Image Quality Evaluation Based on Gradient, Visual Saliency, and Color Information by Hua-Wen Chang, Xiao-Dong Bi, Cheng-Yang Du, Chang-Wei Mao, Ming-Hui Wang

“…The experimental results on five benchmark databases (i.e., CSIQ, IVC, LIVE, TID2013, and TID2008) show that the proposed IQE method performs better than other methods in the correlation with subjective quality judgment.…”
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The incidence, prevalence, and contributing factors of overweight and obesity among adolescent population of India: A scoping review protocol. by Lopamudra Jena Samanta, Jayashree Parida, Jagatdarshi Badamali, Abinash Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Singh, Bijaya Kumar Mishra, Prasanna Kumar Patra, Sanghamitra Pati, Harpreet Kaur, Subhendu Kumar Acharya

“…Literature search will be done using electronic databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, SCOPUS, EMBASE, and Cochrane library by specific keywords such as "prevalence"; "overweight"; "obesity"; "obese"; "malnutrition"; "BMI"; "adolescent"; "teenager"; and "youth" etc. …”
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Plants Used in Antivenom Therapy in Rural Kenya: Ethnobotany and Future Perspectives by Timothy Omara

“…Data retrieved through searches done in multidisciplinary databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, and Scientific Electronic Library Online) indicated that 54 plant species belonging to 45 genera, distributed among 27 families, are used for the management of snakebites in Kenya. …”
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THE SUITABILITY OF THE BMY2 AND WAXY GENES AND INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS OF RRNA AS MARKERS FOR STUDYING GENETIC VARIABILITY IN ELYMUS SPECIES by N. A. Shmakov, D. A. Afonnikov, P. A. Belavin, A. V. Agafonov

“…In this work, several sequences of two nuclear genes and rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacers annotated in databases are analyzed. Nuclear genes sequences are shown to be more useful in building phylogeny at the interspecies level. …”
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Toxoplasma Uveitis by Mildre Mercedes Vidal del Río, Gabriela Alexandra Villacis Paredes, Karen Daniela Salazar Pullutacsi, Génesis Camila Romero Paredes

“…A bibliographic review was carried out in the Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, PubMed, Scielo and Embase databases. The publication period of the articles established was from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2022. 54 articles were found to which the exclusion criteria were applied and 36 studies were excluded, for this reason they were included in the study. 18 articles. …”
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Perceived Sexual Health Needs of Older Women: A Systematic Review by Farzaneh Saadatmand, Marjan Beigi, Zahra Heidari, Mitra Savabi-Esfahani

“…Materials and Methods: In this systematic review, studies conducted from the beginning of 2000 to August 28, 2022, were searched in Databases, Scopus, Web of Science, SID, Pub Med, and Google Scholar as a research engine. …”
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Psychoactive Substance Uses and Sexual Behavior by Esmaeil Naseri

“…To collect data, relevant articles were searched using the keywords  substance use, functions and dysfunctions, sexual behaviors, and  sexual assault. using Google Scholar and PubMed, as well as the NOORMAGS, SID, and Irandoc databases. Results: Behavioral substance use is relatively common. …”
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Foresight older adults' quality of life in the aging crisis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Raheleh Alimoradzadeh, Katayoun Jahangiri, Roya Alimoradzadeh

“…Methods: All relevant articles were searched in the English and Persian databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, and Medex regardless of the time range up to December 2023. …”
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Laparoscopic Intervention to Pancreatic Pseudocyst Confers Short-Term Benefits: A Meta-Analysis by Yulin Guo, Shun Hu, Shuo Wang, Ang Li, Feng Cao, Fei Li

“…The present study was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of surgical intervention for PPs between the laparoscopic approach and the open approach. Methods. Databases including Cochrane Library, PubMed, and EMBASE were searched to identify studies that compared the safety and efficacy of surgical intervention for PPs between the laparoscopic approach and the open approach (until Aug 1st 2020). …”
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Applications of artificial neural networks in health care organizational decision-making: A scoping review. by Nida Shahid, Tim Rappon, Whitney Berta

“…We screened 3,397 articles from six databases with coverage of Health Administration, Computer Science and Business Administration. …”
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Patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Treating Migraine: A Meta-Analysis by Yu Zhang, Haijiao Wang, Ling Liu

“…The Pubmed (MEDLINE), Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, and retrospective case series from January 1, 2001, to February 30, 2021. …”
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Predicting the distribution of Ixodes ricinus in Europe: integrating microclimatic factors into ecological niche models by Arda Cem Kuyucu, Olcay Hekimoglu, Ala Tabor

“…A Mixed model was built by combining parameters from the Soiltemp (microclimate) and Wordclim (macroclimate) databases, whereas a Macroclimate model was built with the CHELSA dataset. …”
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Health Status and Health Determinants of Older Immigrant Women in Canada: A Scoping Review by Sepali Guruge, Birpreet Birpreet, Joan A. Samuels-Dennis

“…We searched CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane databases for the period of 1990 to 2014 for Canadian-based, peer-reviewed studies on the topic. …”
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Students seeking information for their Master's thesis - the effect of the Internet by Paulina Junni

“…Many respondents would have needed additional training on using library databases.…”
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Biological control, an excellent alternative in the fight against arbovirus transmitting vectors by Aliuska Tamayo Verdecia, Lizette Rodríguez Fernández, Miriela Roque Fernández, Marta María Capote Padilla, Caridad Gianicet Díaz Hernández, Dainiel Paz Bermúdez

“…For this, a bibliographic review of articles, reports, web documents, available in repositories of the Infomed web site and Google Academic, in English and Spanish, published from 2010 to 2023 and articles indexed in databases such as: SciELO, PubMed, Medline and Redalyc. 74 articles were reviewed, of which 30 were related to the topic to be developed. …”
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Educational Migration of Applicants Among Regions of the Russian Federation as a Data Source for Planning the Higher Education System Development by A. V. Dozhdikov, E. V. Kornilova

“…Educational migration was identified by analyzing and comparing databases on the results of the USE and the results of university admission. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Topical Corticosteroids for Management of Oral Chronic Graft versus Host Disease by Basma Abdelaleem Elsaadany, Eman Magdy Ahmed, Sana Maher Hasan Aghbary

“…Electronic search of different databases was conducted: PubMed, Cochrane library, Grey literature, WHO, and clinical trials.gov for clinical trial registration as well as hand search in the references of relevant articles up to November 2016. …”
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Alternatives for scientific dissemination in universities by Mabel Rodríguez Moya, Yuleydi Alcaide Guardado, César David Fuentes Rodríguez

“…A search was carried out in the SciELO, Redalyc and Dialnet databases, using the Google Scholar search engine. …”
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Cytotoxic activity of Fomitopsis betulina against normal and cancer cells – a comprehensive literature review by Paulina Nowotarska, Maciej Janeczek, Benita Wiatrak

“…The review was conducted by searching PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science databases up to July 2024, using specific MeSH terms and keywords related to cytotoxicity, cancer cells, and normal cells. …”
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Role of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 in the Development of Atherosclerosis among Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Nazirah Samah, Azizah Ugusman, Adila A. Hamid, Nadiah Sulaiman, Amilia Aminuddin

“…Literature search was conducted through four online databases and only studies that were published from 2018 until February 2023 were included. …”
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