Solid Waste Treatment Using Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods Case Study Lattakia City by Raed Jafar, Zahraa Alhindawee, Haytham Shahin, Adel Awad

“…Therefore, solid waste management poses a special challenge to decision-makers by choosing the appropriate tool that supports strategic decisions in choosing municipal solid waste treatment methods and evaluating their management systems. As the human is primarily responsible for the formation of waste, this study aims to measure the degree of environmental awareness in the Lattakia Governorate from the point of view of the research sample members and to discuss the effect of the studied variables (place of residence, educational level, gender, age, and professional status) on the level of environmental awareness. …”
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Determination of 16 Hydroxyanthracene Derivatives in Food Supplements Using LC-MS/MS: Method Development and Application by Svetlana V. Malysheva, Benoît Guillaume, Céline Vanhee, Julien Masquelier

“…In this view, a multi-analyte method could be useful for both regulatory analysis and dietary intake studies. …”
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Gamifying Engagement in Spatial Crowdsourcing: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study on Gamification Impact Among University Students by Felipe Vergara-Borge, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Mikel Emaldi, Cristian Olivares-Rodríguez, Zaheer Khan, Kamran Soomro

“…These findings provide actionable guidance for designing more adaptive, motivating, and inclusive citizen science solutions, underscoring the importance of mixed-methods evaluation in understanding complex engagement processes. …”
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Comparative Study of Cu and Fe-Doped ZnO Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Multifaceted Bioactivities by masome Naseri Tekyeh, Dariush Mehrparvar, Rostam Moradian, Shahriar Mahdavi, Maryam Rahimi, Mohammad Shahpouri

“…The DPPH assay showed the Zn1-XCuXO to have more antioxidant properties than other samples. We observed that the S. aureus bacterium is more sensitive to NPs than the E. coli bacterium. …”
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Detection of Brucella spp. from milk by quantitative PCR as a monitoring method for brucellosis in cattle in Mongolia by Batsukh Naranchimeg, Batsaikhan Chantsal, Badrakh Sandagdorj, Tsognemekh Bolormaa, Purevdorj Ulzii-Orshikh, Adilbish Altanchimeg, Sumiya Ganzorig, Vanaabaatar Batbaatar, Motohiro Horiuchi, Purevdorj Nyam-Osor

“…There was a tendency that milk samples from RBT- and MRT-positive cows are more likely to be positive by IS711 qPCR. …”
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An Efficient Aqua-Based Culture Method for the Propagation of High-Quality <i>Arundo donax</i> Seedlings by Jialin Guo, Wei Li, Gangqiang Cao, Luyue Zhang, Zhengqing Xie, Weiwei Chen, Gongyao Shi, Fang Wei, Baoming Tian

“…We found that plant materials sampled from September to February of the following year were more suitable for aqua-based culturing than materials sampled from other months. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Heating Rate and Granulation on Extracted Oil-Shale using Microwaves and Conventional Heating Methods by Hassan Naderi, Ali Shekarifard, Jaber Taheri shakib

“…It was found that microwave pyrolysis yielded more oil produced than the conventional method and improved the quality of the oil. …”
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Unlocking the secrets of extroverted learners: a mixed-methods dive into English language learning strategies and preferences by Le Thanh Thao, Pham Trut Thuy, Thieu Thi Hai Yen, Nguyen Anh Thi, Phuong Hoang Yen, Huynh Thi Anh Thu, Nguyen Huong Tra

“…This may culminate in a more personalized and effective language learning experience, intensifying motivation and success in language acquisition. …”
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Effects of the Drying Methods on Physical and Physicochemical Indicators, Antioxidant Activity, and Volatile Flavor Compounds of Bachu Mushrooms by Yanquan LIU, Tian ZHANG, Zhenzhen DING, Wenhan FENG, Yueli WANG, Na XIA

“…The combination of radar chart analysis, principal component analysis, and cluster heat-map analysis demonstrated differences in volatile flavor compounds among the six samples. Especially, cluster heat-map could more intuitively distinguish the six samples, which would be used in future research on quality control of dried Bachu mushrooms and exploration of the impact mechanism of drying on flavor compounds. …”
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Polyethylene glycol precipitation is a useful method for excluding the interference of unexplained elevated CA 19-9 by Sha Lin, Qi Wang, Xiaopeng Yu, Yajun Tan, Yifan Yao, WeiLin Mao, GuangHua Ma

“…This study aims to find a simple and effective method to confirm and exclude the interference of CA 19-9 on the Abbott platform. 342 individuals with unexplained elevated CA 19-9 in serial determinations for more than 6 months were included as cases. …”
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Nursing and midwifery students’ perceptions of sign language training in Ghana: relevance, instructional methods, and assessment practices by Albert Opoku, Mustapha Bin Usman, Thomas Asafo Adjei, Bright Owusu-Afriyie, William Opoku

“…Method A cross-sectional survey design was employed using a standardised questionnaire to collect data from a convenience sample of 468 s and final-year nursing and midwifery students who had completed a sign language course. …”
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Research on the Measurement of Carbon Storage in Plantation Tree Trunks Based on the Carbon Storage Dynamic Analysis Method by Weida Yin, Mingfang Yin, Lin Zhao, Lin Yang

“…This research, through experiment on four tree species with clear growth rings and one tree species with unclear growth rings, verified the scientific character and the scope of application of the carbon storage dynamic analysis method, providing a new method for the measurement and analysis of forest carbon storage.…”
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Influence of Season, Hive Position, Extraction Method and Storage Temperature on Polyphenols and Antioxidant Activity of Croatian Honey by Ivana Šola, Valerija Vujčić Bok, Ivana Fabijanić, Jasna Jablan, Laura Borgese, Andrea Humski, Marina Mikulić, Krešimir Sanković, Zdenko Franić, Gordana Rusak

“…To separate, identify and quantify individual flavonoids and phenolic acids from the honey, we used the HPLC method. The total polyphenols and antioxidant activity of the samples, their antimicrobial activity and their elemental content were also measured. …”
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Validated UHPLC Methods for Melatonin Quantification Reveal Regulatory Violations in EU Online Dietary Supplements Commerce by Celine Vanhee, Cloë Degrève, Niels Boschmans, Yasmina Naïmi, Michael Canfyn, Eric Deconinck, Marie Willocx

“…The cost-effective UHPLC-DAD method is suitable for medicines and most dietary supplements, except those more complex herbal matrices containing passionflower, hop, hemp, lime tree or lavender or their extracts, where UHPLC-HRAM MS is recommended due to selectivity issues of the DAD methodology. …”
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Physicochemical properties of surimi made from edible insects using washing and pH shift methods by Chae-Ryun Moon, Young-Woong Ju, Su-Hyeon Pyo, So-Won Park, Seul Lee, Mzia Benashvili, Yang-Ju Son

“…Consequently, the pH shift method resulted in elevated insect surimi yield, and the alkaline treatment was more appropriate for producing fine-quality edible insect surimi. …”
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Experiences of and response to the COVID-19 pandemic at private retail pharmacies in Kenya: a mixed-methods study by Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux, Jacinta Nzinga, Audrey Mumbi, Peter Mwangi Mugo, Daniella Munene, Collins Jaguga, Davy Odhiambo, Elizabeth Ominde-Ogaja, Mercy Maina, Michael Mungoma, Nadia Butt, Sultani Matendechero, Titus Kahiga, Eric Sedah, Sylvia Opanga

“…Objectives To assess experiences of and response to the COVID-19 pandemic at community pharmacies in Kenya.Design, setting and participants This was a mixed-methods study conducted from November 2020 to April 2021, targeting service providers in three counties (Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu), selected purposively to represent the main urban centres; pharmacies were selected randomly from a list of licensed pharmacies.Results Of 195 sampled pharmacies, 108 (55%) completed a questionnaire and 103 (53%) received a simulated client call; 18 service providers were interviewed. …”
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Research on Fracture Energy Prediction and Size Effect of Concrete Based on Deep Learning with SHAP Interpretability Method by Huiming Wang, Weiqi Zhang, Jie Lin, Shengpin Guo

“…Finally, the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) interpretability method is utilized to interpret and analyze the prediction results. …”
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The regolith-hosted clay REEs leaching effects by mechanical grinding and at low temperature: An analogy on treatment method by Hassan Nasir Mangi, Liqiang Ma, Ru'an Chi, Chenghao Wu, Zhenyue Zhang, Yan DeTian, Lara Sindhu, Khalid Thebo, Umar Ashraf

“…The adoption of grinding and low-temperature methods applied to different clay horizon samples affects the leaching and adsorption behavior of the particles. …”
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A Training-Free Infant Spontaneous Movement Assessment Method for Cerebral Palsy Prediction Based on Videos by Qingqiang Wu, Penglin Qin, Jiachen Kuang, Fan Wei, Zejiang Li, Ruping Bian, Chengcheng Han, Guanghua Xu

“…What&#x2019;s more, our method is interpretable with visualized results. …”
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Unstructured road semantic segmentation method based on 3D point cloud of open pit mine by Caiwu LU, Jianan XUE, Meng LI, Shengyu YAN, sai ZHANG, Song JIANG, Runfeng HE

“…In order to verify the effectiveness of the method, 2641 sets of samples of open pit mine point cloud data were constructed based on the S3DIS dataset format for conversion, segmentation and data enhancement. …”
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