Adopting drone technology for blood delivery: a feasibility study to evaluate its efficiency and sustainability by Pammi Gauba, Anita Nangia, Shalini Bahadur, Sangeeta Pahuja, Shweta Dang, Rambha Pathak, Kiran Agarwal, Sunita Sharma, Deepti Ambalkar, Manoj Jha, Ranju Singh, Priyanka Virdi, Rakesh Gupta, Shambhavee Singh, Ravindra Pandey, Bhuvan Adhlakha, Pragati Agarwal, Kuldeep Nigam, Sumit Aggarwal

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Relationship between hemoglobin glycation index and myocardial mechano-energetic efficiency in non-diabetic individual by Chiara M. A. Cefalo, Mariangela Rubino, Teresa Vanessa Fiorentino, Velia Cassano, Gaia Chiara Mannino, Alessia Riccio, Elena Succurro, Maria Perticone, Angela Sciacqua, Francesco Andreozzi, Giorgio Sesti

“…In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to determine whether increased HGI levels are associated with a reduction in myocardial mechano-energetic efficiency (MEE), a key predictor of cardiovascular events and heart failure, in non-diabetic subjects. …”
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Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions by Anna L. Hotton, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Arindam Fadikar, Nicholson T. Collier, Aditya S. Khanna, Darnell N. Motley, Eric Tatara, Sara Rimer, Ellen Almirol, Harold A. Pollack, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, Robert J. Lempert, Robert J. Lempert, Jonathan Ozik

“…There is much focus in the field of HIV prevention research on understanding the impact of social determinants of health (e.g., housing, employment, incarceration) on HIV transmission and developing interventions to address underlying structural drivers of HIV risk. …”
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ROLE OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 3 IN PREDICTING THE EFFICIENCY OF THERAPY FOR EARLY RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: THE REMARCA TRIAL by A. S. Avdeeva, E. N. Aleksandrova, D. E. Karateev, E. L. Luchikhina, M. V. Cherkasova, E. L. Nasonov

“…Objective: to investigate the impact of treatment with subcutaneous methotrexate (MTX) and combined therapy with MTX and biological agents (BA) on the serum level of matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP3); to estimate the informative value of determination of MMP3 levels for predicting the clinical efficiency of therapy for early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Subjects and methods. …”
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Macroeconomic and firm-specific determinants of financial performance: Evidence from non-life insurance companies in Africa by Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi

“…Panel data of 1452 observations were examined using both ordinary least squares and two-step System Generalised Method of Moments estimators. The findings of this study show that lagged return on assets, equity capital, operational efficiency and leverage, investment capability and gross domestic product are the statistically significant determinants of financial performance in African non-life insurance companies even though equity capital, operational efficiency and leverage are inversely significant. …”
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Design and Analysis of Additional Tendon Path for Determining Bending Shape in Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Rolling Joints by Hansoul Kim

“…However, this approach complicates control and reduces both space and cost efficiency. This study proposed a conceptual method for adding a shaping tendon to control the bending shape and mathematically analyzed the effect of this shaping tendon, inserted along an arbitrary path in addition to the main driving tendons for constant curvature bending, on the bending shape of the hyper-redundant manipulator with rolling joints. …”
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PRINCIPLES OF DETERMINATION OF VALUE IN USE FOR MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS BASED ON QUALITY INDICATORS — THE COEFFICIENTS OF CONSUMER PROPERTIES by N. F. Neburchilova, I. V. Petrunina

“…The utility of products is determined by a complex of properties that reflect their value in use. …”
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Methodology for determining the reactive parameters of aviation electrical energy consumers based on voltage and current data in transients by V. I. Pavlova, I. E. Starostin

“…This work is devoted to the development of methods for determining the parameters of secondary power sources of aircraft electrical equipment, characterizing its reactive properties.…”
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Determining the parameters and chemical behaviour of the overdriven detonation reaction zone of CL-20-based aluminized explosives by Moyan Liu, Yan Liu, Fan Bai, Hongfu Wang, Shanyong Chu, Fenglei Huang

“…To this end, this paper is based on the impedance matching method to test the ODD conditions of CL-20 type aluminium explosive particle velocity. …”
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Аggregated methodology for determining human resources needs of the road transport sector in the region with specialized education by N. N. Yakunin, O. U. Frolov, N. V. Yakunina, V. V. Kotov

“…The existing methodology of personnel training determines the requirements for the competencies of future specialists, but the methods for determining the number of trained specialists are based either on the readiness of educational institutions for the quality management of the educational process, or are limited to the level of a motor transport enterprise, and do not take into account the regional needs of the labor market. …”
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Intensity of synthetic and organic fertilizers use among Indian paddy growers: Determinants and implications for productivity and sustainability by Girish Kumar Jha, Praveen Koovalamkadu Velayudhan, Toritseju Begho, Vera Eory, Arti Bhatia

“…This inefficient use of nitrogen fertilizers has implications for agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability. Materials and Methods Using data from 14,669 farmers in India, this paper examined the determinants of synthetic fertilizer and manure adoption and intensity of use for rice (Oryza sativa L.) production. …”
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Evaluating Groundwater Quality to Determine the Feasibility of Modern Irrigation Techniques (Case Study: Bam-Narmashir Plain) by Hadi Dehghan, Maryam Safavi, Somayeh Galdavi, Mohammad Naderianfar

“…Today, advancements in irrigation science have led to the development of new methods to enhance irrigation efficiency. In the new methods, such as drip irrigation, it is important to examine the EC, the pH level of the water, and the presence of cations and anions, as these factors can contribute to the clogging of drippers. …”
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Hollow Fiber–Supported ZIF-8@GO Reinforced Sol–Gel for Preconcentration of Paraquat Before Determination by UV-Vis Spectrophotometry by Narges Vaezi, Naser Dalali

“…A novel, sensitive, and efficient method was developed for the determination of paraquat in soil samples, centered on solid-phase microextraction using hollow fiber–supported ZIF-8@GO reinforced sol–gel combined with UV-Vis spectrophotometry at 257 nm. …”
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Determinants of sleep quality and their impact on health outcomes: a cross-sectional study on night-shift nurses by Qingqing Xiao, Qingqing Xiao, Xia Huang, Xia Huang, Tao Yang, Tao Yang, Lei Huang, Nan Li, Jingjun Wang, Junqiang Huang, Yalin Huang, Hao Huang, Hao Huang, Ya Wang, Ya Wang

“…PurposeThis study aimed to identify determinants of sleep quality and explore their adverse health outcomes among night-shift nurses in China.MethodThrough convenience sampling, this cross-sectional study enrolled a total of 711 night-shift nurses aged 20-55 years who completed questionnaires from which details regarding their sociodemographic characteristics, health-related indicators and sleep quality based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were extracted. …”
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Bioavailability of Tryptophan Biomass for Laying Hens by Stéphane Cristyne O. Estevão, Gabriel Henrique Nacamura da Silva, Livia Rastoldo R. Oliveira, Larissa Oliveira dos Santos, Erikson Kadoshe M. Raimundo, Rita Brito Vieira, Tiago A. Rodrigues, Bernardo Rocha F. Nogueira, Eliane Aparecida da Silva, Lizandra Amoroso, Michele Bernardino de Lima, Edney Pereira da Silva

“…In the second assay, the slope ratio method was used to determine the RBV. The variables analyzed were feed intake, tryptophan intake, egg production, egg weight, daily egg mass, feed conversion ratio, feed efficiency, yolk weight, shell weight, albumen weight, albumen height, eggshell thickness, Haugh unit, body protein weight, body lipid weight, body water weight, and body ash weight. …”
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Rapid Identification Method for Concrete Defect Boundaries Based on Acoustic-Mode Gradient Analysis by Yong Yang, Peixuan Shen, Ziming Qi, Shiqi Liu

“…This paper addresses the challenges of traditional acoustic detection methods, which often suffer from low efficiency, poor adaptability to environmental conditions, and difficulties in measuring defect sizes. …”
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Calibration Of The Short Irradiation Facility For k0 - NAA Implementation At The IEA-R1 Reactor by João Pedro Oliveira Flores, Paulo Sérgio Cardoso Silva, Mauro Silva Dias, Marina Fallone Koskinas, Denise Simões Moreira, Ione Makiko Yamazaki

“…The efficiency curve of the gamma-ray spectrometer used was determined by measuring calibrated radioactive sources at the commonly used counting geometries. …”
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Quantifying the impact of external and internal factors and their interactions on thermal load behaviour of a building by Christoph Matschi, Isabell Nemeth

“…Due to the high effort required for transient calculations, a less complex method is needed at the neighborhood level. For this reason, a method is developed, which identifies the relevant parameters influencing the building heating load behavior. …”
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Monte Carlo Algorithm For Matrices in Solving Systems of Linear Equations, Determinants, Inverse, Eigen Values, and Eigenvectors. by Bamwine, Delik

“…On the other hand, many classical, deterministic numerical linear algebra algorithms have difficulty scaling to handle large data sets. Monte Carlo methods, which are based on statistical sampling, exhibit many attractive properties in dealing with large volumes of datasets, including fast approximated results, memory efficiency, reduced data accesses, natural parallelism, and inherent fault tolerance. …”
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Self-Choice Emotion Regulation Enhances Stress Reduction: Neural Basis of Self-Choice Emotion Regulation by Nozomi Imajo, Yutaka Matsuzaki, Akiko Kobayashi, Kohei Sakaki, Rui Nouchi, Ryuta Kawashima

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