Effects of <i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i>-81-Fermented Feed on Growth and Intestinal Health of Muscovy Ducks by Zhaolong Li, Song Peng, Mengshi Zhao, Xiaodong Zhuang, Huini Wu, Tiecheng Sun, Fengqiang Lin

“…Systemic antioxidant capacity analysis revealed 25.99% elevation in total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) (<i>p</i> < 0.05), accompanied by 14.37% and 30.79% increases in serum IgG and IgM levels, respectively. …”
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Morphofunctional status of parotid salivary glands in three-month-old rats with experimentally induced fetal macrosomia by O. V. Garmash, G. I. Gubina-Vakulyk

“…To make the morphological analysis we used the tissues of parotid glands of three-month-old rats. …”
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Factors related to nurses’ knowledge and attitudes towards pain management: a cross-sectional study of 32 tertiary hospitals in Anhui province, China by Yidan Zhang, Jiadong Wang, Shumin Bi, Shangui Chen, Zhaowen Peng, Zhiju Li, Chunxia Ren

“…We assessed the associations between sociodemographic factors, knowledge-sharing behaviours (KSBs) and KASRP Scores.Results Among the 6928 nurses analysed, the average KASRP Score was 17.70±3.57, corresponding to a correct response rate of 44.55%. …”
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The Environmental Impacts of Omnivorous, Vegetarian, and Vegan Children and Adolescents in Germany: Results of the VeChi Diet and VeChi Youth Studies by Laureen Kuhl, Vanessa Keller, Stine Weder, Ute Alexy, Morwenna Fischer, Markus Keller, Andreas Michalsen, Alfred Längler, Andreas Sputtek, Wencke Gwozdz

“…Group differences of indicators were analysed using analysis of covariance. Results: On average, food consumption of OM, VG, and VN diets caused GHGE of 2.6, 1.6, and 1.0 kg CO₂eq/kg food and LU of 3.1, 2.0, and 1.6 m²·year/kg food, respectively. …”
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Enhancing wheat flour origin traceability by using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy by Minghui Gu, Chao Liu, Hansong Huang, Xin Zhang, Jiguo Li, Qingbin Jiao, Liang Xu, Mingyu Yang, Xin Tan

“…First, a hybrid feature selection method, termed ANOVA-Sine Cosine Algorithm (AVSCA), was developed by integrating analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA) to extract spectral fingerprint information of wheat flour. …”
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Phyto-synthesis, characterization of silver nanoparticles from mint leaf extract and its evaluation in antimicrobial and pharmacological applications by Wasim Akhtar, Muhammad Imran Hamza, Sidra Qayyum, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Naila Mukhtar, Asif Kamal, Rizwan Sarwar, Moona Nazish, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefae, Mikhlid H. Almutairi, Muhammad Tahir Naseem

“…XRD spectrum revealed the crystalline-like nature and average size of AgNPs ranging from 2.5–47.3 nm. SEM micrograph represented the spherical, irregular, and aggregated nature of AgNPs. …”
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A Benchmark Dataset for Sentinel-2 Based Forest Type Classification in the Siberian Summergreen-Evergreen Forest Transition Zone by Femke van Geffen, Ronny Hansch, Begum Demir, Stefan Kruse, Ulrike Herzschuh, Birgit Heim

“…To optimize satellite-based monitoring, we train a random forest classifier on the train dataset to map summergreen and evergreen forest resulting in accuracies of 63% for early summer, 89% for peak summer, and 99% for late summer, with an average accuracy of 82% across all seasons. Feature importance analysis highlights the Sentinel-2 shortwave infrared as crucial for distinguishing forest types in all seasons. …”
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The varied Q creatinine in multi ethnics population and impact of adopting three different estimated glomerular filtration rates based on creatinine in adult populations: a call fo... by Ferdy Royland Marpaung, Santi Wulan Purnami, Shofi Andari, Ali Rohman, Reny I’tishom, Hari Basuki Notobroto, Jusak Nugraha, Risky Vitria Prasetyo, Djoko Santoso, Etienne Cavalier, Aryati Aryati

“…The Bland–Altman method was used to determine the average discrepancies and 95% confidence intervals of eGFR between each formula. …”
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‘Communities are attempting to tackle the crisis’: a scoping review on community plans to prevent and reduce opioid-related harms by Carol Strike, Michael Parkinson, Nimitha Paul, Sue Keller-Olaman, Susan Massarella, Jayne Caldwell, Greg Penney, Rita Henderson

“…Most plans were provincially or state funded, led by public health and involved an average of seven partners. Commonly, plans used individual training to implement interventions. …”
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A Handheld IoT Vis/NIR Spectroscopic System to Assess the Soluble Solids Content of Wine Grapes by Xu Zhang, Ziquan Qin, Ruijie Zhao, Zhuojun Xie, Xuebing Bai

“…Eight preprocessing methods were compared, among which moving average smoothing (MAS) and Savitzky–Golay smoothing (SGS) improved the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msubsup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>V</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msubsup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> to 0.756 and 0.766, respectively. …”
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Deep Learning Methods for Inferring Industrial CO₂ Hotspots from Co-Emitted NO₂ Plumes by Erchang Sun, Shichao Wu, Xianhua Wang, Hanhan Ye, Hailiang Shi, Yuan An, Chao Li

“…Deep learning, leveraging its strengths in the automated and rapid analysis of image datasets, holds significant potential to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of data processing in the GST. …”
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Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Patients with Acute Neck Pain Undergoing Conservative Treatment with Korean Medicine by Kim JS, Kim E, Shin S, Ha IH, Lee YJ

“…Minimal detectable changes (MDCs) were estimated using a distribution-based approach.Results: The study cohort comprised 60.2% female patients with an average age of 40.7 ± 12.7 years. The visual analog scale (VAS) score for pain during movement at baseline was 64.5 ± 10.6. …”
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A 3D cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) investigation of mandibular condyle morphometry: Gender determination, disparities, asymmetry assessment and relationship with mandibular... by Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Kiran Kumar Ganji, Manay Srinivas Munisekhar, Nawaf Saleh Alanazi, Hussain Naif Alsharif, Azhar Iqbal, Santosh Patil, Nafij Bin Jamayet, Mohammed Sghaireen

“…Objective: CBCT (cone beam computed tomography) analysis of condyle morphometry, to investigate the gender differences, symmetry and relationship with mandibular size. …”
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Quantification of CO₂ hotspot emissions from OCO-3 SAM CO₂ satellite images using deep learning methods by J. Dumont Le Brazidec, J. Dumont Le Brazidec, P. Vanderbecken, A. Farchi, G. Broquet, G. Kuhlmann, M. Bocquet

“…Furthermore, analysis of the area of the images in which the CNN-based inversion extracts the information for the quantification of the emissions, based on integrated-gradient techniques, demonstrates that the CNN effectively identifies the location of the plumes in the OCO-3 SAM images. …”
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Younger severe asthma patients with interleukin 4 (CC variant) and dupilumab treatment are more likely to achieve clinical remission by Mona Al-Ahmad, Asmaa Ali, Wafaa Talat

“…A multiple logistic regression analysis found that increasing age was negatively associated with CR (OR 0.95, p = 0.02), while the CC genotype of the IL-4 gene (OR 4.57, p = 0.008) and the use of dupilumab (OR 3.63, p = 0.001) were strong positive predictors of CR. …”
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Incidence trends of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in children in the United States from 2000 to 2020 by Seyed Ehsan Mousavi, Kimia Motlagh Asghari, Armin Aslani, Farzin Tahmasbi Arashlow, Zahra Yekta, Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi

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Detection and Pattern Recognition of Chemical Warfare Agents by MOS-Based MEMS Gas Sensor Array by Mengxue Xu, Xiaochun Hu, Hongpeng Zhang, Ting Miao, Lan Ma, Jing Liang, Yuefeng Zhu, Haiyan Zhu, Zhenxing Cheng, Xuhui Sun

“…Finally, principal component analysis (PCA) and machine learning algorithms were applied for CWA classification. …”
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Augmenting neurocognitive remediation therapy to Preventive Cognitive Therapy for partially remitted depressed patients: protocol of a pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled t... by Huibert Burger, Claudi Bockting, Marlies Brouwer, Gert J Geurtsen, Amanda M Legemaat, Johanne G J van der Stappen, Maria Semkovska, Isidoor O Bergfeld, Nicoline Lous, Damiaan A J P Denys

“…Individuals who experience subsyndromal depressive symptoms during remission (ie, partial remission of MDD) are especially at risk for a return to a depressive episode within an average of 4 months. Simultaneously, partial remission of MDD is associated with work and (psycho)social impairment and a lower quality of life. …”
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Processing Low-Grade Retted Straw of Fibre Flax Into Homogeneous Fiber Using Trailed Flax-Harvesting Combine КВЛ-1 by E. V. Soboleva, A. V. Bezbabchenko, V. G. Vnukov, S. V. Prokofiev

“…(Results and discussion) Analysis of the research results has revealed that the raw material used – low-grade retted flax straw – features low strength and high separability of fiber. …”
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Demography and homing behavior in the poorly-known Philippine flat-headed frog Barbourula busuangensis (Anura: Bombinatoridae) by Marta Miñarro, Patricia Burrowes, Claudia Lansac, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Leticia E. Afuang, Ignacio De la Riva

“…Our best model estimated an average population size of 268 frogs at Malbato and 232 at San Rafael, and constant survival probabilities (mean ≥ 0.97) at both sites. …”
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