Comparison of two active warming techniques on body temperature in healthy, anesthetized dogs premedicated with acepromazine or dexmedetomidine: A pilot study. by Jacob P Rastas, Qianqian Zhao, Rebecca A Johnson

“…No differences in recovery times were observed between techniques or premedications (P > 0.05). …”
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Study of the vaccination effects against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>, causing mastitis and endometritis in cows by E. V. Ivanov, A. V. Kapustin, N. N. Avduevskaya

“…In the test group, the pathogen was detected in 20% of cases, which is 2.5 times lower than in the control group.…”
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Crochet increases attention through a requiring motor skill learning by Davide Rossi Sebastiano, Cristina Muscio, Dunja Duran, Deborah Bonfoco, Sara Dotta, Paola Anversa, Elisa Pellencin, Pietro Tiraboschi, Elisa Visani

“…Data revealed that crochet determined a significant effect (before, T0, vs after, T1, the crochet session) on reaction times (for all cue and stimulus types), improving alertness and orienting networks (but not executive control) only in the CRO group. …”
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Upper Extremity Function following Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Results of the ARCUS Trial by Eva M. Zwaan, Elena S. Cheung, Alexander J. J. IJsselmuiden, Carlo A. J. Holtzer, Ton A. R. Schreuders, Marcel J. M Kofflard, J. Henk Coert

“…Multivariate logistic regression showed that smokers were almost three times more likely to develop UED. Conclusions. This study demonstrates that UED seems to occur two times more in TR-PCI than in TF-PCI at 2 weeks of follow-up. …”
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Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Fracturing Fluid-Shale Interaction on Pore Structure and Wettability by Yan Zhang, Zhiping Li, Fengpeng Lai, Hao Wu, Gangtao Mao, Caspar Daniel Adenutsi

“…The swelling and dissolution of minerals can exist at the same time, and the strength of them at different soaking times is different, leading to the changes in specific surface area and pore size. …”
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Sulphuric acid leaching of low/medium grade managanese ores using a novel nitrogeneous reductant-NH3NH2HSO4 by Hariprasad D., Mohapatra M., Anand S.

“…Depending on Mn content 1.0 to 1.2 times stochiometric amount of reductant and 1.5 to 1.8 times sulphuric acid were required for >92% Mn extraction.…”
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Decreased Rivaroxaban Levels in a Patient with Cerebral Vein Thrombosis Receiving Phenytoin by Ana F. Becerra, Tomas Amuchastegui, Aldo H. Tabares

“…During follow-up, she remained asymptomatic and thrombin time >180 s was measured several times along 3 months as surrogate for dabigatran activity. …”
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Analysis of Contributing Factors to Stunting in Poso Regency: A Perspective from the Special Stunting Handling Index by Nurfatimah Nurfatimah, Sumiaty Sumiaty, Kadar Ramadhan, Taqwin Taqwin, I Putu Suiraoka

“…Results: Results indicate a significant association between stunting and the child's gender, maternal education, immunization, and breastfeeding. Boys face a 2.3 times higher risk of stunting, while children of mothers with primary education have a 4.7 times higher risk compared to those with higher education. …”
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Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Two Alternative Stabilization Techniques on Expansive Soil Slopes by Rui Zhang, Mingxu Long, Jianlong Zheng

“…The main sources of two techniques are raw material production, soil transportation, and paving stage while the CO2 emissions of lime production are about 11.68 times of those of geogrid production. From the sensitivity analysis results, as the lime content of LST increases by 1%, the total energy consumption and CO2 emissions increase by 8.27% and 13.16%, respectively; as the reinforcement spacing of GRT increases by 0.05 m, the total energy consumption and CO2 emissions increase by 1.63% and 0.69%, respectively; as the embankment height increases by 1 m, the increase rates of energy consumption and CO2 emissions of LST are 1.68 and 1.61 times of those of GRT, respectively. …”
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Gradient Amplification: An Efficient Way to Train Deep Neural Networks by Sunitha Basodi, Chunyan Ji, Haiping Zhang, Yi Pan

“…Improving performance of deep learning models and reducing their training times are ongoing challenges in deep neural networks. …”
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Buckwheat breeding and production in Russia during the past 100 years by A. N. Fesenko, I. N. Fesenko

“…Average buckwheat yield in Russia has increased from 0.49 to 0.94 t/ha (1.9 times) in the period from the 1960s to 2011-2017, which is comparable to the growth of wheat yields for the same period (2.1 times, from 1.18 to 2.42 t/ha). …”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…The first burial system of Tolaki people in prehistoric times and ancient times adopted boat-shaped grave coffin known as soronga or oduni. …”
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Heavy metal elimination from industrial wastewater using natural substrate on pitcher irrigation by Negar Nourmahnad, Kamran Asgari, Najmeh Samadi

“…The pitchers were irrigated with treated industrial wastewater (from steel factory) 60 times (1500 cc per each irrigation event) over a period of six months. …”
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Microelectrothermoforming (μETF): one-step versatile 3D shaping of flexible microelectronics for enhanced neural interfaces by Dong Hyeon Lee, Younghoon Park, Yoon Seo, Hannah Noh, Hyunbeen Jeong, Jongmo Seo, Min-Ho Seo, Kyungsik Eom, Joonsoo Jeong

“…The benefits of 3D MEA are evaluated in retinal stimulation through numerical simulations and ex vivo experiments, confirming a threshold lowered by 1.7 times and spatial resolution enhanced by 2.2 times.…”
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Optimal Topology Management for Software-Defined Networks Minimizing Latency and Using Network Slicing by Andrés Viveros, Pablo Adasme, Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi

“…From the numerical experiments, we observe that the linear models show a better performance in terms of CPU times and the best solutions obtained. Similarly, our proposed approximation algorithm achieves near-optimal solutions in significantly shorter CPU times, for all the input graph networks, when compared to the proposed exact models which allows for finding the optimal solutions.…”
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Oral Health-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Diabetic Patients in Tanzania by Karpal Singh Sohal, Ramadhani Kambole, Sira Stanslaus Owibingire

“…Participants with good oral health knowledge had 5.5 times higher odds of having a good attitude. The participants with high education levels were almost 3 times more likely to have good practice. …”
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Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Characteristics of University Students in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Elena Hadjimbei, George Botsaris, Vassilis Gekas, Andrie G. Panayiotou

“…The majority consume coffee 2-3 times per day. Conclusions. Results support a shift from traditional healthy diets to more unhealthy eating patterns. …”
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Ultra-high electrostriction and ferroelectricity in poly (vinylidene fluoride) by ‘printing of charge’ throughout the film by Ningyi Zhang, Xiaobing Dong, Shihui He, Zhao Liang, Weipeng Li, Qihao Qian, Chao Jiang

“…The optimized electrostrictive coefficient M 33 (324 × 10−18 m2 V−2) is 104 times that of normal PVDF films, and the piezoelectric constant d 33 (298 pm V−1) is close to 10 times its traditional limit. …”
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How to Handle Data Imbalance and Feature Selection Problems in CNN-Based Stock Price Forecasting by Zinnet Duygu Aksehir, Erdal Kilic

“…Stock market forecasting is a time series problem that aims to predict possible future prices or directions of an index/stock. …”
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Drug-Induced Liver Injury Caused by Adalimumab: A Case Report and Review of the Bibliography by Bernardo Frider, Andres Bruno, Marcelo Ponte, Marcelo Amante

“…Adalimumab was started in 2010, and at the third month of treatment, Ggt showed a rise of 23 times normal value (NV), alkaline phosphatase 2,5 times NV with AST and ALT with no change. …”
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