No Association between Neck Circumference and Free Triiodothyronine in Euthyroid Men by Chaohui Jian, Yiting Xu, Yun Shen, Yufei Wang, Xiaojing Ma, Yuqian Bao

“…After adjustment for metabolic confounding factors such as age, blood pressure, blood glucose, lipid profiles, and CRP in multiple linear regression analysis, the correlation between FT3 and NC disappeared (standardized β = −0.015, P=0.705), and FT3 remained significantly associated with WC (standardized β = 0.103, P=0.012) and BMI (standardized β = 0.082, P=0.047). …”
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Anthropometrics of neonates born to mothers with PCOS with metformin or placebo exposure in utero by Guro Ørndal Nilsen, Melanie Rae Simpson, Liv Guro Engen Hanem, Tone Shetelig Løvvik, Rønnaug Ødegård, Live Marie T. Stokkeland, Marianne Skovsager Andersen, Petur Benedikt Juliusson, Eszter Vanky

“…A Scandinavian growth reference was used to calculate sex and gestational age adjusted z‐scores. Linear regression models were used to estimate the effect of metformin on offspring z‐scores of head circumference, birth length, birthweight, placental weight, body mass index, ponderal index and birthweight:placental weight ratio. …”
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Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella Surrogate, Enterococcus faecium, in mash broiler feed pelleted in a university pilot feed mill by Corey Coe, Timothy Boltz, Elizabeth Rowen, Joe Moritz, Gary Freshour, Md Shafiul Islam Rion, Carly Long, Lucas Knarr, Kristina Bowen, Jacek Jaczynski, Kristen Matak, Annette Freshour, Xue Tang, Cangliang Shen

“…D-values of orthogonal polynomial, Linear with Tail, Weibull models for E. faecium at 70°, 75°, 80°, and 85°C were 47.1 to 135.4, 42.1 to 135.2, and 51.4 to 118.8 s, respectively. …”
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Clinical study on the correlation of early renal damage in patients with hypertension with different salt intake by LU Wen, TAO Hui-lin

“…The correlation between salt intake in patients with hypertension and microalbumin in 24 hours(r=0.153, P<0.01). Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that, in the observation group, patients with 24-hour urinary microalbumin and independent variables were observed to have salt content(OR=16.542, 95%CI 2.498-25.365). …”
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Mechanisms of change of a multifaceted implementation strategy on fidelity to a guideline for the prevention of mental health problems at the workplace: a mechanism analysis within... by Andreas Rödlund, Anna Toropova, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Byron J. Powell, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Christina Björklund, Lydia Kwak

“…Separate pathways were analyzed for each mediator. Linear Mixed Modeling was employed to test the strategy’s effect on fidelity, and mediation analyses were conducted using the PROCESS Macro. …”
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Language Models for Multilabel Document Classification of Surgical Concepts in Exploratory Laparotomy Operative Notes: Algorithm Development Study by Jeremy A Balch, Sasank S Desaraju, Victoria J Nolan, Divya Vellanki, Timothy R Buchanan, Lindsey M Brinkley, Yordan Penev, Ahmet Bilgili, Aashay Patel, Corinne E Chatham, David M Vanderbilt, Rayon Uddin, Azra Bihorac, Philip Efron, Tyler J Loftus, Protiva Rahman, Benjamin Shickel

“…Traditional natural language processing approaches—bag-of-words (BoW) and term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) with linear classifiers—have been used previously for this task but are now being augmented or replaced by large language models (LLMs). …”
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Association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and smoking behaviors in adult offspring by Lin Yang, Jing Li, Jing Li, Yinzi Chen, Yanling Wei, Congying Song, Jingwen Zhang, Liang Dai, Yu Shi, Zuying Xiong, Ying Shan, Xiaoyan Huang, Xiaoyan Huang

“…Logistic regression, linear regression and negative binomial regression models were used to estimate the associations of exposure to maternal smoking around birth with four outcomes of offspring smoking behaviors, including smoking status, age started smoking, pack years of smoking, and number of unsuccessful stop-smoking attempts.ResultsWe included 156,604, 101,204, 96,466, and 70,308 participants in the analyses of smoking status, age started smoking, pack years of smoking, and number of unsuccessful stop-smoking attempts, respectively. …”
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Lost in Translation: Preoperative Orthopaedic Education Materials Significantly Exceed Recommended Reading Levels by Maxwell Sahhar, BS, Manjot Singh, BS, Tanmay Mehta, BS, Arjun Laud, BS, Joseph E. Nassar, BS, Michael J. Farias, BS, Bassel G. Diebo, MD, Alan H. Daniels, MD

“…Comparisons with recommended grade levels and with their easy-to-read versions were analyzed using t-test, whereas trends over time were assessed using linear regression. Results:. Among 806 patient education documents, English and Spanish versions were available for all documents, but other languages were available for less than 30% of the documents. …”
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Corneal higher-order aberrations as key predictive indicators of axial elongation in myopic children with orthokeratology: a single-center prospective cohort study by Ju Zhang, Xiaoliang Zhang, Ranyi Ding, Yanan Ji, Zhe Zhu, Qingdong Bao, Ting Wang, Weiyun Shi

“…No statistical differences were observed in HOAs and corneal peripheral defocus at 1, 6, and 12 months (F = 0.653, 0.878; P > 0.05). Multivariate linear regression showed axial elongation was negatively correlated with ∆HOAs, peripheral defocus, and ∆horizontal coma (standardized beta=-0.331, -0.318, -0.209; P = 0.006, 0.001, 0.010, respectively) and positively correlated with the treatment zone diameter (standardized beta = 0.261, P = 0.003). …”
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Association of dietary creatine intake from meat protein sources with different types of intestinal problems: insights from NHANES 2005–2010 by Baohua Zheng, Zhicheng Huang, Zhiwei Wang, Junhao Du, Junhui Jiang, Chunhong Xiao, Yu Wang

“…RCS analysis confirmed a linear relationship between 2-day average dietary creatine intake and the risk of chronic constipation after adjusting for confounding variables.ConclusionHigher dietary creatine intake may offer protective benefits against chronic constipation, particularly in specific subgroups, while showing no significant association with chronic diarrhea. …”
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An optimized ensemble ML-WQI model for reliable water quality prediction by minimizing the eclipsing and ambiguity issues by Ashifur Rahman, M. M. Mahbubul Syeed, Md. Rajaul Karim, Kaniz Fatema, Razib Hayat Khan, Mohammad Faisal Uddin

“…The findings revealed that the ensemble ML-WQI model with linear regression (LR), random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) as base-estimators, and decision tree (DT) as the meta-learner, achieves high classification accuracy with MAE, MSE, RMSE, and $$R^2$$ R 2 scores of 0.01, 0.001, 0.0034, and 1.00, respectively. …”
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Impact of Fungal Co-Infection on Teicoplanin Plasma Trough Concentration in Critically Ill Adults: A Novel Consideration for Dose Adjustment by Cheng L, Wang L, You X, Xiong L, Dai Q, Wang Q

“…Clinical data of patients admitted to the intensive care unit and receiving teicoplanin therapeutic drug monitoring were collected. Multiple linear stepwise regression analysis and binary logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors influencing teicoplanin Cmin and the achievement of the target Cmin (≥ 15.0 μg/mL).Results: A total of 404 teicoplanin Cmin values from 231 patients were included. …”
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Environmental cadmium exposure and the risk of kidney stones: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis by Zheng-Ju Ren, Qin Zhang, Na-Xian Tang, Ya-Dong Li, Dong-Liang Lu, An-Long Lin, Chuan Yang, Feng Wang

“…In the dose–response meta-analysis, we observed a consistent linear positive association between cadmium exposure and the risk of kidney stones. …”
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Modeling of a population-based input function (PBIF) using the Feng model in dynamic ⁶⁸Ga-DOTATOC whole body PET/CT scans: feasibility of shortened imaging protocols on PET/CT Visi... by Thomas Godefroy, Mathieu Pavoine, David Bourhis, Romain Le Pennec, Kevin Kerleguer, Romain Floch, Pierre-Yves Salaün, Nicolas Karakatsanis, Philippe Thuillier, Ronan Abgral

“…IDIFs and scaled PBIFs were compared by assessing the area under the curve (AUC) and radiotracer influx rate (Ki). Linear correlation and Bland-Altman analyses were conducted for AUC and Ki comparisons. …”
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Relative contribution of diet and physical activity to increased adiposity among rural to urban migrants in India: A cross-sectional study. by Sanjay Kinra, Poppy Alice Carson Mallinson, Jenny A Cresswell, Liza J Bowen, Tanica Lyngdoh, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Kolli Srinath Reddy, Mario Vaz, Anura V Kurpad, George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Shah Ebrahim

“…The association of differences in dietary intake, physical activity, and adiposity between siblings was examined using multivariable linear regression. Data on 2,464 participants (median age 43 years) comprised of 1,232 sibling pairs (urban migrant and their rural-dwelling sibling) of the same sex (31% female) were analysed. …”
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Attitudes Toward AI Usage in Patient Health Care: Evidence From a Population Survey Vignette Experiment by Simon Kühne, Jannes Jacobsen, Nicolas Legewie, Jörg Dollmann

“…Respondents were presented with hypothetical scenarios involving AI applications in diagnosis and treatment in a hospital setting. Linear regression models assessed the relative influence of AI attributes on the dependent variables (support, risk perception, and personalized care), with additional subgroup analyses to explore heterogeneity by sociodemographic characteristics. …”
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A hydrogeomorphology-informed method for mapping continuous river networks from satellite imagery by Xiaodong Yi, Kang Yang, Wei Mao, Mengtian Man, Dinghua Chen, Jinyu Liu

“…Then, the remotely sensed water mask (RSWM) is extracted within AOIs by applying linear feature enhancements and adaptive thresholding. …”
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Health Equity Intervention for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and High Social Risk by Stephanie M. Stover-Kempers, Kristen A. Torres, Samantha A. Barry-Menkhaus, Celeste Jenisch, Kim Spiro, Michael A. Harris, David V. Wagner

“…ANOVA analyses showed a significant reduction in admissions in linear interaction F (1,95) = 4.036, (<i>p</i> = 0.047), indicating that NICH youth demonstrated a significantly greater reduction in admissions over time compared to comparison youth. …”
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Nośność Graniczna Niejednorodnych Wirujących Tarcz Kołowych by M. Życzkowski

“…This is because we have 050,508 throughout the entire dise, and the yield condition (3.1.1) is linear. In Art. 3 necessary and sufficient condicase of plastically non-homogeneous discs. tions are established enabling the condition (3.1.1) to be used also in the simple equation (3.13), which is obtained by determining the limit angular velocity of the disc, is of limited applicability, as being based on the yield condition mentioned above [the necessary conditions (3.29) and (3.37) should be satisfied]. …”
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Plasmonic Stripes in Aqueous Environment Co-Integrated With Si3N4 Photonics by George Dabos, Dimitra Ketzaki, Athanasios Manolis, Laurent Markey, Jean Claude Weeber, Alain Dereux, Anna Lena Giesecke, Caroline Porschatis, Bartos Chmielak, Dimitris Tsiokos, Nikos Pleros

“…Plasmonic gold stripes, in aqueous environment, with cross-sectional dimensions of 100&#x00A0;nm &#x00D7; 7&#x00A0;<italic>&#x03BC;</italic>m were interfaced with 360&#x00A0;nm &#x00D7; 800&#x00A0;nm Si₃N₄ waveguides cladded with low-temperature-oxide, exploiting linear photonic tapers with appropriate vertical (VO) and longitudinal (LO) offsets between the plasmonic and photonic waveguide facets. …”
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