Evaluating the Diagnostic Potential of Biomarker Panels in Breast Cancer and Prostate Adenocarcinoma by Kldiashvili Ekaterina, Iordanishvili Saba, Adamia Sophia, Abiatari Ivane, Zarnadze Maia

“…This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of selected plasma biomarkers in distinguishing breast cancer and prostate adenocarcinoma patients from healthy individuals, using statistical analysis and machine learning. Materials and Methods We analyzed blood samples from 162 participants (73 cancer patients: 51 with breast cancer and 22 with prostate adenocarcinoma; 89 healthy controls). …”
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Ambiguous report in anatomic pathology; a southwestern Nigeria experience by Ano-Edwarde GH, Ajao IO, Uduagbamen PK, Onabanjo BD

“…The ambiguous terms “See text (49.6%) and see description (28%)” were more common in the reports Out of the total number of samples studied, 111 (88.80%) of the samples were considered as being adequate and, 14 (11.20%) was inadequate. …”
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Attitudes and factors affecting acceptability of self-administered cervicovaginal sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping as an alternative to Pap testing among multieth... by Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Yin Ling Woo, Pik-Pin Goh, Mahirah Ma'som, Nazrila Hairizan Nasir, Jerome Bellinson, Shridevi Subramaniam, Yuntong Ma, Siew-Hwei Yap, Patti Gravitt

“…Participants who had never undergone a Pap smear were also more likely to prefer self-sampling (88.5%) than women who had undergone a previous Pap (80.9%) (adjusted OR 0.06, 95% CI 0.35 to 0.87).Conclusions Overall, urban Malaysian women from multiethnic backgrounds found self-sampling to be an acceptable alternative to Pap smear.…”
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Benefits and Limitations of Lab-on-a-Chip Method over Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Method in Gluten Proteins Evaluation by Dragan Živančev, Daniela Horvat, Aleksandra Torbica, Miona Belović, Gordana Šimić, Damir Magdić, Nevena Đukić

“…In the present study, benefits and limitations of Lab-on-a-Chip method over RP-HPLC method in gluten proteins evaluation were explored in order to determine in which way LoaC method should be improved in order to make its results more compliant with the results of RP-HPLC method. …”
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An evaluation of genetic survey methods for bobcats in western Maryland by Kevin J. Lamp, Angela M. Holland, Lisette P. Waits, Jacob L. Bowman

“…For bobcats (Lynx rufus) in western Maryland, we compared 3 NGS methods (i.e., hair snaring, scat sampling, and snow tracking) by number of detections produced, detections per hour worked, and number of individually identified samples. …”
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A Method of Printing Defect Detection Based on DCGAN by WANG Hai-tao, GAO Yu-dong, HOU Jian-xin, HE Yong-jun, CHEN De-yun

“…The method improves the detection accuracy by the following points: ①The upper sampling module is added on the basis of the original network, and the loss in the upper sampling is reduced; ②A self-attention mechanism is proposed to generate more complex and accurate images; ③The noise distribution of the image is analyzed statistically, the optimal threshold is determined, the noise is removed and the accurate defect image is obtained. …”
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Suitability of river plastic monitoring methods for citizen science by Louise Schreyers, Tim H.M. van Emmerik, Sabrina Kirschke, Rose Pinto, Lea Schmidtke, Christian Schmidt, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff

“…The visual counting method, used to estimate floating macroplastic transport, emerged as the most promising method for citizen science–based river plastic monitoring. …”
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An acoustic method of determination of leakage coordinates in gas pipelines by J. BUTKUS, L. JAKEVIČIUS, O. TUMŠYS

“…It is revealed that one of the more perspective methods of detection of leakage coordinates of gas-lines is the acoustic correlation method. …”
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Improving SOC estimation in low-relief farmlands using time-series crop spectral variables and harmonic component variables based on minimum sample size by Chenjie Lin, Ling Zhang, Nan Zhong

“…This method considers more information on crop growth and minimum sample size. …”
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Biofilm formation, methicillin resistance and SCCmec types among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical samples from a tertiary care hospital, in Nepal by Sarita Manandhar, Dipesh Karn, Mahendra Raj Shrestha, Jivan Shakya, Anjana Singh

“…This study aimed to detect biofilm formation ability among methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates and determine SCCmec types. Methods A total of 115 S. aureus were isolated from various clinical samples collected at Nepal Armed Police Hospital from August 2022 to February 2023. …”
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Assessment of reconstruction accuracy for under-sampled 31P-MRS data using compressed sensing and a low rank Hankel matrix completion approach by Jossian A. García, Michael D. Noseworthy, Alejandro Santos-Díaz

“…We present an evaluation of the influence of the undersampling pattern in the quality of the signal reconstruction through a series of experiments in 31P-MRS data using the low rank Hankel matrix completion as the reconstruction method. Our results demonstrate that the reconstruction accuracy is heavily influenced by the selection of specific samples rather than the undersampling factor. …”
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OssaNMA: An R package for using information from network meta-analyses to optimize the power and sample allocation of a new two-arm trial. by Fangshu Ye, Chong Wang, Annette M O'Connor

“…Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are designed for measuring the effectiveness of the treatments and testing a hypothesis regarding the relative effect between two or more treatments. Trial designers are often interested in maximizing power when the total sample size is fixed or minimizing the required total sample size to reach a pre-specified power. …”
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Analysis of key geological structures and rockburst prediction method by Chunchi Ma, Yang Yuan, Xiang Ji, Feng Peng, Ziquan Chen, Hang Zhang

“…Using the rockburst intensity classification scheme and the Monte Carlo method, the samples within the dangerous range of rockbursts were identified. …”
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Psychometric validation and item invariance of the French version of the Brief Resilience Scale in a sample of French university students following the first COVID-19 lockdown by Anja Todorović, Stéphanie Bourion-Bédès, Hélène Rousseau, Cédric Baumann

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The association between community solidarity and adoption of public health preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-sectional, multi-national sample. by Jill Murphy, Michelle Sarah Livings, Martin Wong, Junjie Huang, Wanghong Xu, Andrés Caicedo, María Belen Arteaga, Harry H X Wang, Pramon Viwattanakulvanid, Erlinda C Palaganas, Maria de Jesus Medina Arellano, Gil Soriano, Mellissa Withers

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The Effect of Layer Thickness and Nozzle Diameter in Fused Deposition Modelling Printing on the Flexural Strength of Zirconia Ceramic Samples Produced by a Multistage Manufacturing... by Anton Smirnov, Oleg Yanushevich, Natella Krikheli, Yulia Zhukovskaya, Mihail Soloninkin, Petr Naumenko, Nestor Washington Solis Pinargote, Pavel Peretyagin, Sergey Grigoriev, Nikita Nikitin

“…The maximum (684 MPa) strength value was found in a sample printed with a layer thickness of 0.2 mm. The minimum layer thickness ensures a more uniform distribution of ceramic particles and minimizes defects in samples that occur during FDM printing. …”
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PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR SOLVING TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM by Chandra Agung, Natalia Christine

“…Exact method yields optimal solution but spends more time when the number of cities is increasing and approximate method yields near optimal solution even optimal but spends less time than exact methods. …”
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Using Social Media to Recruit a Diverse Sample of Participants for a Mobile Health (mHealth) Intervention to Increase Physical Activity: Exploratory Study by Laura Pathak, Rosa Hernandez-Ramos, Karina Rosales, Jose Miramontes-Gomez, Faviola Garcia, Vivian Yip, Suchitra Sudarshan, Anupama Gunshekar Cemballi, Courtney Lyles, Adrian Aguilera

“… Abstract BackgroundRecruitment of demographically diverse samples in clinical research is often challenging and even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic when traditional in-person recruitment methods could not be implemented. …”
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Factors Influencing Sport Persistence Along the Socio-Ecological Model—A Presentation of Sport Persistence Models Based on the Findings of a Representative Hungarian Sample by Karolina Eszter Kovács

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Method selection affects the estimates of residency and site fidelity in bottlenose dolphins: testing sensitivity and performance of different methods using mark-resight data by Israel Huesca-Domínguez, Eduardo Morteo, Luis Gerardo Abarca-Arenas, Brian C. Balmer, Tara M. Cox, Christian A. Delfín-Alfonso, Isabel C. Hernández-Candelario

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