Evaluation of pain during diagnostic and surgical minihysteroscopy under local anesthesia by Adrian Nowak, Karolina Chmaj-Wierzchowska, Małgorzata Kampioni, Adam Malinger, Maciej Wilczak

“…The level of pain was measured using the visual analog scale (VAS). Results The average intensity of pain during the procedure in both groups was rated at 3 points (3.03 ±2.25 points). …”
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Small hydropower impacts on water quality: A comparative analysis of different assessment methods by Paweł Tomczyk, Michał Tymcio, Alban Kuriqi, José Maria Santos, Mirosław Wiatkowski

“…Hierarchical cluster analysis also showed a greater influence of factors other than hydropower plants on water quality. The average compliance with the standards based on the selected water quality classifications was 76.9%. …”
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LiDAR-based edge extraction method for underground belt conveyors by HUANG Chenxuan, CHANG Jian, WANG Lei

“…The combined rviz and Gazebo simulation results showed that, under different operating conditions of the robot, the accuracy of belt conveyor edge extraction was no less than 96.33%. …”
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Recognition of Conus species using a combined approach of supervised learning and deep learning-based feature extraction. by Noshaba Qasmi, Rimsha Bibi, Sajid Rashid

“…The evaluation results suggested that RF outperformed XGB due to its high accuracy in recognizing Conus species, with an average precision of 95.78%. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.99, indicating the model's optimal performance. …”
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[Implantation of Reveal LINQ in Different Italian Scenarios: How to Further Improve?] by Gaetano Senatore, Emilio Di Lorenzo, Orietta Zaniolo, Giovanni Liuzzi

“…For each of the involved facilities, data on the operating room type, length of hospital stay, resource consumption, and unit costs associated with the implantation procedure were collected. …”
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Evaluating the predictive value of frailty scores for critical care admission and hospital stay in elderly surgical patients: A comparison of the mFI-5 and CCI. by Marc Lincoln, Liadán Tobin-Schnittger, Marianne Foley, Dulmi Nawartha, Pádraig Ó Scanaill

“…Critical care admission was required for 20 patients, and the average hospital length of LoS was 4.5 days. AUROC analysis demonstrated that neither the MFI-5 nor CCI were predictive of critical care admission or extended LoS in this cohort.…”
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Dual Bandwidth Enhancement Using a New Multi-Resonance Feeding Structure for 5G Communication by Rui Li, Longyue Qu, Seokju Wi, Huanxuan Ren, Hyeongdong Kim

“…This proposed technology has the advantage of achieving input impedance matching more easily and covers most fifth-generation (5G) NR operating bands in FR1 (n1, n3, n5, n8, n25, n30, n41, n66), indicating its promising application to 5G communication.…”
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Justification of the power of the heat pump used in the cooling system of the steam turbine condenser of the CCGT-CHP by M. A. Treshcheva, I. D. Anikina, D. A. Treshchev

“…Mathematical modeling of the operating modes of a heating CCGT with a HP in the cooling system was used as a research method. …”
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Enhancing efficiency of magnetic energy by implementing square-shaped materials adjacent to induction machine windings by Muhammad Afnan Habibi, Soraya Norma Mustika, Aripriharta Aripriharta, Adi Izhar Che Ani

“…Currently, the system efficiency is 0.29 on average. A 1 kHz transmitter's energy is constant under all conditions, but its counterpart's energy fluctuates significantly, with case 5 receiving the most energy. …”
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Computer Vision-Based Robotic System Framework for the Real-Time Identification and Grasping of Oysters by Hao-Ran Qu, Jue Wang, Lang-Rui Lei, Wen-Hao Su

“…Central to this system is the integration of a high-resolution vision module, dual operational controllers, and the collaborative AUBO-i3 robot, all harmonized through a sophisticated Robot Operating System (ROS) framework. …”
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Evaluation of Forklift Workers’ Perception Accuracy of the Carried Cargo Weight Using a Virtual Reality Simulator by Nobuyoshi Hashimoto, Wataru Wakita, Susumu Okumura, Takuma Saga

“…In the developed simulator, users with a head-mounted display can experience virtual forklift operations using the operating equipment in a cab mock-up. …”
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Oxidative Desulfurization of Diesel Fuel Using Three Kinds of Carboxylic Acids Supported by Iron(III) Chloride by Jalil H. Kareem

“…The influence of various operating parameters affecting the oxidative desulfurization was experimentally investigated. …”
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Compact waveguide-integrated metasurface twist with filtering and phase shifting capabilities for millimeter-wave guided-wave applications by Amirmasood Bagheri, Zahra Rahimian Omam, Pei Xiao, Seyed Ehsan Hosseininejad, Mohsen Khalily

“…A fabricated prototype operating in the 26.6–29 GHz band shows an average insertion loss of 0.6 dB and a minimum of 0.34 dB at 28 GHz. …”
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Modeling of Exhaust Gas Temperature at the Turbine Outlet Using Neural Networks and a Physical Expansion Model by Alessandro Brusa, Alice Grossi, Mirco Lenzi, Fenil Panalal Shethia, Nicolò Cavina, Ioannis Kitsopanidis

“…The models are calibrated with steady-state data and then evaluated based on accuracy and robustness under transient operating conditions on six driving cycles with different features. …”
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YOLO-OHFD: A YOLO-Based Oriented Hair Follicle Detection Method for Robotic Hair Transplantation by Hui Wang, Xin Liu

“…The proposed YOLO-OHFD method outperformed existing techniques, achieving a mean average precision (mAP) of 87.01% and operating at 43.67 frames per second (FPS). …”
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Characterization of EAF and LF Slags Through an Upgraded Stationary Flowsheet Model of the Electric Steelmaking Route by Ismael Matino, Alice Petrucciani, Antonella Zaccara, Valentina Colla, Maria Ferrer Prieto, Raquel Arias Pérez

“…For the estimation of the content of most compounds in slags, the average relative percentage error is below 20% for most of the considered steel families. …”
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Creep Behavior of Uncoated, Bond-Coated, and Thermal Barrier coated Ti-6Al-4V by Flavio Perpetuo Briguente, Renata Jesuina Takahashi, Leonardo Henrique Fazan, Adriano Gonçalves dos Reis, Danieli Aparecida Pereira Reis

“…Microstructural analysis revealed that the delamination of the layers increased with the operating temperature.…”
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Aptamer-Functionalized Platform for Selective Bacterial Isolation and Rapid RNA Purification Using Capture Pins by Md Aminul Islam, Rebecca Giorno, Gergana G. Nestorova

“…RT-qPCR analysis indicated that the RCPs recovered, on average, 2.3 ng of 16S RNA per RCP from bacterial suspensions and 0.1 ng from aptamer-functionalized surfaces. …”
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Adverse to Normal Image Reconstruction Using Inverse of StarGAN for Autonomous Vehicle Control by Maryam Asad Samani, Mohammad Farrokhi

“…This work represents a significant step forward in enhancing the safety, reliability, and overall robustness of autonomous systems operating in challenging and unpredictable weather conditions.…”
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Characteristics of landfill leachates and bio-solids of municipal solid waste (MSW) in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia by M.I. Al-Wabel, W.S. Al Yehya, A.S. AL-Farraj, S.E. El-Maghraby

“…While in the bio-solids (landfill sediments) the average content of Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni and V reached to 10, 242, 234, 48,608, 190, 18, 166 and 24 mg kg−1. …”
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