Optimizing UHPC Layers to Improve Punching Shear Performance in Concrete Slabs by Ahmed A. Hassoon, Rafea F. Hassan, Husam H. Hussein

“…UHPC has a higher tensile strength than NSC and, when appropriately reinforced with steel fibers, exhibits strain hardening after initial cracking. …”
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Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Models for Assessment of Education Quality in Water Resources Engineering by Mohammad Kazem Ghorbani, Nasser Talebbeydokhti, Hossein Hamidifar, Mehrshad Samadi, Michael Nones, Fatemeh Rezaeitavabe, Shabnam Heidarifar

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A genomic duplication spanning multiple P450s contributes to insecticide resistance in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti by Bacot, Tiphaine, Haberkorn, Chloe, Guilliet, Joseph, Cattel, Julien, Kefi, Mary, Nadalin, Louis, Filee, Jonathan, Boyer, Frederic, Gaude, Thierry, Laporte, Frederic, Tutagata, Jordan, Vontas, John, Dusfour, Isabelle, Bonneville, Jean-Marc, David, Jean-Philippe

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Biomass burning emission analysis based on MODIS aerosol optical depth and AeroCom multi-model simulations: implications for model constraints and emission inventories by M. Petrenko, M. Petrenko, R. Kahn, R. Kahn, M. Chin, S. E. Bauer, T. Bergman, H. Bian, G. Curci, B. Johnson, J. W. Kaiser, Z. Kipling, H. Kokkola, H. Kokkola, X. Liu, K. Mezuman, K. Mezuman, T. Mielonen, G. Myhre, X. Pan, X. Pan, A. Protonotariou, S. Remy, R. B. Skeie, P. Stier, T. Takemura, K. Tsigaridis, K. Tsigaridis, H. Wang, D. Watson-Parris, D. Watson-Parris, K. Zhang

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Editorial by Thomas Duve

“…Jan Schröder geht in der Recherche in seinem Aufsatz zur Bedeutung der Wörter in der Rechts- und Sprachtheorie der frühen Neuzeit dieser Frage nach. Die mittelalterliche Lehre von der Imposition, also der Bestimmung der Bedeutung durch eine Autorität, so zeigt er, weicht im 17. …”
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CompSafeNano project: NanoInformatics approaches for safe-by-design nanomaterials by Dimitrios Zouraris, Angelos Mavrogiorgis, Andreas Tsoumanis, Laura Aliisa Saarimäki, Giusy del Giudice, Antonio Federico, Angela Serra, Dario Greco, Ian Rouse, Julia Subbotina, Vladimir Lobaskin, Karolina Jagiello, Krzesimir Ciura, Beata Judzinska, Alicja Mikolajczyk, Anita Sosnowska, Tomasz Puzyn, Mary Gulumian, Victor Wepener, Diego S.T. Martinez, Romana Petry, Naouale El Yamani, Elise Rundén-Pran, Sivakumar Murugadoss, Sergey Shaposhnikov, Vasileios Minadakis, Periklis Tsiros, Harry Sarimveis, Eleonora Marta Longhin, Tanima SenGupta, Ann-Karin Hardie Olsen, Viera Skakalova, Peter Hutar, Maria Dusinska, Anastasios G. Papadiamantis, L. Cristiana Gheorghe, Katie Reilly, Emilie Brun, Sami Ullah, Sebastien Cambier, Tommaso Serchi, Kaido Tämm, Candida Lorusso, Francesco Dondero, Evangelos Melagrakis, Muhammad Moazam Fraz, Georgia Melagraki, Iseult Lynch, Antreas Afantitis

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Askeri Harcamalar ve Ekonomik Büyüme: Orta Doğu Ülkeleri Açısından Benoit Hipotezinin Sınanması by İbrahim Tuğrul Çınar, Yusuf Ünsal

“…Çalışmada, yıllık askeri harcamaların gayri safi yurt içi hasıladan aldığı pay ve kişi başına düşen gayri safi yurt içi hasıla değişkenleri üzerinden analizler gerçekleştirilmiştir. …”
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State Power Legitimacy Crisis in the Era of Globalization by I. I. Osvetimskaya

“…From the point of view of a deliberative strategy (J. Rawls, J. Cohen, J. Habermas, S. Benhabib), the organization of a communicative power could become a way out of the crisis. …”
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The performance of a lateral flow SARS-CoV-2 antibody assay and semi-autonomous SARS-CoV-2 antisense and sense RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization assay in a prospective cohort... by Inge D Wijnberg, Anton J Soons, Johan G Reimerink, Marit Wiersma, Marie Christine J Plat, Tom van Gool, Gijsbert J Jansen, Cornelis Stijnis, Jack G Koning, Adam Meijer

“…SPSS version 25 descriptive statistics and Cohen's kappa assessed agreement between test methods. …”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…In addition, the proposed model’s robustness and trustworthiness are proven by the False Discovery Rate of 0.07142, Cohen Kappa of 0.82105, Mathew’s Correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.83452, and F1-score 0.91005. …”
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Initial use of supplementary oxygen for trauma patients: a systematic review by Trine Grodum Eskesen, Josefine Stokholm Baekgaard, Jacob Steinmetz, Lars S Rasmussen

“…Two independent reviewers screened and identified studies and extracted data from included studies.Results 6142 citations were screened with an inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s kappa) of 0.88. One interventional trial of intubated trauma patients was included. 68 trauma patients were randomised to receive an FiO2 of 0.80 (intervention group) or 0.50 (control group) during mechanical ventilation (first 6 hours). …”
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Effects of Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction Training on Rotator Cuff Strength and Hypertrophy: Case Series by Daniel W Safford, Kshamata M Shah, Frederic Breidenbach, Philip W McClure

“…There were no significant differences when comparing the mean changes of the BFRT side to the non-BFRT side for strength or muscle CSA. …”
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AI-assisted diagnosis of vulvovaginal candidiasis using cascaded neural networks by Zhongxiao Wang, Ruliang Wang, Haichun Guo, Qiannan Zhao, Huijun Ren, Jumin Niu, Ying Wang, Wei Wu, Bingbing Liang, Xin Yi, Xiaolei Zhang, Shiqi Xu, Xianling Dong, Liqun Wang, Qinping Liao

“…The consistency rates and Cohen’s kappa coefficients between experts’ interpretations of microscopic digital images and microscopic examination under eyepiece exceeded 93% and 0.83 for the three different morphologic states of yeast. …”
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Acil Servise Başvuran Hasta ve Hasta Yakınlarının Aydınlatılmış Onam Düzeyinin Sağlıkta Şiddet Olgusu Üzerine Etkisi by Serpil Kaya, Mustafa Burak Karagöz

“…Çalışmanın sonuçlarına göre, sağlık personelleri acil serviste hasta ve hasta yakınlarına yeterli ve gerekli bilgiyi, düzenli olarak verdiğinde hasta ve hasta yakınları sağlık hizmeti sırasında daha sakin bekleyeceği ve sağlık personeline karşı daha saygılı olacakları belirtmişlerdir. …”
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Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance in <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> Isolates from Subclinical Mastitis in Danish Dairy Cows by Desiree Corvera Kløve, Mikael Lenz Strube, Peter M. H. Heegaard, Lærke Boye Astrup

“…Correspondence between phenotypic and genotypic resistance was then evaluated by Cohen’s kappa statistics. Furthermore, the presence of plasmid replicon genes and the strain diversity among the <i>S. epidermidis</i> isolates was investigated to associate these findings with the observed AMR patterns. …”
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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The cycle thresholds of the TaqMan Triplex® commercial kit and the in-house assay for the detection of plasma ZIKV RNA isolated with the standard protocol showed a strong association (r = 0.93, P<0.0001) and a Cohen Kappa index of 0.98 when all 249 samples were analyzed. …”
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AĞIZ HİJYEN EĞİTİMİ ÖNCESİ-SONRASI BİLGİ DÜZEYİ KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI: PİLOT ÇALIŞMA by Aslı Topaloğlu Ak, Ekin Doğan, Kader Yıldız

“…SONUÇ: Genç bireylerde ağız-diş sağlığı ve alışkanlıklarının elde edilmesi ve sürdürülebilir olması için, ağız hijyen eğitiminin kısa aralıklarla düzenli olarak verilmesi gerekir. ANAHTAR KELİMELER: Oral hijyen, adolesan, ağız sağlığı eğitimi…”
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Akademisyenlerin Akademik Sosyal Ağlara Yönelik Tutumları: Ankara Üniversitesi Örneği by Özlem Gökkurt Demirtel, Demet Işık

“…Ancak akademisyenler düzenli kullanım sağlamada, geri bildirimleri takip etmede ve yayın isteklerini karşılamada zorlanmaktadırlar. …”
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Tratamiento rehabilitador para mejorar la discapacidad motriz en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple by Sonia Alexandra Alvarez Carrión, María Belén Pérez García, David Marcelo Guevara Hernández, Marcos Vinicio Caiza Ruiz

“…Se utilizó la prueba de rangos con signos de Wilcoxon para comparar los resultados del pretest y postest en relación con el equilibrio, la longitud y amplitud del paso; así como la prueba d de Cohen para determinar el tamaño del efecto. Resultados: Promedio de edad de 43,56 años (desviación estándar de 15,44), predominio del sexo femenino (52,38 %) y con tiempo de evolución de la enfermedad entre 3 y 6 años (57,14 %). …”
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İMPLANT CERRAHİSİ SONRASI HİPOESTEZİ-6 AYLIK TAKİP: VAKA SERİSİ by Yunus Emre Balaban, Emine Elif Mutafcilar Velioğlu, Sefa Aydındoğan

“…Hastalar durum hakkında bilgilendirilip düzenli kontrollere çağırıldı. Bulgular: 2 hafta sonra yapılan duyu testlerinde %80-90 iyileşme tespit edildi ve ilave medikasyon uygulanmadı. 3 ve 6. ay kontrollerde kontralateral taraftan farklı bir duyu hissi tespit edilmedi. …”
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