‘Braun’: the first russian cotton cultivar with naturally colored fiber by R. K. Tuz, M. Sh. Asfandiiarova, L. P. Podolnaya

“…Massive energy and water consumption during the production of fabrics from such fiber generates significant problems, so in recent decades more and more cotton cultivars with naturally colored fiber have appeared in the world. In addition to saving natural resources, such fiber has another advantage: it is lowallergenic. …”
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Analysis of Fungi in the Respiratory Tract of Patients with Tuberculosis at the Palembang Public Health Laboratory Center (BBLKM Palembang) by Herry Hermansyah, Sri Sulpha Siregar, Erwin Edyansyah

“…Meanwhile, 31 (31.7%) samples were found negative. In addition, there was no significant relationship between the types of fungi and the characteristics of sputum.…”
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Wind turbine blade damage detection based on acoustic signals by Chenchen Yang, Shaohu Ding, Guangsheng Zhou

“…The results reveal that the combined approach provides a more detailed representation in the time-frequency diagrams. Additionally, the mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) algorithm is utilized for feature extraction in the experimental dataset, forming training and test sets for the normal and abnormal datasets. …”
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Prospective directions for the development of means and methods for detection and fixation of handprints by V. V. Korniienko

“…Silicon nanoparticles with the addition of dyes, depending on the color of the surface, have shown a better result compared to the cyanoacrylate method. …”
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The Effect of Endurance Training on Blood Lactate Concentration and Anaerobic Threshold in Bangladeshi Female Handball Athletes by Sharmin Akter Shanta, Ajita

“…Handball involves both aerobic and anaerobic energy systems in the human body. Therefore, it becomes crucial to comprehend how training influences physiological variables such as anaerobic threshold and blood lactate concentration. …”
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Educational Intervention of Intention Change for Consumption of Junk Food among School Adolescents in Birgunj Metropolitan City, Nepal, Based on Theory of Planned Behaviors by Upendra Kumar Singh, Nirmal Gautam, Tulsi Ram Bhandari, Nirmal Sapkota

“…The interactive lecture method was proved an effective education program for changing the intentions of adolescent students and preventing them from consuming junk food which were statistically significant (<0.05). In addition, behavioral intention of junk food consumption, attitude toward junk food consumption, and perceived behavioral control toward junk food were statistically significant (<0.05). …”
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Effects of natural colourants and pulsed electric field technology on the quality parameters of nitrite-free bacon by Molina Jan Roland G., Frías-Celayeta Jesús María, Bolton Declan J., Botinestean Cristina

“…These findings suggest that while natural colourants can mimic the colour effects of nitrites in uncooked bacon, additional strategies are required to improve colour stability.…”
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Efficiency of four trap types and human landing catch in the sampling of Mansonia (Diptera, Culicidae) in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. by Nercy Virginia Rabelo Furtado, José Ferreira Saraiva, Kaio Nabas Ribeiro, Noel Santos Fernandes Neto, Jéssica Fernanda Dos Santos Barroso, Cynara de Melo Rodovalho, Dario Pires Carvalho, Allan Kardec Ribeiro Galardo, José Bento Pereira Lima

“…Sampling was conducted, during three periods corresponding to two seasons, dry and rainy, over five consecutive days for each period. …”
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Effect of Microchannel Depth on Subcooled Flow Boiling Instability and Heat Transfer by N. Shah, A. Prajapati, H. B. Mehta, J. Banerjee

“…The findings reveal that increasing the microchannel depth results to a significant increase in the amplitude of wall temperature fluctuations under fixed wall heat flux conditions, which in turn diminishes heat transfer performance. Additionally, the study demonstrates a notable dependence of pressure drop on coolant flow and both microchannel sizes. …”
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Farmers’ Perceptions of Mexican Bean Weevil, Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman), and Pest Management Practices in Southern Ethiopia by Tariku Mesele, Kumela Dibaba, Esayas Mendesil

“…About 45% of the farmers mentioned the high amount of loss at the time of storage. In addition, most farmers (53.4%) estimated 26-50% loss in storage. …”
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Human Development from Concept "Soft Skills" Communication by Emilawati Binti Othman, Masfizaizan Binti Manaf

“…This transformation aims to meet the demands and needs of human resources in addition to produce disciplined graduates, supporting the national aspirations and noble character. …”
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Cottonseed Meal Protein Hydrolysate Improves the Growth Performance of Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) by Promoting the Muscle Growth and Molting Performance by Chao-Fan He, Wen-Bin Liu, Ling Zhang, Wei-Liang Chen, Zi-Shang Liu, Xiang-Fei Li

“…These findings indicated that the addition of CPH at 0.4% significantly increased the survival rate, body protein gain, apparent protein utilization, trypsin and pepsin activities, and the methyl farnesoate content. …”
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Development of an interpretable machine learning model based on CT radiomics for the prediction of post acute pancreatitis diabetes mellitus by Xiyao Wan, Yuan Wang, Ziyi Liu, Ziyan Liu, Shuting Zhong, Xiaohua Huang

“…The clinical performance of the model was assessed through a decision curve analysis, while insight into the predictions derived from this model was derived from Shapley additive explanations (SHAP). The final model incorporated five key radiomic features, and achieved area under the curve values in the training and testing cohorts of 0.947 (95% CI 0.915–0.979) and 0.901 (95% CI 0.838–0.964), respectively. …”
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Murine model for chronic rhinosinusitis: an interventional study by Amr F. Hamour, John JW. Lee, Ewa Wasilewski, Eric Monteiro, John M. Lee, Allan Vescan, Lakshmi P. Kotra

“…Analysis of complete blood count with differential, peripheral blood smear, and histological markers from the nasal cavity mucosa were performed. CRS mice were additionally treated with intranasal saline (n = 5) or mometasone (n = 10) and compared with control groups of untreated CRS (n = 5) and healthy (n = 5) mice after week 7. …”
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sRrsR-Net: A New Low-Light Image Enhancement Network via Raw Image Reconstruction by Zhiyong Hong, Dexin Zhen, Liping Xiong, Xuechen Li, Yuhan Lin

“…Most existing low-light image enhancement (LIE) methods are primarily designed for human-vision-friendly image formats, such as sRGB, due to their convenient storage and smaller file sizes. In addition, raw images provide greater detail and a wider dynamic range, which makes them more suitable for LIE tasks. …”
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Implications of Diminishing Lifespan Marginal Utility for Valuing Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by R. Scott Braithwaite

“…DMLU is likely to exist, can benefit from additional characterization, and may merit inclusion in CEA alongside discounting. …”
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Knowledge of Ghana’s liberal abortion law and use of modern contraceptives among women of reproductive age by Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Jeff Luck, S. Marie Harvey

“…Women with history of an induced abortion were 1.57 times as likely to use modern contraceptives compared to those with no history [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.57, 95% CI 1.41–1.75]. Each additional increase in knowledge of a different modern contraceptive method was associated with 1.25 times increase in modern contraceptive use (aOR 1.25, 95% CI 1.22–1.29). …”
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A Differential Evolution-Oriented Pruning Neural Network Model for Bankruptcy Prediction by Yajiao Tang, Junkai Ji, Yulin Zhu, Shangce Gao, Zheng Tang, Yuki Todo

“…The experimental results reveal that the EPNN outperforms the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) model and our previously developed preliminary pruning neural network (PNN) model in terms of accuracy, convergence speed, and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve (AUC). In addition, the EPNN also provides competitive and satisfactory classification performances in contrast with other commonly used classification methods.…”
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Mechanism of steel slag powder stabilization and improvement of expansive clay by Yinlei SUN, Chuan YU, Lei LIAO, Zhifei LI

“…This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current research on SSP-improved expansive clay, systematically summarizing the physicochemical properties and gelling activity of SSP. Additionally, the excitation principle of alkali exciters on the activity of SSP was described, and the micro-mechanism and mechanical properties of SSP improved expansive clay were revealed. …”
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The causal impact of smoking behavior on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Qiang Xiao, Susu Dong, Yafen Tan, Xuan Zhang, Lu Yao, Qiuping Li, Tianli Wang

“…The discovery MR analysis involved 12 OA traits (177,517 cases and 649,173 controls) while the replication MR analysis incorporated an additional OA GWAS dataset consisting of 36,185 cases and 135,185 controls. …”
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