CHALLENGES TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SAFETY OF JOURNALISM IN UKRAINE by Galyna Piskorska

“…Despite the restrictions imposed by the war, free and independent media in Ukraine have continued to operate throughout this time, maintaining high standards of their work. …”
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Impact of Tobacco Use on Oral Cancer Incidence among Women in Urban Slums: A Case-Control Study by Anuj Singh Parihar, Sonal Wakhle, Bireswar Roy, Diwakar Vashisth, Aditya S. Dupare, Rashmi Laddha

“…Smokeless tobacco use and smoking emerged as independent risk factors for oral cancer. Lower educational attainment was also identified as an independent risk factor, underscoring the influence of socioeconomic disadvantages on disease susceptibility. …”
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Establishment and Validation of a Gene Signature-Based Prognostic Model to Improve Survival Prediction in Adrenocortical Carcinoma Patients by Xiaoqin Ge, Zhenzhen Liu, Xuehua Jiao, Xueyan Yin, Xiujie Wang, Gengxu Li

“…Multivariate regression analysis demonstrated the signature to be an independent predictor of overall survival. The decision tree could identify risk subgroups powerfully, and the nomogram showed high accuracy of survival prediction. …”
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Removal of Zinc from Aqueous Solution by Optimized Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches Biochar as Low Cost Adsorbent by Seyed Ali Zamani, Robiah Yunus, A. W. Samsuri, M. A. Mohd Salleh, Bahareh Asady

“…Mathematical modeling and optimization of independent variables were performed employing response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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Predictors of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Performance in Patients with Stroke by Amin Ghaffari, Hamid Reza Rostami, Malahat Akbarfahimi

“…Instrumental activities of daily livings are important for independent living and active participation in the community. …”
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The Burden of Smoking in the Health-Disease Process in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS by Yoenny Peña García, Luis Carlos Andraín Silva, Idalmis Sartorio Zayas, Dolys Suárez Padilla, Ana Julia Lozada Pérez

“…It was analyzed as a dependent variable for smoking in people living with the human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS, and as independent variables: age, years of exposure (as a smoker), diseases that have suffered in the last 5 years, immunological condition, and response to antiretroviral therapy. …”
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Coherence Resonance Behavior of FitzHugh-Nagumo Neurons Induced by Electromagnetic Field Driven by Phase Noise by Kaijun Wu, Huan Zheng, Tao Li

“…When the amplitude and intensity of phase noise are taken as independent variables for two-parameter analysis, FHN neuronal system presents single or dual coherence resonance at any value of noise intensity with the change of phase noise amplitude. …”
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Low Lymphocyte-to-Monocyte Ratio as a Possible Predictor of an Unfavourable Clinical Outcome in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke after Mechanical Thrombectomy by Katarína Pinčáková, Georgi Krastev, Jozef Haring, Miroslav Mako, Viktória Mikulášková, Vladimír Bošák

“…Stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to detect an independent predictor of the unfavourable clinical outcome. …”
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Chloride Balance in Preterm Infants during the First Week of Life by Silvia Iacobelli, Elsa Kermorvant-Duchemin, Francesco Bonsante, Alexandre Lapillonne, Jean-Bernard Gouyon

“…Also, patent ductus arteriosus and birth weight loss were independent factors affecting plasma chloride and SID. …”
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XGBoost-enhanced ensemble model using discriminative hybrid features for the prediction of sumoylation sites by Salman Khan, Sumaiya Noor, Tahir Javed, Afshan Naseem, Fahad Aslam, Salman A. AlQahtani, Nijad Ahmad

“…XGBoost-Sumo achieved an impressive accuracy of 99.68% on benchmark datasets using 10-fold cross-validation and 96.08% on independent samples. This marks a significant improvement, outperforming existing models by 10.31% on training data and 2.74% on independent tests. …”
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Case Report: Potential benefits of a single functional neurology intervention in athletic rehabilitation and recovery: a case study by Jorge Rey-Mota, Guillermo Escribano-Colmena, Eduardo Navarro Jiménez, Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas, Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

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Ceruloplasmin and the Extent of Heart Failure in Ischemic and Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients by Yifei Xu, Haiyan Lin, Ying Zhou, Gang Cheng, Geng Xu

“…Ceruloplasmin showed an independent association with the extent of heart failure in nonischemic cardiomyopathy patients (P<0.05). …”
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The role of advanced practice nurses in improving healthcare outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease: A scoping review protocol. by Hanako Nozu, Haruka Tamura, Takemi Kudo, Tomoko Araki, Hidetaka Sato, Takao Watanabe, Isoji Sasagawa

“…Clinical nurse specialists, in contrast, are nurses with advanced nursing knowledge and skills for individuals or specific populations. Their roles are independent and different; however, similarities exist in their role in potentially improving healthcare outcomes. …”
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GIS-Based Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis of Housing Prices Oriented towards a View of Spatiotemporal Homogeneity and Nonstationarity: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China by Shaopei Chen, Dachang Zhuang, Huixia Zhang

“…Simultaneously, the factors including geographical location, transportation accessibility, commercial service intensity, and public service intensity are identified as independent variables in the context of urban development and planning. …”
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A Component Prediction Method for Flue Gas of Natural Gas Combustion Based on Nonlinear Partial Least Squares Method by Hui Cao, Xingyu Yan, Yaojiang Li, Yanxia Wang, Yan Zhou, Sanchun Yang

“…For the proposed method, the original independent input matrix is the input of RBFNN and the outputs of hidden layer nodes of RBFNN are the extension term of the original independent input matrix. …”
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Development and internal validation of a metabolism-related model for predicting 30-day mortality in neonatal sepsis by Xiangwen Tu, Junkun Chen, Wen Liu

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify the independent risk factors for 30-day mortality. A nomogram model was developed based on these risk factors. …”
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Study on Dynamic Characteristics of Single Droplet Impingement on Heated Liquid Film by Han Wu, Cong Liu, Chunze Cen, Chien-Er Huang, Sheng-Lun Lin

“…The change of the crown diameter with time is independent from the temperature. Additionally, the sputtering time decreases with the increasing We and temperature. …”
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Correlates for the severity of suicidal risk in participants with common mental disorders with comorbid chronic medical conditions in rural primary healthcare settings in India by Johnson-Pradeep Ruben, Maria L. Ekstrand, Elsa Heylen, Krishnamachari Srinivasan

“…Statistical Analysis Used: Chi-square tests and independent-samples t-tests were used to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics of the no-low and mod-high suicidal risk groups. …”
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Application of decision diagrams of incompletely specified of k-valued logic functions in the synthesis of logical circuits by P. N. Bibilo

“…The stage of technologically independent optimization is studied to obtain minimized representations of systems of completely specified Boolean functions from tabular representations of partial functions of k-valued logic. …”
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Epigenetic profiling for prognostic stratification and personalized therapy in breast cancer by Xiao Guo, Chuanbo Feng, Jiaying Xing, Yuyan Cao, Tengda Liu, Wenchuang Yang, Runhong Mu, Tao Wang

“…The model demonstrated robust performance across independent validation datasets.ConclusionMLEM is a powerful prognostic tool for predicting breast cancer outcomes and tailoring personalized treatments. …”
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