Clinical and measurement variables affecting halitosis intensity following cysteine challenge test by Wanki Lee, Jung Hwan Jo, Young-Seok Park, Ji Woon Park

“…However, several aspects related to the test including evaluation timing and total duration following cysteine loading has not been investigated in-depth and a standardized protocol is yet to be established. …”
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Clinical Effect of Teucrium polium Extract Ointment on Post Pilonidal Sinus Excision Wound Healing: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Reza Hosseinpour, Nuruddin Hosseini, Seyedeh Fatemeh Hekmatzadeh, Saadat Mehrabi, Hossein Sadeghi Mansourkhani, Marita Mohamadshahi

“…The primary outcomes were changes in wound size and wound recovery time after surgery, while secondary outcomes included changes in wound edema and wound exudate. …”
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Budgeting Practices and Performance of Town Councils in Uganda: A Case Study of Muhanga Town Council. by Kembabazi, Primah

“…The study findings on the effect of activity-based budgeting on the performance of Muhanga town council were; Through activity-based budgeting valuable activities are identified, Resource needs are easily identified using activity-based budgeting and activity-based budgeting reduces bureaucracy and time needed in traditional budgeting. The study recommended that zero-based budgets should be the only one to use at Muhanga town council without wasting time on other types since they rotate through all the levels of the organization and enhance service delivery, all heads of departments at Muhanga town council should get involved in budget execution in enhancing the overall budget implementation and the budgeting systems of Muhanga town council need to be supported in order to ensure prudent management of funds by use of better budgeting management practices to provide timely and quality service delivery. …”
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Stress management and Employee performance in Kisoro Hospital, Kisoro District, Uganda by Gregory K.N., Ndongereye

“…Despite the existing techniques and strategies utilized by Kisoro hospital to manage stress, performance among employees has persistently remained low and health workers’ morale to report at work in time has declined which makes delivery of quality health services to patients become poor and insufficient thus adversely affecting their lives (health). …”
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Warm Climate Production Guidelines for Echinacea by Rick Schoellhorn, Alexis A. Richardson

“… This is one of the great moments in time when a renowned but limited perennial flower has the roof blown off of its genetic potential. …”
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L’arbre fruitier en Avesnois : le « passeur de mémoires » (xive-xxie siècle) by Marie Delcourte

“…This article, which presents the initial findings of an ongoing research project, seeks to analyse the relation between people and trees through time.…”
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Healthy Living: Keep Track of Your Blood Pressure by Linda B. Bobroff, Leigh Ann Martin

“…Every time you take your blood pressure, write down the date and time, the blood pressure measurement, and where it was taken (home, doctor’s office, etc.). …”
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Energy-saving fast-forward scaling by Takuya Hatomura

“…We also discuss the influence of a time-dependent measurement basis, and give a remedy for unwanted energy costs. …”
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MSK Diagnostic Ultrasound for the Assessment of the Acromioclavicular Joint by Robert C Manske, Michael Voight, Phil Page, Chris Wolfe

“…The acromioclavicular joint (ACJ), a key element in shoulder movement and stability, is prone to various injuries such as sprains, dislocations, and osteoarthritis, typically resulting from physical trauma or wear and tear. Accurate and timely diagnosis is paramount for effective treatment and rehabilitation. …”
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Healthy Living: Keep Track of Your Blood Pressure by Linda B. Bobroff, Leigh Ann Martin

“…Every time you take your blood pressure, write down the date and time, the blood pressure measurement, and where it was taken (home, doctor’s office, etc.). …”
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A note on predator-prey dynamics in radiocarbon datasets by Marom, Nimrod, Wolkowski, Uri

“…Predator-prey interactions have been a central theme in population ecology for the past century, but real-world data sets only exist for recent, relatively short (<100 years) time spans. This limits our ability to study centennial/millennial-scale predator-prey dynamics. …”
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Harnessing nanoparticles for reshaping tumor immune microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma by JinSong Li, GuanBo Zhang, Gang Li, Jie Zhang, Zhi Yang, Lin Yang, ShiJie Jiang, JiaXing Wang

“…However, acquired resistance and the tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME) significantly hinder its clinical application. …”
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Edge computing for detection of ship and ship port from remote sensing images using YOLO by Vasavi Sanikommu, Sai Pravallika Marripudi, Harini Reddy Yekkanti, Revanth Divi, R. Chandrakanth, P. Mahindra

“…The proposed method uses an enhanced YOLO (You Only Look Once) model, a robust real-time object detection method. The method involves training the YOLO model on an extensive collection of annotated satellite images to detect ships and ship ports accurately. …”
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Advances in the photodynamic treatment of solar keratosis by SHEN Haojia, TIAN Boxin, WU Hui, HE Zezhi, LI Runxiang, ZHU Huilan

“…However, PDT has a longer single treatment time, possibly causing adverse reactions such as local erythema and itching. …”
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Video-based estimation of blood pressure. by Ananyananda Dasari, Laszlo A Jeni, Conrad S Tucker

“…The ubiquity of mobile phones and video-based capturing devices motivates the development of a non-contact blood pressure estimation method-Video-based Blood Pressure Estimation (V-BPE). We leverage the time difference of the blood pulse arrival at two different locations in the body (Pulse Transit Time) and the inverse relation between the blood pressure and the velocity of blood pressure pulse propagation in the artery to analytically estimate the blood pressure. …”
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Drought Occurrence Pattern in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia by A.S. Tefera, J.O. Ayoade, N.J. Bello

“…It was also found that the average drought return period in the study area ranged between 2.02 at 3-month, 6-month and 24-month time scales to 2.13 years at 12-month time scale. …”
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Dynamic multiday seizure cycles and evolving rhythms in a tetanus toxin rat model of epilepsy by Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Mark J. Cook, Anthony N. Burkitt, David B. Grayden

“…The identification of stable and evolving multiday rhythms in seizure activity, independent of external factors, highlights a potential intrinsic biological basis for seizure timing. These findings offer promising avenues for improving seizure forecasting and designing personalized, timing-based therapeutic interventions in epilepsy. …”
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Enhancing the Process of AES: A Lightweight Cryptography Algorithm AES for Ad-hoc Environments by Alharith A. Abdullah, Çağatay Aydin, Oğuz Ata, Mustafa Alhandhal

“…Ad hoc networks work on battery power, and this kind of networks tend to consume more power and time to process data and memory resources through data encryption, eventually requiring a higher amount of power and more time. …”
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Validity, Reliability, and Efficiency of a Standard Goniometer, Medical Inclinometer, and Builder’s Inclinometer by June Hanks, Betsy Myers

“…Device order was randomized. Time to complete assessment with each device was measured…”
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New ways to communicate: Intensive care nurses’ perspectives on using the digital application Talk2Care. A qualitative study by Serine Ramsdal, Heidi Jerpseth

“…Motivation, experience, and available time can also influence the nurses’ use of the application. …”
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