The Prevalence of Dental Caries in Primary Dentition in 4- to 5-Year-Old Preschool Children in Northern Palestine by Zafer Azizi

“…Materials and Methods. 1376 children of both sexes were investigated by three calibrated and trained examiners for dental caries using the dmft index according to the WHO method. …”
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Orthognathic model surgery by using of a passive Robot Arm by Esam Ahmad Z. Omar, M.A. Bamber

“…Purpose: The possibility of using a passive Robot Arm (3D method) in model surgery and comparing with manual technique model surgery. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Mental Stress on Electrocardiological Signals through the Use of Virtual Reality by Penio Lebamovski, Evgeniya Gospodinova

“…Generated stress is investigated by recording electrocardiograms for 20 min and determining heart rate variability (HRV) parameters in the time and frequency domains and by non-linear visual and quantitative analysis methods, such as the Rescaled Range (R/S) method, Poincarè plot, Recurrence plot, Approximate (ApEn), and Sample Entropy (SampEn). …”
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The Impact of Rhythmic Gymnastics and Walking Exercise on The BMI and Fitness Levels of University Lecturers by Fatkur Rohman Kafrawi, Mochamad Purnomo, Kunjung Ashadi, Jose Vicente Garcia Jimenez, Afif Rusdiawan

“…Methods: The employed research method is quantitative research using a causal-associative approach. …”
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Optimization of bioactive polyphenols recovery from Flammulina velutipes stem waste using nonionic surfactant-integrated ultrasound-assisted extraction by Huimin Huo, Haiying Bao, Hao Yin

“…When comparing the total polyphenol yields obtained from FVS via various extraction methods, it was found that UAE yielded significantly more polyphenols compared to both stirring-assisted and heating extraction methods. …”
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Experimental Determination of Biologically Active Compounds in Pomace of Siberian Beet and Carrot by Anastasia V. Kozhemayko, Irina Yu. Sergeeva, Irina V. Dolgolyuk

“…With the development of the food and processing industry, the matter of environmental pollution is becoming more and more acute. Environmental protection is based on the principle of rational use of natural resources and sustainable technology. …”
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Efficient Online Recruitment of Patients With Depressive Symptoms Using Social Media: Cross-Sectional Observational Study by Carolin Haas, Lisa Klein, Marlene Heckl, Marija Kesić, Ann-Katrin Rueß, Jochen Gensichen, Karoline Lukaschek, Tobias Kruse

“…The total cost per patient recruited online was comparable to that achieved using offline methods, but overall recruitment progressed faster. …”
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Health risk perception and behavioral decision-making among online-dating MSM in Shandong, China: perspectives on HIV and new psychoactive substances by Yuyao Chen, Haiying Yu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ling Li, Lin Wang, Yangji Zhuoma, Na Zhang, Guoyong Wang, Wei Ma, Meizhen Liao

“…This study aims to explore the perceptions of MSM regarding the risks and harms associated with HIV and NPS in the context of online dating. Methods From April to July 2023, MSM were recruited from eight cities in Shandong Province using a combination of snowball sampling, venue-based recruitment, and online methods. …”
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Handling of missing component information for common composite score outcomes used in axial spondyloarthritis research when complete-case analysis is unbiased by Christos Polysopoulos, Stylianos Georgiadis, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg, Almut Scherer, Daniela Di Giuseppe, Merete Lund Hetland, Michael John Nissen, Gareth T. Jones, Bente Glintborg, Anne Gitte Loft, Johan Karlsson Wallman, Karel Pavelka, Jakub Závada, Ayten Yazici, Maria José Santos, Adrian Ciurea, Burkhard Möller, Brigitte Michelsen, Pawel Mielnik, Johanna Huhtakangas, Heikki Relas, Katja Perdan Pirkmajer, Ziga Rotar, Ross MacDonald, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma, Marleen van de Sande, Myriam Riek

“…When a complete-case (CC) analysis of composite scores is unbiased, preferable approaches of dealing with missing component information should also be unbiased and provide a more precise estimate. We assessed the performance of several methods compared to CC analysis in estimating the means of common composite scores used in axial spondyloarthritis research. …”
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Adoptive infusion of tolerogenic dendritic cells prolongs the survival of pancreatic islet allografts: a systematic review of 13 mouse and rat studies. by Guixiang Sun, Juan Shan, Youping Li, Yanni Zhou, Yingjia Guo, Wenqiao Wu, Tong Yang, Mengjuan Xia, Li Feng

“…Multiple injections are not superior to single injection. Yet more rigorously designed studies with larger sample sizes are still needed in future.…”
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Stated Preference Research in Otolaryngology: A Scoping Review by Lucy Xu, Molly N. Huston, Victoria S. Lee, John D. Cramer, Deborah Goss, Matthew R. Naunheim

“…Abstract Objective Stated preference research methods, including discrete choice experiments (DCEs), conjoint analysis (CA), best‐worst scaling (BWS), and willingness‐to‐pay/contingent valuation (WTP/CV) studies, are excellent tools for understanding patient preferences in healthcare. …”
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Graph contrastive learning with node-level accurate difference by Pengfei Jiao, Kaiyan Yu, Qing Bao, Ying Jiang, Xuan Guo, Zhidong Zhao

“…Therefore, we argue that it is necessary to design a method that can quantify the dissimilarity between the original and augmented graphs to more accurately capture the relationships between samples. …”
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Few-shot cow identification via meta-learning by Xingshi Xu, Yunfei Wang, Yuying Shang, Guangyuan Yang, Zhixin Hua, Zheng Wang, Huaibo Song

“…The proposed cow identification model attained an accuracy of 90.43 % with only five samples per cow for 20 cows, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Bradykinin measurement by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in subjects with hereditary angioedema enhanced by cold activation by Jinguo Chen, MD, Yunkou Wu, PhD, J. Joanna Yu, MD, PhD, Joseph Chiao, MD, Jing Yu, PhD, Mark D. Scarupa, MD, Lili Wan, PhD, H. Henry Li, MD, PhD

“…Methods: Blood samples from subjects with HAE-C1INH and healthy volunteers were collected and subjected to cold activation for the contact system. …”
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Rapid and Accurate Detection of <i>Chrysomya megacephala</i> (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Using Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Combined with Lateral Flow Dipstick by Chengxin Ye, Xuan Tang, Fengqin Yang, Xiangyan Zhang, Yanjie Shang, Yang Xia, Yuanxing Wang, Shaojiang Guo, Lagabaiyila Zha, Yadong Guo, Dan Wen

“…Only 7.8 × 10⁻⁴ ng or more of target DNA fragments were required, and a positive detection rate of 100% was achieved in 18 <i>C. megacephala</i> samples from actual cases. …”
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Inventario de las aves de un bosque altoandino: comparación de dos métodos by Stiles Hurd Frank Galfierd, Rosselli Loreta

“…Capturing birds with mist-nets has been the sole method used or proposed for making species inventories of several Neotropical forests, but this method has rarely been evaluated relative to the use of visual and auditory observations in these forests. …”
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The Prevalence of Headache and Associated Factors in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Daifallah Almalki, Mamdouh M. Shubair, Badr F Al-Khateeb, Rawan Abdullah Obaid Alshammari, Saeed Mastour Alshahrani, Raed Aldahash, Khadijah Angawi, Majid Alsalamah, Jamaan Al-Zahrani, Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Hayat Saleh Al-Zahrani, Ashraf El-Metwally, Khaled K. Aldossari

“…The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of headache and to explore its associated risk factors Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. Methods. The multistage sampling technique was used to enroll 1200 population-based participants who were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire about headaches, demographics, and several other parameters such as smoking status and different chronic and psychological illnesses. …”
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Current state of the art of analyte scope in urine metabolome analysis by non-hydrogenative PHIP by Nele Reimets, Kerti Ausmees, Indrek Reile

“…It is one of the few hyperpolarization methods that have been demonstrated to be applicable to chemical analysis of biological samples and potentially metabolomics. …”
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Sexing the sternal rib end in modern Greeks: A virtual osteometric approach using high-resolution 3D surface models by Ioanna Karagiorgou, Ioanna Anastopoulou, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Elena Kranioti, Konstantinos Moraitis

“…The results demonstrated that SIH is more sexually dimorphic than APB (alpha value of .05) while the application of İşcan’s (1985) formula on the contemporary Greek sample, provided results of low accuracy, ranging from 48.6–52.4%. …”
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The Influence of Viewing Geometry on Hyperspectral-Based Soil Property Retrieval by Yucheng Gao, Lixia Ma, Zhongqi Zhang, Xianzhang Pan, Ziran Yuan, Changkun Wang, Dongsheng Yu

“…In this study, bidirectional reflectance factors (BRFs) were collected at 48 different viewing angles for 154 soil samples with varying SOM contents and PSDs. SOM and PSD were then retrieved using combinations of ten spectral preprocessing methods (raw reflectance, Savitzky–Golay filter (SG), first derivative (D1), second derivative (D2), standard normal variate (SNV), multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), SG + D1, SG + D2, SG + SNV, and SG + MSC), one sensitive wavelength selection method, and three retrieval algorithms (partial least squares regression (PLSR), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural networks (CNNs)). …”
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