Measuring Activated Clotting Time during Cardiac Catheterization and PCI: The Effect of the Sampling Site by J. C Heemelaar, T. Berkhout, A. A. C. M. Heestermans, J. C. Zant, A. M. J. de Vos, N. J. W. Verouden, M. T. Dirksen, J. van Ramshorst

“…Activated clotting time (ACT) has been used for decades in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology to assess unfractionated heparin activity. However, standardized protocols for the use of ACT measurement in the catheterization laboratory are lacking. …”
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Teeth macroabrasion for determination of dental age and diet in the Illyrian population from the Kopila necropolis on the Island of Korčula, Croatia by Marina Marić, Dinko Radić, Jelena Dumančić, Marin Vodanović, Minja Birimiša, Davorka Radovčić, Hrvoje Brkić

“…Further studies should include more accurate and standardized methods for assessing the condition.…”
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Effects of prenatal exercise interventions on maternal body composition: A secondary analysis of the FitMum randomized controlled trial. by Caroline Borup Roland, Parisa Seyedhosseini, Signe de Place Knudsen, Anne Dsane Jessen, Ida Karoline Bach Jensen, Jane M Bendix, Gerrit van Hall, Stig Molsted, Saud Abdulaziz Alomairah, Ellen Løkkegaard, Bente Stallknecht, Tine D Clausen

“…They were randomized to structured supervised exercise training, motivational counselling on PA, or standard care. Maternal body composition was measured by doubly labeled water at 28 weeks gestation (n = 134) and by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan 7-14 days after delivery (n = 117). …”
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Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: An H3Africa AWI-Gen study. by Engelbert A Nonterah, Godfred Agongo, Nigel J Crowther, Shukri F Mohamed, Lisa K Micklesfield, Palwendé Romuald Boua, Alisha N Wade, Solomon S R Choma, Hermann Sorgho, Isaac Kissiangani, Gershim Asiki, Patrick Ansah, Abraham R Oduro, Shane A Norris, Stephen M Tollman, Frederick J Raal, Marianne Alberts, Michele Ramsay, as members of AWI-Gen and the H3Africa Consortium

“…Southern and Eastern African sites recorded higher age-standardized prevalence of five lipid fractions then West African sites. …”
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Evaluation of Spray Drift from an Electric Boom Sprayer: Impact of Boom Height and Nozzle Type by Xiaoyong Pan, Shuo Yang, Yuanyuan Gao, Zhichong Wang, Changyuan Zhai, Wei Qiu

“…This study investigated two key factors influencing drift: boom height and nozzle type. The standard LI CHENG VP11003 nozzle was compared to the Teejet XR11003 nozzle, and droplet size and velocity were measured at various boom heights. …”
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Improved Zika virus plaque assay using Vero/TMPRSS2 cell line by Olukunle O. Oluwasemowo, Monica E. Graham, Deepa K. Murugesh, Monica K. Borucki

“…ABSTRACT Plaque assay is the gold standard for the quantification of viable cytopathic viruses like Zika virus (ZIKV). …”
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Arsitektur Sistem Percakapan Otomatis Berbahasa Indonesia dengan Normalisasi Bahasa Informal Menjadi Baku by Muhammad Fathur Rahman Khairul, Rizal Setya Perdana

“…Therefore, the authors propose an approach to enable machines to understand informal language by normalizing the informal language to standard by utilizing NLP. The approach will train a pre-trained GPT-2 model in Indonesian with parallel corpus data to understand the meaning of informal language and be able to translate it into standardized form. …”
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Controversies in the Application of AI in Radiology—Is There Medico-Legal Support? Aspects from Romanian Practice by Ana-Maria Ungureanu, Sergiu-Ciprian Matei, Daniel Malita

“…Considering the evolution of technology in the Romanian medical system, including radiology, in the future, an alignment with the legal standards established/proposed at the European level is desired.…”
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Diabetes Education Program for Nursing Students: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Jeong‐Ah Ahn, Eun‐Mi Kim, Jung Eun Lee, Kyoung‐A Kim

“…In meta‐analyses, technology‐based teaching interventions, compared to traditional education, showed no statistically significant improvement in diabetes knowledge (standard mean difference 9.52, 95% CI [−0.18, 19.21], p = 0.05) and self‐efficacy (standard mean difference 24.09, 95% CI [−10.75, 58.92], p = 0.18). …”
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Design, Implementation and Environmental Impact of Cutoff Wall for Pollution Control in an Industrial Legacy Site by Lu Yu, Sichen Chen, Jinnan Wang, Zhihong Zhang, Yan Huang

“…All pollutant indicators, including for Pb and PCB complex pollutants, were reduced to below the national Grade IV groundwater standard value, achieving environmental standards at these polluted sites and providing possibilities for land reuse. …”
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Yield performance and stability of modern breeding stock of spring durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) from Russia and Kazakhstan by P. N. Mal’chikov, M. A. Rozova, A. I. Morgunov, M. G. Myasnikova, Yu. I. Zelensky

“…Thus, 42 modern breeding lines from eight institutions of Russia and Kazakhstan were studied in comparison with the historical standard Bezenchukskaya 139 in trails of 16-17 and 18 KASIB-SDW (Kazakhstan-Siberian net for wheat improvement, spring durum wheat) in 2015–2017. …”
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Effects of <i>Bifidobacterium longum longum</i> 35624® on the Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Results of the Multicenter Observational Progr... by V. T. Ivashkin, E. A. Poluektova, Z. A. Mamieva

“…After the course of standard-of-care treatment and add-on therapy with Symbiosys Alflorex, 25.8 % of patients achieved clinical remission. …”
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PRECISION AND STABILITY OF THE PREDICTION FORMULA FOR BURST STRENGTH OF PRESSURE-BEARING CYLINDER by LIU Cen, YANG Fan, WU SengLin, HONG Kai, ZHANG Shu, LIU XiaoNing

“…The applied range of the Tresca formula for measured burst pressure specified by the standard,it can be extended from between 91. 0 MPa and 300 MPa to no more than329. 6 MPa,the stability of the Tresca formula is obviously improved and the precision is not reduced. …”
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Bacterial isolates and drug susceptibility patterns in infected lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients at ALERT hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Gizealew Ayalew, Asegedech Asmamaw, Mistire Wolde, Regasa Diriba, Biruk Zerfu

“…A purposive cross-sectional study was conducted among CL patients attending the ALERT hospital from January 2021 to June 2021. Standardized questionnaires were used to collect socio-demographic and clinical data. …”
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Performance of deep learning models in predicting the nugent score to diagnose bacterial vaginosis by Naoki Watanabe, Tomohisa Watari, Kenji Akamatsu, Isao Miyatsuka, Yoshihito Otsuka

“…The Nugent score is a standard method for diagnosing bacterial vaginosis and is based on the manual interpretation of Gram-stained vaginal smears. …”
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Realist review protocol for understanding the real-world barriers and enablers to practitioners implementing self-management support to people living with and beyond cancer by Debi Bhattacharya, Eleni Karapanagiotou, Kumud Kantilal, Wendy Hardeman, Hattie Whiteside, Matthew Small

“…The results will be reported according to the Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards quality and publication standards.Ethics and dissemination We have received ethical approval through the Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia (ref 2 01 819-124). …”
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Stomach cancer epidemic in Chinese mainland: Current trends and future predictions by Wenxuan Zhu, Wanyue Dong, Yunning Liu, Ruhai Bai, Jinjiao Li

“…It is expected that the age-standardized incidence will increase among men and decrease among women, and age-standardized mortality will decrease for both sexes. …”
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Pozzolanic reaction, basic properties, carbon reduction and visualisation of kerbstone prepared from recycled concrete by Chao-qiang Wang, Yan Ying, Sheng-hui Gao, Jian-shan Huang, Meng-sheng Shao

“…The optimized fully RCK demonstrate excellent compressive strength and frost resistance, meeting the relevant requirements of the ''Concrete kerbs'' (JC/T899–2016) and ''Standard for test methods of long-term performance and durability of ordinary concrete'' (BT 50082–2009). …”
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Blockchain-Driven Optimized Chaotic Encryption Scheme for Medical Image Transmission in IoT-Edge Environment by Goli Archana, Rajeev Goyal, K. M. V. Madan Kumar

“…The evaluation metrics like as NACI, UACI, Entropy and standard verification methods such as NIST standard tests are deployed and analyzed. …”
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THE EDUCATION AND SOCIALIZATION CONCEPT OF THE DEFENDANTS IN RUSSIAN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS by Vyacheslav T. Volov, Vsevolod V. Volov

“…Long stay in such position often leads to destruction of the person’s standard-valuable sphere and recidivism of asocial behaviour. …”
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