Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates Causing Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections: Comparison of Methods by Alexander Machado Cardoso, Vinicius Ribeiro Flores, Gabriel Gomes do Rosario, Juliana Barbosa Succar, Lidiane Coelho Berbert, Maria Clara de Freitas Oliveira, Anna Luiza Bauer Canellas, Marinella Silva Laport, Cláudia Rezende Vieira Mendonça Souza, Thiago Pavoni Gomes Chagas, Rubens Clayton da Silva Dias, Fabio da Silva de Azevedo Fortes, Flávia Lúcia Piffano Costa Pellegrino

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Methodology for determining temperature dependences of the diffraction efficiency of two-layer two-relief microstructures in the framework of a rigorous coupled-wave analysis by A.I. Antonov, G.I. Greisukh

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Determinação de parâmetros de transporte de metais pesados em Latossolo compactado Determination of transport parameters for heavy metals in compacted Oxisol by Izabel C. D. Azevedo, Cleidimar R. Nascentes, Antonio T. de Matos, Roberto F. de Azevedo

“…The use of the cumulative mass method, based on a reduced number of pore volumes, in the determination of transport parameters, reduces time and costs involved in tests.…”
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An effectiveness assessment ensemble for transmission corridor mechanized construction schemes based on weighted itemset mining and factor criticality analysis by Xin Yang, Junyao Hu, Chenhao Sun, Yafei Huang, Ci Tang, Jie Huang

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Improvement of methods for estimation of catchability for trawl survey systems with use of hydroacoustic means (on example of walleye pollock in the Okhotsk Sea) by Mikhail Yu. Kuznetsov, Vladimir I. Poljanichko, Igor A. Ubarchuk

“…The experimental method of its estimation (comparing of fish density in towed volume determined by other tools with trawl catch) is considered as the most authentic. …”
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Methods of Forming Orthogonal Components of Input Signals for Relay Protection by F. A. Romaniuk, М. S. Loman, V. S. Kachenya

“…Preference is given to the combined digital filter. The existing methods of determining the orthogonal components of a sine signal are analyzed and their disadvantages are pointed out. …”
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Mechanistic insights into gas exchange in postharvest cucumbers through biochemical and physical contributions by Shinichiro Kuroki, Itaru Sotome, Yoshinori Kawagoe

“…We measured the effective diffusion coefficient (D∗) in cucumber fruit using Ne gas. This method involves sealing Ne with the fruit in an airtight container and monitoring its concentration in the container's free volume, allowing us to determine D∗ based on the reaction-diffusion equation with a zero reaction rate. …”
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Effect of Mixer Rotational Speed on Heat Transfer Coefficient in Preparation of Nickle Perovskite From Laboratory to Bench Scale

“…In this study, we examined a scale-up to production of nickel perovskite catalyst, used in the conversion of natural gas to synthesis gas, using the sol-gel method in the laboratory and a bench-scale reactor. …”
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The effect of cutting direction and water based varnish type on sound absorption coefficient in some native wood species by Mustafa Selmani Muslu

“…The sound absorption coefficients of the obtained samples were determined by the impedance tube method and the results were compared statistically. …”
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Experimental study on the influence of shale content in fault zone on fault friction coefficient based on circular shear test by Lingdong Meng, Dong Li, Xiaofei Fu, Yejun Jin, Zezhao Liu, Ziyang Li, Tong Zhang, Ruishan Du, Xiaoling Zhang

“…Based on these findings, a model for characterizing the heterogeneity of fault friction coefficients was developed. By integrating a 3D prediction model of clay content on fault surfaces, the spatial distribution of non-uniform friction coefficients across fault planes was determined. …”
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Optimization of the Morphological Parameters of a Metal Foam for the Highest Sound Absorption Coefficient Using Local Search Algorithm by Mohammad Javad JAFARI, Ali KHAVANIN, Touraj EBADZADEH, Mahmood FAZLALI, Mohsen Niknam SHARAK, Rohollah Fallah MADVARI

“…It is a navel approach determining the structural properties of sound absorbent to predict its acoustical behavior. …”
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Enhancement in Bearing Fault Classification Parameters Using Gaussian Mixture Models and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients Features by Youcef ATMANI, Said RECHAK, Ammar MESLOUB, Larbi HEMMOUCHE

“…Results show that proposed method can reliably classify different fault conditions and have a highest classification performance under some conditions.…”
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Magnesium Addition and Treatment of Reinforcement Particles in Al6061 – Sea Sand Composite on Coefficients Friction and Wear Rate by Hammar Ilham Akbar, Muhammad Ilham Arbi Atmaja, Eko Surojo, Bambang Kusharjananta, Reza Aldiansyah Fanani

“…After that, the specimen was friction tested using the pin on disc method. The highest coefficient of friction was the specimen without electroless coating with the addition of 2 wt% Mg of 0.634. …”
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Estimation of the Coefficients of the Equation of Acoustic Target Strength Based on the Morphology of Coregonus migratorius (Georgi, 1775) Swim Bladder by P. N. Anoshko, M. M. Makarov, S. B. Popov, A. I. Degtev, N. N. Denikina, E. V. Dzyuba

“…Material and Methods. Ninety‐nine living specimens of C. migratorius served as the study material. …”
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PCA Weight Determination-Based InSAR Baseline Optimization Method: A Case Study of the HaiKou Phosphate Mining Area in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China by Weimeng Xu, Jingchun Zhou, Jinliang Wang, Huihui Mei, Xianjun Ou, Baixuan Li

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Integrated export instream coefficient model for accurate nonpoint source pollution estimation and management in the Yellow River Basin by Xueting Wang, Lei Wu, Yongkun Luo, Yimu Liu, Ruowen Wang

“…Pollution factors were classified using the natural breaks method, with Entropy Weight method determining weights for a comprehensive multi-factor evaluation and risk-level assignment. …”
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Improved railway track faults detection using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient and constant-Q transform features by Rahman Shafique, Khadija Kanwal, Venkata Chunduri, Gyu Sang Choi, Imran Ashraf

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Experimental study on effective stress coefficient of sandstone based on Mohr–Coulomb criterion under hydraulic-mechanical coupling by Wei Chen, Bowen Liu, Qiuhong Wu, Jie Liu, Zhenhua Ren, Qinyong Wang, Zhaofeng Liu, Wenqing Peng, Yu Zhou, Yuanzeng Wang, Zhili Peng

“…A novel method for calculating the effective stress coefficient, based on the effective stress principle and the Mohr–Coulomb criterion, is proposed, leading to several key conclusions. …”
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Determination of β-Agonist Residues in Animal-Derived Food by a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometric Method Combined with Molecularly Imprinted Stir Bar Sorptive Extract... by Jiwang Tang, Jianxiu Wang, Shuyun Shi, Shengqiang Hu, Liejiang Yuan

“…Good linearities were obtained for six β-agonists with correlation coefficients (R2) higher than 0.994. These results indicated the superiority of the proposed method in the analysis of β-agonists in a complex matrix.…”
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Application of Levenberg-Marquardt Backpropagation Algorithm in Artificial Neural Network for Self-Calibration of Deflection Type Wheatstone Bridge Circuit in CO Electrochemical Ga... by Amirhosein Asilian, S. Mohammadali Zanjani

“…The Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation algorithm (LMBP) is utilized in the Artificial âNeural Network model to minimize the Mean Squared Error (MSE) and identify the most suitable parameters in the âproposed method.ââ âThe model under consideration has been developed and trained using real-time data.ââ âBased on âthe experimental and evaluation outcomes, it can be concluded that the suggested model has an MSE value of ââ0.28249 and an R2 coefficient of determination of 0.99992, indicating high accuracy and precision. …”
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