Effect of acupoint hot compress on relieving pain in primiparous women during the latent phase of the first stage of labour: a study protocol for a prospective, multicentre, random... by Nan Li, Dong Xu, Fangfang Wang, Fan Qu, Xinyue Li, Yuqun Pu, Tianyi Zhou, Youjing Leng, Yuhang Zhu

“…The purpose is to evaluate the effect of acupoint hot compress on relieving pain in primiparous women during the latent phase of the first stage of labour, as well as its effects on key maternal and neonatal outcomes.Methods and analysis This prospective, multicentre, randomised controlled trial will be conducted across 18 institutions in China from January 2024 to August 2025. …”
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Non-Destructive Detection of Current Internal Disorders and Prediction of Future Appearance in Mango Fruit Using Portable Vis-NIR Spectroscopy by Jasciane da Silva Alves, Bruna Parente de Carvalho Pires, Luana Ferreira dos Santos, Tiffany da Silva Ribeiro, Kerry Brian Walsh, Ederson Akio Kido, Sergio Tonetto de Freitas

“…A method based on Vis-NIR spectroscopy and machine learning-based modeling for non-destructive detection of the internal disorders of black flesh, spongy tissue, jelly seed, and soft nose in mango fruit was developed using the vis-NIR spectra of intact mango fruit of three cultivars sourced from three orchards in each of the two seasons, with spectra collected both at harvest and after storage. …”
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Non-invasive and early detection of tomato spotted wilt virus infection in tomato plants using a hand-held Raman spectrometer and machine learning modelling by Ciro Orecchio, Camilla Sacco Botto, Eugenio Alladio, Chiara D'Errico, Marco Vincenti, Emanuela Noris

“…After preliminary spectral pre-processing, a filter method based on Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) coefficients was applied to remove redundant and irrelevant variables. …”
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Public awareness of low vision rehabilitation in China by Xiaoman Li, Xiaoman Li, Ruyi Zhu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Jianing Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Xiaoyue Hu, Xiaoyue Hu, Qi Chi, Qi Chi, Na Lin, Na Lin, Jie Chen, Jie Chen

“…ObjectiveTo demonstrate public awareness of low vision rehabilitation (LVR) in China and identify related influencing factors.MethodsThis cross-sectional study assessed low vision rehabilitation awareness using a Delphi method validated questionnaire. …”
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Comparison of Lesser galangal, Alpinia officinarum extract and Letrozole in masculinization of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus by Seyed Mohammad Reza Taheri, Sakineh Yeganeh, Homayon Hoseinzadeh Sahafi

“…So, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of different doses of the rhizome extract of A. officinarum on the sex reversal of Nile tilapia fry and compare it with the chemical drug, letrozole. Materials and Methods: The number of 2760 pieces of Nile tilapia larvae seven days after fertilization with an average weight of 0.026 ± 0.002 g distributed in 24 aquaria (200-L in volume) equipped with aeration and filtration systems in equal and completely random released. …”
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Awake Flexible Bronchoscopy Intubation Practice Among Otorhinolaryngology Surgery: An Observation Study Based on Practice Video Recordings and Clinical Data by Abdul M, Feng L, Yi X, Zhuang Y, Wang Y, Jiao J, Li SS, Han Y, Li W

“…Baseline characteristics, oxygenation methods, topicalisation, sedation levels, and procedural outcomes were documented. …”
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Enhanced Efficacy of Some Antibiotics in the Presence of Silver Nanoparticles Against Clinical Isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Recovered from Cystic Fibrosis Patients by Al-Momani H, Albalawi H, Al Balawi D, Khleifat KM, Aolymat I, Hamed S, Albiss BA, Khasawneh AI, Ebbeni O, Alsheikh A, Zueter AM, Pearson JP, Ward C

“…The fractional inhibitory concentration index (FICI) was determined via the checkerboard method to evaluate the synergistic effects of Ag-NPs and various antibiotics.Results: The biosynthesized Ag-NPs were uniformly spherical and measured around 15 nm in size. …”
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Structural Damage Detection Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based 3D Model and Deep Learning on a Reinforced Concrete Arch Bridge by Mary C. Alfaro, Rodrigo S. Vidal, Rick M. Delgadillo, Luis Moya, Joan R. Casas

“…Visual inspection is a common method for detecting structural damage, but has limitations in terms of subjectivity, time, and access. …”
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Non‐local low‐rank constraint‐based self‐consistent PMRI reconstruction using eigenvector maps by Jizhong Duan, Ting Pan, Yu Liu, Junfeng Wang

“…Then the denoising subproblem with the WNN can be effectively solved by using the alternating direction method of multipliers technique. For practical applications, a parameter‐selecting method is proposed to obtain almost optimal parameters for the same kind of MR images. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation and Classification of Interchange Diagrammatic Guide Signs’ Complexity by Yang Li, Xiaohua Zhao, Qing He, Lihua Huang, Jian Rong

“…And the result of diagram complexity range is between −1.366 and 2.046, which have a correlation with graph cognition complexity, including perspective of distribution, diagram character, essential element expression manner, and utilization degree, and K-means clustering method was used in the analysis. Based on the presented method, 37 types of diagrams are separated into three categories according to their complexity score: low complexity, medium complexity, and high complexity. …”
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Treatment-Resistant Depression: The Role of Electroconvulsive Therapy by Magdalena Kupis, Monika Paszkowska, Patrycja Znamirowska, Klaudia Mularczyk, Łukasz Karaban, Anna Jakubiak, Joanna Miśkiewicz, Michał Borawski, Aleksandra Ciuła, Tadeusz Kuźnieców

“…Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) appears to be the most thoroughly researched and clinically effective method, particularly in severe cases and in populations at higher risk, such as older adults and pregnant women. …”
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基于3-P4R并联打磨机器人的误差综合 by 解本铭, 赵词海

“…The position analysis for 3-P4R parallel barinder robot is studied,the inverse position equations differential are carried out,and the original error model on the three chains is established.Then numerical simulation is studied by using Matlab,and the probably of the method for error analysis is proved.The independent and equal effect principle of error is applied to the error synthesis and distribution of a 3-P4R parallel barinder,which provides material for error compensation.…”
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Seismic Response and Safety Assessment of an Existing Concrete Chimney under Wind Load by Xuansheng Cheng, Hongjie Qian, Chao Wang, Xuedong Fu

“…The displacement of the structure under the action of wind load and earthquake is analyzed using maximum value superposition, and the stress on the chimney is calculated in four cases using the equal curvature criterion method. The time-history responses of the tall chimney structure under linear and nonlinear elastic conditions are discussed. …”
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Minimization of Resource Consumption with URLLC Constraints for Relay-Assisted IIoT by Yujie Zhao, Tao Peng, Yichen Guo, Yijing Niu, Wenbo Wang

“…In the second subproblem, the total blocklength is minimized via a bisection search method. Simulation results show that by adopting near-optimal PEPs, our approach reduces computation time by two orders of magnitude while limiting the achievable rate loss to within 1% compared to the exhaustive search method. …”
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Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research by Yuerong Hu, Jana Diesner, Ted Underwood, Zoe LeBlanc, Glen Layne-Worthey, John Stephen Downie

“…With this method, our research reveals for the first time the scale of the phenomena of incentivized book reviews that is well known to users of Goodreads but remains largely anecdotal. …”
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Finding Multiple Optimal Solutions to an Integer Linear Program by Random Perturbations of Its Objective Function by Noah Schulhof, Pattara Sukprasert, Eytan Ruppin, Samir Khuller, Alejandro A. Schäffer

“…Using these metrics, we provide empirical results demonstrating that MORSE outperforms the Gurobi method and unweighted variations of the MORSE method on a set of 20 Mixed Integer Programming Library (MIPLIB) instances and on a combinatorial optimization problem in cancer genomics.…”
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Quantifying the analysis uncertainty for nowcasting application by Y. Zhu, Y. Zhu, A. Atencia, M. Dabernig, Y. Wang, Y. Wang

“…<p>This study proposes a method to quantify uncertainty represented by errors in very-high-resolution near-surface analysis, specifically for weather nowcasting applications. …”
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Assessment of Incidence of Allergic Rhinitis in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients: A Prospective Analysis by Mumtaz Ahmad Umar, Ayesha Jawad, Mirza Nasheed Baig, Nighat Arif, Saira Iftikhar, Mohibullah Mushwani

“…Based on the inclusion criteria, 100 patients with chronic rhinosinusitis were enrolled in the study after obtaining ethical approval, using consecutive sampling technique. The skin prick method was used for the diagnosis of allergic rhinitis.  …”
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Spatial Analysis of the Enjoyment Degree for the Townships of Esfahan Province based on ICT Indices by Hosein Sarami, Sayyed Ali Mousavi, Rasoul Babanasab

“…Based on the purpose, the research is applied-developmental research, and based on the method it is descriptive, quantitative and analytical. 23 townships of Esfahan Province include statistical society of the research. …”
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A hybrid model of ARIMA and MLP with a Grasshopper optimization algorithm for time series forecasting of water quality by Jie Su, Ziyu Lin, Fengwei Xu, Gholamreza Fathi, Khalid A. Alnowibet

“…In the proposed hybrid method, the ability of the ARIMA and the MLP model are exploited. …”
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