Determination of 13 Halogenated Organic Additives in Plastics of Electronic Products by Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry by Rui-fen ZHENG, Yi-zhe ZHU, Ling LIU, Shi-rong MA, Jun-xian HE, Cai-ming TANG

“…The quantitative analysis of 13 HOAs in 11 plastic samples collected from commonly used electronic products was performed by this method. …”
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Serum neurofilament heavy chains as a biomarker of neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis relapse by P. Beliaziūnas, R. Godelienė, L. Malcienė, V. Natkevičius, V. Gintauskienė, B. Šitkauskienė, M. Malciūtė

“… Introduction. One of the newest methods that could facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis is the measurement of neurofilament levels in the blood and spinal fluid. …”
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MultiPoint: Enabling scalable pre-silicon performance evaluation for multi-task workloads by Chenji Han, Xinyu Li, Feng Xue, Weitong Wang, Yuxuan Wu, Wenxiang Wang, Fuxin Zhang

“…In response, several sampling-based methods have been developed for their pre-silicon performance evaluation. …”
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Online continuing education for midwives in China: current trends, barriers, and future directions by Yao Zhang, Qinqi Deng, Xiaolong Zheng, Xinfen Xu, Fang Wang

“…Design A cross-sectional design was used. Methods This study used a cross-sectional design with convenience sampling. …”
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Comparing neurosurgery training in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study of public and private institutions by Muhammad Shakir, Hammad Atif Irshad, Muhammad Abdul Basit, Maryam Chaudry, Syed Ather Enam

“…Public sector trainees reported more hands-on experience and longer working hours than private. …”
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Dominance structure of the communities of soil and litter mesofauna in old-growth forests of the Ukrainian Roztochchia by Inna Tsaryk, Vasyl Yavornytskyi, Ostap Reshetylo

“…Material analysis was carried out by standard in soil zoology methods. Results and Discussion. The taxonomic diversity of the community of soil-litter mesofauna of the studied old-growth oak-beech-pine forest includes more than 60 species of invertebrates which belong to 25 families from seven classes of three phyla. …”
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Distribution of <i>Treponema</i> Species in Active Digital Dermatitis Lesions and Non-Lesional Skin of Dairy Cattle by Simona Mekková, Miriam Sondorová, Natália Šurín Hudáková, Viera Karaffová, Marián Maďar, Pavel Gomulec, Pavol Mudroň

“…Distribution analysis demonstrated significant differences in the occurrence of these species across sampling methods, with <i>T. pedis</i> being more prevalent in tissue biopsies and surface swabs (<i>p</i> < 0.001), and <i>T. brennaborense</i> in surface swabs (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Bibliometric analysis and impact of heavy metals contamination in soils by M. Kamaraj, N. Kiruthika, T. Saranya, J. Aravind

“…In addition to exploring the fundamental processes, this study addresses the wide-ranging impacts of heavy metal contamination, including its detrimental effects on soil quality, plant growth, ecosystems, and human health. Methods for assessing soil contamination are critically reviewed, covering soil sampling protocols, advanced analytical techniques, and bioavailability assessments. …”
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Determination of Optimized Mix Design of Reactive Powder Concrete by Abbas Moslehi, Mohammad Ali Dashti Rahmatabadi, Hosein Arman

“…The samples were then ranked using the simple additive weighting (SAW) method, and three highest-quality RPCs were selected for the Taguchi method. …”
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Divisibility and Compactness Analysis of Physiological Signals for Sentiment Classification in Body Sensor Network by Wei Wang, Xiaodan Huang

“…For the class divisibility and intraclass compactness problem, researching method of samples validity was proposed based on metric multidimensional scaling. …”
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Original and Mirror Face Images and Minimum Squared Error Classification for Visible Light Face Recognition by Rong Wang

“…In real-world applications, the image of faces varies with illumination, facial expression, and poses. It seems that more training samples are able to reveal possible images of the faces. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of abortion among married women of reproductive age in rural and urban areas of the Southeastern Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia, 2024 a postwar study by Abrehaley Teklemariam Gebremariam, Girmatsion Fisseha Abreha, Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher, Awtachew Berhe Weldu

“…Women aged 20–29 are 4.8 times more likely to have an abortion compared to those aged 15–19, 5.2 times more likely to have an abortion if they experienced an unwanted pregnancy, and 60% less likely to have an abortion using modern family planning methods. …”
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Traditional care practices known and/or used by different ethnic groups for newborns during the postpartum period by Vasfiye Bayram Deger, Ahmet Butun

“…Snowball and convenience sampling methods were used to recruit participants. …”
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Investigation of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons pollution source in agricultural lands in the south of Tehran by Maliheh Jamali, Javad Bayat, Seyed Mohammad Reza Talakesh, Seyed Hossein Hashemi

“…Agricultural lands in the southern part of Tehran are being irrigated with untreated wastewater for more than 30 years to produce a variety of vegetables, legumes, and cereals.Material and methods: In this study, the concentration of heavy metals and petroleum compounds were determined in 83 sampling points at two depths (0 to 30 and 30 to 60 cm). …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy Of Barium Swallow For Dysphagia, Keeping Rigid Esophagoscopy As The Gold Standard by Ansa Umara Akram, Sadia Chaudhry, Sundas Masood, Amna Kausar, Seema Naveed, Areesha Manzoor

“…Two often used diagnostic methods are barium swallow and rigid esophagoscopy. …”
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Community structure and diversity of soil nematodes in different slope directions of wild cherry plum forests in Xinjiang, China by CAO Jing, CUI Dong, JIANG Zhicheng, YAN Jiangchao, WU Yunhao, LIU Junqi, GUO Jinfeng, HAN Yaxin, HAN Shutong

“…A total of 20 plots were set and soil samples collected using the five-point sampling method. …”
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A Map of the Outer Gas Disk of the Galaxy with Direct Distances from Young Stars by Peter Craig, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Alexander R. Pettitt, Robyn Sanderson, Erik Rosolowsky

“…We employ the distances of nearby young stars, which trace the gas from which they formed, in longitude–latitude–velocity space to map this gas without using kinematic distances. We denote this new method “pattern matching.” Analysis of simulated spiral galaxies indicates that our pattern matching distances are 24% more accurate than kinematic distances for gas within 15 kpc of the Sun. …”
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The electrical conductive behaviours of polymer-based three-phase composites prepared by spatial confining forced network assembly by S. Kormakov, D. Wu, J. Sun, X. Gao, X. He, X. Zheng, I. Skopincev, N. Memetov, A. Tkachev, Z. Zhi

“…The results showed that the addition of graphene increased the electrical conductivity of the composites by more than 4 orders of magnitude. Meanwhile, a polymer-based three-phase composite with the highest electrical conductivity of 287 S/m was obtained utilizing the SCFNA method in the present work.…”
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Implications of cytokine genes polymorphisms in Jordanian patients with obsessive compulsive disorder by Ahmad M. Khalil, Manal W. Khrais, Khaled M. Al-Qaoud, Mohamad Y. Al Ta’any

“…The alleles of two SNPs (IL-1β + 3954 C > T and TNF-α-308 G > A) were more predominant and more positively correlated with a higher risk in OCD women. …”
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Implications of overlap in tariff policy on waste management costs in Italian municipalities by Giacomo Di Foggia, Ioannis Kostakis, Konstadinos Abeliotis, Massimo Beccarello

“…Based on a panel data sample for 5,512 municipalities from 2016 to 2022, a generalized method of moments estimation was employed for a linear dynamic panel model. …”
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