Economic and industrial assessment of common plum and cherry plum in the foothill zone of Adygea by V. V. Sherstobitov

“…Mathematical processing of data on the yield of fruits of common plum and cherry plum has been carried out using the method of field experiment. Statistical processing of one-factor experiment has been carried out by the method of deviation from the average one according to the variant. 3 groups of plum and cherry plum varieties have been identified at the standard level: low-productive, medium-productive, high-productive. …”
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Single-center experience of intraoperative ligation of the splenic artery for prevention of splenic artery steal syndrome in patients after living donor liver transplant by K. O. Semash, T. A. Dzhanbekov, T. Z. Gaybullaev

“…However, further studies with larger sample sizes are needed to obtain more reliable results. …”
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Microbiome dynamics associated with Hematodinium sp. infection in Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) by Irene Martin, Ahmed Elsheshtawy, Benjamin Gregory James Clokie, Simon MacKenzie, Kelly Simone Bateman, David Bass, Grant D. Stentiford, Amaya Albalat

“…The presence and intensity of Hematodinium sp. infection were determined using the body colour method (BCM), pleopod method (PM), histology (heart, gonads, hepatopancreas, gills and muscle) and molecular tools (PCR). …”
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Investigation of the effect of pectins of fruit and vegetable powders on the technological properties of confectionery glaze by L. V. Zaytseva, E. V. Mazukabzova, M. N. Bogachuk

“…Rheological parameters of confectionery glazes were determined by the Casson method on a rotary viscometer. The content of dietary fibers was established by the enzymatic-gravimetric method. …”
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Towards building a sustainable future with the tech revolution by E. Allaf Jafari, F. Asayesh, M. Rostamian

“…The current research was conducted to design an urban sustainability model, emphasizing new technologies.METHODS: Based on the nature of the data, the research method was qualitative and exploratory; the theme analysis method was used to analyze the data. …”
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Evaluation of Occurrence, Concentration, and Removal of Pathogenic Parasites and Fecal Coliforms in Three Waste Stabilization Pond Systems in Tanzania by Abdallah Zacharia, Wajihu Ahmada, Anne H. Outwater, Billy Ngasala, Rob Van Deun

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RMixDA: A Random Compound Data Augmentation Operation Framework for Neural Machine Translation by Huijun Wang, Xiaojing Du, Xinkun Hao

“…We further incorporate contrastive learning, identifying augmented data as positive or negative samples to evaluate similarity more effectively. Additionally, a novel evaluation method for augmented data quality is introduced, which is regularized by the NMT model’s loss function to improve the positive correlation between augmented data quality and model training. …”
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Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates by Joel Carlos Rodrigues Otaviano, Cássio Freitas Pereira de Almeida

“…We demonstrate that the proposed method better captures the heterogeneity of the region and produces more comprehensive results than regression kriging. …”
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The Managers' Perceptions of Telework Implementation Requirements in the Algerian Companies: A Post Covid-19 Assessment by Riad BENGHEBRID

“… Purpose: The main purpose of the study was determining the basic requirements for implementing telework in Algerian companies after the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to establish it, and accordingly it become a prevailing management culture. Design/Method/Approach: We opted for an essentially qualitative approach field by conducting semi-structured interviews individually with 11 company managers from different sectors of activity in order for the interviewee to feel sufficiently free and to have as much transparency and credibility as possible, and to obtain in-depth information that is difficult to express quantitatively or statistically, with diversity of the sample in terms of (age, professional experience, sector of activity, legal form etc.). …”
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Enhancement of the operating time of the overcurrent relay of the distribution network with high-level penetration of renewable energy sources by Mahmoud Aref, Mahmoud A. Mossa, Emad Abdelkarim, Khairy Sayed, Mishari Metab Almalki, Alaa F.M. Ali

“…We found that the droop control method gives a much longer overcurrent relay operating time than the virtual impedance method. …”
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Practices of Social Work with Migrants in Russia: Expert Assessments by E. A. Kovtun, V. P. Miletskiy

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2018–2019 in St Petersburg, Moscow, and Kazan with employees of professional centers for work with migrants, scientists specializing in the study of migration processes in their various aspects, and organizers of regular events (seminars, conferences) on this topic. The sample (30 experts) was formed by the snowball method. …”
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SFG-Net: A Scattering Feature Guidance Network for Oriented Aircraft Detection in SAR Images by Qingyang Ke, Youming Wu, Wenchao Zhao, Qingbiao Meng, Tian Miao, Xin Gao

“…A series of experiments was conducted on the CSAR-AC dataset to validate the effectiveness and generalizability of the proposed method.…”
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Speckle-Based Transmission and Dark-Field Imaging for Material Analysis with a Laboratory X-Ray Source by Diego Rosich, Margarita Chevalier, Tatiana Alieva

“…In this paper, we investigate the implementation of speckle-based transmission (T) and dark-field (DF) imaging in a laboratory X-ray setup to confirm its usefulness for material analysis. Three methods for recovering T and DF images were applied to a sample composed of six materials: plastic, nylon, cardboard, cork, expanded polystyrene and foam with different absorption and scattering properties. …”
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Automatic Detection and Calculation of Mining Subsidence in Large-Scale Interferograms With Transformer-CNN Model by Hongdong Fan, Jialin Xin, Tao Lin, Jun Wang

“…Initially, a training sample set for mining subsidence interferometric synthetic aperture radar was constructed by leveraging the probability integral method, Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service, coherence maps, and zero-mean Gaussian noise. …”
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Selection of reliable reference genes in Colletotrichum scovillei during different growth stages, host interactions, and plant extract treatment for qRT-PCR by Guo Geng Jia, Sun Ha Kim, Jiyoung Min, Nelson Villalobos Zamora, Silvia Soto Montero, Dong-Keun Yi, Soo-Yong Kim, Sang-Keun Oh

“…Abstract Selection of a reliable internal control gene is critical for quantitative real-time PCR, which is a rapid, highly sensitive, and easy method for evaluating gene expression levels in different samples or tissues. …”
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Impact of blended teaching on academic achievement and well-being in operating room students: a semi-experimental study by Somayeh Gheysari, Mehdi Hasanshahi, Parvin Ghaemmaghami, Fatemeh Vizeshfar

“…It may be that due to the short period of time and the absence of the first-semester students in clinical courses and fields, the level of academic achievement of the students did not show any particular change. It is suggested that more studies be conducted on comparing the use of this method with other self-centered and active training methods with a larger sample size.…”
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Methodological approach to estimation of the structure of load bearing insulation materials of buildings and constructions of railway transport by A. I. Adilkhodzhaev, S. S. Shaumarov, E. V. Shchipacheva, N. I. Begmatov

“…Thus, the new methodological approach to estimating structure of cellular concrete, based on the use of the modern approach from the standpoint of information technology, is quite accurate in defining and in its practical implementation much simpler than classical research methods.…”
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Acute change in resting energy expenditure and vital signs in response to white tea consumption in females: a pilot study by Nilüfer Acar Tek, Şerife Ayten, Nazlıcan Erdoğan Gövez, Duygu Ağagündüz

“…The caffeine and total phenolic content of white tea samples were determined by the high-performance liquid chromatography method and the Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric method, respectively. …”
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Association of football athlete engagement profiles with adolescent mental health — a latent profile analysis by Huarui Huang, Xiaoqi Sha, Chen Zhong, Ning Ma, Yizhou Shui

“…The current study was not able to clearly identify the mental health benefits associated with team sports among different individuals. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted across 64 schools in China, involving a total sample of 1,659 adolescents (M age = 12.51 years, SD = 2.285). …”
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Bone density may affect primary stability of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction when organic core bone plug fixation technique used by Pouya Dehestani, Farzam Farahmand, Amirhossein Borjali, Kaveh Bashti, Mahmoud Chizari

“…A tunnel was made in each test sample using a cannulated drill bit which enabled harvesting the core bone plug intact. …”
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