A Tale of Two Transcriptions. Machine-Assisted Transcription of Historical Sources by Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora, Trygve Andersen, Line Eikvil, Josep Lladós, Alícia Fornés, Anna Cabré

“…The Norwegian material is cross-sectional as it is the 1891 census, recorded on one sheet per person. This format and the underlining of keywords for several variables made it more feasible to semi-automate data entry than when many persons are listed on the same page. …”
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How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps by Hristina Prodanova, Desislava Varadzhakova

“…., 4 or 5 units between maximum and minimum score per spatial unit. There are: (i) significant variations in scoring of Grasslands, Wetlands, Croplands, Rivers and lakes, and Urban ecosystems; and (ii) considerable similarities about Woodland and forest, Sparsely vegetated lands and Marine ecosystems. …”
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Production and Characterization of Coffee Husk Fuel Briquettes as an Alternative Energy Source by Assefa Tesfaye, Fentahun Workie, Venkatesh S. Kumar

“…The carboniser converts 15 kg of raw coffee husk into 6 kg of carbonised char in 25 minutes, and the manually operated briquette molder can press 30 kg per hour. The efficiency of converting raw coffee husk into carbonised char content was 40.12%. …”
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Pulse-Wave Analysis of Optic Nerve Head Circulation Is Significantly Correlated with Kidney Function in Patients with and without Chronic Kidney Disease by Tomoaki Shiba, Mao Takahashi, Takatoshi Maeno

“…Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was defined to be present when the estimated GFR was <60 mL/min per 1.73 m2. Pearson’s correlation coefficients were used to determine the relationship between the BOT and the kidney function. …”
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Combining ability and heterosis for grain yield and yield component traits in maize (Zea mays L.) by V. Shasi Kiran Reddy, Digbijaya Swain*, Saswaty Priyadarshini Sahoo, Arjun Kumar Agarwal, Devraj Lenka, Mihir Ranjan Mohanty and Mandakini Kabi

“…On the basis of general combining ability (gca) estimates, V351 was the best general combiner followed by CML 451 for grain yield/ ha. Considering the per se performance, standard heterosis and specific combining ability (sca) effects, the four hybrids i.e., SNL 142828-4 x CML 451, CAL 1473-4 x CML 451, CAL 1424-1 x CML 470-1 and SNL 142828-1 x CML 470 1 were identified as promising for exploiting heterosis for grain yield. …”
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Arsenic leakage crisis in supply chain of battery storage materials: Water quality footprint of cobalt mining demands action by Anna C. Schomberg, Wolf von Tümpling, Ellen Kynast

“…Applying the water quality footprint method, we determined that 30–615 m3 of virtual dilution water per electric car would be needed to reduce arsenic pollution below natural background levels in a scenario that assumes that 49 % of the cobalt from the respective mine enters the production of battery materials aligning with recent global cobalt demand and use figures. …”
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Does instruction through mother tongue impede students’ English proficiency? public skepticism on the instructional language policy in the state of Amhara by Melaku Gebremeske

“…Findings revealed that instruction through mother tongue per se does not impede the acquisition of English proficiency nor does the use of English as medium of instruction necessarily improve pupils’ English proficiency. …”
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Meal Timing Habits among Adults in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Sarah AlMuammar, Abeer Ahmed Algarni, Ftoon Badroun, Hanan Hassan Mushaeb, Raneem Khalid Abu Sadi, Areej Algarni

“…It found that 31.4% of participants had less than three meals per day, and 74.2% reported snacking. Moreover, 16.8% of participants skipped breakfast and 18.9% of participants had late dinner. …”
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Ipsilateral Vestibular Schwannoma after Cochlear Implantation by S. Tüpker, N. Ay, L. U. Scholtz, H. B. Gehl, V. F. Mautner, P. Goon, H. Sudhoff, I. Todt

“…The vestibular schwannoma incidence rate is approximately 4.2 per 100,000/year. Thus far, about 700,000 cochlear implantations have been performed worldwide; therefore, the occurrence of vestibular schwannoma postcochlear implantations can be assumed to be infrequent. …”
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Preliminary Research: Utilization of Gourami Fish Bone Flour (Osphronemus gouramy) in Making Calcium Dumplings by Dwi Lestari Handayani, Monicha Efi Sumaimi, Tri Ani Ashari, Jumadi Jumadi

“…Highlight • Knowing the amount of daily calcium needed • Knowing utilization of fish bone meal and its processed products • Analysis of the most preferred types of food and fish species Abstract Gourami (Osphronemus gouramy) is a type of freshwater fish native to Indonesia that is widely preferred, and has high economic value so that production per year increases. Increasing the amount of fish production will result in an increased amount of fish bone waste. …”
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Synthesis and Interface Activity of a Series of Carboxylic Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants in Hydraulic Fracturing by Shixin Dai, Yufei Gong, Feng Wang, Pan Hu

“…The critical micelle concentration (CMC) and surface tension at the CMC (γCMC) increase as increasing methylene segments in the anions, the maximum surface excess concentration (Γmax), and minimum area per molecule (Amin) present an opposite trend with the increase of methylene segments. …”
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Flexi-Bar Training for Restoring Muscle Strength in Postpartum Women: A Pre-Post design by Aishwarya Nitin Sonwane, Shrajal Shetty, Sakshi Shekhar

“…Eighteen postpartum women, who had given birth within 2 months to 1.5 years prior, participated in a two week FB training program consisting of four sessions per week. Core muscle strength was evaluated using manual muscle testing for trunk flexion, and pelvic floor muscle strength was assessed using the two finger test. …”
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Current Evidence for the Use of Smoflipid® Emulsion in Critical Care Patients for Parenteral Nutrition by Alberto A. Leguina-Ruzzi, Rina Ortiz

“…The reported roles of this supplementation include positive immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects, positive impact in liver function, reduction of hospital stay, and nosocomial infections as additional contributions to its energetic role, which in many cases results in reduced total costs per patient. Finally, many authors propose that the use of Smoflipid® should become a gold standard of parenteral nutrition in intensive unit care patients and that the costs associated with this supplement should not be limiting for its use, not only to improve the clinical outcome but also to reduce the treatment costs.…”
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Experimental Study on Seismic Compression of Chinese Loess under Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Testing by Qiang Wang, Zhe Zhang, Shengjun Shao, Qian Yang

“…An empirical formula to estimate the increment of cyclic volumetric strain per cycle is expressed in terms of the amplitude of shear train, dry density, water content, and vertical stress. …”
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Estimating Potential for Drug Budget Reallocation Following Expiration of Exclusivity of Pharmaceutical Products by Samira Toghanian, John Moshtaghi-Svensson, Maria Papageorgiou, Kristin Kittelsen, Christiaan Dolk, Markus Hultstrand, Stina Salomonsson

“…The estimated average budget released per year during 2020-2024 was 1.8% (GR), 4.6% (NL), 3.4% (NO) and 3.9% (SW) of each country’s total annual drug budget. …”
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Numerical Optimization of the Hydraulic and Hemolytic Performance of a Centrifugal Ventricular Assist Device Based on Impeller Flow Passage and Outlet Geometry by Reza Sahebi-Kuzeh Kanan, Hanieh Niroomand-Oscuii, Habib Badri Ghavifekr, Farzan Ghalichi, Kohyar Yazdanpanah-Ardakani

“…The HI calculated using the Lagrangian method is 0.00279 in the pump with a flow rate of 5 L per minute and 1100 rpm.…”
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Evaluation of different levels of effective microorganism treated teff straw supplementation with concentrate feed on nutrient utilization and performance of yearling local lambs by Abito Asres, Yeshambel Mekuriaw, Likawent Yeheyis

“…Conclusion: Local lambs fed 500 ml effective microorganisms per 1 kg treated teff straw with 350 g of concentrate mixture-based feeding resulted in both biologically efficient and economically profitable. …”
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Analysis of hematology quality control using six sigma metrics by Shreya Goel, Amit R. Nisal, Ankita Raj, Ravindra C. Nimbargi

“…In sigma metrics, errors identified are quantified as percentage errors or defects per million (DPM). It aims at improving the quality control (QC) process by forming an appropriate strategy. …”
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Antiobesogenic and Antiatherosclerotic Properties of Caralluma fimbriata Extract by Soundararajan Kamalakkannan, Ramaswamy Rajendran, Ramasamy V. Venkatesh, Paul Clayton, Mohammad A. Akbarsha

“…CFE was administered by gavage at three doses (25, 50, 100 mg/Kg BW per day) for 90 days. The antiobesogenic effects of CFE were evaluated by monitoring changes in feed intake, body weight, serum lipid and hormonal (leptin) profiles, fat pads, and liver weight. …”
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Towards AI-Based Traffic Counting System with Edge Computing by Duc-Liem Dinh, Hong-Nam Nguyen, Huy-Tan Thai, Kim-Hung Le

“…The experiment results clearly indicate that the proposed system achieves the top inference speed at around 26.8 frames per second (FPS) with 92.1% accuracy on the VDD. …”
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