The Safety and Efficiency of Surgery with Colonic Stents in Left-Sided Malignant Colonic Obstruction: A Meta-Analysis by Xiang Zhao, Bo Liu, Ende Zhao, Jiliang Wang, Ming Cai, Zefeng Xia, Qinghua Xia, Xiaoming Shuai, Kaixiong Tao, Guobin Wang, Kailin Cai

“…There was no statistic difference for the rate of primary anastomosis, anastomotic leak and operation-related mortality between two groups. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Novel Back Surface Field for High Efficiency Ultrathin CdTe Solar Cells by M. A. Matin, M. U. Tomal, A. M. Robin, N. Amin

“…This paper numerically explores the possibility of high efficiency, ultrathin, and stable CdTe cells with different back surface field (BSF) using well accepted simulator AMPS-1D (analysis of microelectronics and photonic structures). …”
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Influence of soot aerosol properties on the counting efficiency of instruments used for the periodic technical inspection of diesel vehicles by T. Hammer, D. Roos, B. Giechaskiel, A. Melas, K. Vasilatou

“…<p>In this work, we investigated the influence of different types of soot aerosol on the counting efficiency (CE) of instruments employed for the periodic technical inspection (PTI) of diesel vehicles. …”
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Multi-environment and multi-parameter screening of stability and coating efficiency of gold nanoparticle bioconjugates in application media by Junjie Wang, Stefano Giordani, Valentina Marassi, Anna Placci, Barbara Roda, Pierluigi Reschiglian, Andrea Zattoni

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Digestible Energy Intake and Digestive Efficiency of Human-Managed North American River Otters (Lontra canadensis) by Larry J. Minter, Kimberly Ange-van Heugten, Craig A. Harms, Michael K. Stoskopf

“…This study investigated the digestible energy intake, gastrointestinal transit time, and digestive efficiency of three different diets being fed at three North Carolina institutions. …”
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SPEMix: a lightweight method via superclass pseudo-label and efficient mixup for echocardiogram view classification by Shizhou Ma, Yifeng Zhang, Delong Li, Yixin Sun, Zhaowen Qiu, Lei Wei, Suyu Dong

“…IntroductionIn clinical, the echocardiogram is the most widely used for diagnosing heart diseases. Different heart diseases are diagnosed based on different views of the echocardiogram images, so efficient echocardiogram view classification can help cardiologists diagnose heart disease rapidly. …”
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A study on an efficient citrus Huanglong disease detection algorithm based on three-channel aggregated attention by Yizong Wang, Zhengrong Xiao, Hong Wang, Fei Li, Jiya Tian

“…Background Aiming at the problems of complex and diverse field symptoms of citrus Huanglong disease (HLB), low efficiency and insufficient recognition accuracy of traditional detection methods, this study proposes an efficient detection algorithm based on improved You Only Look Once (YOLO)v8. …”
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Layered oxyiodide CdBiO2I: An efficient visible light responsive and scalable photocatalyst by Weishan Zheng, Zijian Zhu, Rui Sha, Shuchen Tu, Hongwei Huang

“…It displays an absorption edge of 520 nm in visible region, with a band gap of 2.52 eV CdBiO2I has a large intrinsic effective mass difference of hole/electron, exceeding BiOI by 8-fold, which results in much higher charge separation efficiency and production of more reactive species (superoxide radicals and holes). …”
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EFFICIENT INTRODUCTION OF COMPLEMENTARY FOODS FOR CHILDREN WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND PREDISPOSITION TO ALLERGIC REACTIONS FOR PREVENTION OF ATOPIC MARCH by A.V. Kamaev

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177Lu-FA-DOTA-PEG-PLGA Nanoparticles Show Antitumor Efficiency in Targeting Ovarian Cancer by Ziming Guo, Yi Du, Jun Zhao, Sha Sha, Jian Wang

“…Upon intraperitoneal injection, fluorescence intensities of intraperitoneal metastatic tumors in the control, chemotherapy and nanoparticle groups showed a statistical difference (F = 6.09, p = 0.029). Ascitic fluid volumes in the chemotherapy and nanoparticle groups were significantly lower than that in the control group (F = 13.43, p = 0.006). …”
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Experimental Study and Optimization of Shredding Speed to Improve the Efficiency of Small-Sized Disc Shredder for Plant Residues by Vitaliy V. Krasovskiy, Yuriy B. Gerber

“…There have been found dependencies for different branch diameters that made it possible to optimize the operating parameters of the shredder. …”
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Computational design of therapeutic antibodies with improved developability: efficient traversal of binder landscapes and rescue of escape mutations by Frédéric A. Dreyer, Constantin Schneider, Aleksandr Kovaltsuk, Daniel Cutting, Matthew J. Byrne, Daniel A. Nissley, Henry Kenlay, Claire Marks, David Errington, Richard J. Gildea, David Damerell, Pedro Tizei, Wilawan Bunjobpol, John F. Darby, Ieva Drulyte, Daniel L. Hurdiss, Sachin Surade, Newton Wahome, Douglas E.V. Pires, Charlotte M. Deane

“…We experimentally characterized binding against different antigen targets, developability profiles, and cryo-EM structures of designed antibodies. …”
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A Convenient and Efficient Strategy for Improving Separation Ability of Capillary Electrophoresis Through Tilting Capillary as Needed by Wenhui Jia, Pingyi Zheng, Yuchen Cui, James J. Bao, Yanmei Xu, Youxin Li

“…After investigating the related parameters, results showed that the gravity effect was significantly affected by additives in the buffer, the length, and the inner diameter of the capillary, and the size of the sample molecule. This made the different ions with opposite or significantly different mobilities to be observed at a CE run. …”
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Optimizing HVAC&R System Efficiency and Comfort Levels Using Machine Learning-Based Control Methods by Suroor M. Dawood, Raad Z. Homod, Alireza Hatami

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The effects of incorporating sprouted barley in diets of high-yielding dairy cows on production, efficiency, and nutrient digestibility by U. Moallem, J. Shpirer, L. Livshits, T. Alon, Y. Shaani, H. Kamer, Y. Portnik, H. Leibovich

“…The milk-to-DMI ratio was 6.3% higher in the SB cows (P < 0.001), with no differences in other efficiency calculations. The rumen ammonia concentration was 21% lower in the SB cows (P = 0.006), and rumen acetate, propionate, and total volatile fatty acids were higher in the CTL cows. …”
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Increase in yield and nitrogen use efficiency of double rice with long-term application of controlled-release urea by Chang TIAN, Ming-xue SUN, Xuan ZHOU, Juan LI, Gui-xian XIE, Xiang-dong YANG, Jian-wei PENG

“…There was no significant difference between CRU1 and CRU2 in double rice yield. …”
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INFLUENCE OF SUBSIDIES ON THE EFFICIENCY OF PRODUCTION IN SHEEP BREEDING (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SHEEP FARMS FROM SOUTH-WEST BULGARIA) by H. Momchilov, D. Pamukova

“…The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence of subsidies on the efficiency of production in sheep breeding by analyzing the mechanism of functioning based on different types of farms in the southwest region of Bulgaria. …”
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METHODS FOR THE CHOOSING THE RATIONAL COMBINATION AND COMPARISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AND FACTORS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BOREHOLE D... by V. V. Kulikov

“…The examples are given from the different fields of the drilling production processes and technologies.…”
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Dynamic Topology Optimization of Constrained Damping Plates considering Frequency and Temperature Characteristics Based on an Efficient Strategy by Fan Wu, Pu Xue

“…The similarity index is defined to distinguish the correlation among different design layouts. Two instances demonstrated the validity of the proposed approach. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCING PROGRAMS FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND ON EDUCATION IN THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT IN ROMANIA by Mihaela GRECU (FRĂȚEA), Constantin Adrian SURLEANU, Ovidiu GUȘAN, Dragos Ion SMEDESCU, George VLAD, Răzvan PANAIT, Valentina Constanța TUDOR

“…The objective of this article is to achieve a centralization of educational units with a specific focus on the trend of student enrolled in different forms of education versus the number of graduates since 990. …”
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