The Effect of Difference In Press Time on Physical Properties and Mechanical Particle Board Without Adhesive From Coconut Fiber and Gambier Processed Pulp by Sahadi Sahadi, Neswati Neswati, Ananda Agung Perkasa

“…The method used in this study was a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 3 replications. …”
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Associations of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake with Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women by Margaret Harris, Vanessa Farrell, Linda Houtkooper, Scott Going, Timothy Lohman

“…A secondary analysis of cross-sectional data was analyzed from 6 cohorts (Fall 1995–Fall 1997) of postmenopausal women (n=266; 56.6±4.7 years) participating in the Bone Estrogen Strength Training (BEST) study (a 12-month, block-randomized, clinical trial). Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured at femur neck and trochanter, lumbar spine (L2–L4), and total body BMD using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). …”
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Mediterranean Diet and Metabolic Syndrome by Josipa Radić, Marijana Vučković, Andrej Belančić, Hana Đogaš, Mislav Radić

“…MeDi, emphasizing the consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and olive oil, has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and improved glucoregulation. A randomized controlled trial showed that a low-carb MeDi resulted in a 30% lower relative risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to a low-fat diet. …”
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AMMI and GGE biplot analyses of genotype-environment interaction in spring barley lines by P. N. Solonechnyi

“…The experimental layout was randomized complete block design with four replications. …”
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An Educational Intervention on Situational Awareness and Understanding of Menstrual Hygiene, Knowledge, Taboo, and Its Practices among School-going Adolescent Girls in Rural Areas... by Nagma Khan, Arati Mahishale

“…Materials and Methods: Four eighty-four adolescent girls aged between 12 and 19 years were randomly assigned into the intervention group (IG group) and control group (CG group) (n = 242 per group). …”
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Prevalence, Associated Risk Factors, and Identification of the Genera of Equine Strongyles in Horses and Donkeys in and Around Bishoftu, Ethiopia by Asnakew Mulaw Berihun, Feyisa Bizu, Moges Maru, Seid Kassaw

“…A total of 364 equines were randomly selected from five different areas and subjected to coprological examination using the floatation technique to detect strongyle-type eggs. …”
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Low-Frequency Admittance of Capacitor with Working Substance “Insulator–Partially Disordered Semiconductor– Insulator” by N. A. Poklonski, I. I. Anikeev, S. A. Vyrko

“…The partially disordered semiconductor of the working substance of the capacitor can be, for example, a highly defective crystalline silicon containing point t-defects randomly (Poissonian) distributed over the crystal in charge states (−1), (0), and (+1), between which single electrons migrate in a hopping manner. …”
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Antihyperlipidemic Effects of Sesamum indicum L. in Rabbits Fed a High-Fat Diet by Sedigheh Asgary, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Somayeh Najafi, Esfandiar Heidarian, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…The present study aimed to investigate the anti-hyperlipidemic effects of sesame in a high-fat fed rabbit model. Animals were randomly divided into four groups of eight animals each for 60 days as follows: normal diet, hypercholesterolemic diet (1% cholesterol), hypercholesterolemic diet (1% cholesterol) + sesame seed (10%), and hypercholesterolemic diet (1% cholesterol) + sesame oil (5%). …”
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Propagation of Theobroma cacao by Rooted Cuttings in Mini-Tunnels by Lucía Melissa Vásquez Zamora, Sofía Rengifo-Del Aguila, Juan Carlos Guerrero Abad, Geomar Vallejos Torres, Sixto Alfredo Imán Correa, Elías Torres Flores, Francisco Mesén Sequeira, Mike Anderson Corazon Guivin

“…The experiment was carried out under a completely randomized design (CRD). Cuttings 5 to 7 cm long were collected from the middle area of cacao tree crowns and treated with doses of 0, 1000, 2000, and 3000 ppm of IBA; then they were placed in Jiffy© pellets and set to root in plastic-covered mini-tunnels with fog irrigation. …”
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Olfactory Stimulation with Japanese Soy Sauce Improves Upper Limb Performance by Yutaka Yano, Yoshihiro Murata, Mutsuo Taniguchi, Fumino Okutani, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Hideto Kaba

“…The subjects were 72 healthy adults, randomly assigned to a water exposure group, a phenylethyl alcohol (PEA, pleasant rose-like odor) exposure group, and a Japanese soy sauce (Koikuchi Shoyu) exposure group (n=24 each). …”
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Antagonism of Endophytic Bacteria and the Consortium Against Culvularia oryzae Bugnic by Zurai Resti, Martinius Martinius, Yenny Liswarni

“…The study used a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) for studying the ability of endophytic bacteria using eight isolates: Bacillus sp HI, Bacillus sp SJI, B. cereus P14, B. cereus Se07, Serratia marcescens strain JB1E2, S. marces-cens strain JB3, S. marcescens strain ULG1E2 and S. marcescens strain ULG1E4, with three replications. …”
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Converting the Functional Independence Measures (FIM)-motor Scores to Modified Barthel Index (MBI) Scores —A Data Mining Approach by WONG Lik-hang Gary, WONG Kam-man Simon, NG Hin-Po Bobby

“…Data mining procedures, which involved the following steps: a) selection of appropriate samples, b) pre-processing of the dataset, c) transformation of the dataset, d) analyzing the data patterns, e) deriving the conversion based on "rank-invariant statistical method", and, f) verifying the conversion method — were adopted for data analysis.ResultsSix thousand five hundred and seventy-four cases, which were verified as "error-free", were randomly allocated into two compatible subsets. Using the data from subset (A), we substantiated that all the total scores and every corresponding paired item scores between the MBI and the FIM-motor were highly correlated (i.e. …”
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Prediction of Survival Outcomes in Patients with Glioma Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mingfang Hu, Jinge Li, Zhangyu Li, Jian Shen

“…Methods: Review of the literature included the following databases: WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform; Google Scholar; Web of Science; PubMed; SIGLE; NYAM; Scopus; Randomized controlled trial (RCT); Virtual Health Library (VHL); Cochrane Collaboration; EMBASE; and Clinical Trials. …”
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Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping using NBR Index and Frequency Ratio Model by Farzad Bolouk Heidari, Ramin Arfania

“…The wildfire events distribution maps were randomly divided into 70 and 30 percent ratios for training (modeling) and testing (validation) data, respectively. …”
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Quality of Gluten Free Bread with the Addition of Xanthan Gum and Different Kneading Methods by Siti Chairiyah Batubara, Nur Hanifah Muliyana

“…The design uses a fully randomized factorial design (RALF) with two factors, namely xanthan gum concentration and different mixing methods with three replicates. …”
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Investigation of Arsenic-Stressed Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a Bioassay in Homeopathic Basic Research by Tim Jäger, Claudia Scherr, Ursula Wolf, Meinhard Simon, Peter Heusser, Stephan Baumgartner

“…All experiments were randomized and blinded. Yeast grew in microplates over a period of 38 h in either potentized substances or water controls with 250 mg/l arsenic(V) added over the entire cultivation period. …”
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Mydriatic efficacy of topical phenylephrine and tropicamide combination vs tropicamide in screening for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) – An RCT by Camina Andrews, Shubashree Karat, Winston Padua, Saudamini V Nesargi, Suneetha Nithyanandam, Shalini Butola

“…Methods: Preterm neonates due for ROP screening were randomized to one of the two groups. One drop was instilled in the eye thrice every 15 mins. …”
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LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE OF CORE CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS TO ETHICAL STANDARDS IN NIGERIA by B.A Adeyinka, G.O. Jagboro, G.K. Ojo, S.J. Odediran

“…A total of one hundred and seventy (170) questionnaire were randomly administered on the professionals and one hundred and thirty eight (138) were retrieved representing 81.18% response rate. …”
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Nomogram for Predicting the Relationship between the Extent of Visceral Pleural Invasion and Survival in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Fan Wang, Pei Li, Fengsen Li

“…Patients in the SEER database diagnosed with NSCLC (n = 87,045) from 2010 to 2015 were further analyzed and randomly assigned into either the training group (n = 60,933) or validation group (n = 26,112). …”
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Evaluation of Phytosterols as an Alternative to Cholesterol in Practical Diets on Growth and Nonspecific Immunity of Litopenaeus vannamei by Yongkang Chen, Zhongchao Pan, Xiaoyue Li, Xinzhou Yao, Guilun He, Shiwei Xie

“…A total of 750 healthy and uniform-sized shrimp (0.52±0.008 g) were randomly distributed into 5 groups with 3 replicates and fed with the five experimental diets for 60 days. …”
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