Emission of Volatile Organic Compounds from Consumer Products by Kuo-Hsiung Lin, Jiun-Horng Tsai, Ching-Chih Cheng, Hung-Lung Chiang

“…The total VOC content that is determined by this study can be used to calculate the total emissions and to establish an emissions inventory. All detectable VOC emission factors for each product are in the range of 6.77–924 mg g–1. …”
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The effective management of teachers’ habitual tardiness: Protecting scheduled teaching time by Michael Moreti Mahome, Lydia Kgomotso Mphahlele

“…The findings revealed that habitual tardiness by same teachers is a problem in all the three schools, whereby missing the first period was a daily occurrence. …”
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Flow-Volume Parameters in COPD Related to Extended Measurements of Lung Volume, Diffusion, and Resistance by Linnea Jarenbäck, Jaro Ankerst, Leif Bjermer, Ellen Tufvesson

“…The lung function of 65 COPD patients and 34 healthy smokers was investigated using flow-volume spirometry, body plethysmography, single breath helium dilution with CO-diffusion, and impulse oscillometry. All lung function parameters, measured by body plethysmography, CO-diffusion, and impulse oscillometry, were increasingly affected through increasing GOLD stage but did not correlate with FEV1 within any GOLD stage. …”
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Global Trends in Studies on the Presence of Demodex spp in Patients Diagnosed with Blepharitis by Rahmi Yildiz, Milad Afşar, Sadi Elasan

“…For this purpose, 288 studies were examined as a result of searches us­ing the keywords "Blepharitis and Demodex" in Web of Science (WOS) databases. All text data was analysed using VOSviewer software to ensure accuracy and reliability. …”
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Heart Morphometry in Rats with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Claudia Joffre Fríaz, Ninive Nuñez López, Laura López Marín, María Antonia Cruz, Laymit Alonso Padilla

“…The following morphometric variables were analyzed in the newborns: weight, height in addition to size, weight and volume of the heart, all in millimeters. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> low birth weight resulting from intrauterine growth restriction caused changes in heart morphometry, especially in heart weight and thickness of the left ventricle. …”
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Monitoring square and circular fields with sensors using energy-efficient cluster-based routing for underwater wireless sensor networks by Arshad Sher, Nadeem Javaid, Irfan Azam, Hira Ahmad, Wadood Abdul, Sanaa Ghouzali, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, Fakhri Alam Khan

“…First one is sparsity-aware energy-efficient clustering, second one is circular sparsity-aware energy-efficient clustering, and the third one is circular depth–based sparsity-aware energy-efficient clustering routing protocol. All three protocols are proposed to minimize the energy consumption of sparse regions, whereas sparsity search algorithm is proposed to find sparse regions and density search algorithm is used to find dense regions of the network field. …”
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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

“…Background: Occupational skin disease is the second-most common occupational disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accounting for 30%–45% of all occupational diseases worldwide, and out of which 95% is contact dermatitis. …”
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Application of combined fertilizers to improve growth, yield and essential oil composition of basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i> L.) by Tong Van Giang, Tran Thi Huyen, Nguyen Huu Hai

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Making two-channel pricing decisions in a multi-objective closed-loop supply chain network under uncertainty considering reliability (case study: steel industry) by Seyyed Edalatpanah, Nenad Komazec, Dragan Pamucar

“…In supply chain networks, pricing on products is very important in conditions of uncertainty, and its impact on all supply chain decisions is evident. So, by increasing or decreasing the amount of demand as well as the price of products, its effect on the amount of distribution, production, and supply is evident. …”
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BeSnake: A Routing Algorithm for Scalable Spin-Qubit Architectures by Nikiforos Paraskevopoulos, Carmen G. Almudever, Sebastian Feld

“…It also has the option to adjust the level of optimization and to dynamically tackle parallelized routing tasks, all the while maintaining noise awareness. Our simulations demonstrate beSnake&#x0027;s advantage over an existing routing solution on random circuits and real quantum algorithms with up to 1000 qubits, showing an average improvement of up to 80&#x0025; in gate overhead, 54&#x0025; in depth overhead, and up to 8.33 times faster routing times.…”
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Multi-Objective Optimal Design of Dropping Shock of Series Cushioning Packaging System by Yang Xue, Wei-Sheng Song, Hong-Tao Miao, Jing Wang, Yu Li

“…The results show that these solution sets have good convergence, and the all-around performance of NSGA-II ranks first. Finally, comparing the knee point of the non-dominated solution set calculated by NSGA-II with the parameters in the literature, it is found that the former has better defense performance and less material consumption, which can be used for future product design. …”
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Hacking Exposed: Leveraging Google Dorks, Shodan, and Censys for Cyber Attacks and the Defense Against Them by Abdullah Alabdulatif, Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne

“…Additionally, we also introduce an automated all-in-one tool designed to consolidate the functionalities of Google dorks, Shodan, and Censys, offering a streamlined solution for vulnerability detection and analysis. …”
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Improving Students’ Vocabulary Retention by Local Culture-Based Material by Ilma Raihana, Neni Nurkhamidah

“…The findings discovered that the implementation of local culture-based material successfully improved students’ vocabulary retention based on all of the subject's scores that reached the minimum criteria standard of 80 in the last post-test compared to the pre-test where a lot of students did not reach the minimum standard of criteria. …”
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Multifactor models of creativity: structural and dynamic approaches in psychological assessment by V. G. Gryazeva-Dobshinskaya, E. I. Koltunov, S. Yu. Korobova, V. A. Glukhova, E. S. Naboichenko

“…Research areas with less developed tools of psychological assessment were identified: the creative process at the pro-C and big-C level; the creative environment at the mini-C level; and co-creation at all levels of creativity. Practical significance. …”
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Shallow Foundation Settlement Quantification: Application of Hybridized Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System Model by Mariamme Mohammed, Ahmad Sharafati, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Results indicated ANFIS-PSO model exhibited an accurate and reliable prediction data intelligent and had the highest predictability performance against all employed models. In addition, results demonstrated that data preprocessing is highly essential to be performed prior to building the predictive models. …”
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The dynamics of a delay model of hepatitis B virus infection with logistic hepatocyte growth by Steffen Eikenberry, Sarah Hews, John D. Nagy, Yang Kuang

“…With this modelformulation all model parameters can be estimated from biological data; we also simulatea course of lamivudine therapy and find that the model gives good agreement with clinicaldata. …”
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INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF STUDENTS’ MILITARY TRAINING by V. S. Dobrovolsky, G. G. Shpakov

“…This course is the main tool in the formation of high professional and moral qualities of a serviceman, highly demanded not only in the military, but also in all other spheres of activity. The results of the conducted researches (experiments) and the experience of military service of reserve officers – graduates of military departments during their conscription into military service in 2000-2010 are summarized. …”
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Various Techniques to Increase Keratinized Tissue for Implant Supported Overdentures: Retrospective Case Series by Ahmed Elkhaweldi, Carmen Rincon Soler, Rodrigo Cayarga, Takanori Suzuki, Zev Kaufman

“…Patients were treated for lack of keratinized tissue prior to implant placement, during the second stage surgery, and after delivery of the final prosthesis. Results. All 8 patients in this study were wearing a complete maxillary and/or mandibular denture for at least a year before the time of the surgery. …”
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Geospatial Analysis and Research on Social and Spatial Inequality of Compulsory Education: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China by Ge He, Qinshi Huang

“…Results show that (1) the improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is more in line with the national condition of China’s “nearby schooling” policy; (2) the accessibility of compulsory schools in Hangzhou shows an obvious core-periphery typology, and the aggregation effect of primary school accessibility is more significant than that of secondary schools; (3) compared to groups with high socioeconomic status, vulnerable groups are highly disadvantaged in terms of access to educational services; (4) spatial heterogeneity exists in education capitalization, and the areas where education accessibility has the strongest impact on housing prices are in the central city with rich high-quality educational resources; (5) high-quality educational resources, high-priced communities, clusters of high socioeconomic status groups, and communities enjoying high-level education accessibility are highly consistent in all spaces, which is the spatial expression of educational inequality. …”
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Antioxidant Activity and Isolation of Luteoline from Centaurea behen L. Grown in Iran by Akbar Esmaeili, Zahra Mousavi, Maryam Shokrollahi, Ali Shafaghat

“…Flavonoids are secondary metabolites providing Ultraviolet-visible (UV) spectroscopy protection and color in almost all terrestrial plants and fruits. They have a fused ring system consisting of an aromatic ring and a benzopyran ring with a phenyl substituent. …”
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