XPERT MTB/RIF TEST FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS AND RIFAMPICIN RESISTANCE: RESULTS OF ITS INTRODUCTION IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC by A. D. Adambekova, D. A. Adambekov, V. I. Litvinov

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Studies of Phenolic Compounds Coupled to Minerals in Cocoa Beans of the “Mercedes” and “Forastero” Varieties from the Divo and Abengourou Regions (Côte d’Ivoire) by Jean Constant Kouablan Karim, Suomion Justin Saki, Tehi Bernard Sea, Kouassi Aboutou Severin Kra, Guillaume Arthur Kouassi Loh Yoboue

“…On the other hand, no significant difference at the 5% level was observed in the averages of arbutin, catechin, vanillic acid and caffeic acid in the bean kernels analysed in the Divo and Abengourou regions. …”
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Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities by M. T. Perks, B. Hortobágyi, B. Hortobágyi, N. Everard, S. Manson, J. Rowland, A. Large, A. J. Russell

“…Following image velocimetry analysis, two differing approaches are adopted to produce outputs that are representative of the depth-averaged and cross-section-averaged flow velocities. …”
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Salinity and its variability in the Lagoon of Venice, 2000–2009 by Alberto Zirino, Hany Elwany, Carlos Neira, Francesco Maicu, Guillermo Mendoza, Lisa A. Levin

“…Yearly averages computed from monthly and bimonthly salinity data collected between 2000 and 2009 from 13 broadly spaced stations in the Venice Lagoon were analysed in view of 30 min data collected semi-continuously during 2009 at nine similarly located stations. …”
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Temperature Influence on Non-Linear Harmonic Vibrations of Plates Made of Viscoelastic Materials by Przemysław LITEWKA, Roman LEWANDOWSKI

“…The non-linear amplitude equation is obtained from the time-averaged principle of virtual work and the harmonic balance method. …”
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Compensation for vibration signal power variance when changing equipment speed mode by D. A. Kechik

“…The resulting signal to be further analysed is derived by summation of processed signals in three frequency ranges. …”
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Models and software of study process data analysis by Vytautas Janilionis, Tomas Ruzgas

“…The developed system is used for the analysis of study process data of Kaunas University of Technology. It enables to analyse the relationships and dependencies between various factors (e.g. study areas, faculties, study modules groups, form of studies, credits, weighted averages of the exams grades, grades of study modules or their groups etc.) and use the results for the effective decision-making. …”
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Enhanced resolution capability of SWOT sea surface height measurements and their application in monitoring ocean dynamics variability by Y. Wang, S. Zhang, Y. Jia

“…Meanwhile, SWOT 1 d repeat cycle data were also utilized to analyse the sub-mesoscale variability of the ocean.…”
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Design and Experimental Verification of Electric Vehicle Battery Charger Using Kelvin-Connected Discrete MOSFETs and IGBTs for Energy Efficiency Improvement by Borislav Dimitrov, Richard McMahon

“…The study compares the standard 3-pin and the extended 4-pin packages based on averaged data collected from leading manufacturers. …”
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SOLAR RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEM DESIGN MONTH IN MINNA, NIGER STATE NIGERIA by EZENWORA J.A., IGWE K.C., MUHAMMAD S., IBEKWE E.C.

“…The logger was programmed to measure and log these ambient weather parameters at every 5 minutes intervals and daytime data from the year 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 were obtained and analysed. The weather pattern, quantity available and the month with the lowest solar resource was determined by computing the hourly, daily and monthly averages of these ambient weather parameters, using Excel’s Macro Developer programme. …”
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Tagging Named Entities in Croatian Tweets by Krešimir Baksa, Dino Golović, Goran Glavaš, Jan Šnajder

“…Our experiments reveal that CRF is the best model for the task, achieving a very good performance of over 87% micro-averaged F1 score. We analyse the contributions of different feature groups and influence of the training set size on the performance of the CRF model. …”
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Differences in the Management and Use of Health Services in Australia Using Publicly Available Data: Comparisons between New South Wales and Victoria by Jo M Martins, Godfrey Isouard

“…Using publicly available data the study analysed differences in the organisation, management, and expenditures of health services. …”
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Thermal one-point functions and their partial wave decomposition by Ilija Burić, Francesco Russo, Volker Schomerus, Alessandro Vichi

“…We are able to read off averaged OPE coefficients into exchanged fields of high weight and spin for a complete set of tensor structures. …”
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Bony healing of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures in the elderly using percutaneously applied titanium mesh cages and a transpedicular fixation system with expandable screws. by Anica Eschler, Stephan Albrecht Ender, Katharina Schiml, Thomas Mittlmeier, Georg Gradl

“…Intra- and postoperative safety of the procedure as well as analysis of reduction quality was analysed by 3D C-arm imaging or CT, respectively. Clinical and radiographic follow-up averaged 10.4 months (range 4.5-24.5).…”
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Correlations between different methods of vertical jump and static balance parameters in athletes by Ali Ozkan, Mehmet Goktepe, Mehmet Gunay, Metin Bayram, Sakir Bezcı

“…The “Descriptive” test was employed for numerical variables, and descriptive statistics were represented as averages ± standard deviations. Because parametric test assumptions were not met in analysing the independent variables for the participants, Spearman’s Moments Multiplication Correlation test was used. …”
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DuPont profitability analysis of different types of agricultural farms in Croatia by Vesna OČIĆ, Zoran GRGIĆ, Branka ŠAKIĆ BOBIĆ, Kristina BATELJA LODETA, Tihana KOVAČIĆEK

“…The data from the Standard results, which represent the weighted averages of agricultural farms in the FADN sample, were used. …”
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Nitrogen and truly digestible protein efficiencies of dairy cows fed fresh herbage- or maize forage-based diets: a meta-analysis by M. Ferreira, R. Delagarde, S. Lemosquet, N. Edouard

“…The dataset was then analysed using mixed-effect models, considering the experiment and the cow as random effects. …”
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What are the important factors influencing the physical activity level of junior high school students: a cross-sectional survey by Huijun Ma, Xuefeng Li, Chengliang Ma, Da Teng

“…The data on students’ physical activity levels were collected through the Children’s Leisure Activities Study Survey Questionnaire, and the data on factors affecting students’ physical activity were collected through the Student Perceived Factors Affecting Physical Activity Questionnaire.ResultsIn this study, students from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades participated in physical activities, averaging 214.500 min per week in moderate-intensity and 25.000 min in high-intensity activities, cumulatively averaging 280.000 min weekly. …”
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Performance validation and calibration conditions for novel dynamic baseline tracking air sensors in long-term field monitoring by H. Mei, P. Wei, M. A. Ghadikolaei, N. K. Gali, Y. Wang, Z. Ning

“…The tests, which involved evaluating the validation performance by analysing randomly selected calibration sample subsets ranging from 1–15 d, indicated that the length of the calibration period, pollutant concentration range and time-averaging period are pivotal for sensor calibration quality. …”
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Random Ensemble MARS: Model Selection in Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines Using Random Forest Approach by Mehmet Ali Cengiz, Dilek Sabancı

“…The best model was estimated for both Test MSE and GCV criteria by examining the error of measurement criteria, variable importance averages, and frequencies of the knot values for each model. …”
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