Cross-dataset micro-expression identification based on facial ROIs contribution quantification by Yu Kun, Guo Chunfeng

“…In this work, we propose a novel cross-dataset micro-expression identification method based on facial regions of interest contribution quantification, where the training samples are from the source dataset and the test samples are from the target dataset. …”
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Lessons learned from concerned significant others: a qualitative analysis on involvement in services for young adult opioid use disorder by Nicole P. Porter, Sean Dunnsue, Cori Hammond, Molly Bobek, Alexandra MacLean, Mari Watkins, Craig E. Henderson, Aaron Hogue

“…The main aim of this qualitative study is to learn from CSOs and YAs directly about their thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and experiences with family-involved services.MethodWe used convenience sampling to recruit 10 YAs (ages 24–36 years) who were in treatment for OUD and their CSOs (5 mothers, 2 grandmothers, 2 partners, 1 aunt) from two urban treatment centers. …”
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Exploring the unemployment crisis among speech therapists and audiologists in South Africa: perspectives on institutional roles, professional bodies, and the path to job creation by Nomfundo Moroe, Nothando Nkosi, Ben Sebothoma

“…Methods A non-probability purposive sampling strategy was employed to recruit participants who met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Manufacturing Variables Effect on Electrical Discharge Machining of Titanium Alloy by Enzi Abass, Abdulameer Ahmed Ghazi, Hassoon Omar Hashim, Hamieh Abdallah

“…Therefore, this paper focuses on the machine of a high-strength material-titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V and studies the influence of cutting process variables on the metal removal rate, tool wear rate, and surface roughness of the samples. The samples matrix form is created depending on the design of experiments method. …”
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Automatic vibration fault detection of coal mine explosion-proof electrical equipment based on One-Class Support Vector Machine by ZHENG Tiehua, WANG Fei, ZHAO Gelan, DU Chunhui

“…Experimental results showed that: ① When the number of iterations is 20, the OCSVM algorithm can complete convergence and achieve stability. ② In the electrical equipment signal classification experiment based on OCSVM, the use of the polynomial kernel function accurately classified samples for detection. ③ In the performance analysis of automatic vibration fault detection, the proposed method showed significantly higher accuracy across different sample sizes than infrared thermography and detection methods based on grey wolf optimization and support vector machine. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Effect of Sodium Aluminate, Magnesium Oxide, and Calcium Hydroxide on the Concentration of Silicon Dioxide in RO Water Plants by Ibrahim A. Alsayer

“…The study investigated the effect of different doses of these chemicals on the concentration of silica in different water samples. Laboratory Jar-tester experiments using different dosage of these precipitation chemical agents were conducted and the silica level was measured. …”
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An algorithm to assess importance of predictors in systematic reviews of prediction models: a case study with simulations by Ruohua Yan, Chen Wang, Chao Zhang, Xiaohang Liu, Dong Zhang, Xiaoxia Peng

“…., but they cannot be quantitatively synthesized through meta-analysis. Methods We explored the synthesis method of the importance indicators in a simulation study, which mainly solved the following four methodological issues: (1) whether to synthesize the original values of the importance indicators or the importance ranks; (2) whether to normalize the importance ranks to a same dimension; (3) whether and how to impute the missing values in importance ranks; and (4) whether to weight the importance indicators according to the sample size of the model during synthesis. …”
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Extracting Small RNAs from Human Biological Fluids for Subsequent Next-Generation Sequencing by O. A. Beylerli, A. T Beylerli, I. F. Garaev

“…A number of questions arise when choosing methods for experiments related to next-generation sequencing. …”
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Enabling real-time road anomaly detection via mobile edge computing by Zengwei Zheng, Mingxuan Zhou, Yuanyi Chen, Meimei Huo, Dan Chen

“…We also conduct two experiments to explore the influence of velocity and sample rate. …”
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Parental participation in care during Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stay: a validation study by Davide Scarponcini Fornaro, Carlo Della Pelle, Emanuele Buccione

“…Aim: To validate the Italian version of “The Scale of Parental Participation in Care: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit” (PPCS: NICU).  Methods: The study was conducted in a 22-bed mixed (medical and surgical) NICU of a public hospital. …”
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IMPACT survey: IMpaired fecundity in Physicians and Association with Clinical Time by Melissa Parsons, Colleen Kalynych, Tracy L. Johns, Michael J. Scicchitano, Michelle Lott, Rosemarie Fernandez

“…Abstract Objective Studies suggest female physicians experience higher rates of infertility than the general population. …”
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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) symptoms in gender diverse adults and their relation to autistic traits, ADHD traits, and sensory sensitivities by Kai S. Thomas, Jennifer Keating, Avalon A. Ross, Kate Cooper, Catherine R. G. Jones

“…We aimed to examine the unique contribution of sensory sensitivities, including hypo- and hyper-sensitivity, in predicting ARFID symptoms in gender diverse adults, whilst controlling for autistic and ADHD traits. Methods Gender diverse adults (N = 182; 142 assigned female at birth; M age = 28.6 years) in the UK participated in an online survey. …”
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When midwives ask permission to discuss weight with pregnant women with high body weight: a qualitative study by Sofie Gyrup, Anne-Sofie Kortegaard, Sissel Due Jensen, Pernille Andreassen, Dorte Hvidtjørn

“…Methods We observed nine midwifery consultations and, by way of purposive sampling, interviewed six pregnant women with high body weight, while nine midwives participated in two focus group interviews. …”
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Exploring the implementation of a data trust committee: a qualitative evaluation of processes and practices by Syka Iqbal, Sophie Moniz, Fiona Bennin, German Alarcon Garavito, Rosaline de Koning, Rosamund Yu, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

“…Methods A rapid qualitative evaluation was conducted using semi-structured to assess the implementation and perceived impact of the DTC. …”
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Application of multi-layer chitosan-based wound dressings in dentistry by Alexandr S. Gumenyuk, Denis I. Ushmarov, Sergey E. Gumenyuk, Tatyana V. Gaivoronskaya, Alexandr S. Sotnichenko, Karina I. Melkonyan, Yulia A. Belich, Timofey E. Grigoriev

“…Evaluation of the efficacy of the wound dressings under study was carried by modelling the conditions of both aseptic and purulent-inflammatory processes (a total of 8 series of experiments). In experiments modelling the purulent-inflammatory process, a Ps. aeruginosa bacterial culture at a concentration of 109 CFU/ml was introduced into the alveolar socket after tooth extraction, 3 days before the application of a wound dressing sample. …”
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Quantitation of micro and nanoplastics in human blood by pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry by Marthinus Brits, Martin J. M. van Velzen, Feride Öykü Sefiloglu, Lorenzo Scibetta, Quinn Groenewoud, Juan J. Garcia-Vallejo, A. Dick Vethaak, Sicco H. Brandsma, Marja H. Lamoree

“…Expanding upon prior pioneering work by Leslie et al. (2022), we optimised the pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) conditions to enhance method sensitivity and selectivity. Recovery experiments demonstrated a high level of accuracy and precision, with values ranging from 68 to 109% for quality control samples. …”
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A novel CARD11 heterozygous missense variant in a CADINS patient by Randa S. AlYafie, PhD, Mehdi Adeli, MD, Dinesh Velayutham, PhD, Salim Bougarn, PhD, Manar Ata, MSc, Fatima Al-Ali, MRes, Evonne Chin-Smith, PhD, Bradly M. Bauman, PhD, Andrew L. Snow, PhD, Bertrand Boisson, PhD, Nico Marr, PhD, Nicholas van Panhuys, PhD, Andrea Guennoun, PhD, Puthen Veettil Jithesh, PhD

“…Objective: We performed genetic diagnosis of a patient of nonconsanguineous descent presenting at 11 years of age with severe atopic dermatitis, asthma, food allergy, skin and recurrent infections, and an extremely elevated level of serum IgE. Methods: We performed whole genome sequencing of samples obtained from the patient and his entire family. …”
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Predictive multigenic scale. Analysis of own results in metastatic breast cancer by R. M. Paltuev, S. N. Aleksakhina, A. S. Artemyeva, E. A. Baychorov, S. Yu. Bakharev, A. A. Bozhok, V. A. Vasin, V. I. Vladimirov, O. A. Volynshchikova, A. Yu. Vorontsov, E. A. Gaysina, A. A. Hoffman, E. N. Imyanitov, V. V. Klimenko, A. V. Komyakhov, M. M. Konstantinovа, M. V. Kopp, A. G. Kudaybergenova, I. A. Lalak, D. L. Matevosyan, N. M. Mudzhiri, O. V. Poltareva, O. I. Sevryukova, V. F. Semiglazov, T. Yu. Semiglazova, M. M. Urezkova, L. A. Churilova

“…To increase the efficacy of systemic therapy for breast cancer and reduce inappropriate prescriptions using the data on individual molecular tumor characteristics; to develop a polygenic panel to ensure a tailored approach to systemic therapy for breast cancer.   Materials and methods. We analyzed 84 tumor tissue samples from pre- and postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer who were treated and followed-up in 6 healthcare institutions. …”
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Experimental study of gas–oil relative permeability curves at immiscible/near miscible gas injection in highly naturally fractured reservoir by Mohammad Parvazdavani, Saeed Abbasi, MohammadReza Zare-Reisabadi

“…In this research, some experiments have been done on the reservoir core sample selected from sandstone formation in one of the Iranian naturally fractured oil reservoirs. …”
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Automatic Detection and Calculation of Mining Subsidence in Large-Scale Interferograms With Transformer-CNN Model by Hongdong Fan, Jialin Xin, Tao Lin, Jun Wang

“…Initially, a training sample set for mining subsidence interferometric synthetic aperture radar was constructed by leveraging the probability integral method, Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service, coherence maps, and zero-mean Gaussian noise. …”
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