Comparison of MTA, CEM Cement, and Biodentine as Coronal Plug during Internal Bleaching: An In Vitro Study by Paridokht Zarean, Parichehr Zarean, Arash Ravaghi, Maryam Zare Jahromi, Mitra Sadrameli

“…Results. All positive samples showed turbidity, whereas none of the negative samples allowed bacterial leakage. …”
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Performance of Household Water Treatment Methods for Microbial Removal under Household Conditions in Kabale District, Uganda by Alex, Saturday, George Lukoye Makokha, Anthony Macharia

“…The purpose the study was to assess the performance of household water treatment methods (HWT) and evaluate their ability to improve the microbial quality of drinking water under household conditions in Kabale District. We randomly selected 205 households, where we collected treated and untreated water samples. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Biochemical Parameters, Thermal Behavior, Rheological Features, and Gelling Characteristics of Thai Ligor Hybrid Chicken and Broiler Meats by Ngassa Julius Mussa, Chantira Wongnen, Warangkana Kitpipit, Worawan Panpipat, Mingyu Yin, Siriporn Riebroy Kim, Manat Chaijan

“…The objective of this research was to examine the biochemical characteristics and functional behavior of proteins in fresh composite meat from Thai Ligor hybrid chicken (LC) and commercial broiler chicken (BC). The composite meat samples, which comprise minced breast and thigh without skin from 20 chicken carcasses in a 1:1 (<i>w</i>/<i>w</i>) ratio, were randomly selected for analysis using the completely randomized design (CRD). …”
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Application of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Quantitatively Determine Relative Content of Puccnia striiformis f. sp. tritici DNA in Wheat Leaves in Incubation Period by Yaqiong Zhao, Yilin Gu, Feng Qin, Xiaolong Li, Zhanhong Ma, Longlian Zhao, Junhui Li, Pei Cheng, Yang Pan, Haiguang Wang

“…A total of 300 near-infrared spectra were acquired from the Pst-infected leaf samples in an incubation period, and relative contents of Pst DNA in the samples were obtained using duplex TaqMan real-time PCR arrays. …”
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Laserpuncture Shooting Duration Effect at the Growth Point on the Weight Gain and Growth Rate of Male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) by Aida Zharah, Sri Hidanah, Yeni Dhamayanti, Sunaryo Hadi Warsito, R Tatang Santanu Adikara, Gracia Angelina Hendarti

“…This research used 20 samples Japanese male Day Old Quail (DOQ) with complete randomized design research method. …”
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Molecular characterization of ten viral pathogens causing calf diarrhea in Hanwoo (Bos Taurus coreanae) by next generation sequencing by Jeong-Byoung Chae, Won Gyeong Kim, Shinae Song, Joon-Seok Chae

“…(p = 0.027) showed an increase in prevalence with higher fecal scores. Twenty-one fecal samples negative for all pathogens were randomly selected and subjected to high-throughput sequencing to identify RNA viral pathogens associated with calf diarrhea. …”
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Bacteriological quality and predictors of raw meat collected from municipal slaughterhouse and butcher shops in northeast, Ethiopia by Leykun Berhanu, Adinew Gizeyatu, Masresha Abebe, Daniel Teshome, Mohammed Aragaw, Gete Berihun

“…In total 177 meat and 354 swab samples were collected. In addition, 177 meat handlers were randomly selected for knowledge, attitude, and practice assessment. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of a Dietary Fiber Mixture in an Intestinal Screening Platform and a Crossover Intervention Study by Femke P. M. Hoevenaars, Tim J. van den Broek, Boukje Eveleens Maarse, Matthijs Moerland, Ines Warnke, Hannah Eggink, Frank H. J. Schuren

“…Fecal samples were collected every 4 weeks during the 32-week study period. …”
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Effect of ionizing radiation on the shear bond strength of two different adhesive systems in primary teeth. in-vitro study by Nourhan Mahmoud Shahin, Basma Mahmoud Nagi, Amin El Sayed Amin, Amira Saad Badran

“…Therefore, this in vitro study aimed to detect the best adhesive system and ideal time to apply restorations in primary irradiated teeth regarding adhesive shear bond strength. Methods Dentin samples from primary teeth were randomly assigned to four groups based on restoration application time and radiation exposure, (G1: control, G2: preradiation, G3: 24 h postradiation, and G4: 6 months postradiation) with 20 samples per group. …”
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Morphological and molecular identification of Hymenolepis spp. in Rattus rattus and children with diarrhea from Upper Egypt by Menna-Tala Zakaria Abd-Elrahman, Amal SM Sayed, Doaa Abdelhafez Younes, Alam El-Din Mohamed Abdallah Ahmed, Samia Qasem Alghamdi, Amira A Saleh, Hind Alzaylaee, Manal F El-khadragy, Ehab Kotb Elmahallawy

“…Rodents (n = 100) were randomly trapped from various localities in Asyut Governorate, and stool samples from 120 children were collected from the same localities. …”
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MELATONIN CAN NOT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE PLATELET COUNT by Tania Meysavira Fawzi, Lusiana Batubara, Asih Budiastuti, Taufik Eko Nugroho

“…Methods: This research was an experimental with randomized control group pre-post test design. Samples are 12 healthy male Wistar rats then randomly divide into two groups, control and experimental group. …”
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Erratum to &#x201C;Learning to Boost the Performance of Stable Nonlinear Systems&#x201D; by Luca Furieri, Clara Lucia Galimberti, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

“…Mountains—Closed-loop trajectories before training (left) and after training (middle and right) over 100 randomly sampled initial conditions marked with $\circ$. …”
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Efficacy of in vitro antimicrobial intracanal medicaments against C. albicans and E. faecalis in primary teeth by Emily Feitosa RÊGO, Yedda Maria Ribeiro Vasconcelos ROSÁRIO, Rogerio GLEISER, Antônio FERREIRA-PEREIRA, Maristela Barbosa PORTELA, Laura Guimarães PRIMO

“…Two samples from each group were then randomly selected and evaluated under a scanning electron microscope along with the sterile control (n = 1) for qualitative analyses (n = 13). …”
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Effect of polishing technique and immersion in beverages on color stability of nanoceramic composites by Prajwal Shetty, Tina-Puthen Purayil, Kishore Ginjupalli, Kalyana-Chakravarthy Pentapati

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of beverages on the color stability of nanoceramic composites polished using different techniques. Methods: 80 samples of ceram. X SphereTEC one were prepared by condensing the material into a stainless-steel split mold and divided randomly into two groups. …”
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The Effect of Graphic Organizer Strategy on Improving Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Complexity of Written Performance by مریم حسن پور, فاطمه میرزاپور

“…To examine the effectiveness of the treatment, an independent samples t-test was conducted. To see the progression amount between pre-test and post-test of the experimental group, a paired samples t-test was also employed. …”
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Seroprevalence of Pasteurella multocida Serotype A2 in Cattle, Afar Region, Ethiopia by Fanuel Bizuayehu Yihunie, Ashenafi Syoum, Teshager Dubie

“…Blood samples were collected from nonvaccinated bovine species, recording sex, age, and body condition. …”
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EFFECT OF SITE GEOGRAPHY AND DIRECTIONS IN MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONS OF Populus nigral.GROWING IN DIFFERENT SITES IN DOHUK GOVERNORATE by Asem M. Salem Hassan Bajalan

“…Each character which contains 240 samples (3 samples for each one direction of the four) taken from 20 trees (each 10 growing along river sides ) at Sarsung & Zakho sites in Iraqi Kurdistan region was analyzed. …”
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Superconductivity in the Parent Infinite-Layer Nickelate NdNiO_{2} by C. T. Parzyck, Y. Wu, L. Bhatt, M. Kang, Z. Arthur, T. M. Pedersen, R. Sutarto, S. Fan, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, G. Herranz, A. B. Georgescu, D. G. Hawthorn, L. F. Kourkoutis, D. A. Muller, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen

“…A combination of oxide molecular beam epitaxy and atomic hydrogen reduction yields samples with high crystallinity and low residual resistivities, a substantial fraction of which exhibit superconducting transitions. …”
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Adaptive Deeping Siamese Residual Network: A Novel Model for Few-Shot Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Yonghua Jiang, Maoli Lu, Zhilin Dong, Zhichao Jiang, Weidong Jiao, Chao Tang, Jianfeng Sun, Zhongyi Xuan

“…Frequency-domain information is extracted using the Fourier Transform, and training samples are randomly paired according to the matching criteria defined by the Siamese network to augment the dataset. …”
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Reducing annotation effort in agricultural data: simple and fast unsupervised coreset selection with DINOv2 and K-means by Laura Gómez-Zamanillo, Laura Gómez-Zamanillo, Nagore Portilla, Artzai Picón, Artzai Picón, Itziar Egusquiza, Itziar Egusquiza, Ramón Navarra-Mestre, Andoni Elola, Arantza Bereciartua-Perez

“…Coreset selection methods aim to choose a small subset of data samples that best represents the entire dataset. These methods can therefore be used to select a reduced set of samples for annotation, optimizing the training of a deep learning model for the best possible performance. …”
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