Heat transfer test method development: Consideration for design and safety of household oven mitts by Adriana Petrova, Semra Peksoz, Aditya Jayadas

“… The purpose of this study was to develop a test method – an apparatus and a protocol for evaluating the rate of heat transfer across a sample of layered materials commonly used in oven mitts. …”
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Analysis method and experimental conditions affect computed circadian phase from melatonin data. by Hadassa Klerman, Melissa A St Hilaire, Richard E Kronauer, Joshua J Gooley, Claude Gronfier, Joseph T Hull, Steven W Lockley, Nayantara Santhi, Wei Wang, Elizabeth B Klerman

“…Melatonin profiles from older subjects and subjects with lower melatonin amplitude were less likely to be fit by all analysis methods. When circadian drift over multiple study days was algebraically removed, there were no significant differences between analysis methods of melatonin onsets (P = 0.57), but there were significant differences between those of melatonin offsets (P<0.0001). …”
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Tumor-specific PET tracer imaging and contrast-enhanced Mri based tumor volume differences inspection of glioblastoma patients by Irshad Ahmed Abbasi, Mohammed Alshehri, Yahya AlQahtani

“…These methods encompassed adaptive threshold algorithms, batch processing pipelines, and image attribute extraction algorithms. …”
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Identification of Non-HLA Genes Associated with Celiac Disease and Country-Specific Differences in a Large, International Pediatric Cohort. by Ashok Sharma, Xiang Liu, David Hadley, William Hagopian, Edwin Liu, Wei-Min Chen, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Ville Simell, Marian Rewers, Anette-G Ziegler, Åke Lernmark, Olli Simell, Jorma Toppari, Jeffrey P Krischer, Beena Akolkar, Stephen S Rich, Daniel Agardh, Jin-Xiong She, TEDDY Study Group

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>There are significant geographical differences in the prevalence and incidence of celiac disease that cannot be explained by HLA alone. …”
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Multifocal Electroretinography as a Method of Functional Assessment of Retinal Laser Injury in Experimental Studies by A. A. Suetov, S. I. Alekperov, M. A. Odinokaya, A. A. Kostina, E. A. Petrova

“…In each eye were applied 6 applications of different laser pulse power (15, 30, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mW). …”
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Real-Time Estimation Method of P-Wave Slowness Based on Kalman Filtering and STC by SUN Hao, CHEN Wenhui, SUN Xuekai, YU Weidong, LI Siyi, ZHAO Peng

“…The currently common real-time acoustic interval time extraction method is the first arrival threshold method. This method is prone to extracting incorrect modal waves in heterogeneous formations and complex borehole conditions, suffering from weak anti-interference capability, insufficient stability, and other issues. …”
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Applying the Triangle Taste Test to Assess Differences between Low Sodium Salts and Common Salt: Evidence from Peru. by Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Robert H Gilman, Francisco Diez-Canseco, María Kathia Cárdenas, Katherine A Sacksteder, J Jaime Miranda

“…<h4>Methods and results</h4>A triangle taste test was conducted and participants were offered samples of cooked rice prepared with different salts. …”
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Evolution characteristics of extreme maximum temperature events in Central China and adaptation strategies under different future warming scenarios by Duan Yiping, You Xia, Wang Rongrong, Ouyang Ping, Wang Guanhua, Chen Muyan, Gong Min

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A novel method for monitoring Cladophora blooms in Qinghai Lake based on UAV imagery by Juan Zhang, Xiaojun Yao, Xinde Chu, Hongyu Duan, Yuxuan Zhang, Hui Chang, Ju Huang

“…Comparative analysis with commonly used visible band indices such as the normalized green-red difference index (NGRDI), color index vegetation (CIVE), vegetation (VEG) index, visible-band difference vegetation index (VDVI), and red-green-blue floating algae index (RGB-FAI) demonstrated that the VSSI was most effective for detecting Cladophora blooms. …”
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Timing of activation of different inspiratory muscles during incremental inspiratory loading in healthy adults: A cross-sectional study by Umi Matsumura, Antenor Rodrigues, Tamires Mori, Peter Rassam, Marine Van Hollebeke, Dmitry Rozenberg, Laurent Brochard, Ewan C Goligher, Darren Roblyer, W Darlene Reid

“…# Purpose To evaluate whether the onset and duration of electromyography (EMG) activity of different inspiratory muscles vary during an incremental inspiratory threshold loading (ITL) in healthy adults and whether it is associated with dyspnea and inspiratory mouth pressure (Pm) at task failure…”
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Preoperative factors associated with failure to achieve the minimal clinically important difference in quality of life following total knee arthroplasty by Takaya Watabe, Takuya Sengoku, Ryota Muramatsu, Masafumi Kubota, Goro Sakurai, Shinya Yoshida, Yuta Taniguchi

“…Methods This single-center cohort study included 149 patients with knee osteoarthritis who underwent primary TKA using the subvastus approach. …”
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Detecting urban vegetation categories based on object-oriented method from IKONOS data by ZHANG Xiu-ying, FENG Xue-zhi, DING Xiao-dong, WANG Ke

“…Firstly, vegetated area and non-vegetated area were separated by the threshold of NDVI and digital number (DN) value of blue band, and further, region growing method was adopted to segment the vegetated area into “objects”, which represent the aggregation of pixels adjacent in location and in DN value. …”
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Fecal 16S rRNA sequencing and metabolomics reveal abnormal metabolism activity in preterm infants with different gestational ages by Ling Liu, Liang Guo, Jincheng Dai, Xiangsheng Cai, Benqing Wu, Benqing Wu

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the differences in gut microbiota and metabolomics in preterm infants stratified by gestational age.MethodsFresh fecal samples were collected from neonates within the first 3 days after birth. …”
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FPGA-based point processing for denoising of the show-through effect in scanned document images by Habibunnisha Nazeer, Nedumaran Damodaran

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Protein networks reveal detection bias and species consistency when analysed by information-theoretic methods. by Luis P Fernandes, Alessia Annibale, Jens Kleinjung, Anthony C C Coolen, Franca Fraternali

“…Based on this rationale, data from yeast-two-hybrid methods are sufficiently consistent to allow for intra-species comparisons (between different experiments) and inter-species comparisons, while data from affinity-purification mass-spectrometry methods show large differences even within intra-species comparisons.…”
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A method for English paragraph grammar correction based on differential fusion of syntactic features. by Weiling Liu, Caijun Zhao, Yongyi Li, Chenglong Cai, Hong Liu, Ruilin Qiu, Ruoci Su, Bingbing Li

“…Firstly, the sentence vector representation is constructed by BERT, and then the syntactic structure is extracted by dependency parsing. Then carry out difference fusion analysis, measure the syntactic differences of adjacent sentences by cosine similarity, identify the significant differences caused by grammatical errors according to the preset threshold, lock the position and type of errors, and input the original sentence vector into the Seq2Seq model based on Transformer. …”
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A method of urban high-precision DEM construction based on point cloud model by Weibo Zeng, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Shuangxi Gu, Ran Zhang, Lele Yu, Yijun Zhou, Yuqing Zhuo

“…Subsequently, the slope factor is introduced to achieve an adaptive adjustment of the threshold for the height difference of the point cloud surface fitting. …”
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Corn Seed Freezing Damage Identification of Different Sides Based on Hyperspectral Imaging and SPA-2DCOS Fusion Algorithm by Jun Zhang, Limin Dai, Ruiyuan Zhuang

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Digestate Application on Grassland: Effects of Application Method and Rate on GHG Emissions and Forage Performance by Petr Šařec, Václav Novák, Oldřich Látal, Martin Dědina, Jaroslav Korba

“…Vegetation status was assessed via Sentinel-2-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index, and Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index, and agronomic performance through dry matter yield (DMY), net energy for lactation (NEL), and relative feed value (RFV). …”
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Satellite-based detection of deep-convective clouds: the sensitivity of infrared methods and implications for cloud climatology by A. Z. Kotarba, I. Wojciechowska

“…These methods are the infrared-window method (IRW; <span class="inline-formula"><i>T</i>_b11</span>), the brightness temperature difference method (BTD; <span class="inline-formula"><i>T</i>_b6.7−<i>T</i>_b11</span>), and the temperature difference method with the tropopause method (TROPO; <span class="inline-formula"><i>T</i>_b11−<i>T</i>_tropo</span>). …”
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