An analysis of intuitionistic fuzzy sets in risk-based inspection: A case study of hydrogen crack damage in steel tanks under gas pressure by Jalal Sadeghi, Hadi Sarvari, Shahab Zangeneh, Adel Fatemi, David J. Edwards

“…The studied case examples were three steel tanks under the pressure of sour gas and gas condensate exposed to hydrogen cracking (HIC) damage. …”
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Responsiveness and minimal important differences of common disability measures in people with depression and anxiety disorders by Edimansyah Abdin, Vanessa Seet, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Sing Chik Tan, Muhammad Iskandar Shah Mohmad Khalid, Yee Ming Mok, Swapna Kamal Verma, Mythily Subramaniam

“…The MID was estimated using a triangulation approach while the internal and external responsiveness was evaluated using standardized response mean and receiver operating characteristic curves, respectively.ResultsThe best MID estimates for the WHODAS, SDS, and SOFAS were three, four, and six points, respectively. The internal responsiveness analysis showed that all three disability measures were well responsive in patients with improved or stable Patient Health Questionnaire-8 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scores at the 6-month follow-up. …”
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Correlates of survival after autoantibody reduction therapy for acute IPF exacerbations. by Tejaswini Kulkarni, Vincent G Valentine, Fei Fei, Thi K Tran-Nguyen, Luisa D Quesada-Arias, Takudzwa Mkorombindo, Huy P Pham, Sierra C Simmons, Kevin G Dsouza, Tracy Luckhardt, Steven R Duncan

“…Plasma anti-HEp-2 autoantibody titers were ~-three-fold greater in survivors compared to non-survivors (p<0.02). …”
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Knowledge and awareness of dental trauma and the ToothSOS mobile application among medical, nursing, and pharmacy students in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study by Ayman M. Abulhamael, Nujud O. Saber, Manar A. Alzaidi, Maram A. Alkenani, Raghad M. Alotaibi, Omar R. Alkhattab, Shatha S. Zahran, Obadah N. Austah

“…Nursing students scored significantly higher than medical and pharmacy students ( p  < .05). Female students were three times more likely to have adequate knowledge ( p  < .001). …”
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Effect of Probiotics Bacillus subtilis on Feed Efficiency and Egg Mass of Laying Hens by Hanif Sabekti Pratama, Widya Paramita Lokapirnasari, Soeharsono Soeharsono, Muhammad Anam Al-Arif, Nenny Harijani, Sri Hidanah

“…The concentration of probiotics B. subtilis was 1 x 109 CFU/ml, there were three kinds of treatments, P0 (without given probiotics B. subtilis), P1 (given 0.1 gram of probiotics B. subtilis per kg of feed), and P2 (given 0.2 gram of probiotic B. subtilis per kg of feed). …”
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Circumferential excisions in the trunk and associations in ex-obese patients by José Carlos Daher, Daniel Augusto dos Santos Soares, Cesar Augusto Daher Ceva Faria, Bruno Peixoto Esteves, Ismar Ribeiro Junior, Luciano Gomes Moura, Leonardo Martins Costa Daher, Milena Carvalho Almeida Galdino

“…Surgical complications observed were hematoma, flap necrosis and/or infection. There were three cases of small dehiscence and seroma and one case of pulmonary thromboembolism. …”
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Increased Temperature Effects During Fruit Growth and Maturation on the Fruit Quality, Sensory and Antioxidant Properties of Raspberry (<i>Rubus idaeus</i> L.) cv. Heritage by Francisca Aguilar, Martina Salazar, Lida Fuentes, Daniel Calderini, Alejandro Jerez, Carolina Contreras

“…A zone with high background temperatures (central orchard) and low background temperatures (southern orchard) were studied. The treatments were three heating chambers installed at the fruit set, increasing the ambient temperature by ~4 °C, and untreated controls. …”
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Barriers of continuous positive airway pressure machine purchasing in older adults with obstructive sleep apnea by Bundit Sawunyavisuth, Sasawan Heingraj, Suwakitti Amornpan, Darunee Jongudomkarn, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth

“…The average (SD) age of all patients was 67.73 (5.84) years with a proportion of male patients of 46.67% (7 patients). There were three themes on why the older adults with OSA did not purchase CPAP including financial constraints, lack of family financial support, and OSA perspectives. …”
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Aggressive Behaviour and Its Relationship with Negative Events of Life Among Portuguese University Students, the Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ)—Reduced and Adapted Portug... by Marta Reis, Gina Tomé, Lúcia Ramiro, Filipa Coelhoso, Margarida Gaspar de Matos

“…The validation of the reduced and adapted Portuguese version of the VRA-AQ was carried out on a Portuguese university sample (<i>N</i> = 2991). There were three main focuses of data analysis: descriptive statistics, correlations, and factor analyses. …”
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The learning curve for hood‐sparing robotic‐assisted radical prostatectomy: A single‐surgeon experience by Keith R. S. Simpson, Jamie Krishnan, Linda Taylor, Alan McNeill, Daniel W. Good

“…The surgeon was an ‘in‐training’ fellowship trained surgeon in their first 2 years of independent practice. There were three cohorts identified from electronic and scanned paper operation notes. …”
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The landscape of non-reference SINE-VNTR-Alus in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Abigail L. Pfaff, Abigail L. Pfaff, Vivien J. Bubb, John P. Quinn, Sulev Kõks, Sulev Kõks

“…Association analysis of the common SVAs with ALS risk, age at onset and survival did not identify any SVAs that survived correction for multiple testing. However, there were three different rare SVA insertions in the ALS associated gene NEK1 identified in four different individuals with ALS. …”
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Reactivity of cardiorespiratory system in bronchial asthma patients according to the tests with respiratory maneuvers performance by O. P. Romanchuk, V. I. Velychko, Ya. I. Bazhora

“…At the outpatient stage of treatment, a comprehensive multifunctional method for the cardiorespiratory system examination – spiroarteriocardiorhythmography (SACR) was used. There were three consecutive two-minute registrations: at normal respiration (NR), at respiratory rate 6 times per minute (RR6) and at respiratory rate 15 times per minute (RR15). …”
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Application of the Problem-based Learning Model to Improve the Class V Elementary Student Learning Outcomes by Regina Sitorus, Patri Janson Silaban, Bogor Lumban Raja, Nova Florentina Ambarwati, Anton Sitepu

“…Of the initial test (pretest), the student learning results were obtained before implementing the Problem-based Learning model. There were three people who completed it with a percentage of 12.5% while 21 people did not complete it with a percentage of 87.5% and an average of 37.95. …”
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Foliar Application of Different Levels of Zinc and Boron on the Growth and Yield of Mungbean (Vigna radiate L.) by Mohammad Selim Reza Selim, Sourav Adhikary, Monjurul Alam Mondal, Kawsar Alam Nadim, Babul Akter

“…An experiment was conducted during Kharif-1 of 2022 at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Substation, Satkhira to know the effect of foliar application of micronutrients (zinc and boron) on the growth and yield of mungbean. There were three levels of zinc (Zn) (0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6%) and boron (B) (0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6%) along with a blanket dose of urea (35 kg ha-1, triple super phosphate (TSP) (80 kg ha-1), murite of potash (MoP) (40 kg ha-1) and Sulphur (60 kg ha-1). …”
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Seroprevalence, attitudes and practices of the Baka Pygmies of eastern Cameroon towards HIV and AIDS by Noel Emmanuel Essomba, Dieudonné Adiogo, Danielle Kedy Koum, Carine Ndonnang, Madeleine Irma Ngo Ngwe, Léo Njock Ayuck, Leopold Lehman, Yves Coppieters

“…Subjects who had sex with the Bantu were three times more likely to be infected (p = 0.02), as well as those who had had more than three sexual partners. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CARE DOSE 4D SOFTWARE USE ON IMAGE QUALITY AND RADIATION DOSE ON THE CT SCAN ABDOMEN by Ni Larasati Kartika Sari, Merry Suzana, Muzilman Muslim, Dewi Muliyati

“…Objects used in this study were three water phantoms, each with a diameter of 165 mm, 230 mm, and 305 mm. …”
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Factors influencing the degree of participation in surgical decision-making among Chinese patients with prostate cancer: A qualitative research by Jie Cao, Chunxue Peng, Xiaoying Lu, Lingjun Zhou, Jing Wu

“…Results: According to the analysis and summary of the interviews, there were three factors affecting the degree of participation in surgical decision-making. …”
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Randomized, Double-Blind, and Placebo-Controlled Clinic Report of Intranasal Low-Intensity Laser Therapy on Vascular Diseases by Timon Cheng-Yi Liu, Lei Cheng, Wen-Juan Su, Yi-Wen Zhang, Yun Shi, Ai-Hong Liu, Li-Li Zhang, Zhuo-Ya Qian

“…In this paper, 90 patients with coronary heart disease or cerebral infarction were randomly divided into two groups, 60 in the treatment group and 30 in the control group, and were blindly treated with ILGLT at 8.38 and 0 mW/cm2 for 30 min each time once a day ten days each session for two sessions between which there were three days for rest, respectively. Fasting blood lipid such as total cholesterol and low/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and hemorheologic behavior such as blood viscosity, plasma viscosity, redox viscosity and red blood cell aggregation were assessed before the first treatment and after the two sessions and were found to be significantly improved by ILGLT. …”
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Effect of different packaging type on seed vigor of three rapeseed(Brassica napus L.) cultivars stored in Ghome province by بیتا اسکویی, مریم دیوسالار, لیلا یاری, عباس زارعیان

“…The studied cultivars were RGS, Talaieh and Okapi and packaging cover types were three andndash;layer paper bag ,4-layer paper bag , propylene bag,propylene+paper and flaxen bag which was studied using factorial experiment on the basis of randomized complete block design in 3 replications. …”
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Exploring high opioid prescriptions among nephrologists in the United States using machine learning algorithms by Shivashankar Basapura Chandrashekarappa, Sulaf Assi, Manoj Jayabalan, Abdullah Al-Hamid, Dhiya Al-Jumeily

“…Findings: Unsupervised clustering showed that prescription issued to males were three times higher than those issued to females. …”
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