Nasopharyngeal angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expression as a risk-factor for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in concurrent hospital associated outbreaks by Aidan M. Nikiforuk, Kevin S. Kuchinski, Katy Short, Susan Roman, Mike A. Irvine, Natalie Prystajecky, Agatha N. Jassem, David M. Patrick, Inna Sekirov

“…Conversely, in patients a one-unit change in ACE2 transcription increases the number of secondary cases (β = 0.187 (95% CI: 0.0101 to 0.370) adjusting for RNA viral load. …”
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Associations of Serum Cystatin C, DNAm Cystatin C, Renal Function, and Mortality in U.S. Adults by Yu-Wei Fang, Wei-Chung Huang, Chikang Wang, Chien-Yu Lin

“…Additionally, a one-unit increase in ln-DNAmCystatinC was associated with an HR of 135.86 (95% CI: 5.51–3349.69, <i>p</i> = 0.004) for all-cause mortality. …”
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Ability of Visual Analogue Scale to predict Oswestry Disability Index improvement and surgical treatment decision in patients with adult spinal deformity by Prashant Adhikari, Engin Çetin, Mehmet Çetinkaya, Vugar Nabi, Selcen Yüksel, Alba Vila Casademunt, Ibrahim Obeid, Francesco Sanchez Perez-Grueso, Emre Acaroğlu

“…For patients >70 years old, one-unit increase in baseline leg pain VAS score increased the probability of deciding on surgical treatment by 1.121 times (p ​= ​0.016). …”
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Triglyceride glucose index as a tool to motivate early lifestyle modification in young adults at diabetes risk: The Baependi Heart Study by Camila Maciel de Oliveira, Jessica Pavani, Chunyu Liu, Rafael de Oliveira Alvim, Mercedes Balcells, Carlos Alberto Mourão-Junior, José Eduardo Krieger, Alexandre da Costa Pereira

“…A total of 1121 individuals (both sexes, 18–100 years) were selected if they were assessed in both cycles and not diagnosed with T2DM at baseline (cycle 1).Our findings showed that a participant’s risk of developing T2DM increased almost 10 times for a one-unit increase in the TyG (odds ratio OR = 10.17, 95% CI, 7.51–13.93). …”
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Metabolic syndrome in antiphospholipid syndrome versus rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes mellitus: Association with arterial thrombosis, cardiovascular risk biomarkers, physical ac... by Eleana Bolla, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Petros P. Sfikakis, Maria G. Tektonidou

“…Odds ratio for MetS was 1.16 for each one unit increase in C-reactive protein levels according to JIS and IDF criteria, and 1.49 and 1.47 for each one unit increase in uric acid levels using the IDF and modified NCEP-ATPIII models, respectively. …”
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The Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Moral Development of Preschool Children Mediated by Children’s Attachment by Pourya Reza Soltani, Alireza Mohammadi Arya, Farzaneh Esmaeili, Siyamak Tahmsebi

“…Moreover, with one unit change in positive adjustment/development, negative behavior, emotional reactivity, and distancing from caregiver support dimensions of attachment, the moral development of preschool children can be predicted by 33.6%, 38.4%, -26.4%, and -11.4%, respectively. …”
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Statistical Evaluation of Smartphone-Based Automated Grading System for Ocular Redness Associated with Dry Eye Disease and Implications for Clinical Trials by Rodriguez JD, Hamm A, Bensinger E, Kerti SJ, Gomes PJ, Ousler III GW, Gupta P, De Moraes CG, Abelson MB

“…Expert graded scores were within one unit of the mean grade in over 85% cases, ensuring consistency and optimal training set for the predictive model. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the EdAl (Educació en Alimentació) Program: A Primary School-Based Study to Prevent Childhood Obesity by Marta Conesa, Elisabet Llauradó, Magaly Aceves-Martins, David Moriña, Oriol de Solà-Morales, Montse Giralt, Lucia Tarro, Rosa Solà

“…The ICERs/boy were 968.66 € to avoid one case of obesity, 3.6 € to reduce the obesity prevalence by 1%, 44.68 € to decrease BMI by one unit, and 65.16 € to reduce the BMI z-score by one unit. …”
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ANALISIS DAYA SAING UBI KAYU INDONESIA DI PASAR INTERNASIONAL by Fahrisa Surya Pramesti, Endang Siti Rahayu, Agustono Agustono

“…While the results of PCR analysis, farming cassava in Indonesia has a competitive advantage because it has a PCR value of 0.36 or less than one, which means that to get the added value of farm output by one unit cassava required additional domestic factor costs less than one unit is equal to 0 , 36. …”
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Concurrent Validity of Power From Three On-Water Rowing Instrumentation Systems and a Concept2 Ergometer by Ana C. Holt, William G. Hopkins, Robert J. Aughey, Rodney Siegel, Rodney Siegel, Rodney Siegel, Vincent Rouillard, Kevin Ball

“…In this study, the concurrent validity of Peach PowerLine (six units), Nielsen-Kellerman EmPower (five units), Weba OarPowerMeter (three units), Concept2 model D ergometer (one unit), and a custom-built reference instrumentation system (Reference System; one unit) were investigated.Methods: Eight female and seven male rowers [age, 21 ± 2.5 years; rowing experience, 7.1 ± 2.6 years, mean ± standard deviation (SD)] performed a 30-s maximal test and a 7 × 4-min incremental test once per week for 5 weeks. …”
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C-terminal and intact FGF23 in kidney transplant recipients and their associations with overall graft survival by Chang Chu, Saban Elitok, Shufei Zeng, Yingquan Xiong, Carl-Friedrich Hocher, Ahmed A. Hasan, Bernhard K. Krämer, Berthold Hocher

“…Cox regression analyses adjusted for risk factors showed that cFGF23 (HR for one unit increase of log transformed cFGF23: 1.35; 95% CI, 1.01–1.79; p = 0.043) but not iFGF23 (HR for one unit increase of log transformed iFGF23: 0.97; 95% CI, 0.75–1.25; p = 0.794) was associated with the overall graft loss. …”
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Complete coverage path planning of nuclear radiation field using bio-inspired neural network by LUO Zhaojin, LIU Chengfeng, JIA Wenbao, SHAN Qing, SHI Chao, ZHANG Jiandong, HEI Daqian, ZHANG Xiaojun, LING Yongsheng

“…The complete coverage times of the one-unit, four-unit, and eight-unit simulations were 30, 9, and 4 min, respectively, and the time efficiency was doubled. …”
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Outcomes of a food voucher program and factors associated with the recovery rate of children with moderate acute malnutrition in Far North Cameroon by Ismael Teta, Brice Ulrich Saha Foudjo, Jennifer N. Nielsen, Julius Oben, Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Françoise Raissa Ntentie, Volkan Cakir, Rolf Klemm, Yunhee Kang

“…Male children had on average 1.82 mm greater increase in MUAC than female children (p < 0.001). One unit increase in WHZ was associated with 3.42 mm increase in MUAC (p = 0.025). …”
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Association analysis between an epigenetic alcohol risk score and blood pressure by Helena Bui, Amena Keshawarz, Mengyao Wang, Mikyeong Lee, Scott M. Ratliff, Lisha Lin, Kira S. Birditt, Jessica D. Faul, Annette Peters, Christian Gieger, Thomas Delerue, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Wei Zhao, Xiuqing Guo, Jie Yao, Jerome I. Rotter, Yi Li, Xue Liu, Dan Liu, Juliana F. Tavares, Gökhan Pehlivan, Monique M. B. Breteler, Irma Karabegovic, Carolina Ochoa-Rosales, Trudy Voortman, Mohsen Ghanbari, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Mohamed Kamal Nasr, Marcus Dörr, Hans J. Grabe, Stephanie J. London, Alexander Teumer, Melanie Waldenberger, David R. Weir, Jennifer A. Smith, Daniel Levy, Jiantao Ma, Chunyu Liu

“…Cross-sectional analyses in FHS revealed that a one-unit increment of the ERS was associated with 1.93 mm Hg higher SBP (p = 4.64E−07), 0.68 mm Hg higher DBP (p = 0.006), and an odds ratio of 1.78 for HTN (p < 2E−16). …”
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Tachycardia and fever after packed red cell (PRC) infusion: A case report by Swanand S. Pathak, Shailesh R. Nagpure, Rupesh A. Warbhe, Dattaprasad N. Kumbhakarna

“…A 56-year-old female patient with a body weight of 60 kg was brought to the hospital with hematemesis and received one unit of packed red cells (PRCs) for this condition. …”
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Modelling of Hybrid Materials and Interface Defects through Homogenization Approach for the Prediction of Effective Thermal Conductivity of FRP Composites Using Finite Element Meth... by C. Mahesh, K. Govindarajulu, V. Balakrishna Murthy

“…The working of the proposed procedure is verified for three different problems: (i) hybrid composite having two different fibres in alternate layers, (ii) fibre-matrix interface debond in alternate layers, and (iii) fibre-matrix interface debond at one fibre in a group of four fibres in one unit cell. It is observed that the results are in good agreement with those obtained through pure micro-mechanics approach.…”
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An investigation on economic growth and tax: A case study of D8 countries from 1990 to 2009 by Nahid Abedini Najafabadi, Farzad Karimi, Abolfazl Yahyaabadi

“…The tourism has more impact since an increase of one unit in tourism's income; taxable income will increase for about 10.26257 units. …”
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Lean Strategy Implementation to Improve Throughput in Assembly Line: Dul-Db21ssc Manufacturing Process at PT. X by Gemma Eka Santoso, Gita Ayu, Nike Septivani

“…One advantage of cells is the one-piece flow concept, which states that each product moves through the process one unit a time without sudden interruption, at a pace determined by the customer’s need.…”
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Severe Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage due to Monkeypox Virus-Associated Proctocolitis by Sobaan Taj, Chris Austin, Azhar Hussain, Maryam Salma Babar, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Steven Imburgio, Anmol Johal, Alejandro CruzPonce, Apurva Vedire, Edward Liu

“…In our case, monkeypox-induced proctocolitis progressed to severe rectal bleeding requiring one unit of packed red blood cells transfusion despite one week of tecovirimat (TPOXX) therapy. …”
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Is it an acute pain transfusion reaction? by Remi Remakanth, B Abhishekh

“…In view of severe anemia, 1 packed red blood cell (PRBC) was requested and after pretransfusion testing one unit of buffy coat-poor, nonleucofiltered, coombs cross-match compatible, fresh (<7-days old) saline-adenine-glucose-mannitol PRBC unit was issued. …”
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