Determination of microstructural changes by severely plastically deformed copper-aluminum alloy: Optical study by Romčević N., Gilić M., Anžel I., Rudolf R., Mitrić M., Romčević M., Hadžić B., Joksimović D., Petrović-Damjanović M., Kos M.

“…SPD was carried out with equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), which allowed that the material could be subjected to an intense plastic strain through simple shear. …”
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Study on the Thermal State of a Transverse-Flux Motor by Andrii Yehorov, Oleksii Duniev, Andrii Masliennikov, Rupert Gouws, Oleksandr Dobzhanskyi, Mario Stamann

“…Introducing thermal paste in the region enclosed by the U-shaped cores, coil, and body was found to equalize and reduce the stator coil temperature by 10%. …”
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Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Use of Propofol Plus Fentanyl versus Midazolam Plus Fentanyl as Sedation in Diagnostic Endoscopy in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease by Sameh Abdelkhalik Ahmed, Amal Selim, Nehad Hawash, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Mohamed Yousef, Abdelrahman Kobtan, Rehab Badawi, Sally Elnawasany, Reham Abdelkader Elkhouly, Amr Shaaban Hanafy, Fatma H. Rizk, Loai Mansour, Sherief Abd-Elsalam

“…A total of 100 patients with liver cirrhosis referred for upper endoscopy were enrolled and divided equally in two groups, midazolam plus fentanyl group and propofol plus fentanyl group. …”
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Efficacy of 2‐Mercaptoethane Sulfonate Sodium (MESNA) in the Prevention of Pancreatitis After Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: A Randomized Open Label Trial by Amir Sadeghi, Hesamoddin Samar, Mohammad Abbasinazari, Parvaneh Mohammadi, Ali Abazarikia, Shadi Ziaie

“…Results The total rate of PEP was equal to 13.7%. No significant difference was seen in the rate and severity of PEP between the mesna plus indomethacin and indomethacin alone arms (14% vs. 13.4%, respectively, p = 0.671). …”
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Clinical impact of direct rotational atherectomy in patients with complex coronary artery lesions by Kyusup Lee, Ji-hoon Jung, Woojin Kwon, Dae-Won Kim, Mahn-Won Park, Ik Jun Choi, Jae-Hwan Lee, Yong Hoon Yoon, Jang Hoon Lee, Sang Rok Lee, Pil Hyung Lee, Seung-Whan Lee, Ki Dong Yoo, Kyeong Ho Yun, Hyun-Jong Lee, Sung-Ho Her

“…Direct RA was defined as the early application of RA before the balloon was expanded to a size more than or equal to 2.0 mm. The primary endpoint was the composite outcome of technical failure or severe coronary dissection (type D, E, or F) during entire procedure. …”
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Preparation of Superhydrophobic Multiscale Films for Oil-Water Separation in a Harsh Environment by Depeng Li, Jinyang Fan, Jie Chen, Deyi Jiang

“…Moreover, the composite structure surface displayed improved corrosion resistance with corrected self-corrosion potential and lower corrosion current density. It was equally observed that the studied materials could be better adapted to the actual context of salt cavern reservoir construction and thus have great application prospects.…”
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Prevalence of Temporomandibular Disorders Among Dental Students of College of Dentistry-Hawler Medical University. by Saeed Hameed Tutmayi, Twana Hoshyar Saleem, Sara Aswad Khoshnaw, Sana Khals Hamad, Sonya Nadir Saeed

“…Method: The research conducted involved a group of 120 dental students, with an equal number of males and females from Hawler Medical University. …”
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Initial Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Radiologic Assessment for Renal Mass Edge Detection as an Indication of Tumor Roughness to Predict Renal Cancer Subtypes by Rahul Rajendran, Kevan Iffrig, Deepak K Pruthi, Allison Wheeler, Brian Neuman, Dharam Kaushik, Ahmed M Mansour, Karen Panetta, Sos Agaian, Michael A. Liss

“…Linear regression analysis noted that the roughness score is the most influential on the model with all other demographics being equal including tumor size (p=0.003). Conclusion. …”
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The Anti-Inflammatory Activity of a Novel Fused-Cyclopentenone Phosphonate and Its Potential in the Local Treatment of Experimental Colitis by Dorit Moradov, Helena Shifrin, Efrat Harel, Mirela Nadler-Milbauer, Marta Weinstock, Morris Srebnik, Abraham Rubinstein

“…In the colitis-induced rat model, P-5 was effective locally in reducing mucosal inflammation. This activity was equal to the activity of local treatment with 5-aminosalicylic acid. …”
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Enteral L-Arginine and Glutamine Supplementation for Prevention of NEC in Preterm Neonates by M. S. El-Shimi, H. A. Awad, M. A. Abdelwahed, M. H. Mohamed, S. M. Khafagy, G. Saleh

“…Prospective case-control study done on 75 preterm neonates ≤34 weeks, divided equally into L-arginine group receiving enteral L-arginine, glutamine group receiving enteral glutamine, and control group. …”
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Preliminary Evaluation of a Nuclear Scenario Involving Innovative Gas Cooled Reactors by Barbara Vezzoni, Nicola Cerullo, Giuseppe Forasassi, Emil Fridman, Guglielmo Lomonaco, Vincenzo Romanello, Eugene Shwageraus

“…In addition, this cycle enables to have a more efficient use of resources involved: the total electric energy produced becomes equal to ∼630 TWh/year (instead of only ∼530 TWh/year using only EPR) without consuming additional raw materials.…”
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Pelvic Radiation Disease Management by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Prospective Study of 44 Patients by Mehdi Ouaïssi, Stephanie Tran, Diane Mege, Vivien Latrasse, Alain Barthelemy, Nicolas Pirro, Philippe Grandval, James Lassey, Igor Sielezneff, Bernard Sastre, Mathieu Coulange

“…The median of SOMA-LENT score before HBOT was significantly higher, being equal to 14 (0–36), than after HBOT with the SOMA-LENT score of 12 (0–38) (P=0.003). …”
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Social demonstration of colour preference improves the learning of associated demonstrated actions by Noam Zurek, Na’ama Aljadeff, Donya Khoury, Lucy M. Aplin, Arnon Lotem

“…Interestingly, the action of cover opening was learned faster with paired rather than action-only demonstration despite being equally demonstrated in both. We also found that only with paired demonstration, the speed of operant (action) learning was related to the demonstrator’s level of activity. …”
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A Validation Study of the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire in Iranian Mothers by Abbas Ebadi, Fatemeh Ghavidel, Hamid Sharif Nia, Seyedeh Zahra aemmi

“…Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the subscales was equal to 0.744. In addition, the test-retest reliability (0.850-0.952) of the questionnaire with a two-week interval indicated an acceptable range of reliability. …”
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A Hybrid Renewable Sources Implementation for a DC Microgrid with Flatness-Nonlinear Control to Achieve Efficient Energy Management Strategy by Furqan A. Abbas, Adel A.Obed, Ammar Alhasiri, Salam J. Yaqoob

“…Because of the nonlinear system's behavior, differential flatness-based control has been applied mainly in nonlinear systems where the number of variables to the outputs is reduced with a robust control system established through inherited parameter reductions and equality constraints due to the system trajectories (x, u) is straightforwardly estimated from flat output trajectories y and their derivatives without any differential equation integration. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Dynamic Harris Hawks Optimized Gated Recurrent Unit Approach for Breast Cancer Prediction by Rajesh Natarajan, Sujatha Krishna, H. L. Gururaj, Francesco Flammini, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood, C. M. Naveen Kumar

“…Decimal scaling is employed to equalize the various feature effects. The proposed DHH-GRU technique incorporated the GRU for capturing sequential connections on temporal medical information, and the optimization process, DHH optimization, is utilized. …”
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Effects of environmental enrichment and lack of beak trimming on aspects of health, behaviour and production of commercial turkeys by Josiane G. Busatta, Luciana Foppa, Jhonatan Sperandio, Daniele S. Martins, Cristiane G. Titto

“…Material and methods: A total of 3,116 female turkeys of the Nicholas Super Select line were equally distributed across four treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial scheme with the presence or absence of EE and BT or intact beak. …”
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Dual Polarized Dual Fed Vivaldi Antenna for Cellular Base Station Operating at 1.7–2.7 GHz by Marko Sonkki, Sami Myllymäki, Jussi Putaala, Eero Heikkinen, Tomi Haapala, Harri Posti, Heli Jantunen

“…This means that the amplitudes for both antennas are equal, and the phase difference is zero. The orthogonal polarization is implemented in the same way. …”
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A Cross Sectional Study on Thrombocytopenia with Mean Platelet Volume and Platelet Distribution Width in Patient with Febrile Illness by Vidhya.G, J.Margaret Theresa, J.S. Sukanya, Santha Sandasivan, Gerard Rakesh. J

“…Introduction: Thrombocytopenia is characterized by reduced platelet count, affecting men and women equally. It is usually associated with conditions such as febrile illnesses like dengue fever, malaria, and other infectious etiology. …”
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Inonotus hispidus (Bull.) P. Karst. - bioecological characteristics, significance and possibility of use for medical purposes (medicinal properties) by Radulović Zlatan, Karadžić Dragan, Milenković Ivan

“…The colony of this fungus in media amended with gallic and tannic acid shows a positive oxidase reaction (the diffusion zone is dark brown, opaque, spread over a considerable distance from the colony’s periphery, with equal intensity on media with gallic and tannic acid). …”
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