Digital PCR Detection of mtDNA/gDNA Ratio in Embryo Culture Medium for Prediction of Embryo Development Potential by Zhang Q, Ji H, Shi J, Wang L, Ding L, Jiang Y, Huang X, Qiu Snr P, Li P

“…We compared the relationship between the predictive value of mtDNA/gDNA ratio and each of embryo fragmentation, embryo morphological grade, and blastocyst formation.Results: mtDNA/gDNA ratio decreased significantly with a decrease in embryo rating: 22.54 (44.66); 31.25 (36.97) and 46.33 (57.11); Grades A vs C, P = 0.006; B vs C, P = 0.015. mtDNA/gDNA ratio increased overall with an increase in embryo fragment content but did not differ significantly between high-, -medium, and poor-quality embryos. …”
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Association between excessive screen time and school-level proportion of no family rules among elementary school children in Japan: a multilevel analysis by Masaaki Yamada, Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Tatsuse

“…The regression analysis showed that excessive ST was significantly associated with both individual-level factors, such as boys (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR); 1.39), older grades (aPR; 1.18 for 5th grades and 1.28 for 6th grades), late wakeup (aPR; 1.13), physical inactivity (aPR; 1.18 for not so much and 1.31 for rarely), late bedtime (aPR; 1.43 for 10 to 11 p.m. and 1.76 for ≥11 p.m.), frequent irritability (aPR; 1.24 for sometimes and 1.46 for often), feelings of school avoidance (aPR; 1.17 for sometimes and 1.22 for often), infrequent child-parental interaction (aPR; 1.16 for rare and 1.21 for none), no family rules (aPR; 1.56), smartphone ownership (aPR; 1.18), and the school-level proportion of no family rules (aPR; 1.20 for 20% to <30%, 1.29 for 30% to <40%, and 1.43 for ≥40%, setting <20% as reference). …”
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Impact of input image resolution in medical X-ray images on effectiveness of YOLO network for recognition of intertrochanteric fractures by LIU Xuesi, DU Zhenwei, NIE Rui

“…Based on the 2018 guideline of Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen/Orthopaedic Trauma Association (AO/OTA) and actual clinical incidence, these intertrochanteric fractures were reclassified into grades A1.2/A1.3/A2.2/A2.3/A3, and the X-ray images were assigned into training set (678 images), validation set (84 images), and test set (85 images) in a ratio of 8 ∶1 ∶1 in order to maintain strict consistency across each experiment. …”
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The Influence of Age at Pediatric-Onset Spinal Cord Injury and Years of Wheelchair Use on Shoulder Complex Joint Dynamics During Manual Wheelchair Propulsion by Joshua M. Leonardis, PhD, Alyssa J. Schnorenberg, MS, Lawrence C. Vogel, MD, Gerald F. Harris, PhD, Brooke A. Slavens, PhD

“…Participants: Seventeen manual wheelchair users (N=17; 6 female, 11 male; mean age: 17.2 years, mean age at SCI onset: 11.5 years) with pediatric-onset SCI (levels: C4-T11) and International Standards for Neurological Classification of SCI grades: A (11), B (3), C (2), and N/A (2). Interventions: Not applicable. …”
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The Development of Inquiry Learning on Analytical Chemistry Lab II at Diploma of Analytical Chemistry by Thorikul Huda, Yuli Rohyami

“…Learning outcomes can be obtained grades A was 70.74%. Assessment of students in learning practicum is an accumulation of the value of knowledge of pre-test and test responses of writing, the value of skills and attitudes of practicum activities, preparation of reports, seminars and practice test exams. …”
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The interpositional bypass with a parietal branch of superficial temporal artery graft for symptomatic atherosclerotic anterior cerebral artery stenosis or occlusion by Chuyang Tai, Cong Ling, Tengchao Huang, Baoyu Zhang, Yang Yang, Lei Wei, Haiwan Wu, Ni Mo, Hui Wang, Chuan Chen

“…The rates of patency, satisfaction (revascularization grades A and B) of bypass, perioperative complications, recurrence of ischemic stroke, changes in bypass flow, and improvements in cerebral blood perfusion were analyzed.ResultsA total of 19 SAASO patients were involved in this study. …”
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Identification of immunodiagnostic blood biomarkers associated with spinal cord injury severity by Jianfeng Li, Jianfeng Li, Xizhe Liu, Jianmin Wang, Jianmin Wang, Fuan Wang, Fuan Wang, Zhengya Zhu, Zhengya Zhu, Tao Tang, Tao Tang, Jun Wang, Jun Wang, Zhiyu Zhou, Zhiyu Zhou, Manman Gao, Manman Gao, Shaoyu Liu, Shaoyu Liu

“…Therefore, to obtain the characteristics of blood immune changes and immunodiagnostic blood biomarkers of SCI and its different grades, a human blood transcriptome sequencing dataset was downloaded and analyzed to obtain differentially expressed immune-related genes (DEIGs), related functions and signaling pathways related to SCI and its various grades. …”
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Effects of exclusive breastfeeding on educational attainment and longitudinal trajectories of grade progression among children in a 13-year follow-up study in Malawi by Shamsudeen Mohammed, Emily L. Webb, Clara Calvert, Judith R. Glynn, Bindu S. Sunny, Amelia C. Crampin, Estelle McLean, Shekinah Munthali-Mkandawire, Albert Lazarous Nkhata Dube, Fredrick Kalobekamo, Milly Marston, Laura L. Oakley

“…Latent class growth analysis also provided some evidence that EBF reduced the odds of falling behind in the early school grades (aOR = 0.66, 95%CI = 0.41–1.08) but not later. …”
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Characteristics and risk factors of UCS fracture subtypes in periprosthetic fractures around the hip: results from the National Periprosthetic Fracture study by Ahmed A. H. H. Nasser, Khabab Osman, Govind S. Chauhan, Rohan Prakash, Charles Handford, Rajpal S. Nandra, Ansar Mahmood, The PPF Study Collaborative

“…Patient and injury characteristics, management, and outcomes were compared between UCS grades. A multinomial logistic regression was performed to estimate relative risk ratios (RRR) of variables on UCS grade. …”
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Student Engagement as a General Factor of Classroom Experience: Associations with Student Practices and Educational Outcomes in a University Gateway Course by David J. Shernof, Erik A. Ruzek, Alexander J. Sannella, Roberta Y. Schorr, Lina Sanchez-Wall, Denise M. Bressler

“…With respect to between-student effects, the tendency to sit in front seats had a significant effect on student engagement, which in turn had a significant effect on perceived learning and course grades. A significant indirect relationship of seating and active learning strategies on learning and course grade as mediated by student engagement was found. …”
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Surgical treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in a single institution by Hua Li, Shengliang Zhao, Chun Wu, Zhengxia Pan, Gang Wang, Jiangtao Dai

“…According to the surgical method, the children were divided into an open group (62 cases) and a thoracoscopy group (47 cases).Patients who underwent surgical correction had the diaphragmatic defect size graded (A–D) using a standardized system. We compared the operation time, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative mechanical ventilation time, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative CCU admission time and other surgical indicators as well as the recurrence rate, mortality rate and complication rate of the two groups of children. …”
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Use of Modified Balthazar Grades for the Early Prediction of Acute Pancreatitis Severity in the Emergency Department by Cheng T, Han TY, Liu BF, Pan P, Lai Q, Yu H, Cao Y

“…These patients were regraded according to six methods, with the method yielding the largest κ value consisting of regraded Balthazar grades A–C, D, and E, respectively, corresponding to mild, moderate, and severe AP. …”
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Usefulness of training camps at high altitude for well-trained adolescents by Jiří Suchý, Jakub Opočenský

“…The aerobic, anaerobic and critical load intensities were set by graded a load test. For all individual tests, the participants maintained the same heart rate individually defined for the various segments using a heart rate monitor. …”
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Reconstrução do ligamento cruzado posterior com enxerto autólogo do tendão do músculo semitendinoso duplo e do terço médio do tendão do quadríceps em duplo túnel no fêmur e único n... by Ricardo de Paula Leite Cury, Nilson Roberto Severino, Osmar Pedro Arbix Camargo, Tatsuo Aihara, Victor Marques de Oliveira, Roger Avakian

“…In the IKDC evaluation, 3 patients were graded A, 10 were graded B, and 1 patient was graded C. …”
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Comparison of Widefield Laser Ophthalmoscopy and ETDRS Retinal Area for Diabetic Retinopathy by Mohamed Ashraf, MD, Kristen M. Hock, OD, Jerry D. Cavallerano, OD, PhD, Frank L. Wang, PhD, Paolo S. Silva, MD

“…Mydriatic UWF retinal images were acquired using a nonsimultaneous stereographic protocol with UWF imaging (California; Optos plc). Before grading, a standardized ETDRS 7-field image mask was applied to all UWF retinal images. …”
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Avaliação do módulo de elasticidade da madeira com uso de método não-destrutivo de vibração transversal Evaluation of wood elasticity modulus by non-destructive resonance method of... by Luiz A. Targa, Adriano W. Ballarin, Marco A. M. Biaggioni

“…Non-destructive tests were carried out using BING - Beam Identification by Non-destructive Grading, a commercial system that analyses vibrations in the time and frequency domains. …”
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Differentiating a pachychoroid and healthy choroid using an unsupervised machine learning approach by Reza Mirshahi, Masood Naseripour, Ahmad Shojaei, Mohsen Heirani, Sayyed Amirpooya Alemzadeh, Farzan Moodi, Pasha Anvari, Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani

“…Clinical criteria were developed based on the results of the cluster analysis, and two independent skilled retina specialists graded a separate testing dataset based on the new clinical criteria. …”
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Hyperangulated blades or direct epiglottis lifting to optimize glottis visualization in difficult Macintosh videolaryngoscopy: a non-inferiority analysis of a prospective observati... by Viktor A. Wünsch, Vera Köhl, Philipp Breitfeld, Marcus Bauer, Phillip B. Sasu, Hannah K. Siebert, Andre Dankert, Maria Stark, Christian Zöllner, Martin Petzoldt

“…Stored videos were reviewed by at least three independent observers who assessed the POGO and six glottis view grades. A linear mixed regression and a linear regression model were fitted. …”
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Circulating cell free DNA and citrullinated histone H3 as useful biomarkers of NETosis in endometrial cancer by Livia Ronchetti, Irene Terrenato, Margherita Ferretti, Giacomo Corrado, Frauke Goeman, Sara Donzelli, Chiara Mandoj, Roberta Merola, Ashanti Zampa, Mariantonia Carosi, Giovanni Blandino, Laura Conti, Anna Maria Lobascio, Marcello Iacobelli, Enrico Vizza, Giulia Piaggio, Aymone Gurtner

“…MCA indicates cfDNA, cfmtDNA and citH3 as features associated to G1 and G2 grades. A correlation between increased levels of cfDNA, citH3 and inflammation features was found. …”
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Prevalence and influence of tibial tunnel widening after isolated anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using patella-bone-tendon-bone-graft: long-term follow-up by Johannes Struewer, Turgay Efe, Thomas Manfred Frangen, Tim Schwarting, Benjamin Buecking, Steffen Ruchholtz, Karl Friedrich Schüttler, Ewgeni Ziring

“…Minimum follow-up was 10 years. 75% of patients were graded A or B according to IKDC score. The mean Lysholm score was 90.2 ± 4.8 (25-100). …”
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