HRaccoon: A High-performance Configurable SCA Resilient Raccoon Hardware Accelerator by Ziying Ni, Ayesha Khalid, Zhaoyu Zhang, Yijun Cui, Máire O’Neill

“…As a scheme with built-in masking features, Raccoon is also a viable candidate for NIST’s Masking Circuit and Threshold Cryptography project. Current Raccoon implementations are limited to software or software-hardware co-designs only and consequently lacking in terms of high throughput performance that hardware implementations can generally promise. …”
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Surgical team perceptions of the surgical safety checklist implementation in Indonesian hospitals: a descriptive qualitative study by Inge Dhamanti, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Ika Nur Pratiwi, Vina Himmatus Sholikhah, Fitri Yakub

“…This study aimed to explore the implementation of SSC in Indonesia by investigating the challenges, success factors, impact and role of professional organisations in SSC implementation in Indonesia based on the perspective of the surgical team.Method This descriptive qualitative study, part of a larger research project, employed purposive sampling to select 13 interview participants from surgical teams across hospitals with varying ownership structures, as well as members of surgical-related professional organisations. …”
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Internal Control Systems and Financial Performance of SACCOs in Kabale Municipality. by Kyomugisha, Loyce

“…These were selected using simple random sampling and contacted by questionnaires and interview guide. …”
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Citizen Participation and Service Delivery: A case of Communities in Rukungiri Municipality. by Jonacent, Tumusiime

“…The study adopted a cross sectional-descriptive study design with the population size being 2907households in Rukungiri municipality from which a sample of 352 household heads was selected. A questionnaire was administered to 323 household heads who were recruited using simple random sampling technique while researcher administered interviews were conducted with 29 local leaders using purposively sampled. …”
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Determining the Effects of Land Consolidation on Fuel Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Rural Area by Havva Polat, İsmail Manavbaşı

“…Total of 20 enterprises were selected including four projects and five enterprises chosen according to multipurpose sampling method from each projects for the study. …”
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Characteristics of leaf nutrient resorption efficiency in Tibetan alpine permafrost ecosystems by Guibiao Yang, Meifeng Deng, Lulu Guo, Enzai Du, Zhihu Zheng, Yunfeng Peng, Chunbao Zhao, Lingli Liu, Yuanhe Yang

“…Here, we carry out a large-scale sampling campaign along a permafrost transect on the Tibetan Plateau. …”
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A predictive framework for identifying source populations of non-native marine macroalgae: Chondria tumulosa in the Pacific Ocean by James T. Fumo, Patrick K. Nichols, Taylor Ely, Peter B. Marko, Amy L. Moran, Brian S. Powell, Taylor M. Williams, Randall K. Kosaki, Celia M. Smith, Keolohilani H. Lopes Jr., Jennifer E. Smith, Heather L. Spalding, Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield, Karla J. McDermid, Brian B. Hauk, James Morioka, Kevin O’Brien, Barbara Kennedy, Frederik Leliaert, Mutue T. Fujii, Wendy A. Nelson, Stefano G. A. Draisma, Alison R. Sherwood

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Data Augmentation Approaches for Estimating Curtain Wall Construction Duration in High-Rise Buildings by Sang-Jun Park, Jin-Bin Im, Hye-Soon Yoon, Ju-Hyung Kim

“…First, oversampling and data augmentation techniques, including Latin Hypercube, optimal Latin Hypercube, simple Monte Carlo, descriptive Monte Carlo, Sobol Monte Carlo, synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE), and SMOTE–Tomek, were applied to 15 raw datasets collected from previous projects. The dataset was split into 8:2 for training and testing, where the mentioned techniques were applied to generate 500 virtual samples from the training data. …”
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Modeling the Resilient Modulus Variation of In Situ Soils due to Seasonal Moisture Content Variations by Kevin Gaspard, Zhongjie Zhang, Gavin Gautreau, Khalil Hanifa, Claudia E. Zapata, Murad Abufarsakh

“…LTRC is conducting a research project to determine the seasonal variation of subgrade resilient modulus (MR) in an effort to implement PavementME. …”
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DeepCristae, a CNN for the restoration of mitochondria cristae in live microscopy images by Salomé Papereux, Ludovic Leconte, Cesar Augusto Valades-Cruz, Tianyan Liu, Julien Dumont, Zhixing Chen, Jean Salamero, Charles Kervrann, Anaïs Badoual

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Groundwater residence times and hydrogeochemical processes in a shallow limestone aquifer overlying a deep-well CO2 injection demonstration site by William Howcroft, Kexin Zhang, Wendy Timms

“…Multi-megatonne-scale CO2 storage projects are essential for net zero emissions particularly. …”
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A revisiting of early 18th-century environmental data to identify Gulf of Lion properties before the industrial era by M. Locritani, S. Garvani, S. Garvani, G. Tamburello, A. Guarnieri, A. Guarnieri, G. Manzella

“…The sampling sites were digitised, bathymetric profiles were reconstructed, and tide amplitudes were examined. …”
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Core competencies in pharmaceutical education: a Chinese student perspective by Juan Chen, Xiaohang Zhao, Jiayu Li, Wei Chen, Cheng Jiang, Xinran Wang

“…Differential analysis indicated that significant differences across education levels: undergraduates prioritized foundational knowledge and ethical norms, while postgraduates emphasized project-based learning and ability improvement. Students with work or project experience placed higher value on knowledge application, systematic thinking, strategic capabilities, and innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence. …”
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STANDARDIZATION OF UNCERTAINTY SITUATIONS IN TRAINING MODULES by Sergey A. Safontsev, Natalya Yu. Safontseva

“…Funds of estimated means have been used to measure the level of trainee’s competences: – problematic situation of uncertainty orientation for current control; – situations of test and project orientation for boundary control at the end of each module, intermediate control in the form of the exam held at the end of the semester, as well as state certification of control at the end of the study at the university. …”
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Effects of plastic ingestion on blood chemistry, gene expression and body condition in wedge-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica) by Nicole Mejia, Flavia Termignoni-Garcia, Jennifer Learned, Jay Penniman, Scott V. Edwards

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Profile of research methodology and statistics training of undergraduate medical students at South African universities by Jean Dommisse, Gina Joubert

“…Students at three of the universities complete a research project, at two of these the students complete the full research process from planning up to reporting, whereas the project at the other university focuses mainly on the analysis of data. …”
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Factors Analysis Associated With Villagers Satisfaction of Plan of Hadi: Case Study of gharagol Village of Diwandareh county by moslem savari, nematolah SHIRI, HOSSAIEN shabanalifami

“…Rural guide plan is one of the rural development projects that can have a fundamental role in an integrated development of rural areas. …”
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Multi-Trait Phenotypic Analysis and Biomass Estimation of Lettuce Cultivars Based on SFM-MVS by Tiezhu Li, Yixue Zhang, Lian Hu, Yiqiu Zhao, Zongyao Cai, Tingting Yu, Xiaodong Zhang

“…The results indicated that the RFR model based on the projected convex hull area, point cloud convex hull surface area, and projected convex hull perimeter performed the best, with an <i>R</i>² of 0.90, an RMSE of 2.63 g, and an RMSEn of 9.53%, indicating that the RFR was able to accurately simulate lettuce biomass. …”
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Functional Connectome Fingerprinting Through Tucker Tensor Decomposition by Vitor Carvalho, Mintao Liu, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Ana María Estrada Gómez, Joaquín Goñi

“…In this study, it is hypothesized that tensor decomposition techniques, given their ability to project high-dimensional data into lower-dimensional spaces, enable detecting the brain fingerprint with high accuracy. …”
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Influence of diet patterns on time of emergence of permanent teeth of children of Quetta, Pakistan by Nazeer Khan, Mujeeb ur Rehman Baloch, Hasham Khan, Arham Chohan, Sarfraz Ali Abbasi

“…The project was completed and submitted to HEC in March 2019. …”
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