Investigation of potential Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with a local foodborne outbreak using multidisciplinary approaches by Kristen A. Lozinak, Niketa Jani, Jayanthi Gangiredla, Isha Patel, Christopher A. Elkins, Zonglin Hu, Prince A. Kassim, Robert A. Myers, Pongpan Laksanalamai

“…In this study, we have used standard culture based methods and advanced molecular approaches to characterize E. coli in food in a local outbreak investigation. …”
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HPLC Method Development and Validation for Simultaneous Analysis of Diclofenac Sodium and Rabeprazole Sodium by A. A. Heda, D. D. Gadade, J. M. Kathiriya, P. K. Puranik

“…A stable, simple, rapid, precise, accurate RP-HPLC method for simultaneous analysis of diclofenac sodium and rabeprazole sodium was developed and validated as per ICH guidelines without need of any internal standard. Separation was carried out using C8 column with triethyl amine buffer (pH 5): acetonitrile (50:50 v/v) as mobile phase with flow rate 2 mL min-1. …”
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An Evaluation of the Security Ability of the Basic Endowment Insurance System for China’s Urban and Rural Residents by Bing Liu, Yuhong He, Zhi Liu

“…In this paper, security ability refers to the standard of evaluation that is used to measure the implementation performance of the basic endowment insurance system for China’s urban and rural residents (EIUR). …”
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Management of a Complex Supracondylar Periprosthetic Femur Fracture with Intramedullary Strut Allograft and Bilateral Locking Plates by Rita Moukarzel, Dany Aouad, Mohammad Daher, Wendy Ghanem, Hady Ezzeddine, George El Rassi

“…The primary aim of this report is to provide insight into this novel technique as a successful alternative to other standard surgical options.…”
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Measurement of Quality of Life VII. Statistical Covariation and Global Quality of Life Data: The Method of Weight-Modified Linear Regression by Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…Existing standard statistical procedures do not seem to fulfill the needs of the researcher in global quality-of-life (QOL) research, because the most interesting question seems to be the exact size of statistical covariations. …”
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Fatigue life assessment for a welded detail: advantages of a local energetic approach and experimental validation by Filippo Berto, Luigi Mario Viespoli, Aurelio Soma

“…Some of them are part of norms and standards which any design engineer must respect. The aim of the present work is to compare the results provided by some of the principal fatigue life assessment procedures for welded joints, focusing the attention on the stress intensity factor evaluation by the use of numerical methods. …”
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The Use of a Novel Heart Failure Agent in the Treatment of Pregnancy-Associated Cardiomyopathy by Vamsi C. Gaddipati, Aarti A. Patel, Adam J. Cohen

“…Its etiology is presently unknown, but current standard of care involves the use of typical drug therapy for the treatment of heart failure. …”
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The Effect of Gaussian Blurring on the Extraction of Peaks and Pits from Digital Elevation Models by A. Pathmanabhan, S. Dinesh

“…Gaussian blurring is then implemented on the global digital elevation model (GTOPO30) of Great Basin using Gaussian kernels of different sizes and standard deviation values. The number of peaks and pits extracted from the resultant DEMs is computed using connected component labeling and the results are compared. …”
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Castleman's Disease: A Case Report of the Unicentric Type by J. Gomez-Ramirez, M. Posada, L. Sanchez-Urdazpal, E. Martin-Perez, L. Del Campo, I. Garcia, J. L. Martin, E. Larrañaga

“…Preoperative diagnosis of hyaline-vascular Castleman's disease is difficult, and the definitive result is based on postoperative pathological findings. The gold standard therapy is the complete surgical excision.…”
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Grade Point Average System of Assessment: the Implementation Peculiarities in Russia by B. A. Sazonov

“…The author summarizes the foreign experience and demonstrates the advantages of the GPA system in comparison with the traditional domestic scale of assessment: full records of student’s assessment, objectivity, activation of responsibility for the results achieved, and self-control motivation. The standard GPA model is demonstrated, its application systemizing both the Russian and European requirements to the higher school graduates. …”
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DESIGN AND THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES STUDY OF A SWING-STYLE OFFICE LOUNGE CHAIR by ZHANG DongDong, QIN BaoRong, WANG ZhengXing, LIU Lei, XIANG BingLe, ZHOU Hui

“…According to the testing standard of ANSI / BIFMA,static structure analysis and transient structure analysis was done under the environment of ANSYS Workbench. …”
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Management of Transplant Renal Artery Pseudoaneurysm and Literature Review by Luke Anders, Rachel Stephens, Melissa Laub, Rushay Amarath-Madav, Ahmad Mirza, Muhammad Irfan Saeed

“…Allograft removal is considered standard treatment, but new endovascular alternatives may allow allograft salvage. …”
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Uniaxial Compression Mechanical Analysis of Cylindrical Rock Specimens Based on Space Axisymmetric Problem by Jianguang Li, Yanchun Wang, Chuanqi Su

“…The common failure forms in the uniaxial compression test of standard cylindrical rock specimens are symmetric cone failure and splitting failure. …”
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Semi-random and semi-algebraic structural design for IRA-LDPC codes by Li PENG, Qi ZHANG, Bo WANG, Tao CHEN

“…A method of semi-random and semi-algebraic structure was presented for constructing the low-density parity-check matrix that corresponds to the information bits of the IRA codes.Compared with the existing structural LDPC codes,the distinct advantage of the presented compact structural array for information-bit-corresponding matrix is that the position coordinate of each 1 element in this matrix can be calculated by a determinate algebraic expression,which not only reduces the consumption of memory resource for the random parity-check matrix,but also provides the potential probability for designing low complexity hardware circuit of the LDPC encoder/decoder.In addition,compared with the existing practical LDPC codes in industrial standard,the presented IRA-LDPC code is also slight preponderance in the performance of simulation in bit error rate and signal noise ratio (BER-SNB).…”
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Eigenvalue of Fractional Differential Equations with p-Laplacian Operator by Wenquan Wu, Xiangbing Zhou

“…We investigate the existence of positive solutions for the fractional order eigenvalue problem with p-Laplacian operator -𝒟tβ(φp(𝒟tαx))(t)=λf(t,x(t)),  t∈(0,1),  x(0)=0,  𝒟tαx(0)=0,  𝒟tγx(1)=∑j=1m-2‍aj𝒟tγx(ξj), where 𝒟tβ,  𝒟tα,  𝒟tγ are the standard Riemann-Liouville derivatives and p-Laplacian operator is defined as φp(s)=|s|p-2s,  p>1.f:(0,1)×(0,+∞)→[0,+∞) is continuous and f can be singular at t=0,1 and x=0. …”
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Improved Image Compression Scheme Using Hybrid Encoding Algorithm by Yusra Ahmed Salih, Aree Ali Mohammed, Loay Edwar George

“…The sample test images are taken from both standard image database and high-quality images (SD and HD). …”
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Small neutrino masses from a decoupled singlet scalar field by Jongkuk Kim, Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Rojalin Padhan

“…We propose a unified solution with Z4 discrete symmetry for small neutrino masses and stability of dark matter. The Standard Model is extended with an inert doublet scalar, a dark singlet scalar, a spurion scalar and right-handed neutrinos, which all transform nontrivially under Z4. …”
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Symbol timing recovery algorithm based on ordered statistic of maximum mean power timing for WBAN by HIYu C, HENLan C, VChao L

“…The symbol timing algorithm based on maximum mean power timing is independent of carrier phase offset,and has the property of capturing timing information fast,which meets the demand of wireless body area networks (WBAN).According to IEEE 802.15.6 standard,the ordered statistic of maximum mean power timing was used to reduce the computational complexity in the symbol timing process.The theoretical analysis and simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm can achieve symbol timing within 32 symbols and reduce the computational complexity by ninety percent at most compared to the original maximum mean power algorithm.The fast synchronization and car-rier-independence property of the proposed algorithm can also make room for carrier-offset recovery and frame synchro-nization.…”
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An Audit of Pain Management Following Pediatric Day Surgery at British Columbia Children’s Hospital by Serena Shum, Joanne Lim, Trish Page, Elizabeth Lamb, Jennifer Gow, J Mark Ansermino, Gillian Lauder

“…Although good pain control was commonly achieved after surgery, improvements may be possible by increasing the use of multimodal analgesia, providing standardized written discharge instructions and using surgery-specific pediatric analgesia guidelines.…”
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A possible mechanism to alter gyromagnetic factor by Jing-Ling Chen, Xing-Yan Fan, Xiang-Ru Xie

“…This fact thus renders the g factors of free leptons serving as precision tests for quantum electrodynamics, the standard model and beyond. In this work, we re-examine the problem of g factor within the framework of relativistic quantum mechanics. …”
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