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A dual-band microwave sensor for glucose measurements utilizing an enclosed split ring metamaterial-based array
Published 2025-02-01“…At 9.2 GHz, there was no significant resonant frequency shift with varying glucose concentrations, but the magnitude of the reflection coefficient changed with the glucose concentration nonlinearly in an amount-dependent manner, with a sensitivity of 16.6 dB per unit glucose concentration within the clinical diabetic range. …”
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Socially interactive industrial robots: a PAD model of flow for emotional co-regulation
Published 2025-01-01“…The empirical results and analysis provides empirical support for the theoretically defined model, and clearly points to the need for data pre-filtering and per-user calibration. The proposed post-processing method helps quantify the parameters needed to control the frequency of intervention of the agent; still leaving the experimenter with a run-time adjustable global control of its sensitivity. …”
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Healthcare performance of leprosy management in peripheral health facilities of Dhanusa and Mahottari, Nepal
Published 2025-01-01“…An average of 6 patients (paucibacillary, PB, or multibacillary, MB) per health facility registered within the 2018/2019 fiscal year were also enrolled in the study. …”
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Robotic-assisted surgery and kinematic alignment in total knee arthroplasty (RASKAL study): a protocol of a national registry-nested, multicentre, 2×2 factorial randomised trial as...
Published 2022-06-01“…Primary intention-to-treat and secondary per-protocol analyses will be performed. Statistical analysis will include a generalised linear mixed model for repeated measures for continuous KOOS-12 scores. …”
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A Digital Parenting Intervention With Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Content: Quantitative Pre-Post Pilot Study
Published 2025-01-01“…ResultsThe average daily interaction rate with the program was 0.57 and 0.59 interactions per day for women and men in South Africa, and 0.21 for women in Jamaica. …”
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Prohexadione-Calcium Reduced Stem and Tiller Damage and Maintained Yield by Improving the Photosynthetic and Antioxidant Capacity of Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) Under NaCl Stress
Published 2025-01-01“…The results showed that Pro-Ca significantly improved Changmaogu’s (CMG’s) productive tillering rate and the total yield per plant by 17.1% and 59.4%, respectively. At tillering stage, the results showed that Pro-Ca significantly improved the morph-physiological traits, i.e., leaf area, and photosynthetic traits of the rice variety with salt tolerance, under NaCl stress. …”
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Reimagining habitat suitability modeling for Pacific saury (Cololabis saira) in the Northwest Pacific Ocean through acoustic data analysis from fishing vessels
Published 2025-03-01“…Instead of traditional fishing effort or catch per unit effort (CPUE) based HSI models, this acoustic index-based model offered an innovative approach with immutable evidence for establishing the relationship between sea surface temperature (SST, °C), sea surface temperature gradient (SSTG, °C/°), sea surface height (SSH, m), and chlorophyll a concentration (Chl, mg/m3) with suitable habitats. …”
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Hospital Prevalence of Colorectal Cancer among Colonoscopy Recipients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Oman: A Cross-Sectional Study
Published 2020-01-01“…A total of 442 CRC cases were enumerated among 3701 colonoscopies, with an overall CRC prevalence estimate of 11.9 per 100 colonoscopies (95% CI: 10.9, 13.0). Gender-specific CRC prevalence was higher among males compared with females (13.3 vs. 10.5). …”
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Water homeostasis gene expression in the kidney of broilers divergently selected for water conversion ratio
Published 2025-01-01“…In Exp. 2, HWE and modern random bred (MRB) broilers were placed in 12 controlled-environmental chambers (2 floor pens/chamber, 6 chambers/line, 11 birds per pen, 132 birds/line) on day of hatch. The broilers were brooded at thermoneutral temperatures from 0 to 4 wks. …”
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Potential role of particulate matter in the spreading of COVID-19 in Northern Italy: first observational study based on initial epidemic diffusion
Published 2020-09-01“…In Milan, the average growth rate before the lockdown was significantly higher than in Rome (0.34 vs 0.27 per day, with a doubling time of 2.0 days vs 2.6, respectively), thus suggesting a basic reproductive number R0>6.0, comparable with the highest values estimated for China.Conclusion A significant association has been found between the geographical distribution of daily PM10 exceedances and the initial spreading of COVID-19 in the 110 Italian provinces.…”
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Associations of PM2.5 with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Shipyard Workers: A Cohort Study
Published 2022-04-01“…We observed the overall incidence rate of COPD to be 2.51 cases per 100 person-years. The incidence rate was higher in welding workers than in office workers and higher in non-smokers compared to smokers. …”
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Efficacy of Unsupervised YouTube Dance Exercise for Patients With Hypertension: Randomized Controlled Trial
Published 2025-01-01“…The intervention group performed daily dance exercises using street dance videos (10 min per video) uploaded to YouTube. The control group was instructed to choose any exercise other than dance and perform it for 10 minutes each day. …”
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Dynamics of inland saline ground water and associated growth potential of common carp Cyprinus carpio for a sustainable aquaculture
Published 2025-01-01“…The Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), Feed Conversion Efficiency (FCE), and Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER) obtained for Pond 1 and Pond 2 were 2.19, 45.8, 1.53; 2.25, 44.44, and 1.48, respectively. …”
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Tryptophan and/or canthaxanthin in quail diets: effects on performance, carcass traits, hematology, blood chemistry and hepatic antioxidant capacity
Published 2025-02-01“…Each group consisted of five replicates, with 10 birds per replicate. Chicks in group 1 (T1) served as the control and were fed a basal diet without any supplementation from week 1 to week 5. …”
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Epidemiology of notifiable outbreaks in different hospital units in Saudi Arabia: A national descriptive study
Published 2025-03-01“…Healthcare outbreaks were defined as per the MOH outbreak manual. Outbreaks notified by 117 MOH hospitals and 53 private hospitals in 20 Saudi regions were included. …”
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Balance Changes in Adult Cancer Survivors Participating in a 16-Week Therapeutic Yoga Program
Published 2025-01-01“…The intervention included therapeutic yoga three times per week for 16 weeks and daily psychosocial support provided via text message. …”
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Integrated transcriptomic hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis network analysis reveals the role of energy availability on egg production in layers
Published 2025-03-01“…Each treatment consisted of 10 replicates with 3 birds per replicate. The study found that energy deprivation significantly decreased reproductive performance such as egg laying rate, ovarian index, number of small yellow follicles (SYF), and normal hierarchical follicles (NHIE) (P < 0.05), which recovered after refeeding, indicating the importance of energy availability for sustained ovulation in layers. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing Related to Artificial Intelligence Tools in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Case Study From Tha...
Published 2025-02-01“…All identified barriers and enablers were classified according to 7 categories as per the predefined framework—technical, motivational, economic, political, legal and policy, ethical, social, organisational, and managerial. …”
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Life cycle assessment of paper products based on recycled and virgin fiber
Published 2023-11-01“…All impact magnitudes were measured in functional units per 1 ton of paper product.CONCLUSION: The study has revealed the environmental impact of paper products produced in Indonesia. …”
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A perfusion-independent high-throughput method to isolate liver sinusoidal endothelial cells
Published 2025-01-01“…This led to the safeguarding of LSEC integrity and yielded 10 ± 1.0 million LSECs per adult mouse liver, which is far higher than previous perfusion-independent protocols and comparable yield to established perfusion-dependent protocols for isolating LSECs. …”
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