COMBINATION THERAPY OF HIGH-RISK PATIENTS IN REAL CLINICAL PRACTICE. RESULTS OF SYNERGY STUDY. PART 1. ANTIHYPERTENSIVE BRANCH by O. M. Drapkina

“…According to safety assessment the average score for perindopril monotherapy was 9.64, for a fixed combination of perindopril/indapamide – 9.61, for a fixed combination of perindopril/amlodipine – 9.64. …”
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A structural model of academic performance based on the meaning of education and academic optimism for students of medical sciences: The mediating role of stress by Neda Mahdieh, Farzaneh Hooman, Parviz Asgari

“…The students’ last-semester grade point average (GPA) was used as an indicator of their academic performance. …”
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SNP‐RFLP Markers for the Study of Arabidopsis lyrata by Michelle Liu, Avery Chambers, Braidy Chambers, Alberto Aleman, Marc Stift, Katya Mamonova, Joanna Freeland, Marcel Dorken

“…Further filtering and marker validation enabled the development of 17 SNP marker loci that can be visualized using standard PCR‐RFLP protocols. These markers had average minor‐allele frequencies of 0.40 in the target population, and four of seven markers were variable in a small sample from nine other A. lyrata populations. …”
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A marine ship detection method for super-resolution SAR images based on hierarchical multi-scale Mask R-CNN by Jiancong Fan, Miaoxin Guo, Lei Zhang, Jianjun Liu, Jianjun Liu, Yang Li, Yang Li

“…After adding super-resolution reconstruction, the average precision and recall of HMS-MRCNN are also greatly improved.…”
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Comparing Fuel Consumption and Emission Levels of Hybrid Powertrain Configurations and a Conventional Powertrain in Varied Drive Cycles and Degree of Hybridization by W. U. Maddumage, K. Y. Abeyasighe, M. S. M. Perera, R. A. Attalage, P. Kelly

“…It was found that with varied drive cycles the average fuel advantage for each was: series 23 %, parallel 21 %, and complex hybrids 33 %, compared to an IC engine powertrain. …”
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Long‐Term Changes in the Winter Diet of Common Dolphins Reflects Ecological Shifts and Bycatch Dynamics in the Bay of Biscay by Johanna Faure, Jasmin Niol, Eléonore Meheust, Jérôme Spitz

“…., the accidental capture of non‐targeted species by fisheries) is a leading cause of human‐induced mortality, contributing to significant population declines worldwide. …”
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Heavy metal contamination in unrecorded rakia from Kosovo and its public health implications by Teuta Muhollari, Sándor Szűcs, Martin McKee, Róza Ádány, Zsófi Sajtos, Edina Baranyai, László Pál

“…In addition, we have applied the target hazard quotient and the margin of exposure (MOE) methods to assess the associated health risks. …”
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Pseudo-Labeling Domain Adaptation Using Multi-Model Learning by Victor Akihito Kamada Tomita, Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini

“…Experiments on six different datasets show an average F1-score improvement of 8 points, measuring the harmonic mean of precision and recall, compared to existing methods in the literature. …”
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Assessing dermal exposure to organochlorine pesticides in different populations of a prototypical agricultural city in South China by Jian Guo, Xiaojun Luo, Yanhong Zeng, Bixian Mai

“…Skin wipe samples were collected from the faces, hands, forearms, and shanks of 120 volunteers (50% male and 50% female) across various age groups. All ten target OCPs were detected in the samples, with concentrations ranging from non-detectable (ND) to 7200 ng/m2. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with false hyperkalaemia in Asians in primary care: a cross-sectional study (the Unlysed Hyperkalaemia- the Unseen Burden (UHUB) study) by Ngiap Chuan Tan, Alicia Ying Ying Boo, Yi Ling Eileen Koh, Pei Lin Hu

“…Recommendation to repeat potassium tests may target those with eGFR<60ml/min/1.73m2.…”
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Knowledge and awareness of HPV vaccine and acceptability to vaccinate in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. by Stacey Perlman, Richard G Wamai, Paul A Bain, Thomas Welty, Edith Welty, Javier Gordon Ogembo

“…We identified only six countries to have met the two GAVI Alliance requirements for supporting introduction of HPV vaccine: 1) the ability to deliver multi-dose vaccines for no less than 50% of the target vaccination cohort in an average size district, and 2) achieving over 70% coverage of DTP3 vaccine nationally. …”
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Vehicle speed measurement method using monocular cameras by Hao Lian, Meian Li, Ting Li, Yongan Zhang, Yanyu Shi, Yikun Fan, Wenqian Yang, Huilin Jiang, Peng Zhou, Haibo Wu

“…Finally, the algorithm is combined with You Only Look Once version 7 (YOLOv7) and Deep Simple Online and Realtime Tracking (DeepSORT) algorithms, integrating multiple model structures to optimize the network, achieving precise multi-target speed measurement. Experiments show that under frame-by-frame measurement conditions, the minimum and average accuracies of this method reach 95.1% and 97.6%, respectively. …”
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Validation of Taylor’s Frozen Hypothesis for DAS-Based Flow by Shu Dai, Lei Liang, Ke Jiang, Hui Wang, Chengyi Zhong

“…It proposes a dispersion feature enhancement algorithm based on cross-correlation, which combines a rotatable elliptical template with normalized cross-correlation coefficients to suppress interference from non-target directions. An experimental circulating pipeline DAS measurement system was set up to complete signal denoising and compare two principles of flow velocity verification. …”
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Circular rubber aggregate CFST stub columns under axial compression: prediction and reliability analysis by Khaled Megahed, Nabil Said Mahmoud, Saad Elden Mostafa Abd-Rabou

“…This assessment involves identifying the statistical properties associated with the compressive strength of RBAC, as well as introducing the required resistance design factors aligned with the target reliability recommended by code standards.…”
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New Methods for Waterfowl and Habitat Survey Using AI and Drone Imagery by Zhenduo Zhai, Zhiguang Liu, Yang Zhang, Andrew Zhao, Yi Shang

“…Monitoring waterfowl populations is essential for informing habitat management, conservation strategies, and sustainable harvest regulations. Many target species such as mallards and northern pintails are keystone components of wetland ecosystems, serving as ecological indicators due to their sensitivity to environmental changes. …”
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A real-time AI tool for hybrid learning recommendation in education: Preliminary results by Chaman Verma

“…The newly created test data sets correspond to the actual data distribution of the data set and preserve the relationships between classes of characteristics, as validated by the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS) test (p < 0.05). The average precision cross-validation of training and testing the data set is 0.9881 and 0.9757, respectively, for classifying the target class of the hybrid learning data set. …”
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ResCalib: Joint LiDAR and Camera Calibration Based on Geometrically Supervised Deep Neural Networks by Jiahui CHAI, Minglei LI, Min LI, Dazhou WEI, Guangyong CHEN

“…At present, most joint calibration methods need to be processed through target calibration and manual point selection. This makes it impossible to use them in dynamic application scenarios. …”
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Design and Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Fluid Swirling Mixing Atomizer for Efficient Generation of Ozonated Droplets in Agricultural Applications by Xinkang Hu, Bo Zhang, Xiaohong Xu, Zhongwei Chang, Xu Wang, Chundu Wu

“…Experimental results on droplet size and ozone droplet concentration verified that at the optimal spraying pressure of 0.6 MPa, a concentration of up to 3.73 mg·L⁻¹ with an average droplet size of 102 µm, evenly distributed, could be generated at a distance of 40 cm from the target. …”
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Validity and reliability of the XSENSOR in-shoe pressure measurement system. by Daniel Parker, Jennifer Andrews, Carina Price

“…Three trials of all conditions were averaged. The validity (% difference and Root Mean Square Error: RMSE) and repeatability (Bland Altman, Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient: ICC) of the target pressures (whole insole) and contact area (regional) were outcome variables.…”
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Surface defect detection model of laser cutting polycrystalline cubic boron nitride tool based on asymptotic fusion strategy by Anfu Zhu, Jiaxiao Xie, Heng Guo, Jie Wang, Zilong Guo, Lei Xu, SiXin Zhu, Zhanping Yang, Bin Wang

“…The experimental results based on the self-constructed laser-cutting polycrystalline cubic boron nitride tool surface defects dataset show that the average accuracy of the AFFS-YOLO model is improved by 5.6% compared with that of the YOLOv5 model, reaching 86.1%, and the detection effect is better than that of the original network and other classical target detection networks.…”
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