Method validation of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) assay for the analysis of magnesium, copper and zinc in red blood cells by Nazmin Bithi, Daniel Ricks, Brandon S. Walker, Christian Law, Kamisha L. Johnson-Davis

“…Retrospective data analysis was conducted on patient samples using the method. The application of Tukey’s HSD test for multiple comparisons revealed statistically significant mean differences (p < 0.05) in Mg, Cu, and Zn concentrations between all pairwise groups of age and sex, except for the mean Cu concentration in adult males versus females and the mean Mg concentrations in adult versus minor males. …”
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Potential of Gas-Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Methods for High-Viscosity Oil: A Core Study from a Kazakhstani Reservoir by Karlygash Soltanbekova, Gaukhar Ramazanova, Uzak Zhapbasbayev

“…This study presents the results of filtration experiments investigating the application of gas EOR methods using core samples from a heavy oil reservoir. …”
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Hydraulic characteristics and incubation methods for enhancing durability of Fungi- Mycelium treated silica sand using Rhizopus oligosporus and Rhizopus oryzae combination by Aswin Lim, Jonathan Yosuardi Sunaryo, Martin Wijaya, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Anastasia Prima Kristijarti

“…The effect of the fungi appears to fill the void of soil and hence increases the Air Entry Value and residual suction of soil. The curing method outside the mold (O-method) with 10% Tempeh inoculum, and 5% Tempeh inoculum with 5% rice flour is proven can extend the durability of the treated sample, the undrained compressive strength is about 40 kPa on day 14. …”
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Identifying pragmatic solutions to reduce cigarette smoking prevalence in Indigenous North Americans: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study protocol. by Ann M Rusk, Maggie Paul, Dan P Kelleher, Jon Tilburt, Donald Northfelt, Matthew Rank, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Guthrie Capossela, Trudie Jackson, Corinna Sabaque, Alanna M Chamberlain, Victor E Ortega, Roberto Benzo, Cassie Kennedy

“…A discovery sample of 45 AI/AN people will be included in the qualitative study in one of two arms consisting of small groups or one-on-one interviews to develop elements of cessation interventions for evaluation in a discrete choice experiment survey. …”
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Technology-Enabled Workplace Learning Through Rethinking Electronic Health Records to Support Performance Feedback: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study by Anna Janssen, Mia Nazir

“…The primary objective is to explore the use of these systems by health care professionals to further understand the current and possible future use of these records for reflective practice, performance feedback, and workplace learning. MethodsThe project will use a mixed methods design to enable a holistic picture of participant behaviors. …”
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Nondestructive estimation of leaf chlorophyll content in banana based on unmanned aerial vehicle hyperspectral images using image feature combination methods by Weiping Kong, Weiping Kong, Lingling Ma, Huichun Ye, Huichun Ye, Jingjing Wang, Chaojia Nie, Binbin Chen, Xianfeng Zhou, Wenjiang Huang, Zikun Fan

“…We proposed two methods of image feature combination for banana LCC inversion, which are a two-pair feature combination and a multivariable feature combination based on four machine learning algorithms (MLRAs).ResultsThe results indicated that compared to conventionally used VIs alone, the banana LCC estimations with both proposed VI and TF combination methods were all significantly improved. …”
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Heterogeneous Driver Modeling and Corner Scenarios Sampling for Automated Vehicles Testing by Jingwei Ge, Huile Xu, Jiawei Zhang, Yi Zhang, Danya Yao, Li Li

“…Virtual simulation-based testing of autonomous vehicles (AVs) needs massive challenging corner cases to reach high testing accuracy. Current methods achieve this goal by finding testing scenarios with low sampling frequency in the empirical distribution. …”
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Collaborative Filtering Recommendation-Based Random Negative Sampling and Graph Attention by Weiqiang Li, Xianghui Li, Xiaowen Liu, Xinhuan Chen, Ming Ma

“…Currently, GCN-based recommendation systems typically use degree normalization or mean pooling to aggregate neighbor messages. These methods learn embedding representations for users and items. …”
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Storage Stability of Volatile Organic Compounds from Petrochemical Plant of China in Different Sample Bags by Fenglei Han, Huangrong Zhong, Ting Li, Yongqiang Wang, Fang Liu

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Study on the Optimal Number of Transducers for Pipe Flow Rate Measurement Downstream of a Single Elbow Using the Ultrasonic Velocity Profile Method by Sanehiro Wada, Kenichi Tezuka, Weerachon Treenuson, Nobuyushi Tsuzuki, Hiroshige Kikura

“…The optimal number of transducers is estimated based on the sampling theorem. To evaluate this method, a preliminary experiment and numerical simulations using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are conducted. …”
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A Kansei-Oriented Morphological Design Method for Industrial Cleaning Robots Integrating Extenics-Based Semantic Quantification and Eye-Tracking Analysis by Qingchen Li, Yiqian Zhao, Yajun Li, Tianyu Wu

“…Second, eye-tracking experiments captured users’ visual-attention patterns during robot observation, allowing us to identify pivotal design elements and assemble a sample repository. …”
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Determinants of doctor-doctor relationships among academic and clinical staff at a university hospital, Cairo, Egypt: a mixed method study by Shaimaa Samy Yousef, Maha El Gaafary, Sahar Mohamed Sabbour, Sally Adel Hakim, Yosra S. Abd El-Ghaffar, Abeer Hassan Ahmed, Omar Matar, Hoda I. Fahim

“…Mixed methods were used. For the quantitative part, a comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on 228 clinical and 89 academic participants. …”
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Providing a Model for Developing the Entrepreneurial Capacity of the Young Generation of the Country in the Context of Curriculum Planning of the University by Somayeh Gharagozloo, Faezeh Nateghi, Mahnaz Jalalvandi

“…The sampling method of this population was purposeful. …”
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Selection of Superior Rapeseed Genotypes based on Fatty Acids and Grain and Oil Yield Components with the Ideal Genotype Selection Index (SIIG) Method by Hassan Amiri Oghan, Kamal Payghamzadeh, Farnaz Shariati, Amir Gholizadeh

“…The ideal genotype selection index is one of the multivariate statistical methods that identifies the desired genotypes based on a set of different traits or indices. …”
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Dual-Stage Clean-Sample Selection for Incremental Noisy Label Learning by Jianyang Li, Xin Ma, Yonghong Shi

“…To address this critical gap, this paper presents a dual-stage clean-sample selection method for Incremental Noisy Label Learning (DSCNL). …”
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The spiritual needs and care of children and young people with life-threatening or life-shortening conditions, and parents (SPARK): a mixed-method investigation by Bryony Beresford, Natalie Richardson, Suzanne Mukherjee, Rebecca Nye, Jan Aldridge, Karl Atkin, Mark Clayton, Faith Gibson, Julia Hackett, Richard Hain, Mohammed Arshad, Paul Nash, Bob Phillips

“…Limitations Minority faiths are under-represented in the samples recruited to the qualitative components. Conclusions Having a life-threatening or life-shortening condition brings multiple threats to the spiritual well-being and lived experiences of children/young people and their parents. …”
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A novel quality by design approach for developing an HPLC method to analyze herbal extracts: A case study of sugar content analysis. by Jingyuan Shao, Wen Cao, Haibin Qu, Jianyang Pan, Xingchu Gong

“…The HPLC-ELSD method for separation and quantification of sugars in Codonopsis Radix extract (CRE) samples and Astragali Radix extract (ARE) samples was developed as an example method with a novel AQbD approach. …”
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Biomarker Identification for Prostate Cancer and Lymph Node Metastasis from Microarray Data and Protein Interaction Network Using Gene Prioritization Method by Carlos Roberto Arias, Hsiang-Yuan Yeh, Von-Wun Soo

“…We applied two experiments, one is prostate primary and normal samples and the other is prostate primary tumor with and without lymph nodes metastasis. …”
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Preparation and characterization of EPDM/silica composites prepared through non-hydrolytic sol-gel method in the absence and presence of a coupling agent by T. H. Mokhothu, A. S. Luyt, M. Messori

“…The tensile properties, however, were in some cases worse than those for the samples prepared through the HSG method in the presence of TEOS.…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Pyrochlore Bi2Sn2O7 Doping with Praseodymium by Hydrothermal Method and Its Photocatalytic Activity Study by Weicheng Xu, Guangyin Zhou, Jianzhang Fang, Zhang Liu, YunFang Chen, Chaoping Cen

“…It was found that Pr doping inhibited the growth of crystalline size and the as-prepared materials were small in size (10–20 nm). In our experiments, Pr-doped BSO samples exhibited enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity compared to the undoped BSO, and the optimal dopant amount of Pr was 1.0 mol% for the best photocatalytic activity. …”
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