Best Evidence Summary of Home Enteral Tube Feeding Care Management in the Elderly by Zhu H, Liu A, Han Z, Yang Y, Ma X, Shi H

“…Two trained researchers independently evaluated the quality of the included literature, graded the literature using the JBI evidence pre-grading system, classified and summarized the extracted evidence.Results: A total of 15 articles were included, including 1 clinical decision, 1 guideline, 3 best evidence summaries, 4 systematic reviews, 2 randomized controlled trials, and 4 quasi-experimental studies. 18 pieces of the best evidence were summarized in 3 aspects, including the NST administration, education of caregivers, and selection of nutrition formulas.Conclusion: This study comprehensively summarized the best evidence of home enteral tube feeding care management in the elderly and provided a scientific basis for caregivers to implement care interventions. …”
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Mapping neutron biological effectiveness for DNA damage induction as a function of incident energy and depth in a human sized phantom by Alice Mentana, Virgilio Quaresima, Pavel Kundrát, Isabella Guardamagna, Leonardo Lonati, Ombretta Iaria, Andrea Previtali, Giorgia Santi Amantini, Luca Lunati, Virginia Boretti, Livio Narici, Luca Di Fino, Luca Bocchini, Claudio Cipriani, Giorgio Baiocco

“…Finally, to facilitate the use of our results, we propose look-up RBE tables, explicitly considering the depth variable, and an analytical representation of the maximal RBE vs. neutron energy.…”
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Biorefinery potential of coffee silverskin: Composition and applications by Elena M. Anchugova, Elena V. Udoratina, Elena G. Kazakova, Anastasiia O. Nosova, Mayya V. Uspenskaya, Tatiana N. Shchemelinina

“…Results: The results revealed that CS, when enriched with microalgae and bindered with glauconite, becomes high-value amendment rich in essential macro- and micronutrients. …”
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State-of-the-art cataract surgery. Nuances and solutions by A.E. Egorov, A.B. Movsisyan, N.G. Glazko

“…The introduction of these IOLs may require paradigm shift in the understanding of optical parameters of the eye. This will result in the generation of novel IOL calculation formulas or modification of current ones. …”
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Immunonutrition for traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Linan Zeng, Lingli Zhang, Hailong Li, Rong Peng, Lijun Yang, Xinwei Chen, Zhenyan Bo

“…Immune-enhancing nutrition or immunonutrition, referring to the addition of specialised nutrients, including glutamine, alanine, omega-3 fatty acids and nucleotides, to standard nutrition formulas, may improve surgical outcomes in the perioperative period. …”
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Provision of Managerial Skills by Micro Credit Institutions and Sustainability of MSMEs During COVID-19 Pandemic in Kigezi Region South Western Uganda by Kyabarongo, Benon, Moses, Agaba, Siraje, Kaaya

“…Southwest Uganda is home to the Kigezi region. Yamane's sampling formulas were used to calculate the sample size, which was based on a 5% level of precision. …”
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The relationship between anthropometric indices and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adults: a cross-sectional study by Mina Radmehr, Reza Homayounfar, Reza Homayounfar, Abolghasem Djazayery

“…Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), Body mass index (BMI), a body shape index (ABSI), body roundness index (BRI), and visceral fat index (VAI) were also calculated using these measurements and formulas. This study used descriptive tests, binary logistic regression, and ROC curve analysis.ResultsIn both crude and adjusted models, significant associations were found between WHR, WHtR, BMI, and VAI with NAFLD. …”
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Comparison of 2-D and 3-D Analysis of Running Kinematics and Actual Versus Predicted Running Kinetics by Caitlyn Martinez, Seth Garbett, Kristen Hiromasa, Rhandi Jackson, Eric Miya, Michelle Miya, Joshua D White, Brian S Baum, Mark F Reinking

“…Paired t-tests were used to assess differences between the 2D and 3D kinematic variables and the measured (MEAS) and calculated (CALC) kinetic variables. # Results Thirty runners (13 men and 17 women) voluntarily consented to participate in this study and the mean age of the participants was 31.8 years (range 20 to 48 years). …”
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Production technology of poultry sausage-1: the studies on the quality of chemical, microbiological and organoleptic by Nazif Anıl, Yusuf Doğruer, Ümit Gürbüz, Semra Kayaardı, Abdullah Keleş

“…Besides the various formulas and technological methods have been used, also the effects of several factors such as tempareture, moisture and duration were also investigated. …”
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Automated and code-free development of a risk calculator using ChatGPT-4 for predicting diabetic retinopathy and macular edema without retinal imaging by Eun Young Choi, Joon Yul Choi, Tae Keun Yoo

“…ChatGPT-4 was used to build prediction formulas for DR and DME and developed a web-based risk calculator tool. …”
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Body Composition in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Correlation with Disease Severity and Duration by Dawesh P. Yadav, Saurabh Kedia, Kumble Seetharama Madhusudhan, Sawan Bopanna, Sandeep Goyal, Saransh Jain, Naval K. Vikram, Raju Sharma, Govind K. Makharia, Vineet Ahuja

“…Background. Results on body composition in Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) have been heterogeneous and are lacking from Asia. …”
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A Model for Organizational Preparedness of SMEs During COVID-19 Pandemic in Kigezi Sub-region in South Western Uganda. by Tamwesigire, Caleb, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The results further indicate that organizational features (β=0.163, p-value=0.000) and characteristics of decision makers (β=0.021, p-value=0.648) have positive but significant effect while government response (β=-0.780, p-value=0.682) have negative but no significant effect on the management of business disaster. …”
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Application of various canopy resistance calculation methods in vineyard evapotranspiration simulation at daily scale in Northwest China by Jingying Zhang, Dianyu Chen, Xiaotao Hu, Lucheng Qiu, Shujian Wang, Xuanrong Zhu, La Zhuo, Dongyan Zhang, Linzhe Wu, Linlin Zhang

“…The Penman-Monteith (PM) model is widely used to estimate ET, for which the determination of canopy resistance (rc) is crucial. Variant formulas have been developed to calculate rc, making the selection of a module challenging. …”
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Sequence-structure based prediction of pathogenicity for amino acid substitutions in proteins associated with primary immunodeficiencies by Ekaterina S. Porfireva, Anton D. Zadorozhny, Anastasia V. Rudik, Dmitry A. Filimonov, Alexey A. Lagunin, Alexey A. Lagunin

“…SSPR models were created for each protein using the MultiPASS software based on the Bayesian algorithm and different levels of MNA (Multilevel Neighborhoods of Atoms) descriptors for the representation of structural formulas of protein fragments including AAS.ResultsThe accuracy of prediction was assessed through a 5-fold cross-validation and compared to other bioinformatics tools, such as SIFT4G, Polyphen2 HDIV, FATHMM, MetaSVM, PROVEAN, ClinPred, and Alpha Missense. …”
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Proximity or Directional Model of Voting for the Turkish Voter? by Murat İnan, Gül Arıkan Akdağ

“…Yet, it should be noted that further multi-country comperative analyses required for certain results.…”
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Parameter Study on Ultraviolet Rayleigh–Brillouin Doppler Lidar with Dual-Pass Dual Fabry–Perot Interferometer for Accurately Measuring Near-Surface to Lower Stratospheric Wind Fie... by Fahua Shen, Zhifeng Shu, Jihui Dong, Guohua Jin, Liangliang Yang, Zhou Hui, Hua Xu

“…The wind speed detection principle of this technology is analyzed, and the formulas for radial wind speed measurement error caused by random noise and wind speed measurement bias caused by Mie scattering signal contamination are derived. …”
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Micro-Credit Institutions’ Services and Sustainability of Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises During Covid-19 Pandemic in Kigezi Region, South Western Uganda. by Agaba, Moses, Kaaya, Siraj, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The sample size was computed using Yamane's sampling formulae (Yamane, 1967) and was based on a 5% level of precision. …”
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QuickStroop for screening for minimal hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis by Christian Labenz, Simon J. Gairing, Leonard Kaps, Alena F. Ehrenbauer, Eva M. Schleicher, Sophie Mengel, Julius F.M. Egge, Maria M. Gabriel, Peter R. Galle, Heiner Wedemeyer, Alexander Zipprich, Cristina Ripoll, Robin Greinert, Benjamin Maasoumy

“…Results: PHES-MHE was detected in 76 (31%) patients. …”
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Critical depth prediction based on in-situ stress and gas content model of deep coalbed methane in Liupanshui Coalfield in China by Fang Lv, Ruidong Yang, Wei Gao, Lingyun Zhao, Yaohui Liu, Zhihua Yan, Fulun Shi, Binxin Zhang, Jingui Tang, Tongsheng Yi

“…The hyperbolic regression algorithm was employed in order to derive both the envelope and median formulas for lateral pressure coefficient (k values). …”
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