Effect of Construction Waste as a Fine Aggregate on Properties of Concrete. by Sempala, Ronald

“…Construction debris, such as brick, block, and leftover mortar, was converted into aggregates by being manually or mechanically crushed in a jaw or impact crusher. …”
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Evaluation of Local Organic Materials as Source of Organic Pesticides for Pest Control in Carrots. by Kanyesigye, Arozious

“…Five(5) treatments such as tobacco leaf extract, and wood ash extract, were applied at 10ll liters and a mixture of wood ash and tobacco leaf extract cypermethrin was applied at 30mls/15 liters, control were arranged in a randomized complete block design with 3 replicates Results showed a significant increase in p(<0.05) in growth, yield parameters, and effect on weed and pest population reduction under the use of different organic pesticides on pest control in carrots. …”
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Lung transplant outcomes for recipients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, by use of alpha-1 antitrypsin augmentation therapy by Atharv V. Oak, MEng, Jessica M. Ruck, MD, PhD, Alfred J. Casillan, MD, PhD, Armaan F. Akbar, BS, Ramon A. Riojas, MD, PhD, Pali D. Shah, MD, Jinny S. Ha, MD, MHS, Sara Strout, PharmD, Allan B. Massie, PhD, Dorry L. Segev, MD, PhD, Christian A. Merlo, MD, MPH, Errol L. Bush, MD

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Assessing learning, behaviour, and stress level in goats while testing a virtual fencing training protocol by L. Wilms, D. Hamidi, C.H.U. Lüntzel, M. Hamidi, M. Komainda, R. Palme, J. Isselstein, S. Waiblinger, M. Egerbacher

“…The VF treatment involved a virtual fence at one side of the paddock, to which the goats were gradually introduced over the first 2 days (additional physical fence or posts as visual support). …”
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A prospective study on association between comprehensive lifestyle scores and cognitive function changes in community-dwelling older adults in Tianjin city by Muya ZHANG, Xian CAI, Liping ZU, Huichao ZHAO, Tianyu WANG, Chenyu LI, Jing YUAN, Fei MA

“…Generalized estimating equation analysis showed that, compared with a healthy lifestyle, an unhealthy lifestyle was statistically associated with lower scores in full-scale intelligence quotient (β = – 2.839), verbal intelligence quotient (β = – 2.438), performance intelligence quotient (β = – 2.987), comprehension (β = – 1.260), digit symbol (β = – 2.372), block design (β = – 1.592), and object assembly (β = – 1.974) (all P < 0.05). …”
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Post-Trial Feedback Alters Landing Performance in Adolescent Female Athletes Using a Portable Feedback System by Thomas W Kernozek, Drew Rutherford, Becky Heinert, Jessica Onsager, Maria Lee, Jeremie Schiedermayer, Stephanie Dietrich, Renee Dade, Thomas Gus Almonroeder

“…vGRF and knee to ankle (K:A) separation ratio were measured and the average responses were reported for each trial block. # Results Differences in vGRF between baseline, post-test and transfer task trial blocks were observed (F(2,298)=181.68, p < .0001). …”
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Acute oral toxicity study of novel polyherbal formulations by using wistar rats and Swiss albino mice as per OECD 425 TG by Ramkishan Jatoth, S.P Dhanabal, V. Senthil, T. Ganesh, Jubie Selvaraj, P.S. Venkatesan

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The First Saint Petersburg Regional Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Registry on the Basis of the Regional Health Information System: Principles of Functioning, Testing Results, Plan of... by Yu. P. Uspenskiy, A. M. Sarana, L. N. Melentyeva, A. V. Yazenok, S. V. Petrov, Yu. A. Fominykh, S. V. Ivanov, A. V. Shotik, A. M. Segal, T. V. Gorbacheva, S. D. Plotnikova, K. V. Dronov

“…The accumulation of prospective data in the Clinical Module continues, which in the near future will make it possible to test and configure the automated analytical block of the registry.Conclusion. The functioning of the Saint Petersburg IBD Registry allows to achieve following primary goals within region: assessment of the epidemiological features of IBD in Saint Petersburg; dynamic assessment of the disease features; assessment and planning of health care resources required to provide care to IBD patients; improvement of approaches to the treatment taking into account the specifics of the region; assessment of the effectiveness and tolerability of specific treatment including biologics.…”
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Optimized framework for evaluating F3 transgressive segregants in cayenne pepper by Ifayanti Ridwan, Muh Farid, Feranita Haring, Nuniek Widiayani, Ahmad Yani, Nirwansyah Amier, Muhammad Alfan Ikhlasul Amal, Jekvy Hendra, Nawab Ali, Mekhled Mohamed Alenazi, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Willy Bayuardi Suwarno, Muhammad Fuad Anshori

“…This research was designed with a randomized completed block design with 16 transgressive segregant genotypes and three check varieties. …”
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Does the transition from face-to-face to face-to-screen improve oral health literacy? A non-inferiority randomized controlled trial by Negar Ebrahimi, Katayoun Sargeran, Reza Yazdani, Ahmad Reza Shamshiri

“…After the inclusion and exclusion criteria were checked and informed consent was obtained, the participants were randomly allocated into two groups by balanced block randomization. One group received in-person education in the waiting room, and the other received an educational video through an online messenger. …”
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Penggunaan Compressive Sensing pada Pengenalan Huruf dengan Tulisan Tangan Menggunakan Metode K-Nearest Neighbor by Zalfa Alif Muhammad, Gelar Budiman, Sofia Saidah

“…After the design stage, several scenarios were tested to obtain the best detection accuracy by changing the size parameters of each block in an image, changing the compression line, and changing the image dimensions. …”
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Indicators Of Morbidity And Mortality From Diseases of the Digestive System in the Krasnodar Krai and the Quality of Medical Care for Gastroenterological Patients by N. V. Korochanskaya, V. M. Durleshter, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, K. I. Popandopulo

“…The analysis was carried out according to C 51 “Distribution of deaths by gender, age groups and causes of death” form of the Territorial Authority of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Krasnodar Krai for the period from 2006 to 2018, as well as on the basis of the “Demography” block database of the Parus software of the healthcare management system of the Krasnodar Krai for 6 months of 2019. 1341 medical records of patients receiving outpatient medical care and the medical records of people who had died from digestive diseases in 2017-2019 were reviewed.Results. …”
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Discrete vulnerability to pharmacological CDK2 inhibition is governed by heterogeneity of the cancer cell cycle by Vishnu Kumarasamy, Jianxin Wang, Michelle Roti, Yin Wan, Adam P. Dommer, Hanna Rosenheck, Sivasankar Putta, Alec Trub, John Bisi, Jay Strum, Patrick Roberts, Seth M. Rubin, Costakis Frangou, Karen McLean, Agnieszka K. Witkiewicz, Erik S. Knudsen

“…Furthermore, CDK2 deletion reverses the G2/M block induced by CDK2 inhibitors and restores cell proliferation. …”
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Validação transcultural da versão moçambicana da escala de autoeficácia em Educação Física inclusiva by Leonor Picardo, Maria João Campos, José Pedro Ferreira

“…Objetivo: analisar as propriedades psicométricas e a estrutura fatorial da versão moçambicana da Self-Efficacy Scale for Physical Education Teacher Education Majors toward Children with Disabilities (SE-PETE-D) (Block et al., 2013), denominada de Escala de Autoeficácia na Educação Física Inclusiva (EAE-EFI). …”
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Genetic variability and heritability estimates among nutritional traits of groundnut breeding lines by Richard Adu Amoah, James Yaw Asibuo, Richard Akromah, Kwabena Asare Bediako, Maxwell Lamptey, Collins Yeboah Osei, Samuel Awuah, Richard Boampong

“…The trial consisted of 12 advance breeding lines and 7 varieties which were evaluated in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) in three (3) replications at CSIR-Crop Research Institute, Fumesua, Ghana. …”
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A novel approach to skin disease segmentation using a visual selective state spatial model with integrated spatial constraints by Yu Bai, Hai Zhou, Hongjie Zhu, Shimin Wen, Binbin Hu, Haotian Li, Huazhang Wang, Daji Ergu, Fangyao Liu

“…To address limitations in existing approaches, we introduce a novel U-shaped segmentation architecture based on our Residual Space State Block. This efficient model, termed ‘SSR-UNet,’ leverages bidirectional scanning to capture both global and local features in image data, achieving strong performance with low computational complexity. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Planting Depths on the Growth and Yield of Carrots. by Muserero, Ronald Regan

“…A Randomized Complete Block Design having two replications was used in this study. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Farm Yard Manure and NPK Fertilizer on Cabbage Yield: A Case Study of Kabale University. by Arinaitwe, Saul

“…The experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design, with three treatments: FYM, NPK fertilizer, and control experiment. …”
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Effects of the physical form of starter feed on the intake, performance, and health of female Holstein calves by Í.R.R. Castro, G.B.C. Leite, I.F. Carrari, L.N.C. Silva, J.C.C. Chagas, D.D. More, M.I. Marcondes

“…Twenty-four female Holstein calves (5-d-old; 40.4 ± 3.86 kg BW; mean ± SD) were used in a completely randomized block design. Calves were individually housed and randomly assigned to the treatments (n = 12 calves/treatment): (1) textured starter feed (TSF, a mix of pelleted ingredients and whole-kernel corn) and (2) pelleted starter feed (PSF). …”
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What Can Be Done to Improve the Mental Health of University Students? Identifying Determinants of Psychological Distress at an Australian University by Patrick J. Owen, Shane A. Kavanagh, Anthony D. LaMontagne

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