The Efficacy of Strontium and Potassium Toothpastes in Treating Dentine Hypersensitivity: A Systematic Review by B. F. A. Karim, D. G. Gillam

“…The main outcome measures were the methodology and assessment used by Investigators in studies designed to evaluate DH. Results. The results of the present paper would indicate that the reported efficacy of both strontium- and potassium-based toothpastes in relieving DH is questionable. …”
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Few Samples of SAR Automatic Target Recognition Based on Enhanced-Shape CNN by Mengmeng Huang, Fang Liu, Xianfa Meng

“…Some researchers point out that existing convolutional neural network (CNN) paid more attention to texture information, which is often not as good as shape information. Wherefore, this study designs the enhanced-shape CNN, which enhances the target shape at the input. …”
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Development of a low-cost flexible potentiometric detector and its integrated system for electrochemical sensing of electrolytes in human sweat by Chaojiang Li, Yuxuan Liu, Guodong Liu, Qifeng Tan, Xiaolong Dou, Yuting Xie, Xianchao Zhang

“…In the current era of wearable electrochemical sensors, there is a growing demand for a potentiometric detector that exhibits exceptional flexibility, comfortable wearability, and stability in electrolyte sensing. The present study designs and validates a low-cost (costs 17 dollars), small area (size of 4 × 5.8 cm2), highly flexible potentiometric detector, which is facilitated through the utilization of cost-effective components, flexible printed circuit boards, and Bluetooth low energy modules. …”
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Truck-Lifting Prevention System Based on Vision Tracking for Container-Lifting Operation by Qingfeng Huang, Yage Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Weijian Mi, Chao Mi

“…Considering the development of vision detection and tracking algorithms, this study designed a vision-based truck-lifting prevention system. …”
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The Interactive Design of Library Information Sharing in View of Network Communication Technology by Yeping Zhen

“…Then, this study proposes a dynamic differentiated service mechanism of DDSM to improve the success rate of information transmission in the interactive design system. This study designs an experiment on the interactive design of library information sharing by multiple types of users. …”
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Immunosuppressive therapy of patients with pemphigus with ineffectiveness of systemic corticosteroids by Vadim V. Chikin, Arfenya E. Karamova

“…The drugs doses, the studies design, and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of therapy in patients with pemphigus are considered. …”
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Writing case reports and series: Tricks, traps, and triumphs! by Abraham Edgar Gracia-Ramos

“…They constitute uncontrolled study designs with different varieties that describe important scientific observations that are missed or undetectable in other research methods. …”
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Computational Methods for Multidimensional Neutron Diffusion Problems by Song Han, Sandra Dulla, Piero Ravetto

“…The flexibility and the possibility to obtain neutron importances allow the use of the module for parametric studies, design assessments, and integral parameter evaluations as well as for future sensitivity and perturbation analyses and as a shape solver for time-dependent procedures.…”
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Adolescent and Young Adult Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: Special Considerations by Amanda F. Saltzman, Nicholas G. Cost

“…However, adolescents remain the age group least studied or understood as they fall in between the ages included in most study designs. Also, they require the most psychosocial support because of the challenges unique to the adolescent period. …”
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Timber Portal Frames vs Timber Truss-Based Systems for Residential Buildings by Harry Far, Claire Far

“…The aim of this study is to look at the feasibility and economic incentive that may be gained from using a timber portal frame system, similar to the steel or timber portal frames used for larger industrial constructions, over the traditional timber truss and column arrangement. In this study, designs for three cases of timber truss and timber portals were carried out using industry appropriate methods and standards. …”
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Design of a Circularly Polarized -Slot Antenna with Isotropic Pattern for the UHF RFID Reader of WSN by Jongan Park, Jonghun Chun, Gwangwon Kang, Sungkwan Kang, Youngeun An

“…In an antenna for a UHF RFID reader of wireless sensor networks (WSN), receiver sensitivity in sensing multitags from remote distances is an important performance index. This study designed a dual structured Z -slot antenna with optimized receiver sensitivity to enhance the sensitivity to a circularly polarized antenna with an isotropic pattern for a UHF RFID. …”
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The Preventable Risk Integrated ModEl and Its Use to Estimate the Health Impact of Public Health Policy Scenarios by Peter Scarborough, Richard A. Harrington, Anja Mizdrak, Lijuan Marissa Zhou, Aiden Doherty

“…Noncommunicable disease (NCD) scenario models are an essential part of the public health toolkit, allowing for an estimate of the health impact of population-level interventions that are not amenable to assessment by standard epidemiological study designs (e.g., health-related food taxes and physical infrastructure projects) and extrapolating results from small samples to the whole population. …”
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Improving reporting standards in quantitative educational intervention research: introducing the CLOSER and CIDER checklists by Rebecca Upsher, Eleanor Dommett, Sophie Carlisle, Sarah Conner, Geraldene Codina, Anna Nobili, Nicola C. Byrom

“…CLOSER was designed to guide the comprehensive reporting of quantitative educational intervention research from the abstract to the discussion for multiple study designs. Concurrently, CIDER details the precise features of educational interventions. …”
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Dynamic properties of low-density expandable polystyrene concrete materials by Jue Han, Hualin Fan

“…Expanded polystyrene (EPS) concrete, known for its environmental friendliness, energy absorption capacity, and low impedance, has significant potential application in the fields of wave absorption and vibration reduction. This study designed and prepared EPS concrete materials with four levels of density. …”
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Designing High-Freedom Responsive Feeder Transit System with Multitype Vehicles by Zhengwu Wang, Jie Yu, Wei Hao, Tao Chen, Yi Wang

“…The last mile travelling problem is the most challenging part when using public transit. This study designs a high-freedom responsive feeder transit (HFRFT) system to serve at the transfer station, given vehicle routes, departure time, and service area based on demand. …”
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Critical Aspects of Clinical Trial Design for Novel Cell and Gene Therapies by Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Iciar Aviles-Olmos, Thomas Foltynie

“…Detailed evaluation of these discordant findings has highlighted several crucial issues such as patient selection criteria, details surrounding transplantation or gene therapy methodologies, as well as the study designs themselves that ought to be carefully considered in the planning phases of future clinical trials. …”
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Comparison of Two Meta-Analysis Methods: Inverse-Variance-Weighted Average and Weighted Sum of Z-Scores by Cue Hyunkyu Lee, Seungho Cook, Ji Sung Lee, Buhm Han

“…Finally, we apply both methods to the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium data and demonstrate that the two methods can give distinct results in certain study designs.…”
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Modeling the Traveler’s Route Choice Behavior under Unexpected Accidents by Minqing Zhu, Peng Shi, Hongjun Cui, Xinye Li, Xinwei Ma

“…To investigate the route choice behavior of travelers under unexpected accidents, this study designs four different scenarios of travelers’ route choice behavior experiments according to the severity of unexpected accidents. …”
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Monarch butterfly optimization based energy management system for electric vehicle with interleaved landsman converter by C. Milton, T. S. Sivarani

“…The battery can be charged from the grid or solar photovoltaic (SPV), depending on the need. This study designs an electric vehicle (EV) charging system that uses an interleaved landsman converter followed by a flyback converter. …”
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Design and Implementation of the Natural Light Reproduction System Based on Context Awareness in WSN by Yun-Joo Kim, Sook-Youn Kwon, Jae-Hyun Lim

“…To this end, this study designs and implements a natural light reproduction system based on context awareness in wireless sensor networks to restructure lighting environments in adaptation to the changing situation of the occupant. …”
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