Determination of Cystatin C Level in a Sample of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Maryam Noman Salman, Ashwak Jasim kzar, Alaa S. Hamzah

“…Cystatin C is useful to detect individuals with CKD who show a little reduction in GFR as compared to serum creatinine. Serum Cystatin C, urea, uric acid, and Creatinine levels all rise as eGFR falls. …”
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Experimental Study on Immersion Effects of Pressure Water on the Tensile Characteristics of Sandstone Samples by Dawei Yin, Shaojie Chen, Bing Chen, Rui Liu, Faxin Li

“…Although the immersed samples experienced splitting failure indicative of obvious brittle failure characteristics, decreases in the postpeak stress reduction rate with immersion water pressure revealed that the intensity of brittle failure weakened with pressure. …”
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Sample Rocks Tests and Slope Stability Analysis of a Mine Waste Dump by Ping Zou, Ximo Zhao, Zhonghua Meng, Aibing Li, Zhengyu Liu, Wanjie Hu

“…FOS (factor of safety) for each analytical step in this model was then calculated through the strength reduction method. The limit equilibrium method is used for waste dump stability analysis considering three states: only applied gravity, applied gravity and rainfall, and applied gravity and underground water. …”
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The effect of a vegetation period on protein percentage in seed of the pea collection samples by A. R. Ashiev, K. N. Khabibullin, M. V. Skulova

“…The objects of the study were 100 collection pea samples from the N. I. Vavilov ARIPGR (VIR), including 53 leafless samples and 47 leafy ones. …”
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Sustainability in motion: Investigation of automated gravimetric sample preparation in industrial liquid chromatography by Mo Legelli, Marcel Vranceanu, Michaela Wirtz, Stefan Lamotte

“…Gravimetric, robot-aided dilution allows for the reduction of the solvent down to the amount of sample needed for analyses. …”
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Temporal Data Set Reduction Based on D-Optimality for Quantitative FLIM-FRET Imaging. by Travis Omer, Xavier Intes, Juergen Hahn

“…Overall, a reduced set of 10 time points (compared to a typical complete set of 90 time points) was identified to have minimal impact on parameter estimation accuracy (≈5%), with in silico and in vivo experiment validations. This reduction of the number of needed time points by almost an order of magnitude allows the use of FLIM-FRET for certain high-throughput applications which would be infeasible if the entire number of time sampling points were used.…”
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Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Therapy on Anxiety Sensitivity and Rumination in Individuals With Migraine by Akram Hosseini, Sasan Bavi

“…However, the use of convenience sampling and the absence of long-term follow-up limit the generalizability and understanding of enduring effects. …”
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Effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy, stress reduction in hypertension and prehypertension: a systematic review by D. I. Nozdrachev, M. N. Solovieva, K. A. Zamyatin

“…However, further studies with larger samples and measurement of more primary and secondary endpoints are required.…”
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Ecotourism and Poverty Reduction in Uganda. A Case Study of Batwa Communities in Kisoro District. by Kukundakwe, Obadiah

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Determinants of Women’s Empowerment and Household Poverty Reduction in Imbulpe DS Division, Sri Lanka by S.D. Dilini Rathnachandra, S.H. Pushpa Malkanthi

“…Women empowerment and poverty reduction are interrelated key driving forces to achieve the sustainable development of a country. …”
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Soil-Transmitted Helminth infections reduction in Bhutan: A report of 29 years of deworming. by Tshering Dukpa, Nidup Dorji, Sangay Thinley, Wangchuk, Karma Tshering, Kinley Gyem, Diki Wangmo, Passang Lhamo Sherpa, Tshering Dorji, Antonio Montresor

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Carbon footprint reduction in Punjab agriculture: Analyzing impacts and strategies in major crop rotations by Simarjot Kaur, Baljinder Kaur Sidana, Samanpreet Kaur, Asim Biswas

“…Utilizing both primary and secondary data, the study sampled 120 farmers from two Punjab districts, Mansa and Sri Muktsar Sahib, through a multi-stage sampling technique. …”
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The faecal egg count reduction test: Will identification of larvae to species improve its utility? by Dave Leathwick, Peter Green, Charlotte Bouchet, Alex Chambers, Tania Waghorn, Christian Sauermann

“…Subsequently, the number of larvae sampled to determine the species mix in each sample was varied from 50 to 6400 and the process repeated.Of 152 comparisons of efficacy, 25 % of cases where genus-level identification resulted in a finding of ‘susceptible’ for that category, species-level identification returned at least one diagnosis of ‘resistant’ i.e., genus-level identification resulted in a 25 % false negative diagnosis.When the number of larvae sampled for species identification was low (<400) variation in efficacy estimates was high, however, as sample size increased the confidence interval around the efficacy estimate decreased.The results indicate that identifying large numbers of larvae to species using DNA has the potential to increase the accuracy and confidence in efficacy estimates achieved using the faecal egg count reduction test.…”
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Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction; opportunities and challenges. A case study of Lusaka district of Zambia by Martin Chimbala Mwansa

“…Respondents for the study were drawn from beneficiaries of poverty reduction intervention through stratified random sampling and structured questionnaires where used. …”
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Solid-State Kinetic Investigations of Nonisothermal Reduction of Iron Species Supported on SBA-15 by N. S. Genz, D. Baabe, T. Ressler

“…Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) of the FexOy/SBA-15 samples with H2 revealed better reducibility of the samples originating from Fe(III)-nitrate precursors. …”
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Carbothermic reduction of mechanically activated NiO-carbon mixture: Non-isothermal kinetics by Bakhshandeh S., Setoudeh N., Ali Askari Zamani M., Mohassel A.

“…The kinetics parameters of carbothermic reduction were determined using non-isothermal method (Coats-Redfern Method) for un-milled and milled samples. …”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS BASED ON MIXED LABEL INFORMATION LOCALITY PRESERVING PROJECTIONS DIMENSION REDUCTION by YUAN LongYin, ZHANG QianTu, LEI Jing, WU ShengCai

“…The similarity matrix is used to preserve the local structure of the same-label samples before and after dimension reduction, whereas the divergence matrix is used to enlarge the distance between the different-label samples after dimension reduction. …”
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Quantifying global energy resilience and its carbon reduction effect: The role of technological innovation by Ruquan Lu, Xiaomeng Zhao, Guixian Liu

“…The study provides an essential reference basis for global CO2 reduction and offers new ideas and methods for coping with climate change from the perspective of energy resilience.…”
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Multidimensional State Data Reduction and Evaluation of College Students’ Mental Health Based on SVM by Han Peiqing

“…In response to the shortcomings of the traditional methods for evaluating the mental health status of college students in terms of computational complexity and low accuracy, a method for evaluating the mental health status of college students based on data reduction and support vector machines was proposed. …”
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Advancing wastewater reuse: AI-driven insights into ozone-based organic pollutant reduction by Syed Muzzamil Hussain Shah, Sani I. Abba, Mohamed A. Yassin, Ebrahim Al-Qadami, Dahiru U. Lawal, Imtiaz Afzal Khan, Jamilu Usman, Haris U. Qureshi, Isam H. Aljundi

“…The efficacy of ozone in reducing these pollutants was investigated through an ozone concentration of 0.83 mg/L in TWW. Samples were exposed to ozone for varying durations, namely 0, 15, and 25 min, with real-time monitoring of key water quality parameters using a HANNA multiprobe, including temperature, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), resistivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), salinity, and oxidation–reduction potential (ORP). …”
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