Participant perceptions and experiences of a novel community-based respiratory longitudinal sampling method in Liverpool, UK: A mixed methods feasibility study. by Esther L German, Helen M Nabwera, Ryan Robinson, Farah Shiham, Kostas Liatsikos, Christopher M Parry, Claire McNamara, Sanjana Kattera, Katie Carter, Ashleigh Howard, Sherin Pojar, Joshua Hamilton, Agnes Matope, Jonathan M Read, Stephen J Allen, Helen Hill, Daniel B Hawcutt, Britta C Urban, Andrea M Collins, Daniela M Ferreira, Elissavet Nikolaou

“…Using a minimally invasive sampling method, the FAMILY Micro study monitored the oral, nasal and hand microbiota of families for 6 months. …”
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Comparison of manual and vacuum cleaner intake approaches efficiency for sampling subtropical ants using Winkler extractor across different habitats by Defu Chen, Peng Xiao, Mingrong Liang, Benoit Guénard, Yijuan Xu

“…We hypothesized that the use of vacuum cleaner intake offers a more comprehensive sampling in terms of ant abundance, species richness, and diversity, while being more time efficient in grasslands and wasteland habitats compared to the manual intake. …”
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Spatial Distribution of Acromyrmex balzani (Emery) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) Nests Using Two Sampling Methods by Leandro Sousa-Souto, Arleu Barbosa Viana Junior, Eduardo Silva Nascimento

“…This study aimed to evaluate the SD of ant mounds of Acromyrmex balzani (Emery, 1890), using both plot sampling and nearest neighbor methods in order to evaluate which method is more appropriate for determining SD of this species. …”
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High-Quality Sample Generation for Power System Transient Stability Assessment Based on Data-Driven Methods by Baoqin Li, Pengfei Fan, Qixin Chen, Rong Li, Kaijun Lin

“…The traditional method generates a significant quantity of samples for each specific topology. …”
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Quantitative description of internal 3D structure of a geological sample using algebraic topology methods by Mikhail Chernyavskiy, Vasilii Timoshenko, Andrey Morkovkin, Diana Manukovskaya, Andrey Zernyuk, Pavel Grishin, Andrey Kalashnikov, Eugene Grachev

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Methods of Forming Orthogonal Components of Input Signals for Relay Protection by F. A. Romaniuk, М. S. Loman, V. S. Kachenya

“…One of the more popular methods and the proposed method acted as the formers of orthogonal components under study. …”
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MULTIAXIAL MANNED CENTRIFUGE INTENSITY VERIFICATION CALCULATION METHOD BASED ON MULTIBODY DYNAMICS by YUE CongZhen, NIU HongPan, WANG PengFei, FAN ZhiGeng, YIN JiaoMei

“…The traditional quasi-static static analysis method can only directly analyze the structural strength problem of no more than two-axis nested rotation, but the multi-axis manned centrifuge has three or more than three-axis nested rotation. …”
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MCBA-MVACGAN: A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method for Rotating Machinery Under Small Sample Conditions by Wenhan Huang, Xiangfeng Zhang, Hong Jiang, Zhenfa Shao, Yu Bai

“…Secondly, the minimum variance term is designed to minimize the variance of sample distribution, so that the generated samples are distributed more evenly in the feature space, avoiding the problem of pattern collapse. …”
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A partial sum of singular‐value‐based reconstruction method for non‐uniformly sampled NMR spectroscopy by Zhangren Tu, Zi Wang, Jiaying Zhan, Yihui Huang, Xiaofeng Du, Min Xiao, Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo

“…Results on both synthetic and realistic NMR spectroscopy show that the proposed method can reconstruct a more consistent spectrum to the fully sampled one than other state‐of‐the‐art methods and have particular advantages on preserving low‐intensity peaks.…”
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Influence of the Method of Treatment of Samples of Biological Nature on the Results of Determination of Heavy Metals by Atomic Emission Spectroscopy by E. N. Blokhina, N. V. Kelus, V. S. Chuchalin

“…The article is devoted to the relevance of choosing sample preparation method for heavy metals concentration determination in biological sample by using atomic emission spectrometry. …”
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An Integrated Sample-Free Method for Agricultural Field Delineation From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery by Yu Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Tangao Hu, Dujuan Zhang, Jiajia Dai

“…However, common learning-based delineation methods face problems related to limited sample availability and weak transferability. …”
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Emerging technologies for detecting antibiotics in aquaculture wastewater: A critical review by Xinyu Chang, Junchi Cui, Guihua Wang, Shujuan Meng, Lingling Chen, Meng Zhang

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Critical values for six Dixon tests for outliers in normal samples up to sizes 100, and applications in science and engineering by Surendra P. Verma, Alfredo Quiroz-Ruiz

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Wound fluid sampling methods and analysis of cytokine mRNA expression in ulcers from patients with diabetes mellitus by Beatriz Barbieri, Amanda Silva, Joseane Morari, Flavia C. Zanchetta, Bianca Oliveira, Alexis Trott, Eliana P. Araújo, Geraldo Paula, Beatriz Guitton Renaud Baptista de Oliveira, Bruna Maiara Ferreira Barreto Pires, Maria Helena Melo Lima

“…The collected material was used for gene expression analysis of macrophage/monocyte-associated cytokines IL1-β, IL-6, TNF-α, regulatory cytokine IL-10 and growth factor TGFβ, via quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Both collection methods produced sufficient amounts of RNA, but significantly more RNA was collected using a cervical brush (brush 224.82 ng/μL vs. …”
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scHiCSRS: a self-representation smoothing method with Gaussian mixture model for imputing single cell Hi-C data by Qing Xie, Wang Meng, Shili Lin

“…Through an extensive set of simulation studies, we demonstrate the ability of scHiCSRS for identifying structural zeros with high sensitivity and for accurate imputation of dropout values in sampling zeros. Downstream analyses for three experimental datasets show that data improved from scHiCSRS yield more accurate clustering of cells than simply using observed data or improved data from comparison methods. …”
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Detection of Candidemia in a Sample of Iraqi Neonates Admitted to the Neonates' Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by Conventional Methods by Mihad Nasif, Azhar Al-Attraqchi, Areej Mohammad

“…Detection of Candidemia in a sample of Iraqi neonates admitted to the neonates' intensive care unit (NICU) by conventional methods. …”
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Assessment of unsafe behavior types by safety behavior sampling method in oil refinery workers in 2009 and suggestions for control by N Hashemi Nejad, I Mohammad Fam, R Jafari Nodoshan, E Dortaj Rabori, H Kakaei, H Kakaei

“…Therefore, recognition of unsafe behavior types, and factors influencing them, would help prevent such behaviors. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study unsafe behaviors of workers in Kermanshah oil refining company were evaluated and analyzed using safety behavior sampling technique. …”
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Comparison of glucose concentration measured in samples collected with different anticoagulants and analyzed using 2 glucose quantification methods by Anay D. Ravelo, Megan Ruch, Isaac J. Salfer, Luciano S. Caixeta

“…Additionally, it was observed that in samples quantified with the HK method, the glucose concentrations were lower than when those samples were quantified with the PGO method. …”
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Enhancing landslide susceptibility modelling through a novel non-landslide sampling method and ensemble learning technique by Chao Zhou, Yue Wang, Ying Cao, Ramesh P. Singh, Bayes Ahmed, Mahdi Motagh, Yang Wang, Ling Chen, Guangchao Tan, Shanshan Li

“…Moreover, the LR model can effectively constrain the selection range of non-landslide samples. The non-landslide sampling method constrained by LR yields higher quality samples compared to raditional random sampling method with no constraints, which develops a more excellent LSM.…”
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Advances in Clinical Trial Design: Employing Adaptive Multiple Testing and Neyman Allocation for Unequal Samples by Hanan Hammouri, Muna Salman, Mohammed Ali, Ruwa Abdel Muhsen

“…This study introduces a new method that combines three distinct approaches for comparing two treatments: Neyman allocation, the O’Brien and Fleming multiple testing procedure, and a system of different sample weights at different stages. …”
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