Stress assessment instruments for hospitalized preterm newborns: scoping review by Mónica Costa, Maria Filomena Gaspar, Maria Alice Curado, Ana Brantes

“…Adapting neonatology environments and care practices to minimize stressors is essential for promoting newborns' well-being and long-term development. …”
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Assessment of ICT tool usage in teaching Chemistry among secondary school teachers by Nafisat Oyebola Oyeniyi, Tawa Abiola Ahmed, Habibat Bolanle Abdulkareem

“…The study found that the minimal ICT resources available were only moderately used to teach chemistry and that public and private schools in Offa LGA, Kwara State, have some ICT resources. …”
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Interference of Celastrol with Cell Wall Synthesis and Biofilm Formation in <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> by Leandro de León Guerra, Nayely Padilla Montaño, Laila Moujir

“…<b>Results:</b> Celastrol exhibited significant antibacterial activity with a minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 0.31 μg/mL and minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) of 15 μg/mL, which is superior to conventional antibiotics used as control. …”
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CPW-Fed Dual Band Flexible Antenna for Energy IoT Applications at 380/940 MHz by Soyeong Lee, Sangjoon do, Hoosung Lee, Daeyeong Yoon, Yong Bae Park

“…To verify the realistic applicability in energy IoT applications, we perform performance analysis considering a transmission tower environment with a cylindrical metal structure having a diameter of 60 cm, ensuring that performance degradation is minimized at a distance of at least 5 cm from the metal structure. …”
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Circular economy: A sustainable model for waste reduction and wealth creation in the textile supply chain by Anik Kumar Das, Md. Farhad Hossain, Borhan Uddin Khan, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, M. A. Z. Asad, Mahmuda Akter

“…To address these issues, a circular economy (CE) model has emerged, emphasizing the principles of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” to extend product life cycles, transform waste into wealth such as recycled yarn, regenerated fibers, biofilms, biodegradable composites, biofuels and so on, and minimize environmental impact. Implementation of CE in the textile industry aligns with the UN's sustainable development goals, as CE aims to minimize water, resources, and energy consumption, accelerate economic growth, and promote responsible consumption and production. …”
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Association between intraoperative fluid management and postoperative outcomes in living kidney donors: a retrospective cohort study by Ja Eun Lee, Chisong Chung, Sunghae Park, Kyo Won Lee, Gaab Soo Kim

“…Twofold increase in sCr (equivalent to stage 2 AKI) during the first week and prolonged hospitalization were most frequent in group 1 [7.8 vs. 1.1 vs. 1.5%, P = 0.004; 7.9 vs. 3.1 vs. 0.7%, P = 0.003]. Time to reach minimal sCr was longest in group 1. No differences were found in recipient early renal function. …”
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Optimizing hypoglycaemia prediction in type 1 diabetes with Ensemble Machine Learning modeling by Daphne N. Katsarou, Eleni I. Georga, Maria A. Christou, Panagiota A. Christou, Stelios Tigas, Costas Papaloukas, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

“…As such, the underlying basis functions are selected to minimize the percentage of erroneous predictions (EP) in the hypoglycaemic region, with EP being evaluated with continuous glucose error grid analysis (CG-EGA). …”
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Clinical analysis of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma coexisting with lung cancer by Heng Yang, Man-Hui Li, Qiu-Hong Li, Ke-Bin Cheng, Wei-Jun Cao

“…Besides, surgical resection is desirable when both lung cancer and MALT are at an early stage and can be resected with minimally invasive surgery (minimally lung resection).…”
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Study on City-Level Optimization of Tourism Industry Spatial Organization Nodes and Organization Mode for Tourist Destinations by Jinlian Hao, Haolong Liu, Jie Chen, Fankai Sun

“…The results show that (1) when using the “minimizing facility points” model, a total of 17 second-level tourism nodes and 5 first-level tourism nodes are obtained after optimization. …”
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Inkjet printing of metal oxide coatings for enhanced photovoltaic soiling environmental applications by E. Fares, B. Aissa, R.J. Isaifan

“…Anti-soiling coatings are promising technologies to minimize the effect of dust on photovoltaic solar panels. …”
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Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Multiple Primary Colorectal and Prostate Cancer by I. S. Ignatov, V. V. Balaban, E. A. Bezrukov, A. V. Nikishina, M. He, P. V. Tsarkov

“…An observational retrospective study was conducted at the Clinic of Coloproctology and Minimally Invasive Surgery (I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University). …”
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Normalized Isometric Shoulder Strength as a Predictor of Ball Velocity in Youth Baseball Players by Amanda J Arnold, Charles A Thigpen, Paul F Beattie, Stacy L Fritz, Michael J Kissenberth, John M Tokish, Ellen Shanley

“…Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC2,1), standard errors of measurement (SEM) and minimal detectable change (MDC95) were calculated for all strength measures. …”
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Identification of novel anti-CD16a antibody clones for the development of effective natural killer cell engagers by Bill Liao, Christine Tumanut, Lin Li, Adam Corper, Dilip Challa, Alex Chang, Hydari Begum, Elinaz Farokhi, Catherine Woods, Xiaomin Fan

“…These anti-CD16a antibody clones are promising candidates for combination with any TAA of interest, offering the potential for novel NK cell engager-based cancer therapeutics that are minimally affected by the high concentrations of human IgG in the circulation.…”
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A Collision-Free Path-Planning Method for an Articulated Mobile Robot by P. Quintero-Alvarez, G. Ramirez, S. Zeghloul

“…For moving to the final position, the articulated mobile robot uses the FVP and a reference control law, to formulate the constraints method as a problem of minimal distance calculation. This formulation is then solved with the algorithm of minimal distance calculation proposed by Zeghloul (Zeghloul and Rambeaud, 1996). …”
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The clean analysis process of Mn2+ for industries: a comparative study on direct determination of high-concentration Mn2+ in solution using spectrophotometry by Yanli Xu, Fuyuan Xu, Yong Liu, Guangbin Zhu, Ying Chen, Ning Duan

“…Effective monitoring and control of Mn2+ in these processes are vital for improving resource conversion efficiency and minimizing pollutant production. However, the direct determination of high concentrations of Mn2+ remains challenging due to rapid reactions, which impede improvements in cleaner industrial production. …”
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Hydrogels empowered mesenchymal stem cells and the derived exosomes for regenerative medicine in age-related musculoskeletal diseases by Lixin Liu, Siwen Chen, Yantao Song, Longwei Cui, Yiman Chen, Jiangli Xia, Yibo Fan, Liqun Yang, Lina Yang

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AgroClimate Crop Season Planning Tool: Reducing the Risk of Extreme Weather Events during Key Stages of Crop Development by Caroline G. Staub, Daniel Perondi, Diego Noleto Luz Pequeno, Patrick Troy, Michael J. Mulvaney, Calvin Perry, Brian Hayes, Willingthon Pavan, Clyde W. Fraisse

“…The Crop Season Planning tool is a climate-based tool that enables growers to plan planting strategies that will minimize risk to climate extremes based on historical climate data at their location. …”
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A Total Variation Model Based on the Strictly Convex Modification for Image Denoising by Boying Wu, Elisha Achieng Ogada, Jiebao Sun, Zhichang Guo

“…We prove the existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for the proposed variational problem. The existence, uniqueness, and long-time behavior of the solution of the associated evolution system is also established. …”
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Impact of Nutritional Factors on Colorectal Cancer: Implication the molecular mechanisms of Vitamins Supplementation by Hossna M. Ismail, Abdel-Aziz S. Shatat

“…We reviewed the published significance of vitamin supplementation on colorectal cancer proliferation, survival, apoptosis, angiogenesis and migration, focusing on the possible molecular mechanisms of water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins to provide protective suggestions to minimize the occurrence and progression of colorectal cancer. …”
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Design Method of ADAS for Urban Electric Vehicle Based on Virtual Prototyping by Katarzyna Jezierska-Krupa, Wojciech Skarka

“…This paper presents unique method for designing ADAS systems in order to minimize the costs of the design phase and system implementation and, at the same time, to maximize the positive effect the system has on driver and vehicle safety. …”
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