Non-occupational exposure to trace elements in Finland – Urinary and blood biomonitoring study by Simo P. Porras, Juha Tuovila, Tiina Santonen

“…The samplings took place in 2020.In the urine samples (n = 147), most of the studied trace elements were quantifiable; only the indium and iridium results were below the limit of quantification. …”
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Perceptual Quality Assessment for Pansharpened Images Based on Deep Feature Similarity Measure by Zhenhua Zhang, Shenfu Zhang, Xiangchao Meng, Liang Chen, Feng Shao

“…On the other hand, existing limited no reference methods, most of which depend on manually crafted features, cannot fully capture the sensitive spatial/spectral distortions of the fused image. …”
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Renal tissue thawed for 30 minutes is still suitable for gene expression analysis. by Yi Ma, Xiao-Nan Kang, Wen-Bin Ding, Hao-Zheng Yang, Ye Wang, Jin Zhang, Yi-Ran Huang, Hui-Li Dai

“…Microarray results were validated by quantitative real time polymerase chain reactions (qPCR) on 6 candidate reference genes and 11 target genes. Additionally, we used geNorm plus and NormFinder to identify the most stably expressed reference genes over time. …”
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The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Humanitarian Action and Sustainable Development by Nora Pelamo, Cláudia Ramos

“… Of all international organisations, Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) are not the most well-known nor the most scrutinised neither by the academy nor the public. …”
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Free-living amoebae infections in humans in South Africa, 1996-2023 by Dr Shareen Boughan, Mrs Bhavani Moodley, Prof John Frean, Dr Charlotte Sriruttan-Nel

“…The neighbour-joining phylogenetic analysis of Acanthamoeba isolates formed two major clades (T4 and T3) with most isolates belonging to genotype T4. Discussion: Acanthamoeba keratitis was the most common FLA infection, mostly affecting contact lens wearers, a known at-risk population. …”
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A hepatitis B virus (HBV) sequence variation graph improves alignment and sample-specific consensus sequence construction. by Dylan Duchen, Steven J Clipman, Candelaria Vergara, Chloe L Thio, David L Thomas, Priya Duggal, Genevieve L Wojcik

“…Thus, reference selection is critical, yet selecting the most representative reference a priori remains difficult. …”
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European experience of steroid therapy in children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with spike wave activation in sleep ((D)EE-SWAS) by Dilan Canbay, Floor E. Jansen, Jan Schönberger, Victoria San Antonio-Arce, Julia Jacobs, Kerstin Alexandra Klotz

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Old creatures and poor children. The use of non-gendered words for gendered individuals in historical speech-related material by Sara Lilja Visén

“…This might be due to the specific nature of the New England material, most of which comes from the Salem witch trials. …”
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Scientific Literacy Skills for Non-Science Librarians: Bootstrap Training by Christina A. Peterson, Sandra Kajiwara

“…A proliferation of web-based scientific information sources was overloading students and the librarians who serve them at Reference. In order to determine our most pressing training goals, we administered a survey to all reference personnel, discovering that librarians in the social sciences and humanities and adjunct librarians felt a knowledge deficit in chemistry, health sciences, and engineering, among other disciplines. …”
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Against Fregean Quantification by Brian Rabern, Bryan Pickel

“…We conclude with the consequences of this result for Frege’s distinction between sense and reference.…”
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Quantification of antimicrobial use on Irish dairy farms: A comparison of three recording methods by Hannah Martin, Edgar Garcia Manzanilla, Simon J. More, Robert Hyde, Conor McAloon

“…Veterinary data were the most reliable approach for assessing AMU when compared with a reference method of AMU. …”
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Early diagnosis of hereditary angioedema in children: genetic testing should be prioritized by A. Bocquet, A. Pagnier, I. Boccon-Gibod, F. Defendi, C. Dumestre-Perard, G. Hardy, Laurence Bouillet

“…Due to the immaturity of the complement system, C1 Inhibitor (C1 INH) and C4 levels can be low at birth, generally in the range of 60 to 100% of adult reference values. Like most complement proteins, their levels generally normalize after one year of life. …”
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FOREIGNIZATION AND DOMESTICATION IN THE MINISTERIAL WEBSITE LOCALIZATION by Ely Hayati Nasution, Roswita Silalahi, Vivi Adryani Nasution

“…This research aims to identify the translation strategy involved under foreignization and domestication reference in the official website localization of Ministry of Health of Republic of Indonesia, to find out the most dominant translation strategy used, and to analyze the reasons to what extent foreignization and domestication applied, by referring the classifications proposed by Venuti (2008). …”
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Validation methods for global and local positioning-based athlete monitoring systems in team sports: a scoping review by Matthias Gilgien, Live Steinnes Luteberget

“…Fewer studies have used reference system that allow for validation of instantaneous dynamic position, such as infrared camera-based motion capture systems.Conclusions Because most validation studies use simple and cost-effective reference systems which do not allow to quantify the exact path athletes travel and hence misjudge the true path length and speed, caution should be taken when interpreting the results of validation studies, especially when comparing results between studies. …”
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Compromisso político e competência técnica: 20 anos depois by Paolo Nosella

“…In that time a certain gramscian trendy movementwas reference and synonymous to the most emancipated and free ideas, but todayin face of a complex and multifaced political reality it is necessary to deepen thereading of this authors ideas. …”
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Characterizing Patients and Treatment Patterns in Moderate-to-severe Atopic Dermatitis in Finland: A Population-based Study Using National Health Data by Anita Remitz, Essi J. Peltonen, Laura Korhonen, Pekka Nortamo, Ilona Iso-Mustajärvi, Tuire Prami, Lasse Oinonen, Beatrice Gittens, Lill-Brith Von Arx, Vibeke Porsdal

“…Across all 3 age groups, topical corticosteroids and emollients were the 2 categories of AD medications most frequently used throughout the study period. …”
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Government pharmaceutical pricing strategies in the Asia-Pacific region: an overview by Naina R. Verghese, Jon Barrenetxea, Yukti Bhargava, Sagun Agrawal, Eric Andrew Finkelstein

“…Results: Seven strategies (Internal Reference Pricing, External Reference Pricing, Special Pricing Agreements, Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation, Cost plus pricing, Price Maintenance Premium, and Tendering and negotiations) were identified as most commonly practised in APAC through the review process. …”
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Morphometric Identification of An Unknown Honey Bee Colony: An Example From North India by Kaur Hardeep, Ganie Sajad Ahmad, Tofilski Adam

“…In the case of morphological markers, identification is hindered by a lack of reference data and a standardized methodology to reuse it. …”
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Identification and Differentiation of Non-Hemolytic <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> from Food Processing Environments Using MALDI-TOF MS by Barbara Szymczak

“…The Bruker database correctly identified only 21% of the environmental isolates, misclassifying most as <i>L. innocua</i>, and showed 83.3% accuracy for reference strains. …”
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موقع Research Gate وتأثیره العلمى والأکادیمى :دراسة استکشافیة تحلیلیة by د. ریهام عاصم غنیم

“…This study sought to explore ResearchGate by analyzinga set of available and downloaded publications on the site where the studyidentified (401) publications to conduct a series of statistical analyzes aimed atmeasuring the nature of the relationships between the age of posts and thepercentage of views and electronic attendance to them as well as the thematicareas of publications available on the RG and distribution The categorical natureof these publications, in addition to measuring the temporal, objective and factualcorrelation of the publications with the size of the observations for thosepublications, and evaluating the scientific impact of the sample's publicationsaccording to the size of the observations that you have on ResearchGate, as wellas evaluating the science impact For the publications themselves according tothe categorical and thematic distribution of this, with an indication of the size andnature of the association of social standards with the RG with its academicstandards, and the measurement of the relationship between ResearchGateindicators and reference citations with Scopus. A Spearman scale is used tomeasure the strength and nature of a relationship.The results indicate that the year of publication is the most common yearfor documents to be uploaded, which suggests that RG users rely on them toarchive old research along with the availability of recent research. …”
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