Design and Fabrication of a Plastic Biogas Digester for the Production of Biogas from Cow Dung by KeChrist Obileke, Sampson Mamphweli, Edson L. Meyer, Golden Makaka, Nwabunwanne Nwokolo

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Primary intracranial malignant melanoma in an adolescent: case report and literature review by Nyoman Golden, I Gusti Ketut Agung Surya Kencana, Christopher Lauren, Angky Saputra, Denny Japardi

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Innovative trend analysis of precipitation changes over Nigeria: A case study of locations across the Niger and Benue Rivers by Emmanuel P. Agbo, Golden C. Offorson, Abubakar S. Yusuf, John O. Bassey, Moses A. Okono, Ugochukwu Nkajoe, Patrick O. Ushie

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Scoping review of costs of implementation strategies in community, public health and healthcare settings by Hongmei Wang, Jungyoon Kim, Tzeyu L Michaud, Emiliane Pereira, Gwenndolyn Porter, Caitlin Golden, Jennie Hill, Cindy Schmidt, Paul A Estabrooks

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Human-Centered Design of an mHealth Tool for Optimizing HIV Index Testing in Wartime Ukraine: Formative Research Case Study by Nancy Puttkammer, Elizabeth Dunbar, Myroslava Germanovych, Mariia Rosol, Matthew Golden, Anna Hubashova, Vladyslav Fedorchenko, Larisa Hetman, Liudmyla Legkostup, Jan Flowers, Olena Nesterova

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Fleece-Lined Whelping Pools Associated with Reduced Incidence of Canine Hip Dysplasia in a Guide Dog Program by Lynna C. Feng, Alexandra Philippine, Elizabeth Ball-Conley, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere

“…These results provide correlational evidence that housing-related environmental factors during the first three weeks of development—specifically, the substrate in the whelping pool—are associated with lifelong orthopedic health.…”
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Assessment of economic burden due to COVID-19 pandemic during institutional childbirth in Nepal: before-and-after design by Ashish KC, Rejina Gurung, Prajwal Paudel, Honey Malla, Avinash K Sunny, Mats Målqvist, Omkar Basnet, Pratiksha Bhattarai

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Random Cross-Validation Produces Biased Assessment of Machine Learning Performance in Regional Landslide Susceptibility Prediction by Chandan Kumar, Gabriel Walton, Paul Santi, Carlos Luza

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Relationship of Nitrogen Use Efficiency with the Activities of Enzymes Involved in Nitrogen Uptake and Assimilation of Finger Millet Genotypes Grown under Different Nitrogen Inputs by Nidhi Gupta, Atul K. Gupta, Vikram S. Gaur, Anil Kumar

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Application of Videofluoroscopy Digital Analysis in Swallowing Function Assessment for Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma after Radiotherapy by Suyue HE, Kui LI, Zulin DOU

“…And ten healthy people without thistory of nasopharyngeal carcinoma radiaton and other diseases which can affect swallowing function in society were recruited as the control group. All subjects were assessed by VFSS.Results:The experimental group showed significant differences in oral transit time, soft palate elevation time, hyoid vertical displacement, as well as the opening time and range of upper esophageal sphincter (UES) compared with the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Using digital analysis of VFSS can quantify swallowing function, it is the golden standard test for detection of dysphagia.…”
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Communication between nodes in backscatter-assisted wireless powered communication network by Jie TAO, Haijiang GE, Minyuan WU, Qike SHAO, Kaikai CHI

“…At present, there is almost no design on information transmission between the nodes in wireless powered communication network.The high-throughput information transmission between the nodes in backscatter assisted wireless powered communication network was studied.A scheme was proposed which consisted of backscattering/energy transmission phase and active communication phase.The maximum throughput was modeled as a convex optimization problem.Then, based on the relationship between the total backscatter communication duration and the threshold of node energy capture duration, the problem was decomposed into several sub problems that only need to optimize two backscatter durations.An efficient two-level golden section search algorithm was designed to solve the sub problems, and the optimal solution of the original problem was obtained from the optimal solutions of the sub problems.Simulation results show that, compared with pure active communication scheme and pure backscatter communication scheme, the proposed scheme can effectively improve the throughput.…”
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Heart–brain microvascular MRI study: protocol for a multicentre, observational, cohort study in the UK assessing associations between small vessel disease of the heart and brain by Colin Berry, Alex McConnachie, Peter Kellman, Terry Quinn, Paul Donnelly, Vanessa Orchard, Robert A Sykes, Gemma McKinley, Conor Patrick Bradley, Jodi Watt, Natasha Fullerton

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Response after Infection-Associated Rise in Clozapine Levels in Treatment-Resistant Schizoaffective Disorder by Nina H. Grootendorst-van Mil, Anna R. M. Huiskens, Sieds Dieleman, Tom K. Birkenhäger

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Assessment of Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Static Loading Pile Based on Cusp Catastrophe Theory by Jibao Yang, Xing Huang, Hao Ni, Shilong Hao, Fudong Liu, Zhangrong Liu

“…In this paper, a cusp catastrophe theory-based method was proposed for assessing the ultimate bearing capacity of static loading pile. …”
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Assessment of Enzymatic Browning and Evaluation of Antibrowning Methods on Dates by Mariam Al-Amrani, Ahmed Al-Alawi, Insaaf Al-Marhobi

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Comparison between AI and human expert performance in acute pain assessment in sheep by Marcelo Feighelstein, Stelio P. Luna, Nuno O. Silva, Pedro E. Trindade, Ilan Shimshoni, Dirk van der Linden, Anna Zamansky

“…Four veterinary experts used two types of pain scoring scales: the sheep facial expression scale (SFPES) and the Unesp-Botucatu composite behavioral scale (USAPS), which is the ‘golden standard’ in sheep pain assessment. The developed AI pipeline based on CLIP encoder significantly outperformed human facial scoring (AUC difference = 0.115, p < 0.001) when having access to the same visual information (front and lateral face images). …”
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Assessment of the Effect of Replacing Normal Aggregate by Porcelinite on the Behaviour of Layered Steel Fibrous Self-Compacting Reinforced Concrete Slabs under Uniform Load by Ahmed S. D. AL-Ridha, Ali A. Abbood, Ali F. Atshan

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Practicality of Student-Centered Assessment/Learning using Mathematics Modeling Process Worksheets to Improve the Quality of Education by Bambang Riyanto

“…It is necessary to consider reforms to improve the quality of education through assessment/learning. The problem formulation of this research is how to design student-centered assessment/learning using practical mathematical modeling process worksheets to improve the quality of education? …”
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Digital trophies: using social media to assess wildlife crime in Lebanon by André F. Raine, Jason Gregg, Lloyd Scott, Axel Hirschfeld, Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi, Filippo Bamberghi

“…We analysed photographs posted on social media platforms to assess the bird species illegally targeted in Lebanon. …”
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A comprehensive assessment of source material for apple breeding for immunity and fruit quality by E. V. Ulyanovskaya, T. G. Prichko, L. D. Chalaya

“…An advanced method of polyploidy based on inclusion of parental forms with immunity to scab was applied in Apple selection. Integrated assessment of key biological traits of varieties and forms of Apple with diverse ploidy in unstable environments resulted in a selection of donors and sources of significant characteristics for Apple breeding such as resistance and immunity to major fungal pathogens, large fruit, bright red color of the fruit, improved chemical composition. …”
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