Monitoring Yield and Quality of Forages and Grassland in the View of Precision Agriculture Applications—A Review by Abid Ali, Hans-Peter Kaul

“…To achieve this, the authors discuss several monitoring technologies for biomass and plant stand characteristics (including quality) that make it possible to adopt digital farming in forages and grassland management. …”
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Frequency and Treatment Outcome of Invasive Fungal Infections in Children with Hematological Malignancies by Rabiha Manzoor, Rabia Tariq, Awais Arshed, Qurat Ul Ain Ali, Ajaz Ahmed, Fozia Sayed Rasool

“…Children of either gender aged less than 18 years diagnosed with hematological malignancies were included adopting a non-probability consecutive sampling technique. …”
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Using the TOPSIS method to select the best low-toxicity organic cosolvent for rice-based toxicity tests by Xingren Pan, Yi Kang, Jun-Feng Lu, Xiao-Zhang Yu

“…Three different weighting coefficients, namely entropy weight coefficients (EWCs), contribution factor coefficients (CFCs), and combination effective coefficients (CECs) were adopted to calibrate the initially created evaluation matrices. …”
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Patient perspectives on health care models in cardiac surgery: a qualitative evaluation by Mona Elisabeth Schmid, Jannik Stumm, Sina Stock, Evaldas Girdauskas

“…This innovative care model aims to optimize recovery processes following surgeries by adopting a holistic, interprofessional approach. At our hospital, ERAS was implemented in minimally invasive heart valve surgery, offering two distinct ERAS models. …”
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Ancient Wisdom in Modern Tourism: Sustainable Solutions from Greek and Roman Literature by Marianna Olivadese, Maria Luisa Dindo

“…In conclusion, this review argues that revisiting classical texts through the lens of the environmental humanities offers actionable strategies for sustainable tourism. By adopting ancient values of stewardship, reverence for nature, and civic responsibility, stakeholders can create tourism models that preserve cultural and environmental heritage while ensuring long-term economic and social benefits.…”
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Beyond individual-level factors that influence family planning uptake among women with diabetes mellitus: a systematic literature review by Idayu Badilla Idris, Sarah Awang Dahlan, Rahana Abd Rahman, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi

“…Narrative synthesis approach was adopted that appropriately accommodates the heterogeneity of the reviewed studies. …”
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High Genetic Diversity and Insignificant Interspecific Differentiation in Opisthopappus Shih, an Endangered Cliff Genus Endemic to the Taihang Mountains of China by Rongmin Guo, Lihua Zhou, Hongbo Zhao, Fadi Chen

“…This genus consists of two species, namely, O. taihangensis (Ling) Shih and O. longilobus Shih, which are both endangered plants in China. This study adopted intersimple sequence repeat markers (ISSR) to analyze the genetic diversity and genetic structure from different levels (genus, species, and population) in this genus. …”
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Development and pilot testing of a nurse-led common-sense model of self-regulation-based heart failure self-care program by Zehao Huang, Sek Ying Chair

“…The Common-Sense Model (CSM) of Self-Regulation is a widely adopted theoretical framework that promotes behavior change and improves disease prognosis among patients. …”
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Prevalence of Neonatal Sepsis and Associated Factors among Neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Selected Governmental Hospitals in Shashemene Town, Oromia Regional State, Et... by Aytenew Getabelew, Mihret Aman, Endashaw Fantaye, Tomas Yeheyis

“…The study subject was selected by using systematic random sampling method, and adopted data collection tool was used. Then the collected data was coded and entered in to SPSS for windows version 20.0 for cleaning, editing, and analysis. …”
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic factor in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy: a meta-analysis by Ying Zhang, Xiao Zhou, Ran Xu, Guangcheng Luo, Xinjun Wang

“…Finally, Stata software was adopted for sensitivity analysis, and Egger’s test was used to calculate the results of stability to determine whether there was publication bias. …”
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THE ACCEPTANCE OF AN EDUCATIONAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS by Nor Farahwahida Mohd Noor, Aslina Saad, Abu Bakar Ibrahim, Norashady Mohd Noor

“…Then, the C-SOLVIS is deployed to be used by several programming lecturers to evaluate its usability by adopting a quantitative method using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire. …”
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Cross-culturally adapted psychological interventions for the treatment of depression and/or anxiety among young people: A scoping review. by Masuma Pervin Mishu, Lucy Tindall, Philip Kerrigan, Lina Gega

“…Most studies (n = 11) adopted a randomised control trial (RCT) methodology. …”
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Hydrogel as an alternative to agar for laboratory rearing of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae by Ana Paula Nascimento Silva, Camila Faria Chagas, Emanuel Lucas de Andrade Alves, Vinícius de Castro Carvalho, Khalid Haddi

“…Conclusions The hydrogel can be adopted as a viable alternative to replacing the widely used agar-based methodology for the green peach aphid rearing.…”
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Structural basis for the interaction between the Drosophila RTK Sevenless (dROS1) and the GPCR BOSS by Jianan Zhang, Yuko Tsutsui, Hengyi Li, Tongqing Li, Yueyue Wang, Salma Laraki, Sofia Alarcon-Frias, Steven E. Stayrook, Daryl E. Klein

“…We show that the extracellular region of dROS1 adopts a folded-over conformation stabilized by an N-terminal domain comprised of two disulfide stapled helical hairpins. …”
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Rectal Indomethacin Is Protective against Pancreatitis after Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xingkang He, Wenfang Zheng, Yue Ding, Xia Tang, Jianmin Si, Lei-min Sun

“…Studies that evaluated the administration of indomethacin in the prevention of PEP were included in the analysis. We adopted a random-effects model to calculate the overall relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). …”
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for novel Coronavirus detection in wastewater by G. Saini, P. Deepak

“…It is clearly seen that WBE-based approach is a much better strategy as compared to individual testing and can be adopted to prevent further spread of Covid-19. The work is expected to further emphasize the application of this method for COVID (and other pandemic) detection and implementing containment strategies. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Assessment among Adults in Primary Health Care Settings in Sulaimani Using WHO Risk Prediction Charts by Vian Najim Edeen, Zhian Salah Ramzi

“…WHO adopted World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) risk charts to predict cardiovascular disease risk in low and middle income countries. …”
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Climate emergency and vocational education and training. Topic of scientific interest: A systematic review of the literature by M.ª de Fátima Poza Vilches, Susana Ripoll Martín, Mª Teresa Pozo Llorente

“…Although the central theme has pointed towards critical frameworks and comprehensive solutions, most studies have adopted reformist approaches that minimize community participation. …”
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Highly Expressing SCARA5 Promotes Proliferation and Migration of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Kawuli Jumai, Tangjuan Zhang, Bingzhang Qiao, Julaiti Ainiwaer, Haiping Zhang, Zhichao Hou, Idris Awut, Madinyat Niyaz, Liwei Zhang, Ilyar Sheyhidin

“…The aim of the study was to screen the downstream functional genes of THSD7A and explore their functions in ESCC, based on the reported research into THSD7A function and on gene microarrays. Methods. We adopted quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Celigo high-content screening (HCS) technology to screen the downstream genes of THSD7A. …”
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Is radio an effective method for delivering actionable information for responding to emerging pest threats? A case study of fall armyworm campaign in Zambia by Harrison Rware, Monica K. Kansiime, Idah Mugambi, David Onyango, Justice A. Tambo, Catherine Mloza Banda, Noah A. Phiri, Gilson Chipabika, Mathews Matimelo, Dorcus Chaaba, Tamsin Davis, Julien Godwin

“…Survey results show that both male and female radio listeners were significantly more aware of fall armyworm, and more likely to adopt management practices than non-radio listeners, in particular preventive measures such as frequent monitoring, intercropping and crop rotation. …”
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