Three-Dimensional Analysis of Maxillary Expansion during Mixed Dentition: Comparison between Leaf Expander and Aligners—A Case-Control Study by Francesca Silvestrini-Biavati, Sirus Imenpour, Francesca Poli, Elis Kola, Andrea Abate, Valentina Lanteri, Alessandro Ugolini

“…IF allowed a more effective molar derotation, but with a greater buccal tipping movement than LE, which determines a more bodily movement of the molars: the expansion determined by IF seems to be more dental than skeletal. …”
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Family Support, Communication with Parents, and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviour: A Case of HBSC Study from Bulgaria and Lithuania by Elitsa Dimitrova, Apolinaras Zaborskis

“…Comparison of data samples from Bulgaria and Lithuania showed stronger relationships in Bulgarian adolescents compared to other countries, which are more pronounced among boys. …”
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Cadmium Bioavailability Based on Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Technique and Conventional Chemical Extraction in High Geological Background Soil Area of Northwestern Zhejiang P... by Chao WU, Binbin SUN, Xiaomeng CHENG, Dong LIU, Yu QIAO, Ling He, Daoming ZENG

“…　　(3) Results of seven-step extraction method. Compared with the single extraction method, the sequential extraction method provides the speciation characteristics of heavy metals, and can be used to more comprehensively evaluate the mobility, availability and potential toxicity of heavy metals in soil. …”
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Global Feature Focusing and Information Enhancement Network for Occluded Pedestrian Detection by ZHENG Kaikui, JI Kangyou, LI Jun, LI Qiming

“…Therefore, developing a more effective method to address pedestrian occlusion detection is essential for enhancing the performance of pedestrian detectors.MethodsProposed the Global Feature Focusing and Information Enhancement Network (GFFIE-Net). …”
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Risk factors for violent suicide attempts: Hungarian cross-sectional study by Noémi Szeifert, Lajos Bálint, Barbara Sebők, Xenia Gonda

“…However, individuals who attempted suicide using violent methods exhibited characteristics more closely aligned with those who died by suicide than with the remainder of the sample. …”
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Stress, mental symptoms and well-being in students: a gender analysis by María-José del Pino, M. Pilar Matud

“…A second aim is to know the relevance of age, education, stress, coping styles, self-esteem and social support on mental symptoms, psychological well-being and life satisfaction of boys and girls.MethodsThe study was cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 1,426 students between the ages of 16 and 26.Results and discussionThe results of the ANOVAs showed that although there were some gender differences, being a university student or not explained more variance than gender. …”
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Screening of accumulation of biologically active substances of Iris hungarica during vegetation period by A. V. Krechun, O. O. Mykhailenko, S. V. Kovalov, T. H. Orlova

“…Results: the quantitative content of hydroxycinnamic acids (2.66–7.44 %), flavonoids (2.12–3.04 %), isoflavonoids (1.03–1.79 %), xanthones (1.24–1.72 %) was established in the studied samples. The accumulation of biologically active substances occurs more intensively during the spring growing season of Iris hungarica, only isoflavonoids accumulate more actively in the autumn, which is associated with the peculiarities of the synthesis and accumulation of secondary metabolites of this plant. …”
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596 Becoming multilingual in thought languages by Colin Hoffman, Mary Bevilacqua, Brian Weaver

“…Integrating these tools into research groups to establish more efficacious communication between teams, governing bodies, and patient communication can be sampled via pre and post research surveys of feeling understood. …”
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A Psychometric Review of Instruments for Social Justice and Advocacy Attitudes by Alexander W. Fietzer, Joseph Ponterotto

“…In general, all of the instruments lacked adequate levels of psychometric evidence in test-retest reliability, validation on more diverse samples, and use of more robust confirmatory methods (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis). …”
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FEATURES MORPHOLOGY ABNORMAL FORMS OF ERYTHROCYTES BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY by Mohammed Aslanovich Selimov, Yegor Leonidovich Demchenkov, Andrew Ashotovich Nagdalian, Yuliana Sergeyevna Gatina

“…The analysis of sample preparation methods of another authors showed what kind of methods are better and more useful. …”
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Research on Wood Defects Feature Imbalance Optimization and Recognition by Xiao Wang

“…Firstly, Cross Entropy loss is modified to allow the model to pay more attention to individual sample discrepancy during training. …”
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Study on the mechanical properties of unloaded damage sandstone under dry-wet and freeze-thaw cycling conditions. by Wenrui Wang, Xingzhou Chen, Lili Chen, Sheng Gong, Zhenkun Su

“…This shift coincides with an increase in pore compaction strain as well as plastic strain values; meanwhile, peak strength experiences a sharp decline initially but subsequently moderates to more gradual reductions.; (2) The elastic modulus, cohesion, and friction angle all show a similar trend of attenuation, with the most severe degradation occurring after the first cycle and then gradually diminishing, particularly with the elastic modulus; (3) The uniaxial failure of the unloaded damaged samples is primarily brittle, with spalling and buckling becoming more pronounced with increasing cycles, while triaxial failure exhibits certain plastic characteristics that develop more with further cycling. …”
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Unhealthy diet in association with abdominal obesity as risk factors for cardiovascular disease: data from the ESSE-RF2 study in the Omsk region by I. A. Viktorova, M. V. Moiseeva, V. L. Stasenko, N. G. Shirlina, M. A. Livzan

“…To compare dietary patterns of the Omsk region male and female representatives with and without abdominal obesity (AO).Material and methods. Wthin the second study of Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases and their Risk Factors in Regions of Russian Federation (ESSE-RF2) using a representative sample of Omsk region population aged 25-64 years (n=1648), dietary habits, including 21 food groups, were assessed by the questionnaire method. …”
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Assessing non-inferiority for binary matched-pairs data with missing values: a powerful and flexible GEE approach based on the risk difference by Johannes Hengelbrock, Frank Konietschke, Juliane Herm, Heinrich Audebert, Annette Aigner

“…These studies are often planned with methods for completely observed pairs only. However, if missingness is more frequent than expected or is anticipated in the planning phase, methods are needed that allow the inclusion of partially observed pairs to improve statistical power. …”
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Implementation of Speech Tactics of Persuasion Strategy in Virtual Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Moves by O. Yu. Gukosyants

“…The study was conducted on the material of more than 150 threads of comments on LiveJournal posts, which are examples of the implementation of these tactics, published during the COVID-19 pandemic and selected by a continuous sample. …”
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A comparison of protocols for high-throughput weeds mapping by Joaquin J. Casanova, Nicolas T. Bergmann, Jessica E.R. Kalin, Garett C. Heineck, Ian C. Burke

“…Increasing herbicide resistance in the US demands novel approaches to integrated weed management, including targeted chemical use and non-chemical methods. More targeted chemical applications and non-chemical alternative methods help expose weeds to multiple modes of action, decreasing the formation of resistant populations. …”
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Investigating the impact of variety of e-retail delivery service options on customer retention by Soheila Zarinjoy alvar, shahin raz, Ali Tavakolifar

“…These numbers were selected based on the available random sampling method. The collection tool in this research included a questionnaire used to confirm its validity, face validity and Cronbach's alpha were used for its reliability. …”
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A Phenomenological Study of International Migration of Iranian Educated Girls (Case Study of Girls Referring to the Cooperative, Labor, and Social Welfare Department of Isfahan Cit... by Arman Heidari, Rahmatollah Torkan

“…These participants visited the Isfahan City Cooperative, as well as Labor and Social Welfare Office, weekly or biweekly between early Khordad 1400 (June 2021) and the first week of Shahrivar 1400 (September 2021) to cancel their educational commitments due to the availability of free education in Iranian universities.The key criteria for participant selection included a definite intention to emigrate to a developed country and a willingness to participate in the study. The sampling method employed was both convenient and purposeful. …”
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RNA Sequencing of Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Specimens for Gene Expression Quantification and Data Mining by Yan Guo, Jie Wu, Shilin Zhao, Fei Ye, Yinghao Su, Travis Clark, Quanhu Sheng, Brian Lehmann, Xiao-ou Shu, Qiuyin Cai

“…We performed a study to evaluate two major rRNA depletion methods: Ribo-Zero and RNase H. RNAs extracted from 4 samples were treated with the two rRNA depletion methods in duplicate and sequenced (N=16). …”
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COMPARATIVE MORPHOMETRIC STUDY BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND DIGITAL IMPRESSION-TAKING by Krisztina Martha, Mariana Pacurar, Esztella Éva Kiss, Brigitta Szakacs, Izabella Éva Mureșan, Manuela Popescu

“…Objective: The aim of our study is to compare the dimensional differences between dental arches registered using the traditional and digital methods. Materials and method: We compared the digitally scanned versions of study samples (15 cases) based on alginate impressions with the intraoral scans of the same patients. …”
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