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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Comparative Study between Different Drying Methods Using Thinlayers of Mango Slices (Mangifera indica L.) by Abdel Moneim O. A. Babiker, Wafaa, A.E. Mustafa, Mortada, H.A. Elhesain, Mohammed Abdalla, Mohammed, M. Bukhari

“…The drying process occurs in the falling rate period for all the drying methods and more change in moisture occurs in the first day of drying. …”
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Studying and enhancing the methods for distance teaching of computer science in Kazakh secondary school students during the pandemic by M. M. Zhamankarin, A. M. Sivinskiy, M. K. Aitkenova, M. B. Zhanibekov

“…The participants were divided into seven groups according to the educational level (5th–11th forms) in order to make it more convenient to trace qualitative changes in the academic progress depending on the selected method for distance teaching of computer science. …”
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SOUTH AFRICAN USERS’ FUNCTION AND EXPERIENCE WITH A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL MICROPROCESSOR KNEE: A MIXED METHODS STUDY by Surona Visagie, Benje Theron

“…Data were collected from 16 consecutively sampled participants, using a self-developed functional level scale and the L-Test. …”
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Research on Refined Method for Core Inventory Calculation in Pebble-bed High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor by CAO Chenghao1, CHEN Haiying2, WANG Wenyi1, LIANG Jingang1, SHE Ding1, CAO Jianzhu1

“…Previous methods are more conservative, the refined method incorporates more factors influencing core inventory calculations, leading to more precise results. …”
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Improving older people’s experiences and safety at transitions of care: the PACT mixed-methods study including RCT by Jenni Murray, Ruth Baxter, Jane O’Hara, Laura Sheard, Catherine Hewitt, Natasha Hardicre, Charles Vincent, Eirini Oikonomou, Gerry Richardson, Rosie Shannon, Kalpita Baird, Stephen Brealey, Robbie Foy, Laura Mandefield, Sarah Hampton, Ed Breckin, Lubena Mirza, Alfredo Palacios, Sally Moore, Jayne Marran, Jacqui Elliot, Jane Schofield, Alison Cracknell, Beth Woods, Sarah Cockayne, Thomas Mills, Yvonne Birks, Olivia Joseph, Rebecca Lawton

“…Work package 4: Development and refinement of a transitions intervention Intervention development Guided by stakeholder workshops with patients and staff we co-designed a prototype intervention to support management of the four key functions (see above): knowing more, moving more, managing medicines and escalation. …”
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Kitchen garden, dietary diversity, and women’s health in rural eastern India: a mixed method study by Shrobana Hazra, Swayam Pragyan Parida, Prajna Paramita Giri, Binod Kumar Behera

“…This study aimed to see the relationship between kitchen garden and dietary diversity by using DDS (Dietary Diversity Score) scale in Odisha, India.ObjectivesTo assess the relationship between dietary diversity score (DDS) and backyard kitchen garden & other socio-economic (SE) factors and to explore the enablers & barriers associated with developing a kitchen garden (KG) in rural households of Odisha, India.MethodsThe study used simple random sampling to select 150 participants (WRA group: women of reproductive age) from the eligible household lists. …”
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Performance analysis of stock mutual funds using the Sharp method: Before and after the Covid-19 pandemic by Rina Tresnawati, Shinta Herawati, Syakieb Arsalan

“…The research aims to evaluate the performance of mutual funds in stock using the Sharpe method. The purposive sampling technique is the technique used in this research with specific criteria and succeeded in collecting 210 stock mutual fund samples. …”
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Sentiment Analysis of Pro-Israel Product Boycott Action Using IndoBERT Method on Unbalanced Data by Auliana Rizky Puspita Dewi, Slamet Riyadi, Cahya Darmajati, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa, Annisa Divayu Andriyani

“…Therefore, this study aimed to develop a sentiment analysis model using the IndoBERT method with more data to examine sentiments related to the boycott of Pro-Israel products on Twitter using imbalanced data, as well as to evaluate the effect of balancing methods using under sampling and oversampling on the model’s accuracy and performance. …”
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An Improved Summary–Explanation Method for Promoting Trust Through Greater Support with Application to Credit Evaluation Systems by Chen Peng, Tianci He

“…To enhance efficiency, the paper proposes a weighted column sampling (WCS) method, using simplified increase support (SIS) scores to create and solve smaller problem instances. …”
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Remote intelligent test method and application of relay protection of smart substation based on autonomous controllable technology by MEN Qiang, LIU Tao, ZHANG Jun, WU Yuanyuan, GAO Kangping

“…The DL/T 860 protocol rules, complex event processing algorithms and alarm correlation analysis engine mechanism process the alarm information generated during the action of relay protection, and propose the remote intelligent simulation test process of relay protection, "one-click" protection simulation test technology and the remote testing technology and method of protection configuring parameters. The correctness of sampling and the integrity of the secondary circuit are verified by using the remote intelligent test method of relay protection of smart substation.…”
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Continuous professional development and instructors’ beliefs about and practice of active learning method in Bahir Dar university by Mulugeta Teka Kahsay

“…The study first employed one sample t-tests which showed that, though these instructors held significantly stronger beliefs about active learning methods than the expected level, they reportedly implemented active learning methods slightly less frequently than the expected level. …”
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Continuous professional development and instructors’ beliefs about and practice of active learning method in Bahir Dar university by Mulugeta Teka Kahsay

“…The study first employed one sample t-tests which showed that, though these instructors held significantly stronger beliefs about active learning methods than the expected level, they reportedly implemented active learning methods slightly less frequently than the expected level. …”
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Acceptability of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in Baglung Municipality of Nepal: A mixed-method study. by Muskan Pudasainee, Damaru Prasad Paneru, Baburam Acharya, Prabin Sharma, Anil Khanal, Bibash Rana, Shiksha Adhikari, Chiranjivi Adhikari

“…Probability proportional to size sampling was done to select desired number of participants. …”
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A Robot Error Prediction and Compensation Method Using Joint Weights Optimization Within Configuration Space by Fantong Meng, Jinhua Wei, Qianyi Feng, Zhigang Dong, Renke Kang, Dongming Guo, Jiankun Yang

“…To address these challenges, a novel method for robot error prediction and accuracy compensation within configuration space is proposed. …”
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An Anchor-Free Method Based on Transformers and Adaptive Features for Arbitrarily Oriented Ship Detection in SAR Images by Bingji Chen, Chunrui Yu, Shuang Zhao, Hongjun Song

“…Finally, a head network called the deformable head is constructed to make the network more adaptable to the characteristics of ships by adaptively detecting the spatial sampling positions of the targets in SAR images. …”
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A Dynamic Evaluation Method for Collaborative Search Efficiency of Multi-Sonar Systems Under Uncertain Situations by Shizhe Wang, Weiyi Chen, Zongji Li, Xu Chen

“…Specifically, we develop an information fusion method for multi-sensor detection based on adaptive weight calculation first, weights are assigned to each sensor based on the real-time changing detection probability to obtain more accurate detection probability fusion results. …”
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Comparison of the effectiveness of mindfulness therapy, biofeedback and combined method on sexual quality of life in men with premature ejaculation by Mehdi Sarafraznasab, Reza Ahmadi, Ahmad Ghazanfari

“…Also, the results of LSD post hoc test showed that the effectiveness of combined method on sexual quality of life (IJ= 12.27) was more than mindfulness therapy and biofeedback (P< 0.05). …”
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