Associations between childhood maltreatment and personality traits in individuals with and without depression: a CTQ-based assessment by Yilin Peng, Shazia Rehman, Jin Liu, Yumeng Ju, Mi Wang, Jinrong Sun, Xiaowen Lu, Qiangli Dong, Liang Zhang, Mei Liao, Ping Wan, Hua Guo, Futao Zhao, Bangshan Liu, Yan Zhang, Lingjiang Li

“…We used a 2*2 analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) of the diagnosis and CM on 16PF, and hierarchical regression explored the association between specific types of CM and 16PF in both groups. …”
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Association between metal mixture in urine and abnormal blood pressure and mediated effect of oxidative stress based on BKMR and Machine learning method by Junjie Chen, Hao Zeng, Zhanglei Pan, Miao Li, Qingfeng Zhou, Kaichen Chen, Yulan Hao, Xiangke Cao, Lei Zhang, Qian Wang

“…Background: Exposure to heavy metals represents a significant risk factor for hypertension and blood pressure disorders. …”
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A novel vasculogenic mimicry-related nomogram predicts prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma by Yun Zhong, Yun Zhong, Yun Zhong, Yun Zhong, Fadian Ding, Fadian Ding, Fadian Ding, Fadian Ding, Han Zhang, Han Zhang, Han Zhang, Han Zhang, Denghan Zhang, Denghan Zhang, Denghan Zhang, Denghan Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Shangeng Weng, Shangeng Weng, Shangeng Weng, Shangeng Weng

“…Biological process (BP), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis, and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) were applied to analyze the biological function of the hub genes. …”
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Biomarkers reflecting disturbed gut barrier under treatment with TNF inhibitors in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis by Denis Poddubnyy, Hildrun Haibel, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Murat Torgutalp, Judith Rademacher, Laura Spiller, Christine Maria Hempel

“…We analysed the longitudinal association between biomarkers and disease activity, and the relationship between biomarkers and treatment response with regression analysis.Results 121 patients with r-axSpA were compared with 63 controls. …”
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Asociación entre salud, calidad de vida y nivel de actividad física en el tiempo libre de abogados (Associations between health, quality of life and level of physical activity in l... by Milena Ketzer Caliendo dos Reis, Elaine Cristine da Silva, Sabrina Fernandes de Azevedo, Poliana Piovezana dos Santos, Monica Manganelli Coimbra Forcellini, Beatriz Angelica Valdívia Arancibia, Magnus Benetti, Rudney da Silva

“…The collection was carried out through the GPAQ questionnaire, the SF-12 and the short IPAQ. The normality analysis was by means of the Kolmogoroy-Smirnov test, and the inferential analyzes by means of the Mann-Whitney, Wald Chi-square test, and Poisson Regression, both in raw and adjusted models and the level of significance. …”
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Examining the relationship between oral health indicators, obesity, and Xerostomia in older adults by Raziyehsadat Rezvaninejad, Mahdie Zeinali, Amirreza Fatemi, Maryam Alsadat Hashemipour

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire consisting of five sections: (I) demographic information, (II) oral health (issues such as loose teeth, tooth loss, use of dentures/implants, bleeding gums - self based on reported questionnaires and dental examination), (III) general health, (IV) overweight and/or obesity ( based on BMI- Height and weight measurement by a final year dental student), and (V) xerostomia (self-reported questionnaires). Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 24 software, with methods including T-test, Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVA, Chi-Square test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and logistic regression. …”
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Prognostic impact of co-mutations in adults with IDH1/2-mutated acute myeloid leukemia by Anli Lai, Wenbing Liu, Chunlin Zhou, Yan Li, Shuning Wei, Kaiqi Liu, Benfa Gong, Xiaoyuan Gong, Yuntao Liu, Guangji Zhang, Junping Zhang, Runxia Gu, Shaowei Qiu, Bingcheng Liu, Ying Wang, Hui Wei, Yingchang Mi, Jianxiang Wang

“…Univariate analysis revealed the NPM1 mutation was a favorable factor (p = 0.019) for overall survival (OS), whereas the DNMT3A mutation was consistently associated with a poor outcome (3-year OS, 52.0%; 3-year relapse-free survival [RFS], 44.8%; and 3-year cumulative incidence of relapse [CIR], 42.6%). …”
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Impact of Subjective and Objective Green Space Characteristics on Mental Health Benefits: An Explainable Machine Learning Approach by Ke LI, Yipei MAO, Yongjun LI

“…Specifically, perceived attractiveness is the most important contributing factor, followed by perceived greenness and perceived noise. …”
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The Influence of Pelvic Bone Dose-volume Parameters on Bone Marrow Suppression During Radiation Therapy in Patients With Stage I to III Rectal Cancer Based on Real-world Data by Botian Huang, MD, Jiansheng Lv, MM, Jianqi Xiong, MM, Fang Peng, MD, Liyang Zhuo, MM, Zhuangzhuang Yang, MM, Xiaowu Deng, MD, Yong Bao, PdD, MM, Shaoqing Niu, MD, PhD

“…The primary endpoint was grade ≥ 2 HT (HT2+), including leukopenia, neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and total HTs. Logistic regression was employed to analyze the associations of HT2+ with dosimetric parameters and clinicopathologic characteristics. …”
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Correlation Between the Online Visiting Time and Frequency Increase in Telemedicine Services Offered by Health Care Providers Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chi... by Weiyi Wang, Yuntian Chu, Fangfang Cui, Xiaobing Shi, Xu Zhang, Dongxu Sun, Jinming Shi, Jie Zhao

“…Chi-square tests were applied to compare general differences in the between-group telemedicine frequency. Regression models were performed to analyze correlations between the frequency change and the time spent in online versus in-person visits. …”
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AI-enhanced interview simulation in the metaverse: Transforming professional skills training through VR and generative conversational AI by Abdullah Bin Nofal, Hassan Ali, Muhammad Hadi, Aizaz Ahmad, Adnan Qayyum, Aditya Johri, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Junaid Qadir

“…In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of the module to ascertain its robustness, including a bias analysis. Firstly, we establish an experimental setup to gauge platform robustness by examining question similarity across varied prompts using Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformers (BART) and topic modeling. …”
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Perceived economic pressure and health-related quality of life of patients with colorectal cancer after surgery: Evidence from China by Yi Yang, Ziwei Wu, Junfang Xu, Hengjin Dong

“…Univariate and multivariate logistic regressions were used to analyze the associated factors of utility and VAS score. …”
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CHIT1 and DDAH1 levels relate to amyloid-related imaging abnormalities risk profile in Alzheimer’s disease patients by Marlies Oosthoek, Everard G.B. Vijverberg, Elena R. Blujdea, Sjors G.J.G. In’t Veld, Martín Pucheu Avilés, Sára E. Zsadanyi, Yanaika S. Hok-A-Hin, Allerdien Visser, Wiesje M. van der Flier, Frederik Barkhof, Marta del Campo, Martijn C. Schut, Alexandre Bejanin, Daniel Alcolea, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Lisa Vermunt

“…The proteome of the defined high-risk (n = 13) was compared to low-risk AD group (n = 23), using age and sex corrected linear regressions followed by gene ontology analysis. For biomarker prioritization, we selected proteins that were abnormal in the high-risk group versus low-risk and CU patients. …”
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Regional lymph node invasion in pediatric non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma: an international cohort study from the International Soft Tissue Sarcoma ConsortiumResearch in c... by Daniel Orbach, Matthieu Carton, Amadeus T. Heinz, Lise Borgwardt, J Herve Brisse, Carlo Morosi, Erin R. Rudzinski, Akmal Safwat, Monika Sparber-Sauer, Stephanie Terezakis, Andrea Ferrari, Aaron R. Weiss, William H. Meyer, David O. Walterhouse, Timothy B. Lautz

“…Descriptive statistics, logistic regressions, and Cox proportional hazards models were used to analyze the data and assess prognostic factors. …”
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Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Are Independent Predictors of Successful Aging in Middle-Aged and Older Adults by Shilpa Dogra, Liza Stathokostas

“…Methods. 9,478 older (M = 4,245; F = 5,233) and 10,060 middle-aged (M = 4.621; F = 5,439) adults from the Healthy Aging cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey were analyzed. Multivariate logistic regressions were conducted with SA and its three components as outcomes while physical activity and sedentary behavior were entered as main exposures. …”
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Association of joint exposure to multiple brominated flame retardants with kidney impairment risk among adult population: Evidence from non-pooled samples of NHANES by Yi-Xiong Gao, Chen Kou, Xin Tan

“…Information on study participants and their serum concentrations of eleven BFRs (ten PBDEs and one PBB) were obtained from NHANES 2003–2004 and National Death Index. Factor analysis was applied to identify BFR exposure patterns. …”
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Recurrence of autoimmune hepatitis cholestatic variant syndromes after liver transplantation affects graft and patient survival by Vincenzo Ronca, Alessandro Parente, Ellina Lytvyak, Bettina E. Hansen, Gideon Hirschfield, Alan Bonder, Maryam Ebadi, Saleh Elwir, Mohamad Alsaed, Piotr Milkiewicz, Maciej K. Janik, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Maria Antonella Burza, Cumali Efe, Ali Rıza Calışkan, Murat Harputluoglu, Gökhan Kabaçam, Débora Terrabuio, Fernanda de Quadros Onofrio, Nazia Selzner, Albert Parés, Laura Llovet, Murat Akyıldız, Cigdem Arikan, Mihael P. Manns, Richard Taubert, Anna-Lena Weber, Thomas D. Schiano, Brandy Haydel, Piotr Czubkowski, Piotr Socha, Natalia Ołdak, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Atsushi Tanaka, Cynthia Levy, Eric F. Martin, Aparna Goel, Mai Sedki, Irena Jankowska, Toru Ikegami, Maria Rodriguez, Martina Sterneck, Marcial Sebode, Christoph Schramm, Maria Francesca Donato, Francesca Colapietro, Ansgar Lohse, Raul J. Andrade, Vilas R. Patwardhan, Bart van Hoek, Maaike Biewenga, Andreas E. Kremer, Yoshihide Ueda, Mark Deneau, Mark Pedersen, Marlyn J. Mayo, Annarosa Floreani, Patrizia Burra, Maria Francesca Secchi, Benedetta Terziroli Beretta-Piccoli, Marco Sciveres, Giuseppe Maggiore, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, Dominique Debray, Muriel Girard, Florence Lacaille, Michael Heneghan, Andrew L. Mason, Ye Oo, Aldo J. Montano-Loza

“…The rALD was found to be significantly associated with graft loss and patient survival in the multivariate Cox regression analysis with a time-dependent covariate. …”
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Association of Motor and Cognitive Symptoms with Health-Related Quality of Life and Caregiver Burden in a German Cohort of Advanced Parkinson’s Disease Patients by M. Klietz, T. Schnur, S. Drexel, F. Lange, A. Tulke, L. Rippena, L. Paracka, D. Dressler, G. U. Höglinger, F. Wegner

“…PDQ-8 and PDCB scores were regressed on MDS-UPDRS subscales and MoCA subscores. …”
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Vertical distribution of bivalves fauna in the northwestern Tatar Strait (Japan Sea) by Р. A. Dulenina, A. A. Dulenin

“…General patterns of bivalves distribution by depth in the northwestern Tatar Strait (within Khabarovsk region) are analyzed on the data of 384 trawl, 573 drag, and 1177 diving stations during research surveys in 2003–2016 where the samples were collected with commonly accepted methods. …”
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EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC THEORY by Jasmina Osmanković, Hatidža Jahić, Ensar Šehić

“…By applying the method of analysis, synthesis and comparison, and based on earlier works, classification of theories of development has been made to analyze the evolution process of the role and importance of education in the development process. …”
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