Assessing Physical Therapists’ Expectations and Experiences With an Automated Rehabilitation System Using Technology Acceptance Model: Multiple Methods Pilot Study by Cynthia Williams, Lindsay Toth, Raine Osborne, Chloe E Bailey, Aishwarya Joshi

“…ObjectiveWe used the established tenets of the Technology Acceptance Model to describe physical therapists’ expectations and experiences before and after using a novel wearable system in outpatient physical therapy. MethodsThis multiple methods pilot study used a comparative pre-post survey and a qualitative semistructured focus group study design. …”
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A web-based workplace exercise intervention among office workers with spinal pain: Protocol of a mixed methods study. by Carlos Tersa-Miralles, Cristina Bravo, Filip Bellon, Maria Masbernat-Almenara, Francesc Rubí-Carnacea, Esther Rubinat Arnaldo

“…This study aims to develop and evaluate a web-based workplace intervention with active breaks to reduce spinal pain among office workers.<h4>Methods</h4>This study follows a sequential exploratory mixed-methods design. …”
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Identifying Cryptic Mammals With Non‐Invasive Methods: An Effective Molecular Species Identification Tool to Survey Southern African Terrestrial Carnivores by Amy Wong, Eduardo Eizirik, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli, Vera deFerran, Tresia Shihepo, Anna Rose Lay, Julia Zumbroich, Nicola Rooney, Laurie Marker, Anne Schmidt‐Küntzel

“…ABSTRACT Carnivores play a vital role in ecosystem health and are thus an important focus for conservation management. Non‐invasive methods have gained traction for carnivore monitoring as carnivores are often elusive and wide‐ranging, making visual counts particularly difficult. …”
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A comparative evaluation of EEG Power spectrum characteristics between two methods for alleviating preoperative anxiety in breast cancer patients by Xing Jin, Yuxing Wang, Hui Jiang, Ying Wu, Yi Liu

“…Effective measures for preventing and managing preoperative anxiety include drug therapy and non-drug intervention. The main evaluation method is scale assessment, which has certain limitations and may involve human concealment or evaluation errors. …”
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Wastewater Speaks: Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance, Sampling Methods, and Seasonal Infection Trends on a University Campus by Shilpi Bhatia, Tinyiko Nicole Maswanganye, Olusola Jeje, Danielle Winston, Mehdi Lamssali, Dongyang Deng, Ivory Blakley, Anthony A. Fodor, Liesl Jeffers-Francis

“…A strong positive and significant correlation was observed between Grab and Composite sampling methods, supporting their robustness as equally effective approaches for sample collection. …”
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Comparing modified light bulb with multiple drilling methods in treating non-traumatic femoral head osteonecrosis: A cohort study by Ali Parsa, Hamid Dolatabadi, Saeid Esmaeilian, Seyed Ali Moshtaghioon, Neda Mirzaei, Omid Shahpari, Elham Rahmanipour, Mohammad Ghorbani

“…Objective: This study aims to evaluate and compare the clinical and radiological results of the multiple drilling (MD) technique with the Modified Light Bulb (MLB) method for treating pre-collapse stage osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH). …”
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Comparison of statistical modelling methods for population-level gestational weight gain trajectories in ethnically diverse women in southeast Melbourne, Australia by Rui Wang, Cheryce Harrison, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, Helena J Teede, Joanne Enticott

“…We aimed to explore and determine the optimal statistical methods to accommodate data complexities such as nonlinearity, skewness and kurtosis and to model GWG trajectories from a large dataset of ethnically diverse pregnant women.Design and setting This is a retrospective, observational study of routinely collected health data from women with singleton pregnancies from 2017 to 2021 delivering at one of the largest hospital networks in Australia, located in southeast Melbourne.Participants There were 39 846 women with singleton pregnancies. …”
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Comparison of Manual and Automated Capillary Morphometry Measurements in Oral Mucosa: A Pilot Study by Salvatore Nigliaccio, Enzo Cumbo, Davide Alessio Fontana, Cesare Fabio Valenti, Domenico Tegolo, Antonino Tocco, Pietro Messina, Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina

“…This pilot study sought to evaluate and compare the performance of an automated method, developed using a neural network trained at the University of Palermo, with a traditional manual method for assessing capillary morphology in the oral mucosa. …”
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A comparison of established and digital surface model (DSM) ‐based methods to determine population estimates and densities for king penguin colonies, using fixed‐wing drone and sat... by J. Coleman, N. Fenney, P.N. Trathan, A. Fox, E. Fox, A. Bennison, L. Ireland, M.A. Collins, P.R. Hollyman

“…Abstract Drones are being increasingly used to monitor wildlife populations; their large spatial coverage and minimal disturbance make them ideal for use in remote environments where access and time are limited. The methods used to count resulting imagery need consideration as they can be time‐consuming and costly. …”
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Intelligent Fault Warning Method for Wind Turbine Gear Transmission System Driven by Digital Twin and Multi-Source Data Fusion by Tiantian Xu, Xuedong Zhang, Wenlei Sun

“…To meet the demands for real-time and accurate fault warning of wind turbine gear transmission systems, this study proposes an innovative intelligent warning method based on the integration of digital twin and multi-source data fusion. …”
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Equity and efficiency of health resource allocation in Sichuan Province, China by Minghua Zhou

“…Abstract Background To analyze the equity and efficiency of health resource allocation in Sichuan Province and to provide a scientific basis for promoting health resource development. Methods Theil index, coefficient of variation, equalization index and health resource agglomeration degree (HRAD) were used to analyze the equity of health resource allocation, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to analyze the efficiency of health resource allocation in Sichuan Province from 2017 to 2021. …”
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A digital twin-based green construction management method for prefabricated buildings [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Zhufu Zhu, Anxiu Li, Zhe Sun, Shuxin Ni, Zhansheng Liu

“…However, the lack of green concepts and methods during the prefabrication assembly process hinders its environmental benefits. …”
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Three-dimensional imaging technique based on multi-channel spectral amplitude superposition in the impact-echo method: Methodology and engineering application by Fei Yao, Shiyong Qin, Haitao Zhao, Peng Su, Wenjie Zhu

“…Most imaging techniques based on the Impact-Echo (IE) method remain limited to two-dimensional (2D) imaging, which can only characterize defect distribution along a single plane and often fail to accurately identify complex defects. …”
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A novel method (RIM-Deep) for enhancing imaging depth and resolution stability of deep cleared tissue in inverted confocal microscopy by Yisi Liu, Pu Wang, Junjie Zou, Hongwei Zhou

“…The increasing use of tissue clearing techniques underscores the urgent need for cost-effective and simplified deep imaging methods. While traditional inverted confocal microscopes excel in high-resolution imaging of tissue sections and cultured cells, they face limitations in deep imaging of cleared tissues due to refractive index mismatches between the immersion media of objectives and sample container. …”
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Novel Transoral Endoscopic Assisted Minimally Invasive Method for Mandibular Condyle Fractures in Croatia: A Case Presentation and Literature Review by Igor Čvrljević, Marko Tarle, Ivica Lukšić

“…Methods: A 30° rigid endoscope and specialized angled instruments were utilized in both cases to achieve precise visualization, reduction, and fixation of the fractures. …”
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Building Damage Visualization Through Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Window Detection by Ittetsu Kuniyoshi, Itsuki Nagaike, Sachie Sato, Yue Bao

“…This study proposes a non-contact method for assessing building inclination and damage by integrating 3D point cloud data with image recognition techniques. …”
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Bearing Fault Diagnosis based on Feature Visualization and Depth Adaptive Network by Hong Jiang, Yu Feng, Rong Fu

“…Firstly，the collected signals are analyzed by empirical mode decomposition method， and the Intrinsic mode functions（IMFs） are effectively determined by Mahalanobis distance measurement method. …”
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Application of Polynomial Regression Method in Non-invasive Measurement of Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, and Non-invasive Uric Acid Based on IoT by Desi Rahmadaniar, Irma Salamah, Martinus Mujur Rose

“…However, the general examination methods still used today are invasive, namely, using a syringe to take blood samples. …”
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Syn-MolOpt: a synthesis planning-driven molecular optimization method using data-derived functional reaction templates by Xiaodan Yin, Xiaorui Wang, Zhenxing Wu, Qin Li, Yu Kang, Yafeng Deng, Pei Luo, Huanxiang Liu, Guqin Shi, Zheng Wang, Xiaojun Yao, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Tingjun Hou

“…Based on these functional templates, we introduced Syn-MolOpt, a synthesis planning-oriented molecular optimization method. During optimization, functional reaction templates steer the process towards specific properties by effectively transforming relevant structural fragments. …”
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Advancing dimensionality reduction for enhanced visualization and clustering in single-cell transcriptomics by P. Sanju

“…This paper introduces compactness preservation pairwise controlled manifold approximation projection (CP-PaCMAP), an enhanced dimensionality reduction method tailored for scRNA-seq data visualization. …”
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