UK Kidney Association Clinical Practice Guideline on vascular access for haemodialysis by Emma Aitken, Hameed Anijeet, Damien Ashby, Wayne Barrow, Francis Calder, Brett Dowds, Catherine Fielding, James Gilbert, Rob Jones, Narayan Karunanithy, Zaib Khawaja, Emma Roberts, Mike Robson, Rukshana Shroff, Hannah Stacey, Peter Thomson, Dan Waters

“…The guideline’s principle focus is areas of mainstream practice for which there is variation across different UK centres, in general not covering newly developed or rarely practiced techniques, and it is not intended to replace handbooks and review articles. …”
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Comparative legal analysis of the labor law status of a higher school lecturer by T. F. Vysheslavova, S. A. Lukinova

“…In the process of research, a whole complex of theoretical principles, logical techniques and special methods and means of cognition of state and legal phenomena (historical and legal, comparative legal, etc.) was used. …”
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Seismic Response Analysis Method of Damping Structures Based on the Inter-history Iteration and Secondary Development of ABAQUS by JIA Chuanguo, QUAN Ziyu, CHEN Xi, LI Yutao

“…In this approach, an extra equivalent linear damper replaces all dampers on each floor, and its supplementary equivalent damping coefficient is computed and updated based on the velocity response of the structure during an earthquake. …”
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Lightweight Apple Leaf Disease Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8 by LUO Youlu, PAN Yonghao, XIA Shunxing, TAO Youzhi

“…Synthetic samples were generated using oversampling techniques to increase the number of minority-class samples. …”
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Effect of integrin α5 on NLRP3 expression in periodontal ligament fibroblasts within an inflammatory microenvironment by DAI Jingyi, CAI Hongxuan, SI Weixing, ZHANG Zan, WANG Zhurui, LI Mengsen, TIAN Ya guang

“…The expression changes of integrin α5 and NLRP3 were detected using Western blot and qRT-PCR techniques. For <i>in vivo</i> experiments, 24 rats were randomly divided into four groups (<i>n</i>=6). …”
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AGW-YOLO-Based UAV Remote Sensing Approach for Monitoring Levee Cracks by HU Weibo, ZHOU Shaoliang, ZHAO Erfeng, ZHAO Xueqiang

“…To enhance the dataset's generalization performance, various data augmentation techniques, including random image rotation, were applied. …”
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Tattoo-less chest wall and regional nodal irradiation using surface imaging by Boris Mueller, Yulin Song, Xingchen Zhai, Yubei Liang, Paul Tamas, Simon Powell, David M Guttmann, Diana Roth O’Brien, Beryl McCormick, Atif Khan, Laura Cervino-Arriba, Bo Zhao, Linda Hong, Lior Z. Braunstein

“…Delivered dosimetry was calculated using the reverse isocenter shift technique. Statistical analyses used the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test and Pitman-Morgan variance test. …”
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HyperCell: A Bio-inspired Design Framework for Real-time Interactive Architectures by Jia-Rey Chang

“…Additionally, it is also crucial to address the question of whether computational technologies are being properly harnessed, if they are only used for form-generating purposes in architecture design, or should this be replaced with real-time information communication and control systems to produce interactive architectures, with embodied computation abilities?   …”
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Talent Management Pattern Finding with a Succession Approach Using the Met-asynthesis Method by Ali tavakoli, maryam majidi, Alireza Afsharnejad, gholamreza amjadi

“…The need for banks to develop reliable techniques to recruit competent managers and ensure high retention of key employees in the future has grown. …”
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Did dingo control cause the elimination of kowaris through mesopredator release effects? A response to Wallach and O'Neill (2009) by B. L. Allen

“…Wallach pers. comms.) is also a particularly weak technique for making inferences about pack structure. …”
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Fine-Tuned Attribute Weighted Naïve Bayes with Modified Partial Instances Reduction for Gaming Disorder Classification by Anastasya Latubessy, Retantyo Wardoyo, Aina Musdholifah, Sri Kusrohmaniah

“…Nevertheless, in contrast to the original PIR technique, which substitutes missing values for data values deemed outliers, the PIR technique suggested in this study replaces data values deemed outliers using a Naïve Bayes weighting approach. …”
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CREATING THE KULTUK POLYGON FOR EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION: VARIATIONS OF (234U/238U) AND 87SR/86SR IN GROUNDWATER FROM ACTIVE FAULTS AT THE WESTERN SHORE OF LAKE BAIKAL by S. V. Rasskazov, E. P. Chebykin, A. M. Ilyasova, E. N. Vodneva, I. S. Chuvashova, S. A. Bornyakov, A. K. Seminsky, S. V. Snopkov, V. V. Chechel'nitsky, N. A. Gileva

“…From 07 August 2013, the above‐mentioned impulses were replaced by uranium impulses from the oxidation zone. …”
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Vascular clamp of mononylon thread in experimental microsurgery by Balduino Ferreira de Menezes, Murilo Sgarbi Secanho, Matheus Scuracchio Fernandes, Laisa Brandão Carvalho, Fausto Viterbo

“…Huaraca described a technique using a simple 5-0 mononylon thread to replace the vascular clamp, which is an indispensable instrument for microsurgical anastomosis and is generally expensive. …”
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Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Preservation of Posterior Structures for Management of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis by Tarek Aly

“…After discectomy and insertion of cages, the excised lamina was replaced exactly in situ to their original anatomic position. …”
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A Hybrid Sampling SVM Approach to Imbalanced Data Classification by Qiang Wang

“…In this paper, a hybrid sampling SVM approach is proposed combining an oversampling technique and an undersampling technique for addressing the imbalanced data classification problem. …”
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Double-Station Automatic Video Observation of the Meteors by Stanislav Vítek, Pavel Koten, Petr Páta, Karel Fliegel

“…The double station observation of the meteors by means of sensitive image intensifier technique started at the Ondrejov Observatory 10 years ago. …”
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Reduction of High Dimensional Noninteger Commensurate Systems Based on Differential Evolution by Kalyana Kiran Kumar, Gandi Ramarao, Polamarasetty P. Kumar, Ramakrishna S. S. Nuvvula, Ilhami Colak, Baseem Khan, Md. Alamgir Hossain

“…The essential objective of this article is to come up with an approximating technique to replace the original high dimensional system with a low dimensional model preserving the properties of the original system in its shortened model. …”
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Composite layered overlay: micro-invasive approach by Daniele Rondoni

“…This case report describes the composite layered overlay technique restorations of the mandibular posterior teeth that can successfully replace invasive direct restorations.…”
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Offline Model Predictive Control Based on Weighted Projection over Polytopes by Fabio Andrade de Almeida

“…This work presents a novel offline model predictive control technique for tracking of constrained systems. The quadratic programming problem, commonly found in constrained control methods, is replaced by sequential offline set projections based on priority given to the decision variables. …”
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A Controller for Delta Parallel Robot Based on Hedge Algebras Method by Thanh-Lam Bui, Thanh-Hung Nguyen, Xuan-Thuan Nguyen

“…The simulation results indicate that the proposed technique is more exact than previous approaches. The experimental results reveal that the proposed technique is effective for robot trajectory tracking difficulties.…”
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