How Accurately Can Prostate Gland Imaging Measure the Prostate Gland Volume? Results of a Systematic Review by David R. H. Christie, Christopher F. Sharpley

“…The imaging methods were ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging (US, CT, and MRI). Wide variations were noted but most articles about US and CT provided correlation coefficients that lay between 0.70 and 0.90, while those describing MRI seemed slightly more accurate at 0.80-0.96. …”
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Study on the Bearing Capacity and Engineering Performance of Aeolian Sand by Han Xia, Jingtao Zhang, Jun Cai, Huangsong Pan, Xuesen She

“…This paper focuses on the bearing capacity parameters of aeolian sand in the Mu Us Desert, and test sites in 6 weak foundation areas are selected. …”
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Monitoring of national projects in Russia and risks associated with their implementation by V. V. Stroev, N. V. Kuznetsov

“…National projects developed in accordance with the national development goals of Russia allow us to implement key tasks for socio-economic development of the country, as well as welfare of its population. …”
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Perceptions of Dietary Habits and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes among Congolese Immigrants by Daudet Ilunga Tshiswaka, Kelechi D. Ibe-Lamberts, Dyna Miandabu Mulunda, Juliet Iwelunmor

“…To explore the perceptions of dietary habits and type 2 diabetes risk among Congolese immigrants living in the US. Methods. Data were collected from 20 in-depth interviews and photo-elicitation techniques conducted with Congolese immigrants. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, And Practices of The Educated Women of North India Toward Cervical Cancer by Ishita Miglani, Urvashi Gandhi, Poonam Laul

“…Hesitation to adopt cervical cancer screening strategies motivated us to find out the knowledge gaps and attitudes of the educated section toward these practices. …”
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New Coefficients of the Minority Carrier Lifetime and Bandgap Narrowing Models in the Transparent Emitter of Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells by M. Benosman, A. Zerga, F. Dujardin, B. Benyoucef, J-P. Charles

“…This was accomplished according to the doping level of the thin emitter. This model allows us to take into account both the effects of the heavy doping and the majority carrier degeneration for the very high level of doping. …”
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Deformation Properties and Fatigue of Bituminous Mixtures by Frantisek Schlosser, Jan Mikolaj, Viera Zatkalikova, Juraj Sramek, Dominika Durekova, Lubos Remek

“…This type of tests allows us to collate materials with regard to axle vibrations which lie usually in the range of 6 Hz–25 Hz for standard conditions. …”
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Management methodology: ontology, structure, content by B. N. Gerasimov, K. B. Gerasimov

“…Scientific literature and empirical research carried out by the authors in recent years have allowed us to consider the structure and interaction of management processes and objects in social and economic environments. …”
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A Novel Coal Burst Criterion of Anchored Roadway Surrounding Rock under Dynamic Disturbance by Zheng-yi Wang, Peng-bo Li

“…The roadway support with ultimate value Us of absorbed energy needs to resist and absorb the kinetic energy Uk released from a dynamic failure of elastic zone and the energy Up imposed by impact-induced convergence of surrounding rocks on a support system, and the novel coal burst criterion is proposed as Uk + Up > Us. …”
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Laser Based Energy Distribution Architecture for Decoupling Energy and Sensing Planes in WSN by Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Affan A. Syed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai

“…We present a first practical energy distribution architecture that allows us to decouple energy supply from sensing activities. …”
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Direct coupling analysis and the attention mechanism by Francesco Caredda, Andrea Pagnani

“…Additionally, the functional form of the energy function of the model enables us to deploy a multi-family learning strategy, allowing us to effectively integrate information across multiple protein families, whereas standard DCA algorithms are typically limited to single protein families. …”
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A Choice Behavior Model of Bike-Sharing Based on User Perception, Psychological Expectations, and Loyalty by Xingjian Xue, Zixu Wang, Xuejiao Liu, Zhou Zhou, Rui Song

“…The mediating effect of user satisfaction (US) on the relationship between perceived quality (PQ) and use loyalty was examined. …”
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Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…His adoption of the long hair and cowboy hat, made internationally famous by Buffalo Bill, gives us a key to understanding how he wove together the French and American cultural notions of primitivism, sexuality, leadership, and the avant-garde. …”
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Preface by Nikoletta Hendrik

“…The week consisted of four separate events: firstly, we visited the Aquincum Museum, where the guided tour offered us a glimpse of Marcus Aurelius’ life in Pannonia. …”
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Recognition of Depression and Anxiety among Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients by Amy Y. Zhang, Gregory S. Cooper

“…This study investigated the ICD-9 diagnostic rates of depressive and anxiety disorders, including major depression, neurotic depression, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, depressive disorder NOS (not elsewhere classified), and anxiety states, among elderly Medicare beneficiaries (age ≥ 65) who received a colorectal cancer diagnosis between 1998 and 2002 in U.S. The Seer-Medicare data, representing 14–25% of the U.S. population, was used to examine ICD-9 diagnostic rates of depressive and anxiety disorders among 56,182 colorectal cancer outpatients and 265,382 noncancer outpatients, respectively. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Loss of Offsite Power Events by Andrija Volkanovski, Antonio Ballesteros Avila, Miguel Peinador Veira

“…A frequency of one LOOP event per shutdown year is obtained for German NPPs in shutdown mode of operation. For the US NPPs, the obtained LOOP frequency for critical and shutdown mode is comparable to the one assessed in NUREG/CR-6890. …”
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The women’s inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance by Tanushree Kaushal, Signe Predmore

“…Relating multisited ethnographic materials from a US gender diversity organization and microfinance institutions in India, we ask: on what terms does inclusion take place? …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…Scott McClanahan, rising star of the US Indie Lit world and "Poet Laureate of Real America" (Moran), writes miasmic chronicles of life in a West Virginian holler. …”
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Imperative Role of Technology Intervention and Implementation for Automation in the Construction Industry by Amit Srivastava, Sajjaf Jawaid, Rajesh Singh, Anita Gehlot, Shaik Vaseem Akram, Neeraj Priyadarshi, Baseem Khan

“…Furthermore, edge and fog computing technology encourages us to implement AI at the edge network for analytics at the end of the edge device. …”
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Trends in Snag Populations in Drought-Stressed Mixed-Conifer and Ponderosa Pine Forests (1997–2007) by Joseph L. Ganey, Scott C. Vojta

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