Triangular Fuzzy Finite Element Solution for Drought Flow of Horizontal Unconfined Aquifers by Christos Tzimopoulos, Nikiforos Samarinas, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Christos Evangelides

“…The results are in close agreement with those of the other methods, with the mean error of the analytical solution found to be equal to <inline-formula><math display="inline" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>1.19</mn><mo>·</mo><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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STANDARDIZATION OF CLINICAL PHARMACIST FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN HOSPITAL SETTING IN UKRAINE AND ABROAD by Andriy Zimenkovsky, Х.І. Макух, Myroslava Sekh, Marta Zayats

“…Collection, analysis, and standardization of practical functions of a clinical pharmacist in national and foreign inpatient health care facilities, as well as identification of barriers during the integration of clinical pharmacy services in Ukraine. Materials and Methods. The applied methods include a systematic approach, bibliographic, standardization, group method of expert evaluations, structural-logical, analytical-comparative, computer data processing, and modeling. …”
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Enhancing Pediatric Interns&amp;rsquo; Clinical Skills Through Simulation-Based Training by Ba H, Xu L, Peng H, Gu Y, Li Y, Jiang X, Li X, Li S

“…A mixed-method approach, including formal assessments and Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercises (Mini-CEX), was used to assess knowledge, clinical abilities, and overall competencies. …”
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Cost of Serum Versus Skin Allergy Testing Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries in the United States by Kenny Y. Kwong, Yang Z. Lu

“…# Background Testing for allergic sensitization can be achieved similarly via skin or serum specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) testing, although the costs of each method differ. # Objective This study compared cost and utilization of allergy testing utilizing skin vs sIgE testing and whether equal access (parity) to both testing methods affects overall allergy testing costs among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in the United States…”
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Efficient Online Recruitment of Patients With Depressive Symptoms Using Social Media: Cross-Sectional Observational Study by Carolin Haas, Lisa Klein, Marlene Heckl, Marija Kesić, Ann-Katrin Rueß, Jochen Gensichen, Karoline Lukaschek, Tobias Kruse

“…The total cost per patient recruited online was comparable to that achieved using offline methods, but overall recruitment progressed faster. …”
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Peritoneal Laser Doppler Flowmetry in Predicting and Diagnosing Tertiary Peritonitis by D. S. Parshin, M. A. Topchiyev

“…To identify early, trigger indicators of peritoneal microcirculation in tertiary peritonitis, obtained by the PLDF method.Material and methods. A retrospective analysis of the results of treatment of 48 patients operated on for secondary diffuse purulent peritonitis in the clinic of general surgery of the Astrakhan State Medical University in the period from 2015 to 2019 was carried out. …”
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The relationship between serum uric acid level and concentration of proangiogenic endothelial progenitor cells in chronic heart failure patients by A. A. Kremzer

“…the objective of this study: to establish predictive relationship between the content of uric acid in the blood and the level of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with CHF of ischemic origin. Methods: The study population was structured retrospectively in 126 subjects (54 male), aged 48 to 62 years, with mild-to-severe ischemic CHFSUA level was measured by enzymatic methods, NT-pro-BNP level was examined by immunoelectrochemiluminesence method. …”
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Construction and Validation of a Model for Predicting Fear of Childbirth: A Cross-Sectional Population Study via Machine Learning by Zhang ZL, Chen KJ, Chen H, Zhu MM, Gu JJ, Jiang LS, Zheng L, Zhou SG

“…The model was built using ten types of machine learning and was evaluated to perform well.Conclusion: Gravidity, history of adverse pregnancy outcomes, history of cesarean section, planned pregnancy, payment method, and SSRS score are risk factors for FOC in late-pregnancy women. …”
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A flexible resubmitted variable sampling plan for product quality determination using the process loss index by Darmawan Armin, Bahri Syamsul, Amar Kifayah, Do Bagus Muhammad Reza, Tahir Nurfaidah

“…An analysis is conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed sampling plan and compare it to the characteristics of the typical single-sample plan. The proposed method enables a reduction in the sample size that is tested while maintaining an equal level of protection for both the manufacturer and the consumer. …”
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A New Iterative Algorithm for Pseudomonotone Equilibrium Problem and a Finite Family of Demicontractive Mappings by F. U. Ogbuisi, F. O. Isiogugu

“…Our result does not require that we impose the condition that the sum of the control sequences used in the finite convex combination is equal to 1. Furthermore, we state and prove a strong convergence result and give some numerical experiments to demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of our iterative method.…”
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Distribution of Exchange Interaction Fields for 2D and 3D Systems of Spherical Dipoles by A.G. Makarov, K.V. Nefedev

“…By the method of numerical simulation have been shown that the dipole-dipole interaction in the high-anisotropic spherical magnetic dipole moments can result in the case of the particle distribution on the plane to poorly defined ferromagnetism, and for the distribution in the volume to the equality of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. …”
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Outcomes of surgical treatment of thyroid disease in children by Olga S. Rogova, Lubov N. Samsonovа, Goar F. Okminyan, Elena V. Kiseleva, Oleg Yu. Latyshev, Elvira P. Kasatkina, Mikhail I. Pykov, Aleksey B. Okulov, Kirill K. Mirakov

“…At present there is no optimal method of treatment for thyroid gland pathology, but one of the methods is surgery. …”
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Analisis Metode Cosine Similarity Pada Aplikasi Ujian Online Otomatis (Studi Kasus JTI POLINEMA) by Eka Larasati Amalia, Angelita Justien Jumadi, Irsyad Arif Mashudi, Dimas Wahyu Wibowo

“…In this study, an online essay exam system was made with the similarity of answers using the Cosine Similarity method and the Term Frequency (TF) equation to equalize the frequency of each word contained in a sentence. …”
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The Concept of «Rules-Based Order» as applied to Outer Space by I. Yu. Shtodina

“…Historical, formal-legal, comparative-legal method and the method of system analysis, etc. were used in the study.THE RESEARCH RESULTS. …”
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Coronary Computed Angiography and Coronary Artery Calcium Score for Preoperative Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery by Ioannis Kyriakoulis, Sriram S. Kumar, Georgios D. Lianos, Dimitrios Schizas, Damianos G. Kokkinidis

“…Strong evidence supports that CCTA and CACS, either alone or in combination, are reliable methods for assessing the risk of both perioperative and long-term postoperative MACE, often demonstrating equal or superior prognostic performance compared to traditional imaging tools. …”
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Study on Water Characteristic Curve and Shear Characteristics of Typical Unsaturated Silty Clay in Shaoxing by Ruiqian Wu, Youzhi Tang, Shaohe Li, Wei Wang, Ping Jiang, Guang Yang

“…In order to probe into one simplified method to predict the shear strength of Shaoxing unsaturated silty clay, the test method combining unsaturated soil consolidation instrument and conventional direct shear instrument is used to study the shear strength, and the method is compared and verified with the results of equal suction direct shear test. …”
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Molecular Response Assessment with Immune Adaptive PERCIST in Lung Cancer Patients Treated with Nivolumab: Is It Better Than iRECIST? by Manoj Gupta, Partha S. Choudhury, Parveen Jain, Manish Sharma, Venkata P. B. Koyyala, Sumit Goyal, Chaturbhuj Agarwal, Ankush Jajodia, Sunil Pasricha, Anurag Sharma, Ullas Batra

“…Aims We compared the immune response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (iRECIST) with immune adaptive positron emission tomography response criteria in solid tumors (imPERCIST) in lung cancer patients treated with nivolumab. Materials and Methods Twenty lung cancer patients underwent fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) scan at baseline (PET-0), after four cycles (PET-1) and six to eight cycles (PET-2) of nivolumab were included. …”
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A hybrid of fuzzy FMEA-AHP to determine factors affecting alternator failure causes by Reza Kiani Aslani, Hamid Reza Feili, Hassan Javanshir

“…Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is one of the first systematic techniques for failure analysis based on three factors including Probability (P), Severity (S) and Detection (D). Traditional FMEA method considers equal weights for all three factors, however, in read-world cases; one may wish to consider various weights. …”
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Discovery of Characteristic Patterns from Transactions with Their Classes by Shigeaki Sakurai

“…This paper proposes a new method that efficiently discovers patterns whose characteristic supports are larger than or equal to the predefined minimum support by using their possible supports. …”
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Analysis and Synthesis of Outside Geneva Combined Mechanism with Uniform Movement by Zhou Hongying, Han Jiguang

“…The forming condition of the outside geneva mechanism with uniform movement are analyzed,then on this basis the design method and the mechanism parameters are proposed. …”
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