Habitat Characteristics and the Species Response of Astragalus curvirostris Boiss. to the Environmental Factors in Lorestan Rangelands by Reza Siahmansour, Nadia Kamali, Hamid Reza Mirdavoodi, Javad Motamedi

“…Extended Abstract IntroductionTo analyze complex ecological data, it is necessary to employ flexible and robust analytical methods that can handle non-linear relationships, interactions, and missing data control. …”
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Waiting Time Distribution of Supra-arcade Downflows by Zichao Yang, Rui Liu

“…In six of the seven flares, the SADs are identified and tracked in previous studies by two different methods, and in the seventh flare, they are identified and tracked by our optimized manual method. …”
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Dynamic Micro-Vibration Monitoring Based on Fractional Optical Vortex by Fucheng Zou, Dechun Liu, Le Wang, Shengmei Zhao, Jialong Zhu

“…When the topological charge (TC) of the FOV beam is less than or equal to one, a single-petal structure is generated, significantly reducing the complexity of angular tracking compared to traditional multi-petals OAM-based methods. …”
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Does trust mediate the determinant factor of airplane e-ticket purchase decisions using mobile applications? by Edy Sulistiyawan, Suharyanto Suharyanto, Indra Kurniawan, Bisma Arianto, Siti Samsiyah

“…Purpose – This study aims to analyze the influence of information quality, social media marketing, and perceived ease of use on e-ticket purchasing decisions using the tiket.com mobile application mediated by trust. Method – This research applied quantitative methods and a causally associative approach. …”
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Pengaruh Luas Penutupan Terumbu Karang Pada Lokasi Biorock dan Reef Seen Terhadap Keragaman Spesies Ikan di Wilayah Perairan Pemuteran, Bali <br><i>[Closure Area Effect On Reefs... by A. Shofy Mubarak, Destya Twinandia, Akhmad Taufiq Mukti

“…Research carried out by using the line transect method or Point Intercept Transect (PIT) with a direct enumeration technique Cencus Visual Method (VCM) and photo transects for data reef fish and coral reef data. …”
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Experimental therapy of epilepsy with transcranial magnetic stimulation: lack of additional benefit with prolonged treatment by Brasil-Neto Joaquim P., Araújo Doralúcia P. de, Teixeira Wagner A., Araújo Valéria P., Boechat-Barros Raphael

“…OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of three months of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment in intractable epilepsy. METHODS: Five patients (four males, one female; ages 6 to 50 years), were enrolled in the study; their epilepsy could not be controlled by medical treatment and surgery was not indicated. rTMS was performed twice a week for three months; patients kept records of seizure frequency for an equal period of time before, during, and after rTMS sessions. rTMS was delivered to the vertex with a round coil, at an intensity 5 % below motor threshold. …”
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In Vitro Analysis of the Accuracy of Intraoral Scanning in Children by Eloá Cristina Passucci Ambrosio, Aliny Bisaia, Thiago Cruvinel, Natalino Lourenço Neto, Thais Marchini Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado

“…Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of intraoral scanning in maxillary dental arches of children. Material and Methods: Twenty-five edentulous dental models (Group 1) and 25 dental models with complete deciduous dentition (Group 2) comprised the sample sets. …”
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ETHOD FOR MANAGING THE STRUCTURAL-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FOAM CONCRETE MIXTURES by A. Yu. Bogatina, V. N. Morgun, L. V. Morgun

“…Since foam concrete proved to be an effective material for wall structures, the aim of the present work was to develop scientific ideas about features of their macrostructural formation at the “viscous to solid” phase transition.Methods The evaluation of plastic strength was carried out according to the patent for invention No. 2316750 (“Method for determining the plastic strength of foam concrete mix” registered in the State Register of Inventions of the Russian Federation on February 10, 2008). …”
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Laboratory study of the quality of root canal obturation in the application of various techniques of medical treatment by T. V. Furtsev, Z. Yu. Amelyukhina, G. M. Zeer

“…All extracted teeth were divided into 4 equal groups depending on the method of antiseptic treatment of root canals: traditional protocol using 3% NaOCl and 17% EDTA solution; distilled water and Er,Cr:YSGG with a wavelength of 2780 nm at 1 W; distilled water and Er,Cr:YSGG with a wavelength of 2780 nm at 1.5 W; LAI technique. …”
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THE EFFECTS OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE TV SCREEN IN EVERYDAY AND PERSONAL SPACE by Sergey L. Grigoryev

“…The study used the historical method, analysis of textual materials, as well as content analysis and cross-factor analysis of sources in terms of parameters that have content, the study of which was important to achieve the intended goal. …”
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U-Net-Based Fingerprint Enhancement for 3D Fingerprint Recognition by Mohammad Mogharen Askarin, Min Wang, Xuefei Yin, Xiuping Jia, Jiankun Hu

“…By applying the proposed method, the fingerprint recognition Equal Error Rate (EER) in experiment A and B improved from 41.32% and 41.97% to 13.96 and 12.49%, respectively, over the public dataset.…”
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SA-I Mechanoreceptor Position in Fingertip Skin May Impact Sensitivity to Edge Stimuli by Gregory J. Gerling

“…Background: The skin plays a role in conditioning mechanical indentation into distributions of stress/strain that mechanoreceptors convert into neural signals. Solid mechanics methods have modelled the skin to predict the in vivo neural response from mechanoreceptors. …”
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Hearing the Vagus Nerve’s Rhythm in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation by A. A. Nechepurenko, V. M. Pokrovsky, D. G. Tarasov, H. Z. Kitiashvili, V. G. Abushkevich

“…Purpose of the study: to evaluate hearing the vagus nerve’s rhythm in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.Materials and methods. Observations were carried out in 50 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation who were admitted for catheter-based treatment of arrhythmia. …”
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MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF A CHRONIC GASTRODUODENITIS AT PRESCHOOLERS WITH VARIOUS AMYLOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF THE MIXED SALIVA by N. Ye. Sazanova, L. N. Shkeneva, N. Yu. Shirokova

“…The amylolytic activity of the mixed saliva by Smith-Roy-Ugolev amylolytic method was determined at patients. 2 clinical groups with account of median (the 50th percentile) distribution of amylolytic activity of saliva are created: the first — with indicators below the median (n =72), the second — with indicators above or equal to the median (n =73). …”
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Effects of Dynamic Assessment (DA) Models (Interventionist and Interactionist) on EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension and Reading Motivation by Mehdi Khanifar, Fariba Rahimi Esfahani, Parisa Riahipour

“…Objective: The effects of interventionist and interactionist dynamic assessment (DA) on reading motivation (RM) and Reading comprehension (RC) of Iranian EFL learners were inspected in this study. Methods: Ninety-nine volunteers were originally chosen for the study, and they were then divided into three equal groups of thirty students each—two experimental groups (EGs) and one control group (CG). …”
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Edification Dictums in the Language Consciousness of the Kazakh Ethnos by Галина Абрамова, Наталія Дмитрюк

“…Objective: linguacultural analysis of the edification words, collected in a free associative experiment (FAE) and published in the “Kazakh Associative Dictionary”. Materials & Methods. Set of associations of instructive character singled out by the continuous sampling method into a separate fragment of the world paremiological image is a unique representative research material included into the Kazakh Associative Dictionary, in the 23 655 associative reactions of the students of different universities in Shymkent city for112 stimulus words, 272 sayings – edifications recorded in 200 questionnaires. …”
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Total Sialic Acid (TSA) Level as a Tumor Marker in the Diagnosis of Oral Cancer by Hafiz Muhammad Rafique Tagar, Muhammad Iltaf, Hoor Fatima, Nudrat Anwar Zuberi, Shahnaz Imdad Kehar

“… Objective: To estimate serum Total Sialic Acid (TSA) levels in different grades of oral squamous cell carcinoma and to access it`s utility as a tumor marker in this cancer. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in 68 adult subjects equally divided into two groups, healthy individuals and patients with oral squamous cell cancer. …”
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Identifying regional variation in the prevalence of postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Clara Calvert, Sara L Thomas, Carine Ronsmans, Karen S Wagner, Alma J Adler, Veronique Filippi

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To provide regional estimates of the prevalence of maternal haemorrhage and explore the effect of methodological differences between studies on any observed regional variation.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a systematic review of the prevalence of maternal haemorrhage, defined as blood loss greater than or equal to 1) 500 ml or 2) 1000 ml in the antepartum, intrapartum or postpartum period. …”
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A comparative study of accuracy between gene Xpert (cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test) and line probe assay in retreatment cases of sputum-positive pulmonary tubercul... by Upendra Kumar, D Dhanalakshmi, G. Sravan Kumar, V. Deepan

“…The patients who were receiving retreatment were identified by sputum for acid fast Bacilli by Ziehl–Neelsen staining method and were instructed to provide sputum samples for CBNAAT and LPA. …”
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Phagocytic activity and toxicity of the aqueous extract of Schinus molle L. on Mus musculus BALB/c by Cinthya Yanina Santa Cruz López, Fransk Amarildo Carrasco Solano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz Barrueto

“…Objective: To evaluate the phagocytic activity and in vivo toxicity of the aqueous extract of Schinus molle L. on Mus musculus BALB/c. Material and Methods: Experimental study that used a single dose of aqueous extract of Schinus molle leaves of 2000 mg/kg. …”
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