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Accurate assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in adolescents is critical. However, normalizing oxygen consumption (VO₂) to body mass (BM) may underestimate CRF in overweight (OW) youth by including metabolically inactive fat mass. This study...

Almost half of the Earth’s land is covered by large river basins. Temporal variations of hydrological masses induce time-varying gravitational potential and temporal mass loading that deforms the Earth’s surface. These phenomena cause tem...

Point cloud data are often accompanied by noise and irregularities, which bring great challenges to the extraction of point cloud surface traces of discontinuous rock masses. Most of the existing feature line extraction methods rely on traditional ge...

Gout is an inflammatory arthritis triggered by monosodium urate crystal deposition, especially in obese patients. However, distinctions between the characteristics of obese and non-obese patients with gout remain unclear. We aimed to investigate the...

Large-scale metabolomics assays are widely used in epidemiology for biomarker discovery and risk assessments. However, systematic errors introduced by instrumental signal drifting pose a big challenge in large-scale assays, especially for derivatizat...

Assessing historic timber requires separating service history from material variability, surface condition and sampling limitations. This study characterizes Scots pine recovered during renovation of the historic half-timbered residential building at...

Background: The disadvantage of using body mass index (BMI) as an obesity diagnostic tool is that it cannot distinguish between fat mass and lean mass, which may understate the impact of obesity on metabolic complications. This population-based cross...

For large-scale metabolomics, such as in cohort studies, normalization protocols using quality control (QC) samples have been established when using data from gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. However, normali...

A gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolomics protocol was modified for quenching, harvesting, and extraction of metabolites from adherent cells grown under high (20%) fetal calf serum conditions. The reproducibility of using either 50%...

This paper presents a method for dynamically maintaining a regional elevation datum using CORS stations as core nodes. By utilizing CORS station data and surface mass loading data (including land water storage, sea level, and atmospheric pressure), t...

A charge-balanced aqueous hybrid supercapacitor was constructed by coupling Co-modified MnWO₄ nanorods with H₂O₂-treated carbon nanotubes (OH-CNTs) in 1 M KOH. The samples were designated by the nominal Co/(Mn + Co) precursor molar fraction; ICP-OES...

Urine is a popular biofluid for metabolomics studies due to its simple, non-invasive collection and its availability in large quantities, permitting frequent sampling, replicate analyses, and sample banking. The biggest disadvantage with using urine...

Neutrino oscillation theory takes the mixing orientation and mass spectrum as independent inputs. This paper constructs a correlated candidate for both using charged-lepton structural ratios and a neutral seam fixed in a previously published calculat...

Satellite gravimetry allows for determining large scale mass transport in the system Earth and to quantify ice mass change in polar regions. We provide, evaluate and compare a long time-series of monthly gravity field solutions derived either by sate...

Normal weight obesity (NWO) is a body composition phenotype that is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk and is characterized by a normal weight body mass index but elevated body fat. The purpose of this study was to determine sex differenc...

Anodic corrosion of Al alloy electrodes limits their use as anodes in alkaline aluminum–air batteries. Na₂SO₄- and Al₂(SO₄)₃-containing formulations were compared at matched nominal sulfate-group inputs but different formulation-derived Na and...

Background/Objectives: Although body mass index (BMI) is a conventional screening tool for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), its reliability as a sole indicator of metabolic health is controversial, and the metabolic profile of a subset of individuals...

The assessment of aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) exposure using isotope-dilution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS) of AFB₁-lysine adducts in human serum albumin (HSA) has proven to be a highly productive strategy for the biomonitoring of AFB₁ expos...

This paper presents the formulation and simulation-based validation of a novel hierarchical fuzzy-adaptive Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) control framework for a rectilinear active mass damper, designed to enhance vibration suppre...

Identifying the autoregressive (AR) orders of a multivariate time series is a foundational step whose accuracy governs every downstream modelling and forecasting task. When the series exhibits two simultaneously operating seasonal periodicities, as i...

Pluchea indica Less. is a medicine and food dual-use plant, which belongs to the Pluchea genus, Asteraceae family. Its main constituents are quinic acids, flavonoids, thiophenes, phenolic acids, as well as sesquiterpenes. In order to provide a compre...

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a potentially reversible neurological disease, causing motor and cognitive dysfunction and dementia. iNPH and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) share similar molecular characteristics, including amyloid depos...

Geometric misalignment degrades industrial cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), particularly when a dedicated calibration phantom cannot be deployed during object acquisition. This study presents a three-stage, scan-specific geometric refinement fra...

French colonial mass housing estates built in Algiers between 1950 and 1962 constitute a substantial part of the city’s housing stock and continue to shape its urban structure. As aging residential environments, they present important challenge...

Public–Private Partnership (PPP) procurement is a relatively new approach in Nigeria’s housing sector. This study introduces a Fuzzy Risk Allocation Decision Model (FRADM) designed to address the complex and subjective nature of risk allo...

The precise association of serum leptin (Lep) with the body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) is not well known for understanding their involvement in health and disease. Hence, the present study was conducted to investigate the association of...

Nonylphenols (NPs), widely used as emulsifiers in petroleum production and refining, are compounds of environmental concern, with endocrine-disrupting effects. They can be released during oil extraction and processing, carried into petroleum products...

Background: This study addressed differences between parent–child dyads with excessive body mass (overweight or obesity) and dyads with normal body mass in obesity determinants, derived from social-ecological models. It was hypothesized that pa...

This study evaluated the prognostic value of metabolic parameters based on the standardized uptake value (SUV) normalized by total body weight (bwSUV) and by lean body mass (SUL) measured on ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/compute...

Rationale: Intestinal microbiota plays a significant role in the human body. A range of negative factors may lead to dysbiosis, which results in many diseases (e.g., cancer) and metabolic disorders. It was shown that people with a body mass index (BM...

Sandwich panels are widely used where high specific stiffness and impact tolerance are required. However, published comparisons of core systems are often confounded by differences in base material, relative density, specimen size, interface condition...

Normal weight obesity (NWO) is a condition characterized by a normal body mass index (BMI; 18.5–24.9 kg·m⁻²) yet excess body fat. Those with this condition have an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases associated with obesity....

Background: Infertility is a major public health concern worldwide. While excess body weight is a well-established risk factor for impaired fertility, increasing evidence indicates that elevated body fat content may also occur in women with normal bo...

Background: This study examined the prevalence of visceral obesity in Chinese adults across different body mass index (BMI) groups and their associated lipid profiles and demographic risk factors. Methods: A total of 1653 Chinese adults were recruite...

Background: A variety of musculoskeletal problems have been associated with excessive body mass in children, including structural foot problems. Methods: Two hundred children aged 9 to 12 years were recruited to evaluate the effect of body mass on fo...

Objective: Postnatal tissue accretion in preterm infants differs from those in utero, affecting body composition (BC) and lifelong morbidity. Length normalized BC data allows infants with different body lengths to be compared and followed longitudina...

This study investigated the relationship between normal weight obesity (NW-O) and skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) in 120 female university students who participated in sporting activities during junior and senior high school. The current physical ac...

The receptive phase of the uterus is marked by structural and functional maturation of the endometrium. During this limited time span, the blastocyst competency is superimposed on the receptive endometrium. It is a well-known fact that lipid signalli...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes core subunits of oxidative phosphorylation complexes and, as a result of intricate regulatory crosstalk between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, the total number of mtDNA copies fits the requirements of each cell t...

Biological variance among samples across different cohorts can pose challenges for the long-term validation of developed models. Data-driven normalization methods offer promising tools for mitigating inter-sample biological variance. We applied seven...

In this paper, we delve into the following nonlinear fractional Kirchhoff-type problem ${(a+b||(-\Delta )}^{{\displaystyle \frac{s}{2}}}{u\left|\right|}_2^2{)(-\Delta )}^{s}u+\lambda u=g\left(u\right)+{\left|u\right|}^{2_s^{*}-2}u$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ with prescribed mass ${\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^3}{\left|u\right|}^{2}dx=\rho >0,$ where $s\in ({\displaystyle \frac{3}{4}},1),\lambda \&i$...

Background: The body mass index (BMI) is closely related to fat tissue, which may have direct or indirect effects on muscle function. Previous studies have evaluated BMI and muscle viscoelastic properties in vivo in older people or individual sexes;...

Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease that leads to damage of retinal ganglion cells and the optic nerve. Patients display altered antibody profiles and increased antibody titer, e.g., against S100B. To identify the meaning of these antibodies, ani...

Background: There exists some inconsistent evidence on the relationship between altered cardiac morphology, its function, and frailty. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the associations among frailty, lean body mass, central arterial stiffness, a...

The bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) became a standardized technique for assessing body composition, but many factors affect the reproducibility of measurement, including body and limbs position. In spite of the fact that it is recommended for...

The analysis of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in clinical chemistry laboratories by specific immunoassay is well established. However, changes in glycosylation are not as easily assayed and yet alterations in hCG glycosylation is associated with...

We describe the practice of ventilation and mortality rates in invasively ventilated normal-weight (18.5 ≤ BMI ≤ 24.9 kg/m²), overweight (25.0 ≤ BMI ≤ 29.9 kg/m²), and obese (BMI > 30 kg/m²) COVID-19 ARDS patients in a national, multicenter observ...

In this paper, we argue in favor of first-order homogeneous Lagrangians in the velocities. The relevant form of such Lagrangians is discussed and justified physically and geometrically. Such Lagrangian systems possess Reparametrization Invariance (RI...

ATP-sensitive potassium (K-ATP) channels are ubiquitously expressed on the plasma membrane of cells in several organs, including the heart, pancreas, and brain, and they govern a wide range of physiological processes. In pancreatic β-cells, K-AT...

Background: BMI is widely used for obesity classification, yet it does not adequately reflect adiposity distribution and related metabolic risk. Normal-weight obesity (NWO), defined as excess adiposity despite normal BMI, has emerged as a clinically...