Assessment of Paediatricians’ Oral Health Knowledge, Behaviour, and Attitude in the United Arab Emirates by Noora Aburahima, Iyad Hussein, Mawlood Kowash, Anas Alsalami, Manal Al Halabi

“…Statistical analysis was performed using Shapiro–Wilk, Mann–Whitney U, and Kruskal–Wallis tests. Statistical significance was set as P<0.05. …”
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Changes in the composition of grass and shrub layer plants in common oak stands since the closure of leaf canopy by Ihor Ivanyuk, Tetiana Ivaniuk, Volodymyr Krasnov, Oleh Zhukovskyi

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Assessment of the Effect of Oral Health on Quality of Life and Oral-Health Indicators among ESRD Patients in Southwest Florida: A Pilot Study by Payal Kahar, Carol Chapman, Jayanta Gupta

“…Face-to-face interviews and intraoral examinations were conducted among 70 patients. Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis test were used to compare each item score with demographics and dental and overall health status. …”
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MEAT-SAM: More Efficient Automated Tongue Segmentation Model by Fudong Zhong, Chuanbo Qin, Yue Feng, Junying Zeng, Xudong Jia, Fuguang Zhong, Jun Luo, Min Yang

“…Tested on three different datasets (TongueDataset01, TongueDataset02, TongueDataset03), MEAT-SAM achieved IoU of 96.63%, 95.58%, and 95.07%, demonstrating excellent generalization and robustness against various complex background conditions in tongue images. …”
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Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…Preserved collecting records for various species were examined at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. …”
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Ribosomal profiling as a tool for studying translation in plants: main results, problems and future prospects by D. A. Afonnikov, O. I. Sinitsyna, T. S. Golubeva, N. A. Shmakov, A. V. Kochetov

“…Features of the mRNA structure that affect translation levels have been revealed: the formation of G2 quadruplexes and the presence of specific motifs in the 5’-UTR region, GC content, the presence of alternative translation starts, and the influence of uORFs on the translation of downstream mORFs. In this review, we briefly reviewed the RP methodology and the prospects for its application to study the structural and functional organization and regulation of plant gene expression.…”
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A Novel Air-to-Ground Communication Scheme for Advanced Big Data Collection in Smart Farming Using UAVs by Georgios A. Kakamoukas, Thomas D. Lagkas, Vasileios Argyriou, Sotirios K. Goudos, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Stamatia Bibi, Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis

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Using possihilities of sugar heet pulp silage prcduced in different ways in lamb and dairy cut diets iv. milk composition, some blood and rumen fluid parameters by Suphi Deniz, Şakir D. Tuncer, Murat Demirel, Nihat Denek

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Cross-modal feature interaction network for heterogeneous change detection by Zhiwei Yang, Xiaoqin Wang, Haihan Lin, Mengmeng Li, Mengjing Lin

“…Compared to the existing methods applied to the three datasets, CMFINet achieved the highest F1 scores of 83.93%, 75.65%, and 95.42%, and the highest mIoU values of 85.38%, 78.34%, and 94.87%, respectively. …”
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Clinical Evaluation and Assessment of Laser Irradiation on the Stability of Orthodontic Implant: A Prospective Experimental Study by Namrata Shehare, Suchita Daokar, Dhananjay Ghunawat, Harsha Kaurani

“…Results: The test employed for statistical analysis was Mann–Whitney U, Kruskal–Wallis, and ANOVA test. After analysis of all the readings, it was found that low-level laser therapy has a significant role in the stability of orthodontic mini-implant. …”
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The Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency on Coronary Artery Disease Severity Based on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mahdi Haghighatafshar, Behnaz Shekasteband, Tahereh Firuzyar, Zahra Etemadi, Farinaz Farhoudi, Mesbah Shams

“…Vit D was categorized using cutoffs at 10, 20, and 30 ng/mL. Mann–Whitney U-test was used for quantitative variables and Chi Square test for qualitative variables. …”
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Nrf2通过上调自噬促进C17.2神经干细胞的增殖

“…我们发现Nrf2能够调控C17.2神经干细胞的增殖,并试图阐明其可能的作用机制?【方法】 采用MTT法检测细胞活力,BrdU掺入法检测细胞增殖,western blot法检测细胞内蛋白水平的变化,流式细胞术检测细胞内ROS水平的变化?…”
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Microscopic Defect Detection on Aircraft Engine Blades via Improved YOLOv8 by Yujie Jiang, Ping Li, Bing Lin, Yingying Wang, Tian Li, Hui Xue, Weidong Liu, Zaihu Han, Dan Wang, Junlei Tang

“…Subsequently, we propose an efficient lightweight YOLOv8 framework, incorporating a hierarchical feature fusion module MS-Block for better multi-scale integration, as well as an Efficient Multi-Scale Attention (EMA) and Dilation-wise Residual (DWR) modules to enhance the detection of small targets and replace the loss function with Inner-IoU. The improved YOLOv8 demonstrates a noteworthy increase in mean average precision (mAP), achieving an enhancement of 1.5% on the Electron Microscope Taken (EMT) dataset and 1.8% on the Metallographic Microscope Taken (MMT) dataset compared to the original model. …”
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Características ecográficas del pulmón en pacientes con diagnóstico de neumonía grave adquirida en la comunidad by Luis Fong Pantoja, Niger Guzmán Pérez, Elizabeth Bárbara Dieguez Matamoros

“…Se emplearon las medidas resúmenes para cada tipo de variable, se utilizaron las pruebas de ji cuadrado, prueba exacta de Fisher y la prueba U de Mann-Whitney para la comparación entre grupos o la exploración de asociación entre las variables, según correspondiera. …”
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Implant Stability Changes for Nonsubmerged and Submerged Protocols for a Single Implant Mandibular Overdenture Using Ball Attachment by Ahmed Salah, Karim Foda, Mohamed Farouk Abdalla, Marwa Abdel Aal, Amr Naguib, Nouran Abdel Nabi

“…The scope of this clinical trial focused only on results of the ball attachment. The Mann–Whitney U test was used for comparison between study groups for independent samples. …”
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Risk Factors for Shoulder Injuries in Water Polo: a Cohort Study by Félix Croteau, David Paradelo, David Pearsall, Shawn Robbins

“…Independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare the study variables between groups. …”
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Multiomic quantification of the KRAS mutation dosage improves the preoperative prediction of survival and recurrence in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by Won-Gun Yun, Daeun Kim, Youngmin Han, Wooil Kwon, Seong-Geun Lee, Jin-Young Jang, Daechan Park

“…Our prognostic scoring system included the mutation dosage from targeted sequencing ( > 0.195, 1 point), maximal tumor diameter at preoperative imaging ( > 20 mm, 1 point), and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 levels ( > 150 U/mL, 1 point). The KRAS mutation dosage exhibited comparable performance with clinical variables for survival prediction. …”
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Self-Management Education for Persons with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Care Partners: A Quasi-Experimental Case-Control Study in Clinical Practice by Carina Hellqvist, Carina Berterö, Nil Dizdar, Märta Sund-Levander, Peter Hagell

“…Descriptive statistics were used to describe baseline characteristics. Mann–Whitney U and Chi2 tests were used to test for between-group differences and within-group differences were tested by the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test. …”
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Identifying the Geographical Origin of Tobacco Leaf by Strontium and Lead Isotopic with Mineral Elemental Fingerprint by Liu Hong, Wenyuan Wang, Yang Su, Guiping Zhang, Yong Su, Chenming Zhang, Jianhua Chen, Wei Zhe, Zhihua Liu, Jianyong Cui, Deshou Mao, Jin Wang

“…We collected eighty-one tobacco leaf samples from Argentina, Brazil, Zimbabwe, the U.S., Zambia, and China. And nine mineral element contents and four strontium and lead isotope ratios of the tobacco leaves were determined by thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). …”
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APOBEC3C‐mediated NF‐κB activation enhances clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by Nora Hase, Danny Misiak, Helge Taubert, Stefan Hüttelmaier, Michael Gekle, Marcel Köhn

“…Here, we unveil that the enhanced expression of the RNA‐binding protein DNA dC → dU‐editing enzyme APOBEC‐3C (APOBEC3C; also known as A3C) in ccRCC tissue and ccRCC‐derived cell lines serves as a catalyst for tumor growth by amplifying nuclear factor‐kappa B (NF‐κB) activity. …”
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