Tendence k nadváze a obezitě u slovinských chlapců v letech 1991–2006 Overweight and obesity trends in Slovenian boys from 1991 to 2006 by Janko Strel, Bojan Leskošek, Marjeta Kovač

“…It can be concluded that excessive weight in this age period is more a result of physical development and less of external conditions; in other words, the reference values of the IOTF for this specific age group are not particularly suitable.…”
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Experiences of WNGER II Ph.D. Fellows During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Case Study by Rune Johan Krumsvik, Rune Johan Krumsvik, Øystein Olav Skaar, Øystein Olav Skaar, Fredrik Mørk Røkenes, Fredrik Mørk Røkenes, Stein Helge Solstad, Kjetil Laurits Høydal

“…In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is a slow-motion disaster and an ‘external intervention’ that suddenly began in early 2020 and has maintained its grip on the world. …”
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Tendencia de la mortalidad por edad y sexo en España (1981-2016). Cambios asociados a la crisis económica by Soledad Márquez-Calderón, Laura Pérez Velasco, Francisco Viciana-Fernández, Juan Carlos Fernández Merino

“…Negative changes in mortality trends were mainly influenced by external causes (in 15-39 years men) and diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems (in 60-79 years men and women). …”
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Una experiencia PBL en Grado Ingeniería de Diseño Industrial, adaptando el método de sistemas de retículas de Diseño Gráfico by Eduardo Manchado Pérez, Luis Berges Muro

“…This skill has been usually developed by the exploration of the possible external formal characteristics of a product. But the subjectivity in the analysis and valuation of the results produces a lack of self-confidence in the students, because they don´t have the means to defend the reliability of their proposals, and difficulties of its evaluation from the teachers. …”
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Predictive power of deep-learning segmentation based prognostication model in non-small cell lung cancer by Jordan C. Gainey, Yusen He, Robert Zhu, Stephen S. Baek, Xiaodong Wu, John M. Buatti, Bryan G. Allen, Brian J. Smith, Yusung Kim

“…The promising results of the DESEP model were reproduced for the independent, external datasets of Stanford University, classifying survival and ‘dead’ group in their Kaplan-Meyer curves (p = 0.019).ConclusionDeep-learning segmentation based prognostication can predict LPFS as well as OS, and DSS after SBRT for NSCLC. …”
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Efeitos de modos de aplicação e concentrações de etefon na coloração da casa e outros atributos de qualidade do abacaxi 'Pérola' Effects of application methods and concentrations o... by Luciana Lima de Almeida Santana, Domingo Haroldo Reinhardt, Valdique Martins Medina, Carlos Alberto da Silva Ledo, Ranulfo Corrêa Caldas, Clovis Pereira Peixoto

“…This work aimed at evaluating the effects of application methods and concentrations of ethephon on rind color and other external and internal aspects of 'Pérola' pineapples during their storage under natural conditions. …”
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Development and evaluation of correction models for a low-cost fine particulate matter monitor by B. Nilson, B. Nilson, P. L. Jackson, C. L. Schiller, C. L. Schiller, M. T. Parsons

“…These were evaluated in comparison with four existing models from external sources using the data from 15 additional NA colocation sites. …”
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Avaliação do feno de Arachis pintoi utilizando o ensaio de digestibilidade in vivo Evaluation of Arachis pintoi hay using in vivo digestibility trial by Márcio Machado Ladeira, Norberto Mario Rodriguez, Iran Borges, Lúcio Carlos Gonçalves, Eloísa de Oliveira Simões Saliba, Sérgio Corrêa Brito, Leonardo Augusto Pinto de Sá

“…Chromium oxide was used as external marker to estimate fecal production. The intake of DM and OM of A. pintoi was 90.17 and 85.67 g/kg0.75, respectively. …”
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Ecomicrobiology and microbial assimilative capacity of the oligotrophic Andean Lake Laja, Chile Ecomicrobiología y capacidad asimilativa microbiana del lago oligotrófico andino Laj... by BERNHARD KARRASCH, STEFAN WOELFL, ROBERTO URRUTIA, JENNY GONZÁLEZ, CLAUDIO VALDOVINOS, HERNÁN CID, OSCAR PARRA

“…The overall activities of all microbial extracellular enzymes studied proved to be dominated by the dissolved free external enzymes (up to 98 %) over the ectoenzymes which are associated with particulate organic matter (bacterial cell walls, particles, and aggregates). …”
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Ensuring comparisons of health-care providers are fair: development and validation of risk prediction models for critically ill patients by David A Harrison, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, Jason Shahin, Kathryn M Rowan

“…Results: The current Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) model was externally validated using data for 29,626 admissions to critical care units in Scotland (2007–9) and outperformed the Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II model in terms of discrimination (c-index 0.848 vs. 0.806) and accuracy (Brier score 0.140 vs. 0.157). …”
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Structuring requirements as necessary premise for customer-oriented development of complex products: A generic approach by Sandra Klute, Robert Refflinghaus

“…In this context, it is necessary to survey and systematically regard requirements from a large number of areas like for example the operator, the facility producer and also requirements of external parties such as the law and to implement into adequate product characteristics to produce customer-oriented products. …”
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SURVEY METHODS FOR EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES IN THE "CAMERA DEGLI SPOSI" OF MANTEGNA (MANTOVA) by E. Fratus de Balestrini, M. Ballarin, C. Balletti, V. Buttolo, C. Gottardi, F. Guerra, S. Mander, L. Pilot, P. Vernier

“…The first is Riegl LMS-Z390i, a time of flight laser scanner that was used to survey the external surface of one of the fronts of the Castle. …”
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Assessment of the information provided by the medical specialist on Alzheimer's disease and that retained by the patient caregivers by J.L. Molinuevo, B. Hernández

“…The main reasons for this include the personal limitations of the physician, as well as external, emotional and social-cultural factors associated with the patients and their caregivers.The aim of this study is to compare the clinical information on AD provided by the physicians and that perceived by caregivers and to assess factors associated with differences in perception. …”
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The Metafiction analysis of the novel Harb al-Kulb al-Thani by Mohamadreza Shirkhani, Moslem Khezeli

“…As a definition for meta-fiction novels, meta-fictions, unlike pre-modern novels that tried to depict the external and real world, do not reflect the real world. …”
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The Context and Provenance of Democratization in Ghana (1990-1992) by Thomas Maxwell Aidoo

“…The paper identifies two developments, elite and mass struggles for political and economic incorporation respectively, and external pressures, as having played the dominant role in this process.  …”
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Transport of Po Valley aerosol pollution to the northwestern Alps – Part 2: Long-term impact on air quality by H. Diémoz, G. P. Gobbi, T. Magri, G. Pession, S. Pittavino, I. K. F. Tombolato, M. Campanelli, F. Barnaba

“…This simplified exercise indicated that an increase in such “external” emissions by a factor of 4 in the model is needed to halve the model <span class="inline-formula">PM₁₀</span> maximum deviations and to significantly reduce the <span class="inline-formula">PM₁₀</span> normalised mean bias forecasts error (from <span class="inline-formula">−35</span>&thinsp;% to 5&thinsp;%).…”
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Seasonal cycling of zinc and cobalt in the south-eastern Atlantic along the GEOTRACES GA10 section by N. J. Wyatt, A. Milne, E. P. Achterberg, T. J. Browning, H. A. Bouman, E. M. S. Woodward, M. C. Lohan

“…In this paper, we investigate how the seasonal influences of external input and phytoplankton succession may relate to the distribution of dZn and dCo and variation in dZn <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M9" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mo>/</mo></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="880d1b22cfae9b4167ff115d05c6894c"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="bg-18-4265-2021-ie00002.svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" src="bg-18-4265-2021-ie00002.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> dCo stoichiometry across these two distinct ecological regimes in the south-eastern Atlantic.…”
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Actualización práctica de las recomendaciones del Grupo de Psoriasis de la Academia Española de Dermatología y Venereología (GPS) para el tratamiento de la psoriasis con terapia bi... by J.M. Carrascosa, L. Puig, I. Belinchón Romero, L. Salgado-Boquete, E. del Alcázar, J.J. Andrés Lencina, D. Moreno, P. de la Cueva

“…After several review processes, including external review by other GPs members, the final document was drafted. …”
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Ultrasonic hemodynamic changes of superficial temporal artery graft in different angiogenesis outcomes of Moyamoya disease patients treated with combined revascularization surgery by Siyuan Chen, Baoping Wang, Yunyu Wen, Zhibin Wang, Tinghan Long, Junda Chen, Guozhong Zhang, Mingzhou Li, Shichao Zhang, Jun Pan, Wenfeng Feng, Songtao Qi, Gang Wang

“…The blood flow from the external carotid artery system supplied by the superficial temporal artery (STA), middle meningeal artery (MMA), and deep temporal artery (DTA) can restore the impaired hemodynamics of the ischemic brain. …”
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MRI-derived radiomics assessing tumor-infiltrating macrophages enable prediction of immune-phenotype, immunotherapy response and survival in glioma by Di Chen, Rui Zhang, Xiaoming Huang, Chunxia Ji, Wei Xia, Ying Qi, Xinyu Yang, Lishuang Lin, Jing Wang, Haixia Cheng, Weijun Tang, Jinhua Yu, Dave S. B. Hoon, Jun Zhang, Xin Gao, Yu Yao

“…Among them, 145 patients from the TCGA microarray cohort were randomly allocated into a training set (N=101) and an internal validation set (N=44), while the immune-phenotype cohort (N=203) and the immunotherapy-treated cohort (N=31, patients from a prospective clinical trial treated with DC vaccine) recruited from Huashan Hospital were used as two external validation sets. The immunotherapy-treated cohort was also used to evaluate the relationship between RIB and immunotherapy response. …”
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