Controlled Signal Technique in VL‐NOMA Communication Under Interference‐Controlled Environment With Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces by C. E. Ngene, Prabhat Thakur, Ghanshyam Singh

“…Furthermore, we place a blocker at the center of the model as a NLOS to check how the transmitted signals will perform. We observed that the propagated signal improved the BER as per LOS, hence, the NLOS blocker reduced the signal's performance. …”
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The Mediating Role Of Personal And Social Responsibility In The Relationship Between Social Capital And Students' Altruism by Marziyeh Khalifeh Soltani, Reza Ghorban Jahromi, Morteza Nikoofar, Saeid Jafari

“…Face and content validity were used to check the validity of the questionnaires.The data was analyzed through structural equation modeling using Lisrel software. …”
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High-parameter immunophenotyping reveals distinct immune cell profiles in pruritic dogs and cats by Erin McDonald, Eric Kehoe, Darcy Deines, Mary McCarthy, Brie Wright, Susan Huse

“…These animals were categorized based on pruritic behavior or routine check-ups (non-pruritic controls).ResultsUnsupervised clustering revealed various immune cell populations, including T-cell subsets distinguished by CD62L expression and distinct monocyte subsets. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Droop Controller to Fix the Frequency of a Microgrid System Using the Gray wolf Algorithm with Stability Analysis by Zhi Yuan, Ji Li

“…Finally, the whole closed-loop system is checked for stability in the presence of optimal parameters. …”
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Dealings between Cataract and Retinal Reattachment Surgery in PVR by Svenja Deuchler, Pankaj Singh, Michael Müller, Thomas Kohnen, Hanns Ackermann, Joerg Iwanczuk, Rachid Benjilali, Frank Koch

“…For SLP (65% phakic eyes) a Pentacam densitometry reference body with 3 mm diameter was chosen and 3 segments (anterior/mid/posterior) were evaluated separately after a quality check. Results. The retinal reattachment rate was highest in the prospective pseudophakic group (p=0.039). …”
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Predicting Metabolic Syndrome Using the Random Forest Method by Apilak Worachartcheewan, Watshara Shoombuatong, Phannee Pidetcha, Wuttichai Nopnithipat, Virapong Prachayasittikul, Chanin Nantasenamat

“…We used data from 5,646 adults aged between 18–78 years residing in Bangkok who had received an annual health check-up in 2008. MS was identified using the NCEP ATP III criteria. …”
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Implementation of Registration Actions as Manifestation of the Legal Form of Public Administration by V. I. Teremetskyi, Y. V. Zhuravel

“…It has been substantiated that legal and preventive control is carried out during registration actions, where the subject of public administration has the right to check the scope of legal personality and their behavior of the subjects who applied for registration actions. …”
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Effect of Metformin on Anthropometric Measurements and Hormonal and Biochemical Profile in Patients with Prediabetes by Mustafa Safiah, Dana Hyassat, Yousef Khader, Oraib Farahid, Anwar Batieha, Mohammed El-Khateeb, Kamel Ajlouni

“…Homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) index and quantitative sensitivity check (QUICKI) index scores were calculated before metformin treatment and after 12 months of use. …”
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Plant community and structural pattern analyses of Abraham Sacred Forest in Amhara Regional State, northwest Ethiopia. by Getinet Masresha Kassa, Ayenew Lisanu Teka, Getahun Tassew Melese

“…A Kruskal-Wallis followed by Tukey's honestly significant difference test was performed to check the statistical significance among the plant communities. …”
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Does Internet use help to achieve sustainable food consumption? Evidence from rural China by Jian Liu, Yanjun Ren, Yu Hong, Thomas Glauben, Qiang Li

“…The instrumental variable estimation is used to solve the endogeneity problem of Internet use and the propensity score matching (PSM) method is used for robustness check. The results show that Internet use significantly decreases food carbon and food water footprints by 18.1 % and 10.6 %, respectively. …”
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Study on genetics of yield component traits under salt stress in two rice crosses raised using honeycomb selection design by C. Yoglakshmi, Rajan Isha Pearl, V. Vengadessan, J. Karthick and S. Thirumeni*

“…A set of two F2 populations obtained from ADT(R)45 × FL478 (A × F) and ADT(R)45 × Nona Bokra (A × N) crosses along with check variety CSR10 were raised in Honeycomb Selection Design (HSD) to study the genetics of yield component traits under salt stress. …”
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Cuckoo Search with Lévy Flights for Weighted Bayesian Energy Functional Optimization in Global-Support Curve Data Fitting by Akemi Gálvez, Andrés Iglesias, Luis Cabellos

“…The paper shows that this new approach can be successfully used to solve our optimization problem. To check the performance of our approach, it has been applied to five illustrative examples of different types, including open and closed 2D and 3D curves that exhibit challenging features, such as cusps and self-intersections. …”
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Integrating mandatory occupational health practice and workplace health promotion programs to reduce the high burden of work-related diseases by Francesco CHIRICO, Angelo SACCO, Nicola MAGNAVITA

“…Involving workers in health promotion interventions during regular medical check-ups provides an opportunity for targeted interventions. …”
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How Do Executives Benefit From Investment Efficiency? Investigating The Use of Accounting Performance-Based Pay: Evidence From Indonesia by Aang Kunaifi, I Made Narsa, Ardianto Ardianto

“…We also find that the association between investment efficiency and accounting pay-for-performance sensitivity is consistent with a robustness check using a different measure of investment efficiency. …”
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Air Quality and Public Health Risk Assessment: A Case of an Industrial Area in Haridwar City, Uttarakhand (India) by Alka Pant, Ramesh Chandra Joshi, Sanjay Sharma, Kamal Pant

“…Further, the augmented Dickey–Fuller test was applied to check the stationarity of the series before finalizing the best-suited time series model for forecasting the AQI values. …”
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Analysis of Mechanical Properties and Slope Stability of Red Bed Soft Rock: A Case Study in Xinjiang Irrigation Diversion Channel by Da Liu, Jianglin Gao, Fang Chen, Songtao Hu, Xiaohua Zhao, Yan Li

“…The results show that the slope stability safety factor of Zhetang diversion irrigation channel slope is 1.60 under conventional working conditions and 1.33 under check working conditions, which are greater than the recommended value in the specification.…”
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The Role of Scientometric Thresholds for the Evaluation of Grant Applications by K. S. Guba, A. M. Zheleznov, E. A. Chechik

“…Scopus was sourced to collect bibliographic data, while the foundation’s website was used to check data on the funded projects. The following questions are explored in detail: whether the policy affected the distribution of funds to researchers with a better publication record, the strategies of increasing publications by individual researchers, and the differences, if any, in policy effects between disciplines. …”
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Plasma Glycosaminoglycans: A new Promising tool for Assessment of Non-Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Following Nephrectomy by Awais ALi, Abdelkarem Omneya, Kashif Adil

“…A paired t-test was performed to check whether the difference between the mean plasma GAG levels in pre-nephrectomy and post-nephrectomy groups was significant. …”
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Nano-SiO2 and PVA Fiber Synergistically Strengthened Concrete to Optimize the Antifreeze, Antipermeability, and Anticorrosion Performance of Roads by Li Tang

“…After the test piece is immersed in water to reach a saturated state, we check the appearance size of the test piece, wipe the surface of the test piece clean with a rag, weigh the unfreeze-thaw test piece, then measure the ultrasonic wave speed of the test piece with a nondestructive testing instrument, and do good record. …”
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Study on the synergistic effect of NOx and CO2 emission reduction in the industrial sector of Guangzhou by Xingcun Qin, Xingcun Qin, Pengcheng Xie, Cuiping Liao, Cuiping Liao

“…Finally, a robustness check was conducted on the results.Results and discussionThe findings indicate that the synergistic effect in carbon reduction is the most significant driver of NOx reduction in Guangzhou’s industrial sector, with a 10,000-ton reduction in CO2 emissions leading to a 0.4-ton decrease in NOx emissions. …”
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