In vitro micropropagation protocols for two endangered Dianthus species - via in vitro culture for conservation and recultivation purposes by Dóra Farkas, Judit Csabai, Angéla Kolesnyk, Pál Szarvas, Judit Dobránszki

“…Conclusions In vitro micropropagation methods were developed for two endangered Dianthus species (D. giganteiformis subsp. pontederae and D. superbus subsp. superbus) by determining the optimal type of cytokinin to be used during the multiplication phase. …”
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THE METHODS OF GEOGRAPHICAL DEMARCATION, CLOUDINESS FIELDS CLASSIFICATION AND SYNOPTICAL PROCESSES OF THE CAUCASUS AS WELL AS ADJACENT TERRITORIES ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF ARTIFICI... by M. R. Vatiashvili

“…The task of the current methods improvement: Materials and research methods: of geographical demarcation included estimating the determination of climatic reproducibility of existence of these or those cloudiness types (cloud amount) accounting dangerous weather phenomena and combining on this basis identical sections of the chart of the region under study; of synoptical processes classification consisted in the optimal distribution of sample units in the minimum number of classes which were determined in the process of solving the classification task. …”
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Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on assessing selected patient-reported outcome measures in specialist palliative care institutions: a multi-country mixed-methods study by Elisabeth Saly, Judit Simon, Claudia Fischer

“…Results The main reflected factors were patients’ very limited ability to self-complete PROMs and the optimal timing and duration of assessments. Opinions on the usefulness of different PROMs varied significantly according to the role of the participants. …”
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Design and evaluation of strategies to implement HIV prevention interventions for pregnant women in community pharmacy settings in western Kenya: a mixed-methods study protocol by Melissa Latigo Mugambi, Grace John-Stewart, Jared M Baeten, Bryan J Weiner, Brett Hauber, Ruanne Vanessa Barnabas

“…Latent class analysis will be used to quantify women’s stated preferences and identify packages of intervention components that will optimise uptake among different subgroups of women. We will apply the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify provider-level and system-level factors that might influence the implementation of the optimal intervention packages. …”
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Machine Learning System for Predicting Cardiovascular Disorders in Diabetic Patients by A. Mayya, H. Solieman

“…To classify subjects with different diabetes types, predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases in diabetic patients using machine learning methods by finding the correlational indicators.Materials and methods. …”
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A Prioritization Framework for Adaptation Responses for Climate Change-Induced Erosion in Island Beaches—Cases from the Aegean Islands, Greece by Isavela N. Monioudi, Dimitris Chatzistratis, Theodoros Chalazas, Antonis E. Chatzipavlis, Adonis F. Velegrakis, Olympos P. Andreadis, Efstratios N. Monioudis, Antigoni Nikolaou, Thomas Hasiotis

“…It involves the collation of various beach geo-spatial environmental and socio-economic data, which are then combined with erosion projections under different climatic scenarios. A Strengths–Weaknesses–Opportunities–Threats (SWOT) framework is employed for the indicator selection, and multi-criteria methods (Analytical Hierarchy Process—AHP, Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution—TOPSIS, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations—PROMETHEE II) are then used to optimize indicator weights and rank beach vulnerability. …”
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Detection of Water Surface Using Canny and Otsu Threshold Methods with Machine Learning Algorithms on Google Earth Engine: A Case Study of Lake Van by Pinar Karakus

“…The Otsu thresholding method was employed to determine water surfaces, as it is the most favored technique for calculating NDWI, AWEI, and MNDWI indices from Landsat 8 images. …”
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Hybrid multi-criteria decision making approaches for transtibial prostheses socket material selection by Tarun Rijwani, Gurusharan Dumra, Kumar Abhishek, Ganesh Iyer

“…To address the complexity and multi dimensionality of the material selection process, four different MCDM techniques, Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Multi Objective Optimization by Ratio Analysis (MOORA), Evaluation Based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS), and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) are employed in combination with an entropy weighting method to account for the varying importance of the criteria. …”
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Optimising neonatal services for very preterm births between 27+0 and 31+6 weeks gestation in England: the OPTI-PREM mixed-methods study by Thillagavathie Pillay, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Natalie Armstrong, Sarah E Seaton, Miaoqing Yang, Victor L Banda, Kelvin Dawson, Abdul QT Ismail, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Caroline Cupit, Alexis Paton, Bradley N Manktelow, Elizabeth S Draper, Neena Modi, Helen E Campbell, Elaine M Boyle

“…Aim To investigate, for preterm babies born between 27+0 and 31+6 weeks gestation in England, optimal place of birth and early care. Design Mixed methods. …”
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Feasibility of rational constructive and technological parameters of organization options of multigroup shunting on the basis of simulation modeling by S. V. Karasev, D. A. Sivitskiy

“…The developed model is used for technical and economic comparison based on the minimum of the reduced costs of 16 construction and technological variants for organizing a multi-group selection of cars that differ in the shunting method (degree, combinatorial, stepped maximum and duplicating) and the number of grouping tracks (from 2 to 5) . …”
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Impacts of Phenolic Compounds and Their Benefits on Human Health: Germination by Jonathan Hernández-Miranda, Karen Argelia Reyes-Portillo, Abigail García-Castro, Esther Ramírez-Moreno, Alma Delia Román-Gutiérrez

“…Furthermore, the nutritional profile can naturally be maximized and optimized through the germination process through two key methods: degradation of macromolecules and biosynthesis of metabolites, which favors an increase in the concentration of bioactive compounds, such as phenolic compounds. …”
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Robust machine learning models for calculating the carbon dioxide desublimation point within natural gas mixtures at low temperature conditions by Walid Abdelfattah, Munthar Kadhim Abosaoda, Dharmesh Sur, Menon Soumya V, Prabhat Kumar Sahu, Kamred Udham Singh, R. Sivaranjani, Rohit Chauhan, Siya Singla, Fereydoon Ranjbar

“…These data points cover the CDDT in binary and ternary natural gas mixtures under different pressures and gas fractions. In addition to black-box tools such as Decision Tree (DT), Gaussian Process Method (GPM) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) methods, a mathematical equation was developed via Genetic Programming (GP) technique for CDDT calculation. …”
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FAST Drift Scan Survey for H i Intensity Mapping. II. Stacking-based Beam Construction of the 19-feed Array at 1.4 GHz by Xinyang Zhao, Yichao Li, Wenxiu Yang, Furen Deng, Yougang Wang, Fengquan Wu, Xin Wang, Xiaohui Sun, Xin Zhang, Xuelei Chen

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An approach of rock blasting simulation of equivalent blasting dynamic-static action by Hao Zhang, Xueyang Xing, Yiteng Du, Tingchun Li, Jianxin Yu

“…The superiority of the new method is evaluated. When the decoupling coefficient is increased, an optimal decoupling coefficient is discovered, which reflects the consistency between the blasting results and the actual situation. …”
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Evaluation of drying methods and green extraction techniques to enhance the recovery of bioactive compounds from hop leaves: A sustainable approach for the valorisation of agricult... by Katya Carbone, Valentina Macchioni

“…This study investigated the effects of different drying techniques and green extraction methods on bioactive compounds in hop leaves, typically considered as waste material. …”
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Calibration of Discrete Element Simulation Parameters and Model Construction for the Interaction Between Coastal Saline Alkali Soil and Soil-Engaging Components by Nan Xu, Zhenbo Xin, Jin Yuan, Zenghui Gao, Yu Tian, Chao Xia, Xuemei Liu, Dongwei Wang

“…Physical experiments on soil accumulation angles at different depths were carried out using the cylindrical lifting method. …”
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Symbiotic Learning Grey Wolf Optimizer for Engineering and Power Flow Optimization Problems by Aala Kalananda Vamsi Krishna Reddy, Komanapalli Venkata Lakshmi Narayana

“…Different testing scenarios are considered to analyze and evaluate the performance of the proposed method such as the effect of dimensionality (CEC2018 benchmarking suite), convergence speeds, avoidance of local entrapment (CEC2019 benchmarking suite) and constrained optimization problems (four standard engineering problems). …”
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Flat Dielectric Waveguides of the Terahertz Range and Diffraction Antennas on Their Basis by I. G. Mironenko, S. S. Sokolov, A. A. Ivanov

“…This is primarily related to the construction of a partition grid of the layered structure and the need to take into account the behavior of the electromagnetic field at the boundaries of media with different relative permittivity. In this work, we use the principles of the finite element method to solve the problem of finding a propagation constant in a flat multilayer dielectric waveguide, and show how to reduce the number of elements when setting optimal boundary conditions. …”
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Numerical Study of Inclined Geometric Configurations of a Submerged Plate-Type Device as Breakwater and Wave Energy Converter in a Full-Scale Wave Channel by Vitor Eduardo Motta, Gabrielle Ücker Thum, Rafael Adriano Alves Camargo Gonçalves, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Elizaldo Domingues dos Santos, Bianca Neves Machado, Liércio André Isoldi

“…The volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase model was employed to represent the interaction between water and air. The finite volume method (FVM) was applied to solve the transport equations for volume fraction, momentum, and mass. …”
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The Effect of Clinical Ambiguity on the Decision-Making Process Among Intensive Care Unit Providers in Northern America Using Clinical Vignettes in Mixed Methods Study by Fleck D, Gad H, Hogan Quigley B, Antar M, Sayed Ahmed A, Mahmoud MA, Laudanski K

“…A similar lack of correlation was seen between different levels of tolerance of ambiguity among providers.Conclusion: Providers’ experience working in the intensive care unit, combined with their level of optimism, seemed to influence the relatively low implementation of the sepsis bundle across two vignettes.Keywords: clinical decision-making, sepsis management, risk-taking behavior, tolerance of ambiguity, ICU providers, healthcare providers…”
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