Medical students’ perception of a unique humanistic mentoring program in a religious university: a convergent parallel mixed methods study by Tsung-Ying Chen, Wen-Lin Lo, Li-Chuan Kuo

“…This study explored medical students’ perceptions of this unique program and focused on three major themes: guidance/support, mentor–mentee interaction/relationship, and cultivation of humanistic literacy. Methods During the 2018–2019 academic year, we conducted a mixed methods study with a convergent parallel design targeting clerks and graduates undertaking post-graduate year training as the study population. …”
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Research on Spectral Leakage Suppression Method of Coherent Wind Lidar Based on Hanning Self-Convolutional Window by Chen Su, Shoufeng Tong, Peng Lin, Naiyuan Liang, Zejie He, Xiaonan Yu

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Mathematical modeling of two-phase compressible fluid filtration based on modified adaptive method of minimum amendments by Alexander I. Sukhinov, Lusine A. Grigoryan, Andrey A. Sukhinov

“…The work objective is to build and investigate the modified adaptive method of minimum amendments (MAMMA) which is destined for the numerical simulation of the two-phase compressible fluid filtration in porous media. …”
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Digital Reconstruction Method for Low-Illumination Road Traffic Accident Scenes Using UAV and Auxiliary Equipment by Xinyi Zhang, Zhiwei Guan, Xiaofeng Liu, Zejiang Zhang

“…Subsequently, the collected point cloud data are processed with a multiscale voxel iteration method for down-sampling to determine optimal parameters. …”
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An Anchor-Free Method Based on Transformers and Adaptive Features for Arbitrarily Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images by Bingji Chen, Chunrui Yu, Shuang Zhao, Hongjun Song

“…Finally, a head network called the deformable head is constructed to make the network more adaptable to the characteristics of ships by adaptively detecting the spatial sampling positions of the targets in SAR images. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by experiments on two publicly available datasets, i.e., SAR ship detection dataset and rotated ship detection dataset in SAR images. …”
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Posture configuration optimization method and system for folding booms of the pump truck under life extension control by Dong Qing, Su Youcheng, Xu Gening, She Lingjuan, Wang Ze

“…First, the dataset of “behavioral-performance” characteristics for the folding booms of the pump truck is obtained using a synergistic method of “acquisition-simulation-correction”. After evaluating the fatigue life, the dataset is transformed into a fatigue life sample dataset. …”
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Optimization of Sampling Cell Size for Fingerprint Positioning by Wei Liu, Yongle Chen, Yongping Xiong, Limin Sun, Hongsong Zhu

“…We propose a sampling cell size optimization method to release the survey workload while holding the precision. …”
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Charity Colonoscopy Event and Fund in Singapore: A Novel Method to Raise Awareness of Colorectal Cancer Screening by Francis Zheng Yi Yee

“…Objective: We report our experience with a charity colonoscopy event to assist patients with endoscopy costs, raise public awareness of endoscopic cancer screening, and demonstrate the safety of colonoscopy. …”
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Identification of luteolin-7-glucoside metabolites after oral administration and development of a method for their quantitative analysis by G. V. Adamov, O. L. Saybel, A. N. Babenko, E. S. Melnikov, A. I. Radimich, O. Yu. Kulyak, L. V. Krepkova

“…To develop a method of analysis and further clarify the time intervals of blood sampling, time points were analyzed: 30, 60 minutes, 2, 4, 8, 24 hours after administration of the test substance. …”
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Exploration of In-situ Leaching Technology and Effectiveness of Hadatu Sandstone-type Uranium Mine Based on Analogy Method by ZHOU Yiru1, 2, YANG Yihan2, ZHANG Chuanfei2, YAO Guanghuai2, QIAO Peng2, REN Xiaoping2, XIA Liangshu1

Patient safety in the ‘Room of Horrors’ simulation: a multi-method study of student, novice, and experienced nurses by Seung Eun Lee, Hyun Joo Lee, V. Susan Dahinten, Won Jin Seo, Heejin Lim, Hanjoe Kim

“…Methods A multi-method design was employed, incorporating a quasi-experimental three-group pre-test, post-test, and two-week follow-up structure, and a qualitative analysis of participants’ experiences and perceptions. …”
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Evaluating metrics of spectral quality in nonuniform sampling by D. Levi Love, Michael R. Gryk, Adam D. Schuyler

“…As for the decision of what additional FIDs, this study builds off the work of prior studies on the influence the seed used to generate a nonuniform sample schedule has on the quality of a NUS reconstruction (Hyberts et al., 2011), i.e., whether a sampling method yields “high-variance” or “low-variance” schedules (Zambrello et al., 2020). …”
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APPLICATION OF TOTAL-REFLECTION X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY (TXRF) TO GEOLOGICAL OBJECTS: EXPERIENCE OF THE TXRF LABORATORY, CENTER FOR GEODYNAMICS AND GEOCHRONOLOGY by A. S. Maltsev, G. V. Pashkova

“…Rapid multi-elemental analysis of very small sample amounts can be performed by the internal standard method which does not require the matrix-matched reference materials. …”
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A novel fatigue test method for bitumen-stone combinations under cyclic tension-compression loading by Lu Zhou, Gordon Airey, Yuqing Zhang, Weidong Huang, Chonghui Wang

“…The accuracy of the BF experiment is validated against the 4PB test. Results indicate that the BF experiment effectively characterises the performance degradation process and bearing capacity during the yielding stage of samples under fatigue loading. …”
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microStabilize: In-plane microstructure stabilization in optical microscopy via normalized correlation coefficient matching method by Marek Grzegorz Mikulicz

“…The cryostats used to cool down the structures and other mechanical elements are an inevitable source of vibrations and sample drift in the optical setup. This is one of the challenges of long-term experiments in obtaining reliable data that require excitation and detection from the same spot on the sample. …”
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Method and Optimization of Key Parameters of Soil Organic Matter Detection Based on Pyrolysis Coupled with Artificial Olfaction by Mingwei Li, Xiao Li, Xuexun Li, Wenjun Wang, Yulong Chen, Long Zhou, Xiaomeng Xia

“…This study proposes a method for obtaining SOM contents via pyrolysis coupled with an artificial olfaction system. …”
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A Multi-Task Causal Knowledge Fault Diagnosis Method for PMSM-ITSF Based on Meta-Learning by Ping Lan, Liguo Yao, Yao Lu, Taihua Zhang

“…Finally, the Neo4j database based on causality knowledge of motor inter-turn short circuit fault is constructed. Experiments show that this method can diagnose the fault location, fault degree, and fault cause of the motor with different voltage unbalanced degrees. …”
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Determination of Harmful Elements in Flotation Products of a Gold Mine by ICP-MS with the Matrix-Matching Method by Qirong LIU, Bu CHU, Shuhang CHEN, Xiaoxu JIA, Zhihang ZHANG, Weining XIE, Shuai WANG, Peizhong FENG

“…ICP-MS with matrix matching method is suitable for quantification determination of harmful elements in flotation samples of gold ore.…”
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Deep Learning Based 3D Visualization Health Condition Monitoring Method for Anchor Digging Machines by YANG Xueqi, GAO Xinqin, ZHENG Haiyang, YANG Jun

“…Compared with multiple existing methods, experiments were conducted using the IMS dataset. …”
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Experimental studies of a thermoelectric device for stopping bleeding by the method of local freezing of the blood flow zone by O. V. Evdulov, N. A. Nabiev, R. A.-M. Magomadov, R. G. Mitarov

“…An experimental stand and a technique for carrying out measurements of a laboratory sample of a TEU for stopping bleeding by the method of local freezing of the blood flow zone are described. …”
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