The relaxant effect of Tamsulosin in the vascular reactivity of goat isolated renal artery by Aveen Muhsin Asaad, Ismail Salih Ibraheem Kakey

“…Alpha-blockers including tamsulosin, are medications that relax muscles in the urinary tract to facilitate stone passage into the bladder. …”
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Examining the impact of environmental product innovation on perceived brand value considering the mediating role of ethical- aspects in the home appliance industry by Hamidreza Talaie

“…To collect data, a standardized questionnaire was used, whose validity was confirmed by calculating content, convergent, and divergent validity, and its reliability was confirmed through the Cronbach's alpha index. In statistical analysis, the structural equation modeling approach was used.Findings: Based on the research results, environmental product innovations have a positive and significant impact on perceived brand value, open-mindedness, and customer privacy. …”
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Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Sosyal Medyada Kimlik İnşasına Yönelik Ölçek Geliştirme Çalışması by Mehmet Salih Ökten

“…Cronbach Alfa (α) katsayıları ise ölçeğin iç tutarlılığını ve güvenirliğini doğrulamaktadır. Cronbach Alpha iç tutarlılık katsayısının 0,845 olarak hesaplanması, ölçeğin öğeleri arasındaki güçlü bir ilişki olduğunu göstermektedir.…”
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Isolation and Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacterial Species from Pasteurized Dairy Products: Potential Risk to Consumer Health by Solomon H. Mariam

“…None tested positive for phenotypic gelatin hydrolysis but exhibited alpha- or beta-hemolysis. Sequence alignments of 16S rRNA gene partial sequences suggested up to 99% sequence similarities to subspecies of Salmonella enterica. …”
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Cooperative Learning in EFL Classes: A Comparative Study on Vocabulary Teaching by Emine Eda Ercan Demirel

“…The test in concern- the vocabulary test- underwent a process with the guidance and supervision of language and scale development experts, and then was finalised to be used as the pre-test and posttest Cronbach’s alpha 0.83 . The participants were freshmen at Selcuk University School of Foreign Languages SOFL . …”
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Comparative Study of Different Irrigation Protocols in Endodontic Treatment by Midhun Paul, Rekha V. Ravi, Chintu Sundaresan, Dinesh G. Kamath, Gargi Yumnam, Nada M. Ibrahim

“…In this study, the analysis of variance and post hoc tests were used with a predetermined alpha level of (0.05). Results: Comparing all the groups, Group A exhibited the best performance with Group B being the second best as seen with the mean log reduction of the bacterial load being 5. …”
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Agro-Morphological Characterization and Estimation of Genetic Parameters of Spring Maize Hybrids in the Inner Plains of Far-West Nepal by Prachi Bista, Sandesh Thapa, Sara Rawal, Deependra Dhakal, Darbin Joshi

“…The research was conducted in the Dhangadhi district from April 2020 to August 2020 in an alpha-lattice design with 26 genotypes and two replications. …”
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Inflammasomes in neurodegenerative diseases by Qianchen Wang, Songwei Yang, Xuan Zhang, Shanshan Zhang, Liping Chen, Wanxue Wang, Naihong Chen, Jiaqing Yan

“…In neurodegenerative diseases and neuroinflammation, the accumulation of misfolded proteins, such as beta-amyloid and alpha-synuclein, can lead to inflammasome activation, resulting in the release of interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-18. …”
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Spanish version of the short European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire HLS-Q12: Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties. by Sergio Muñoz-Villaverde, Leticia Serrano-Oviedo, María Martínez-García, Yolanda Pardo, Llüisa Tares-Montserrat, Francisco Javier Gómez-Romero, Paloma Garcimartin

“…<h4>Results</h4>The HLS-Q12 is equivalent at the semantic, conceptual, and content level to the original version and its psychometric properties demonstrated good internal consistency with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.88 and a McDonald´s omega of 0.91, a high degree of fit for the confirmatory factor analysis, and a statistically significant sensitivity to change (p = 0.025).…”
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Comprehensive analysis of naturally occurring radionuclides in well water: Isotopic ratios, mitigation, and dose assessment by Francisco Piñero-García, Rimon Thomas, Eva Forssell-Aronsson, Mats Isaksson

“…For that, a well water survey was done in 2020 along Sweden, focusing the study on the determination of 210Po, 210Pb, 226Ra, 228Ra, 238U and 234U by alpha spectrometry. The results of the present study showed that the naturally occurring radionuclides distributions in the well water investigated were highly variable. …”
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A Precocious Cerebellar Ataxia and Frequent Fever Episodes in a 16-Month-Old Infant Revealing Ataxia-Telangiectasia Syndrome by Luigi Nespoli, Annapia Verri, Silvia Tajè, Francesco Paolo Pellegrini, Maddalena Marinoni

“…Since the clinical presentation is extremely variable, a high clinical suspicion will allow an early diagnosis. Serum alpha-fetoprotein is elevated in 80–85% of patients and therefore could be used as a screening tool. …”
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A comparative study of EEG microstate dynamics during happy and sad music videos by Ashish Gupta, Chandan Kumar Srivastava, Braj Bhushan, Laxmidhar Behera, Laxmidhar Behera

“…This study delved into the emotional responses of happiness and sadness triggered by music videos, employing microstate analysis and eLoreta source-level investigation in the alpha band. The results of the microstate analysis showed that regardless of gender, participants during happy music video significantly upregulated class D microstate and downregulated class C microstate, leading to a significantly enhanced global explained variance (GEV), coverage, occurrence, duration, and global field power (GFP) for class D. …”
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Radon in water from private wells and its contribution to internal exposure of population in rural areas at Toplica region, southern Serbia by Vučković Biljana, Penjišević Ivana, Todorović Nataša, Nikolov Jovana, Radovanović Dragan, Valjarević Aleksandar

“…Radon concentration in water was measured by alpha spectrometry using the RAD 7 - RAD H2O system. …”
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Hypercalcemia in Lung Cancer due to Simultaneously Elevated PTHrP and Ectopic Calcitriol Production: First Case Report by Saed Nemr, Sunitha Alluri, Dhivya Sundaramurthy, Daniel Landry, Gregory Braden

“…We believe that the elevated calcitriol levels in this case were due to a PTHrP-independent mechanism, possibly from either ectopic production of calcitriol in tumor cells or from increased activity of 1-alpha hydroxylase in the same cells. The patient died before the effects of prednisone therapy could be assessed. …”
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Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices by Kai-Lin Yang, Su-Chi Fang, Szu-Chun Fan

“…The discrimination parameters indicated that most of the items for different grades performed well in distinguishing between students with various ability levels. The Cronbach’s alpha also indicated that the instrument had good reliability in terms of internal consistency. …”
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BWFER-YOLOv8: An Enhanced Cascaded Framework for Concealed Object Detection by Khalid Ijaz, Ikramullah Khosa, Ejaz A. Ansari, Syed Farooq Ali, Asif Hussain, Faran Awais Butt

“…This paper proposes a novel three-stage cascaded framework named BWFER-YOLOv8, which implements a new alpha-reshuffled bootstrap random sampling method in the first stage, followed by image reconstruction using an adaptive Wiener filter in the second stage. …”
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Staphylococcus aureus host cell invasion and virulence in sepsis is facilitated by the multiple repeats within FnBPA. by Andrew M Edwards, Jennifer R Potts, Elisabet Josefsson, Ruth C Massey

“…In vivo and in vitro studies have shown that the staphylococcal invasin FnBPA triggers bacterial invasion of endothelial cells via a process that involves fibronectin (Fn) bridging to alpha(5)beta(1) integrins. The Fn-binding region of FnBPA usually contains 11 non-identical repeats (FnBRs) with differing affinities for Fn, which facilitate the binding of multiple Fn molecules and may promote integrin clustering. …”
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Yield Function of the DOSimetry TELescope Count and Dose Rates Aboard the International Space Station by A. S. Caprotti, M. Brüdern, S. Burmeister, B. Heber, K. Herbst

“…To describe the observations in such a complex radiation field, we follow the method by Caballero‐Lopez and Moraal (2012, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117[A12], A12103. doi:10.1029/2012JA017794) to compute the so‐called yield function using precise measurements of the proton and helium energy spectra obtained by alpha magnet spectrometer and the systematic variation of the DOSTEL measurements within the Earth's magnetosphere.…”
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Testcross performance of Striga-resistant maize inbred lines and testers with varying levels of Striga reaction by Degife Zebire, Abebe Menkir, Victor Adetimirin, Wende Mengesha, Meseka Silvestro, Melaku Gedil

“…The experiment was laid out in a 23 × 4 alpha-lattice design with two replications in each location. …”
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Explaining the models of cultural tourism development in Iran by Seyyed Mostafa Haj Agha Mir, Hamideh Reshadat jo, Ata Allah Abtahi, Seyyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Fatemeh Aziz Abadi Farahani

“…The reliability of the research was analyzed using Cronbach's alpha test. The results of quantitative analysis showed that social indicators have the greatest impact among the leading indicators of cultural tourism in the country.…”
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