Detecting retinal neurodegeneration in people with diabetes: Findings from the UK Biobank. by Roomasa Channa, Kyungmoo Lee, Kristen A Staggers, Nitish Mehta, Sidra Zafar, Jie Gao, Benjamin J Frankfort, Sharon Y L Chua, Anthony P Khawaja, Paul J Foster, Praveen J Patel, Charles G Minard, Chris Amos, Michael D Abramoff

“…<h4>Design/setting/participants</h4>Cross-sectional analysis, using the UK Biobank data resource. Separate general linear mixed models (GLMM) were created using DM and glycated hemoglobin as predictor variables for retinal thickness. …”
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Association between plasma odd-chain fatty acid levels and immune cell traits in psoriasis: insights from a prospective cohort study by Rongcan Shi, Rongcan Shi, Rongcan Shi, Yifei Xu, Yifei Xu, Xingyu Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Bo Yu, Bo Yu, Rui Ma, Rui Ma, Xin Wang, Xin Wang, Yuling Shi, Yuling Shi, Yuling Shi

“…Therapeutic response was evaluated at weeks 12 and 28 based on clinical improvement. Multivariate linear and logistic regression analyses, stratified subgroup analyses, and restricted cubic spline models were employed.ResultsHigher plasma levels of C15:0 were significantly associated with increased total WBC and neutrophil counts. …”
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The moderating effect of economic development levels on the adoption of technologies in medical education: A multinational survey across six Asian countries by Yen Nhi Hoang, Dang Khanh Ngan Ho, Ya-Ling Chen, Wan-Chun Chiu, Kai-Li Liu, Tina HT Chiu, Lei-Chin Chen, Li-Wen Fang, Le Thi Huong, Nguyen Thi Thu Lieu, Nguyen Duc Hieu, Wen-Ling Lin, Takashi Sakai, Amelia Faradina, Noor Rohmah Mayasari, John Louie Jacinto Dela Vega, Elaine L Bañares, Patchara Sangopas, Jirayu Lainampetch, Dian Handayani, Jung-Su Chang

“…Binary and multivariable linear regression interaction terms were created to test the moderating effects of the economic development level on actual use. …”
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Locus coeruleus tonic upregulation increases selectivity to inconspicuous auditory information in autistic compared to non-autistic individuals: a combined pupillometry and electro... by Nico Bast, Jumana Ahmad, Luke Mason, Emily J. H. Jones, Magdalena Matyjek, Leonie Polzer, Christina Luckhardt, Anna Katharina Müller, Grainne M. McAlonan, Tobias Banaschewski, Sarah Baumeister, Eva Loth, Christine M. Freitag, The EU-AIMS LEAP group consists of

“…Limitations A short trial duration required concatenating trials to epochs and applying a linear-time invariant filter to capture the slow pupil changes. …”
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Taxed and untaxed beverage intake by South African young adults after a national sugar-sweetened beverage tax: A before-and-after study. by Michael Essman, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Tamryn Frank, Shu Wen Ng, Barry M Popkin, Elizabeth C Swart

“…Then, conditional on a positive outcome, a generalized linear model with a log-link was used to estimate the continuous amount of beverage consumed. …”
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SYBR GreenⅠReal-Time Fluorescence Quantitative PCR for Parasitic Boveria labialis Identification from the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by Wenyue HAO, Jinjin WANG, Jianlong GE, Bin LI, Yingeng WANG, Meijie LIAO, Xiaojun RONG, Hongjing ZHAO, Minqi JIANG, Wenguang ZHAO, Licheng NIU, Jiao PAN

“…The standard curve established by the designed primers had a good linear relationship in the range of the plasmid standard of 4.05×101–4.05×109 copies/µL, with a reliability (R2) of 0.997. …”
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kMetha-Mamba: K-means clustering mamba for methane plumes segmentation by Yuquan Liu, Hailiang Shi, Ke Cao, Shichao Wu, Hanhan Ye, Xianhua Wang, Erchang Sun, Yunfei Han, Wei Xiong

“…Finally, kMetha-Mamba utilizes a mamba-based decoder (MBD) with linear complexity and long-range dependencies to achieve high efficiency and precision segmentation. …”
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Characteristics and Outcome of Partial Liver Transplant among Pediatrics in a Referral Transplant Center in Iran from 2010 to 2020 by Pooya Vatankhah, Mohammad Bagher Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein Eghbal, Naeimehossadat Asmarian, Mohammad Ali Sahmeddini, Fatemeh Khalili, Samaneh Ghazanfar Tehran, Hamed Nikoupour, Alireza Shamsaeefar, Kourosh Kazemi, Sahar Sohrabi Nazari, Saman Nikeghbalian, Seyed Ali Malekhosseini

“…Data were analyzed using various regression models (Cox, linear, and logistic) in SPSS software (version 22).Results: Of the 563 patients who underwent LT, 436 received livers from living donors and 127 from deceased donors. …”
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Personal exposure to air pollutants and immune system biomarkers in pregnant women by Anouk Marsal, Laurene Frau, Laurence Chaperot, Ines Amine, Sarah Lyon-Caen, Anne Boudier, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Rhabira Elazzouzi, Claire Philippat, Karine Supernant, Johanna Lepeule, Joane Quentin, Ryan Chartier, Sam Bayat, Remy Slama, Gaelle Uzu, Valérie Siroux

“…Associations between each air pollutant and each cytokine were assessed using adjusted linear regression models. An increase in NO2 exposure was associated with higher interleukin 10 (IL-10) and lower PHA-activated tumor necrosis factor (TNF). …”
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SALSA: a novel flow cytometry assay to detect ascorbate at the single-cell level by Bella Lee, Wendy Wan-Ting Chou, Heng-Yi Chen, Dena Mossad, Michael Hsu, Bridget Bowman, Kartick Patra, Huan Zhang, Fang-Yun Lay, Frederick A. Villamena, Gang Xin, Richard S Bruno, Mark Levine, Jiangjiang Zhu, Fernanda Novais, Chan-Wang Jerry Lio

“…SALSA is quantitative, with a strong linear correlation between signal intensity and intracellular AA concentration. …”
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The Cervical Vertebral Bone Quality Score Is a Novel Reliable Index Reflecting the Condition of Paraspinal Muscles and Predicting Loss of Cervical Lordosis After Open‐Door Laminopl... by Junhu Li, Xingxia Long, Linnan Wang, Qiujiang Li, Lei Wang, Yueming Song

“…Then, demographics, cervical sagittal parameters, ROM, paraspinal muscle‐related parameters, CT‐HU and C‐VBQ values were assessed for their correlation with LCL, and multivariate linear analysis was used to determine the risk factors associated with LCL. …”
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Forecasting Electric Vehicle Charging Demand in Smart Cities Using Hybrid Deep Learning of Regional Spatial Behaviours by Muhammed Cavus, Huseyin Ayan, Dilum Dissanayake, Anurag Sharma, Sanchari Deb, Margaret Bell

“…Compared to the best-performing traditional model (Linear Regression, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>=</mo><mn>0.3520</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), HCB-Net improved predictive accuracy by 13.5% in terms of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, and outperformed other deep learning models such as LSTM (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.3756</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) and GRU (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>=</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>0.6276</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), which failed to capture spatial patterns effectively. …”
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On the maximal Aa -index of graphs with a prescribed number of edges by Chang Ting-Chung, Tam Bit-Shun

“…Chang and Tam (Graphs of fixed order and size with maximal-index, Linear Algebra Appl. 673 (2023), 69–100) have solved the problem of determining graphs with maximal Aα{A}_{\alpha }-index over G(n,m){\mathcal{G}}\left(n,m), the class of graphs with nn vertices and mm edges, for α∈12,1\alpha \in \left[\phantom{\rule[-0.75em]{}{0ex}},\frac{1}{2},1\right) and 1≤m≤2n−31\le m\le 2n-3. …”
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Freehand ventricular catheter placement in ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery is associated with higher rates of proximal catheter failure compared to image guidance by Nikhil Sharma, Jeffery R. Head, Regan M. Shanahan, Shovan Bhatia, Michael R. Kann, Sydney Scanlon, Amogh Vellore, Michael Raver, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Nicolas M. Kass, Fritz Steuer, Lucille Cheng, Stephen P. Canton, Arka N. Mallela, Peter C. Gerszten, Edward G. Andrews

“…Accuracy was measured by linear distance from the catheter tip to the Foramen of Monro (Tip to Foramen, TTF) and Kakarla Grade (KG). …”
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Stocks and fishery of cod (<i>Gadus macrocephalus, Gadidae</i>) in the northwestern Bering Sea in 1965–2022 by A. B. Savin

“…The parameters of von Bertalanffy equation of linear growth for pacific cod are determined as: L∞ = 111.993 cm, K = 0.159, and t0 = –0.024 and for the equation of weight growth rate: W∞ = 14.006 kg, K = 0.245, and t0 = 1.221. …”
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An Underground Goaf Locating Framework Based on D-InSAR with Three Different Prior Geological Information Conditions by Kewei Zhang, Yunjia Wang, Feng Zhao, Zhanguo Ma, Guangqian Zou, Teng Wang, Nianbin Zhang, Wenqi Huo, Xinpeng Diao, Dawei Zhou, Zhongwei Shen

“…Subsequently, field validation was carried out by applying two different non-linear deformation function models, Probability Integral Model (PIM) and Okada Dislocation Model (ODM), with three different prior geological information conditions. …”
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Integrating secondary prevention of rheumatic heart disease into the primary healthcare system in Northern Uganda by Emmy Okello, Craig Sable, David A Watkins, Andrea Z Beaton, Chris T Longenecker, Nicholas J Ollberding, Joselyn Rwebembera, Jenifer Atala, Jafesi Pulle, Rachel Sarnacki, Ndate Fall, Linda Oyella, Neema W Minja, Sarah R de Loizaga, Jenipher Kamarembo, Francis Odong, Doreen Nakagaayi, Judith W Dexheimer, Kristen M Danforth

“…The mean difference in the annualised percentage of days adherent to benzathine penicillin G (BPG) monthly injections predecentralisation and postdecentralisation was calculated using linear mixed effect regression. Thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data.Results We decentralised 151 patients (median age 17.9 years, 64% female) from district hospitals to eight primary health centres. …”
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Increased coupling between global grey matter and CSF-derived fMRI signal in young adults after partial sleep deprivation – evidence from the sleepy brain study by Cornelius Berberich, Leander Müller, Benedikt Zott, Rachel Nuttal, Gerhard Schneider, Claus Zimmer, Christian Sorg, Dennis M. Hedderich, Juliana Zimmermann

“…. -0.25 ± 0.14; t(62) = 2.05, p = 0.045). A linear mixed model demonstrated a significant interaction of age with the sleep condition (β = 0.0031, t = 2.73, p = 0.0083), showing significant changes only in the younger subgroup (t(35) = 2.99, p = 0.0050).These findings indicate that gGM-CSF coupling increases after partial sleep deprivation in younger adults, which may reflect compensatory mechanisms in response to reduced sleep duration. …”
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Association between prenatal exposure to bisphenols and preterm birth: the interaction effect of anemia by Ya-ling Li, Hong-yu Mao, Lu-ming Yan, Zi-yi Liu, Shu Sun, Ting-ting Jiang, Le-yan Xu, Xin-yi Zhang, Bo-lin Liu, Min Zhu, Ji-an Xie, Jia-hu Hao, Chao Zhang

“…The associations between individual BPs and PTB were assessed using generalized linear model (GLM). Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) identified critical exposure windows. …”
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Development and validation of a polyfit approach for assessing alveolar bone loss using panoramic radiography by Erkang Tian, Jiawei Hong, Zihua Tang, Ruiting Ren, Shuoshun Li, Abbas Ahmed Abdulqader, Mingshan Li, Chaoran Xue, Xianglong Han, Juan Li

“…Pearson’s correlation analysis and linear regression analysis were used to test and verify the correlation between CBCT and panoramic radiography. …”
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