Performance of the WHO 2011 TB Symptom Screening Algorithm for Pulmonary TB Diagnosis among HIV-Infected Patients in Gondar University Referral Hospital, Ethiopia by Martha Alemayehu Menberu

“…Statistical data analysis was performed using SPSS Version 20.0 software. Of 250 study participants, fever was reported in 169 (67.6%), whereas cough and night sweats were reported in 167 (66.8%) and 152 (60.8%), respectively. …”
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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mohsen Kazeminia, Nader Salari, Masoud Mohammadi

“…The data collected from the extracted studies were analyzed using a comprehensive meta-analysis (Version 2) software. Results. The prevalence of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 DM in Iran in 17 studies with a sample size of 9656 was 37.4% (95% CI: 31.4-43.8). …”
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Energy efficiency of a house in Mediterranean region: insulation and glazing impact by Salaheddine Jaouaf, Bourassia Bensaad, Abdelhakim Dorbane

“…This study evaluated the effectiveness of insulation materials, which are expanded polystyrene, glass wool, rock wool, and wood fiber of varying thicknesses, and glazing in the Algerian market. The TRNSYS 17 software is used to simulate the building's behavior. …”
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Crack Initiation Behaviors of Granite Specimens Containing Crossing-Double-Flaws with Different Lengths under Uniaxial Loading by Haiyang Pan, Dawei Yin, Ning Jiang, Zhiguo Xia

“…In this paper, crack initiation behaviors (crack initiation model, crack initiation location, crack initiation angle, and crack initiation stress) of granite specimens containing crossing-double-flaws with different lengths were investigated using PFC2D software. Crack initiation models were all tensile wing cracks, which did not exactly initiate from the main flaw with a length of 30 mm. …”
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Proof of storage with corruption identification and recovery for dynamic group users by Tao JIANG, Hang XU, Liangmin WANG, Jianfeng MA

“…The outsourced storage mode of cloud computing leads to the separation of data ownership and management rights of data owners, which changes the data storage network model and security model.To effectively deal with the software and hardware failures of the cloud server and the potential dishonest service provider and also ensure the availability of the data owners’ data, the design of secure and efficient data availability and recoverability auditing scheme has both theoretical and practical importance in solving the concern of users and ensuring the security of cloud data.However, most of the existing studies were designed for the security and efficiency of data integrity or recoverability schemes, without considering the fast identification and reliable recovery of damaged data under dynamic group users.Thus, to quickly identify and recover damaged data, a publicly verifiable proof of storage scheme was proposed for dynamic group cloud users.The designed scheme enabled a trusted third-party auditor to efficiently identify the damaged files through a challenge-response protocol and allowed the cloud storage server to effectively recover them when the degree of data damage is less than an error correction ability threshold.The scheme combined association calculation and accumulation calculation, which effectively reduced the number of calculations for the identification of damaged data.By combining erasure coding and shared coding technology, the scheme achieved effective recovery of damaged data of dynamic group users.At the same time, the scheme also supported dynamic user revocation, which ensured the integrity audit and reliable recovery of the collective data after user revocation.The network model and threat model of the designed scheme were defined and the security of the scheme under the corresponding security model was proved.Through the prototype implementation of the scheme in the real environment and the modular performance analysis, it is proved that the proposed scheme can effectively identify the damaged data and reliably recover the cloud data when the data is damaged.Besides, compared with other schemes, it is also proved that the proposed scheme has less computational overhead in identifying and recovering damaged data.…”
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Finite element modelling and indirect tensile strength of SBS and CR modified asphalt mixtures by Mohammad Fahad, Richard Nagy

“…A 2D finite element software, ABAQUS has been used to perform microstrain analysis for each mixture type. …”
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Methodology for risk assessment of multi-event scenarios on radioactive waste repository by Karyoung Choi, Minseok Kim, Kibeom Son, Gyunyoung Heo

“…The methodology and algorithm of simulating multiple earthquakes and assessing risk distribution under those events at repository site is introduced in GoldSim software, and its results are expected to be used at simulating other event scenarios.…”
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Efficacy of Philosophy Training for Children on the Social Responsibility and Ethical Intelligence of 9-12-Year-Old Children by Zeinab Ghdiri Bidhendi, Seyyed Mahmoud Mirzamani Bafghi

“…The collected data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA and Bonferroni test via SPSS23 software. The results showed that the instruction of children in philosophy has a significant effect on social responsibility (F=36.30, Eta-0.55, P<0.001) and ethical intelligence (F=55, Eta=0.64, P<0.001). …”
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Vertical and Horizontal Proportions of the Face and their Correlation to Phi in a South Indian Population by Crystal R. Soans, Karishma A. Mathew, M. Subramanya Ravi, K. Gauthami, Shalin Shersha

“…Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 software was used for making all the measurements. …”
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Studies of the influence of the number of storeys of reinforced concrete frames on the degradation of natural frequencies and character of earthquake damage by O. V. Mkrtychev, R. A. Zaitsev

“…The objectives of this work are to study the influence of degradation of the frequency parameters of reinforced concrete buildings under the action of seismic loading and to evaluate the nature of destruction depending on the number of storeys of the building itself, using numerical experiments in the LS-DYNA software package. To obtain natural frequencies and forms at certain times in a problem solved by an explicit integration scheme, solutions are sought using an implicit scheme.Materials and methods. …”
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Autonomous Quadcopter Image Processing for Simulated Search and Rescue Flights by Budi Hartono, Muhammad Rizki Zuhri, Citra Asti Rosalia, Nofrijal Fauzan

“…Autonomous quadcopter operation includes takeoff and navigation between waypoints determined by Mission Planner software. On the way to the second waypoint, a camera-based image processing system scans the ground surface. …”
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Health and Economic Impact Estimation of Ambient Air Particulate Matter (PM) Pollution in Addis Ababa Using BenMAP-CE Model by Mulugeta Getachew, Andualem Mekonnen, Desta Fitsum

“…This thesis used the Environmental benefits mapping and analysis program-community edition (BenMAP-CE) software tool to estimate health and economic impact of ambient air PM 2.5 pollution. …”
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Machine Learning Classification Techniques for Detecting the Impact of Human Resources Outcomes on Commercial Banks Performance by Sulaiman O. Atiku, Ibidun C. Obagbuwa

“…In this study, eight different machine learning algorithms were employed to build performance models to predict the prospective performance of commercial banks in Nigeria based on human resources outcomes (employee skills, attitude, and behavior) through the Python software tool with machine learning libraries and packages. …”
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Investigating the quality of Karst water resources: A case study on Fars Namdan plain by Mohammadsadegh Talebi

“…In this research, quantitative and qualitative parameters are identified, and then, with ArcGIS software, maps are prepared and their location is examined and analyzed. …”
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A New Method for Fault Detection and Location in a Low-Resistance Grounded Power Distribution Network Using Voltage Phasor of D-PMUs Data by Masoud Najafzadeh, Jaber Pouladi, Ali Daghigh, Jamal Beiza, Sima Shahmohamadi

“…In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms, a 9-bus system is defined by MATLAB software and also defining different line lengths and line characteristics in different buses. …”
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Age- and sex-related changes in the position of the mental foramina and age estimation methods that use these changes by Masataka Kawamoto, Hiroki Kondou, Hiroaki Ichioka, Satoko Kimura, Risa Bandou, Ryota Matsunari, Ting Deng, Hiroshi Ikegaya

“…Among 200 cases (age 21–100 years; 400 foramina) that underwent postmortem computed tomography, 109 (age 21–93 years; 218 foramina) with mandibular first and second premolars were examined using image analysis software to classify the position of the mental foramen according to Fishel’s classification, and the χ² test was performed. …”
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Geometric properties of quantum entanglement and machine learning by S. V. Zuev

“…Free online optimization learning process allows it to be applied in data streaming, that is, adapting to changes in the environment. The developed software does not require quantum computers and can be used in the development of artificial intelligence systems in Python as imported modules.…”
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An Efficient Text-Mining Framework of Automatic Essay Grading Using Discourse Macrostructural and Statistical Lexical Features by Husam M. Alawadh, Talha Meraj, Lama Aldosari, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

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Genetic Diversity of Imipenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infections at an Intensive Care Unit by Amani Alnimr, Aisha Alamri, Afnan Alsultan

“…The patterns were analysed by the software of BioNumerics package version 7.6.3 (Applied Maths, Belgium). …”
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The Effects of Precrack Angle on the Strength and Failure Characteristics of Sandstone under Uniaxial Compression by Shuai Zhang, Jinhai Xu, Liang Chen, Hideki Shimada, Mingwei Zhang, Haiyang He

“…To this end, two sandstone specimens, distinguished with a single and three precracks, were built using the PFC software. For the former case, both the peak strength and elastic modulus increase to a peak value as the crack angle α gets closer to the forcing (loading) direction. …”
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