Evaluation of the Transition-to-Practice Arrangements for Novice Perioperative Nurses: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study by Nick Nijkamp, Pauline Calleja, Ashlyn Sahay, Leanne Jack

“…Results emerging from this study will be reported using the Good Reporting of Mixed Methods Study guidelines. …”
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Variation Characteristics of the Main Hydrochemical Indexes in Typical Subterranean Rivers in the South China Karst Region Based on Curve Fitting by Shuyi Liu, Chuan Liang, Lina Wang, Lingwei Zeng, Chunyi Wang

“…The combination of sampling results from subterranean rivers in four typical study areas in the South China Karst region from October to December 2015 (dry season) and correlation analysis using SPSS revealed that the main ions K+, Na+, and SO42- exhibited a significant correlation (p<0.01) and that Ca2+, HCO3-, and Mg2+ exhibited a good correlation (p<0.01). Additionally, we consolidated the data collected since 1960 and, by applying MATLAB, a variety of fitting curve methods were used to fit all the data, and the results showed that cubic spline interpolation fitting performed the best. …”
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Cranioplasty infection in porous hydroxyapatite: Potential antibacterial properties by Ismail Zaed, Corrado Iaccarino, Francesca Faedo, Laura Grillini, Elisabetta Galassi, Alessandro Dotti, Angelo Nataloni, Francesca Carolina Mannella, Andrea Cardia

“…Porous hydroxyapatite (PHA) is reported as a possible material for bone reconstruction, with good signs of biocompatibility, osteoconductive and osteointegrative properties. …”
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Personalized lightweight distributed network intrusion detection system in fog computing by Tianpeng YE, Xiang LIN, Jianhua LI, Xuankai ZHANG, Liwen XU

“…With the continuous development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, there is a constant emergency of new IoT applications with low latency, high dynamics, and large bandwidth requirements.This has led to the widespread aggregation of massive devices and information at the network edge, promoting the emergence and deep development of fog computing architecture.However, with the widespread and in-depth application of fog computing architecture, the distributed network security architecture deployed to ensure its security is facing critical challenges brought by fog computing itself, such as the limitations of fog computing node computing and network communication resources, and the high dynamics of fog computing applications, which limit the edge deployment of complex network intrusion detection algorithms.To effectively solve the above problems, a personalized lightweight distributed network intrusion detection system (PLD-NIDS) was proposed based on the fog computing architecture.A large-scale complex network flow intrusion detection model was trained based on the convolutional neural network architecture, and furthermore the network traffic type distribution of each fog computing node was collected.The personalized model distillation algorithm and the weighted first-order Taylor approximation pruning algorithm were proposed to quickly compress the complex model, breaking through the limitation of traditional model compression algorithms that can only provide single compressed models for edge node deployment due to the high compression calculation overhead when facing a large number of personalized nodes.According to experimental results, the proposed PLD-NIDS architecture can achieve fast personalized compression of edge intrusion detection models.Compared with traditional model pruning algorithms, the proposed architecture achieves a good balance between computational loss and model accuracy.In terms of model accuracy, the proposed weighted first-order Taylor approximation pruning algorithm can achieve about 4% model compression ratio improvement under the same 0.2% model accuracy loss condition compared with the traditional first-order Taylor approximation pruning algorithm.…”
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Pore Preservation and Failure Mechanism of Sinian Dengying Formation Carbonate Reservoirs: A Case Study of Two Ultradeep Wells in the Sichuan Basin, Western China by Zeqi Li, Wei Sun, Shugen Liu, Zhiwu Li, Bin Deng, Juan Wu, Yi Ding, Kun Jiao, Xin Jin, Pengda Lu, Tengzhen Tian

“…The occurrence and geometry of bitumen in the Dengying reservoir exhibit good consistency with the pressure changes in both boreholes. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Trypanosomosis in Dromedary Camels in the Pastoral Areas of the Guji Zone in Ethiopia by Gossa Alemu, Rahmeto Abebe

“…A higher prevalence of trypanosomosis was observed in camels in poor BC (13.22%) than in camels in good (4.62%) or moderate (1.01%) BC. Likewise, adult camels (8.09%) were infected more frequently than young camels (1.12%), whereas no trypanosomes were detected in camel calves under 2 years of age. …”
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Comparison of growth curves with non-linear models in japanese quails of different plumage color by Serdar Guler, Emre Arslan, Muhammet Mucahit Sari, Orhan Cetin

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> According to the goodness of fit the Gompertz model was determined the best model for both brown and yellow plumage-colored Japanese quails. …”
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Modelling for deriving management plan for production and environment of marine fish cage farm by Woo Sung Jung, Sok Jin Hong, Sang Pil Yoon, Dae In Lee, Won Chan Lee, Dong Myung Kim

“…Model validation results showed good reproducibility of annual fish growth and production for each cage. …”
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Value of transabdominal ultrasonography for diagnosing functional constipation in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Duc Long Tran, Phu Nguyen Trong Tran, Paweena Susantitaphong, Phichayut Phinyo, Palittiya Sintusek

“…RD measured using transabdominal ultrasonography with a cutoff point of 31 mm exhibited good diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing FC in children.…”
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A comprehensive assessment of source material for apple breeding for immunity and fruit quality by E. V. Ulyanovskaya, T. G. Prichko, L. D. Chalaya

“…The promising parental forms passing to most of their hybrid progeny good tastes of fruits are Golden Delicious tetraploid, Wealthy tetraploid, Belle de Boskoop, Balsgard 0247 E, Papirovka tetraploid, and diploidy grades to Alkmene, Prima, Redfree and Kuban. …”
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Predicting Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing Industrial Waste Materials: Novel and Hybrid Machine Learning Model by Mohammed Majeed Hameed, Mustafa Abbas Abed, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Mohamed Khalid Alomar

“…Overall, the proposed model showed a good prediction of CS of concrete where cement is partially replaced and outperformed 14 models developed in the previous studies.…”
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Identification of biomarkers associated with coronary artery disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by bioinformatics analysis and machine learning by Chuan Lu, Mei Han, Qiqi Ma, Li Ying, Yue Zhang

“…The ROC results showed that these four biomarker genes have good diagnostic value for patients with both CAD and NAFLD. …”
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Halloysite nanotubes as delivery mechanism for feather protein-based multi-surfactant systems in crude oil dispersion application by Yaw Kwakye Adofo, Emmanuel Nyankson, Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, Selassie Gbogbo, Christian Amoako, Joseph Arko Morgan, Gloria Pokuaa Manu, Grace Karikari Arkorful

“…For 24 wt% surfactants concentrations loaded HNTs; 100 wt%CFP-HNTs, 60 wt%CFP- 40 wt%L-HNTs, 20 wt%CFP- 80 wt%T-HNTs, 50 wt%CFP- 25 wt%T-25 wt%L-HNTs and 25 wt %CFP- 25 wt%T-50 wt%D-HNTs showed good interfacial tension lowering abilities by recording 6.39, 2.82, 2.43, 1.68, and 1.55 mN/m at 60s respectively. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Cytotoxicity Research of Sulfur-Containing Metal Complexes by Yanting Yang, Danqin Li, Mei Luo

“…The results showed that complex (II) had a good inhibitory effect on breast cancer MDA-MB-231.…”
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Validation and assessment of the arabic psychological first aid scale among physicians, nurses, and counselors in Jordan by Basma Eid Alshareef, Othman A. Alfuqaha, Ibraheem B. Maali, Khaled Amer

“…Three constructs were loaded with a total variation of 63.43%, indicating a proper model fit. The goodness-of-fit indices for the PFA model revealed that relative chi-square was 1.47, comparative fit index was 0.91, Tucker-Lewis index was 0.89, and the root mean square of error approximation was 0.046. …”
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An Investigation on Speed Control of a Spindle Cluster Driven by Hydraulic Motor: Application to Metal Cutting Machines by Ngoc Hai Tran, Cung Le, Anh Dung Ngo

“…The findings show the speed controllability by using proportional valve to manipulate the oil flow and applying a self-tuning PID controller to achieve very good results such as the error difference of 0.001 to 0.036%, the delay of 0.01 to 0.02 seconds, no overshoot, and the settling error less than 5% compared to the set values. …”
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A quantitative module of avalanche hazard – comparing forecaster assessments of storm and persistent slab avalanche problems with information derived from distributed snowpack simu... by F. Herla, P. Haegeli, S. Horton, P. Mair

“…</p> <p>We applied our approach to 10 winter seasons in Glacier National Park, Canada, and compared the numerical predictions to human hazard assessments. Despite good agreement in the seasonal summary statistics, the comparison of the daily assessments of avalanche problems revealed considerable differences between the two data sources. …”
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Investigation about crack propagation paths in thin rim gears by F. Curà, A. Mura, C. Rosso

“…Numerical results obtained in this work have been compared with those found in the literature, showing a very good correlation.…”
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Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer? by Christopher Hohmann, Roman Pfister, Kathrin Kuhr, Julia Merkle, Julian Hinzmann, Guido Michels

“…Total ICC displayed a very good correlation of 0.949. For sodium, we found average values of 140 mmol/L (SD 5.20 mmol/L) in the AA and 140 mmol/L (SD 5.80 mmol/L) in the ABG assessment. …”
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Determining the Facilities for Maintaining Genital Hygiene and Genital Hygiene Behaviors among Women of Reproductive Age by Neslihan Yılmaz Sezer, Menekşe Nazlı Aker

“…Conclusion: In our study, although the mean scores of participants on genital hygiene behavior looked good, it was determined that the scores of some featured groups were low. …”
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