Strategic dental practice aanagement: a comprehensive SWOT analysis (part I: internal factors) by Alessandro Quaranta, Wang Lai Hui

“…This article provides actionable steps for dental professionals to leverage their internal capabilities, optimize performance, and achieve enduring practice success.…”
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Dynamic Circuit Specialisation for Key-Based Encryption Algorithms and DNA Alignment by Tom Davidson, Fatma Abouelella, Karel Bruneel, Dirk Stroobandt

“…In addition, we discuss a run-time reconfigurable DNA aligner. We focus on the optimizations to the dynamic specialization overhead. …”
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Study on Quality Decisions in Supply Chain considering the Lagged Time and Retailers Competition by Yuan Peng, Liang Ning

“…The results indicate that the optimal goodwill and quality are higher under centralized decision-making than under decentralized decision-making; however, whether or not the profit of the entire supply chain is higher under centralized decision-making depends on the span of the lagged time. …”
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A Geostatistical Investigation into the Effective Spatiotemporal Coverage of Road Weather Information Systems in Alberta, Canada by Xu Wang, Lian Gu, Tae J. Kwon, Tony Z. Qiu

“…The findings of this research offer insight for constructing a detailed spatiotemporal RWIS database to manage and deploy different types of RWISs, optimize winter road maintenance resources, and provide timely information on inclement road weather conditions for the traveling public.…”
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The Potential of Graphene as an Adsorbent for Five Pesticides from Different Classes in Rape Oil Samples Using Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction by Katarzyna Madej, Katarzyna Janiga, Wojciech Piekoszewski

“…The compounds of interest were separated and detected by an HPLC-UV employing a Kinetex XB-C18 column and a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile and water flowing in a gradient mode. The optimized extraction conditions were: the amount of graphene 15 mg, desorbing solvent (acetonitrile) 5 mL, time desorption 10 min at 40°C, and amount of NaCl 1 g. …”
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Significance of Algal Polymer in Designing Amphotericin B Nanoparticles by Saurabh Bhatia, Vikash Kumar, Kiran Sharma, Kalpana Nagpal, Tanmoy Bera

“…In vivo and in vitro antifungal activity demonstrated the high antifungal potential of optimized formulation when compared with standard drug and marketed formulations. …”
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A Single-Reactor System for Simultaneous Pretreatment and Fermentation of POME for Bioethanol Production by Nibedita Deb, Tawfkur Rahman, Md. Zahangir Alam, Md. Shohidullah Miah, Reashad Kamal

“…The pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis methods were successfully optimized, resulting in a maximum yield of reducing sugars of 26.6 g/L (53.14%). …”
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Copper Tolerance of <i>Trichoderma koningii</i> Tk10 by Kehe Fu, Lili Fan, Jiaming Ji, Xiayu Qiu

“…To investigate copper tolerance in fungi, a copper-tolerant strain was isolated from soil and identified as <i>Trichoderma koningii</i> Tk10, with optimized culture conditions being established. Additionally, copper-related genes were analyzed through whole-genome sequencing. …”
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Approaches to the application of the analytic hierarchy process in order to make a decision by the head of the border control unit by M. N. Sorokin, D. S. Rabenka

“…In order to achieve the best results, substantiate the proposal of all possible optimal indicators of factors that directly affect the protection of the state border, a categorical selection of experts in the direction of protecting the state border at the border crossing point has been established.…”
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Physiological analysis of cognitive load variations during complex information processing by Allan Armougum, Alexandre Gaston-Bellegarde, Chantal Joie-La Marle, Pascale Piolino

“…Abstract Information processing in complex contexts generates higher cognitive demand than in optimal contexts. Though information processing is cognitively less demanding in experts, due to their high level of prior knowledge and considerable number of schemas, a rise in the information complexity in non-optimal context could generate an expertise reversal effect. …”
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Enhancing Transient Stability of DFIG-Based Wind Turbine Systems Using Deep Learning-Controlled Resistance-Based Fault Current Limiters by Yaoying Wang

“…As wind energy demand rises, optimizing system performance is vital. Many wind turbines rely on DFIGs, necessitating robust fault ride-through. …”
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Enhancing Image-Based JPEG Compression: ML-Driven Quantization via DCT Feature Clustering by Shahrzad Sabzavi, Reza Ghaderi

“…These features are then clustered, and optimized quantization tables for each cluster center are generated using a genetic algorithm. …”
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Differential Effects of Dopaminergic Therapies on Dorsal and Ventral Striatum in Parkinson's Disease: Implications for Cognitive Function by Penny A. MacDonald, Oury Monchi

“…This paper highlights the fact that currently, titration of therapy in PD is geared to optimizing dorsal striatum-mediated motor symptoms, at the expense of ventral striatum operations. …”
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Triceps Tendon Avulsion in a Soldier: A Case Report by Rita Chorba, Collin Hu, Jess Feldtmann

“… # Conclusion MSK US can assist in the diagnosis of challenging triceps tendon injuries, facilitating timely advanced imaging and orthopedic referrals for high-grade injuries to optimize patient outcomes. # Level of Evidence 5…”
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Making respiratory care safe for neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit staff: Mitigation strategies and use of filters by Bradley G Carter, Edward Harcourt, Alexandra Harris, Michael Zampetti, Trevor Duke, David Tingay

“… # Approach We report the general, novel approach we have taken to identify and mitigate these risks and to protect HCWs, visitors and patients from exposure while maintaining the optimal performance of such respiratory equipment.…”
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Extracting organs of interest from medical images based on convolutional neural network with auxiliary and refined constraints by Fenghui Lian, Yingjie Sun, Meiyu Li

“…To this end, we design auxiliary and refined constraints to optimize the energy function by supplying additional guidance in training procedure, thus promoting model’s ability to capture information. …”
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Explainable Machine Learning-Based Prediction Model for Diabetic Nephropathy by Jing-Mei Yin, Yang Li, Jun-Tang Xue, Guo-Wei Zong, Zhong-Ze Fang, Lang Zou

“…We quantify feature importance and interaction effects in the optimal predictive model by Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) method. …”
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Virtual Power Plant and Multi-prosumer Hybrid Game Strategy Based on Energy Sharing by QI Lei, GAO Yang, AI Qian

“…Considering the uncertainty of new internal energy sources，an optimal dispatch is conducted based on distributed robust opportunity constraints. …”
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Self-Isolated Surface-Mountable MIMO Antenna for FR1 Band Communications by Arpita Patel, Abdulkarem H. M. Almawgani, Trushit Upadhyaya, Vishal Sorathia, Vipul Dabhi, Seif Shebl

“…It aids further in achieving optimal MIMO diversity parameters. The 2D electrical size of the presented self-isolated planar antenna is 0.97λ × 0.65λ at the lowest resonance. …”
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Positive-Sum Game-Based Capacity Configuration Planning Method of Solar-Wind-Battery System Designed for Black-Start by Hejun Yang, Zhibo Liu, Yinghao Ma

“…Third, the simulation analysis is carried out by using a real power system, and results verify that the proposed method can achieve the optimal balance between the feasibility of black-start and the economic benefit of the SWBS.…”
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