Design of an Inhalation Chamber and Metrology Assessment to Study Tungsten Aerosol Neurotoxic Effects by Léo Macé, Chrystelle Ibanez, Thomas Gelain, Cécile Bodiot, Laure Juhel, François Gensdarmes

“…Additionally, the count median diameter determined from the electrical mobility measured by the EEPS equaled 0.17 µm, which falls beyond both the intended range of the instrument and the range of previously studied aerodynamic sizes. …”
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Infant Oral Healthcare and Anticipatory Guidance Practices among Dentists in a Pediatric Care Shortage Area by Eman A. Bakhurji, Hassan M. Al-Saif, Mohammed A. Al-Shehri, Khalid M. Al-Ghamdi, Mohamed M. Hassan

“…Collaboration with pediatricians for early referral of children is equally important in increasing the awareness on prevention principles.…”
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RATIONALIZATION OF THE NUSANTARA TAFSIR AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF AL-FĀTIHAH BY KH. ZAINI MUN’IM AND AHMAD MUST{AFĀ AL-MARĀGHĪ by Mas'ud Ubaidillah

“…Zaini Mun’im has rationality and contributions that are equal to the interpretation of Middle Eastern scholars. …”
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Risk of bias and confounding of observational studies of Zika virus infection: A scoping review of research protocols. by Ludovic Reveiz, Michelle M Haby, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Carlos E Pinzón-Flores, Vanessa Elias, Emma Smith, Mariona Pinart, Nathalie Broutet, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Sylvain Aldighieri, Maria D Van Kerkhove

“…Selection bias due to non-random selection is a significant issue, particularly in the case-control design, and losses to follow-up is equally important for the cohort design.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Observational research seeking to answer key questions on the ZIKV should consider these restrictions and take precautions to minimize bias in an effort to provide reliable and valid results. …”
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Compression Performance of Newly Designed Replaceable Tubular Steel Piers by Haifeng Li, Xuehang Zhao, Wei Sun, Zhe Xiong

“…Considering the effect of the steel plate thickness on bearing capacity and deformation performance, the thickness tw of the outer constrained steel plate should be equal to the thickness t of the common steel tubular plate, and the thickness tf of the LYP steel tubular plate should satisfy t ≤ tf ≤ 2t. …”
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Demographic Characteristics Associated With Adolescent Receipt of Provider E-Cigarette Screening and Advice and the Impact on Harm Perception by John S. Acosta-Peñaloza, MS, Karen W. Geletko, MPH, Jon Mills, PhD

“…The authors found no association between provider intervention and increased harm perception of E-cigarettes; however, provider intervention was associated with the belief that E-cigarettes are equally or more addictive than cigarettes (p<0.0001). …”
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Magnesium Lithospermate B Downregulates the Levels of Blood Pressure, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Pregnant Rats with Hypertension by Kaixiang Xu, Xiaohong Zang, Mian Peng, Qian Zhao, Binbin Lin

“…A total of 40 pregnant SD rats were selected, and 30 rats were orally given NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 60 mg/kg/day) to establish PIH rat models. Rats were equally divided into four groups: control, PIH, 5 mg/kg MLB, and 10 mg/kg MLB. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Our experiments show that the CNN or ViT models could have at least an 8% equal error rate (EER) increment when encountering adversarial examples. …”
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Reliability-Based Design of Solid and Nail-jointed I-Section of Nigerian-Grown African Birch (<i>Anogeissus leiocarpus</i>) Timber Column by U.N. Wilson, A.A. Adedeji, F.O.P. Oriola, J.A. Alomaja, J.E. Sani

“…This shows that the solid section has a capacity twice that of the ‘I’- section of equal dimensions. However, considering the minimum dimension of the of the two sections capable of supporting the design load, the ‘I’- section is more economical than the solid section since it offers a less effective area of 11,200mm2 compared to the solid section with an effective area of 20,000mm2 . …”
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Is radio an effective method for delivering actionable information for responding to emerging pest threats? A case study of fall armyworm campaign in Zambia by Harrison Rware, Monica K. Kansiime, Idah Mugambi, David Onyango, Justice A. Tambo, Catherine Mloza Banda, Noah A. Phiri, Gilson Chipabika, Mathews Matimelo, Dorcus Chaaba, Tamsin Davis, Julien Godwin

“…The integration also provides opportunities for equally reaching women as men, given the observed digital divide.…”
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A Rare Q-Fever Infection Diagnosed Using Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Liver Transplantation Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review by Niu X, Qiu S, Zheng Y, Li L, Tian E, Liu J, Gai W, Zhang Q, Jin H

“…., Ltd, Beijing, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Qing Zhang; Hailong Jin, Department of Organ Transplantation, The Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039, People’s Republic of China, Email zqy6920@sina.com; jhl309@sina.comAbstract: Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii, typically transmitted through exposure to infected animal secretions. …”
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Evaluating Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Gold Nanoparticles against Streptococcus oralis by Batool M Al-Fahham, Rafeef Ahmed Mohamed, Juman Mohammed Taqi Al-Talqani, Ali Hadi Fahad, Julfikar Haider

“…The Au NPs as an antibacterial agent could be equally effective against S. oralis similar to the CHX when used at higher concentration.…”
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Revisiting the speaker discriminatory power of vowel formant frequencies under a likelihood ratio-based paradigm: The case of mismatched speaking styles. by Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Anders Eriksson, Plinio A Barbosa, Sandra Madureira

“…Two speaker-discriminatory power estimates were examined through Multivariate Kernel Density analysis: Log cost-likelihood ratios (Cllr) and equal error rates (EER). As expected, the discriminatory performance was stronger for style-matched analyses than for mismatched-style analyses. …”
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Mapping Trends and Hotspots Regarding the Use of Lung Ultrasound in the Field of Anesthesiology: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research by Jiang W, Kang K, Zhou X, Chen X, Yu H, Zhang X

“…Wencai Jiang,1 Kang Kang,2 Xinyu Zhou,1 Xuemeng Chen,1 Hai Yu,2,&ast; Xianjie Zhang1,&ast; 1Department of Anesthesiology, Deyang People’s Hospital, Deyang, 618000, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xianjie Zhang, Department of Anesthesiology, Deyang People’s hospital, No. 173 Taishan Road Section 1, Deyang, Sichuan, 618000, People’s Republic of China, Email zxianjiemazui@163.comPurpose: Lung ultrasound (LUS) is increasingly utilized in the field of anesthesiology due to its focused, quick application and the advantage of not exposing patients to ionizing radiation. …”
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Agricultural waste as growing media component for the growth and flowering of Gerbera jamesonii cv. hybrid mix by Atif Riaz, Adnan Younis, Imran Ghani, Usman Tariq, Muhammad Ahsan

“…., garden soil, sand, and silt in equal proportion was studied for commercial production of gerbera. …”
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Method for Calculating Transients in a Gas Pipeline by A. S. Fikov

“…It has been determined that the requirements that the boundary conditions are equal to zero at the initial moment of time introduced into the solution make it possible to obtain a concise record of the obtained analytical model, but do not limit the area of the use of the model with a surge change in the gas flow rate or pressure. …”
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Study on Permeability of Soil-Rock Mixture in Water-Blocking Layer of Open-Pit Coal Mine Dump Site by Boyu Luan, Wei Zhou, Xin Meng, Xiang Lu, Zhichao Liu

“…When the hydraulic pressure is close to or equal to the confining pressure, penetrating cracks are easily formed between the soil-rock interfaces of the sample with a higher rock block proportion, resulting in a rapid increase in permeability. …”
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Study on the best time of refracturing for Hancheng coal seam by Wei WANG, Haifeng ZHAO, Liang JI, Chaowei WANG, Zhengzhao ZHANG, Xuejie XING

“…After about 1 500 days of drainage, the difference of non-uniformity of pore pressure is about 0.6 MPa, which is equal to the difference of initial in-situ stress in the coal seam section, that is, the stress direction reverses. …”
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Perspectives for Using the Programmatic Approach within the Activities of Law Enforcement Agencies of Ukraine by O. O. Khan

“…The subject matter of the research of criminalistic tactics is not only investigative activity, but also operative and search, judicial and prosecutorial activity in criminal proceedings. Equally important is the tactical completion of administrative activities of law enforcement agencies and, on this basis, the establishment of programs of action by police officers, border guards, National Guard, customs service, etc. in exercising their administrative powers for the protection of public order and state border, actions in emergency situations, administrative cases, etc. …”
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Relations Between Trunk Muscle Endurance, Stability, Balance Function, and Head Position in Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis by Guoda Budrytė, Romualdas Sinkevičius, Lina Budrienė

“…Additionally, 86.36 % of the subjects exhibited a forward-shifted head position with a craniovertebral angle equal to 42.93 ± 5.15°. Moderately strong indirect significant correlations were found between the size of the craniovertebral angle and balance (r = -0.675, p = 0.001), and strong direct relationships between trunk stability and balance (r = 0.803; p = 0.001), dynamic stability and balance (r = 0.824; p = 0.001), static stability and balance (r = 0.778; p = 0.001). …”
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