Contrasting aerial moose population estimation methods and evaluating sightability in west‐central Alberta, Canada by Wibke Peters, Mark Hebblewhite, Kirby G. Smith, Shevenell M. Webb, Nathan Webb, Mike Russell, Curtis Stambaugh, Robert B. Anderson

“…Our results support the application of distance sampling as an alternative to block‐surveys, but we suggest further investigation of methods for correcting visibility bias on the transect line. © 2014 The Wildlife Society.…”
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System Maintainability Estimation with Multi-Peak Time Distribution based on the Bayesian Melding Method by Pei Mochao, Hao Jianping, Gao Cuijuan

“…Compared to the other methods, the proposed method provides more information sources for maintainability estimation, whose estimation effect is shown to be satisfactory based on two validation cases.…”
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Tracking Microplastics in the Air: Cutting-edge Methods for Indoor and Outdoor Environments by Khadija Sharaf Din, Muhammad Fahim Khokhar, Hira Amjad

“…It has been demonstrated that ZnCl2 and H2O2 have no negative impacts on sample particles under the given conditions. This method has been proven suitable for environmental samples and can be reproduced within 2 days.…”
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Parents of Child Psychiatric Patients Report More Adverse Childhood Experiences Compared with Community Samples by Adriana Altpeter, Andrea Dixius, Eva Möhler

“…In addition, the connection between parental negative traumatic experiences and their children’s reporting of these experiences should be examined in more detail. <b>Methods</b>: In total, 256 child psychiatric patients (73.8% female and 26.2% male) aged 4–18 years (mean [M] = 13.26 years, standard deviation [SD] = 2.73) were retrospectively examined for post-traumatic stress symptoms (using the CATS questionnaire). …”
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Emerging technologies for detecting antibiotics in aquaculture wastewater: A critical review by Xinyu Chang, Junchi Cui, Guihua Wang, Shujuan Meng, Lingling Chen, Meng Zhang

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A noteworthy issue: microbiome data variation depending on sampling methods in skin microecology studies in acne vulgaris patients by De-Tian Xu, De-Tian Xu, Qi Chen, Jia-Yi Yang, Guo-Rong Yan, Ling-Lin Zhang, Xiao-Jing Liu, Pei-Ru Wang, Jia Liu, Xiu-Li Wang

“…In this study, we aim to contribute to a more suitable sampling strategy in acne microbiome studies.MethodsThis study involved ten mild to moderate acne patients. …”
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Methods of Testing of Individual Auditing Tasks by External Quality Controllers by VADIM YA. Ovsiychuk, VALENTINA V. Ovsiychuk, YURY A. Trusov

“…The article describes the sampling techniques to verify the quality of performance of auditing tasks and duties, among which it is advisable to use non-statistical and varied sampling methods. …”
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scHiCSRS: a self-representation smoothing method with Gaussian mixture model for imputing single cell Hi-C data by Qing Xie, Wang Meng, Shili Lin

“…Through an extensive set of simulation studies, we demonstrate the ability of scHiCSRS for identifying structural zeros with high sensitivity and for accurate imputation of dropout values in sampling zeros. Downstream analyses for three experimental datasets show that data improved from scHiCSRS yield more accurate clustering of cells than simply using observed data or improved data from comparison methods. …”
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A Multisource Image Matching Method Based on Contrastive Network With Similarity Weighting by Zhen Han, Ning Lv, Tao Su, Yoong Choon Chang, Chen Chen

“…These hard samples with more valuable information can promote the abundance of multimodal consistency information. …”
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The Effect of Emotion Dysregulation, Affect, Boredom, and Social Context on State Nomophobia among University Students: An Experience Sampling Study (State Nomophobia) by Özge Enez, Özden Yalçınkaya Alkar

“…This study also examined the variation of daily nomophobia scores during the week and the difference between nomophobic and non-nomophobic individuals. The experience sampling method was used because it allows simultaneous evaluation of the internal and situational determinants of the research variables as the data are collected within the real-world context. …”
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Improving population size estimation at western capercaillie leks: lek counts versus genetic methods by Gaël Aleix‐Mata, Antonio J. López‐Montoya, Pascal Lapébie, Evelyn Marty, Pierre Mourierres, Jesús M. Pérez, Antonio Sánchez

“…The combination of non‐invasive sampling with genetic mark‐recapture model was found to be the most reliable method for obtaining the N^o of leks given that traditional lek counts underestimate the number of capercaillie and, furthermore, can cause disturbance to the species at these sites.…”
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Comparing sampling methods to monitor population abundance while accounting for imperfect detection: An application of N-mixture models on Orthoptera by Alberto Mattia Nodari, Marco Bonifacino, Elena Eustacchio, Marco Bonelli, Mattia Falaschi

“…In this study, we compared two sampling methods to monitor Orthoptera communities: sweep netting and tube sampling (a modified version of box quadrats). …”
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Research Advances in Separation and Measurement Methodologies of 226Ra in Water by Ping XU, Guo-bing YU, Hui-yun XUE, Shi-quan CAO, Hui-ping TANG, Yu-jia KANG, De-yun WEN, Zhi CHEN, Qing-biao WU

“…To meet the monitoring requirements for 226Ra, this paper systematically summarize the pre-concentration and radiochemical separation methods for 226Ra in water samples, with a focus on discussing the advantages and disadvantages of radiation measurement techniques and mass spectrometry(MS) techniques for analyzing 226Ra. …”
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Improved landslide susceptibility assessment: A new negative sample collection strategy and a comparative analysis of zoning methods by Jiani Wang, Yunqi Wang, Manyi Li, Zihan Qi, Cheng Li, Haimei Qi, Xiaoming Zhang

“…The very-high and high susceptibility areas had maximum FR values of 3.963 and 1.432, respectively, when compared to other zoning methods. This study can provide a more objective and scientific method for LSA, and the findings can offer more precise decision assistance for risk management and geological disaster prevention.…”
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Evaluating Colilert and ChromAgar methods for the detection of ESBL bacteria in water samples from urban markets in Blantyre, Malawi by Miss Effita Masoamphambe, Dr Derek Cocker, Prof Nicholas Feasey, Dr Kondwani Chidziwitsano, Miss Mindy Panulo, Dr David Berendes, Dr Amy Kirby, Prof Tracy Morse

“…Variations in the results obtained from conventional ChromAgar and ESBL Colilert methods highlight that more research is required to optimize microbiological methods for the recovery and identification of AMR bacteria from environmental samples to enable accurate surveillance.…”
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Scoping review on the perceptions and attitude of women on methods for collecting cervicovaginal samples for Human Papillomavirus testing in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Uduak Ima Andrew-Bassey, Deborah Olamiposi Oke, Michael A Okunlola, Imran Morhason-Bello

“…This scoping review explored published literature on the perception and attitude of women on the methods for collecting cervicovaginal samples for HPV testing for CC in SSA. …”
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Assessing Local Distribution of Alien Ponto-Caspian Mysids in Lithuanian Waters, the Baltic Sea Basin: Do Sampling Method and Time Matter? by Kęstutis Arbačiauskas, Aleksandras Rybakovas, Giedrė Višinskienė, Gintautas Vaitonis, Eglė Šidagytė-Copilas

“…Here, we present data from the most recent comprehensive survey of Ponto Caspian mysids and analyze the impact of sampling method on the likelihood of species detection. …”
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A GAN-Based Method for Cognitive Covert Communication UAV Jamming-Assistance Under Fully Labeled Sample Conditions by Wenxuan Fu, Bo Li, Haipeng Wang, Haochen Gong, Xiang Lin

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Search for Optimal Parameters for Gas Chromatographic Complex When Determining Sarin in Water Samples by Flame Photometric Detection Method by V. А. Ignatyev, L. V. Petrakova, М. А. Ponsov, А. А. Rodionov

“…In comparison with the initial method, the offered one is more sensitive in case of sarin concentration in water in the range from 6×10-6 to 1×10-4 mg/ml to 1,7 times. …”
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A novel extraction method of prymnesins from Prymnesium parvum whole culture samples and re-evaluation of existing protocols by Magdalena Pöchhacker, Alexander Conrad, Doris Marko, Elisabeth Varga

“…The optimized SPE approach provides a faster, cleaner and more reliable extraction method for PRMs and improves analytical workflows for both natural and laboratory samples.…”
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