Chronic disease patients during the armed conflict in Sudan: a cross-sectional study on mental health and quality of life by Sohaib Mohammed Mokhtar Ahmed, Moram Elfadel Abdelrhaman Gasmalha, Ahmed Balla M. Ahmed, Khalid Abusofyan Eljezoli Mohammed, Salma Alrawa, Hebatallah Fadhl, Mohanned Abdalsalam Mohammed Salih, Israa Alamin Mohammed Hussein, Asma Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Salih, Haifa Ibnomer Abdelrahman Elsharif, Hiba Atif Ahmad Elhussein, Sajda Abdelaziz Yahya Abaker, Tagwa Adil Sedahmed Khalefa, Ekhlass Hassan Hdab Hammed, Muhannad Bushra Masaad Ahmed

“…Chi-square tests and Spearman’s rank examined associations between socio-demographic factors and mental health outcomes. Multiple linear regression identified predictors influencing mental health issues, with statistical significance set at p ≤ 0.05. …”
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Caregiver-child interaction and early childhood development among preschool children in rural China: the possible role of blood epigenome-wide DNA methylation by Mengna Wei, Rui Chang, Chunan Li, Yanfen Jiang, Jianduan Zhang

“…Of the 171 children aged 3–6 years who participated in ECD assessment and blood samples collection, a total of 64 were selected for epigenome-wide association study with Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC v1.0 BeadChip array (850 K). The linear regression model in the R package “CpGassoc”was applied to identify CpG sites associated with global NDS and caregiver-child interaction. …”
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Impact of Laboratory-Derived Frailty Index on Clinical Outcomes in Critical Care Patients with COPD: A Retrospective Analysis Using the MIMIC-IV Database by Zhou Z, He Y, Wang Q, Li J, Yu Y

“…Restricted cubic splines illustrated a linear relationship between the FI-Lab and mortality. …”
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Eco-friendly hydrothermal synthesis of Co3O4-based NiO–Fe2O3 binary and ternary nanocomposites for electrochemical energy storage applications by Khalid Saifullah, Kamran Ullah, Najmul Hassan, Tayyaba Shireen, Salah Knani, Vineet Tirth, Ali Algahtani, Abid Zaman

“…The Phase analysis, microstructural, elemental composition, electrochemical, and magnetic properties of synthesized materials were analyzed using X-ray diffractions (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive x-rays (EDX), cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) technique. …”
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Prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in chest diseases hospitals, Bangladesh: Putting infection control into context. by Md Saiful Islam, Emily S Gurley, Sayera Banu, Kamal Hossain, James D Heffelfinger, Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury, Shahriar Ahmed, Sadia Afreen, Mohammad Tauhidul Islam, Syed Mohammad Mazidur Rahman, Arfatur Rahman, Michele L Pearson, Shua J Chai

“…We included factors with a biologically plausible relationship with TBI identified in prior studies or having an association (p = <0.20) in the bivariate analyses with TST positivity or QFT-GIT positivity in multivariable generalized linear models. The Kaplan-Meier was used to estimate the cumulative TBI incidence rate per 100 person-years.…”
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Circulating Adiponectin Is Associated with Renal Function Independent of Age and Serum Lipids in West Africans by A. P. Doumatey, J. Zhou, H. Huang, J. Adeleye, W. Balogun, O. Fasanmade, T. Johnson, J. Oli, G. Okafor, A. Amoah, B. Eghan, K. Agyenim-Boateng, J. Acheampong, C. Adebamowo, A. Adeyemo, C. N. Rotimi

“…MDRD and Cockroft-Gault (CG-) estimated GFR were used as indices of renal function. Linear and logistic regression models were used to determine the relationship between adiponectin and renal function. …”
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Circulating Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17, Th22, and Treg Levels in Aortic Dissection Patients by Jing Ye, Yuan Wang, Zhen Wang, Qingwei Ji, Ying Huang, Tao Zeng, Haiying Hu, Di Ye, Jun Wan, Yingzhong Lin

“…In addition, higher IFN-γ, IL-9, IL-17, and IL-22 levels and lower IL-4 and IL-35 levels were observed in AD patients. Simple linear regression analysis and binary logistic regression analysis suggested that Th1/IFN-γ, IL-9, Th17/IL-17, and Th22/IL-22 positively regulated the occurrence of AD, while Th2/IL-4 and Treg/IL-35 negatively regulated the occurrence of AD. …”
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Influence of recording instrumentation on measurements of voice in sentence contexts: use of smartphones and tablets by Shaheen N. Awan, Yael Bensoussan, Stephanie Watts, Micah Boyer, Robert Budinsky, Ruth H. Bahr

“…Nevertheless, strong linear relationships were observed across recording methods compared to the clinical standard. …”
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Does the degree of limitation in activities of daily living in geriatric patients influence the amount of care and case management required? An analysis from the RubiN project by Simone Gloystein, Heiko Krause, Sonja Laag, Neeltje van den Berg

“…Counselling and coordination services provided by case managers were documented according to medical, nursing, therapeutic and social counselling content. Linear multivariate analysis was performed to determine whether the Barthel Index score was a determinant of the intensity of care and case management. …”
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Minimum required distance for clinically significant measurement of habitual gait speed by Myung Woo Park, Sun Gun Chung, Jaewon Beom, Kyung Su Kim, Joonghee Kim, Chul-Hyun Park, Jinkyu Lee, Keewon Kim

“…We also investigated which clinical, anthropometric, or epidemiological variables might influence it by assessing their association with gait speed variance using mean squared error from linear regression. Results Gait speed measured by pose estimation (1.55 ± 0.18 m/s) showed a high level of agreement with manual measurement (1.56 ± 0.14 m/s), with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.889 (95% CI: 0.822–0.931). …”
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Dissipative Magneto-thermo-convection of Nanofluid Past through a Semi-infinite Vertical Surface with Ohmic Heating by Asra Anjum, Shaik Abdul Gaffar, Sateesh Kumar, Samdani Peerusab

“…This study numerically investigates the non-linear, laminar convection flows of Buongiorno’s nanofluid past through a semi-infinite vertical plate by considering the impacts of the magnetic parameter (M), heat generation and absorption (Δ), viscous dissipation (Ec), and ohmic heating. …”
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Application of Plant Growth Regulators During Early Fruit Development Stage Increased Perceived Sweetness of Mango Fruit by Li Li, Xiaowei Ma, Songbiao Wang, Chi Xu, Hongxia Wu, Yanke Wu, Yingzi He, Bin Zheng, Qingzhi Liang, Wentian Xu, Weiming Li

“…The results showed that SBP solution diluted 100-fold exerted the strongest effect on the soluble sugar content and sweetness value of “Renong-1” mango fruits. Based on the linear regression analysis, a significant negative correlation was observed between the activity of acid invertase and the perceived sweetness of physiologically mature fruits, while the activities of other enzymes were significantly negatively correlated with the perceived sweetness of full ripening fruits. …”
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Coffees Brewed from Standard Capsules Help to Compare Different Aroma Fingerprinting Technologies—A Comparison of an Electronic Tongue and Electronic Noses by Biborka Gillay, Zoltan Gillay, Zoltan Kovacs, Viktoria Eles, Tamas Toth, Haruna Gado Yakubu, Iyas Aldib, George Bazar

“…The AlphaMOS Astree electronic tongue (equipped with sensors based on chemically modified field-effect transistor technology) and the AlphaMOS Heracles NEO and the Volatile Scout3 electronic noses (both using separation technology based on gas chromatography) were used to describe the taste and odor profiles of the freshly brewed coffee samples and also to compare them to the various sensory characteristics declared on the original packaging, such as intensity, roasting, acidity, bitterness, and body. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) results showed that these technologies were able to classify the samples similarly to the pattern of the coffees based on the human sensory characteristics. …”
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Optimizing Nitrogen Management to Enhance Growth and Minimize Pollution Risk in <i>Pennisetum hydridum</i> Cultivation by Farhan Nabi, Zicheng Yi, Rakhwe Kama, Sumbal Sajid, Huashou Li

“…Soil analysis revealed that soil organic matter and total nitrogen content were positively correlated with root biomass, with significant linear relationships between soil nitrogen, carbon/nitrogen ratios, and <i>PHY</i> biomass. …”
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Implementation of the healthy heart tool- an algorithm with potential cardiometabolic health benefits in persons with severe mental illness by Elisabeth Haug Lund-Stenvold, Petter A. Ringen, Ole A. Andreassen, Torfinn L. Gaarden, Cecilie B. Hartberg, Erik Johnsen, Silje Myklatun, Kåre Osnes, Kjetil Sørensen, Arne Vaaler, Serena Tonstad, John A. Engh, Anne Høye

“…Changes from baseline to 12 months follow-up were analyzed using chi-square and independent t-tests, whereas implementation effects were analyzed using logistic general linear mixed models. Results After implementing the Healthy Heart Tool, significantly more persons received dietary advice and/or salt restriction advice (75.5% vs. 84.8%, p = 0.035). …”
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Identifying subtypes of longitudinal motor symptom severity trajectories in early Parkinson’s disease patients by Xiaozhou Xu, Xiaozhou Xu, Shushan Zhang, Chuanying Xu, Wei Zhang, Hui Zhao, Hui Zhao, Yumeng Liu, Shilei Zhai, Jie Zu, Jie Zu, Zhining Li, Lishun Xiao, Lishun Xiao, Lishun Xiao

“…Distinct longitudinal trajectory clusters of motor symptom progression in PD patients were identified by unsupervised self-organizing maps (SOMs), and baseline characteristics were compared among different clusters. Linear mixed-effect analysis was utilized to estimate the longitudinal courses of some cardinal motor symptoms among clusters, while survival analysis was used to compare time-to-clinical milestones within 5 years. …”
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The relationships between inflammatory biomarkers, plaque characteristics, and macrophage clusters in coronary plaque: a quantitative assessment of macrophages based on optical coh... by Chunwei Liu, Fan Yang, Yuecheng Hu, Le Wang, Ximing Li, Hongliang Cong, Jingxia Zhang

“…The macrophage cluster arc in the low MHR + lipid index group was significantly lower than that in the high MHR + lipid index group (68° ± 17° vs. 84° ± 26°, p = 0.001). Multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated that MHR, age, and lipid index were independently associated with macrophage cluster arc. …”
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Benchmarking hydration, navel health, and transfer of passive immunity in surplus dairy calves by Ting-Yu Cheng, Jessica A. Pempek, David L. Renaud, Kathryn L. Proudfoot, Zachary England, Devon J. Wilson, Gregory Habing

“…Differences in health metrics of subsequent surplus calf cohorts between intervention and control farms were investigated using generalized linear mixed models specified to recognize “farm” as the experimental unit. …”
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Hydroxycotinine exhibits a stronger association with chronic kidney disease in smokers when compared to cotinine: Evidence from NHANES 2013–2018 by Shili Zhao, Shijing Zheng, Zhiqiang Liu, Yue Xu, Ning Jia, Cihang Lu, Yaning Wang

“…A crosssectional examination of a subsample of 2930 adult smokers aged ≥20 years was conducted to investigate the relationship between serum cotinine and its metabolite, hydroxycotinine, and CKD. Linear regression, multivariable-adjusted logistic regression, restrictive cubic splines, and subgroup analysis were utilized. …”
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Care manager organisation in Swedish primary care centres: impact of sick leave and sick leave duration in patients with common mental disorders. A register-based study by Christine Sandheimer, Cecilia Björkelund, Dominique Hange, Christina Möller, Eva-Lisa Petersson, Irene Svenningsson, Gunnel Hensing

“…Two measures of sick leave were used: impact of sick leave in total patient population with CMD, and sick leave duration among sick listed patients with CMD. Linear mixed-effects regression analysis was performed for cross-sectional differences and longitudinal changes between and within the two groups of primary care centres.Results Primary care centres with care as usual had a lower proportion of sick listed patients with CMD at both year 1 and 2. …”
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