Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a study in a large clinical sample of patients using a novel automated method by Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Broadbent, Angus Roberts, Rashmi Patel, Philip McGuire, Richard D Hayes, Nishamali Jayatilleke, Genevieve Gorrell, Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard Jackson, Nadia Foskett, Caroline Johnston

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An Effective and Efficient Sample Preparation Method for 2-Methyl-Isoborneol and Geosmin in Fish and Their Analysis by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by Liang-liang Tian, Feng Han, Essy Kouadio Fodjo, Wenlei Zhai, Xuan-Yun Huang, Cong Kong, Yong-Fu Shi, You-Qiong Cai

“…In this work, a method with easier sample preparation, fewer and simplified facilities, and without SPME on GC-MS analysis is developed for the determination of 2-MIB and GSM in fish samples. …”
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Adversarial example generation method for SAR images based on mask extraction by ZHANG Jianwu, NAI Hao, LI Jie, QIAN Jianhua, FANG Yinfeng

“…The mask extraction module composed of equal modules, this method produced a smaller amount of disturbance, and the structural similarity (SSIM) with the original sample reached that more than 0.997. …”
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Quasi-Experimental Design for Medical Studies with the Method of the Fuzzy Pseudo-Control Group by Kiril Tenekedjiev, Daniela Panayotova, Mohamed Daboos, Snejana Ivanova, Mark Symes, Plamen Panayotov, Natalia Nikolova

“…The most popular quasi-experimental design, the difference-in-differences (DID) method, uses four samples of <i>X</i> values (pre- and post-intervention experimental and pseudo-control groups). …”
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DETERMINATION OF A BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND OF KON- 1 IN BLOOD PLASMA BY METHOD OF HIGH-PERFOMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH MINIMUM SAMPLE PRETREATMENTPROCEDURE: DEVELOPMENT... by E. A. Bulgakova, Yu. N. Karpenko

“…A simple, rapid and unlaborious procedure was proposed for sample preparation of plasma for chromatographic analysis, which ensures a high percentage of analyte extraction from the bioobject (more than 80%). …”
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Preferred use of contraceptive methods and reasons for non-use: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in the United States by Alexandra Wollum, Katherine Key, Carmela Zuniga, Charon Asetoyer, Maricela Cervantes, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Raquel Z. Rivera, Janette Robinson Flint, Sarah E. Baum

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Comparative analysis of RAD-seq methods for SNP discovery and genetic diversity assessment in oil seed crop safflower by Pooja Pathania, Gaddam Prasanna Kumar, Nishu Gupta, R. Parimalan, J. Radhamani, Rajesh Kumar, Sunil Shriram Gomashe, Palchamy Kadirvel, S. Rajkumar

“…This study aimed to optimize genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) for safflower via in silico and in vitro methods with two restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) approaches, i.e., single restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (sdRAD-seq) and double-digest RAD sequencing (ddRAD-seq) and three restriction enzyme combinations (ApeKI, NlaIII_Msel, and EcoRI_Msel). …”
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Evaluation of Different Sampling Methods Combined with Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing of Respiratory Specimens in Etiological Diagnosis of Patients with Severe Pneumonia by Zhou P, Zhang D, Fu J, Zhu D, Li S

“…However, it is recommended that their sampling methods be determined by clinical symptoms and patient conditions.Keywords: metagenomic next-generation sequencing, sampling method, severe pneumonia, etiological diagnosis…”
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Sampling‐Based Methods for Uncertainty Propagation in Flood Modeling Under Multiple Uncertain Inputs: Finding Out the Most Efficient Choice by Mahya Hajihassanpour, Georges Kesserwani, Per Pettersson, Vasilis Bellos

“…Such modeling at the field‐scale requires the identification of a more efficient alternative to the Standard Monte Carlo (SMC) method that can reproduce comparable output probability distributions with a relatively reduced sample size, including detailed histograms of quantities of interest. …”
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Wastewater Speaks: Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance, Sampling Methods, and Seasonal Infection Trends on a University Campus by Shilpi Bhatia, Tinyiko Nicole Maswanganye, Olusola Jeje, Danielle Winston, Mehdi Lamssali, Dongyang Deng, Ivory Blakley, Anthony A. Fodor, Liesl Jeffers-Francis

“…A strong positive and significant correlation was observed between Grab and Composite sampling methods, supporting their robustness as equally effective approaches for sample collection. …”
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GA-PE-VMD and MSE Methods for Milling Chatter Feature Extraction of Thin-walled Parts by WANG Hanbin, LI Maoyue, LIU Xianli, WANG Zhixue, MENG Boyang

“…Multi-scale sample entropy is more conducive to chatter detection than single scale sample entropy. …”
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The Coffee Processing Method Had a More Pronounced Effect than Location and Production Systems on the Overall Quality of Kaffa Biosphere Reserve Coffees by Addis Alemayehu Tassew, Gezahegn Berecha Yadessa, Adugna Debela Bote, Taye Kufa Obso

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Comprehensive review on chromatographic analysis of flavonoids in fruits by Ahmet Cetinkaya, Seyda Yayla, M. Mesud Hurkul, Sibel A. Ozkan

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Critical values for six Dixon tests for outliers in normal samples up to sizes 100, and applications in science and engineering by Surendra P. Verma, Alfredo Quiroz-Ruiz

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Towards a more robust comparative oncology: a Bayesian reanalysis of Peto’s paradox and discussion of comparative cancer risk studies in vertebrates by Antoine M. Dujon, Peter A. Biro, Beata Ujvari, Frédéric Thomas

“…Currently used statistical methods, however, often fail to adequately account for uncertainty in key model parameters. …”
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Evaluation of two sample preparation methods for the determination of cadmium, nickel and lead in natural foods by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry by David Romero-Estévez, Gabriela S. Yánez-Jácome, Karina Simbaña-Farinango, Pamela Y Vélez-Terreros, Hugo Navarrete

“…Two established methods (AOAC 999.11, based on sample drying and calcination, and IPN AC-06-00, based on microwave-assisted acid digestion) were comparatively tested at the CESAQ-PUCE laboratory in Quito, Ecuador, to determine their suitability. …”
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Analysis of TaqMan Array Cards Data by an Assumption-Free Improvement of the maxRatio Algorithm Is More Accurate than the Cycle-Threshold Method. by Luigi Marongiu, Eric Shain, Lydia Drumright, Reidun Lillestøl, Donald Somasunderam, Martin D Curran

“…These results suggested that the assumption-free MR algorithm was more reliable than the CT method, with clear advantages for the diagnostic settings.…”
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Electromagnetic signal fast adversarial attack method based on Jacobian saliency map by Jian ZHANG, Xia ZHOU, Yiran ZHANG, Zicong WANG

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Measurement of Radioactive Levels of 137Cs in Environmental Aerosols in Beijing by Rui-lin GAN, Juan DU, Lu LIU, Peng GAO, Xiu-feng MA

“…Due to the detection limit of gamma spectrometer methods is high, suitable for high activity samples, while the detection limit of radiochemical analysis is low, suitable for most environmental samples. …”
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Development of a method for measuring mass concentration of cyanides in soil samples using gas chromatography and tandem mass-selective detection by D. O. Korneev, M. A. Ponsov, A. A. Rodionov, L. V. Petrakova, I. V. Rybalchenko

“…The aim of this work is to elaborate the method for measuring mass concentration of cyanides in soil samples, which is more sensitive and less labor-intensive, than photometric method, adopted in the Russian Federation. …”
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