Multiple Approaches to Quantifying the Effective Porosity of Lacustrine Shale Oil Reservoirs in Bohai Bay Basin, East China by Binyu Ma, Qinhong Hu, Shengyu Yang, Na Yin, Hongguo Qiao, Tao Zhang, Mianmo Meng

“…Finally, samples were completely sealed using paraffin for bulk density measurements to evaluate the extent of potential clay swelling in shale samples involving probing fluids. …”
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Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: Translation into a medical and allied health education setting. by David Reser, Margaret Simmons, Esther Johns, Andrew Ghaly, Michelle Quayle, Aimee L Dordevic, Marianne Tare, Adelle McArdle, Julie Willems, Tyson Yunkaporta

“…<h4>Background</h4>Writing and digital storage have largely replaced organic memory for encoding and retrieval of information in the modern era, with a corresponding decrease in emphasis on memorization in Western education. …”
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Cell Therapy in Neonates by Reza Saeidi

“…In some cases, stem cells may also replace damaged cells (3).Cell therapy is generally classified as autologous (using one’s own cells) or allogeneic (cells from others). …”
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Intradermal thumbtack needle buried Neiguan (P6) point for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing craniotomy: study protocol for a randomised contro... by Jian-qin Lv, Chengwei Wang, Yu Li, Tian-hao Xu, Ling-qi Jian

“…Patients and their families are asked to press the needlepoint with the onset of nausea, vomiting, bloating, pain and other reported discomforts. The needle is replaced after 24 hours. The therapy is administered immediately after and 24 hours after surgery. …”
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Caracterização mecânica de laminados cimentíceos esbeltos reforçados com fibras de sisal Mechanical characterization of cement-based thin-walled laminates reinforced with sisal fib... by Paulo R. L. Lima, Romildo D. Toledo Filho, Koji J. Nagahama, Eduardo M. Fairbairn

“…Three point bending tests were carried out to evaluate the influence of addition of fibre (3%), number of layers of reinforcement (2 and 3), fibre orientation (0 and 90&deg;) and moulding pressure (0 and 2 MPa) on the flexural behaviour of the laminate. …”
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Método para estimativa do IAF de árvores isoladas ou de plantações com dossel fechado Method to estimate the LAI for isolated trees and continuous canopy crops by Maurício A. Coelho Filho, Nilson A. Villa-Nova, Luiz R. Angelocci, Fábio R. Marin, Ciro A. Righi

“…Based on these results, it is concluded that the IAF-LUX method may be used for determining leaf area in the two species, replacing advantageously the other destructive or non-destructive techniques because it is of low cost, easily operated and non-destructive procedure.…”
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RDRM-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Lightweight Rice Disease Detection Model for Complex Field Environments Based on Improved YOLOv5 by Pan Li, Jitao Zhou, Huihui Sun, Jian Zeng

“…The model is trained and evaluated utilizing a comprehensive dataset of 5930 field-collected and augmented sample images comprising four prevalent rice leaf diseases: bacterial blight, leaf blast, brown spot, and tungro. …”
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qBiCo: a method to assess global DNA conversion performance in epigenetics via single-copy genes and repetitive elements by Faidra Karkala, Roy B. Simons, Floor Claessens, Vivian Kalamara, Manfred Kayser, Athina Vidaki

“…Towards building a prototype tool, we further optimized key functionalities, for example, by replacing the poorest performing single-plex assay and creating a more representative DNA standard. …”
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A comparative study of GPT-4o and human ophthalmologists in glaucoma diagnosis by Junxiu Zhang, Yao Ma, Rong Zhang, Yanhua Chen, Mengyao Xu, Su Rina, Ke Ma

“…Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models like GPT-4o, holds promise for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in healthcare. This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of GPT-4o compared to human ophthalmologists in glaucoma cases. …”
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Disease Burden and Associated Risk Factors of Early-Onset Lung Cancer in China and Worldwide by CAI Lin, ZHU Chenxin, YUAN Jiani, ZHANG Xinglong, FANG Yi, YANG Haiyan, GUO Lanwei

“…Globally, household air pollution ranked third, whereas in China, secondhand smoke replaced it as the third leading risk factor, with household air pollution dropping to fifth. …”
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RBMDC-Net: Effective Jaw Cyst Segmentation Network Using Residual Bottleneck and Multiscale Dilated Convolution by Huixia Zheng, Xiaoliang Jiang, Xu Xu, Zhenfei Yuan

“…In our approach, the standard convolutional module in the U-Net encoding path is replaced with residual bottleneck module (RBM) that enables the network to extract features at various scales using multiple kernel sizes and residual connection. …”
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Evaluación del efecto del grano de soya crudo (C.S.C.) suministrado por 42-28 o 14 semanas a aves en postura by López G. Arnobio, Salazar M. Aracelly, Múnera S. Juan Guillermo, Santos V. Eduardo

“…An experiment was conducted with 144 middle weight Dekalb-Warren laying hens (28 to 70 weeks age), to evaluate the effects on feed consumption, % egg production, egg weight feed conversion per dozen and kilogram of egg produced, weight change, and pancreas size and weight due to the feeding of who le raw soybean (WRSB) replacing soybean bean (SBM) as a protein source in the diet in three feeding periods (42,28 and 14 weeks). …”
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The Effect of Different Amounts of Glycerol Fed to Lambs on Their Growth, Rumen Fermentation, Carcass Traits, Meat Characteristics, and Shelf Life by Uriel Hidalgo-Hernández, María Esther Ortega-Cerrilla, Pedro Zetina-Córdoba, José G. Herrera-Haro, José Vian

“…Glycerol can effectively replace corn as an energy source in lamb diets without negatively impacting productive performance. …”
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YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Shimin Weng, Han Wang, Jiashu Wang, Changming Xu, Ende Zhang

“…Finally, the Wise-IoU loss function is adopted to replace the traditional bounding box loss. This is coupled with a dynamic non-monotonic focusing mechanism formulated using the concept of outlier degrees. …”
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IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM RESULTS OF THE LEFT ATRIUM AURICLE OCCLUDER IMPLANTING IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION by Z. Kh. Shugushev, L. V. Rodionova, О. N. Ganeeva, N. V. Morozova, D. A. Maksimkin

“…Aim. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the “WATCHMAN” occluder (OW) in atrial fibrillation patients (AF) during hospital period and in 12 months after the procedure.Material and methods. …”
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Distance between implants has a potential impact of crestal bone resorption by Matteo Danza, Ilaria Zollino, Anna Avantaggiato, Alessandra Lucchese, Francesco Carinci

“…Implants were inserted to replace 13 incisors (22%), 7 cuspids (11.9%), 30 premolars (50.8%) and 9 molars (15.3%). …”
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The burden and etiologies of diarrhea in Asia and its countries from 1990 to 2021 and the forecast to 2040: analyses informed by the global burden of disease study 2021 by Shan Liu, Zhiping Wu, Qingyu An, Jun Wu, Jinjian Bai, Wei Sun, Linan Guo, Luxi Gong

“…Spearman’s rank test was performed to evaluate the association between diarrhea burdens and socio-demographic index (SDI). …”
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Comparative effects of different dietary pectin types on growth performance and intestinal health in pearl gentian grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus♀ × E. lanceolatus♂) by Lulu Zhu, Xiaoxue Meng, Xuehan Wang, Jiongting Fan, Beiping Tan, Junming Deng

“…Four experimental diets were formulated, including an 8 % common low-ester pectin (CLP) diet, 8 % amidated low-ester pectin (ALP) diet, 8 % high-ester pectin (HP) diet, and a control diet in which 8 % pectin was replaced by 8 % dextrin. Each diet was randomly assigned to triplicate groups of 35 juvenile groupers (6.66 ± 0.07 g) per tank in a rearing system for 10 weeks. …”
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Malaria burden and artemisinin resistance in the mobile and migrant population on the Thai-Myanmar border, 1999-2011: an observational study. by Verena I Carrara, Khin Maung Lwin, Aung Pyae Phyo, Elizabeth Ashley, Jacher Wiladphaingern, Kanlaya Sriprawat, Marcus Rijken, Machteld Boel, Rose McGready, Stephane Proux, Cindy Chu, Pratap Singhasivanon, Nicholas White, François Nosten

“…Alternative fixed combination treatments are needed urgently to replace the failing first-line regimen of mefloquine and artesunate. …”
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Effect of changing the proportion of C16:0 and cis-9 C18:1 in fat supplements on rumen fermentation, glucose and lipid metabolism, antioxidation capacity, and visceral fatty acid p... by Haixin Bai, Lubo Wang, Modinat Tolani Lambo, Yang Li, Yonggen Zhang

“…These adverse effects were alleviated by partially replacing C16:0 with cis-9 C18:1.…”
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