Electrochemical etching technique for analyzing the shape and spatial arrangement of graphite inclusions in as‑cast and plastically deformed cast iron by A. I. Pokrovsky

“…The technique for revealing the shape and spatial arrangement of graphite inclusions in the structure of cast iron and the scheme of the corresponding device are proposed. The method consists in gradual electrochemical dissolution (etching) of the outer layer of the metal matrix of the cast iron sample in the electrolyte. …”
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The Relationship between Financial Leverage and Financial Performance: Emphasizing Financial Distress and Currency Crisis in the Tehran Stock Exchange by Ebrahim Abbasi, Fatemeh Mohammadimoghadam, Hassan Ghalibafasl

“…The data needed to analyze the relationships were collected using the library research method, utilizing databases from the Central Bank of Iran, the World Bank, and Codal. …”
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IMPACT OF WHOLE-BODY ELECTROMYOSTIMULATION AND RESISTANCE TRAINING ON BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN WOMEN AT RISK OF OSTEOPOROSIS by Pavlína Vaculíková, Adéla Paclíková, Michaela Kotková, Ivan Struhár, Dominika Nancy Balousová

“…Results show that the RT method is more practical. More tested subjects of the RT reported the same or higher level of BMD in the post-test compared to the WB-EMS method (RT 50% vs WB-EMS 44.7%). …”
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Image Compression Based on Clustering Fuzzy Neural Network by Shahba Khaleel, Jamal Majeed, Bayda Khaleel

“…The new method is also a new clustering analysis method, and it provides more compact and separate clustering.…”
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Pemantauan Lingkungan Estuaria Perancak Berdasarkan Sebaran Makrobenthos <br><i>[Environmental Monitoring Perancak Estuarine Based On Distribution Of Macrobenthos]<i> by Abdul Manan, Taufik Indarmawan

“…Abstract One method to monitor the water quality is with macrobenthos studies. …”
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Ultrasound Imaging of Nonlinear Media Response Using a Pressure-Dependent Nonlinearity Index by Andrzej NOWICKI, Jurij TASINKIEWICZ, Piotr KARWAT, Ihor TROTS, Norbert ŻOŁEK, Ryszard TYMKIEWICZ

“…The NLI in bovine liver sample below the area with injected oil (mimicking “steatosis”) was more than 35 % higher than in regions without oil. …”
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High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> and <i>Escherichia coli</i> in clinical infections in a tertiary care hospital in southwe... by Oluwatoyin Akinde, Babatunde Odetoyin

“…In this study, we investigated the prevalence of ESBL production among clinical K. pneumoniae and E. coli isolates, determined their susceptibility profile, and identified risk factors associated with their infections in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: two hundred ninety-one non-duplicate isolates from diverse clinical samples were collected and matched with patients' biographical information. …”
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Effect of Laser and Conventional Office Bleaching and Polishing on the Color Change of Stained Nanohybrid and Microhybrid Composite Resin by Shakiba Farahani, Taraneh Faghihi, Ladan Ranjbar Omrani, Nasim Chiniforush, Elham Ahmadi, Mandana Karimi, Mahdi Abbasi

“…The highest capacity to remove stains was related to the conventional in-office bleaching method. Grandio composite resin underwent more color changes than Clearfil composite resin significantly (P-value < 0.05). …”
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Developing Flowcharts for Hazard Analysis in Seafood Retail: Critical Control Point Verification by H. Seki

“…Bacterial viability was evaluated using the flat agar culture method. Escherichia coli and Vibrio parahaemolyticus were detected using the Brilliant Green-Lactose-Bile and material point methods, respectively. …”
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Open Datasets for Upper Limb Motion&#x2014;A Systematic Review by Ranieri Santanche, Antonia Centrone, Lorenza Mattei, Francesca Di Puccio

“…A total of 63 datasets met the criteria for further analysis, and their quality was assessed based on subject types, data collection methods, and sample sizes. The majority of the datasets centered on activities of daily living, with 69.8% of the studies involving healthy subjects. …”
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Estimer les houles cycloniques à partir d’observations météorologiques limitées : exemple de la submersion d’Anaa en 1906 aux Tuamotu (Polynésie française) by Remy Canavesio

“…This paper offer a methodology to estimate the size of hurricane swell by analyzing basic weather observations at sea level. This method that is appealing to swell model simulations as well, give an opportunity to improve the knowledge of these hazards by the extending of the analyze to historic hurricanes (more than one century) through archives. …”
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Effects of shared reading aloud on emotional and linguistic learning: A longitudinal study in preschools by Paolo Di Nicola, Linda Petrucci

“…This longitudinal study evaluates the impact of the shared reading aloud method on a sample of preschool children in the “Strong Readers” project in the province of Parma. …”
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Startup Success Factors: Classifying 3H (Hustler, Hipster, Hacker) Framework using Simple Additive Weighting by Qoriah Indah Susilowati, Fatih Başçiftçi

“…But basically, this research shows that SAW is a fairly effective method in supporting classification decisions, it's just that improvements are needed on the expert side so that the weights can be done dynamically so that the results are more optimal.…”
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Enhanced Methylation Analysis by Recovery of Unsequenceable Fragments. by Gordon R McInroy, Dario Beraldi, Eun-Ang Raiber, Katarzyna Modrzynska, Pieter van Delft, Oliver Billker, Shankar Balasubramanian

“…The AT-rich nature of the library generated from bisulfite treatment adversely affects this amplification, resulting in the introduction of major biases that can confound methylation analysis. Here, we report a method that enables more accurate methylation analysis, by rebuilding bisulfite-damaged components of a DNA library. …”
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Construction and Preliminary Validation of the Children's Academic Readiness Test to Enter Primary School in Afghanistan Country by Mohammad Naeem Rasooli, Ahmad Abedi, Mohammad Ashori

“…The study population consisted of children aged 5 to 7 years entering school in Kabul, Afghanistan, with a cluster sampling method selecting 290 children (155 girls and 135 boys) for participation. …”
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Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Investigating Soil Mineralogy: A Review by Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Stephanie Kukolich, Ke Yin, Chaowen Wang

“…Finally, we suggest a few avenues of future research, including the development of theoretical calibrations of VNIR more suitable for various soil samples worldwide, better elucidation of clay mineral-soil organic carbon (SOC) interactions, and building the concept of integrated soil mapping through combined information (e.g., mineral composition, soil organic matter-SOM, SOC, pH, and moisture).…”
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Monitoring Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) distribution in the Southern Ocean: environmental DNA (eDNA) adds to the toolbox by Leonie Suter, Leonie Suter, Alicia Burns, Alicia Burns, Alicia Burns, Sophie Bestley, Sophie Bestley, Jez Bird, Madeleine J. Brasier, Madeleine J. Brasier, Martin Cox, Martin Cox, Derek Hamer, Olivia J. Johnson, So Kawaguchi, So Kawaguchi, So Kawaguchi, Rob King, Rob King, Andreas Klocker, Jessica Melvin, Christine K. Weldrick, Christine K. Weldrick, Simon Wotherspoon, Ben Raymond, Ben Raymond

“…Highest eDNA concentrations were detected above krill swarms, with concentrations declining with increasing distance from swarms. Near recent eDNA sampling locations, krill swarms were more likely acoustically detected than near old eDNA sampling locations. …”
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Abnormal event detection based on local topology and l_1/2norm regularize by Qing YU, Ken CHEN, Meng LI, Fei LI

“…A new dictionary learning method was proposed by introducing a local topology term to describe structural information of video events and using the l_1/2norm as the sparsity constraint to the representation coefficients based on the traditional analysis dictionary learning method.In feature extraction,a histogram of interaction force(HOIF) containing rich motion information and a histogram of oriented gradient(HOG) containing texture information were merged.Then,the improved dictionary was used to train the feature data.Finally,the reconstruction error of the testing sample under the dictionary was used to determine whether the testing sample was an abnormal sample.Experiments on UMN show the high performance of the algorithm.Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms,the analysis dictionary classification algorithm based on local topology and l_1/2norm has made more effective detection on the abnormal events in the crowd.…”
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Antimicrobial resistance and virulence associated genes in Campylobacter jejuni isolated from chicken in Côte d’Ivoire by Bernadette G Goualié, Eric E Akpa, Solange E Kakou-N’Gazoa, Honoré G Ouattara, Sébastien L Niamke, Mireille Dosso

“…Methodology: A total of 336 chicken ceaca samples recovered from market of two municipality of Abidjan were examined by conventional microbiological methods and molecular test using PCR. …”
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Enhancing laboratory test consistency through linear transformation: A multi-center study by Shitong Cheng, Dongliang Man, Zhiwei Zhou, Hui Kang

“…Methods: Five ISO 15189 accredited laboratories participated in this study. …”
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