Studying the Methods of Drought Coping by Farmers: (Case Study: Shirvan County of Northern Khorasan Province) by Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani, Khalil Ghorbani, Gohar Khaksar-Moghadam

“…The population of the study consisted of the farmers in Shirvan County in Northern Khorasan province, in which 350 participants were studied using cluster random sampling method. The required information was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was approved by Kuder-Richardson method as 0.72. …”
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Tagus River microbial profile through nanopore sequencing on samples gathered from Prainha do Braco de Prata, Lisbon [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservatio... by Mariana Pestana, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Mónica Nunes, Ricardo Dias, Marcelo Pereira, Pedro Pascoal, Nuno Nunes

“…Conclusions Despite the need for a more robust sampling and analyses, we conclude that there is potential to use microbial profile approaches to help define the relevant microbial biomarkers to clarify the ecosystem services in the Tagus River freshwater ecosystem.…”
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Medication adherence in Jordanian patients with multimorbidity: a cross-sectional mixed-methods study in outpatient clinics by Anas Abed, Mohammad Abu Assab, Wael Abu Dayyih, Badriyah S. Alotaibi, Nawal Alsubaie

“…BackgroundMultimorbidity, the coexistence of two or more chronic conditions, is increasingly prevalent in Jordan, a middle-income country with a growing non-communicable disease (NCD) burden and limited data on medication adherence. …”
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A comparison of established and digital surface model (DSM) ‐based methods to determine population estimates and densities for king penguin colonies, using fixed‐wing drone and sat... by J. Coleman, N. Fenney, P.N. Trathan, A. Fox, E. Fox, A. Bennison, L. Ireland, M.A. Collins, P.R. Hollyman

“…Where high‐resolution drone imagery was available, accuracy was within 3.5% of manual reference counts. DSM methods were more accurate than other established methods including estimation from satellite imagery and are applicable for population studies across other taxa worldwide. …”
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Family planning utilization among postpartum women in the Bule Hora District, southern Ethiopia by Nurye Sirage, Zewuditu Desalegn, Wako Golicha Wako, Ali Yimer, Fassikaw Kebede Bizuneh, Sefineh Fenta Feleke, Adem Yesuf, Belda Negesa Beyene

“…Women who resumed sexual activity after birth (AOR = 1.92, 95% CI 1.25–2.96), and who had at least four antenatal care visits (AOR = 3.09, 95% CI 1.61–5.92) were also more likely to use postpartum family planning. Women with grand multiparity were 69% less likely to use family planning methods than primiparous women (AOR = 0.31, 95% CI 0.13–0.73).ConclusionPostpartum family planning use in this study was higher than the national average. …”
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Diabetes-related distress and psychological burden in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes – the role of child maltreatment, personality functioning, and epistemic trust: findi... by Sandra Zara, Imogen Carla Ullrich, Anna Maria Leveling, Friederike Gisela Genoveva Saretzki, Jana Schmitz, Michael Eckhard, Johannes Kruse, Johannes Kruse, Johannes Kruse, Hanna Kampling, Hanna Kampling

“…We included epistemic trust (openness for social learning) and its impairments mistrust (the tendency to consider information sources as unreliable or ill-intended) and credulity (lack of vigilance and discrimination between trustworthy and untrustworthy information) as covariates.MethodsIn a sample of n=119 patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes aged 18-69, self-report questionnaires assessed diabetes-related distress (PAID-5), psychological burden (PHQ-D, PHQ-9, PHQ-15), child maltreatment (CTQ), personality functioning (OPD-SQS), and epistemic trust, mistrust, and credulity (ETMCQ). …”
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Deep Learning and Methods Based on Large Language Models Applied to Stellar Light Curve Classification by Yu-Yang Li, Yu Bai, Cunshi Wang, Mengwei Qu, Ziteng Lu, Roberto Soria, Jifeng Liu

“…The study furnishes 2 detailed catalogs illustrating the impacts of phase and sampling intervals on deep learning classification accuracy, showing that a substantial decrease of up to 14% in observation duration and 21% in sampling points can be realized without compromising accuracy by more than 10%.…”
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL RECOGNITION METHODS USING EXAMPLES OF IDENTIFYING WORDS SPOKEN BY NATIVE SPEAKERS by Elchin Ismailov

“…In the proposed approach, the sound signal is considered as a onedimensional representation of sound wave oscillations with a certain sampling frequency. To implement the task, classical DTW and DDTW methods, as well as methods based on the Fourier transform, discrete and continuous wavelet transforms are used. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning on Digital Literacy Skills in Higher Education: Survey Methods and Test Analysis by Otang Kurniaman, Hadriana, Nur Islami, Zetra Hainul Putra, Zufriady

“…The research uses a survey method in the form of a questionnaire and tests through SPSS. …”
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Optimization method improvement for nonlinear constrained single objective system without mathematical models by HOU Gong-yu, XU Zhe-dong, LIU Xin, NIU Xiao-tong, WANG Qing-le

“…The simulation results show that the SVM-IPSO has a higher optimization ability under the same sample size conditions, and when the number of samples decreases, the SVM-IPSO method can still obtain more stable and accurate system optimization values than the BP-PSO method. …”
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Medicinal management of oral submucous fibrosis in the past decade- A systematic review by Chandramani B. More, Deepa Jatti Patil, Naman R. Rao

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Study on reasonable determination method of XRD spectral parameters and its response to coal graphitization by Guangqing HU, Feng HAN, Wei LIU, Yuhang GAO, Dun WU, Wenyong ZHANG, Huihui LUO, Yanhai ZHANG, Biao FU

“…In order to obtain the XRD related index parameters of coal more scientifically, quickly and effectively, and constantly improve the evaluation index system of coal-series graphite, taking 7 pairs of metamorphic coals in Huaibei coalfield as the research object, with the help of coal quality analysis, vitrinite reflectance and XRD, the effects of different peak fitting methods and different sample pretreatment methods on XRD spectral parameters were studied, and the effective determination method and response law of coal-series graphite evaluation index based on XRD spectral analysis were discussed. …”
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Impact of dental implant insertion method on the periimplant epithelial seal: Experimental study on dogs by Matić Smiljana, Stamatović Novak, Lazić Zoran, Petković-Ćurčin Aleksandra, Bubalo Marija, Vojvodić Danilo, Đurđević Dragan

“…There is a controversial opinion among implantologists on the method of dental implantation that provides more favourable response of soft and bone tissues. …”
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Non-invasive electrophysiological monitoring vs conventional monitoring during labour in a tertiary obstetric care centre in the Netherlands: study protocol of a cohort interventio... by S G Oei, P B Q Berben, N D de Klerk, M van der Ven, A F Fransen, H J Niemarkt, E R van den Heuvel, M B van der Hout-van der Jagt, J O E H van Laar

“…Both NI-fECG and EHG have been proven to be more accurate and reliable than conventional non-invasive methods and are less affected by maternal Body Mass Index. …”
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The influence of the japanese millet flour and the method of dough preparation on the formation of the aroma of bakery products by N. N. Filonova, E. A. Marinina, M. K. Sadygova, A. V. Kondrashova

“…For consumer evaluation, such changes are not significant for those samples in the formulation of which the content of paize flour is no more than 15% and recognized by consumers according to organoleptic indicators.…”
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Detection of Diffusion Interlayers in Dissimilar Welded Joints in Processing Pipelines by Acoustic Emission Method by Vera Barat, Artem Marchenkov, Vladimir Bardakov, Dmitrij Arzumanyan, Sergey Ushanov, Marina Karpova, Egor Lepsheev, Sergey Elizarov

“…The proposed method allows for a more accurate determination of the waveform, spectrum, and amplitude parameters of the AE signal. …”
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Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec (Canada): protocol for a mixed-methods study by Magaly Brodeur, Sophie Audette-Chapdelaine, Annie-Claude Savard, Sylvia Kairouz

“…The objective of this study is to draw a portrait of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gamblers and to learn more about their experiences during the pandemic in the province of Quebec.Method and analysis This study has a sequential explanatory mixed-method design in two phases. …”
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Analysis of heavy metal concentrations in breast milk by neutrosophic method in the locate of Lahore, Pakistan by Adeena Fatima, Usama Afzal, Muhammad Aslam, Zainab Rafi, Naveed Ahmad, Mirza Albash Baig

“…Breastfeeding is the single transmission method through which infants are exposed to hazardous metals. …”
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Concept mapping teaching method and nursing education: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Azam Faraji, Zhina banafshi, Rostam Jalali, Amir Jalali

“…As a result of combining the studies, the educational performance score in the intervention group increased more than the control group [95% confidence interval: (1.693 ± 0.194, P < 0.001)]. …”
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Method of electrochemical biotesting for comparative analysis of probiotic and antibiotic properties of various plant extracts by V. S. Sibirtsev, U. Yu. Nechiporenko

“…In most cases, a significant number of tests could establish the exact nature of these dependencies. The proposed method is much more rapid, objective, and informative and less laborious and material-intensive than using standard microbiological methods in assessing the initial microbial contamination and the probiotic and antibiotic properties of various samples of both the new and already approved pharmaceuticals, foods, and other products, as well as the individual ingredients and additives.…”
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