Evaluation of a prevention programme efficiency for patients with fixed orthodontic appliances by Matić Sava, Ivanović Mirjana, Nikolić Predrag

“…The aim of this paper was to examine the efficiency of the applied programme for the prevention of gingivitis in children undergoing the fixed orthodontic appliance therapy and to determine the most efficient devices and techniques for maintaining oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment. …”
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MAMMARY RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOLLOWING MASTECTOMY: EFFICIENCY AND PROSPECTIVES FOR IMMUNOTROPIC THERAPY by I. A. Karpov, A. S. Simbirtsev

“…A difference for the rates of purulent inflammatory complications was statistically significant. …”
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Efficiency of the Photoluminescent Method for Monitoring the Homogeneity of Feed Mixtures in Animal Husbandry by M. V. Belyakov, E. A. Nikitin, I. Yu. Efremenkov

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Characteristics of leaf nutrient resorption efficiency in Tibetan alpine permafrost ecosystems by Guibiao Yang, Meifeng Deng, Lulu Guo, Enzai Du, Zhihu Zheng, Yunfeng Peng, Chunbao Zhao, Lingli Liu, Yuanhe Yang

“…Our results also reveal that leaf P resorption efficiency is higher in permafrost ecosystems than in global herbaceous plants, while there is no difference for leaf N resorption efficiency. …”
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Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency Using Wavy-Patterned PDMS Substrates by Jian Cheng Bi, Kyo-Cheol Kang, Jun-Young Park, Junbeom Song, Ji-Sung Lee, Hyejung Lim, Young Wook Park, Byeong-Kwon Ju

“…This study demonstrates the potential of this cost-effective and efficient method in advancing high-quality display.…”
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Efficient feature selection based on Gower distance for breast cancer diagnosis by Salwa Shakir Baawi, Mustafa Noaman Kadhim, Dhiah Al-Shammary

“…This study presents an efficient feature selection method based on the Gower distance to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of standard classifiers on high-dimensional medical datasets. …”
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Experimental Validation of Induction Heating as an Energy-Efficient Solution for Concrete Curing by Dong-Jin Kim, Chi-Hyung Ahn

“…In this paper, we propose an innovative, environmentally friendly, and efficient technology for concrete curing through induction heating. …”
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Efficient Phase Retrieval via Improved Binary Amplitude Modulation Masks by Chao Yang, Cheng Xu, Hui Pang, Jun Lan, Lixin Zhao, Song Hu, Wei Yan, Xianchang Zhu

“…An additional random mask increases the difference between diffraction intensity patterns and ensures that the algorithm converges. …”
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Efficient and Accurate Calibration of Discrete Element Method Parameters for Black Beans by Xuezhen Wang, Qinghang Zhai, Shihao Zhang, Qianwen Li, Hanmi Zhou

“…In this study, the effects of the radius and lifting speed of cylinder-in-cylinder lifting method (CLM) simulations were investigated to efficiently and accurately obtain the repose angle. …”
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Efficient Ring-Cavity Terahertz Parametric Oscillator With Pump Recycling Technique by Longhuang Tang, Degang Xu, Yuye Wang, Chao Yan, Yixin He, Zhongcheng Sun, Ci Song, Kai Zhong, Jianquan Yao

“…The terahertz output energy and conversion efficiency increased more than seven times throughout the whole tuning range. …”
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Developing safe and efficient CGBE editor based on Cas-embedding strategy by Tian Lin, Xin Wang, Yu Zhang, Guanglei Li, Xingxu Huang, Ming Shi

“…HF-CGBE showed no significant difference in off-target effects compared to the negative control group for both DNA and RNA. …”
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On the annual energy yield of perovskite/silicon tandem modules with different bottom cell technologies and optimized top cell properties for different locations by Singh Manvika, Finazzo Jacopo, Blom Youri, Jayan Mahesh, Ruiz Tobon Carlos, Weeber Arthur, Zeman Miroslav, Santbergen Rudi, Isabella Olindo

“…At standard test conditions (STC), the performance of photovoltaic modules is compared using efficiency. As irradiance and module temperature fluctuate over the year and STC efficiency does not assess the performance of the module accurately in real world conditions, the annual energy yield is used instead as performance metric. …”
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Variation in nitrogen uptake and utilization efficiency in spinach genotypes and its evaluation by LIU Min-na, LIU Xiao-xia, DING Wen-ya, CHEN Qiu-hui, LIN Xian-yong

“…The path coefficient analysis revealed that NUE was dominated by N uptake efficiency, while N utilization efficiency also had some contribution to NUE at the two different N levels.In sum, significant differences in NUE are found among 30 spinach genotypes and it is feasible to select N-efficient spinach genotypes from the existing varieties. …”
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Differences in production performance, fore-digestive tract microbiota, and expression levels of nutrient transporters of Hu sheep with different feed conversion ratio by Xiaobin Yang, Jiangbo Cheng, Dan Xu, Chong Li, Deyin Zhang, Yukun Zhang, Kai Huang, Xiaolong Li, Yuan Zhao, Liming Zhao, Quanzhong Xu, Zongwu Ma, Huibin Tian, Xiuxiu Weng, Jie Peng, Xiaoxue Zhang, Weimin Wang

“…The difference in rumen microbial composition between the high- and low-FCR groups was significant (P < 0.05). …”
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Pseudo Inefficiency in Multi-Period Systems: A DEA-based Approach by Mahsa Torkavannezhad, Ghasem Tohidi, Behrouz Daneshian, Mahnaz Maghbouli, Farzin Moddarres Khiyabani

“…If this ratio is close to unity, these two quantities have no significant difference. Otherwise, the estimate claims pseudo-inefficiencyFindings: A comparison is made between Kao and Liu [8] and the proposed algorithm to measure the efficiency of 22 Taiwanese commercial banks from 2009-2011. …”
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Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling by David Garnés Galindo, Manuel Ruiz-Marín, María Luz Maté-Sánchez-Val

“…The models have been estimated using the spatial Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) methodology, and each equation was estimated following a spatial Differences-in-Differences model. The results confirm that the emergence of Covid-19 has had a significant impact on companies' financial ratios, worsening their positions in terms of liquidity, indebtedness, and efficiency, with the existence of a spatial contagion pattern. …”
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Spatial Distribution of Exhalation Droplets in the Bus in Different Seasons by Wenzhu Duan, Dan Mei, Jiaqian Li, Zihan Liu, Mengfan Jia, Shanshan Hou

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DMS Algorithm in the Application of the Map/Reduce Tasks Schedule by PEI Shu-jun, KONG De-kai, MIAO Hui

“…The whole efficiency of traditional task scheduling algorithms is low under the cloud environment, In order to improve the whole efficiency of the task scheduling, this article based on Map/Reduce presents a Difference Matrix Scheduling tasks schedule algorithm based on processing time. …”
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Optimization of optimal pressure parameters for filtering chyle plasma under low-temperature conditions by GAO Zhanhai, JI Xiaohua, ZHANG Fumin, HUANG Zhanhua, CHENG Wei

“…[Objective] To explore the optimal pressure parameters for chyle plasma filtration under low-temperature conditions, and to improve the quality of chyle plasma treatment and filtration efficiency by improving experimental methods. [Methods] The filtration efficiency and filtration time of 30 severe chyle plasma samples under conventional preparation environment pressure and under preparation environment with a controlled filtration membrane pressure difference of 0.5 bar were compared. …”
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Assessment of the Impact of Pressure Changes in the Flow Path on the Biological Safety of an Axial Hydraulic Turbine with Increasing Thickness of the Impeller Blade by M. A. Biriulin, A. V. Volkov, A. A. Druzhinin, V. N. Shary, I. V. Kachanov, G. M. Brovka

“…With the help of CFD and the BioPA technique, the dependences of survivability on different blade thicknesses were determined, and the dependence of the efficiency of a hydraulic turbine on survivability, calculated from the pressure drop, at different blade thicknesses was obtained. …”
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