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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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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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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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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Going beyond the fifth child: Exploring the determinants of desire for more children among high parity partnered women in Uganda. by Godfrey Tumwizere, Yiga Joseph Douglas, Allen Kabagenyi, Betty Kwagala

“…The study sample comprised of a weighted sample of 4502 women aged 15-49 years with five and more children. …”
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Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) Expression in Human Tumors: A Tissue Microarray Study on More than 14,000 Tumors by Maria Christina Tsourlakis, Simon Kind, Sebastian Dwertmann Rico, Sören Weidemann, Katharina Möller, Ria Schlichter, Martina Kluth, Claudia Hube-Magg, Christian Bernreuther, Guido Sauter, Andreas H. Marx, Ronald Simon, Ahmed Abdulwahab Bawahab, Florian Lutz, Viktor Reiswich, Davin Dum, Stefan Steurer, Eike Burandt, Till S. Clauditz, Till Krech, Christoph Fraune, Seyma Büyücek, Neele Heckmann, Natalia Gorbokon, Maximilian Lennartz, Sarah Minner, Florian Viehweger

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Do couples who use fertility treatments divorce more? Evidence from the US National Survey of Family Growth by Anna Barbuscia, Maria Sironi

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ADHD Children Take More Time to Inhibit Automatic Responses: A Comparison with Anxiety Disorders Using NEPSY-II by Fabiola Panvino, Valerio Zaccaria, Michela Pica, Nunzia Amitrano, Francesco Pisani, Carlo Di Brina

“…It also sought to identify potential neuropsychological markers that differentiate ADHD from AD and ADHD + AD comorbidity. Methods: Cognitive and executive functions were assessed in a sample of 48 school-age children and adolescents (aged 8–15 years) using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) and the NEPSY-II battery. …”
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Are more muscle-strengthening exercise participations associated with weight status in children and adolescents? Results from 67,281 participants by Huadong Su, Xinli Chi, Hui Li, Songjian Du, Jin Yan

“…Results In total, 34,909 boys (51.9%) and 32,372 girls (48.1%), respectively, were included in the current study. In the overall sample, those who engaged in MSE for 2 or more days had lower odds of overweight and obesity (p for trend < 0.001; OR for 2 days: 0.88, 95%CI: 0.84–0.93; OR for 3 days: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.86–0.96; OR for 4 days: 0.79, 95%CI: 0.74–0.85; OR for 5 days: 0.82, 95%CI: 0.76–0.88; OR 6 days: 0.69, 95%CI: 0.60–0.79; OR for 7 days: 0.71, 95%CI: 0.66–0.77). …”
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Specific and Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Clinical Samples by Polymerase Chain Reaction by Anamika Singh, Vijendra Kumar Kashyap

“…This method, by well distinguishing between MTB complex and NTM, presented a fast and accurate method to detect and diagnose mycobacterial infections more efficiently and could thereby help in better patient management particularly considering the increase in mycobacterial infections due to emergence of NTM over the past decades.…”
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A fault diagnosis model for pumping units based on small sample electric parameters by Chunhua Yuan, Zhupei Liao, Xiangyu Li

“…However, due to the difficulty in obtaining sufficient fault electrical parameter samples, intelligent methods find it difficult to learn the characteristics and patterns of electrical parameter data. …”
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Abnormal Load Variation Forecasting in Urban Cities Based on Sample Augmentation and TimesNet by Yiyan Li, Zizhuo Gao, Zhenghao Zhou, Yu Zhang, Zelin Guo, Zheng Yan

“…Second, a sample augmentation method is established based on Generative Adversarial Nets to boost the limited abnormal samples to a larger quantity to assist the forecasting model’s training. …”
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Protein Precipitation by Metal Hydroxides as a Convenient and Alternative Sample Preparation Procedure for Bioanalysis by Emanuele Salina, Luca Regazzoni

“…The main advantages of this method over the other precipitating reagents are the minimal sample dilution required and the maintenance of aqueous media at nearly neutral pH which ensure analyte stability. …”
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A Diagnosis Framework for High-reliability Equipment with Small Sample Based on Transfer Learning by Jinxin Pan, Bo Jing, Xiaoxuan Jiao, Shenglong Wang, Qingyi Zhang

“…As a result, the fault diagnosis rate increases by 28.6% through our proposed model, which is more precise than other classical methods. The results of feature visualization further demonstrate that the features are more distinguished through the proposed method. …”
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Optimal H2 filtering for sampled‐data systems with measurement delays and packet dropouts by Wei Wang, Chunyan Han

“…Abstract This study examines the H2 filtering problem for sampled‐data systems that are subject to measurement delays and packet dropouts. …”
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Learning Distinctive Feature Representation for Descriptors on Multimodal Images by Incorporating Multiple Negative Samples by Bohan Li, Yixuan Li, Yong Li, Guohan Zhang

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Crack propagation in micro-chevron-test samples of direct bonded silicon-silicon wafers by K. Vogel, D. Wuensch, A. Shaporin, J. Mehner, D. Billep, M. Wiemer

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Examining Different Factors of Income Tax Non-Compliance in a Small Sample in Bangladesh by In Tishar Ashir, Hasanuzzaman Syed

“…The study collected opinions of taxpayers by primary data collection following a convenient sampling method. Logit regression analysis finds out that log monthly income, tax morale, tax education and occupation significantly influence income tax non-compliance. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Listeria spp. from White Cheese Samples Presented for Consumption in Istanbul by Elif Özlem Arslan Aydoğdu, Ayten Kimiran, Nil Kaya

“…The detection of Listeria bacteria in feta cheese samples made with pasteurized milk revealed that packaging, distribution, and storage practices following the pasteurization process should be followed more strictly. …”
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Evaluation of the cervical liquid-based cytology sample as a microbiome resource for dual diagnosis. by Chiwoong Lim, Young-Jun Seo, Ji-Yeong Lee, Eun Sung Jung, Sunyoung Lee, Hayoung Kim, Kidong Kim, Jun-Mo Kim

“…The analysis of differential abundance highlighted variations in microbial abundance among individuals, which were more prominent than those resulting from the sampling methods. …”
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