Quality Characteristics and Antioxidant Activities of Rice/Adzuki Bean Mixtures Cooked Using Two Different Methods by Koan Sik Woo, Hyun-Joo Kim, Ji Hae Lee, Byong Won Lee, Yu Young Lee, Byoung Kyu Lee, Jee Yeon Ko

“…Total polyphenol contents in cooked rice/20% (w/w) Arari and Geomguseul bean mixtures in a normal cooker with addition of alcohol were 3.00 and 3.09 times higher than plain rice. The flavonoid contents were 10.33 and 8.90 times higher than plain rice. …”
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Effect of Artificial Intelligence Helpfulness and Uncertainty on Cognitive Interactions with Pharmacists: Randomized Controlled Trial by Chuan-Ching Tsai, Jin Yong Kim, Qiyuan Chen, Brigid Rowell, X Jessie Yang, Raed Kontar, Megan Whitaker, Corey Lester

“…Displaying AI uncertainty led to longer cognitive processing times as measured by dwell times in original images. …”
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Ecological and toxicological condition of militarily degraded chernozems: A case study of the Chkalovsk territorial community by Kateryna Smirnova, Sviatoslav Baliuk, Anatolii Kucher, Ludmila Vorotyntseva, Anna Honcharova

“…It was established that on recently demined areas of the de-occupied territory, there is a trend of slight increases in the content of lead (1.4 times), cobalt (1.3 times), iron (1.6 times), and zinc (2.6 times) relative to pre-war (background) levels. …”
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The Relationship between the Activity Balance Confidence and Mobility Tests among Older Adults in Indonesia by Indri Hapsari Susilowati, Sabarinah Sabarinah, Susiana Nugraha, Sudibyo Alimoeso, Bonardo Prayogo Hasiholan, Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer

“…The older adult participants who are not confident will have 12.03 times higher the unstable result of the gait test, 8.4 times higher the unstable result of the balance test, and 7.47 times higher the less strength result of the strength test who are confident. …”
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Influence of shortest path algorithms on energy consumption of multi-core processors by A. A. Prihozhy, O. N. Karasik

“…Parallel implementations of BFW and HBFW are faster by up to 4.41 times and more energy efficient by up to 3.23 times than the parallel implementation of FW and consume less energy by up to 2.22 times than their sequential counterparts. …”
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Multiresidue Analysis of 86 Pesticides Using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry: II-Nonleafy Vegetables by M. H. EL-Saeid, M. T. Selim

“…The detected and most frequently found pesticide residues were permethrin (45 times) and endosulfan (34 times) followed by deltamethrin (27 times). …”
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Comparison of Super Resolution Reconstruction Acquisition Geometries for Use in Mouse Phenotyping by Niranchana Manivannan, Bradley D. Clymer, Anna Bratasz, Kimerly A. Powell

“…3D isotropic imaging at high spatial resolution (30–100 microns) is important for comparing mouse phenotypes. 3D imaging at high spatial resolutions is limited by long acquisition times and is not possible in many in vivo settings. …”
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Japanese Patients’ and Physicians’ Preferences for Anticoagulant Use in Atrial Fibrillation: Results from a Discrete-choice Experiment by Ken Okumura, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Yasaka, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, A. Brett Hauber, Bennett Levitan, Zhong Yuan, Jean Baptiste Briere

“…In particular, among non-fatal outcomes, patients considered disabling stroke to be 16 times more important than non-major clinically relevant bleeding and 2.6 times more important than extra-cranial major bleeding. …”
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High Performance 3D PET Reconstruction Using Spherical Basis Functions on a Polar Grid by J. Cabello, J. E. Gillam, M. Rafecas

“…In this work, we have implemented the reconstruction algorithm using Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) technology for speed and a precomputed Monte-Carlo-calculated SRM for accuracy. The reconstruction time achieved using spherical basis functions on a GPU was 4.3 times faster than the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and 2.5 times faster than a CPU-multi-core parallel implementation using eight cores. …”
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Object Detection Post Processing Accelerator Based on Co-Design of Hardware and Software by Dengtian Yang, Lan Chen, Xiaoran Hao, Yiheng Zhang

“…When compared to the RTX 2080 Ti system, our proposed accelerator offers at least 21.93 times the speed for the training post process and 19.89 times for the inference post process, thereby significantly enhancing the efficiency of loss function minimization.…”
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Experimental Study on Crushing Characteristics of Lignite under Different Load Conditions by Ziwen Dong

“…When the stress was greater than two times the strength, as the load continued to increase, compression basically did not occur. …”
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Efektifitas Terapi Senam Stroke Terhadap Perbaikan Kemampuan Fungsional Pasien Paska Stroke by Neri Basmara, Reni Prima Gusty, Ema Julita

“…This study aimed to determine the difference in effectiveness of exercise therapy twice a week and three times a week in improving the functional abilities of stroke patients. …”
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BeSnake: A Routing Algorithm for Scalable Spin-Qubit Architectures by Nikiforos Paraskevopoulos, Carmen G. Almudever, Sebastian Feld

“…Unlike traditional methods in superconducting architectures that solely rely on <sc>swap</sc> operations, beSnake also incorporates the shuttle operation to optimize the execution time and fidelity of quantum circuits and achieves fast computation times of the routing task itself. …”
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التقدير الطيفي غير المباشر للاتينولول و الايزونايزايد و البايريدوكسين هيدروكلوريد باستعمال N-بروموسكسينميد والصبغة المتعادلة الحمراء... by زينة العبدلي, مسرة نكتل خليل

“…وجد ان المنحنيات القياسية خطية ضمن مدى التراكيز 0.3-13 و0.2-10 و0.3-17.5 مايكروغرام/مللتر بامتصاصية مولارية 1.98&times;410 و 1.88&times;410 و 1.62&times;410 لتر.مول-1.سم-1 لكل من الاتينولول والايزونايزايد والبايريدوكسين هيدروكلوريد على التوالي. …”
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Determining factors for utilisation of employee wellness programme by healthcare workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa by Shirley Davhula, Prof Paul Chelule, Prof Muhammad Hoque

“…Stressed/burned out employees were 3.7 times more likely to participate in an EWP than those who did not have these conditions (OR=3.7, p=0.036). …”
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Barriers to healthcare access among female youths in Mozambique: a mixed-effects and spatial analysis using DHS 2022/23 data by Habtu Kifle Negash, Hiwot Tezera Endale, Hailu Aragie, Winta Tesfaye, Mihret Getnet, Tseganesh Asefa, Yibeltal Yismaw Gela, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye

“…Youths from poor and middle-wealth households were 1.9 times (AOR = 1.9, 95% CI: 1.44, 2.49) and 1.51 times (AOR = 1.51, 95% CI: 1.19, 1.92) more likely to face barriers, respectively. …”
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Assessment of post-partum physical exercise practice and its associated factors among women in postpartum period, in West Wollega zone, Oromia, Ethiopia by Tegegne Yadeta, Daniel Belema, Seifedin Ahmad, Nurye Sirage, Abubeker Seid Ali, Kedir Ali, Ali Yimer

“…Primipara women had 2.8 times higher odds of practicing postpartum physical exercise (AOR = 2.80, 95% CI: 1.72, 4.59). …”
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Factors influencing repeat blood donor lapsing in Guangzhou: based on the zero-inflated poisson regression model by KE Rongrong, XIE Guiyun, ZHENG Xiaoxiao, XU Yingying, HONG Xiaochun, LI Shijie, DENG Yongshi, SHEN Jinyu, CHEN Jinyan, OUYANG Jian

“…[Results] The zero-inflated part of ZIP showed that the risk of lapsing of male blood donors was 2.24 times that of female blood donors (OR 95% CI:1.864-2.696, P<0.001); the risk of lapsing of the 35-44 age group and over 45 age group was respectively 40% (OR 95% CI:0.455-0.790, P<0.001) and 61%(OR 95% CI:0.268-0.578, P<0.001) lower than that of the under 25 age group; the risk of lapsing for those who have donated blood twice and ≥3 times was respectively 50% (OR 95% CI:0.405-0.609, P<0.001) and 81% (OR 95% CI:0.154-0.225, P<0.001) lower than that of first-time donors; the risk of lapsing of those with junior high or high school education was 1.2 times that of those with a college degree or higher (OR 95% CI:1.033-1.384, P<0.05); the risk of lapsing for the divorced group was 2.02 times that of the married group (OR 95% CI:1.445-2.820, P<0.001); the risk of lapsing for those with an income (Yuan) of 10 000 to 50 000, 50 000 to 100 000 and more than 100 000 was respectively 0.67 (OR 95% CI:0.552-0.818, P<0.001), 0.72 (OR 95% CI:0.591-0.884, P=0.002) and 0.67 (OR 95% CI:0.535-0.834, P<0.001) times that of those with an income (Yuan) of less than 10 000. …”
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