Analytical determination of the stress-strain state of soil mass during tunnelling by A. Z. Ter-Martirosyan, V. V. Rud

“…However, it should be noted that the method for calculating pressure presented in the current standard is a preliminary forecast and requires constant adjustment of the pressure during tunnel construction works.Materials and methods. …”
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Application and implementation of brief geriatric assessment in primary care and community settings: a scoping review by Lay Khoon Lau, Penny Lun, Jonathan Gao, Edward Tan, Yew Yoong Ding

“…Abstract Background Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is the gold standard of clinical care for older patients but its application in the primary care setting is limited, possibly due to its time-consuming process. …”
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Hypolipidemic Effect of Hemp Seed Oil from the Northern Morocco Endemic Beldiya Ecotype in a Mice Model: Comparison with Fenofibrate Hypolipidemic Drugs by Imane Mokhtari, Yassine Taaifi, Mohamed Harnafi, Kamal Belhaj, Farid Mansouri, Reda Melhaoui, Mohamed Addi, Christophe Hano, Souliman Amrani, Hicham Harnafi, Ahmed El Amrani

“…Fenofibrate was used as a standard hypolipidemic drug at a dose of 3.5 mg/kg body weight. …”
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Intelligent Controller Design and Fault Prediction Using Machine Learning Model by Kailash Kumar, Suyog Vinayak Pande, T. Ch. Anil Kumar, Parvesh Saini, Abhay Chaturvedi, Pundru Chandra Shaker Reddy, Krishna Bikram Shah

“…With the use of IEEE 39 standard buses, the proposed controller is tested. …”
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Cognitive enhancing effect of an extract of Swertia chirata against memory impairment induced by aluminum chloride by Reena Deshmukh, Manisha Jaiswal, Anshita Shukla, Umesh Patil, Mukesh Sharma

“…Materials and Method: AlCl3 (100 mg/kg, p.o.) was used to induce amnesia, piracetam (500 mg/kg, p.o.) was employed as a standard, and an ethanolic extract of Swertia chirata (50, 100, 200, 400 mg/kg) was utilized to assess nootropic activity. …”
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Potential Risks of Open Waste Burning at the Household Level: A Case Study of Semarang, Indonesia by Bimastyaji Surya Ramadan, Raden Tina Rosmalina, Syafrudin, Munawir, Hafizhul Khair, Indriyani Rachman, Toru Matsumoto

“…Although the carcinogenic risk was low, non-cancer disease risk exceeded the standard. Therefore, direct exposure of residents to OWB may pose significant health risks. …”
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Effect of hot smoking on the quality of vimba (vimba vimba tenella) by Abdullah Diler, Behire Işıl Işıklı, Ahmet Güner, Yusuf Doğruer

“…It was determined that sensory properties ol the samples were found acceptable to consume nearly 43 days period eventhough microbiological numbers of the samples were higher than values staled in the standard. In conclusion, with application of hot smoking process a product alternate to raw consume of Eğrez fish was obtained with different taste and aroma and stored safely at 4ºC for 43 days.…”
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Model of forecasting of material resources and estimated cost at early stages of life cycle of construction objects by M. V. Gureev, A. N. Makarov

“…Based on a comparison of the coefficient of determination R2 and the standard deviation (RMSE), ensembles of models were selected that form a forecast for the volume of material resources and equipment, as well as for the estimated cost with an error range of ±8 %. …”
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Serum fatty acid-binding protein 3 levels differentiate active from inactive myositis and correlate with response to therapy by Latika Gupta, Sanjukta Majumder, Amita Aggarwal, Ramnath Misra, Able Lawrence

“…Clinical data and sera of patients and healthy controls were retrieved, and case details supplanted with standard outcome measures. For the inception cohort, 6-month follow-up sera were used for comparison of FABP3 using ELISA. …”
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Exploring Force Production Reliability across Different Levels of Clinical Experience during a Simulated One-handed Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Treatment: A Pilot... by Moni Syeda, Jason Bartholomew, Shayane Valenzuela Santiago, Ashley J Reeves, Nickolai JP Martonick, Scott W Cheatham, Russell T Baker Jr.

“…Participants performed 15 one-handed sweeping strokes with an IASTM instrument on a skin simulant attached to a force plate for a standardized hypothetical treatment scenario. The participants performed the treatment on two separate days, 24-48 hours apart. …”
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Efficacy of Second Forward-View Colonoscopy to Improve Adenoma Detection of Right-Side Colon: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Hyun Jung Kim, Hyuk Yoon, Jung Won Lee

“…On the other hand, there is insufficient evidence on how much the ADR is improved compared to standard one forward view (OFV) colonoscopy. A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to determine the efficacy of improvement in the ADR by SFV colonoscopy. …”
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An improved SPWM control approach with aid of ant lion optimization for minimizing the THD in multilevel inverters by Alaa M. Abdel-hamed, Abdelrahman M. Nasser, Hamdy Shatla, Amr Refky

“…To meet stringent IEEE standards, an LC filter has been designed with minimal size and proper requirements. …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Colistin: Extended Application of Novel Quantitative and Morphologic Assay Using Scanning Electron Microscopy by Omar Zmerli, Sara Bellali, Gabriel Haddad, Rim Iwaza, Akiko Hisada, Erino Matsumoto, Yusuke Ominami, Didier Raoult, Jacques Bou Khalil

“…Our observation matched the results of the gold standard-based broth microdilution method. Conclusions. …”
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Geographic Variation and Trends in Laryngeal Cancer Incidence in Iran: A Comprehensive Analysis by Farimah Asghari, Hamideh Rashidian, Fereshteh Lotfi, Fatemeh Mahdavi Sabet, Zahra Faraji, Kazem Zendehdel

“…From the INPCR data, we calculated average age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs) for each province. …”
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Study on the Effect of Surface Roughness on the Spectral Unmixing of Mixed Pixels by Haonan Zhang, Xingping Wen, Junlong Xu, Dayou Luo, Ping He

“…The average error of the unmixing is less than 0.53%, which is lower than the conventional standard spectral measurement error. In other words, when the surface roughness of the sample is controlled within a specific range, the effect of roughness on the unmixing accuracy of the mixed pixels is small, and this effect can be almost ignored. …”
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Evaluating the accuracy of a nutritional screening tool for patients with digestive system tumors: A hierarchical Bayesian latent class meta-analysis. by Menghao Yang, Na Xiao, Le Tang, Yang Zhang, Yuexiu Wen, Xiuqin Yang

“…However, as this research focused on a Chinese population, future studies should encompass a broader geographic scope and work toward standardized assessment criteria to enhance the global validation and refinement of nutritional screening tools.…”
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Self-Movement Screening using the Symmio Application is Reliable and Valid for Identifying Musculoskeletal Risk Factors by Kyle Matsel, Jonathan Kirsch, Tessa Netelbeek, Rolando Rodriguez, Ervin Velic, Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer

“…The validity of Symmio was determined by comparing self-screen performance dichotomized as pass or fail with the reference standard of pain with movement, failure on the Functional Movement Screen™, and asymmetry on the Y Balance Test-Lower Quarter™ using three separate 2x2 contingency tables…”
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In vitro assessment of fracture resistance of endodontically treated teeth restored with short fiber reinforced resin based composite and ceramic overlays by Mona Elshirbini Hafez, Ahmed Ata Abd El-ghany, Ahmed Ismail Taha, Ashraf Amin

“…The remaining forty teeth were received root canal therapy. Standardized MOD cavities were prepared in 30 teeth of them, then they were randomly divided into three groups: Group 2: teeth received no coronal restorations; Group 3: MOD cavities restored with packable short fiber reinforced composite (EverX Posterior), followed by 2 mm nanocomposite; and Group 4: MOD cavities restored with flowable short fiber reinforced composite (EverX Flow), followed by 2 mm nanocomposite. …”
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Stylistics of layers of Farrokhi Yazdi's poems based on Dr. Fotouhi's stylistics by Alamdar Zinatpour, Amir Hosain Hemmati, Mazaher Nikkhah

“…From the stylistic feature of the syntactic layer, we can point to the shift from the standard syntax, the emphasis on the verb and the institution, as its tools, which has led to the formation of a continuous and active syntactic style. …”
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Self-Assessment of Medical Ethics and Professionalism: Comparison Between Preclinical and Clinical Medical Students by Saima Naz Shaikh, Uzair Abbas, Tazeen Shah, Arsalan Ahmad Uqaili, Hudebia Allah Buksh, Mehreen Fatima

“…Moreover, lack of significant differences in practice of professionalism based on ethnic differences underscores the potential universal standards in medical education.…”
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