Effect of Cumulative Tobacco Exposure on Blood Eosinophil Level in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by İlknur Kaya, Dilek Karadoğan, Merve Yumrukuz Şenel, Tahsin Gökhan Telatar, Metin Akgün

“…The average smoking history of our patients was 52.38 ± 30.69 (mean ± SD) pack/year. …”
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Preparedness of Dentists to Manage Anxiety in Developmentally Disabled Patients by Maura B. Lynch, Lynn M. Tepper, Steven Chussid, Renuka Bijoor

“…Regarding treating this population, the average response regarding both confidence and wanting to learn more fell between disagree and agree at 2.92, while the average response regarding concern about safety fell between agree and strongly agree at 3.22. …”
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Spatiotemporal Differentiation of Carbon Emission Efficiency and Influencing Factors in the Five Major Maize Producing Areas of China by Zhiyuan Zhang, Huiyan Qin

“…Kernel density estimation and the Dagum Gini coefficient are used to analyze spatiotemporal disparities, while a geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model explores the underlying drivers. …”
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Bringing Intelligence to SAR Missions: A Comprehensive Dataset and Evaluation of YOLO for Human Detection in TIR Images by Mostafa Rizk, Israa Bayad

“…Effective search and rescue (SAR) missions are critical for locating and assisting injured or missing individuals while optimizing resource allocation and minimizing costs. …”
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Fabrication of the Polyvinyl fluoride Nanofibers Membranes Via Electrospinning Technique for Oil Removal by Thamer Diwan, Zaidun N. Abudi, Mustafa H. Al-Furaiji, Rouhollah Y. Farsani

“…Furthermore, the membranes surfaced exhibited an increase in average surface roughness (Ra) from 0.171 µm to 0.279 µm, while the contact angle increased from 81° to 135°. …”
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Microbiological Assessment of the Different Hand Drying Methods and Washroom Environment Cross-Contamination by Fayza Kouadri

“…Plates exposed to the turned-off dryer for 5 minutes gave an average of only 25 colonies/plate, while plates exposed to the air outlet of the turned-on warm air dryers provided 292 colonies/plate. …”
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On a Batch Arrival Queuing System Equipped with a Stand-by Server during Vacation Periods or the Repairs Times of the Main Server by Rehab F. Khalaf, Kailash C. Madan, Cormac A. Lukas

“…Supplementary variables technique has been used to obtain steady state results in explicit and closed form in terms of the probability generating functions for the number of customers in the queue, the average number of customers, and the average waiting time in the queue while the MathCad software has been used to illustrate the numerical results in this work.…”
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Milk and dairy products in hotel daily menue by Greta Krešić, Irena Colić Barić, Borislav Šimundić

“…The obtained results indicated that the meals should be balanced according to nutritional principles, because of too high energy share derived from fats (average 47.95%) while just about 37.57% of daily energy was from carbohydrates origin. …”
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SIMULASI PENERAPAN TEORI ANTRIAN DALAM PEMBATASAN PENGUNJUNG OBJEK WISATA by Ezra Putranda Setiawan, Heru Sukoco, Lusi Harini

“…This restriction become a dilemma since the manager of the tourism places want to maximize their profit by allowing all visitor, while the government still limiting the number of visitor to avoid crowding. …”
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Structural Analysis of Chemical and Green Synthesis of CuO Nanoparticles and their Effect on Biofilm Formation by Baghdad Science Journal

“…X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD) reveals single phase monoclinic structure. The average crystalline size of CuO NPs was measured and used by Scherrer equation which found 44.06nm from chemical method, while the average crystalline size was found from green method was 27.2nm. …”
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Institutional Ownership and Corporate Sustainable Growth: Insights from the Indonesian Banking Sector by Amrie Firmansyah, Nafis Dwi Kartiko

“…However, firm size and firm age do not significantly moderate this relationship for firms with either above-average or below-average asset levels. Further analysis reveals that institutional ownership negatively affects smaller firms, while its impact on larger firms is statistically insignificant. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUESTIONNAIRE TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS ATTITUDES AND APPROACHES IN PHYSICS PROBLEM SOLVING by J. Sirait, L. Sutrisno, N. Balta, A. Mason

“…This study aims to develop physics problem solving survey utilized to obtain students’ attitude and approach while solving physics problem. Several steps are conducted to develop the survey: validating, computing reliability, and testing. …”
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Trip Patterns and Revenue of Shared E-Scooters in Louisville, Kentucky by Robert B. Noland

“…Rain and snow reduce usage while higher winds slightly reduce trip distances. …”
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Finite-time quantum Otto engine subject to control noise and enhancement techniques by Theodore McKeever, Owen Diba, Ahsan Nazir

“…Here, we evaluate the impact of control noise on a quantum Otto cycle. While it is postulated that noiseless quantum engines can approach maximal Otto efficiency in finite times, the existence of white noise on the controls is shown to negatively affect average engine performance. …”
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MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PERMULAAN PADA SISWA MADRASAH IBTIDAIYAH DENGAN METODE JOLLY PHONICS by Nur Aisyah, Mayasari, Ida Farida

“…The next test is using Pre-Experimental Design Type One Group Pretest Posttest in a single group. The average posttest score was 67.69, while the average pretest score was 54.62. …”
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Comparative study of the academic revenue of nursing students when using tutorial software by Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Thelma Leite de Araujo

“…For the group 1 a work of group reading was applied with posterior discussion, while for the second was applied software of no-lineal structure of the tutorial type. …”
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Impact of decoherence on the fidelity of quantum gates leaving the computational subspace by Tahereh Abad, Yoni Schattner, Anton Frisk Kockum, Göran Johansson

“…These results are useful for understanding the error budgets of quantum gates while scaling up quantum computers.…”
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PROFILE OF UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF STRAIGHT MOTION KINEMATICS IN STUDENTS OF SMAN 8 KOTA BENGKULU by Rany Utami Putri, Ahmad Syarkowi, Rosane Medriati

“…The highest percentage in the aspect of understanding the concept was interpretation and extrapolation with the results of the average score of 33% in the medium category, while the  the lowest in the aspect of translation obtained an average score of 26% in the low category…”
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ECOLOGICAL STUDY AND SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SOME PEAR VARIETIES TO INFESTATION BY Eriophyes pyri Pagest. (Eriophyidae, Acariformes) by Nazar M. Al-Mallah

“…The correlation values between the average mites number, number of blisters, infection percentage and the average temperature, relative humidity and leaf space were varied according to pear variety. …”
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INFLUENCE OF HYBRID AND WEATHER CONDITIONS ON YIELD, PROTEIN AND OIL CONTENTS IN GRAIN OF MAIZE by Dorina BONEA, Ioana Claudia DUNĂREANU

“…The results obtained showed that the weather conditions during the study years were the determinant factor of variability in grain yield (88%), and the hybrid was the determinant factor of variability in protein and oil contents (84% and 83%, respectively). In average, in 2018, a significantly higher grain yield (9.05 t/ha) and a significantly lower oil content (4.2%) were registered compared to 2019 (6.08 t/ha and 4.5%, respectively), while the protein content was almost similar in both years (12.5% and 12.3%, respectively). …”
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