Canadian multidisciplinary expert consensus on the use of biologics in upper airways: a Delphi study by Andrew V. Thamboo, Melissa Lee, Mohit Bhutani, Charles Chan, Yvonne Chan, Ken R. Chapman, Christopher J. Chin, Lori Connors, Del Dorscheid, Anne K. Ellis, Richard M. Gall, Krystelle Godbout, Arif Janjua, Amin Javer, Shaun Kilty, Harold Kim, Gordon Kirkpatrick, John M. Lee, Richard Leigh, Catherine Lemiere, Eric Monteiro, Helen Neighbour, Paul K. Keith, George Philteos, Jaclyn Quirt, Brian Rotenberg, Juan C. Ruiz, John R. Scott, Doron D. Sommer, Leigh Sowerby, Marc Tewfik, Susan Waserman, Ian Witterick, Erin D. Wright, Cory Yamashita, Martin Desrosiers

“…Consensus was defined by relative interrater reliability measures—kappa coefficient ( $$\kappa$$ κ ) value > 0.61. Results After three rounds, a total of 22 statements achieved consensus. …”
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Resource status and priority for the protection of rare and endangered plants in Zhejiang Province, China by DUAN Yuhao1, CHEN Feng2, ZHANG Hongwei3, HE Anguo4, LIU Julian5, LIU Xi6, CHEN Xiaorong7, YE Lixin7, PANG Chunmei8, YU Lipeng9, ZHAO Changgao10, WANG Guanshun1, LU Yifei1, JIN Xiaofeng1*, YU Mingjian11*

“…The present study analyzed the listed rare and endangered plants on List of National Key Protected Wild Plants in China (2021)and List of Key Protected Wild Plants in Zhejiang Province(2023)(to be announced), which are known to occur in Zhejiang Province and their patterns of distribution. Using the coefficients of endangerment, genetic value, and species value, priority protection of rare and endangered plants in the province was quantitatively analyzed. …”
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Seismic Performance Analysis of Energy Dissipation Building with Non-preload Variable Friction Inerter Under Extremely Rare Earthquake by ZHAO Guifeng, LIU Wei, MA Yuhong, KONG Sihua, CHEN Jiachuan, CHEN Zhaosheng

“…Then, seismic performance mitigation of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system under different hazard levels was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed NVFI quantitatively. A 5% damping SDOF system with a mass of 50 660 kg and elastic stiffness of 2 000 kN/m was adopted as the analytical model. …”
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Women Undergoing Donor IVF Treatment: The Moderating Role of Economic Independence in Isfahan by Heydar Zafari, Aliasghar Mohajerani, Sayed Naser Hejazi

“…Materials & MethodsThis research employed a quantitative, cross-sectional design, distinguishing it from longitudinal studies. …”
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Dietary assessment in intermittent fasting: validation of a short food frequency questionnaire vs. food records in diurnal dry fasting and time-restricted eating by Isabelle C. Schüssler, Isabelle C. Schüssler, Christina L. Pappe, Christel von Scheidt, Beeke Peters, Henrik Dommisch, Christian Kessler, Christian Kessler, Andreas Michalsen, Andreas Michalsen, Daniela A. Koppold, Daniela A. Koppold, Daniela A. Koppold, Daniela A. Koppold, Olga Pivovarova-Ramich, Olga Pivovarova-Ramich, Olga Pivovarova-Ramich

“…Energy and macronutrient intakes were quantified using food records only.ResultsEight men and seven women, with a median age of 29 (27–34) years, were included in the validation analysis. Correlation coefficients ranged from 0.189 (tendency to snack) to 0.893 (meat consumption). …”
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Major Gene with Polygene Inheritance Analysis of Prostrate Growth Habit in Hybrids of <i>Chrysanthemum yantaiense</i> × <i>C. indicum</i> by Dawei Li, Yuxian Xu, Yuchao Tang, Tongjun Zhou, Hai Li, Ziyu Guo, Yilin Liang, Yuxin Wang, Yuyuan Chen, Ming Sun

“…For the five traits, the coefficients of variation (CVs) were wide-ranging and high (16.64–42.75%), with the PH having the highest CV among them. …”
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Development of SYBR green I-based real-time qPCR differential diagnosis assays for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus typing in Guangdong province by Zhaowen Ren, Zhaowen Ren, Pu Kang, Pu Kang, Pian Zhang, Chenglong Sun, Jing Chen, Hua Xiang, Shengjun Luo, Rujian Cai, Yuan Huang, Yuzhu Jin, Gang Wang, Xiaohu Wang, Xiaohu Wang

“…The lack of cross-protection between different lineages often leads to unsuccessful vaccination attempts.MethodsTo accurately distinguish PRRSV lineages and develop effective vaccination strategies for pigs, we have developed a fluorescence quantitative PCR (qPCR) method by designing specific primers and SYBR green dye. …”
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Partial volume effect correction impairs the diagnostic utility of [18F]-THK-5351 PET in nonfluent-agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia by Patrick J. Sommer, Sebastian Schuster, Oliver Goldhardt, Nobuyuki Okamura, Felix Mueller-Sarnowski, Maximilian Scheifele, Florian Eckenweber, Annika Kreuzer, Maria Griessl, Peter Bartenstein, Thomas Wegehaupt, Lucas Wolski, Josef Priller, Axel Rominger, Leonie Beyer, Timo Grimmer, Matthias Brendel

“…We evaluated regional coefficients of variance (CoV) and the number of regions with significant [18F]-THK-5351 PET signal differences between nfv-PPA and controls before and after PVEC. …”
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Study on climatic quality evaluation technology of Dali Dongzao in Shaanxi based on meteorological factors by SHEN Jiaojiao, DANG Chaoqi, ZHANG Yuefan, GUO Qi, WANG Jingzhong

“…[Methods] Based on the daily meteorological data of Dali from 1991 to 2024 and years of quality inspection results, the key growth stages and weight coefficients affecting the climate quality of Dali Dongzao were determined by field investigation and expert decision method. …”
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Cadmium Bioavailability Based on Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Technique and Conventional Chemical Extraction in High Geological Background Soil Area of Northwestern Zhejiang P... by Chao WU, Binbin SUN, Xiaomeng CHENG, Dong LIU, Yu QIAO, Ling He, Daoming ZENG

“…However, the correlation coefficient in dry soil is the smallest, so the effect of bioavailability evaluation is unstable (Table 3). …”
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Genome-Wide Identification of the HSP Gene Family in Penaeus japonicus and Their Expression Characteristics During Development Stages by Xueqiong BIAN, Xianyun REN, Junxia WANG, Shaoting JIA, Jianjun GUO, Kuangcheng ZHAO, Ping LIU, Jian LI, Jitao LI

“…The physicochemical properties of seven proteins were stable, with instability coefficients less than 40. Subcellular localization results showed that most of the hsp gene family members were located in the cytoplasm, as seven hsp genes were localized to the cytoplasm, two to the nucleus, two to the extracellular region, two to the endoplasmic reticulum, and two to the mitochondria. …”
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Development and validation of a risk prediction model for premenopausal breast cancer in 19 cohorts by Kristen D. Brantley, Michael E. Jones, Rulla M. Tamimi, Bernard A. Rosner, Peter Kraft, Hazel B. Nichols, Katie M. O’Brien, Hans-Olov Adami, Amaia Aizpurua, Amy Berrington de González, William J. Blot, Tonje Braaten, Yu Chen, Jessica Clague DeHart, Laure Dossus, Sjoerd Elias, Renée T. Fortner, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Inger T. Gram, Niclas Håkansson, Susan E. Hankinson, Cari M. Kitahara, Woon-Puay Koh, Martha S. Linet, Robert J. MacInnis, Giovanna Masala, Lene Mellemkjær, Roger L. Milne, David C. Muller, Hannah Lui Park, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Sven Sandin, Xiao-Ou Shu, Sandar Tin Tin, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Lars J. Vatten, Kala Visvanathan, Elisabete Weiderpass, Walter Willett, Alicja Wolk, Jian-Min Yuan, Wei Zheng, Dale P. Sandler, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Anthony J. Swerdlow, A. Heather Eliassen

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Modeling of contribution of the Late Cretaceous-Miocene sediments of the Makran accretionary wedge to the petrogenesis of basalts from Makran volcanic arc, SE Iran by Ali Ahmadi, Mostafa Ghomashi, Zahra Firouzkouhi, Marzie Rastay zahedan

“…In all calculations, partition coefficients, D values, are taken from Johnson and Plank (1999).…”
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Investigating the Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Relationship between Job Demand and Role Ambiguity with Employee Well-Being by Mahnaz Rahimi, Mohammad Hassani, Hasen Ghalavand

“…The evaluation of the external model focused on the validity and reliability of the model, and the internal model evaluation examined the path coefficients, t-statistics and their significance in relation to model fit. …”
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Random Finite Element Analysis and Random Factor response Mechanism for Geocell-reinforced Soil Retaining Walls by ZHANG Bingbing, SONG Fei

“…Finally, the global sensitivity analysis method was adopted, focusing on revealing the influence laws of key parameters (<italic>K</italic>, <italic>n</italic>, <italic>φ</italic>₀ and <italic>P</italic>_Mt), their coefficients of variation and spatial fluctuation ranges on the deformation characteristics of the retaining wall, and quantitatively analyzing the mapping relationship between each parameter and the deformation response of the structure.Results and Discussions　Through the in-depth analysis of the random field parameters of foundation soil, backfill soil and geocell-reinforced retaining wall, it is revealed that the soil parameters have significant layering characteristics and the trend of change with depth, which is highly consistent with the layering distribution characteristics of the soil in the actual project, and verifies the reliability of the constructed random field model. …”
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Averaging Principle for Backward Stochastic Differential Equations by Yuanyuan Jing, Zhi Li

“…The averaging principle for BSDEs and one-barrier RBSDEs, with Lipschitz coefficients, is investigated. An averaged BSDEs for the original BSDEs is proposed, as well as the one-barrier RBSDEs, and their solutions are quantitatively compared. …”
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Mechanical characteristics of herbaceous plant root system and slope stability research by Shilin Tan, Guoping Xiang, Xiangning Xu, Tao Liu

“…Comparing the modification coefficients of the three herbaceous plants, Species 3 had the largest modification coefficients; Species 1 was the second largest, and Species 2 had the smallest modification coefficients; the actual increment in cohesive force was close to that in the FBM model, and the FBM model was significantly better than the Wu model; (3) The mechanical and morphological properties of Species 3 made its root system consolidation effect the greatest compared with Species 1 and Species 2 root-soil interaction.…”
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A comparison of SWATH-MS methods for measurement of residual host cell proteins in adeno-associated virus preparations by Thomas M. Leibiger, Lie Min, Kelvin H. Lee

“…Method attributes including sample requirement and processing time, and method outputs including protein and precursor identifications, host cell protein quantitation comparisons across methods, and quantitation coefficients of variance (CV) were considered to help establish a SWATH-MS workflow well-suited for rAAV HCP analytics.ResultsA 78% increase in HCP identifications, 80% reduction in sample requirement, and 70% reduction in instrument runtime was achieved with an in silico spectral library, data processing in DIA-NN, and data collection with the Sciex ZenoTOF 7600 instrument (DIA-NN-7600 method) compared to a previously established method using a DDA-derived spectral library, data processing in Skyline, and data collection with the Sciex TripleTOF 6600 instrument (Skyline-DDA-6600 method). …”
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Development and Validation of Spectrophotometric Methods for the Determination of Rasagiline in Pharmaceutical Preparations by Serife Evrim Kepekci Tekkeli, Armağan Önal, Fatemeh Bahadori

“…The colored products were quantitated spectrophotometrically at 524, 535, and 843 nm for methods A, B, and C, respectively. …”
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Multiple Quadratic Polynomial Regression Models and Quality Maps for Tensile Mechanical Properties and Quality Indices of Cast Aluminum Alloys according to Artificial Aging Heat Tr... by Won-Chol Yang, Ji-Yon Yang, Ryong-Chol Kim

“…To evaluate the quality of cast aluminum alloys quantitatively and intuitively, quality index and quality map have been used. …”
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