Nipah virus survey in Pteropus medius of eastern and northeastern region of India, 2022–2023 by Sreelekshmy Mohandas, Dilip Patil, Basavaraj Mathapati, Vishal Rai, Anita Shete, Sujeet Belani, Abhinendra Kumar, Rima Sahay, Deepak Patil, Pragya D. Yadav

“…To improve the country’s preparedness and to gather support for enhancing public health surveillance in eastern and northeastern states near the area affected by the NiV, a cross-sectional survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of NiV in the bat species Pteropus medius in Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, and Meghalaya states in India, which are adjacent to Bangladesh.MethodsThroat and rectal swabs, blood samples, and organ samples were collected. …”
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Teachers’ collective efficacy with regard to inclusive practices—characteristics of a new scale and analyses from Canada, Germany and Switzerland by Margarita Knickenberg, Harry Kullmann, Sergej Wüthrich, Caroline Sahli Lozano, Tim Loreman, Umesh Sharma, Elias Avramidis, Pearl Subban, Stuart Woodcock

“…Our major aim was to validate the tripartite structure of the original TEIP scale for the new TEIP-C scale and to demonstrate measurement invariance of the latter employing an international sample.MethodsThe sample comprised 897 teachers from Canada, Germany and Switzerland. …”
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Systemic therapy informed self-help and paraprofessional training in a naturalistic setting: study protocol of a digital randomised trial by Pieter Erasmus, Moritz Borrmann, Ayesha Tariq Ali, Stefanie Herta, Jule Becker, Glen Moriarty, Gunther Meinlschmidt

“…Our study aims to evaluate the implementation of delivering ST-informed online self-help interventions (OSI) and paraprofessional training in a naturalistic setting via the 7 Cups platform. Methods Our exploratory, randomised, controlled, pre-post-follow-up study is recruiting two samples of participants: (i) for the ST-informed online self-help/growth path intervention amongst members on the 7 Cups platform, (ii) for the ST-informed online paraprofessional/listener training intervention amongst members who have registered as ‘listener’ status. …”
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A novel pulse-chase SILAC strategy measures changes in protein decay and synthesis rates induced by perturbation of proteostasis with an Hsp90 inhibitor. by Ivo Fierro-Monti, Julien Racle, Celine Hernandez, Patrice Waridel, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Manfredo Quadroni

“…Standard proteomics methods allow the relative quantitation of levels of thousands of proteins in two or more samples. …”
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Unannounced phone-based pill counts for monitoring antiretroviral medication adherence in South Africa by Seth Kalichman, Ellen Banas, Bruno Shkembi, Moira Kalichman, Catherine Mathews

“…People living with HIV (N = 434) in an economically impoverished township and receiving ART for at least 3-months completed: two UPC in a one-month period; measures of clinic and medication experiences; and provided blood samples for HIV viral load and CD4 testing. …”
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The impact of social capital on the economic performance of Polish family businesses by Beata Żukowska

“…I collected data from a sample of 196 family businesses. Structural modelling methods served to analyse the relationships between structural, cognitive, and relational dimensions of FSC and economic performance. …”
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The Effectiveness of Summary Writing Strategy with Bloom Taxonomy Questions by Atika Kumala Dewi, Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Nanang Zubaidi

“…To achieve this aim, a quasi-experimental method was employed by two groups: an experiment group and a control group. …”
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The Use of Concept Maps in the Process of Independent Study of Educational Material in Higher Mathematics by Larisa Norik, Irina Lebedeva

“…Based on a review of the main provisions of modern theory of learning and generalization of research results presented in scientific papers on the scope of application of concept maps in the learning process, such a training experiment was conducted. For students of the two experimental groups on a certain topic of the discipline “Higher Mathematics” were offered to build conceptual maps in addition to the common teaching methods. …”
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IMPACT OF GREEN MANURE ON CROP YIELD OF CEREALS IN CONDITIONS OF IRRIGATION OF THE TERSKO-SULAK SUBPROVINCES by Aytemir A. Aytemirov, Magomednur B. Khalilov, Tofik T. Babayev, Zaur G. Amiraliev

“…The aim of the research was to identify the effect of types of fertilizer on increasing soil fertility and corn yield of grain and sorghum in conditions of irrigation of the Tersko-Sulak subprovince. Methods. Carrying out some field experiments: conducting observations and laboratory tests, selection of soil and plant samples was carried out according to generally accepted methods: statistical processing of yield data was carried out by the method of variance analysis based on Kirov Federal State Unitary Enterprise and FSBSI Dagestan Agricultural Research Institute named after F.G. …”
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Сhanging the lubricity of diesel fuel with vegetable oil additive by S. N. Krivtsov, T. I. Krivtsova

“…Diesel fuel was taken as samples for experiments and vegetable oil was added to it as an additive in certain proportions.Discussion and conclusions. …”
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Determination of the metabolites, eicosanoids derived from polyunsaturated fatty acids in Drosophila tissue with high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by TAN Liangliang, SHEN Lirong

“…The analytes were detected by using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) in a negative electrospray ion mode. The HPLC-MS/MS method to analyze 15 selected eicosanoids in Drosophila qualitatively and quantitatively was established by optimizing the sample pretreatment and the detection conditions.It was found that the recoveries were significantly influenced by the pH of sample adjusted by 1 mol/L sodium acetate buffer containing 5% methanol, and the optimized pH was at 6. …”
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Adaptive personalized privacy-preserving data collection scheme with local differential privacy by Haina Song, Hua Shen, Nan Zhao, Zhangqing He, Wei Xiong, Minghu Wu, Mingwu Zhang

“…Finally, the experiments show that the proposed scheme performs better than the previous proposal in terms of MSE and average error rate (AER), especially using the EDS method.…”
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Prediction of moisture content of hummus peach based on multi-burr hyperspectral data by GAO Aidi, QIAO Fengzhang, ZHU Wenxuan, ZHONG Xiaopin, DENG Yuanlong

“…To address the high-dimensional and small sample size characteristics of the data, the principal component analysis algorithm (PCA) was used for dimensionality reduction, followed by outlier removal using the Mahalanobis distance measure method (MD). …”
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Azimuth-Guided Feature Embedding Network With Dual Inference Mechanism for Few-Shot SAR Target Recognition by Yan Peng, Xuelian Yu, Haohao Ren, Lei Miao, Lin Zou, Yun Zhou

“…In the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR), deep learning-driven methods perform well when numerous training samples are available. …”
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Research on High-Precision Measurement Technology of the Extinction Ratio Based on the Transparent Element Mueller Matrix by Ruiqi Xu, Mingpeng Hu, Xuedong Cao, Jiahui Ren

“…The data of independent experiments on the transparent sample under different powers are analyzed, and the extinction ratio of the transparent sample is further obtained. …”
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Image Restoration of Highly Reflective Polarization Targets in Turbid Media Based on Circularly Polarized Light by Cheng Qian, Wang Yinmin, Liu Yao

“…The performance of the algorithm described in this paper is assessed through simulation experiments and validated via laboratory tests, demonstrating the superior effectiveness of the proposed method compared to previous approaches.…”
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Qualitative Insights on Barriers to Receiving a Second Dose of Measles-Containing Vaccine (MCV2), Oromia Region of Ethiopia by Kalkidan Solomon, Brooke N. Aksnes, Abyot Bekele Woyessa, Chala Gari Sadi, Almea M. Matanock, Monica P. Shah, Paulos Samuel, Bekana Tolera, Birhanu Kenate, Abebe Bekele, Tesfaye Deti, Getachew Wako, Amsalu Shiferaw, Yohannes Lakew Tefera, Melkamu Ayalew Kokebie, Tatek Bogale Anbessie, Habtamu Teklie Wubie, Aaron Wallace, Ciara E. Sugerman, Mirgissa Kaba

“…In this qualitative study, we explored barriers to the uptake of MCV2 among caregivers, community leaders, and healthcare workers (HCWs). <b>Method:</b> A qualitative study was conducted between mid-April and mid-May 2021. …”
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Resilience Based on Community-Oriented Capacities in Crisis Conditions by Mohammad Jalali, Mahdi Mahmoodzadeh Vashan, Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi, Mohammad Mohammadi

“…Therefore, the current research seeks to identify the factors affecting resilience based on community-oriented capacities in crisis situations using the meta-synthesis method and finally presenting a model in this field.Case studyThe statistical population of this research includes all articles published in domestic and foreign scientific databases between 2000 and 2023, and finally 56 studies that were closely related to the subject under study were selected as a sample.Materials and Methods The research is of an applied type with an exploratory nature, in order to collect data, a meta-synthesis method was used. …”
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Evolving perspectives in dental marketing: A study of Jordanian dentists' attitudes towards advertising and practice promotion by Rami J. Anshasi, Nizar Alsubahi, Ahmad A. Alhusein, Abd Alwali Lutfi Khassawneh, Mahmaod Alrawad, Adi Alsyouf

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Quantitative characterization of different occurrence states in medium maturity continental shale oil: a case study on eocene Shahejie formation shales, Qikou Sag, East China by Wenya Jiang, Wenya Jiang, Wenya Jiang, Yuchen Liu, Lijin Gao, Guangdi Liu, Guangdi Liu, Jianyuan Feng

“…The newly established characterization method of hydrocarbons with different occurrence states exhibited good correlation with the conventional pyrolysis methods and the distributed solvent extraction results. …”
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