Optimization of HIFU monotherapy for prostate cancer by K. V. Pozdnyakov, V. V. Bazaev, V. V. Dutov

“…In group 1 of patients with a low degree of oncological risk, a decrease in blood prostate-specific antigen (PSA) below the threshold value and the absence of its significant increase during the observation period was noted in 87.5% of cases (28 patients), with an average degree of oncological risk in 65.6% of cases (21 patients), with a high degree in 27.7% of cases (5 patients). …”
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Analysis of the main controlling factors of intra-well frac hit between deep coalbed methane in Daning-Jixian block and research on countermeasures to prevent and control it by Ming CHEN, Junyi SUN, Liwei WANG, Lizhu YU, Haonian TIAN, Dameng WANG, Xianfeng GU, Zesong YIN, Huan ZHANG

“…Then, based on the objective geological conditions of Daning-Jixian block and the understanding of development and production practice, using the multi-factor gray correlation analysis method, we evaluated four categories and nine sub-factors of influencing factors, such as development and deployment (distance between wells, location of horizontal section, vertical depth), geology (strength of natural fracture), engineering (average scale of single-cluster fluid, number of perforation clusters, scale of single-section fluid, and construction displacement), and drainage and extraction (production time of the parent well), the distance between wells, production time of the parent well, average single-cluster fluid size, and natural fracture were identified as the main control factors for the pressure frac hit of deep-seated coalbed methane horizontal wells in Daning-Jixian block, and corresponding preventive countermeasures were developed based on these factors. …”
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STATE OF PERIODONTAL TISSUES IN CHILDREN LIVING IN EDUCATIONAL AND REHABILITATION CENTERS by N.L. Chukhray, D.V. Danylyuk

“…The analysis of the results shows that in all age groups, the children from the ERC have a mild degree of CCG and, on average, accounted for 57,83±7,28%, which is by 1,4 times lower that in the comparison group (79,76±3,79%), and the average degree of CCG is much higher – 37,89±3,68%, respectively, in children of the comparison group (18,79±3,45% (р1<0,001, р2<0,001)). …”
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Study on the Relationship between Stress and Charge of Coal Mass under Uniaxial Compression by Gang Wang, Yishan Pan, Xiaochun Xiao, Di Wu, Hongrui Zhao, Aiwen Wang, Xin Ding

“…This paper presents a new method to identify the stress concentration degree and stress distribution characteristics in front of working face in coal mine, based on the close relationship between charge and stress during fracture of coal mass. …”
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Sustainability of social and economic development of municipalities in the Voronezh Region, Russia by N. V. Yakovenko, R. V. Ten, I. V. Komov, О. V. Didenko

“…The results of calculations of the integral sustainability index allowed us to identify 5 groups of municipalities, characterized by a certain degree of social and economic sustainability: a group with a high level of socio‐economic sustainability, a group with an above‐average level of socio‐economic sustainability, a group with an average level of socio‐economic sustainability, a group with a low level of socio‐economic sustainability and a group with a crisis level of socio‐economic sustainability. …”
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Effect of 12-Week Progressive Resistance Training on Balance, Fatigue and Disability in Women with MS by Asghar Tofighi, Yaghob Saki, Keyvan

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of 12-week progressive resistance training on balance, disability and fatigue in women with MS. Subjects and Methods: Based on a quasi experimental method, 24 women with MS (30.5 ± 5.9 years old, 68± 11 kg, height 160± 7.6 cm) with 1 to 4 Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) degree participated and randomly divided into two control and experimental groups. …”
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Assessment of Lean implementation in Hotels’ supply chains by Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Maria Victória Lins Lange Rosa, Rodrigo Caiado, Daniel Nascimento, Rapinder Sawhney

“…Implementation scores were compared to a perceived average importance degree in order to verify convergences and divergences between the desired and actual improvement initiatives. …”
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ENGLISH MATERIALS-BASED JEPARA LOCAL WISDOM; THE EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION by Siti Azza Ulin Ni'mah, Husni Mubarok

“…The test was conducted at one of junior high school  in Jepara in the 7 grade class. The method that use is quantitative true experimental method with random samping. …”
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Similarities and differences in ultrasound of extracranial brachiocephalic atherosclerotic lesions in patients with ischemic anterior and posterior circulation stroke by A. Yu. Vishnyakova, A. B. Berdalin, D. A. Golovin, S. E. Lelyuk, V. G. Lelyuk

“…Atherosclerotic plaques (ASP) in the internal carotid arteries (ICA) were diagnosed significantly more often (p&lt;0,05) (right ICA (ICAr) — 44,0% of cases; left ICA (ICAl) — 48,4%) and the degree of stenosis of ICA mouths was significantly higher (p&lt;0,05) (ICAr —53±23%, ICAl — 54±24%) in carotid territory IS than in VB territory IS (ICAr — 34,0% of cases; average degree of stenosis — 47±18%; ICAl — 33,6%, average degree of stenosis — 46±18%. …”
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THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE AND PRACTICALLY RELIZABLE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE LIGHT-CHESTNUT SOILS OF THE NORTHERN WEST PRECASPIAN REGION ACORDING TO THE MOISTURE AND SOLINITY (ON EXAMPLE O... by G. N. Hasanov, T. A. Asvarova, K. M. Gadzhiev, Z. N. Akhmedova, A. S. Abdulaeva, R. R. Bashirov, M. S. Sultanakhmedov

“…The main factors to achieve high productivity ephemeras and ephemeroids on light-chestnut soil of the North- West Precaspian are about 80–85 mm rainfall during April – May, with average daily air temperature 15–16 °C, its relative humidity 70–73 %, volatility of 130–140 mm, KU 0.30, chloride-sulphate type of salinity in the layer of a low degree of 0–35 cm. …”
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THE EFFECT OF SOIL AND AIR DROUGHT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROOT SYSTEM OF WINTER SOFT WHEAT VARIETIES AND LINES by V. A. Likhovidova, V. L. Gaze, E. V. Ionova, D. M. Marchenko

“…The assessment of heat resistance showed that 13 samples from 20 analyzed ones belong to the 1-st group of highly heat resistant; 7 samples belong to average resistant. To characterize various indexes of plant resistance and their correlation there have been used a method of determining the complex resistance index of germinating seeds. …”
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Analysis of Aftershocks from California and Synthetic Series by Using Visibility Graph Algorithm by Alejandro Muñoz-Diosdado, Ana María Aguilar-Molina, Eric Eduardo Solis-Montufar, José Alberto Zamora-Justo

“…For this purpose, seismic series preceding and following each earthquake were constructed using a windowing method with different overlaps and the slope of the connectivity (<i>k</i>) versus magnitude (<i>M</i>) graph (<i>k-M</i> slope) and the average degree were computed from the mapped complex networks. …”
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Vulnerability Assessment of the Prefabricated Building Supply Chain Based on Set Pair Analysis by Jinjin Li, Lan Luo, Zhangsheng Liu

“…During the project’s implementation, the total cost overrun of the prefabricated building supply chain was controlled within 5% of the budget, the construction period delay did not exceed 7% of the plan, and the rate of production safety accidents was below the industry average. The results demonstrated that the vulnerability assessment method for the prefabricated building supply chain based on SPA comprehensively and objectively reflected the vulnerability of the supply chain. …”
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Breast reconstruction with implants and synthetic mesh by Daniel Gouvea Leal

“…The rate of complications was similar to the rates reported in the literature, despite the limited number of cases. The average degree of overall satisfaction with the surgery was 75.2 points on a scale of 0-100, and the highest score was given to breast appearance (85 points). …”
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Design of Network Security Anomaly Detection Model Based on SLNA Cell Structure by Guiling Fan, Shaojun Chen

“…The multi-layer stacked unit structure is made simpler using the intermediate layer feature distillation method. The experimental results revealed that the stable layer normalized attention unit structure could effectively prevent the occurrence of floating point overflow phenomenon in the process of data processing, and only about 620 rounds to achieve convergence, distillation structure of the student neural network fitting degree reaches more than 98%. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Cropping Patterns in Golestan Province: A 25-Year Study by Mohanna Javanmardi, Maryam Mohammad Rezaei, Mozhgan Yarahmadi, Abbas Rahdan

“…For instance, the dominant winter cropping pattern was dual-headed barley, which requires the average maximum temperature of the coldest month to be above 10 degrees Celsius, a threshold observed in the region during the statistical period, thus indicating the continued cultivation of this crop in the future. …”
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Secondary mastopexy with exchange of prosthesis: mirror “D” technique by Juan Carlos Sánchez López, Patrícia Erazo

“…The average prosthesis volume was 300 mL. The length of the vertical scar was stable with an average of 6.5 cm after 2 years. …”
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Thermal analysis kinetics of non-free water removal in nickel laterite by LIU Mei, LÜ Xue-wei, BAI Chen-guang, DENG Qing-yu, SONG Jing-jing

“…The pre-exponential factor(A) and the most probable mechanism function were determined by the Malek method,then the relationship between reaction degree and time under an isothermal condition was derived and the energy consumptions at different temperatures were analyzed and compared. …”
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RESULTS OF HALF-CENTURY SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HALLUX VALGUS ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSVERSE FLAT FEET by E.V. KHALIMOV, T.S. BARANOVA, A.YU. MIKHAILOV, A.I. ZAKIRYANOVA, A.R. SHAGEEVA

“…Correction of the transverse flat feet was achieved, as the longitudinal arch index increased by an average of 0.81%; the transverse arch index decreased by an average of 2.80%; the HV angle decreased by an average of 22.52º. …”
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Solving Generalized Hill’s and Meissner’s Equations by a Semianalytical Technique by Asifa Tassaddiq, Sania Qureshi, Javed Rehman Larik, Amanullah Soomro, Fozia Shaikh, Evren Hincal, Kwara Nantomah

“…To assess the accuracy and reliability of AGM, we compare its solutions with those obtained using the Fehlberg fourth-fifth order Runge–Kutta method with degree four interpolant (RKF45), a robust numerical method. …”
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