Development of a Cost-Effective Plasma Thawer: A Potential Game-Changer in Blood Transfusion Technology by Shamrez Shahid, Muhammad Danish Mujib Mujib, Ahmad Zahid Rao, Muhammad Abul Hasan, Saad Ahmed Qazi

“…Our device was able to thaw frozen plasma, accurately maintaining water temperature between 37-40°C. The samples were clear of solid and gelatinous particles, indicating no protein denaturation or overheating. …”
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Characterizing agronomic, morphological, nutritional, and phytochemical traits of local sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) in Indonesia by Maisya Zahra Al Banna, Widiastini Arifuddin

“…Local Tritiro sorghum has higher carbohydrate, protein, and fiber content compared to other sorghum varieties from South Sulawesi and exhibits higher tannin content. …”
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Introducing a Markov Chain-Based Energy Awareness Approach for Cloud Data Center Virtual Machine Dynamic Management by Xinbin Huang, Yu Huang, Cecılıa. Mercado

“…The proposed method achieves an average reduction in energy consumption of 17% compared to state-of-the-art methods, while also minimizing violations of service-level agreements (SLA). …”
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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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Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress. by Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram, Jonathan Wilson

“…Nightlights (NTL) have been widely used as a proxy for economic activity, despite known limitations in accuracy and comparability, particularly with outdated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data. …”
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Clinical characteristics of female Fabry disease patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction by Natsuko Inagaki, Yasuyoshi Takei, Tsuguhisa Hatano, Yasuyuki Takada, Yoshinao Yazaki, Hisanori Kosuge, Masatake Kobayashi, Shinji Suzuki, Tomohiro Umezu, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuhiro Satomi, Takeharu Hayashi

“…In addition, none of these female patients had renal dysfunction, indicating a different pattern of organ damage compared with that previously reported in male patients.…”
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Length of stay after colorectal surgery in Italy: the gap between “fit for” and “actual” discharge in a prospective cohort of 4529 cases by Lorenzo Pandolfini, Duccio Conti, Piercarlo Ballo, Silvia Rollo, Alessandro Falsetto, Gian Matteo Paroli, Paolo Ciano, Michele Benedetti, Leonardo Antonio Montemurro, Giacomo Ruffo, Massimo Giuseppe Viola, Felice Borghi, Gianandrea Baldazzi, Massimo Basti, Pierluigi Marini, Mariano Fortunato Armellino, Vincenzo Bottino, Giovanni Ciaccio, Alessandro Carrara, Gianluca Guercioni, Marco Scatizzi, Marco Catarci, the Italian ColoRectal Anastomotic Leakage (iCral) study group

“…Among the gap reasons, the “need for postoperative rehabilitation” compared to “not willing to return home” and “social constraints” was associated with the longest LOS (9 [6.0–12.5] days, p < 0.001 vs other reasons). …”
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Applied Comparison of Meta-analysis Techniques by Li Wang, Colin Lewis-Beck, Elyse Fritschel, Erdem Baser, Onur Baser

“…**Objectives:** This study aims to review meta-analysis methods and their assumptions, apply various meta-techniques to empirical data, and compare the results from each method. **Methods:** Three different meta-analysis techniques were applied to a dataset looking at the effects of the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine on tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Pulp stones and kidney stones-related gene: An investigation of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the gene encoding parathyroid hormone by Prescila Mota de Oliveira Kublitski, Bruna de Souza Romano, Vania Gomes Moraes, Manoel Damião Sousa-Neto, Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, Erika Calvano Küchler, Leonardo Santos Antunes, João Armando Brancher, Edgard Michel-Crosato, Marilisa Carneiro Leão Gabardo

“…Additionally, Fisher's exact test was used to compare the haplotype frequencies. Statistical significance was set at 5 %. …”
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NATURAL RESOURCE ENDOWMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM SOME SELECTED SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES by Felix Gbenga Olaifa, Ebenezar Adesoji Olubiyi, Oluwasegun Olawale Benjamin Benjamin, Philip Olugbenga Adebayo Adebayo

“… Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are on average blessed with relatively large number of natural resources when compared with other regions of the world. Despite this obvious natural resource endowment, economic growth on the sub-region has not been encouraging. …”
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Biochemical Status of Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients in Erbil City by Omar Surchi, Sarkawt Ali

“…The objective was to study biochemical changes in the level of serum hepcidin, osteocalcin, calcium, ferritin, iron, PTH and IL-6 in patients with β- thalassemia major and to compare it with control subjects. Patients and method: In this research 40 patients with beta thalassemia major, 20 Female and 20 Male (age ranged from 10 to 38 years), and 40 control subjects 20 Female and 20 Male (age ranged from 9 to 33 years) were studied. …”
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Improvement of Air Quality during the COVID-19 Lockdowns in the Republic of Slovenia and its Connection with Meteorology by Maja Ivanovski, Petra Dolšak Lavrič, Rudi Vončina, Darko Goričanec, Danijela Urbancl

“…The results show that, the most significant decrease of PM concentration in 2020 compared to 2018 and 2019 was found in the period after the first lockdown, while precipitation was not significantly different between the years during this time.…”
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Community-based Language Development of Northern Catanduanes, Philippines by Renelyn Bautista

“…A coordination with the local education sector, Bicol University, and the Local Government Unit (LGU) for the creation of a working orthography of the Caramoran language is highly recommended by the key informants to reinforce the conditions of sustainable language use and the preservation of the local Caramoran language including comparative studies to gain insights about language vitality that may lead to crafting orthographies and strengthening the MTB-MLE program. …”
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Oxytocin Versus Dinoprostone For Labor Induction in Multiparous Women with Unfavorable Cervix by Gul Nihal Buyuk, Umit Yasemin Sert, Zeynep Asli Oskovi Kaplan, Serkan Kahyaoglu

“…The aim of our study; to compare the use of oxytocin with dinoprostone (PGE2- Propess©) used in term multiparous pregnant women to ripen the cervix. …”
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Empirical model for estimating the surface roughness of machined components under various cutting speed by JO Osarenmwinda

“…The values obtained from the empirical models were found to compare favourably with the experimental values. The Mean Absolute Percent Deviation (MAPD) which measures absolute error as a percentage was found to be 1.46% (stainless steel), 4.55 %( mild steel) and 4.76% (aluminum cast) respectively. …”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on forensic pathology services in Limpopo province, South Africa by Thakadu A. Mamashela, Samuel T. Ntuli

“…Methods: This retrospective analysis includes referred post-mortem cases from all forensic pathology services in Limpopo province, comparing the period before the COVID-19 pandemic (01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019) with the pandemic period (01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020). …”
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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“…Using a few examples from our translation and comparing them to several translations into other modern languages (such as Afrikaans, English, and French), I would like to show how we went about in order to bridge the cultural gap, making the texts  understandable to modern German readers without taking away their strangeness. …”
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A novel electrical rock typing approach to improve estimating formation resistivity factor in carbonate rocks by Milad Mohammadi, Mohammad Emami Niri, Abbas Bahroudi, Aboozar Soleymanzadeh, Shahin Kord

“…In this study, the Electrical Zone Indicator (EZI) was introduced as a novel method that provides more accurate determination of reservoir electrical parameters compared to techniques like the Electrical Quality Index (EQI). …”
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Implication of inter-joint coordination on the limb symmetry index measured during the seated single-arm horizontal push test by Y. Blache, M. Degot, T. de Sousa, I. Rogowski

“…While superior performance of the dominant side compared to the nondominant one (LSI) is often observed, causes of this bilateral imbalance remain unclear. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Modified Initial Abstraction Ratios and Slope Adjusted Curve Number on Runoff Prediction in the Watersheds of Sulaimani Province. by Farhan Ahmad Abdulrahman, Tarq Hama Karim

“…The results demonstrated that adjusting the CN for slope and using a modified initial abstraction ratio increased the estimated runoff compared to the original method (without adjustment for slope and initial abstraction ratio=0.2). …”
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