Prevalence and Associated Factors of Infertility among Married Couples of Kunnathukal Panchayath in Trivandrum District by M S Vannya, Blessed Singh, Christopher Usha, Suba Y Joice, Jibin V. Gladston

“…The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of infertility and its associated factors among married couples residing at Kunnathukal Panchayath in Trivandrum district. Materials and Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 1270 married couples residing at Kunnathukal Panchayath, selected using a cluster sampling technique. …”
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Use of Bony Landmarks during Adrenal Venous Sampling to Guide Catheterization of the Left Adrenal Vein by Lucas R. Cusumano, Sipan Mathevosian, Joshua K. Sweigert, Ravi N. Srinivasa, Aarti P. Luhar, John M. Moriarty

“…By utilizing these landmarks, positioning of the sampling catheter during AVS can be more reliable with the potential to avoid repeat procedures and delays in patient care.…”
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Storage Stability of Volatile Organic Compounds from Petrochemical Plant of China in Different Sample Bags by Fenglei Han, Huangrong Zhong, Ting Li, Yongqiang Wang, Fang Liu

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Flow-Batch Sample Preparation for Fractionation of the Stress Signaling Phytohormone Salicylic Acid in Fresh Leaves by Thiago L. Marques, Milton K. Sasaki, Lidiane C. Nunes, Fábio R. P. Rocha

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Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching by Raven Star Wallace, Bronte Mckeown, Ian Goodall-Halliwell, Louis Chitiz, Philippe Forest, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Bridget Mulholland, Adam Turnbull, Tamara Vanderwal, Samyogita Hardikar, Tirso RJ Gonzalez Alam, Boris C Bernhardt, Hao-Ting Wang, Will Strawson, Michael Milham, Ting Xu, Daniel S Margulies, Giulia L Poerio, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jeremy I Skipper, Jeffrey D Wammes, Robert Leech, Jonathan Smallwood

“…However, we currently lack an understanding of how patterns of ongoing thoughts map onto the different brain systems when we watch a film, partly because methods of sampling experience disrupt the dynamics of brain activity and the experience of movie-watching. …”
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Optimized Driver Placement for Array-Driven Flat-Panel Loudspeakers by David A. ANDERSON, Michael C. HEILEMANN, Mark F. BOCKO

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Combining N-mixture and occupancy analysis offers a more complete picture of carnivore habitat use in Northeastern Türkiye. by J David Blount, Austin M Green, Mark Chynoweth, Emrah Çoban, Josip Kusak, Çağan H Şekercioğlu

“…Therefore, as these two methods tend to investigate habitat use at different spatial scales, when used in conjunction they can provide a more refined understanding of species' habitat use through repeat-survey sampling methods like camera trapping.…”
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A sensitive sample preparation pipeline for adventitious virus detection using Oxford Nanopore sequencing by Emmanuel K. Tsinda, Charles A. Swofford, James P.B. Strutt, José Sangerman, Raeuf Roushangar, Alexander Li, Lara M. Gomez, Aidan N. Bousquet, Caleb Neufeld, Jacqueline M. Wolfrum, Jongyoon Han, Rohan B.H. Williams, Anthony J. Sinskey, Paul W. Barone, Stacy L. Springs

“…To address this, we have developed a sensitive sample preparation workflow using concentration, nuclease treatment, and agnostic PCR methods to eliminate background signals and amplify viral contaminant reads, leading to a 3-log improvement in the limit of detection that is comparable to or better than short-read sequencing approaches. …”
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Disinfection with chlorhexidine is more effective than ethanol for buttonhole cannulation in arteriovenous fistula: a randomized cross-over trial by Karin Staaf, Vendela Scheer, Lena Serrander, Anders Fernström, Fredrik Uhlin

“…Methods In this randomized, cross-over, clinical trial, we compared 5 mg/mL chlorhexidine in 70% ethanol to 70% ethanol alone with and without arm washing using serial sampling of normal skin flora directly before disinfection, immediately after the disinfectant effect time, and 2 and 4 h after disinfection during four different dialysis treatments. …”
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Domain Adaptation Using the Replay Buffer: Adaptive Sampling Using Domain-Specific Classifier by Seokmin Kim, Youngbae Hwang

“…Training images are represented based on their proximity to the domain by applying a domain-specific classifier. The method then selects more representative images from the training set using adaptive sampling. …”
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A comparison of participatory science seining and electrofishing for sampling fish assemblages in an urban river by Olivia F. Williams, Sally Petrella, Lauren Eaton, Robert Muller, Philip Kukulski, Paul Seelbach, Catherine Riseng, Karen M. Alofs

“…The majority of species captured within the reaches were shared across sampling methods although community similarity was lowest and highest in small branches. …”
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Validation and application of a visual LAMP assay for Mpox diagnosis — Insights from clinical samples in Thailand by Wansadaj Jaroenram, Yada Ongchanchai, Ravee Nitiyanontakij, Pawita Suwanwatthana, Ratchana Ponang, Wansika Kiatpathomchai

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Lipid Accumulation Product Is More Related to Insulin Resistance than the Visceral Adiposity Index in the Maracaibo City Population, Venezuela by Valmore Bermúdez, Juan Salazar, Jorge Fuenmayor, Manuel Nava, Ángel Ortega, Pablo Duran, Milagros Rojas, Roberto Añez, Alejandra Rivas-Montenegro, Lissé Angarita, Maricarmen Chacín, Clímaco Cano, Manuel Velasco, Joselyn Rojas

“…To evaluate the association and diagnostic accuracy of VAI and LAP to diagnose IR in the adult population of Maracaibo city. Methods. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with multistage sampling. …”
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Impact of microbiological molecular methodologies on adaptive sampling using nanopore sequencing in metagenomic studies by Josephine Herbert, Stanley Thompson, Angela H. Beckett, Samuel C. Robson

“…Most importantly, we demonstrated the effective application of adaptive sampling for enriching a low-abundance genome within a metagenomic sample. …”
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Potential of Dried Blood Self-Sampling for Cyclosporine C2 Monitoring in Transplant Outpatients by Alexander Benedikt Leichtle, Uta Ceglarek, Helmut Witzigmann, Gábor Gäbel, Joachim Thiery, Georg Martin Fiedler

“…The patients preferred the dried blood sampling because of the more simple and less painful procedure. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Data Sampling-Based Decision Forest Classifiers for Software Defect Prediction by Fatima Enehezei Usman-Hamza, Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Hussaini Mamman, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shuib Basri, Rafiat Ajibade Oyekunle, Hammed Adeleye Mojeed, Abimbola Ganiyat Akintola

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Wireless sensor network positioning technology based on improved sampling box and fuzzy reasoning by Ningyun Dan, Lun Zhao, Wenjin Pan, Yan Cai

“…This study proposes a wireless sensor network positioning technology based on improved sampling boxes and fuzzy reasoning to address the problem of low positioning accuracy and efficiency of traditional positioning methods in resource constrained environments. …”
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Determination of High Content of Molybdenum in Molybdenum Ore by Emission Spectrometry with Solid Sampling Technique by Xinwei GUO, Kun LI, Zhihong HAO, Jianzhen YAO, Jinli XU, Jinfeng BAI

“…It can solve possible problems, such as large sample demand, large chemical reagent use, cumbersome operation and contamination in other analytical methods.…”
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Spatially explicit metrics improve the evaluation of species distribution models facing sampling biases by Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Juan P. González-Varo, Pablo González-Moreno

“…These metrics may not adequately account for spatially biased predictions, whereas the use of spatially explicit metrics could be more informative. Here, the effectiveness of both non-spatial and spatially explicit metrics is evaluated in response to predictions affected by sampling biases. …”
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Simple water vapor sampling for stable isotope analysis using affordable valves and bags by A. Dahlmann, A. Dahlmann, J. D. Marshall, D. Dubbert, M. Hoffmann, M. Dubbert

“…More recently, samples have been collected with gas-permeable membranes (GPMs) and measured in the field. …”
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