Floristic Diversity and Natural Regeneration Status of Entoto Mountain and the Surrounding Area in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Ergua Atinafe, Ephrem Assefa, Birhanu Belay, Yemenzwork Endale, Talemos Seta

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Análise comparativa da aplicação do programa Seis Sigma em processos de manufatura e serviços Comparative analyses of Six-Sigma program application in manufacturing and services pr... by Luis Ricardo Galvani, Luiz César R. Carpinetti

“…Even with sample restriction, the results show key differences that can lead to benefits to services application.…”
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Pilot Study: Hourglass Technique for Male Gluteal Enhancement by Gladstone Faria, MD, Rebecca Medina, MD, Luciana Zattar, MD, Renata Viana, MD, Ricardo Boggio, PHD

“…All patients demonstrated enhanced gluteal definition and projection with the preservation of masculine traits and no feminization. …”
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Bridging the Gender Gap in Academia by Zainab Jehan, Saima Hamid, Shaheen Sardar Ali, Inayat Ali, Azra Yasmin, Ann Stewart

“…Moreover, a dissemination workshop was also organized with a view to share findings of the project and receive feedback from participants regarding impact of the capacity-building and mentoring activities. …”
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Network propagation of rare variants in Alzheimer's disease reveals tissue-specific hub genes and communities. by Marzia Antonella Scelsi, Valerio Napolioni, Michael D Greicius, Andre Altmann, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP)

“…We present a framework that enables enhanced genetic association testing for a wide range of traits, diseases, and sample sizes.…”
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Dual-Stream Contrastive Latent Learning Generative Adversarial Network for Brain Image Synthesis and Tumor Classification by Junaid Zafar, Vincent Koc, Haroon Zafar

“…We used a transformer-based encoder–decoder framework for contextual coherence and the contrastive learning projection (CLP) module integrates contrastive loss into the latent space for generating diverse image samples. …”
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Effects of Compensation Measures on Post-earthquake Building Reconstruction by Taking Reconstruction Factors as Mediating Variables: Evidence from China by Quan Mao, Junhan Du, Yile Wu, Jaynax Tasken, Yulong Li

“…A questionnaire was designed to investigate the post-earthquake building reconstruction projects in China, with 251 respondents participated. …”
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Improving Palliative Care Knowledge of nurses caring for heart failure patients by Sana Ali, Kim McMillan, Freya Kelly

“…Method This project was guided by the Knowledge-to-Action framework. …”
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Evaluation of Suitability of Drainage Water of Al-Hussainia sector (Kut-Iraq) For Irrigation by Omran I. Mohammad, Laheab abas jassim

“…       Al-Hussainia sector is the middle sector of Al-Dalmaj irrigation project. In this study, a specified area of Al-Hussainia sector has been selected to be evaluated for its water suitability for irrigation. …”
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Electronic publishing and its promotional rolein interior Design by Rawaa Mustafa khalaf, Faten Abbas lafta

“…The study and the use of drawing programs that were applied to smart devices and the research sample on which the work was applied was the Greater Beijing Airport. …”
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ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ROADWAY’S CONSTRUCTION ON ADJACENT WATER RESOURCES: A CASE STUDY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF ALBANIA by Blerina BEQAJ

“…Furthermore, this study was conducted to assess the effects of a road construction project situated in the southern part of Albania, on physic-chemical parameters of surface water by collecting water samples from Skotini stream. …”
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Comparison of Concrete Strength Development Using Different Brands of Cement of N32.5 in Uganda . by Beinamani, Edidia

“…The methodology involved preparing and curing concrete samples with each brand, followed by testing their compressive strength at specified intervals. …”
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A GDPR-compliant solution for analysis of large-scale genomics datasets on HPC cloud infrastructure by Silvia Gioiosa, Beatrice Chiavarini, Mattia D’Antonio, Giuseppe Trotta, Balasubramanian Chandramouli, Juan Mata Naranjo, Giuseppa Muscianisi, Mirko Cestari, Elisa Rossi

“…Cohort studies involving the processing of hundreds or thousands of input samples, combined with the integration of diverse diagnostic data, enable researchers to conduct integrative analyses at an unprecedented level of detail would have been impossible to achieve through single sample studies. …”
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Digitalization of the tardigrade collection of Giuseppe Ramazzotti by Silvia Zaupa, Diego Fontaneto, Roberta Piscia, Lyudmila Kamburska

“…It is a historical collection that includes samples taken over a period of years from 1938 to 1964 in Europe, Africa, North and South America by one of the Italian taxonomists working on the phylum Tardigrada. …”
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A real-world multi-center RNA-seq benchmarking study using the Quartet and MAQC reference materials by Duo Wang, Yaqing Liu, Yuanfeng Zhang, Qingwang Chen, Yanxi Han, Wanwan Hou, Cong Liu, Ying Yu, Ziyang Li, Ziqiang Li, Jiaxin Zhao, Leming Shi, Yuanting Zheng, Jinming Li, Rui Zhang

“…As part of the Quartet project, we present an RNA-seq benchmarking study across 45 laboratories using the Quartet and MAQC reference samples spiked with ERCC controls. …”
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Effect of Clay on Internal Erosion of Clay-Sand-Gravel Mixture by Chen Liang, Cai Guo-dong, Gu Jia-hui, Tan Ye-fei, Chen Cheng, Yin Zi-xue

“…Six clay-sand-gravel mixture samples with different clay contents were used to evaluate the effect of different clay contents on internal erosion. …”
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Aroma profiling of long shelf-life yoghurt from milk with varying acidity: Insights from sensory evaluation and instrumental analysis by Jia Wang, Dongjie Zhang, Jie Li, Tingting Zou, Rong Wen, Yaqiong Hou, Huanlu Song, Hongliang Li, Hairan Ma, Jiao Shi

“…Subsequent precise quantification and calculation of odor activity values (OAVs) showed significant differences in aroma profiles among samples with different compound concentrations. Finally, partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and variable importance of projection (VIP) showed that the differential compounds in long shelf-life yoghurt were acetoin, butanoic acid, 2,3-butanedione, hexanoic acid, and nonanal, while the differential compounds in milk samples were hexanoic acid, 2,3-butanedione, decanal, nonanal, and acetic acid. …”
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Establishing Land Suitability Criteria for Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) in Indonesia by Widiatmaka, Atang Sutandi, Anas Iswandi, Usman Daras, Muhammad Hikmat, Ari Krisnohadi

“…Cashew plantations in 5 provinces were sampled. The data of production per tree per year were obtained from farmers, while the soil was sampled and analyzed in the laboratory. …”
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Effect of Heat Treatment Temperature on Isothermal Oxidation of Ni-based Fe-33Ni-19Cr Alloy by N.A.Z. Zaiton, N. Parimin, N.F Hayazi, F.F. Zainal, S. Garus, P. Vizureanu

“…This project studies the influence of different grain sizes of Ni-based Fe-33Ni-19Cr alloy obtained from heat treatment procedure on high temperature isothermal oxidation. …”
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Characteristics and utilisation of the Mayo Clinic Biobank, a clinic-based prospective collection in the USA: cohort profile by Richard R Sharp, Euijung Ryu, Janet E Olson, Matthew A Hathcock, Ruchi Gupta, Joshua T Bublitz, Paul Y Takahashi, Suzette J Bielinski, Jennifer L St Sauver, Karen Meagher, Stephen N Thibodeau, Mine Cicek, James R Cerhan

“…Here we provide examples of the types of studies that have successfully utilised the resource, including (1) investigations of the population itself, (2) provision of controls for case–control studies, (3) genotype-driven research, (4) EHR-based research and (5) prospective recruitment to other studies. Over 270 projects have been approved to date to access Biobank data and/or samples; over 200 000 sample aliquots have been approved for distribution.Future plans The data and samples in the Mayo Clinic Biobank can be used for various types of epidemiological and clinical studies, especially in the setting of case–control studies for which the Biobank samples serve as control samples. …”
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