Acoustic Characteristics of Coconut Leaf Beetle, Brontispa Longissima (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Ganeshwari Selvaraj, Johari Jalinas

“…An Independent two-sample T-test was conducted to compare the mean differences in acoustic parameters between adult and larvae of B. longissima. …”
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Incidence of Postpartum Depression and Associated Risk Factors in Antenatal Women: A Cohort Study by Eshani Pandey, Sumit Mehta, Shobit Garg, Sanjibani Panigrahi, Anmol Suneja

“…Methods: This study conducted in a tertiary hospital included 105 participants in their second or third trimester of pregnancy. …”
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Question Wording Matters in Measuring Frequency of Fear of Crime: A Survey Experiment of the Anchoring Effect by Aubrey L. Etopio, Emily R. Berthelot

“…We argue that a frequency approach is vulnerable to the anchoring effect, in which participants base their numerical estimate on an available anchor. We conducted a survey experiment to test the effect of question wording on reported frequency of fear of crime. …”
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Treating Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Proteus Spp. were Isolated from Renal Stone Patients by Crataegus rhipidophylla and Adiantum capillus by Srwa Ali Mohammed, Mohammed Abdul Aziz Hama Ali, Dereh Lattif Mohammed

“…The antibiotic susceptibility test for all isolates were conducted to nine antimicrobial agents including (Ciprofloxacin (Cip), Tetracycline(TE), Neomycin (N), Gentamicin (CN), Erythromycin (E), Nitrofurantoin (F), Naldixic acid (NA), Imipenem (IPM), Amoxicillin (AX). …”
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Log-Driven Behavior Discrimination of Process Robots Using Entropy Similarity by Lu Li, Huan Fang

“…Finally, a series of experiments are conducted on a set of publicly available datasets, validating the feasibility, generality, and effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Knowledge and Perception of Brazilian Dental Students about Molar-Incisor Hypomineralization by Thalys Gustavo Oliveira Martins, Naiara Oliveira Carvalho, Cristiane Tomaz Rocha, Beatriz Gonçalves Neves

“…Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with dental students from a dental school in the Northeast region. …”
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Stabilizing rammed earth using xanthan gum or animal glue as bio-binder by Ahmed Abdelaal, Jiaming Ma, Mohamed Gomaa, Filippo Giustozzi, Yi Min Xie

“…Unconfined compressive strength tests are conducted on XG and AG-stabilized specimens for mechanical performance evaluation, and unstabilized RE samples as baseline for comparison. …”
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Crafting the Path: Robust Query Rewriting for Information Retrieval by Ingeol Baek, Jimin Lee, Joonho Yang, Hwanhee Lee

“…Specifically, the Crafting The Path begins with Query Concept Comprehension, proceeds to Query Type Identification, and finally conducts Expected Answer Extraction. Experimental results show that our method outperforms previous rewriting methods, especially in less familiar domains for LLMs. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Seasonal Changes in Semen Analysis Parameters by Sinan Ates, Cem Yener, Mehmet Gurkan Arikan, Ersan Arda, Deniz Cokay, Koray Elter

“…STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study conducted at Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Edirne, Türkiye. …”
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Precision and efficiency in skin cancer segmentation through a dual encoder deep learning model by Asaad Ahmed, Guangmin Sun, Anas Bilal, Yu Li, Shouki A. Ebad

“…To evaluate DuaSkinSeg’s effectiveness, we conducted experiments on three publicly available benchmark datasets: ISIC 2016, ISIC 2017, and ISIC 2018. …”
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Enhanced crayfish optimization algorithm: Orthogonal refracted opposition-based learning for robotic arm trajectory planning. by Yuefeng Leng, Chunlai Cui, Zhichao Jiang

“…Additionally, performance comparisons with eight advanced algorithms on the CEC2017 test set (30-dimensional, 50-dimensional, 100-dimensional) are conducted, and the ECOA's effectiveness is validated through Wilcoxon rank-sum and Friedman mean rank tests. …”
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Innovative approach of nomography application into an engineering educational context. by Trevor Blight, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, Leif Roschier, Daniel Boulet, Lorena Yepes-Bellver, Víctor Yepes

“…Subsequently, a Likert scale survey was conducted, which showed that students had a great and renewed interest in nomography and found it helpful in the engineering learning process. …”
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Virtual Power Plant and Multi-prosumer Hybrid Game Strategy Based on Energy Sharing by QI Lei, GAO Yang, AI Qian

“…Considering the uncertainty of new internal energy sources，an optimal dispatch is conducted based on distributed robust opportunity constraints. …”
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IMPACTS OF INTERNAL PARTY DEMOCRACY ON PERFORMANCE OF ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS IN THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA by IBRAHIM NUAIMU DANBALA, CELESTINE OGECHUKWU OKAFOR

“…This paper argues that it is becoming worrisome that All Progressive Congress find it difficult to conduct free and fair primary elections and this has continued to increase internal party crisis and threatens the very survival of political party system and the relevance of practicing democracy in Nigeria. …”
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The Effect of Using Cement Kiln Dust as a Partial Replacement of Cement on The Mechanical Properties of Concrete: Review and Modelling by Nawdar Sabir Faraj, Mahdi Osman Hassun

“…Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the effects of incorporating CKD in concrete as an approach of reusing it. …”
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING CATASTROPHE INSURANCE MARKET by Darko Blazhevski

“…A special survey was conducted in North Macedonia, which was taken as a case study. …”
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Acupuncture as an independent or adjuvant therapy to standard management for menopausal insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Xiaoni Zhang, Chengyong Liu, Shan Qin, Chaoming Chen, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Wenzhong Wu

“…The methodological quality was assessed by the Cochrane Collaboration, and meta-analyses were conducted to calculate comparative effects using Rev Man software.…”
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New ways to communicate: Intensive care nurses’ perspectives on using the digital application Talk2Care. A qualitative study by Serine Ramsdal, Heidi Jerpseth

“…Methods: A qualitative design was applied to this study. Interviews were conducted with four intensive care nurses from two hospitals. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on COMPI Fertility Problem Stress Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Scale in Patients Undergoing IVF/ICSI by Arzu Yurci, Saban Karayagiz

“…Data were collected via four data collection tools including socio-demographic form, COVID-19 Inventory (COVID-I), COMPI fertility problem stress scale (COMPI-FPSS), and state-trait anxiety scale. Data analysis was conducted by SPSS statistical software included statistical analysis such as averages, standard deviations, correlation, regression, and t-test. …”
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Enhancing navigation performance in unknown environments using spiking neural networks and reinforcement learning with asymptotic gradient method by Xiaode Liu, Yufei Guo, Yuanpei Chen, Jie Zhou, Yuhan Zhang, Weihang Peng, Xuhui Huang, Zhe Ma

“…The results of our experiments conducted on the Gazebo platform showcase how our approach effectively improves navigation performance in various intricate environments. …”
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