Will centralized drug procurement policy improve enterprises’ total factor productivity? by Xin Li, Ran Tao, Wenxue Zou, Yuning Jin

“…Against the backdrop of China’s healthcare reform challenges in drug pricing, this study investigates the impact of the National Centralized Drug Procurement (NCDP) policy implemented in 2018. Employing Difference-in-Differences (DID) methodology on quarterly data from A-share listed pharmaceutical firms (2003-2021, sourced from WIND/CSMAR databases), we demonstrate that NCDP participation significantly reduces Total Factor Productivity . …”
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A Fast Method for the Acceleration Response Analysis of Two-Dimensional Sites Under Seismic Excitations by Hongkai Chen, Yi Yong, Xueju Li, Danguang Pan

“…The computational accuracy of the method for calculating acceleration from displacement using the central difference scheme is verified, which would further improve the computational efficiency in calculating site acceleration responses. …”
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Orthodontic Treatment Planning: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Navin Anand Ingle, Nisrin Fouad Alabsi, Hashim Al-Hashimi, Nada Ahmed Albuolayan, Faey Alburidy, Fatimah Alanazi, Arwa Tawfiq Alhammad

“…The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise this process, enhancing accuracy and efficiency. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to evaluate the use of AI in orthodontic treatment planning. …”
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Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance Increases Six-Minute Walk Test Performance in Cerebral Palsy by Benjamin Conner, Greg Orekhov, Zachary Lerner

“…There was no difference in walking efficiency (-0.06 ± 0.1, p = 0.3). …”
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An Intelligent Model for Facial Skin Colour Detection by Chih-Huang Yen, Pin-Yuan Huang, Po-Kai Yang

“…It is completed through the Gaussian distribution standard difference and CIE 2000 colour difference formula and uses this related theory to construct the optimized program FaceRGB. …”
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The puzzle of spontaneous versus traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage by Ezequiel García-Ballestas, Yeider Durango-Espinosa, Romario Mendoza-Flórez, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Ravish Keni, Harsh Deora, Amit Agrawal

“…These differences deserve detailed understanding to help physicians treat this disease more efficiently. …”
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The Dutch Parelsnoer Institute Cerebrovascular Disease Initiative: a retrospective study of the effects of integrating clinical care and research on costs and quality of care in pa... by Hendrik Koffijberg, Liselore A Mensing, Jaap Kappelle, Julie E Buijs, Gert-Jan Luijckx, Gerhard A Zielhuis, Ynte M Ruigrok

“…We determined the effect of integrated registration on (1) costs and time efficiency using a comparative matched cohort study in 40 patients and (2) quality of the discharge letter in a retrospective cohort study of 400 patients.Results A shorter registration time (mean difference of −4.6 min, SD 4.7, p=0.001) and a higher quality score of discharge letters (mean difference of 856 points, SD 40.8, p<0.001) was shown for integrated registration compared with separate registration. …”
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Cardiorespiratory responses and specificity of effectiveperformance in dance and pairsof dancers by Igor Soronovych, Andrii Diachenko, Georgiy Korobeynikov, Lesia Korobeinikova, Vladimir Raximov

“…In female dancers, the deterioration of aerobic power indicators is compensated by an increase in the efficiency of the use of the glycolytic reserve. This is accompanied by high efficiency of respiratory processes, high efficiency of oxygen consumption, pulmonary ventilation volume and respiratory compensatory reaction of metabolic acidosis.…”
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The application of various carbon nanoparticle injection methods in sentinel lymph node mapping for colorectal cancer by Yingru Li, Fei Li, Yuru Zhang, Liting Liu

“…The focus is on evaluating the efficacy and efficiency of both methods in sentinel lymph node mapping and tumor localization. …”
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Detection of Viruses and Elimination of Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus in High-Yielding Varieties of Sweet Potato (<i>Ipomoea batatas</i>) from Ethiopia by Dereje Haile Buko, Carl Spetz, Trine (A.K.) Hvoslef-Eide

“…The cutting of meristems from heat-treated plants further increased the percentage of virus-free plantlets by ca 10% to ca 16%, depending on the plant variety. Elimination efficiency also seemed to vary among varieties: the greatest difference was observed for ‘Tola’, and the least difference was observed for ‘Guntute’. …”
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Performance of Minneola tangelo trees grafted over six rootstocks in Colombia Tropical Lowland (1997-2010) by Hans Chaparro, David Ricardo Hernández, Diana Mayerly Mateus, Javier Orlando Orduz Rodriguez

“…The greatest height and canopy value, was found with ‘Cleopatra’ without significant differences with Citrumelo ‘Swingle’. In fruit quality no significant differences occurred.…”
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Accelerated CO2 capture with controllable mineralisation via reactive bubble formation by Su-Ho Ahn, Duckshin Park, Bo-Sang Kim, Su-Min Lee, Mang Muan Lian, Younghee Jang, Kyunghoon Kim, Sangwon Ko, Byung-Hyun Park, Jinsik Choi, Seungkyu Shin, Junpyo Cho, Liguang Wang, Hangil Park, Jung-Ho Yun

“…The results demonstrate that the frothing reagents not only reduced bubble size but also increased foam layer thickness, significantly improving CO2 removal efficiency. The thicker foam layer associated with the glycol-type polymers generates a larger interfacial area and longer gas residence time, accounting for the differences in CO2 removal efficiency. …”
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Comparison of the efficacy of the multimodal serotonergic antidepressants trazodone and vortioxetine in the treatment of patients with endogenous depression: A meta-analysis of dou... by D. S. Danilov

“…The trials were divided into 2 groups according to the comparability of original samples of patients, methods for evaluating their state, and duration of follow-up. The efficiency of therapy with trazodone and that of vortioxetine were compared by determining the statistical significance of differences in the ratio of responders/nonresponders or remitters/nonremitters in Groups 1 and 2 separately.Results. 1) Comparison of the values of 8-week therapy efficiency in Group 1: a) therapy with trazodone at an average dose of about 300 mg/day significantly more frequently results in the alleviation of depressive symptoms to the level of classifying patients into the category of responders than that with vortioxetine at an average dose of about 9 mg/day; b) therapy with trazodone at an average dose of about 300 mg/day significantly more often relieves depressive symptoms to the level of classifying patients into a category of remitters than that with vortioxetine at average dose of about 9 mg/day; c) therapy with trazodone at an average dose of about 300 mg/day and that with vortioxetine at an average dose of about 18.5 mg/day lead to the comparable reduction of depressive symptoms to the level of referring patients to a category of responders or remitters. 2) Comparison of the values of of 6-week treatment efficacy in Group 2: therapy with trazodone at an average dose of about 300 mg/day is statistically significantly less frequently accompanied by the attenuation of depressive symptoms to the level of assigning patients to a category of responders than that with vortioxetine at average dose of about 7.5 mg/day. …”
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Hub Metabolites Promote the Bioflocculant Production in a Biomass-Degrading Bacterium Pseudomonas boreopolis GO2 by Yijie Xu, Jiayin Feng, YuXuan Hu, Li Chen, Wensheng Qin, Chen Chen, Maocang Yan, Haipeng Guo

“…Results: The results showed that metabolites significantly differed during the fermentation process when corn stover was used as the sole carbon source. …”
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Optimization of Caffeine Extraction from Various Tea Types Using Dichloromethane as an Organic Solvent by Mariam Mir Memon, Muhammad Idress

“…Notably, the residence time exhibited a significant effect up to a certain threshold, beyond which no substantial difference in extraction efficiency was observed. The optimal conditions for caffeine extraction were identified at 100 °C with a residence time of 30 min. …”
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PARALLEL APPROACH TO SOLVE OF THE DIRECT SOLUTION OF LARGE SPARSE SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS by Michal Bošanský, Bořek Patzák

“…In this contribution, the differences between the sequential and parallel solution are highlighted and the approach to efficiently interface with distributed memory version of SuperLU solver is described.…”
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Public Hearings as Institute of Civil Society: Problems of the Organization and Realization by Larisa Dmitrievna Kozyreva

“…Shows the essential features of public hearings as a form of civic participation, their difference from other forms of direct democracy. Main problems of organizing and conducting hearings; the proposed measures to improve their efficiency.…”
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Optimized Size and Tab Width in Partial Solar Cell Modules including Shingled Designs by Julius Roeth, Arrigo Facchini, Norbert Bernhard

“…An LTSpice simulation is used to quantify the reduced ohmic loss and the resulting efficiency gain for differently separated solar cells. …”
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PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOFT FRUIT PRODUCTION by Rositsa BELUHOVA-UZUNOVA, Dobri DUNCHEV

“…On the other hand, the analysis indicated that there are significant differences in total costs and especially in the investment costs. …”
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Experimental Research on the R134a/CO2 Cascade Refrigeration System by Shen Jiubing, Hu Bin, Qiu Jianwei, Cao Feng, Xing Ziwen

“…Results also show that the maximum deviation of the compressor adiabatic efficiency is within 4%, the main factor affecting the system cooling capacity is the compressor volumetric efficiency. …”
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