Improving Growth Performance, Biochemical Parameters and Reducing Mortality due to Ascites in Broilers by Propranolol Inclusion by Shahriar Saidian, Somaya Farahmand, Mokhtar Fathi, Salar Saifi

“…Growth performance parameters including feed intake, weight gain, and feed conversion ratio were calculated for the total period. On the last day of the experiment (42 d), two birds were randomly selected from each cage and after sampling from the wing vein, they were killed and the ascites index was calculated as the ratio of the weight of the right ventricle to the weight of total ventricles (RV/TV). …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis to examine intrapartum interventions, and maternal and neonatal outcomes following immersion in water during labour and waterbirth by Priscilla J Hall, Claire Feeley, Ethel Burns, Jennifer Vanderlaan

“…The fail-safe N estimates were calculated to determine the number of studies necessary to change the estimates. …”
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The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the maternal mortality rate and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal in Brazil by Gabriella Linhares Siqueira, Gabrielle Rossini de Oliveira Fontes, Alanna Gomes da Silva, Cassia Regina Gontijo Gomes, Fernanda Marçal Ferreira, José Paulo de Siqueira Guida, Eunice Francisca Martins, Libni Cosiello Fuillarat Ciaravolo, Maria Cristina Gabrielloni, Marina Cristina dos Santos Brito, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva

“…Methods This is an epidemiological study with an ecological design carried out with secondary data by the Mortality Information System, selecting direct and indirect causes of maternal mortality in the Brazil, country’s five macro-regions in the Brazil (North, Northeast, Midwest, South, and Southeast) and states from 2000 to 2023. …”
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Sustainability Measurement of Farming System in Isfahan Agricultural Sector (Smallholders-Rural Production Cooperatives- Farm Corporation) by Saedali Nekooei Naenii, Yosef Ghanbari, Hamid Barghi

“…The sample size was calculated using Cochran's formula. Moreover, the sample size for each company and smallholder farmers systems were calculated by proportional assignment. …”
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Effects of Supplementation of Inulin and Yeast Autolysate (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) on the Productive Performance, Egg Quality, Intestinal Morphology, and Microflora of Laying Jap... by Ayesheh Pourangha, Mohammad Taher Mirakzehi, Hassan Saleh

“…Egg production (number and weight) was recorded daily, and feed intake was calculated weekly. At the end of the experiment, the FCR was calculated by dividing the feed consumed (in grams) by the produced egg mass (in grams). …”
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Studying the Methods of Drought Coping by Farmers: (Case Study: Shirvan County of Northern Khorasan Province) by Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani, Khalil Ghorbani, Gohar Khaksar-Moghadam

“…For sampling, two rural districts of Sarhad, four rural districts of Markazy were randomlly select and then 40% of villages from each rural districts were selected (38 villages). …”
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Control Performance and Preliminary Application Investigation of Novel Rotational Impact Dampers by SHEN Junjie, WANG Jingjing

“…Finally, to explore the potential application scenarios of RID, two main structures were selected and analyzed through numerical simulation. …”
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Downscaling of Soil Moisture Map using Sentinel Radar Satellite Images and Distribution Analysis in the West of Iran by Seyed Hossein Mirmosavi, kohzad Raispour, Muhammad Kamangar

“…Therefore, the water-rich year of 1997-98 was selected as the statistical period and western Iran for the study. …”
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The Role of Landscape Metrics and Spatial Processes in Performance Evaluation of GEOMOD (Case Study: Neka River Basin) by Shrif Joorabian Shooshtari, Kamran Shayesteh, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Mahmood Azari, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

“…Seven landscape metrics were selected for accuracy assessment of model using Fragstats software (McGarigal et al., 2002). …”
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Forest aboveground carbon storage estimation and uncertainty analysis by coupled multi-source remote sensing data in Liaoning Province by Hancong Fu, Hengqian Zhao, Ge Liu, Yujiao Zhang, Xiadan Huangfu, Jinbao Jiang

“…Combining this step with an ensemble machine learning algorithm, the final estimate of forest AGC stock in Liaoning Province was calculated to be 101.35 Tg, with an uncertainty of ±37.31 Tg. …”
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Evaluation of the MyFertiCoach Lifestyle App for Subfertile Couples: Single-Center Evaluation of Augmented Standard Care by Jesper Smeenk, Ellen Smit, Marc Jacobs, Ilse van Rooij

“…The primary outcome is the change in the total risk score (TRS) at 3- and six-month follow-ups. The TRS is calculated for each individual as the sum of all risk scores per behavior (eg, vegetable/fruit/folic acid intake, smoking, and alcohol use) at 3 and 6 months. …”
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Applying the VERACITY data framework: how do public health agencies score? by Mrs Rinette Badker, Mr. Benjamin Ash, Ms Naama Kipperman, Mr. Patrick Savage, Mr. Chris Pardee, Nita K Madhav

“…Conclusion: VERACITY scores for the selected reporting agencies showed moderate consistency and reliability for use in epidemiological analyses and modeling, pointing to areas for improvement in data reporting. …”
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Medicinal plants traditionally used for management of malaria in rural communities of Uganda by Lydia Bunalema, Moses Ocan, Francis Williams Ojara, Sam Nsobya, Charles Okot Odongo, Gordon Odia, Aloysious Lubega

“…Method An Ethnobotanical survey was conducted across four geographical regions purposively selected to represent moderate-to-high (Apac, Arua and Tororo districts) and low (Kabale district) malaria transmission settings. …”
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Self-monitoring blood pressure behavior and its influencing factors among residents in Jiangsu Province by MIAO Caiyun, QIN Yu, WAN Yanan, CHEN Lulu, CUI Lan, WANG Xiaoli

“…Methods: Permanent residents aged 35-75 years in six counties (cities, districts), Jiangsu Province, were selected using the stratified cluster sampling method in 2023. …”
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Effect of grape variety, place of growth, and processing technology on the physical and chemical indicators of grape pomace by Tikhonova Anastasia N., Ageyeva Natalia M., Biryukova Svetlana A., Globa Ekaterina V., Abakumova Alla A.

“…Moisture content was calculated as a percentage of the change in the mass of grape pomace. …”
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Automated vicarious radiometric validation of spaceborne thermal infrared sensors at non-dedicated validation sites using deep learning-based cloud filtering by Soushi Kato, Toru Kouyama

“…To develop a contextual image classification model, we fine-tuned a pre-trained Swin Transformer model with our own training data comprising 921,967 chip images created from ASTER TIR band 13 and Landsat 8 TIRS band 10 images selected from global regions. The developed image classification model achieved an overall accuracy of 96.20 %. …”
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Impact of different renal artery clamping strategies on postoperative renal function in patients with pre-existing renal insufficiency in robotic partial nephrectomy by LI Linfei, WANG Cong, WEI Ling

“…Objective‍　‍To compare the effects of main artery clamping (MAC) and selective artery clamping (SAC) strategies on postoperative renal function in patients with chronic renal insufficiency undergoing robot-assisted partial nephrectomy. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Homophily Attitude, Physical, and Social Attractiveness on Purchase Intentions by Honya Ghasemi, Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti, Hooshmand Bagheri Garbollagh

“…According to the size of the population, and based on the random cluster sampling method, 384 people were selected as the sample. To carry out this research, a standard questionnaire was used. …”
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Prediction of lesion-based response to PRRT using baseline somatostatin receptor PET by Anas Aouf, Tilman Speicher, Arne Blickle, Moritz B. Bastian, Caroline Burgard, Florian Rosar, Samer Ezziddin, Amir Sabet

“…For each patient, 2 to 3 well-delineated tumor lesions were selected as target lesions. SUVmax, SUVmean (automated segmentation with a 50% SUVmax threshold), and corresponding tumor-to-liver ratios (SUVmaxT/L and SUVmeanT/L) were calculated. …”
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Uncovering Social States in Healthy and Clinical Populations Using Digital Phenotyping and Hidden Markov Models: Observational Study by Imogen E Leaning, Andrea Costanzo, Raj Jagesar, Lianne M Reus, Pieter Jelle Visser, Martien J H Kas, Christian F Beckmann, Henricus G Ruhé, Andre F Marquand

“…We trained the HMM on a subset of HCs (91/348, 26.1%) and selected a model with socially active and inactive states. …”
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