Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study حسب Rupert Bourne (603842)

"…Globally, between 1990 and 2020, among adults aged 50 years or older, age-standardised prevalence of blindness decreased by 28·5% (–29·4 to −27·7) and prevalence of mild vision impairment decreased slightly (–0·3%, −0·8 to −0·2), whereas prevalence of moderate and severe vision impairment increased slightly (2·5%, 1·9 to 3·2; insufficient data were available to calculate this statistic for vision impairment from uncorrected presbyopia). …"

Effect of Surface Treatment of Halloysite Nanotubes (HNTs) on the Kinetics of Epoxy Resin Cure with Amines حسب Vahideh Akbari (18768001)

"…Detailed assessment revealed that autocatalytic reaction degree, m increased at low heating rate from 0.107 for neat epoxy/amine system to 0.908 and 0.24 for epoxy/P-HNT and epoxy/A-HNT nanocomposites, respectively, whereas epoxy/F-HNT system had m value of 0.072 as a signature of dominance of non-catalytic reactions. …"

Chamber investigation of the formation and transformation of secondary organic aerosol in mixtures of biogenic and anthropogenic volatile organic compounds حسب Aristeidis Voliotis (16563090)

"…The observed average SOA particle mass yields (the organic particle mass produced for a mass of VOC consumed) in descending order were found for the following systems: α-pinene (32 ± 7 %), α-pinene–o-cresol (28 ± 9 %), α-pinene at 1/2 initial reactivity (21 ± 5 %), α-pinene–isoprene (16 ± 1 %), α-pinene at 1/3 initial reactivity (15 ± 4 %), o-cresol (13 ± 3 %), α-pinene–o-cresol–isoprene (11 ± 4 %), o-cresol at 1/2 initial reactivity (11 ± 3 %), o-cresol–isoprene (6 ± 2 %), and isoprene (0 ± 0 %). …"

Inhibition of alpha-synuclein seeded fibril formation and toxicity by herbal medicinal extracts حسب Mustafa T. Ardah (4858657)

"…In order to investigate the inhibitory mechanisms of these two compounds towards fibril formation, we demonstrated that salvianolic acid B binds predominantly to monomers, while dihydromyricetin binds to oligomeric species and to a lower extent to monomers. Remarkably, these two compounds stabilized the soluble non-toxic oligomers lacking β-sheet content after subjecting them to proteinase K digestion.…"

Salivary α-amylase activity is associated with cardiometabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in overweight/obese, non-diabetic Qatari women حسب Neyla S. Al Akl (15189997)

"…Additionally, sAAa demonstrated a significant positive association with adiponectin β 0.007 [95% CI 0.001 to 0.01]while concurrently displaying significant negative associations with CRP β -0.02 [95% CI -0.044 to -0.0001], TNF-α β -0.105 [95% CI -0.207 to -0.004], IL-6 β [95% CI -0.39 -0.75 to -0.04], and ghrelin β -5.95 [95% CI -11.71 to -0.20], specifically within the female population.…"

The impact of enteric coating of aspirin on aspirin responsiveness in patients with suspected or newly diagnosed ischemic stroke: prospective cohort study: results from the (ECASIS... حسب Mohamed Nabil Elshafei (9960500)

"…Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that patients treated with EC-ASA were more likely to have a lower rate of non-responders compared to P-ASA (unadjusted OR 0.78; 95% CI 0.20, 3.11); with the risk highest in type 2 diabetic patients with HBA1c > 6.5% (adjusted OR 6; 95% CI 1.02, 35.27; P = 0.047). …"

Overview of Artificial Intelligence–Driven Wearable Devices for Diabetes: Scoping Review حسب Arfan Ahmed (17541309)

"…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Prevalence of diabetes has steadily increased over the last few decades with 1.5 million deaths reported in 2012 alone. …"

Exercise training-induced speeding of VO₂kinetics is not intensity domain-specific or correlated with indices of exercise performance حسب Erin Calaine Inglis (7042334)

"…Despite significant increases in maximal VO₂ (VO_2max ), estimated lactate threshold (θLT), maximal metabolic steady state (MMSS), and peak power output (PPO) for the intervention groups (p < 0.05), there were no significant correlations from PRE to MID or MID to POST between ΔτVO₂ and Δ V O_2max (r=– 0.221, r = 0.119), ΔPPO (r= – 0.112, r= – 0.017), ΔθLT (r= 0.083, r = 0.142) and ΔMMSS (r= – 0.213, r = 0.049)(p > 0.05).…"

In vitro effects of multi-purpose contact lens disinfecting solutions towards survivability of Acanthamoeba genotype T4 in Malaysia حسب Hussain, Rosnani Hanim Mohd

"…The incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis has been increasing since the previous decades, especially among contact lens users. …"
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Exploring Unique Physiological and Genetic Features of Desert-dwelling Legumes حسب Madhurima Chatterjee (5331215)

"…Our presented work will support several crop improvement programs to design research strategies ensuring improved environmental stress tolerance to legumes and non-legumes and eventually address the world food insecurity to a great extent.…"

Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District حسب Hamad, Khadije

"…The results in chapter 5 show that the Egg-crate scheme performed most effectively on the office building case study achieving a reduction in energy consumption of 8.2% from the base case result in a year. …"
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Masked phenomenon: renal and cardiovascular complications; review and updates حسب Elmukhtar Habas (14777677)

"…Normal blood pressure should be 120/80 mmHg, which generally decreases when a person is sleeping or sitting. High blood pressure or hypertension occurs when the blood pressure is too high. …"

An ensemble-based machine learning model for predicting type 2 diabetes and its effect on bone health حسب Belqes Alsadi (18695031)

"…ML models were utilized to distinguish diabetes groups from non-diabetes controls. Recursive feature elimination (RFE) was leveraged to identify a subset of features to improve the performance of model. …"

From past famines to present crises: The epigenetic impact of maternal malnutrition on offspring health in Gaza حسب Mohamed Adil Shah Khoodoruth (14589828)

"…Notably, at least one in four households (over half a million people) are facing catastrophic conditions (IPC Phase 5, Catastrophe) according to the IPC.…"

The Effect of Atorvastatin (and Subsequent Metformin) on Adipose Tissue Acylation-Stimulatory-Protein Concentration and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Overweight/Obese Women With Polyc... حسب Thozhukat Sathyapalan (704787)

"…</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">ISRCTN Number: ISRCTN24474824</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Frontiers in Endocrinology<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00394" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00394</a></p>…"

HIV incidence among people who inject drugs in the Middle East and North Africa: mathematical modelling analysis حسب Ghina R Mumtaz (18629722)

"…It also delineates injecting drug use role as a driver of the epidemic in the population, and estimates impact of interventions.…"

Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17 حسب Kirsten E Wiens (9153854)

"…<p dir="ltr">Background Oral rehydration solution (ORS) is a form of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrhoea that has the potential to drastically reduce child mortality; yet, according to UNICEF estimates, less than half of children younger than 5 years with diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) received ORS in 2016. …"

The investigation of treatment design parameters on carbon integration networks حسب Sabla Y. Alnouri (6331652)

"…The cost of the carbon network increases when the solvent temperatures are increased. However, there was a noticeable linear trend at lower temperatures compared to higher temperatures, where the increase became non-linear. …"

Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017 حسب LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators (18567880)

"…Wasting decreased overall across LMICs between 2000 and 2017, from 8.4% (62.3 (55.1–70.8) million) to 6.4% (58.3 (47.6–70.7) million), but is predicted to remain above the World Health Organization’s Global Nutrition Target of <5% in over half of LMICs by 2025. Prevalence of overweight increased from 5.2% (30 (22.8–38.5) million) in 2000 to 6.0% (55.5 (44.8–67.9) million) children aged under 5 years in 2017. …"

The interplay between social media use and problematic internet usage: Four behavioral patterns حسب Khansa Chemnad (17346994)

"…The total PIU score can range from 6 to 30, with a score above 15 indicating that a person is at risk of PIU. …"