Comparative Analysis of Pretreatment Methods for Processing Bulk Flax and Hemp Oilseeds Under Uniaxial Compression by Abraham Kabutey, Sonia Habtamu Kibret, Asmerom Woldemichael Kiros, Meseret Abraham Afework, Michael Onwuka, Akshay Raj

“…Higher compressive stress values were observed for hemp oilseeds than flax oilseeds which could be attributed to the inherent structure of the oilseeds. Hemp oilseeds showed more toughness to compress than flax oilseeds which tend to have a softer texture. …”
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Research on the aesthetic sensitivity evaluation of tourism mascots based on semantic differential method. by Jing Wang, Wenting Yao, Sheng Su, Jing Zhang, Li Wang

“…These designs can resonate more with young consumers. This study successfully establishes a mapping model that combines consumers' aesthetic preferences with their emotional needs for tourism mascot design. …”
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Exploring assessment methods used by Grade Four English First Additional Language Teachers by Kofi Nkonkonya Mpuangnan, Gladys Phumzile Mngomezulu, Samantha Govender

“…A purposive sampling technique led to the inclusion of 10 grade four EFAL teachers from schools in the King Cetshwayo District for data collection. …”
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Determination of Organochlorine Pesticides in Green Leafy Vegetable Samples via Fe3O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles Modified QuEChERS Integrated to Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextractio... by Ling Yu, Guiquan Guo, Jun Zhao, Linnan Zhao, Aiqing Xia, Xu He, Cuijuan Xing, Lili Dong, Fang Wang

“…The recoveries of the proposed method ranged from 78.6% to 107.7%, and the relative standard deviations were not more than 7.5%. …”
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Efficient Positive Semidefinite Matrix Approximation by Iterative Optimisations and Gradient Descent Method by Vali Asimit, Runshi Wang, Feng Zhou, Rui Zhu

“…For example, in our experiments with noised data, the iterative quadratic programming algorithm performs best in more than 41% to 67% of the samples when the standard deviation of noise is 0.02, and the gradient descent method performs best in more than 70% of the samples when the standard deviation of noise is 0.2. …”
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Calculation Method of Gas Injection Volume of Gas Storage Based on DTS Data by LIANG Ming, LYU Yang, DI Yiliang, ZHOU Qiong

“…In order to monitor the gas injection volume of each well more accurately, based on the monitoring data of the distributed temperature sensing (DTS) of the injection and production wells in the gas storage area, select preferentially stable injection gas data as samples, the relationship model between the total daily gas injection volume and the total daily temperature at specific depth is established by using the linear fitting method of temperature and gas injection volume, and the model coefficient of a single well is determined. …”
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Provider advice, pregnant persons’ expectations, and actual gestational weight gain among United States military health care beneficiaries: a secondary analysis of a randomized con... by Erin Solomon, Abby McPhail, Zoran Bursac, Melissa A. Little, G. Wayne Talcott, Rebecca A. Krukowski

“…Results Participants with higher baseline BMIs were more likely to expect excessive GWG as defined by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM; Overweight: 46.3%, Obesity: 65.4%). …”
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In vitro evaluation of mesalazine enteric-coated tablet dissolution by the reciprocating cylinder method by Jinxiang Wang, Yanqing Zhao, Gaihua He, Bin Guo, Hui Zhang

“…Thus, there is an urgent need for more in-depth research on in vitro dissolution methods for mainstream mesalazine enteric-coated tablets. …”
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Assessment of the Boron Treatability Level of Lesser-Known Timber Species by the Impregnation Method by Vindhya Bandara, Anura Alwis, Thusitha Bandara, Chaminda Muthumala, Faiz Marikar

“…Woods with fewer and smaller vessels are more receptive to boron treatment, making them more suitable for preservation. …”
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Overall Layout Method of Frame Structure Plane Based on Generative Adversarial Network by ZHONG Yan, LEI Xin, LONG Danbing, FANG Changjian, KANG Yongjun

“…This framework facilitates the design of the structural framework under the dual constraints of both architectural forms and predetermined structural elements. The core of this method involves constructing a model for the overall layout of the structural plan, which includes three main stages: constructing datasets, training and evaluating the model, and applying the model.MethodsIn the dataset construction stage, due to the limited number of data samples, and to reduce model training parameters, refine sample features, and improve training outcomes, this paper proposes three information representation methods for architecture, beams, and columns. …”
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A Predictive Method for Unplanned Postoperative Readmission Risk Based on Heterogeneous Data by Kai YU, Xiaofeng DONG, Zhenming YUAN, Zhaojian CUI, Weibin LUO

“…For text data, BCEWithLogit Loss is employed to counteract uneven sample distribution. 2) Propose a method based on CTFN for heterogeneous data fusion. …”
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Is relief the most common reaction to abortion? Self-assessed intensity of emotions attributed to abortion in a national sample of women aged 41 to 45 [version 2; peer review: 2 ap... by David Reardon

“…Other studies have indicated that negative emotions are more common than positive emotions. The objective of this study is to obtain self-assessed data on the intensity of emotional responses to abortion and pregnancy loss in a random national sample. …”
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PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND CONFIDENCE LIMIT CALCUALTION METHOD OF THREE-PARAMETER WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION by ZHANG JianFeng, XU Fang, ZHANG Yan, HUANG XiaoBo, JIA ZhuoHan

“…A correlation-regression method was proposed to solve the problem of low accuracy of parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation of the three-parameter Weibull distribution.The method was combined by the correlation coefficient method （Fu method） and the nonlinear regression method which makes full use of the convenience of Fu method and the excellent estimation effect of the nonlinear regression method in estimating the three-parameter Weibull distribution.In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method，the correlation-regression method，Fu method and Method combining maximum likelihood estimation and empirical formulae (referred to as the “MMPDS method”） were applied to the parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation of the data distribution of a certain alloy strength value with different sample sizes，and calculation consequence of different methods was compared and analyzed.Results show that the correlation-regression method has highest parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation accuracy among the above methods.When the sample size is less than 100，its advantage is more significant，and it can accurately calculate the parameters and confidence limits of the Weibull distribution.…”
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Optimization Method for Crop Growth Characteristics Based on Improved Locality Preserving Projection by Jia Dongyao, Hu Po, Zou Shengxiong

“…Finally, feature parameters set are obtained to extract local information of samples by improved LPP algorithm. The experiments show that the improved LPP algorithm has good adaptability, and the highest SVM classification accuracy rate of this method can reach more than 96%. …”
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Proactive clinical review of patients taking opioid medicines long term for persistent pain led by clinical pharmacists in primary care teams (PROMPPT): a non-randomised mixed meth... by Julie Ashworth, Nicola Cornwall, Sarah A. Harrisson, Charlotte Woodcock, Elaine Nicholls, Gillian Lancaster, Simon Wathall, Libby Laing, Toby Helliwell, Sue Jowett, Jesse Kigozi, Christian D. Mallen, Anthony Avery, Roger Knaggs, Tamar Pincus, Simon White, Clare Jinks, the PROMPPT team

“…Practices invited a representative sample of MOPP participants to schedule a PROMPPT review, eight of which were audio-recorded. …”
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PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND CONFIDENCE LIMIT CALCULATION METHOD OF THREE-PARAMETER WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION by ZHANG JianFeng, XU Fang, ZHANG Yan, HUANG XiaoBo, JIA ZhuoHan

“…A correlation-regression method was proposed to solve the problem of low accuracy of parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation of the three-parameter Weibull distribution.The method was combined by the correlation coefficient method(Fu method)and the nonlinear regression method which makes full use of the convenience of Fu method and the excellent estimation effect of the nonlinear regression method in estimating the three-parameter Weibull distribution.In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method,the correlation-regression method,Fu method and the method combining maximum likelihood estimation and empirical formulae(referred to as the“MMPDS method”)were applied to the parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation of the data distribution of a certain alloy strength value with different sample sizes,and calculation consequence of different methods was compared and analyzed.Results show that the correlation-regression method has higher parameter estimation and confidence limit calculation accuracy among the above methods.When the sample size is less than 100,its advantage is more significant,and it can accurately calculate the parameters and confidence limits of the Weibull distribution.…”
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Le numérique à l’université : facteur explicatif des méthodes pédagogiques ? by Amélie Duguet, Sophie Morlaix

“…He is also interested in the use of digital technology by teachers, during and outside class time, as an explanatory factor for the pedagogical methods put in place. Thus, from the data collected through an empirical survey of a sample made up of 248 teachers from a French university, we propose a description of the pedagogical methods used by them. …”
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Key Technology of the Medical Image Wise Mining Method Based on the Meanshift Algorithm by Jinli Cui, Yadong Wang, Ke Wang

“…The algorithm idea is to assume that the data sets of different clusters conform to different probability density distributions, and the area with high sample density corresponds to the center of the cluster. …”
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Path Planning Method of Mobile Robot Using Improved Deep Reinforcement Learning by Wei Wang, Zhenkui Wu, Huafu Luo, Bin Zhang

“…In addition, an improved deep Q-network (DQN) method is proposed, which takes the directly collected information as the training samples and combines the environmental state characteristics of the robot and the target point to be reached as the input of the network. …”
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Feasibility of a tailored, combined intervention with mind-body elements to prevent burnout in healthcare professionals (LAGOM) in a mixed-methods multicenter single-arm trial by Marleen Schröter, Anna K. Koch, Julia Berschick, Julia K. Schiele, Martin Bogdanski, Melanie Steinmetz, Judith Czakert, Wiebke Stritter, Christian S. Kessler, Georg Seifert

“…Semi-structured interviews (n = 4) revealed that participants valued the course content and collegial exchange but suggested allowing more time for discussion and reducing theoretical input. …”
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