Field Test of Air-source Heat Pump Heating System in a Teaching Building of Beijing by Zhou Chaohui, Fu Xuhui, Ni Long, Yao Yang, Wang Jun, Huang Yong, Liu Dong

“…The COPs (coefficient of performance) of areas A and B were 3.56 and 3.54, respectively, and the actual operating performance of the unit was close to the performance curve. …”
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First report of Echinococcus canadensis (G7) in backyard pigs from the western highlands of Guatemala by Roderico Hernández-Chea, Américo Yoel Aragón-Méndez, Alejandro Hun, Paola Morales-Ramírez, Ilde Silva, Federico Villatoro, Marion Wassermann

“…Cysts from male pigs were 3·6 times more likely to be fertile than those from female pigs. …”
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Prevalence of Microbial and Fungal Contamination in Four Medicinal Plants from the Lamiaceae Family in Herb Shops in Rasht, Iran by Zahra Hesari, Masoumeh Rohani, Shirin Parvinroo, Elahe Rafiei

“…The mean counts of bacteria and fungi in the plant samples were 3.39×105 and 6.3×105, respectively. Conclusion The microbial contamination in most of the plant samples examined in this study is significantly higher than the permissible limit. …”
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LOW-NICKEL DIET AS A STRATEGY IN THE TREATMENT OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION by Beatriz Soares BRITO, Felipe Ferreira Ribeiro de SOUZA, Daniel Machado BAPTISTA, Rafael Bandeira LAGES, Ricardo Correa BARBUTI, Tomás NAVARRO-RODRIGUEZ

“…Patients on a low-nickel diet were 3.41 times (1.21-11.40) more likely to have H. pylori eradication than those on a normal diet. …”
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Additive Manufactured Compact Microwave Absorbers by Gregory Peter Le Sage, Muhammad Shumail

“…Two types of carbon loaded polylactic acid (PLA) plastic and one type of unloaded PLA were 3D printed with variable percentages of air to achieve different values of effective dielectric constant and loss tangent. …”
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Adaptive Nonlinear Proportional–Integral–Derivative Control of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor Process Using a Radial Basis Function Neural Network by Joo-Yeon Lee, Gang-Gyoo Jin, Gun-Baek So

“…Similarly, for parameter changes, the reductions were 3.0% (<i>M_peak</i>), 26.4% (<i>t_rcy</i>), and 24.4% (<i>IAE</i>).…”
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The safety and comfort of football stadiums in Indonesia: an analysis based on spectator perspectives by Dian Noer Anggita Arrum, Ahmad Nasrulloh, Abdul Alim, Endang Rini Sukamti, Trisnar Adi Prabowo

“…The initial identification results were 3,090 spectators, 2,408 men and 682 women. They were aged 14 – 47 years, averaging 23.66±7.2 years. …”
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Effect of nonpharmaceutical interventions on the epidemic trends of scarlet fever in China: a population-based surveillance and modelling study by Xiaojuan Zhang, Yuanhai You, Jie Liu, Lu Sun, Haijian Zhou, Xingxing Zhang, Bike Zhang

“…The annual morbidity rates for three periods were 3.56, 1.58, and 3.25/100 000. Significant differences were observed among the periods (P < 0.001). …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire-Brazil in Parkinson’s disease by Walter Luis Teixeira ALVES, Iza de FARIA-FORTINI, Ana Carolina Daher Ribas GALVÃO, Francisco Eduardo Costa CARDOSO, Paula Luciana SCALZO

“…The SEM (SEM%) and MDC (MDC%) values were 3.0 (6.75%) and 8.2 (18.7%), respectively. These values are within the recommended values. …”
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Parametric Design of Easy-Connect Pipe Fitting Components Using Open-Source CAD and Fabrication Using 3D Printing by Abolfazl Taherzadeh Fini, Cameron K. Brooks, Alessia Romani, Anthony G. Straatman, Joshua M. Pearce

“…Custom pipe fittings were 3D printed using a RepRap-class fused filament 3D printer, with polylactic acid (PLA), polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG), acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA), and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) as filament feedstocks for validation. …”
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Dual Infection of Pepper Yellow Leaf Curl Virus and Chilli Veinal Mottle Virus in Causing the Yellow leaf Curl Disease on Chili by Jumsu Trisno, Jamsari Jamsari, Sri Hendrastuti Hidayat

“…The mean scale value of ChiVMV infection before, after, and concurrently with Geminiviruses infection were 3.38, 3.90 and 3.58 compared to single Geminiviruses infection (scale of 3.20) and single ChiVMV (scale of 1.33). …”
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Frequency and outcomes of treatment dose escalation with biologics in moderate-to-severe psoriasis: a Swedish register study by Axel Svedbom, Christina Wennerström, Fredrik Hjelm, Anna Tjärnlund, Mona Ståhle

“…After dose escalation, the HRs for treatment discontinuation with adalimumab and etanercept compared with ustekinumab were 3.10 (95% CI: 1.56-6.18) and 7.15 (95% CI: 3.96-12.94), respectively. …”
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Taking account of asymptomatic infections: A modeling study of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. by Li-Shan Huang, Li Li, Lucia Dunn, Mai He

“…Estimates of R0 at the beginning of the epidemic were 3.27 (95% CI, 3.02-3.54) and 3.78 (95% CI, 3.49-4.09) respectively for serial intervals of 5 and 6 days; and when quarantine started, with the reported asymptomatic ratio 0.505, R0 rose to 4.18 (95%CI, 3.86-4.52) and 4.73 (95%CI, 4.37-5.12) respectively for passengers who might be exposed to the virus due to pre/asymptomatic crew. …”
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The location of mandibular foramen relative to the occlusal plane: a study on anatolian dry mandible by Ahmet Mert Nalbantoğlu, Deniz Yanık, Soner Albay

“…The mean distances of Groups A and B were 3.45 and 4.78 mm, respectively. There was no difference between the left and right in groups (p&gt;0.05). …”
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Post-Insertion Complications and Outcomes of Complete Denture by Lava Mohammed Sdiq Darwesh, Kawan Salahadeen Othman

“…After a month, those who faced the respective issues were 3%, 37%, 3%, and 8%. A significant relationship was found between the complications and durations as p < 0.05. …”
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Self-reported Occupational-related Contact Dermatitis: Prevalence and Risk Factors among Health-care Workers in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Study by Rahaf I. Alshareef, Abeer R. Alkahtani, Areej R. Alkahtani, Norah A. Albdaya, Mohammed S Aldossary

“…The crude odds ratio for personal and family history of allergy were 3.88 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.62–5.82), and 2.63 (95% CI: 1.75–4.00), respectively, suggesting that participants with these comorbidities had a higher chance of developing OCD than patients without them did. …”
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The Prevalence of Speech and Language Disorders in Patients Referred to Speech Therapy Clinics of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences from 2013 to 2022 by Bahareh Rezaei, Ailin Talimkhani

“…Results: According to the findings, 51.3% of clients were 3 to 6 years old. The prevalence of speech sound production disorder was 18.9%, delay in speech and language was 18.1%, was stuttering 18%, voice disorder was 12.1%, developmental language disorders was 9.2%, swallowing disorder was 2.5%, aphasia was 2%, dysarthria was 1.7%, dyslexia was 1%, and apraxia of speech was 0.3%. …”
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Endoscopic mucosal resection of colorectal tumors: Our first experience by Nagorni Aleksandar, Bjelaković Goran

“…A total of 37 (72.54%) advanced adenomas were removed. There were 3 (5.88%) of recurrent adenomas, 6-30 months after the EMR. …”
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Tissue-specific fatty acids response to different diets in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). by Markus Böhm, Sebastian Schultz, Apostolos-Manuel Koussoroplis, Martin J Kainz

“…Finally, this study shows that FO were 3X more retained than VO as NLFA particularly in muscle tissues, indicating that higher nutritional quality feeds are selectively allocated into tissues and thus available for human consumption.…”
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Productivity, biocontrol and postharvest fruit quality of strawberry cultivar ‘Clery’ using plant growth promoting microorganisms by Marko Sretenović, Nenad Tamaš, Gordan Zec, Milana Stojanoski, Nemanja Tešić, Novica Miletić, Boban Djordjević

“…The decrease in fruit mass and firmness after storage were 3.5% (Bacterie) to 9.1% (control), 10.1% to 35.2% (T. harzianum), respectively. …”
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