast cancer by I. S. Panchenko, V. V. Rodionov, V. V. Kometova, S. V. Panchenko, M. G. Sharafutdinov, I. A. Lavrentieva

“…The significance of the influence of genes on the risk of progression (locoregional recurrence or distant metastasis) was assessed using the formation of the linear discriminant function and construction of ROC curve. …”
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Retrospective analysis of the correlation between dermoscopic vascular features and the response to hemoporfin-mediated photodynamic therapy in previously untreated children with p... by Sheng Zhang, Xiuwei Wang, Yijing Chen, Yuhan Wang, Jianyou Chen, Xiaoyan Liu, Gao Lei Zhang, Wei Su

“…Sausage-like vessels (66.67 %), dotted and globular vessels (87.50 %) and linear vessels (50.00 %) were associated with excellent treatment outcomes. …”
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Impact of abdominal obesity indices on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in individuals with pre-diabetes and diabetes: insights from a prospective cohort study by Xiaoli Chen, Aihua Li, Leilei Du, Jia Peng, Qilin Ma

“…Restricted cubic splines (RCS) were applied to investigate potential non-linear relationships. The predictive performance of the models was evaluated using C-statistics to assess improvements with the inclusion of LAP or WC across different glucose metabolism statuses. …”
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Predicting the risk of lean non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on interpretable machine models in a Chinese T2DM population by Shixue Bao, Qiankai Jin, Tieqiao Wang, Yushan Mao, Guoqing Huang

“…Feature screening was performed using the Boruta algorithm and the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO). Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), logistic regression (LR), Naive Bayes (NB), random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and extreme gradient boosting (XGboost) were used in constructing risk prediction models for lean NAFLD in T2DM patients. …”
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Impact of fragmented habitats on reproductive success in dominant shrubs: natural selection on floral display and pollinator visitation by Min Chen, Min Chen, Min Chen, Zheng-jiao-yi Wang, Zheng-jiao-yi Wang, Zheng-jiao-yi Wang, Xu-jun Ma, Xu-jun Ma, Xu-jun Ma, Xue-yong Zhao, Xue-yong Zhao

“…This study provides insights into how fragmented habitats influence linear selection gradients related to the number of open flowers. …”
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Dual-Branch Deep Learning with Dynamic Stage Detection for CT Tube Life Prediction by Zhu Chen, Yuedan Liu, Zhibin Qin, Haojie Li, Siyuan Xie, Litian Fan, Qilin Liu, Jin Huang

“…The D-TCN branch captures multi-scale temporal features through multi-layer dilated convolutions, effectively handling non-linear changes in the degradation phase. Furthermore, a dynamic phase detector is applied to integrate the prediction results from both branches. …”
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Variations in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Performance and Outcomes in Ohio by Michelle M.J. Nassal, Henry E. Wang, Jonathan R. Powell, Justin L. Benoit, Ashish R. Panchal

“…We compared OHCA outcomes between EMS agencies using linear mixed models, with EMS agency as a random effect and adjusting for Utstein variables. …”
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Artificial chromosome reorganization reveals high plasticity of the budding and fission yeast genomes by Xueting Zhu, Shaochun Liu, Tiantian Ye, Xin Gu, Feiyu Pu, Zhen Zhou, Zhi-Jing Wu, Jin-Qiu Zhou

“…Two S. pombe strains have a single, circular chromosome, and three strains have a single, linear chromosome with the centromere at different distances relative to the telomeres. …”
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PTH: Redefining Reference Ranges in a Healthy Population—The Role of Interfering Factors and the Type of Laboratory Assay by Simona Censi, Maurizio Iacobone, Stefano Simmini, Jacopo Manso, Giulio Franceschet, Mario Plebani, Anna Chiara Frigo, Martina Zaninotto, Francesca Torresan, Giustina De Silvestro, Carla Scaroni, Caterina Mian, Valentina Camozzi

“…Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a linear peptide constituted by 84 amino acids and active in its 1–84 form, but a wide range of PTH forms produced by its post-transcriptional modifications are present in blood. …”
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Сontrolled breeding of the psychrophilic strain G-034 VIZR of Trichoderma asperellum for fast crop residues’ polymers utilization and soil enhancement by I. I. Novikova, J. A. Titova, I. V. Boykova, I. L. Krasnobaeva

“…The active psychrophilic strain for the rapid crop residues’ polymer utilization and soil enhancement controlled breeding was selected during a four-step screening of 29 T. asperellum strains from All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Protection (VIZR) State Microorganisms’ Collection with high cellulolytic and antagonistic activities. In terms of linear growth rate, antagonistic and hyperparasitic activities at 4–8 °С, a high rate of wheat and maize stubble residues’ colonization, a perspective psychrophilic strain G-034 of T. asperellum was selected for developing the laboratory samples of biologics and for running field trials. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of fungal and luffa sponge biocomposite sorbent for the removal of acetaminophen by Meghmala Sheshrao Waghmode, Avadhut V. Kardile, Ravindra U. Mene, Pragati S. Abhyankar, Saiprakash Rout, Dipak K. Sahoo, Neha N. Patil

“…To remove 92% of the acetaminophen (0.075 g/L), 0.2 g% (w/v) the biosorbent (LSAN), pH 8 and 313.15 K temperature were required. Langmuir isotherm linear model and pseudo- second order nonlinear model were observed to be best fitted model (R2 of 0.99) with 37.32 Qmax and 42.0145 Qe, for the acetaminophen uptake. …”
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The association between dietary antioxidant index with tumor size, proliferation marker, and the odds of breast cancer in Iranian women by Adeleh Khodabakhshi, Niloufar Rasaei, Mahmood Reza Masoudi, Mahdi Vajdi, Seyed Ali Razavi Nasab, Hossein Bavi Behbahani, Ali Akbari, Hadi Bazyar, Mostafa Dianati

“…DAI score was calculated based on dietary data obtained from a 168-item FFQ. Linear regression with adjustment for confounding factors was used to determine the relationship between DAI and pathological markers. …”
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Relationship between psychological resilience, cognitive flexibility and post-traumatic growth level in patients with severe sepsis treated by continuous renal replacement therapy by Changzheng Zhao, Lancai Zhou, Haixia Gao, Yongzan Lu, MiaoMiao Shi

“…Statistical methods included the independent sample t test, Pearson analysis, and linear regression analysis.ResultsThe total scores of CDRISC, cognitive flexibility scale and PTGI in 205 patients was (42.98 ± 6.13), (95.04 ± 17.98) and (49.77 ± 9.92), respectively. …”
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Vazões mínimas e de referência para outorga na região do Alto Rio Grande, Minas Gerais Minimum and reference discharges for water rights concession criteria in Alto Rio Grande regi... by Antônio M. da Silva, Polyanna M. de Oliveira, Carlos R. de Mello, Cyntia Pierangeli

“…Os modelos de regionalização foram gerados por regressão múltipla linear, ajustados pelo método dos mínimos quadrados e procedimento "backward" para seleção de variáveis significativas. …”
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Reliability，Validity and Agreement of the Short Form Modified Extended Barthel Index for Assessing Activities of Daily Living of Patients with Stroke by ZHANG Wenhao, SUN Ying, SHI Jiajia, SUN Yue, ZHANG Pingping, WANG Sainan, YU Jialing, SHEN Yueyi, CHEN Yun

“…Within 3 days of admission, MEBI, Barthel Index (BI), Modified Barthel Index (MBI), Extended Barthel Index (EBI), and Functional Independence Measure (FIM) assessments were used to evaluate ADL of 175 patients as the analysis set for short-form development, while the remaining 92 patients completed the MEBI alone as the validation set for agreement analysis. Multiple linear regression models (stepwise method) were used to extract core MEBI items to construct short-form MEBI (model 1-16). …”
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Pollen Quantitative and Genetic Competitiveness of Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) and Their Effects on Gene Flow by Ning Hu, Dantong Wang, Qianhua Yuan, Yang Liu, Huizi Jiang, Xinwu Pei

“…A nonlinear model provides a significantly better fit to this relationship than a linear model, improving <i>R</i>² by 4.1–21.4% and reducing <i>RMSE</i> by 9.9–47.8%. …”
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Exploring the nexus between hypothyroidism and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a UK biobank cohort study by Haitao Wang, Changlin Zheng, Peisong Wang

“…To explore the underlying mechanisms, mediation analyses were conducted, along with restricted cubic spline regression, to examine potential non-linear relationships and mediation effects within this association. …”
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Closing Africa’s water balance budget: Assessing the suitability of eight latest precipitation products by Jielong Wang, Joseph Awange, Yunzhong Shen, Maryam Tabatabaeiasl, Yongze Song

“…We begin by assessing the general consistency among these precipitation products using rain-gauge measurements and multiple linear regression analysis, followed by the generalized three-corner-hat (GTCH) method applied to estimate the relative uncertainties and signal-to-noise (SNR) ratios of the eight precipitation products, which help identify the potential causes of the water balance non-closure over Africa. …”
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