Analysis of Customer’s Decision to Choose Sharia Banking in Surakarta by B Sudarwati, Burhanuddin Ahmad Yani

“…To test the hypothesis, the researcher uses multiple regression analysis, t-test, F test, and determinant coefficient by using SPSS. The finding of the research is that there is significant influence among variable profit-sharing system (X1), the security of funds (X2), facilities (X3), and service (X4) toward Customer’s decision to choose sharia banking (Y). …”
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Cattle rumen inoculated Gliricidia sepium with poultry manure: Pretreatment, biogas production, and optimization by O.S. Oladejo, S.O. Dahunsi, E.L. Odekanle, O.A. Odeleye, O.S. Aroyewon, A.O. Oladele, G.S. Fala, A.A. Olanipekun, A.O. Abiola, J.O. Ojediran, O.E. Ajayi, O.A. Olawuni

“…Also, the RSM predicted biogas yield was 1.32 L/kg VS in the inoculated (addition of bovine rumen content) pretreated experiment, with the model's coefficient of determination of 0.9776, indicate strong modeling and prediction accuracy for the inoculated experiment. …”
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Release Profile and Antibacterial Activity of <i>Thymus sibthorpii</i> Essential Oil-Incorporated, Optimally Stabilized Type I Collagen Hydrogels by Caglar Ersanli, Ioannis Skoufos, Konstantina Fotou, Athina Tzora, Yves Bayon, Despoina Mari, Eleftheria Sarafi, Konstantina Nikolaou, Dimitrios I. Zeugolis

“…Although the strong antimicrobial activity of various EOs has already been studied and revealed, their characteristic high sensitivity and volatility drives the need towards a more efficient drug administration method via a biomaterial system. …”
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Load Invariant CC and CV Modes for Static/Dynamic Wireless Charging System With Half-Bridge Multi-Leg Converter Topology by Aganti Mahesh, Bharatiraja Chokkalingam, Rajesh Verma, Lucian Mihet-Popa

“…The article presents a new method with fewer iterations to determine the optimal compensation parameters, ensuring that both the CC and CV outputs with ZPA comply with the SAE J2954 frequencies standards. …”
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Free-Electron Screening Mechanism of the Shallow Impurity Breakdown in n-GaAs: Evidences from the Photoelectric Zeeman and Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopies by O. Z. Alekperov, E. P. Nakhmedov

“…Diagnosis of the BD mechanism was performed by SI Zeeman (mainly from the ground state 1s to 2p+1 and other excitation states) and cyclotron resonance photoelectric spectroscopy (PES) methods in the wide interval of the electric field including the BD region too. …”
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Nasopharyngeal density of respiratory viruses in childhood pneumonia in a highly vaccinated setting: findings from a case–control study by Andrew Martin, Peter Richmond, Adam Jaffe, Mejbah Uddin Bhuiyan, Jurissa Lang, Chisha Sikazwe, Meredith Borland, David Smith, Tom Snelling, Christopher Blyth

“…We compared nasopharyngeal viral density between children with and without pneumonia to understand if viral density could be used to diagnose pneumonia.Methods Nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) were collected from hospitalised pneumonia cases at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) and contemporaneous age-matched controls at PMH outpatient clinics and a local immunisation clinic in Perth, Australia. …”
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Role of Psychological Distress in the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care and Self-Management Behaviors of Elderly Patients with T2DM Chronic Complications by Sun X, Wang X, Zhou R, Deng W, Jiang J, Shi Y

“…Furthermore, the total effect of PAID-C on DSMB-O via PACIC was determined to be (0.27+0.22=0.49). Notably, the mediating effect accounted for 54.99%.Conclusion: Psychological distress is intricately linked to self-management behaviour among elderly patients suffering from T2DM and chronic complications. …”
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The validity of a new resilience scale: the Japan Resilience Scale (J-RS) for mothers with a focus on cultural aspects by Mariko Takeuchi, Michiko Matsunaga, Akimitsu Miyake, Ryuichiro Egashira, Sayaka Hotta, Mai Nakano, Misaki Moriguchi, Fumihiko Yasuno, Masako Myowa, Keisuke Hagihara

“…Internal consistency (reliability) of the J-RS was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and the final model was determined via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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Resistance intensity test (RIT): a novel bioassay for quantifying the level of acaricide resistance in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks by Frans Jongejan, Laura Berger, Laura Homminga, Iris Hulsebos, Alita Petersen, Priscila Teixeira Ferreira, José Reck, Guilherme Klafke

“…Usually, the recommended label dose or an established discriminating dose of an acaricide is used to determine high mortality (≥ 95%) of susceptible tick strains. …”
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Interrelation between the parameters of endogenous vascular regulation, oxidative stress and the markers of inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients while on extracorporeal membr... by E. V. Klychnikova, S. V. Zhuravel, I. V. Ivanov, O. V. Nikitina, E. V. Tazina, A. Yu. Bulanov, A. M. Talyzin, K. A. Popugaev, V. V. Vladimirov, S. S. Petrikov, A. S. Bogdanova

“…The study of systemic inflammatory response and endothelial function in patients with COVID-19 during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.Material and methods. In the course of a prospective study, we examined 100 COVID-19 patients aged 26 to 75 years, median 55 years [47;60], who were treated at the N.V. …”
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The effect of the informative program in the narrative style on the development of the meaning of life among blind students at Al-Noor Institute / Baghdad Governorate by Aasu Saleh Saeed, Alaa Khudair Nassif

“…The researchers used the following statistical methods: (Pearson correlation coefficient, Fakronbach equation, Spearman's equation, T-test for two independent samples, Chi-square, Wilcoxen test, Mann-Whitney test, weighted mean, percent weight). …”
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Explainable machine learning and online calculators to predict heart failure mortality in intensive care units by An‐Tian Chen, Yuhui Zhang, Jian Zhang

“…Abstract Aims This study aims to develop explainable machine learning models and clinical tools for predicting mortality in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) with heart failure (HF). Methods Patients diagnosed with HF who experienced their first ICU stay lasting between 24 h and 28 days were selected from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC‐IV) database. …”
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Relationship between gut microbiota and markers of myocardial fibrosis in with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by A. N. Kaburova, O. M. Drapkina, S. M. Yudin, S. N. Koretsky, V. V. Makarov, M. S. Pokrovskaya, S. A. Kraevoy, B. B. Shoybonov, I. A. Efimova

“…To study the relationship of gut microbiota (GM) with serum myocardial fibrosis markers in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).Material and methods. The composition of the gut microbiota among 42 patients with HFpEF aged 67,0 [64,0; 71,5] years (men, 57,1%) was assessed by 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequencing. …”
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Operation Analysis of Automated Unit for Magnetic Pulse Treatment of Garden Strawberry by A. Yu. Izmaylov, D. O. Khort, R. A. Filippov, A. I. Kutyrev, I. G. Smirnov

“…Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM conducts research and development work on the determination of parameters, technical characteristics of machines and operating modes of magnetic pulse treatment (MPT) of plant material in field conditions. …”
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Source identification and ecological risk assessment of some heavy metals in surface soils collected from the vicinity of Arad-Kouh processing and disposal complex, Tehran, Iran by Seyedeh Maryam Mohammadi, Bahareh Lorestani, Soheil Sobhan Ardakani, Mehrdad Cheraghi, Lima Tayebi

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the source identification and potential ecological risk of Fe, Zn, Pb, Cd, Cr, and Ni in surface soils collected from the vicinity of Arad-Kouh processing and disposal complex, Tehran, Iran in 2020.Material and methods: In this descriptive study, a total of 30 surface soil samples were collected from 10 sampling sites. …”
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Correlation Between Tear Film Stability and Myopia in Children by Huang PW, Kuo YK, Chen NN, Li JH, Wu CH, Chen HM, Su KW, Sun CC

“…The correlation between dry eye and myopia was determined by linear regression analysis.Results: In total, 31 non-myopic (mean age, 9.03 years) and 34 myopic (mean age, 8.44 years) children were included in the final analysis. …”
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Can patient self-evaluation of functional status be used for evaluation of impairment of motor function in Guillain-Barré syndrome? Mapping clinician- and patient-reported outcomes... by Antoine Regnault, Angély Loubert, Stéphane Quéré, Qun Lin, Glen Frick, Hirokazu Ishida, Yuko Abeta, Helene Chevrou-Severac

“…The association between HFGS score and R-ODS total centile score (linear measure of limitations; 0, most severe activity and social participation limitations and 100, no limitations) was assessed using the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient. Threshold values of R-ODS total centile score that could differentiate between patients with an HFGS score of ≤ 1 and &gt; 1 were determined using receiver-operating characteristic curve analyses and mapping (Rasch measurement theory). …”
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Observational study comparing the accuracy/variability between the ERSPC and the PCPT risk calculators for the prediction of significant prostate cancer in patients with PSA by Enrique Gomez Gomez, Juan José Salamanca Bustos, Julia Carrasco Valiente, Jose Luis Fernandez Rueda, Ana Blanca, José Valero Rosa, Ines Bravo Arrebola, Javier Marquez López, Juan Manuel Jimenez Vacas, Maria José Requena Tapia, Raul Miguel Luque

“…The prediction of SigPCa was determined by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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Correction of heat-induced susceptibility changes in respiratory-triggered 2D-PRF-based thermometry for monitoring of magnetic resonance-guided hepatic microwave ablation in a huma... by Bennet Hensen, Susanne Hellms, Christopher Werlein, Danny Jonigk, Phillip Alexander Gronski, Inga Bruesch, Regina Rumpel, Eva-Maria Wittauer, Florian W. R. Vondran, Dennis L. Parker, Frank Wacker, Marcel Gutberlet

“…Purpose To develop and evaluate susceptibility corrected 2D proton resonance frequency (PRF)-based magnetic resonance (MR)-thermometry for the accurate assessment of the ablation zone of hepatic microwave ablation (MWA).Methods and materials Twelve hepatic MWA were performed in five LEWE minipigs with human-like fissure-free liver. …”
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Predictive value of integrated 18F-FDG PET/MRI in the early response to nivolumab in patients with previously treated non-small cell lung cancer by Yukihiro Umeda, Miwa Morikawa, Masaki Anzai, Shingo Ameshima, Maiko Kadowaki, Yuko Waseda, Hiroko Shigemi, Tetsuya Tsujikawa, Yasushi Kiyono, Hidehiko Okazawa, Tamotsu Ishizuka

“…Background The early response to treatment with immune-checkpoint inhibitors is difficult to evaluate. We determined whether changes in integrated [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/MRI (18F-FDG PET/MRI) parameters after the first 2 weeks of antiprogrammed death-1 antibody nivolumab therapy could predict the response of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods Twenty-five patients with previously treated NSCLC were enrolled prospectively and underwent 18F-FDG PET/MRI before and at 2 weeks after nivolumab therapy. …”
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