Detection Efficiency of NaI(Tl) Detector in 511–1332 keV Energy Range by I. Akkurt, K. Gunoglu, S. S. Arda

“…Gamma spectrometry system can be used in a variety of different fields such as radiation and medical physics. In this paper the absolute efficiency, peak to valley ratio, and energy resolution of a 3′′×3′′ NaI(Tl) detector were determined experimentally for 511, 662, 835, 1173, 1275, and 1332 keV photon energies obtained from 22Na, 54Mn, 60Co, and 137Cs radioactive sources.…”
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Monotheistic understanding of the divine in African religion, Christianity and Islam by EW Namukoa, P Verster, PJ Nel

“…Finally, a suggestion is put forward as to the possibility to exploit the commonality of the absolute position of the Divine in the religious traditions as a shared basis for religious tolerance and dialogue. …”
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Dopuszczalność kary śmierci w ujęciu Tadeusza Ślipki. Kara śmierci rekapitulacją uprawnionej obrony by Krzysztof Butowski

“…The source of such law lies in the absolute inviolability of innocent human’s life as a fundamental right of every man. …”
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Immune responses in children with secondary infection of mycoplasma pneumoniae after COVID-19: focus on eosinophils and IgE by Pingping Wang, Jin Yao, Yaqiong Li, Zhanjun Zhang, Ruiling Zhang, Shouting Lu, Meixia Sun, Xiaorong Huang

“…The clinical data of the two groups of patients, including absolute eosinophil value, IgE quantification, IL-6, CRP and PCT levels, were collected and analyzed, and statistical comparisons were performed. …”
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Survival and Flight Capacity of Apis mellifera after Contact with Residues of Spiromesifen on Melon Leaves by Alesia Alves de Souza, Emanoely Karoliny Santos da Silva, Ewerton Marinho da Costa, Tiago Augusto Lima Cardoso, Jacquelinne Alves de Medeiros Araújo Costa, Daiane Mirian Tomaz da Silva, Ancélio Ricardo de Oliveira Gondim

“…/L), a positive control (Thiamethoxam), and an absolute control (distilled water), at three exposure times: 1, 2, and 3 hours after treatment application. …”
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Examining reliability of WHOBARS: a tool to measure the quality of administration of WHO surgical safety checklist using generalisability theory with surgical teams from three New... by Jennifer M Weller, Carmen Skilton, Derryn A Gargiulo, Oleg N Medvedev, Simon J Mitchell, Alan F Merry

“…All elective and acute cases (adults and children) involving surgery under general anaesthesia during normal working hours were eligible.Participants The study included 243 surgical staff members, 138 (50.12%) women.Main outcome measure Absolute generalisability coefficient that accounts for variance due to items, phases, sites and raters for the WHOBARS measure of the quality of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist administration.Results The WHOBARS in its present form has demonstrated good generalisability of scores across teams and raters (G absolute=0.83). …”
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Development and validation of a novel AI-derived index for predicting COPD medical costs in clinical practice by Guan-Heng Liu, Chin-Ling Li, Chih-Yuan Yang, Shih-Feng Liu

“…Model performance was assessed with Mean Squared Error (MSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), and R-squared (R²). …”
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Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Sofia Tseleni-Balafouta, Dimitrios Balalis, Vasiliki N. Soulou, Dimitrios P. Korkolis, George H. Sakorafas, Georgios Plataniotis, Emmanouil Gontikakis

“…NLR was calculated as the absolute neutrophil count divided by the absolute lymphocyte count, based on the preoperative complete blood cell counts. …”
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Minute-cadence Observations of the LAMOST Fields with the TMTS. VI. Physical Parameters of Contact Binaries by Qiqi Xia, Xiaofeng Wang, Kai Li, Xiang Gao, Fangzhou Guo, Jie Lin, Cheng Liu, Jun Mo, Haowei Peng, Qichun Liu, Gaobo Xi, Shengyu Yan, Xiaojun Jiang, Jicheng Zhang, Cui-Ying Song, Jianrong Shi, Xiaoran Ma, Danfeng Xiang, Wenxiong Li

“…The absolute physical parameters were inferred with the W-D code for 10 systems, all of them are W-type shallow or medium contact binaries. …”
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Supraglacial Lake Depth Retrieval from ICESat-2 and Multispectral Imagery Datasets by Quan Zhou, Qi Liang, Wanxin Xiao, Teng Li, Lei Zheng, Xiao Cheng

“…The best accuracy was achieved when extreme gradient boosting was applied to a Sentinel-2 L1C image, with root mean square error, mean absolute error, and median absolute error values of 0.54 m, 0.43 m, and 0.36 m, respectively. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Grepafloxacin by B Wiedemann, P Heisig

“…This applies only to the relative differences (in dilution steps); the absolute values are similar. Grepafloxacin kills Gram-positive bacteria at concentrations little above the MIC. …”
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FORMAL STRUCTURE AND POLYPHONIC TECHNIQUE IN ZOLTÁN KODÁLY’S “SEVEN EASY CHORAL PIECES FOR CHILDREN" by Gabriela COCA

“…I noticed already then that despite their simplicity and absolute clearness these pieces are very logical and masterly elaborated. …”
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Parameter-Uniform Numerical Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Delay Parabolic Reaction Diffusion Equations with Integral Boundary Condition by Wakjira Tolassa Gobena, Gemechis File Duressa

“…The integral boundary condition is treated using numerical integration techniques. Maximum absolute errors and the rate of convergence for different values of perturbation parameter ε and mesh sizes are tabulated for two model examples. …”
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Generalized Lebesgue Points for Hajłasz Functions by Toni Heikkinen

“…We show that if αX<∞ and X has absolutely continuous quasinorm, then quasievery point is a generalized Lebesgue point of a quasicontinuous Hajłasz function u∈M˙s,X. …”
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Unifications of Continuous and Discrete Fractional Inequalities of the Hermite–Hadamard–Jensen–Mercer Type via Majorization by Shah Faisal, Muhammad Adil Khan, Tahir Ullah Khan, Tareq Saeed, Zaid Mohammmad Mohammad Mahdi Sayed

“…In addition to this, some bounds are also provided for the absolute difference between the left- and right-sides of the main results.…”
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The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment by N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash, F. E. Bertrand, M. Boswell, V. Brudanin, M. Busch, A. S. Caldwell, Y.-D. Chan, C. D. Christofferson, D. C. Combs, J. A. Detwiler, P. J. Doe, Yu. Efremenko, V. Egorov, H. Ejiri, S. R. Elliott, J. Esterline, J. E. Fast, P. Finnerty, F. M. Fraenkle, A. Galindo-Uribarri, G. K. Giovanetti, J. Goett, M. P. Green, J. Gruszko, V. E. Guiseppe, K. Gusev, A. L. Hallin, R. Hazama, A. Hegai, R. Henning, E. W. Hoppe, S. Howard, M. A. Howe, K. J. Keeter, M. F. Kidd, A. Knecht, O. Kochetov, S. I. Konovalov, R. T. Kouzes, B. D. LaFerriere, J. Leon, L. E. Leviner, J. C. Loach, P. N. Luke, S. MacMullin, R. D. Martin, S. Mertens, L. Mizouni, M. Nomachi, J. L. Orrell, C. O'Shaughnessy, N. R. Overman, David Phillips, A. W. P. Poon, K. Pushkin, D. C. Radford, K. Rielage, R. G. H. Robertson, M. C. Ronquest, A. G. Schubert, B. Shanks, T. Shima, M. Shirchenko, K. J. Snavely, N. Snyder, D. Steele, J. Strain, A. M. Suriano, J. Thompson, V. Timkin, W. Tornow, R. L. Varner, S. Vasilyev, K. Vetter, K. Vorren, B. R. White, J. F. Wilkerson, T. Williams, W. Xu, E. Yakushev, A. R. Young, C.-H. Yu, V. Yumatov

“…The observation of this rare decay would indicate that the neutrino is its own antiparticle, demonstrate that lepton number is not conserved, and provide information on the absolute mass scale of the neutrino. The Demonstrator is being assembled at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. …”
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Some New Variants of Relative Regularity via Regularly Closed Sets by Sehar Shakeel Raina, A. K. Das

“…Every topological property can be associated with its relative version in such a way that when smaller space coincides with larger space, then this relative property coincides with the absolute one. This notion of relative topological properties was introduced by Arhangel’skii and Ganedi in 1989. …”
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Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic by Hussein Abidali, Maheen Sheikh, Moustapha Abidali, Ali Abidali, Hamoudi S. Farraji, Andrew C. Berry

“…We present the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with history of hepatitis C viral cirrhosis with portosystemic encephalopathy and ascites with evidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 944 cells/µL blood. …”
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Combined Piggyback Technique and Cavoportal Hemitransposition for Liver Transplant by Jeffrey Campsen, Igal Kam

“…Portal Vein thrombosis (PVT) increases the difficulty of liver transplant; however, it is not an absolute contraindication. Cavoportal hemitransposition (CPH) is an option for patients with complete PVT and no alternative collateral vein. …”
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A Dialogue between Pragmatism and Existentialism: W. James and F. Nietzsche on Truth by Reyhan Yılmaz

“…Both thinkers react against the idea of truth as absolute, fixed, and indifferent to individuals’ practical needs. …”
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