HPLC Method for Quantification of Caffeine and Its Three Major Metabolites in Human Plasma Using Fetal Bovine Serum Matrix to Evaluate Prenatal Drug Exposure by Rosa del Carmen Lopez-Sanchez, Victor Javier Lara-Diaz, Alejandro Aranda-Gutierrez, Jorge A. Martinez-Cardona, Jose A. Hernandez

“…The analysis was carried out using fetal bovine serum (FBS) as biological matrix in a high-performance liquid chromatography with an ultraviolet detector method. This method allows acceptable chromatographic resolution between analytes in 15 minutes. …”
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Effect of community-based health insurance on the use of health service and perceived quality of care in Bacho Woreda, central Ethiopia: A mixed method study by Chala Damena Heyi, Anagaw Derseh, Berhan Tassew

“…Hence, this study aimed to assess the effects of a community-based health insurance scheme on the utilization of outpatient care, to assess factors affecting enrollment in the CBHI scheme, and explore the perception of the enrollee on the quality of care they received in Bacho Woreda, South West Shoa, Ethiopia. Methods: A facility-based Mixed method was conducted in Bacho District, central Ethiopia from December 2021 to May 30/2022. …”
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Development and Validation of a New LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Quantification of Ivacaftor, Tezacaftor and Elexacaftor Plasma Levels in Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients by Alessandro Mancini, Raffaele Simeoli, Luca Cristiani, Sara Cairoli, Fabiana Ciciriello, Alessandra Boni, Federico Alghisi, Chiara Rossi, Giacomo Antonetti, Carlo Dionisi Vici, Alessandro Giovanni Fiocchi, Renato Cutrera, Bianca Maria Goffredo

“…The clinical performance of our method has been tested on samples collected during the routine clinical practice from n = 25 pediatric patients (aged between 7 and 17 years) affected by cystic fibrosis. …”
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A comparison of participatory science seining and electrofishing for sampling fish assemblages in an urban river by Olivia F. Williams, Sally Petrella, Lauren Eaton, Robert Muller, Philip Kukulski, Paul Seelbach, Catherine Riseng, Karen M. Alofs

“…The majority of species captured within the reaches were shared across sampling methods although community similarity was lowest and highest in small branches. …”
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Combining N-mixture and occupancy analysis offers a more complete picture of carnivore habitat use in Northeastern Türkiye. by J David Blount, Austin M Green, Mark Chynoweth, Emrah Çoban, Josip Kusak, Çağan H Şekercioğlu

“…Therefore, as these two methods tend to investigate habitat use at different spatial scales, when used in conjunction they can provide a more refined understanding of species' habitat use through repeat-survey sampling methods like camera trapping.…”
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Determination of High Content of Molybdenum in Molybdenum Ore by Emission Spectrometry with Solid Sampling Technique by Xinwei GUO, Kun LI, Zhihong HAO, Jianzhen YAO, Jinli XU, Jinfeng BAI

“…It can solve possible problems, such as large sample demand, large chemical reagent use, cumbersome operation and contamination in other analytical methods.…”
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Disinfection with chlorhexidine is more effective than ethanol for buttonhole cannulation in arteriovenous fistula: a randomized cross-over trial by Karin Staaf, Vendela Scheer, Lena Serrander, Anders Fernström, Fredrik Uhlin

“…Methods In this randomized, cross-over, clinical trial, we compared 5 mg/mL chlorhexidine in 70% ethanol to 70% ethanol alone with and without arm washing using serial sampling of normal skin flora directly before disinfection, immediately after the disinfectant effect time, and 2 and 4 h after disinfection during four different dialysis treatments. …”
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Research on the In-Depth Interpretation of Measured Pressure Data During Fluid Sampling with Dual Packers by YU Qiang, CHU Xiaodong, ZHOU Yanmin, QIN Xiaofei, KONG Sun, ZUO Youxiang

“…Dual packer is a kind of formation test pressure measurement sampling tool, the sampling process usually needs to be pumped for several hours or even more than ten hours to obtain formation fluid samples and pressure/flow rate data, but it can’t truly reflect the detection range of formation permeability. …”
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UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION FOR LWR BURNUP BENCHMARK USING SAMPLING BASED CODE SCALE/SAMPLER by Daniel Campolina, Jan Frybort

“…Sampling based method is adopted in many fields of engineering and it is currently used to propagate uncertainties from physical parameters and from nuclear data, to integral indicators of nuclear systems. …”
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Comparison of the effects of group and individual reflection methods on self-regulated learning strategies and learning motivation among emergency medical technicians: a quasi-expe... by Naser Darvishi Tabas, Zahra Amouzeshi, Seyyed Abolfazl Vagharseyyedin

“…While both methods were effective in enhancing learning motivation, group reflection proved to be more beneficial. …”
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Spatially explicit metrics improve the evaluation of species distribution models facing sampling biases by Claudio A. Bracho-Estévanez, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Juan P. González-Varo, Pablo González-Moreno

“…In contrast, spatially explicit metrics benefited the implementation of bias corrections. Moreover, the method to generate pseudo-absences was more influential in determining spatial differences between predictions than either the bias correction or the geographical characteristics of input occurrences. …”
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Lipid Accumulation Product Is More Related to Insulin Resistance than the Visceral Adiposity Index in the Maracaibo City Population, Venezuela by Valmore Bermúdez, Juan Salazar, Jorge Fuenmayor, Manuel Nava, Ángel Ortega, Pablo Duran, Milagros Rojas, Roberto Añez, Alejandra Rivas-Montenegro, Lissé Angarita, Maricarmen Chacín, Clímaco Cano, Manuel Velasco, Joselyn Rojas

“…To evaluate the association and diagnostic accuracy of VAI and LAP to diagnose IR in the adult population of Maracaibo city. Methods. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study with multistage sampling. …”
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Improving acute demyelinating lesion detection: which T1-weighted magnetic resonance acquisition is more sensitive to gadolinium enhancement? by Lázaro Luiz Faria do AMARAL, Diego Cardoso FRAGOSO, Antonio José da ROCHA

“…Objective To compare the sensitivity of a T1-weighted image to a single dose of gadolinium (Gd) administration both with and without magnetization transfer to detect contrast enhancement in active demyelinating focal lesions. Methods A sample of relapsing-remitting MS patients were prospectively examined separately by two neuroradiologists using a 1.5 Tesla scanner. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Data Sampling-Based Decision Forest Classifiers for Software Defect Prediction by Fatima Enehezei Usman-Hamza, Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Hussaini Mamman, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shuib Basri, Rafiat Ajibade Oyekunle, Hammed Adeleye Mojeed, Abimbola Ganiyat Akintola

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Potential of Dried Blood Self-Sampling for Cyclosporine C2 Monitoring in Transplant Outpatients by Alexander Benedikt Leichtle, Uta Ceglarek, Helmut Witzigmann, Gábor Gäbel, Joachim Thiery, Georg Martin Fiedler

“…The patients preferred the dried blood sampling because of the more simple and less painful procedure. …”
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Impact of microbiological molecular methodologies on adaptive sampling using nanopore sequencing in metagenomic studies by Josephine Herbert, Stanley Thompson, Angela H. Beckett, Samuel C. Robson

“…Aim and methods Given the rapid development of sequencing tools and chemistry, this study aimed to demonstrate the impacts of choice of DNA extraction kit and sequencing chemistry on downstream metagenomic analyses. …”
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DPF-Bi-RRT^*: An Improved Path Planning Algorithm for Complex 3D Environments With Adaptive Sampling and Dual Potential Field Strategy by Lin Ge, Swee King Phang, Nohaidda Sariff

“…The dual potential field model lead to more flexible method in collision avoidance and can improve the precision of collision avoidance, especially in cluttered dynamical spaces. …”
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Wireless sensor network positioning technology based on improved sampling box and fuzzy reasoning by Ningyun Dan, Lun Zhao, Wenjin Pan, Yan Cai

“…This study proposes a wireless sensor network positioning technology based on improved sampling boxes and fuzzy reasoning to address the problem of low positioning accuracy and efficiency of traditional positioning methods in resource constrained environments. …”
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Simple water vapor sampling for stable isotope analysis using affordable valves and bags by A. Dahlmann, A. Dahlmann, J. D. Marshall, D. Dubbert, M. Hoffmann, M. Dubbert

“…More recently, samples have been collected with gas-permeable membranes (GPMs) and measured in the field. …”
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RPA-CRISPR/Cas12a detection based on HCMV-UL123 gene: A way with higher detection rate than clinical detection methods by Tianyang Liu, Yao Wang, Zihao Liao, Xiaowen Li, Shanshan Tang, Zhongming Zhang, Ming Chu, Lanlan Wei

“…The current clinical detection methods are insufficient in sensitivity, highlighting the need for more effective approaches. …”
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