Evaluating Water Stations' Management Performance in Providing Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study of Tikrit's Water Stations by Abdulrahman Adnan Ibrahim, Saif Saad Mohammed Khuder, Laith S. M. Al-Asadi, Mohammed Hashım Ameen

“…Some developed countries have even stricter standards than those set by the World Health Organization; as a result, producing safe drinking water in these countries requires more complex and expensive treatment methods. The present study assesses the water stations performance to provide safe water for human use. …”
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Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection in Latin America. by José Angelo Lindoso, Gláucia Fernandes Cota, Alda Maria da Cruz, Hiro Goto, Ana Nilce Silveira Maia-Elkhoury, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero, Márcia Leite de Sousa-Gomes, Joanna Reis Santos-Oliveira, Ana Rabello

“…Serologic tests have demonstrated a variable sensitivity according to the method and antigens used, with the standard tests used for diagnosing VL in Latin America displaying lower sensitivity. …”
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Results of coronary bypass surgery performed in the early stages of non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome by Yu. V. Neverova, R. S. Tarasov, S. V. Ivanov, A. B. Nishonov, L. S. Barbarash

“…The aim of the work was to assess the results of revascularization by the method of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), performed in the early stages of NSTE-ACS.Material and methods. …”
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Comparative characteristic of Bi- and La- doped (Ca/Sr)MoO4 -based materials with a defect scheelite-type structure by Zoya A. Mikhaylovskaya, Alexandra V. Klimova, Sofia A. Petrova, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Elena S. Buyanova

“…For (Ca/Sr)1−3x(Bi/La)2xФxMoO4 series 0.025 ≤ x ≤ 0.15 compositions show a basic defect scheelite structure, while 0.15 x ≤ 0.225 compositions of Bi-doped samples exhibit tetragonal supercells. The chemical compression of unit cell is more evident in the case of Bi-doping, indicating the preferred orientation of the isolated electron pairs. …”
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Levothyroxine therapy and its impact on serum lipids: Addressing dyslipidemia in hypothyroidism by Rohit Kumar Gupta, Rajeev Verma, Manisha Verma, Anirudh Mukherjee, Pramod Kumar, Mahendra Kumar Meena, Manu Sharma

“…Subclinical cases were all female and concentrated in the 31–40 age group, while overt hypothyroidism was more evenly distributed, with a higher prevalence in the same age group and extending to older ages. …”
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Customer Care and Increased Clientele: A Case Study of Centenary Bank Kabale Branch. by Tusiime, Bridget

“…The researcher used a sample size of 30 respondents. The study was based on questionnaires and interviews. …”
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Multi-scale characterization of tight carbonate rocks based on digital cores by Changsheng Wang, Changsheng Wang, Lili Tian, Lili Tian, Chuanrui Sun, Chuanrui Sun, Yuwei Deng, Yuwei Deng, Ying Zhou, Ying Zhou, Xin Nie, Xin Nie

“…The results show that the microscopic reservoir space in the study area is mainly composed of inter-crystalline pores, intra-crystalline pores and microfractures; there are obvious differences in the pore structure of different lithologies. The samples with more dolomite have the largest number of pores and throats, the largest coordination number, and the best connectivity; the samples with more calcite have the smallest pore radius. …”
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Evaluation of epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological features of vulvovaginal candidiasis by Faraji, Reza, Maleki, Abbas, Gheisoori, Abbas, Rashidi, Taha, Salimi Mansouri, Amirhossein, Rashidi, Fatemeh, Faraji, Sadegh, Kashefizadeh, Alireza, Bozorgomid, Arezoo

“…Conclusion: The culture method was more sensitive than the direct microscopic examination. …”
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Asynchronous Distance Learning Performance and Knowledge Retention of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale Among Health Care Professionals Using Video or e-Learning: Web-... by Avinash Koka, Loric Stuby, Emmanuel Carrera, Ahmed Gabr, Margaret O'Connor, Nathalie Missilier Peruzzo, Olivier Waeterloot, Friedrich Medlin, Fabien Rigolet, Thomas Schmutz, Patrik Michel, Thibaut Desmettre, Mélanie Suppan, Laurent Suppan

“…Participants in the e-learning group were more likely to recommend the learning method (77% vs 49%, P=.02), while no significant difference was found for satisfaction (P=.17), perceived duration (P=.17), and difficulty (P=.32). …”
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Porous Silicas and Respective Carbon Replicates for Adsorption and Catalysis by João Pires, Susana Borges, Ana P. Carvalho, Ana R. Silva

“…All the silica samples presented a more regular pore-size distribution than the respective carbon replicate. …”
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Experimental Study of Single-Lap Adhesive Joints to Analyze and Predict the Tensile Strength Values of Aluminum Alloy 6061 Substrates using Artificial Neural Networks by Abass Enzi, Omar Hashim Hassoon, Osama H. Hussein, Lujain H. Kashkool

“… Adhesive bonding is one of the essential methods applied in wide fields, mainly automotive and aerospace, because the adhesive can be used with various materials, weighs less compared to other methods, is easy to work with, and does not require many tools. …”
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Few-shot cow identification via meta-learning by Xingshi Xu, Yunfei Wang, Yuying Shang, Guangyuan Yang, Zhixin Hua, Zheng Wang, Huaibo Song

“…The proposed cow identification model attained an accuracy of 90.43 % with only five samples per cow for 20 cows, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods. …”
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SSL-MBC: Self-Supervised Learning With Multibranch Consistency for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification by Wenmei Li, Hao Xia, Bin Xi, Yu Wang, Jing Lu, Yuhong He

“…It is observed that the different modal representations of the same instance exhibit similarity in the encoding space, with the hidden features of more modals being more prominent. Therefore, a multibranch contrastive SSL framework, without negative samples, is employed to efficiently achieve representation learning. …”
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Percolation and connectivity formation in the dynamics of data citation networks in high energy physics by Sergey O. Kramarov, Oleg R. Popov, Ismail E. Dzhariev, Egor A. Petrov

“…Since 1974, this database has indexed more than 500000 articles, including their complete citation trees. …”
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Novel strand-specific qPCR assay elucidates differences in viral replication kinetics between different strains of avian reovirus by Telvin L. Harrell, Sonsiray Alvarez-Narvaez, Quentin D. Read, Steven J. Conrad

“…TCID50 is the preferred method to quantify ARV, but it does not provide specific information about the number of genomes present in a sample. …”
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Evaluation of Bangladesh Healthy Eating Index (BD-HEI) by Ahmed Jubayer, Abira Nowar, Saiful Islam, Md. Hafizul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman Nayan

“…Evaluating usual food and nutrient intake utilizing the Multiple Source method (MSM), the study examined the validity of the index. …”
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Multicenter performance comparison of the hepatitis C antibody serology assay on the new Atellica integrated chemistry and immunoassay analyzer by Joe M. El-Khoury, Anthony Bonito, Rachel Fonstad, Michael Anostario, Michael Quintanilla, Neil Birmingham, Amin A. Mohammad

“…This study evaluated the performance of the Atellica IM anti-HCV antibodies (aHCV) assay on the Atellica CI analyzer across 3 sites in the United States (U.S). Methods: Precision, cutoff bias analysis and qualitative method comparison studies were performed on Atellica CI and Atellica IM analyzers. …”
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Parents’ divorce and early child development: a population-based study in China by Fan Jiang, Jin Zhao, Chunling Lu, Yunting Zhang, Le Kang, Ruoyu Yin, Yingquan Song, Yuhao Deng

“…We applied generalised linear regression models in data analysis using both the full sample and matched sample.Results A total of 3.8% (N=2409) of young children came from divorced families. …”
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A comparative study on Arc- and vacuum induction-melting for Ti 16.6 Zr 16.6 Hf 16.6 Co 10 Ni 20 Cu 20 high entropy shape memory Alloy Production by Christian Hinte, Andrea Fantin, Khemais Barienti, Sebastian Herbst, Jan Frenzel, Gunther Eggeler, Hans Jürgen Maier

“…This suggests that VIM can achieve comparable levels of homogenization in substantially less time than required for AM-treated samples. The findings finally indicate that by using VIM, when combined with binary pre-alloys, one achieves more homogeneous alloys with reduced heat-treatment time, making it a viable method for HE-SMA production.…”
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Synthesis and electrophysical properties of nanostructured composites NіCо/BaTiO₃ and NiCo/TiO₂ by S. M. Makhno, O. M. Lisova, G. M. Gunya, P. P. Gorbyk, M. T. Kartel

“…The composites are heat-resistant up to 630K, as shown by the method of thermogravimetry and pronounced magnetic properties. …”
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