Concurrent Effects of Plyometric Interval Training Implemented in Physical Education Lessons on Adolescent Power and Endurance: An Analysis of Responder Prevalence by Dawid Koźlenia, Katarzyna Kochan-Jacheć, Jarosław Domaradzki

“…A total of 87 boys and 95 girls (aged 14–15 years) participated in an 8-week intervention, performing plyometric exercises twice weekly during physical education classes. The analyzed parameters were jump height (JH) measured by countermovement jump (CMJ) and distance covered during multistage fitness test (MFT). …”
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Investigation of the effects of Afyonkarahisar Region hot springs water on blood calcium and some hormon levels in experimentally-created osteoporosis in rats by Bülent Elitok, Tolgahan Saygin, Yavuz Ulusoy, Bahadir Kilinç

“…The animals of the control group were given tap water twice a day through an orogastric tube and they were bathed in it for 15 minutes at the same time, the water temperature was (35 ± 2) °C. …”
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Projected health and economic effects of the increase in childhood obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: The potential cost of inaction. by Iván Ochoa-Moreno, Ravita Taheem, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Debbie Chase, Keith M Godfrey, Neena Modi, Mark Hanson

“…However, overweight and obesity prevalence in children aged 10-11 persisted and was 4 percentage points (p<0.001) higher than expected, representing almost 56,000 additional children. The increase was twice as high in the most compared with the least deprived areas. …”
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Development of Carnivac-Cov vaccine against coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in carnivores by T. S. Galkina, A. A. Nesterov, A. V. Borisov, I. A. Chvala, A. V. Kononov

“…Carnivac-Cov vaccine administered twice intramuscularly at the dose of 1.0 cm3 induces anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response 14 days after the second administration that lasts for at least 6 months. …”
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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICE FIRMS’ PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Moruff Sanjo Oladimeji, Adebiyi Julius Abosede, Benneth Uchenna Eze

“…The test re-test method was employed to test the reliability of the instrument, by conducting a pilot study, whereby, the questionnaire was administered twice within an interval of two weeks to 20 management staff of service firms, and the result of the two tests was correlated. …”
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Static and dynamic experimental study of strengthened inforced short concrete corbel by using carbon fabrics, crack path in shear zone by I. Ivanova, J. Assih

“…The results of this investigation showed that strengthened reinforced concrete corbel bonded by carbon fiber fabrics can improve the ultimate load to twice and stiffens less than a third. The ultimate load, strain and displacement of the specimen are compared to reference experimental model of monotonic and cyclic applied loads. …”
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Coarse Particle Motion Characteristics in a Double-Stage Slurry Pump Considering Leakage Flow by Hao Jia, Yuqi Wang, Zuchao Zhu, Xianghui Su, Zhenji Tang

“…In the leak or nonleak case, the average kinetic energy of particles was more than twice through the first stage but only 1.1 times through the second stage. …”
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Evaluation of the C-reactive protein serum levels in periodontitis patients with or without atherosclerosis – A clinical study by Pooja Khatri, Kaustubh S Thakare, Minal Narendra Ganvir, Mitesh Khatri

“…Those with both conditions have almost twice the CRP levels compared to those without atherosclerosis. …”
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The Effectiveness of Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro Inositol Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes by Basilio Pintaudi, Giacoma Di Vieste, Matteo Bonomo

“…Patients (23.1% males, mean age of 60.8±11.7 years) took for three months a combination of myo-inositol (550 mg) and d-chiro-inositol (13.8 mg) orally twice a day as add-on supplement to their glucose-lowering drugs. …”
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Utilization of Household Organic Waste into Biogas and Integrated with IoT by Bintang Indra Maulana, Andhika Suryamiharja, Pradipa Catya Wisesa, Rendy Munadi, Sussi Sussi

“…The results indicate that a substrate mixed with molasses produces biogas at twice the pressure compared to coconut water. Furthermore, optimal biogas production with ideal methane and carbon dioxide levels, occurs at temperatures between 25-35°C under high humidity conditions. …”
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Analysis of vehicle carbon emission characteristics on expressways in mountainous plateau areas based on the coupled simulation of CarSim/TruckSim and MOVES. by Jianping Gao, Xin Huang, Yunyong He, Enhuai He, Lu Sun, Changfeng Yang

“…Carbon emissions equivalent of the LDV and HDV starting twice on average in summer were approximately 1.09- and 1.04-times higher, respectively, than that when vehicles were started 0.5 times; whereas, in winter, they were 1.17- and 1.07-times higher, respectively.…”
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Behavior of Low Grade Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Made with Fresh and Recycled Brick Aggregates by Md. Shariful Islam, Mohammad Al Amin Siddique

“…On the other hand, strain of concrete at failure of steel fiber reinforced concrete has increased almost twice compared to the control case. A simple analytical model is also proposed to generate the ascending portions of the stress-strain curve of concrete. …”
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A parametric study of the thermo-pneumatic microvalve performance for microfluidic platforms: A finite element analysis by Alireza Mohseni, Mohammad Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Amirsaman Bahramian, Esmail Pishbin

“…Our results reveal that an inward-angle heating chamber configuration substantially improves membrane deflection, generating a maximum applied pressure of 2702 N/m²—more than twice that of conventional straight-wall designs (1216 N/m²). …”
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Assembly of oleosin during efficient extraction: Altering the sequence of defatting solvents by Yu Li, Yuqian Qiao, Yuxuan Zhu, Wangyang Shen, Weiping Jin, Dengfeng Peng, Qingrong Huang

“…High purity oleosin (86 %) was obtained by treatment first with a Floch solution and then with cold acetone and petroleum ether after twice washing OBs with urea. The 3D spatial structure of oleosin was predicted using AlphaFold 2, revealing that the secondary structure of oleosin was dominated by α-helices (>60 %). …”
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The Correlation between Hormonal Disturbance in PCOS Women and Serum Level of Kisspeptin by Razaw O. Ibrahim, Shirwan H. Omer, Chro N. Fattah

“…Five milliliter samples of blood from all the patients and control women were obtained twice during the menstrual cycle. All the study samples were classified depending on the age factor for several subgroups. …”
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Experimental Research of the Influence of Microfracture Morphology on Permeability of Shale Rock by Xiaohe Huang, Yunqian Long, Yuyi Wang, Ming Yue

“…Taking the primitive effective stress (10 MPa) as a critical point, the permeability of shale with large initial permeability decreased by 26.4%, which is about twice as much as that of shale rock with small initial permeability (14.9%) in the selected pressure loading stage, owing to the difference of fracture width inside the shale rock. …”
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Synbiotic microcapsule dietary supplementation for prevention against co-infection diseases in Pacific white shrimp: a limited field experiment by Munti Yuhana, Andreas Tambun, Widanarni Widanarni, Usamah Afiff

“…Treatments included the administration of MS at different frequencies i.e, daily (A), twice a week (B), once a week (C), and without MS supplementation (consisted of negative and positive controls) with a feeding rate of 6% of shrimp biomass (5 times a day). …”
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Calm-mind percentage measured by a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) headband correlates with stress level in anesthesia residents: A prospective, observational study by Ida Bagus Krisna Jaya Sutawan, I Made Gede Widnyana, Nova Juwita, Steven Okta Chandra, Christopher Ryalino, Tjokorda Gde Agung Senapathi

“…This study procedure was repeated twice for each subject, one while performing anesthesia in ASA 1–2 patient and another in ASA 3–4 patients. …”
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Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Metastasis to the Pancreas by Firas Warda, Sam Ho, Enoch Kuo, Dinesh Rao, Marilu Jurado-Flores

“…Due to recurrent findings of residual thyroid tissue on whole-body scan imaging, the patient underwent radioactive iodine ablation therapy twice, with poor response to therapy, suggested by persistently elevated thyroglobulin levels. …”
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How Speech–Language Pathologists Adapt This Is Me Digital Transition Portfolios to Support Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Communication Challenges Acr... by Eve Müller, Jamie R. Kleiner, Danielle Evans, Ann Kern, Dawn Reikowsky, Katherine Smidl

“…While school and inpatient units demonstrated similar patterns of domain use, TiME created in an inpatient context contained more information about behavior plans/supports and were almost twice as long on average. They also included more information about safety and diagnoses/medical needs and less information about self-advocacy strategies than TiME created in school contexts, reflecting the very different settings within which they were created. …”
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