Watch out! Travellers’ valuation of reduced avalanche risks on railways and roads by Knut Veisten, Ståle Navrud, Kristin Magnussen

“…If there are additional benefit elements, these need to be assessed together with those impacts that are already accounted for, to avoid potential double-counting of benefits.We applied a survey-based discrete choice experiment to a sample of train, bus and car travellers in Norway. …”
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Effective theory approach to new physics with flavour: general framework and a leptoquark example by Marzia Bordone, Oscar Catà, Thorsten Feldmann

“…Our formalism represents an extension of the well-known minimal-flavour-violation approach, and uses Froggatt-Nielsen charges to define the flavour power-counting. As a relevant illustration of the formalism, we apply it to the flavour structures which could be induced by a U1 vector leptoquark, which represents one of the possible explanations for the recent hints of flavour non-universality in semileptonic B-decays. …”
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Effects of Domestic Violence on Suicide Among Students: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Atuhura, Fred

“…The collected data was analyzed manually using tallies and the responses of the subjects were then categorized in frequency counts and score tables with varying percentages calculated and later tabulation method was used to present data. …”
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Employee Retention and Organizational Performance in Uganda: A Case of Kabale District Local Government by Julius, Ngabirano

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Automatic monitoring of activity intensity in a chicken flock using a computer vision-based background image subtraction technique: An experimental infection study with fowl adenov... by Hiroshi Iseki, Eri Furukawa, Tomoya Shimasaki, Shogo Higaki

“…The foreground (moving object: chicken) was extracted from the videos using background subtraction, and moving pixels were counted in 5-frame-per-second sequences. Analysis of hourly averaged moving pixel ratios (total pixels of the moving object / total pixels of the region of interest) showed that the daytime top-view video was suitable. …”
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Contribute to the Disease Severity of Dengue Virus Infection by Cucunawangsih Cucunawangsih, Ratna Sari Wijaya, Nata Pratama Hardjo Lugito, Ivet Suriapranata

“…The level of CitH3 was negatively correlated with platelet counts. Conclusion: Our results suggest NETs have contributed to the disease severity of dengue infection. …”
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Scutellarin combined with lidocaine exerts antineoplastic effect in human glioma associated with repression of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling. by Xiu-Ying He, Yui-Si Yang, Yue-Xiang Zheng, Qing-Jie Xia, Hong-Zhou Yu, Xiao-Ming Zhao, Ting-Hua Wang

“…Cell proliferation was detected by cell counting kit-8 (CCK8), plate clone formation assay, EdU incorporation assay and xCELLigence real-time cell analyzer. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Robust Automated System for Predicting Human Sperm DNA Fragmentation Index by Roopini Sathiasai Kumar, Swapnil Sharma, Arunima Halder, Vipin Gupta

“…Background: Determining the DNA fragmentation index (DFI) by the sperm chromatin dispersion (SCD) test involves manual counting of stained sperms with halo and no halo. Aims: The aim of this study is to build a robust artificial intelligence-based solution to predict the DFI. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activities of Different Types of Luting Cements by Sazan Sherdl Saleem

“…In MDCT, bacterial suspensions were exposed to the cements, and colony-forming unit (CFU) counts were recorded at various time points to assess microbial survival.Top of Form Results: In ADT, GC Gold Label glass ionomer exhibited the highest inhibition zones (17.75 mm) after one week, surpassing other intervals of the same cement and all other cements tested. …”
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PREVALENCE OF DOMESTIC ACCIDENTS AND PREVENTIVE PRACTICE AMONG WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING IN IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, LAGOS STATE by WALIU BABATUNDE OGUNBAMOWO, BODUNRIN OLUGBENGA ADEYEMI, LIGALI LATEEFAT ABIODUN, ASHON DANIEL OLUWATOBI

“…Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical tool of frequency counts and percentage. While inferential statistics of Chi-square was used to analyze all formulated hypotheses. …”
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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE METAVERSE by Veselina Nedeva, Snejana Dineva, Svetoslav Atanasov

“…The bibliometric analysis offers quantitative insights into research trends, citation counts, and author influence, which are presented in tables and charts for better visualization. …”
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Nitroxyl protects H9C2 cells from H/R-induced damage and inhibits autophagy via PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway. by Li Li, Zhixin Wang, Yaxuan Lyu, Yanqing Guo

“…The cell viability was assessed by cell counting kit-8 assay. The effect of HNO on the apoptosis was detected by flow cytometry. …”
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On supergravity and noncritical strings by Andrea Dei, Pietro Ferrero, Leonardo Rastelli

“…The noncritical string can be viewed as a special case of a discrete series of backgrounds labelled by an integer k (which counts the number of NS5 branes in a certain duality frame); the “noncritical” value is k = 2, while for k → ∞ one recovers a weakly-curved 10d target space. …”
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Evaluation of the effect on antimicrobial properties, color, roughness and curing time of glass ionomer cement incorporated with silver and copper nanoparticles by Laís Aragão Lima, Wanessa Fernandes Matias Regis, Fábio Ruan Louzeiro Lima, Victor Teixeira Noronha, Amauri Jardim de Paula, Fernanda Freitas Sousa, Paulo Goberlânio Barros Silva, Rafael Melo Freire, Lidiany Karla Azevedo Rodrigues

“…Colony-forming unit (CFU) counts and dry weight were measured to assess the biofilm growth. …”
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Automated quantification of axonal and myelin changes in contusion, dislocation, and distraction spinal cord injuries: Insights into targeted remyelination and axonal regeneration by Xuan Li, Yuan He, Fangyao Chen, Xin Tong, Yunlong Fan, Yuzhe Langzhou, Jie Liu, Kinon Chen

“…Validation showed a high correlation with manual counts of total and myelinated axons, with no significant differences between methods. …”
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Over-Dimension and Over-Load (ODOL) truck in highways: Prevalence and modeling intention to operate ODOL truck, lesson learned from Indonesia by Ari Widyanti, Justin Mulya Gananda, Titah Yudhistira, Widyarini Weningtyas, Ludfi Pratiwi Bowo, Sinung Nugoroho

“…The purpose of this study is to observe the prevalence of ODOL trucks on Indonesian highways and the factors that influence the operation of ODOL trucks from the view of the driver and owner.Observation on site is conducted to observe over-dimension trucks, whereas the over-load truck is counted using observation of CCTV. A survey is applied to obtain the perception and influence factors of ODOL truck operation from the view of the driver. …”
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Efficient k-mer based curation of raw sequence data: application in Drosophila suzukii by Gautier, Mathieu

“…We first used Clark software to build a dictionary of species-discriminating k–mers from the curated assemblies of 29 target drosophilid species (including D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. subpulchrella, or D. biarmipes) and 12 common drosophila pathogens and commensals (including Wolbachia). Counting the number of k–mers composing each query sample sequence that matched a discriminating k–mer from the dictionary provided a simple criterion for assignment to target species and evaluation of the entire sample. …”
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High protein diet increases the risk of allergic sensitization but not asthma in mice through modulation of the cytokine milieu toward Th2 bias by Waleed Al-Herz, MD, Fawaz Azizieh, PhD, Raj Raghupathy, PhD

“…Airway inflammation was tested by measuring total and differential cell counts in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and by measuring bronchial mucus production, goblet cell hyperplasia and perivascular and peribronchial inflammation severity scores by histologic examination. …”
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The impacts of antipsychotic medications on eating-related outcomes: A mixed methods systematic review. by Rasha Alkholy, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee, Rebecca Pedley, Helen Louise Brooks, Richard J Drake, Prathiba Chitsabesan, Anam Bhutta, Abigail Brown, Rebecca L Jenkins, Andrew Grundy

“…Quantitative data were synthesised without meta-analysis using vote counting based on direction of effect. Qualitative data were synthesised using thematic synthesis.…”
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A risk prediction score to identify patients at low risk for COVID-19 infection by Wui Mei Chew, Chee Hong Loh, Aditi Jalali, Grace Shi En Fong, Loshini Senthil Kumar, Rachel Hui Zhen Sim, Russell Pinxue Tan, Sunil Ravinder Gill, Trilene Ruiting Liang, Jansen Meng Kwang Koh, Tunn Ren Tay

“…Two prediction models were derived, the first based on age, presence of sore throat, dormitory residence, blood haemoglobin level (Hb), and total white blood cell counts (TW), and the second based on presence of headache, contact with infective patients, Hb and TW. …”
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