Identification and Discrimination of Brands of Fuels by Gas Chromatography and Neural Networks Algorithm in Forensic Research by L. Ugena, S. Moncayo, S. Manzoor, D. Rosales, J. O. Cáceres

“…A success rate of three blind samples was obtained as 73.3%, 80%, and 100%, respectively. …”
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Effects of diesel exhaust inhalation on cognitive performance in human volunteers: A randomized controlled crossover study by Jason Curran, A.J. Hirsch Allen, Christopher F. Rider, Robin Shutt, Chris Carlsten

“…Methods: We carried out a double-blinded crossover design with 28 healthy, adult volunteers. …”
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Safety and efficacy of switching from adalimumab to sarilumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ongoing MONARCH open-label extension by Gerd R Burmester, Mark C Genovese, Vibeke Strand, Gregory St John, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Howard Amital, Tatiana Raskina, Antonio Gómez-Centeno, Claudia Pena-Rossi, Leon Gervitz, Karthinathan Thangavelu, Susan Boklage

“…Overall, 320/369 patients completing the 24-week double-blind phase entered OLE (155 switched from adalimumab; 165 continued sarilumab). …”
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Protocol for a randomised phase 3 trial evaluating the role of Finasteride in Active Surveillance for men with low and intermediate-risk prostate cancer: the FINESSE Study by Samuel Smith, Peter Sasieni, William Cross, Richard Bryant, Steven Kennish, James Catto, Rachel Hubbard, Simon Faulkner, Rohit Chahal, Mohantha Dooldeniya, Marcus Cumberbatch, Bernard North, Alastair D Lamb, Roseann Kealy, Selina Bhattrai

“…Trial pathologist’s and radiologist’s, blinded to allocation, will review representative cases. …”
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Comment sortir de prison ? Le rôle des statistiques pénitentiaires dans la compréhension des comportements de récidive by Anaïs Henneguelle

“…In the third and last part, we explore another blind spot of the econometric method, namely selection bias. …”
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What kind of sustainable development do we need? by Josep M. Basart, Mireia Farrús, Montse Serra

“…Without these dimensions, the SDGs may become a kind of well-intended but blind problem-solving strategy that ignores the reasons of the crisis it wants to redress. …”
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Evaluation of Consumption of Poultry Products Enriched with Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Anthropometric, Biochemical, and Cardiovascular Parameters by José Arias-Rico, Martha Izbeth Cerón-Sandoval, Eli Mireya Sandoval-Gallegos, Esther Ramírez-Moreno, Trinidad Lorena Fernández-Cortés, Judith Jaimez-Ordaz, Elizabeth Contreras-López, Javier Añorve-Morga

“…To evaluate the effect of the consumption of poultry products supplemented with omega-3 in healthy population, a phase 1, double blind randomized, controlled parallel-group trial was carried out. …”
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Complete Morris Syndrome. Case Presentation by Manyeles Brito Vázquez, Ángela Belkis Brito García, Delvis Batista García

“…It is verified by imaging examinations, the absence of uterine body and annexes, with presence of permeable vagina until its middle third, which ends in a blind sac inside the pelvis, performing orchiectomy by minimal access without vaginoplasty. …”
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The architectural beginnings of Bogdan Bogdanović: The residential settlement of the Hydrotechnical Institute on the foothills of Avala by Janakova-Grujić Mare B.

“…This early work by Bogdanović stands as a vivid testament to the notions that the builder adhered to throughout his working life; through them, he came to replace mechanization with craftsmanship, ordinariness and typification with imagination, and blind modernization with tradition.…”
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Cooperative Downloading by Multivehicles in Urban VANET by Di Wu, Yingrong Bi, Jie Liang

“…In VANET (vehicular ad hoc network), RSUs (road side units) have limited coverage and high deployment cost, so they are deployed sparsely in urban area, which leads to blind zone (BZ) between adjacent RSUs, where vehicles cannot connect to Internet by RSUs. …”
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Anorectal Malformations: The Pivotal Role of the Good Clinical Practice by Filomena Valentina Paradiso, Sara Silvaroli, Riccardo Rizzo, Lorenzo Nanni

“…We report the case of a newborn who presented a well-formed anus and normal genitalia; a blind-ending anal canal was detected after the insertion of a rectal probe, thus allowing the diagnosis of ARM. …”
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Microlaparoscopy in Sex Reassignment Surgery by S. De Stefani, C. Trombetta, M. Raber, G. Savaco, U. Moro, E. Belgrano

“…This step is generally carried out by means of blunt dissection between the rectal wall and the prostate, but most of the surgery is blindly performed without visual control. In these conditions, the risk of rectal injury is high, and may lead to severe intraoperative complications. …”
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Methodological issues in yoga therapy research among psychiatric patients by Rama Reddy Karri, Ananda B. Bhavanani, Meena Ramanathan, Vijaya Gopal Mopidevi

“…In this narrative review, various issues like standalone or add-on treatment, blinding, randomization, nature of dependent and intervening variables, duration of intervention, sustainability of effects, attrition bias, adherence and accuracy, all or none performance, diverse schools, heterogeneity and multidimensionality, assortment, permutations, and combinations of different components, neglect of essential ingredients, mindfulness, catch-22 situation, credentials of the instructors, cultural factors, naivety, multicentric studies, duration of collection of data, primary or standard treatment, interdisciplinary research, statistical lapses, qualitative research, biomedical research are discussed. …”
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A New Combination of RAKE Receiver and Adaptive Antenna Array Beamformer for Multiuser Detection in WCDMA Systems by Shahriar Shirvani-Moghaddam, Hajar Sadeghi

“…This investigation has focused on one of the new proposed blind beamforming algorithms. It is based on constrained constant modulus (CCM) algorithm which is used for deriving a recursive-least-squares (RLS-) type optimization algorithm. …”
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Character Education in Developing the Careers of Children Special Needs in Vocational Providers School Inclusive by Mega Iswari

“…This research aims to study and compile data is comprehensive, ranging from the new data and actual integrated on character education in developing the careers of children in need of special vocational education, then perform verification and validation data to identify where children in need of special vocational schools are there in having a good character in the development of his career as the blind children, deaf children and autistic children. …”
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Adaptive Watermarking Scheme Using Biased Shift of Quantization Index by Young-Ho Seo, Hyun-Jun Choi, Ji-Sang Yoo, Dong-Wook Kim

“…We propose a watermark embedding and extracting method for blind watermarking. It uses the characteristics of a scalar quantizer to comply with the recommendation in JPEG, MPEG series, or JPEG2000. …”
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Comparative Antifungal Activity of Cilofungin (LY121019) against Candida Species, Including Evaluation of Susceptibility Testing Method by Abdul H Chagla, John H Hii, Daryl J Hoban, Andrew E Simor, Santiago Ferro, Evelyn Witwicki, Ruby Poon, Donald E Low

“…The in vitro activity of cilofungin against 100 Candida species was compared with 5-flucytosine. amphotericin B and ketoconazole by two laboratories independently and in a blinded fashion using a macrotitre dilution broth method in saam-f medium. …”
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Revisiting substance P in migraine: a methodological approach inspired by anti-CGRP and anti-PACAP success by Lanfranco Pellesi, Lars Edvinsson

“…Using an established methodological framework, migraine-inducing properties of substance P can be evaluated through randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover studies involving healthy volunteers and individuals with a history of migraine. …”
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The Justification of Tyrannicide in the Chronicle of Dalimil. The Czech Nobility as the “Mystical Body” of the Realm by Éloïse Adde

“…In front of a king who could be weak (Henry of Carinthie), foreign (John the Blind) or too young (Venceslas II at the beginning of his reign), the nobility had to embody the durability of the State, the "community of the realm", in a dialectic that connected the Lords in the idea of constituting the "mystic body of king". …”
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EPPDC: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Data Collection in Smart Grid by Jie Chen, Junping Shi, Yueyu Zhang

“…Frequent data collection meets real-time management, but it tends to raise privacy concerns from the users about privacy information leakage. Based on the blind signature and the key distribution scheme, an efficient and privacy-preserving data collection (EPPDC) scheme is proposed for smart grid to cope with the above problems. …”
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