Exposure to vehicle traffic in childhood and lung function in young adulthood—a prospective cohort study in an area with low traffic-flows by Nicolás Bermúdez Barón, Helena Backman, Linnea Hedman, Eva Rönmark, Martin Andersson

“…The association between exposure to vehicle traffic at baseline and lung function at follow-up was analyzed by linear regression adjusting for potential confounders. …”
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Effects of Tai Chi and Qigong intervention on anxiety and stress in diabetic and hypertensive Brazilian patients: a randomized controlled trial by Laís Renata Almeida Cezário Santos, Anderson Taíra, Rosana de Fátima Possobon, Marcelo de Castro Meneghim, Chien-Lin Su, Paola Lavin, Soham Rej, Gláucia Maria Bovi Ambrosano, Karine Laura Cortellazzi

“…The primary endpoint of the study was 13 weeks. We used a linear mixed-effects model to analyze the primary and secondary outcomes, considering the treatment group and time as covariates and treating the subject as a random effect. …”
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The relationship between kindergarten teachers’ prosocial motivation and emotional support competence: the mediating role of a sense of professional mission and nonlinear moderatin... by Yuanyuan Lin, Zhiruo Lin, Caiping Cai, Men Wei, Fajie Huang

“…It also challenges the assumption of linear career growth. The findings suggest that strategies designed to enhance teachers’ professional mission and the tailoring of interventions based on teaching experience could bolster emotional support competence in early childhood education. …”
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BePresent Universal Internet-Based Parenting Intervention: Single-Arm Pre-Post Intervention Study by Kaisa Mishina, Amit Baumel, Malin Kinnunen, Terja Ristkari, Emmi Heinonen, Susanna Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki, Andre Sourander

“…Self-reported measures were collected at baseline and at an 8-week follow-up. Linear mixed-effects models were used to analyze the changes from baseline to follow-up. …”
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Crosslinking Approaches for Polyethylene Imine (PEI) and Its Uses in Adsorption of Heavy Metals, Dyes, and Carbon Dioxide by Ashika Chandra, Ashneel Ajay Singh, Surendra Prasad, Mats R. Andersson, Desta Gedefaw

“…Polyethylene imine (PEI) is a synthetic water-soluble and nitrogen-rich polymer with an ethylene amine repeating unit. It exists in a linear or branched forms and finds applications in various areas. …”
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Self-efficacy, self-esteem, and happiness in older adults: A cross-sectional study. by Towhid Babazadeh, Soheila Ranjbaran, Sara Pourrazavi, Khalil Maleki Chollou, Akbar Nadi, Erfan Saeedi Tazekand

“…Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis revealed that demographic factors accounted for 15.3% of the variance in happiness, while self-efficacy and self-esteem explained an additional 43.0%, totaling 58.7%. …”
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Exploration of beta diversity across altitude gradients in an Alpine region in Trentino using FOSS4G and a historical floristic archive by F. Geri, F. Zottele, N. La Porta, C. Tattoni, P. Zatelli, M. Ciolli, M. Ciolli

“…GRASS, QGIS, PostGIS, and R were used to process data from 517 linear transects, encompassing 190,761 species records. …”
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Adenosine metabolic signature in circulating CD4+ T cells predicts remission in rheumatoid arthritis by Dennis W Lendrem, John D Isaacs, Ann W Morgan, Amy E Anderson, Arthur G Pratt, Philip M Brown, Najib Naamane

“…From these data significant predictors of Disease Activity Score 28-C reactive protein (DAS28-CRP) remission (<2.4 at 6 months) were determined by logistic regression (clinical; flow-cytometry data) and linear modelling (gene expression data).Results Low baseline DAS28-CRP was associated with remission at 6 months (p=0.02). …”
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The relationship between serum uric acid and accelerated aging in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective cohort study based on CHARLS by Weiyi Shi, Zihong Cai, Xiaoxu Ren, Juehan Wang, Hang Zhou, Zuobing Chen

“…The results indicated a significant linear positive correlation between SUA levels and the risk of accelerated aging. …”
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Development of Bayesian segmented Poisson regression model to forecast COVID-19 dynamics based on wastewater data: a case study in Nanning City, China by Bin Xu, Xinfu Shi, Changwei Liang, Congxing Shi, Chuyun Peng, Yingsi Lai

“…We used the viral load to estimate daily reported cases by a Bayesian linear regression model. Subsequently, a Bayesian (segmented) Poisson regression model was developed, using data from the first wave of the epidemic as prior information, to predict the COVID-19 epidemic trend of the second wave. …”
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Treatment decision regret after precision prostatectomy: An analysis of patient‐reported outcomes predicting decision regret by Kaushik P. Kolanukuduru, Wooju Jeong, Larisa Pistin, Firas Abdollah, Ash K. Tewari, Mani Menon

“…Between 6 and 12 months of follow‐up, DR was analysed using the previously validated decision regret score (DRS). A univariable linear regression analysis was performed to analyse factors predictive of DR after PP. …”
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Sexual health in female and male cancer survivors – compared with age-matched cancer-free controls in Norway by Emilie Åsberg, Guro F. Giskeødegård, Jarle Karlsen, Cecile E. Kiserud, Guro Aune, Marianne Nilsen, Randi J. Reidunsdatter

“…Sexual health was evaluated using the EORTC questionnaires SHQ-22 and the sexual domains of the QLQ-BR23/QLQ-BR45. Multivariable linear regression analyses compared sexual health between cancer survivors and cancer-free controls, and between short- and long-term cancer survivors. …”
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SOME SAMPLE TEST RESULTS FOR ABRASIVE WEAR by Valeri A. Petrovsky, Anatoliy R. Ruban, Ali Salamekh

“…The dependences of the mass Δm and the linear Δl abrasions, as well as the relative wear resistance Im, Il on the hardness, are plotted. …”
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Mothers' Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior Concerning Their Kindergarten Children's Oral Health: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Dhuha K. Qahtan, Osama M. Felemban, Rana A. Alamoudi, Nada O. Bamashmous, Eman A. El Ashiry, Najlaa M. Alamoudi

“…The children's oral health (dental caries) and the mothers' oral health‐related knowledge, attitudes, and behavior were significantly associated with KG type (public vs. private), mothers' age, mothers' education, and family income. A multiple linear regression model indicated that younger mothers (< 30–40 years), highly educated mothers, high family income, and mothers with higher knowledge scores were significantly associated with lower dmft scores. …”
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Inter-seizure variability in thalamic recruitment and its implications for precision thalamic neuromodulation by Pariya Salami, Angelique C. Paulk, Daniel J. Soper, Pierre Bourdillon, Peter N. Hadar, Omar A. Alamoudi, Nathaniel D. Sisterson, R. Mark Richardson, Sandipan Pati, Sydney S. Cash

“…We categorized seizures based on how they start and spread, and determined whether seizures reached thalamic areas early or late. We used generalized linear models (GLM) to evaluate which seizure properties are predictive of time of spread to the thalamus, testing effect significance using Wald tests. …”
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Optimizing outcomes in acute pancreatitis: the impact of of heparin therapy duration on mortality in a multi-center retrospective study by Linlin Fu, Hanyang Li, Qian Ni, Qiaoling Zhu, Baoyan Wang

“…Restricted cubic splines (RCS) were employed to analyze the non-linear relationship between heparin therapy duration and 30-day and 90-day mortality. …”
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Evaluating Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Pediatric CKD: Correlations with Renal Function and Mineral Metabolism by Ruxandra Maria Steflea, Emil Robert Stoicescu, Oana Aburel, Florin George Horhat, Silviu Valentin Vlad, Felix Bratosin, Andreea-Mihaela Banta, Gabriela Doros

“…Pearson correlation and linear regression analyses determined associations between NGAL and other parameters. …”
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StreamSculptor: Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory for Stellar Streams in Flexible Potentials with Differentiable Simulations by Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, David N. Spergel, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Jenny E. Greene, Nathaniel Starkman, Kathryn V. Johnston

“…Our model works in two stages: First, a base stream is generated in a Milky Way potential, including the effects of nonlinear time-dependent sources like the rotating Galactic bar and a massive satellite galaxy. Then, linear perturbation theory is applied to the base stream, allowing us to rapidly superimpose the effects of different subhalo impacts without having to carry out additional simulations. …”
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Relationship between on‐demand telehealth visits and emergency department and hospital surge during the COVID‐19 pandemic by Benjamin H. Slovis, Xin Ji, Anna Marie Chang, John Kairys, Judd E. Hollander

“…After autocorrelation, a multivariate linear regression model was utilized to determine temporal relationships between the two variables. …”
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Predicting the critical drainage induced by soil seepage failure during pumping in foundation pit construction by Fuwei JIANG, Shujun TANG, Xiaofei DENG, Zhenchao LI, Fawang ZHANG, Hongyuan YIN

“…The results indicate that the relationship between the critical drawdown volume for inducing soil permeability failure in the four cases and the critical permeability velocity is linear, suggesting that measuring the critical permeability velocity of the soil at the site can determine the critical drawdown volume. …”
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