REUSABLE KITCHEN – AND TABLEWARE MATERIAL STABILITY TESTING WITH REGARD TO SPECIFIC MIGRATION OF MELAMINE AND FORMALDEHYDE by Svetla PETROVA, Valentina CHRISTOVA – BAGDASSARIAN

“…Formaldehyde migration results were below the SML in all but one sample, which exceeded the limit by more than four times. …”
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Comorbidity profiles and treatment patterns of osteoarthritis patients in Beijing: A cross-sectional study based on community medical records by Zelu Zheng, Jun Zhou, Zhi Liang, Xuehui Wang, Feng Xu, Oujing Li, Hong Xiao, Xiaoyu Liu, Qingmei Yang, Mei Zhang, Na Lin, Baohong Mi, Weiheng Chen

“…Objective: To describe the demographic characteristics, comorbidity patterns, and current treatment status of patients with OA in community health centres in Beijing, for informing future strategies for managing OA in the context of multimorbidity. Methods: A purposive sampling method was used in this cross-sectional study used to select four community health centres in Beijing, each provided over 50,000 consultations per year. …”
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Designing a defensive silence failure model of creative employees in organizations by Azam Khosravi, karam khalili, Esfandyar Mohammadi

“…The statistical population in the qualitative part of the research includes 20 experts (university professors and researchers familiar with the research topic) and managers and deputies of government organizations, and the statistical population in the quantitative part includes 345 people of managers and deputies and experts of government organizations in Ilam province. The sampling method in the qualitative part is a purposeful judgment, and in the quantitative part it is a cluster sampling method. …”
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Effects of dust fall on stigma and pollination and fertilization process of female flower in pistachio pistachii by ZHOU Xinyu, WANG Fengbo, Amanula Yimingniyazi, WANG Tian, Batur Bake

“…The benzidine-hydrogen peroxide method was applied to study the strength of the stigmatic receptivity of the female flowers under the control and dustfall covering. …”
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Investigating the Factors Influencing the Resilience Capacity of Rural Households Affected by Drought: A Case Study of the Villages of Zehak City by A.R. Sani Heidary, M. Daneshvar Kakhki, M. Sabouhi, H. Mohammadi

“…A stratified random sampling method was used to determine the sample size. …”
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Comparison of Culture, Direct Microscopy, and Polymerase Chain Reaction Results for Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex in Clinical Specimens by Zainab Khairullah Sedeeq, Hatice Türk Dağı, Duygu Fındık, Salih Maçin, Rugıyya Samadzade

“…In the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis, PCR method gives more reliable results than EZN method. …”
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Phytochemical Content of Tingi (Ceriops tagal) Bark Extract by Ultrasonication Process by Guring Briegel Mandegani, Rini Pujiarti, Ganis Lukmandaru

“…The results indicated that the yield value of the duration treatment was in the range of 3.74% to 5.53%, which was lower than the conventional method (10.58%). However, TPC, TFC, and TTC had more optimal values than the conventional method, with TPC values ranging from 268.1 to 314.1 mgGAE/g sample, TFC ranging from 68.3 to 87.1 mgQE/g sample, and TTC ranging from 244.8 to 338.1 mgTAE/g sample. …”
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Phenomenological Exploration of Organ Donor Families’ Experiences: From Decision-Making to the Consequences of Life Donation by Yazdan Karimi Monjarmooei, SeyedAlireza Afshani, Ali Ruhani, Mohammad Mobaraki, Ahmad Kalateh Sadati

“…The goal was to gain a deeper, more nuanced understanding of this complex phenomenon and its associated challenges. …”
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Use of Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) as a non-invasive adjunct for margin assessment in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) by Krishnasamy Nitya, Yash Merchant, Somdipto Das, Sameep S. Shetty

“…NBI enables more accurate delineation of tumour margins by accentuating vascular patterns associated with neoplastic transformation. …”
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Development and evaluation of an up-converting phosphor technology-based lateral flow assay for the rapid, simultaneous detection of Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 and O139. by Min Hao, Pingping Zhang, Baisheng Li, Xiao Liu, Yong Zhao, Hailing Tan, Chongyun Sun, Xiaochen Wang, Xinrui Wang, Haiyan Qiu, Duochun Wang, Baowei Diao, Huaiqi Jing, Ruifu Yang, Biao Kan, Lei Zhou

“…Here, a point of care testing (POCT) method called Vch-UPT-LF, which is an up-converting phosphor technology-based lateral flow (UPT-LF) assay with a dual-target detection mode, was developed to detect V. cholerae O1 and O139 simultaneously from one sample loading. …”
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Context of Institutional Trust Erosion: An Inquiry into Workers' Experiences in Accessing Support and Welfare Institutions by Mohadeseh Zia Naserani, Hossein Afrasiabi, SeyedAlireza Afshani, Hamid Ebadollahi-Chanzanagh

“…Visitors are generally more aware of this level of institutional distrust. …”
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Development, Characterization, and Validation of a Sensitive Primate-Specific Quantification Assay for Forensic Analysis by John C. Fox, Christopher A. Cave, James W. Schumm

“…We have used this quantification method with more than 15 000 forensic samples.…”
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Total Precipitable Water Retrieval from FY-3D MWHS-II Data by Yifan Zhang, Geng-Ming Jiang

“…The results indicate that the BPNN algorithms developed in this work are valid and superior to the D-matrix method, the Ridge method, the Lasso method, the physical method, the random forest (RF) method, the support vector machine (SVM) method, and the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) method. …”
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Pastoralist decisions to participate in livestock marketing systems during drought seasons: evidence from kenyan arid and semi-arid regions by S. Wagura Ndiritu, Castro Ngumbu Gichuki

“…Data were collected from 1,053 households using a multistage sampling approach. Analytical methods included Multivariate Probit (MVP) regression and Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. …”
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The Impulse Buying of Gen-Z in Surabaya When Using Digital Payment with Gender as Moderation by Putri Ayu Kasuma, Dewi Mustikasari Immanuel, Yuli Kartika Dewi

“…A quantitative approach is employed, utilizing Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze relationships between variables. A sample of 396 GOPAY users was selected using purposive sampling techniques through an online questionnaire. …”
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The effect burnout on social support and self-esteem in health care workers in Yazd city by SS Mazlumi, M Saeedi, M Vahedian, Z Jalalpour, MA Kiani

“…This study "determine the effect burnout on social support and self-esteem in health care workers". Methods: This analytical cross- sectional study was carried out on 130 staff employed in health centers. …”
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Challenges faced by the Iranian health system in containing COVID-19: insights from a conventional content analysis by Sajad Khosravi, Mahboobeh IzadPanah, Saeid Mirzaei, Hosein Rahmani, Nadia Oroomiei

“…The purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants. …”
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Pixel super-resolved virtual staining of label-free tissue using diffusion models by Yijie Zhang, Luzhe Huang, Nir Pillar, Yuzhu Li, Hanlong Chen, Aydogan Ozcan

“…Our approach integrates sampling techniques into a diffusion model-based image inference process to significantly reduce the variance in the generated virtually stained images, resulting in more stable and accurate outputs. …”
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Relationship between burnout and fear of missing out among nurses in Oman: Implication for nursing practice by Mohammed Qutishat, Sulaiman Al Sabei

“…The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between job burnout and FOMO among nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study used a cross-sectional design with a convenience sampling approach. …”
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Impact of mung bean crop market participation on asset accumulation of smallholder households in low-land areas of South Ethiopia by Girma Gata, Berhanu Kuma, Alula Tafesse

“…IntroductionThe study aimed at to evaluate the impact of mung bean crop market participation upon asset accumulation of smallholder farmers in lowland areas of South Ethiopia.MethodsAbout 384 smallholder mung bean producer farmers were selected from the lowlands of Wolaita, Gamo and Gofa zones following multistage sampling procedures. …”
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