Impact of COVID-19 on unorganized Indian retail markets by Amgad S.D. Khaled, Khaled Ismail Alshaketheep, Mosab I. Tabash, Mohammad Azmi Khan, Mohammad Ahmad Al-Omari

“…The primary goal of this paper is to study consumer behavior during the pandemic, investigate government-implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the unorganized retail sector, and determine if consumers prefer to have goods delivered to their homes rather than visit retail stores. …”
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Experimental study on the tribo-chemical smoothening process between self-mated silicon carbide in a water-lubricated surface-contact reciprocating test by Le Jin, Herbert Scheerer, Georg Andersohn, Matthias Oechsner, Dieter Hellmann

“…Abstract Silicon carbide (SiC) can be tribo-chemically smoothened during a self-mated sliding procedure in the aqueous environment. As well reported in the point-contact tests, this smoothening process works well due to the abundant water as oxidant. …”
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Assessment of calorie intake and micronutrient consumption in rural North-Central Nigeria by Abubakar Yah-Ya Ibrahim, Kayode Ayantoye, Ambali Olatunji Yusuf, Salau Shehu Abdulganiyu

“…By employing a threestage random sampling procedure, a total of 494 households were selected via a well-structured questionnaire. …”
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Investigating the Potential of Deep Learning Approaches in the Reconstruction of VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral Data From Multispectral Imagery by Michael Alibani, Martina Pastorino, Gabriele Moser, Nicola Acito

“…High-resolution MS and HS image pairs are generated from AVIRIS-NG aerial data and employed for training procedures, thereby enabling the reconstruction of HS data that closely resembles the original measurements. …”
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Detecting performance difficulty of learners in colonoscopy: Evidence from eye-tracking by Xin Liu, Bin Zheng, Xiaoqin Duan, Wenjing He, Yuandong Li, Jinyu Zhao, Chen Zhao, Lin Wang

“…Basic human eye gaze and pupil characteristics were learned and verified by the deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs); the generated data were fed to the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with three different data feeding strategies to classify MNLs from the entire colonoscopic procedure. Outputs from deep learning were compared to the expert’s judgment on the MNLs based on colonoscopic videos. …”
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Spatial Association Network of Land-Use Carbon Emissions in Hubei Province: Network Characteristics, Carbon Balance Zoning, and Influencing Factors by Yong Huang, Zhong Wang, Heng Zhao, Di You, Wei Wang, Yanran Peng

“…To further examine the network dynamics, link prediction algorithms are employed to anticipate potential emission connections, while quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) regression analyzes how intercity differences in socioeconomic, ecological, and land-use attributes influence LUCE connectivity. …”
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Sprout Test of Seven Types of Sumatran and Javan Rice with the Addition of Liquid Organic Fertilizer by Elis Nina Herliyana, Fifit Kultsum, Dewi Sukma, Deden Hidayatullah, Abdul Munif

“…This study took place in the greenhouse and laboratory of the Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, IPB, from September to October 2022. Immersion procedures, planting, and data analysis were all steps in monitoring rice germination studies on four types of West Sumatra rice, one variety of West Java rice, and two varieties of rice from the Sukamandi Rice Research Centre. …”
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Adolescent alcohol exposure promotes mechanical allodynia and alters synaptic function at inputs from the basolateral amygdala to the prelimbic cortex by J Daniel Obray, Erik T Wilkes, Mike Scofield, L Judson Chandler

“…In this study, adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) exposure was carried out in male and female rats using a vapor inhalation procedure. Assessments of mechanical and thermal sensitivity revealed that AIE exposure-induced protracted mechanical allodynia. …”
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A Reflection on the Conservation of Waterlogged Wood: Do Original Artefacts Truly Belong in Public Museum Collections? by Miran Erič, David Stopar, Enej Guček Puhar, Lidija Korat Bensa, Nuša Saje, Aleš Jaklič, Franc Solina

“…Artefacts composed of organic materials—such as wood—are inherently susceptible to biological degradation and thus require extensive, long-term conservation employing costly methodologies. These procedures often raise environmental concerns and lead to irreversible alterations in the wood’s chemical composition, dimensional properties, and the intangible essence of the original artefact. …”
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Technical Design and Virtual Testing of a Dynamic Vibration Absorber for the Vibration Control of a Flexible Structure by Carmine Maria Pappalardo, Giuseppe Isola, Angela Donadio, Rosario La Regina, Valentino Paolo Berardi, Domenico Guida

“…Furthermore, a key aspect of this study is implementing a new numerical procedure for identifying the system equivalent stiffness coefficient based on its mass and modal parameters, which is particularly useful in engineering applications. …”
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When is the best time to test paratuberculosis positivity? Observations from a follow-up study in Hungarian dairy herds by Barbara Vass-Bognár, Mikolt Bakony, Kinga Fornyos, Walter Baumgartner, Johannes Lorenz Khol, Viktor Jurkovich

“…The objective of the present study was to find the most practical combination of diagnostic procedures and time points during lactation to identify Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-infected animals. …”
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Amelanotic ocular melanoma with lung metastasis in a domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) by Ronaldo José Piccoli, Vinicius Dahm, Karim Cristhine Pase Montagnini, Arthur Colombari Cheng, Stacy Wu, Amália Ferronato, Crisan Smaniotto, Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Aline de Marco Viott

“…The patient underwent an enucleation procedure, and the ocular bulb was sent for histopathological evaluation. …”
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When innovation meets patient blood management – a new way to see bleeding by Guilherme Rabello, Rosangela Monteiro, Bianca Meneghini, Fabio Biscegli Jatene

“…The management of patient's blood and preparation for surgical procedures is an enormous challenge that helps minimize anemia and control blood loss during hospitalization, ensuring they are discharged in adequate clinical conditions. …”
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Effect of Cognitive Distractors on Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation Performance: Insights from a Dual-Task Simulator by Yan Meng, Shang Zhao, Xiaoke Zhang, John Philbeck, Prachi Mahableshwarkar, Boyuan Feng, Lamia Soghier, James Hahn

“…Neonatal endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a complex medical procedure that demands extensive training before practicing on real patients. …”
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An Agglomerative Clustering Combined with an Unsupervised Feature Selection Approach for Structural Health Monitoring by Tales Boratto, Heder Soares Bernardino, Alex Borges Vieira, Tiago Silveira Gontijo, Matteo Bodini, Dmitriy A. Martyushev, Camila Martins Saporetti, Alexandre Cury, Flávio Barbosa, Leonardo Goliatt

“…In addition, these features are also evaluated in terms of their relevance, and the most important ones are selected for a new execution of the computational procedure. The proposed feature selection not only reduces data dimensionality but also enhances model interpretability, improving the clustering performance in terms of homogeneity, completeness, V-measure, and adjusted Rand score. …”
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Platform trials—an emerging methodology for perioperative medicine: a narrative review by Tom E. F. Abbott, Sarah-Louise Watson, Salma Begum, Priyanthi Dias, Joanne S. Haviland, James Glasbey, Lawani Ismail, Sharon Love, Rupert M. Pearse

“…The principal benefit to researchers and to research funders is that, unlike the sequential parallel group trial model, platform trials can use the same research infrastructure (e.g. database, standard operating procedures etc.) to answer multiple research questions, which is much more time and cost effective. …”
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Holistic Approach for Automated Reverse Engineering of Unified Diagnostics Service Data by Nico Rosenberger, Nikolai Hoffmann, Alexander Mitscherlich, Markus Lienkamp

“…The process presents a time-consuming procedure associated with high manual effort. Car manufacturers use unique signal addresses and encodings for their internal data. …”
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Challenges in diagnosing and treating distal common bile duct adenocarcinoma: A case report with literature insights by Sakhr Alshwayyat, Hamdah Hanifa, Yamen Alshwaiyat, Mustafa Alshwayyat, Hussein Alhussein, Malak Abu-Naja, Tala Abdulsalam Alshwayyat, Basil Alsaleh, Mohammad Shafa’a, Muhammad Fadi Alkurdi

“…Despite initial antibiotic therapy for suspected cholangitis, the patient underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and subsequently a surgical procedure. The surgical resection of a common bile duct adenocarcinoma with lymphovascular invasion was successful, with subsequent restoration of bile flow through Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of tungsten oxide–cerium oxide/chitosan nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue in sewage water under sunlight by Dhivya Viswanathan, Surya Parthasarathy, Sutha Sadhasivam, Krishna Prakash Arunachalam, Khuloud A. Alibrahim, Abdullah N. Alodhayb, Saravanan Pandiaraj, Rajakumar Govindasamy, Sridevi Balu

“…The research examines the implementation of CeO₂, CeO₂/WO₃, and CH/CeO₂/WO₃ hybrid nanocomposites developed through precipitation procedures for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) under sunlight illumination. …”
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Comparison of subdermal and perforator delay techniques on a rat flap model by Dincer Altinel, Burcu Biltekin, Merdan Serin, Ugur Sahin, Muzaffer Altindas

“…Four weeks after the delay procedure, the flaps were raised completely and reinserted back to their place. …”
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