Comparison of Color Stability and Surface Roughness of Interim Crowns Fabricated by Conventional, Milling and 3D Printing Methods by Zahra Hashemzade, Mohammad Alihemmati, Seyed Mohammad Reza Hakimaneh, Sayed Shojaedin Shayegh, Mohammad Amin Bafandeh, Zahra Mohammadi

“…Materials and Methods In this semi‐experimental study, 60 provisional crowns were created by conventional, milling, and 3D printing methods (20 samples for each method). …”
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Effects of Different Thermal Processing Methods and Enrichment on The Quality and Consumer Acceptability of Cassava Mash Based Extruded Snacks by A, Obafemi Akinwotu, A, Kehinde Taiwo, A, Victor Ikujenlola

“…The snacks were prepared using three methods, baking, frying, and roasting, and were enriched with cocoa powder and desiccated coconut. …”
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Short Utterance Speaker Recognition Based on Speech High Frequency Information Compensation and Dynamic Feature Enhancement Methods by Yunfei ZI, Shengwu XIONG

“…To address this issue, we propose the Bark-scaled Gauss and the linear filter bank superposition cepstral coefficients (BGLCC), and the multidimensional central difference (MDCD) acoustic feature extracted method. The Bark-scaled Gauss filter bank focuses on low-frequency information, while linear filtering is uniformly distributed, therefore, the filter superposition can obtain more discriminative and richer acoustic features of short-duration audio signals. …”
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Reasons for shisha smoking: Findings from a mixed methods study among adult shisha smokers in Nigeria. by Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Ranti Ekpo, Sharon Ogolla, Seember Joy Ali, Aminata Camara, Esther Mugweni

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Comparison of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography Methods to Identify Tartrazine in Four Food Types by Hannane Rahnama, Rahim Azari, Enayat Berizi, Seyed Mohammad Mazloomi

“…In TLC method, color extraction was performed by the white wool method.Results: According to the findings of the TLC method, 118 samples (78.67%) contained synthetic food colors, while 32 (21.33%) food samples did not. …”
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Comparative analysis of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and alpha spectrometry methods to measure plutonium activity in biosubstrates by V. R. Batalov, M. V. Ishunina, A. V. Efimov, A. B. Sokolova

“…Currently, the most common methods to measure the activity of transuranium elements in biological samples are alpha radiometry and alpha spectrometry. …”
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A complex estimation of the new variety of peas ‘Uldash’ and its parental forms by the modern molecular-genetic methods by F. A. Davletov, K. P. Gaynullina, I. I. Akhmadullina

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Comparison of machine learning and validation methods for high-dimensional accelerometer data to detect foot lesions in dairy cattle. by Muhammad Usman Riaz, Luke O'Grady, Conor G McAloon, Finnian Logan, Isobel Claire Gormley

“…A by-farm approach to cross-validation will likely give a more robust, realistic estimate of general model performance.…”
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Comparing Acid and Enzymatic Hydrolysis Methods for Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) Obtention from Agroindustrial Rice Husk Waste by Ricardo Hernández Pérez, René Salgado Delgado, Alfredo Olarte Paredes, Areli Salgado Delgado, Edgar García Hernández, Atenas Medrano Valis, Fryda Martínez Candia

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Are payment methods for prescription drugs associated with polypharmacy in older adults in Ireland? Evidence from the TILDA cohort study by John Cullinan, Aine Varley

“…We sought to examine the relationship between polypharmacy and payment methods for prescription drugs among older adults in Ireland.Methods This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from wave 3 of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging, a nationally representative cohort study sample of community-living adults aged 50 years and older in Ireland. …”
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A benchmark of RNA-seq data normalization methods for transcriptome mapping on human genome-scale metabolic networks by Hatice Büşra Lüleci, Dilara Uzuner, Müberra Fatma Cesur, Atılay İlgün, Elif Düz, Ecehan Abdik, Regan Odongo, Tunahan Çakır

“…Using these models, we could more accurately capture the disease-associated genes (average accuracy of ~0.80 for AD and ~0.67 for LUAD) for the RLE, TMM, and GeTMM normalization methods. …”
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Spatial distribution and reserve estimation of sand and gravel deposits using geostatistical methods in west Basrah, southern Iraq by Safaa Al-Ali, Sattar Al-Khafaji

“…Based on the least error values of ME and RMSE, we conclude that the OK method is the more accurate spatial interpolation approach for sand and gravel reserve estimation in all blocks compared to the IDW method.…”
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THE ALGORITHM FOR DETERMINING TIMING OF RADIOTHERAPY SESSION COMPONENTS FOR DIFFERENT METHODS OF ONCOLOGY PATIENTS IRRADIATION AT THE STAGE OF RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING by E. V. Titovich, P. A. Patsiapalau, M. I. Piatkevich, M. G. Kiselev

“…The objective of this work was to define components that influence on the treatment session and to develop an algorithm that allows to determine the duration of the patient treatment sessions with the use of different methods of radiotherapy and tumor localization.In order to determine radiation therapy session components, that cause the dominant influence on the session timing, the authors carried out a retrospective analysis of each fraction of the total sample of cancer patients treatment plans with most often irradiated with the use of linear accelerators in the NCCB localizations of tumors (more than 5200 fractions).The appropriate algorithms were designed to assess the results of the analysis of time parameters of radiation therapy oncology patient session during its pre-radiation preparation. …”
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Pilot Contamination Attack Detection Methods—An Exhaustive Performance Evaluation Through Probability Metrics and Statistical Classification Parameters by Dimitriya Mihaylova, Georgi Iliev, Zlatka Valkova-Jarvis, Viktor Stoynov

“…However, this information may be insufficient for comparison purposes; therefore, to acquire a more holistic perspective on the methods’ performances, statistical evaluation metrics can be obtained. …”
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Evaluation of machine learning methods for forecasting turbidity in river networks using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data by Victor Oliveira Santos, Paulo Alexandre Costa Rocha, Jesse Van Griensven Thé, Bahram Gharabaghi

“…Turbidity is an important indicator of river water quality and of great interest to improve the data acquisition methods and efficiency of decision support systems for sustainable ecosystem management. …”
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Exploring adolescents’ indirect financial and non-financial barriers to dental care non-attendance: the role of payment methods by Alla T. Alsharif, Saba Kassim

“…This study has twofold: (1) to examine factors associated with regular dental attendance versus non-dental attendance among adolescents, and (2) to explore the indirect financial and non-financial barriers to dental non-attendance, with a particular emphasis on how payment methods influence these barriers.MethodsAn analytical cross-sectional survey was conducted among a convenience sample of adolescents in Al-Madinah, SA. …”
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Effects of dry and wet coating methods on surface degradation of Ni-rich cathodes in Li-ion rechargeable batteries by Keonwoo Lee, Feng Jiang, Seonghun Jeong, Hyojoo Lee, Hyojoo Lee, Jung Ho Kim, Junyoung Mun, Junyoung Mun, Junyoung Mun, Junyoung Mun

“…The results demonstrated that the dry coated sample exhibited a more pronounced and stable rate capability across all tested conditions compared to the wet coated sample. …”
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Comprehensive analysis on soil nitrogen prediction using near-infrared spectroscopy: Models, methods, and insights for precision agriculture by Xiaoyu Wang, Zhiyou Zhang, Yujiao Li, Jie Li, Qing Yang, Qiqi Liu, Zhijie Gong, Mengling Zhang, Xu Wang, Guanghui Xie

“…Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), as an indirect measurement technology, employs chemometric methods to establish calibration models for the quantitative analysis of unknown samples. …”
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Mobilizing Health Promotion Through Canada’s Student Mental Health Network: Concurrent, Mixed Methods Process Evaluation by Amy Ecclestone, Brooke Linden, Jessica Rose, Kiran Kullar

“…Qualitative data derived more detailed insights into user experience and website attributes, as well as feedback on content delivery, providing evidence used to evaluate feasibility. …”
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Cestodes in Eurasian wolves (Canis lupus lupus) and domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Switzerland by Anna Schneider, Gastón Moré, Mirjam Pewsner, Caroline F. Frey, Walter Basso

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