Change in mode shape nodes of multiple cracked bar: I. The theoretical study by Nguyen Tien Khiem, Le Khanh Toan, Nguyen Thi Linh Khue

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Women's Experiences and Preferences for Service Delivery of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for Aneuploidy in a Public Health Setting: A Mixed Methods Study. by Celine Lewis, Melissa Hill, Lyn S Chitty

“…As part of an implementation study in the UK National Health Service we conducted a mixed methods study to assess women's experience of being offered NIPT using validated measures of decisional conflict, decisional regret and anxiety. …”
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Improving patient safety through better teamwork: how effective are different methods of simulation debriefing? Protocol for a pragmatic, prospective and randomised study by Wolf E Hautz, Juliane E Kämmer, Julia Freytag, Fabian Stroben, Dorothea Eisenmann

“…The study aims to evaluate the effects of two teamwork-focused debriefings on team performance after an extensive medical student teamwork training.Methods and analyses A prospective experimental study has been designed to compare a well-established three-phase debriefing method (gather–analyse–summarise; the GAS method) to a newly developed and more structured debriefing approach that extends the GAS method with TeamTAG (teamwork techniques analysis grid). …”
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Protocol: A mixed-methods study to evaluate implementation and outcomes of U.S. state telemental health policy expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Lucinda B Leung, Jasmeen J Santos, José J Escarce, Susan L Ettner, Claudia Der-Martirosian, Pushpa Raja, Alexander D McCourt, John Fortney, Emma E McGinty

“…By characterizing variations in telehealth policies and their downstream effects, this mixed-methods study aims to inform equitable dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of high-quality telemental health services.…”
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Impact of Kangaroo Mother Care on Physiological Parameters and Health Experiences of Primiparous Mothers at a Tertiary Care Center: A Mixed-Methods Study by Rathiswari Posan, Theranirajan Ethiraj, Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran, Rema Chandramohan, Kannan Kasinathan, Thillainayaki Chandran, Baby Ilavarasi

“…Objectives: Determine the impact of kangaroo mother care on the physiological parameters among preterm neonate babies admitted in NICU and explore the health experience of primigravida mothers on Kangaroo Mother Care. Methods and Materials: This study employed an Explanatory Sequential mixed-method approach, with a quasi-experimental one-group pre-test post-test design, focusing on 60 preterm infants at the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Chennai. …”
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Extended convergence of two-step iterative methods for solving equations with applications by Ioannis K. Argyros, Santhosh George

“… The convergence of two-step iterative methods of third and fourth order of convergence are studied under weaker hypotheses than in earlier works using our new idea of the restricted convergence region. …”
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Standardized Evaluation of Counter-Drone Systems: Methods, Technologies, and Performance Metrics by Geert De Cubber, Daniela Doroftei, Paraskevi Petsioti, Alexios Koniaris, Konrad Brewczyński, Marek Życzkowski, Razvan Roman, Silviu Sima, Ali Mohamoud, Johan van de Pol, Ivan Maza, Anibal Ollero, Christopher Church, Cristina Popa

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Pregabalin and Tranexamic Acid Evaluation by Two Simple and Sensitive Spectrophotometric Methods by Nawab Sher, Nasreen Fatima, Shahnaz Perveen, Farhan Ahmed Siddiqui, Alisha Wafa Sial

“…The method was linear over the concentration range of 0.02–200 µgmL−1 with correlation coefficient of more than 0.9990 in all of the cases. …”
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Description of global innovative methods in developing the WHO Community Engagement Package by Jackeline Alger, Don Mathanga, Semeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Noel Juban, Meredith Labarda, Obinna Ikechukwu Ekwunife, Obioma Nwaorgu, Allan Ulitin, Jana Deborah Mier-Alpaño, María Isabel Echavarría, Yolanda Vargas Bayugo, Jose Rene Bagani Cruz, Pauline Marie Padilla Tiangco, Ukam Ebe Oyene, Alberto Ong Jr, Marvinson See Fajardo, Barwani Khaura Msiska, Lorena Abella Lizcano, Natalia Gomez Quenguan, Claudia Ivette Nieto Anderson, Briana Yasmin Beltran, Elsy Denia Carcamo Rodriguez, Eduardo Salomón Núñez, Vera Nkosi-Kholimeliwa, Glory Mwafulirwa-Kabaghe

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Lower cortical thickness index does not correlate with increased surgical complications in proximal femoral fractures: a clinical and radiological study by Method Kabelitz, Manuel Waltenspül, Michael Dietrich

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A numerical study of squeeze-film damping in MEMS-based structures including rarefaction effects by Salvatore Nigro, Leonardo Pagnotta, Maria F. Pantano

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Serious gaming as an experiential learning tool: exploring the human–water perspectives in the case of Mt. Kenya water tower by Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Pieter R. van Oel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Arend Ligtenberg, John Mwangi Gathenya, Erika N. Speelman

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Des nouvelles gares RER pour Bruxelles ? Enjeux, méthodes et contraintes by Kevin Lebrun, Frédéric Dobruszkes

“…This is illustrated in our case studies.…”
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Evaluation of inter-observer reliability in the case of trichotomous and four-level animal-based welfare indicators with two observers by Benedetta Torsiello, Mauro Giammarino, Piero Quatto, Monica Battini, Silvana Mattiello, Luca Battaglini, Manuela Renna

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Exponential Type Estimators Using Sub-Sampling Method with Applications in Agriculture by Ceren Ünal, Cem Kadılar

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Validation of a consensus method for identifying delirium from hospital records. by Elvira Kuhn, Xinyi Du, Keith McGrath, Sarah Coveney, Niamh O'Regan, Sarah Richardson, Andrew Teodorczuk, Louise Allan, Dan Wilson, Sharon K Inouye, Alasdair M J MacLullich, David Meagher, Carol Brayne, Suzanne Timmons, Daniel Davis

“…Therefore, analyses of existing cohort studies measuring cognitive outcomes could benefit from methods to ascertain a retrospective delirium diagnosis. …”
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A method for calculation of lateral displacements of buildings under distributed loads by Süleyman Aydın, Kanat Burak Bozdoğan, Duygu Öztürk

“…The method suggested in the literature for only top displacement in the case of uniform loading, is developed in this study for the calculation of displacements at each storey level and also in both uniform and triangular loading conditions. …”
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Addressing sophisticated misconceptions: an assimilation-based method for teaching accounting expenses by Yining Zhou, Kanwal Javed, John Iveson

“…This methodology is exemplified through an accounting educational case study involving five sequential analogies designed to rectify expense-related misconceptions. …”
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Preliminary study assessing the long-term surgical outcomes of TBX6-associated congenital scoliosis (TACS) patients using the propensity score matching method: exploring the clinic... by Guanfeng Lin, Yang Yang, Zefu Chen, Sen Zhao, Yuchen Niu, You Du, Yiwei Zhao, Shengru Wang, Nan Wu, Jianguo Zhang

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A New Method of Geological Modeling for the Hydrocarbon Secondary Migration Research by Yong Zhang, Chao Li, Jun Li, Xiaorong Luo, Ming Cheng, Xiaoying Zhang, Bin Lu

“…Additionally, the porosity and permeability of each microfacies in the reservoir model are quantitatively characterized based on statistics derived from porosity and permeability data of different strata, sedimentary microfacies, and rock facies in the study area. To demonstrate the superiority and reliability of this novel modeling method, a modeling case is presented. …”
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