Modified vaginal lactobacilli expressing fluorescent and luminescent proteins for more effective monitoring of their release from nanofibers, safety and cell adhesion by Spase Stojanov, Tina Vida Plavec, Špela Zupančič, Aleš Berlec

“…In addition, fluorescent labelling facilitated efficient tracking of bacterial adhesion to Caco-2 epithelial cells, while luminescence provided important quantitative insights into bacterial attachment, which varied from 0.5 to 50% depending on the species. …”
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Equivariant spherical CNNs for accurate fiber orientation distribution estimation in neonatal diffusion MRI with reduced acquisition time by Haykel Snoussi, Davood Karimi

“…More importantly, it yields FODs and tractography that are quantitatively comparable and qualitatively highly similar to those from a reliable Hybrid-CSD ground truth, despite using only 30% of the full acquisition data. …”
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Streamlining Operations: The Impact of Effective Supplier-Manufacturer Relationships by Saqib Munir

“…In the contemporary business landscape, firms enhance their competitiveness by efficiently relying on their supply chain Moreover, an effective and efficient supply chain has become a vital and valuable means for staying vigilant in the evolving and competitive global business environment, contributing to overall organizational performance improvement. …”
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Time dependent performance analysis of a Smart Trash bin using state-based Markov model and Reliability approach by Pardeep Kumar, Amit Kumar

“…In this paper, the authors have developed a quantitative mathematical model to assess the performance of a smart trash bin. …”
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Experimental Signatures of Hilbert-Space Ergodicity: Universal Bitstring Distributions and Applications in Noise Learning by Adam L. Shaw, Daniel K. Mark, Joonhee Choi, Ran Finkelstein, Pascal Scholl, Soonwon Choi, Manuel Endres

“…This allows for computationally efficient experimental noise learning and, more broadly, is a new avenue for quantitatively classifying the behavior of noisy quantum systems. …”
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Hemocyte-mediated phagocytosis differs between honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker castes. by Eva Marit Hystad, Heli Salmela, Gro Vang Amdam, Daniel Münch

“…To this end, we adapted phagocytosis assays, which-together with confocal microscopy and flow cytometry-allow qualitative and quantitative assessment of hemocyte performance. We found that nurses are more efficient in phagocytic uptake than both foragers and winter bees. …”
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Performing a physiologically relevant test for cladribine tablets by P. A. Losenkova, D. D. Gvozdev, A. V. Suvorova, Yu. V. Medvedev, V. S. Shcherbakova, Yu. G. Kazaishvili, K. Ya. Zaslavskaya, A. M. Poluyanov, I. E. Shohin

“…Braun, Germany), and peristaltic pumps (Kamoer, China). The quantitative content of released cladribine was assessed using a highly efficient liquid chromatograph "Khromatek-Kristall HPLC 2014" (ZAO SKB "Khromatek", Russia) using a validated method at a wavelength of 252 nm, analysis time – 7 min, column – Grace HPLC Column Platinum C18-EPS, 250 × 4.6 mm, 5 mm (Grace, USA), temperature – 35 °C, elution mode – isocratic (A : B 80 : 20), mobile phase A – 0.1 % H3PO4 solution, phase B – acetonitrile.Results and discussion. …”
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Antepartum high dietary supply of calcium affects bone homeostasis and offspring growth in dairy sheep and dairy goats by D. Brugger, A. Liesegang

“…Data were analyzed using repeated measures and endpoint mixed models. The response of quantitative markers indicated that high dietary Ca antepartum significantly increased fecal Ca concentrations until parturition, suggesting efficient physiological mechanisms to manage Ca overload through increasing fecal excretion. …”
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User Experience of a Semi-Immersive Musical Serious Game to Stimulate Cognitive Functions in Hospitalized Older Patients: Questionnaire Study by Laurent Samson, Lena Carcreff, Frédéric Noublanche, Sophie Noublanche, Hélène Vermersch-Leiber, Cédric Annweiler

“…Therapies using virtual or augmented reality are efficient in ecologically assessing, and eventually training, episodic memory in older populations. …”
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History and prospects of flax genetic markers by Daiana A. Zhernova, Elena N. Pushkova, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Elena V. Borkhert, Alexander A. Arkhipov, Alexander A. Arkhipov, Elizaveta A. Sigova, Elizaveta A. Sigova, Ekaterina M. Dvorianinova, Ekaterina M. Dvorianinova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Nataliya V. Melnikova

“…The sequencing of flax whole genome triggered the development of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping. QTLs and quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) were identified for valuable seed- and fiber-related features and for resistance to biotic and abiotic stressors. …”
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Dose Reduction in Scintigraphic Imaging Through Enhanced Convolutional Autoencoder-Based Denoising by Nikolaos Bouzianis, Ioannis Stathopoulos, Pipitsa Valsamaki, Efthymia Rapti, Ekaterini Trikopani, Vasiliki Apostolidou, Athanasia Kotini, Athanasios Zissimopoulos, Adam Adamopoulos, Efstratios Karavasilis

“…The ECAE architecture integrates multiscale feature extraction, channel attention mechanisms, and efficient residual blocks to reconstruct high-quality images from low-dose inputs. …”
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Towards a learning healthcare community in the Bronx: evaluating the Bridging Research, Accurate Information and Dialogue (BRAID) model by Sarah M. McNeilly, Katherine W. Wang, Sarah A. Jacobs, Nang S. Yone, Debra A. Williams, Bruce D. Rapkin, Caroline Davis Joseph, Damara N. Gutnick

“…Of note, 91.7% (N = 33/36) had already disseminated health information learned through BRAID downstream and 84.4% (N = 27/32) indicated that BRAID strengthened their trust in science and research, highlighting unique and distinguishing features of the model. Conclusions Our quantitative evidence suggests that BRAID is effective, efficient and scalable, with experiential evidence supporting that it is reproducible. …”
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Intranasally Administered L-Myc-Immortalized Human Neural Stem Cells Migrate to Primary and Distal Sites of Damage after Cortical Impact and Enhance Spatial Learning by Margarita Gutova, Jeffrey P. Cheng, Vikram Adhikarla, Lusine Tsaturyan, Michael E. Barish, Russell C. Rockne, Eleni H. Moschonas, Corina O. Bondi, Anthony E. Kline

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RENDERING LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IMAGE IN CLASSICAL HORROR FICTION by Artur G. Gudmanian, Andriana O. Ivanova

“…Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” and determine the efficient translation strategies of rendering them into Ukrainian. …”
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Youth Involvement in Pornography and Academic Engagement in Selected Secondary Schools in Kabale Municipality. by Kanyesigye, Bens Rogers

“…Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists version 20.0.) software to obtain the Mean value and Standard Deviation, while qualitative data analysis used a narrative approach. …”
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Effectiveness of The Umbrella Collaboration Versus Traditional Umbrella Reviews for Evidence Synthesis in Health Care: Protocol for a Validation Study by Beltran Carrillo, Marta Rubinos-Cuadrado, Jazmin Parellada-Martin, Alejandra Palacios-López, Beltran Carrillo-Rubinos, Fernando Canillas-Del Rey, Juan Jose Baztán-Cortes, Javier Gómez-Pavon

“…The first part involves a quantitative comparison of results obtained using TU and TURs in geriatrics. …”
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Numerical investigation of oscillating jet film cooling on a flat plate for enhanced thermal management in high-temperature turbine applications by Abdalazeem Adam, Weifeng He, Pengfei Su, Dong Han, Chen Wang, Shuo Dai, Omer Musa

“…Utilizing the Eulerian-Lagrangian method, the study presents quantitative findings based on varying cooling inlet velocities. …”
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Modeling and Control of a 3DOF Robot Manipulator Using Artificial Fuzzy-Immune FOPID Controller by Worod Adris Shutnan, Nora Ahmed Mohammed, Faris Asaad Abdulmunem, Ali Hamzah Najim, Mustafa Yahya Hassan, Naglaa F. Soliman, Abeer D. Algarni

“…The controllers’ efficacy was verified through quantitative analysis that employed performance indices, including mean square error (MSE). …”
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Design and psychometric evaluation of the Emergency Medical Services Safe Care Scale (EMSSCS): a mixed-method study by Fateme Mohammadi, Rasoul Salimi, Mohammadreza Shokouhi, Salman Khazaei, Mostafa Bijani

“…During the qualitative and quantitative content validity 11 items, and face validity 3 items were deleted. …”
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Evaluating the role of AI-simulated patients compared with peer-to-peer learning models in the enhancement of medical education: is it beyond theoretical functionality? by Pegin Poulose

“…Compared with peer-to-peer learning, SIMPAT was perceived as more time-efficient, because, traditionally, one peer within a pair had to be the ‘patient actor’. …”
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