Schools food waste audit as the criteria for evaluating the quality of school meals by Anna V. Stol

“…It is substantiated that the most feasible audit option may be to conduct it by the parent community with direct support from schools, since every eighth parent in rural areas, and every seventh in cities, is ready to participate in a procedure that will give them more accurate and complete information about nutrition children and an effective tool in the task of changing children’s nutrition at school. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Pull and Energy Characteristics of Generator Drive Unit to Be Used with Container Flats” Three-Piece Bogies by V. G. Kargin, S. N. Naumenko, V. V. Burov, I. N. Chuvashov, S. L. Samoshkin

“…There was purposely developed testing procedure, allowing to assess slipping of the V-belt transmission within the accuracy of 0.01 %. …”
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Obstructive pneumonia owing to migration of a Teflon pledget at 8 years after surgery for a pulmonary carcinoid tumor: a case report by Hikaru Watanabe, Kohei Abe, Naoki Kanauchi

“…A week later, the Teflon pledget obstructing the bronchial lumen was removed using a flexible bronchoscope with the patient under general anesthesia. The procedure was completed without removing the small amount of granulation tissue because the bronchial lumen opened after removing the Teflon pledget. …”
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A Case Series on the Devastating Simultaneous Bilateral Fracture of Ankles That Remains Under-reported: Can We Address the Career-Ending Injuries? by Thabo Leonard Muhango, Thandile Savanna Cordes, Collen Sandile Nkosi, Mmampapatla Thomas Ramokgopa

“…Due to an open injury, one ankle underwent a staging procedure, and the other three underwent open reduction and internal fixation with excellent clinical outcomes. …”
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The Relationship Between Faculty Support, Academic Self-efficacy, Academic Emotions, and Online Learning Performance Among University Students in China by Mao Zhao, Siti Mistima Maat, Norzaini Azman, En Zheng

“…The analysis conducted using the standard bootstrapping procedure allowed for the estimation of both direct and indirect path coefficients in the study. …”
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Pyloric botulinum toxin for diabetic gastroparesis: a case of sustained glycaemic improvement by Luke Bugeja, Lianne Camilleri, John Schembri

“…Case presentation: We report a case of how pyloric botulinum toxin injections significantly improved a patient’s type 1 diabetic control and gastrointestinal symptoms associated with gastroparesis and is still maintaining improved glucose levels six months after her procedure. Although current data and case studies highlight a potential role for pyloric botulinum toxin injections, no association was found between pyloric botulinum toxin injections and blood glucose control in type 1 diabetics. …”
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Evaluation of pain perception using a vibrating toothbrush during the administration of local anesthesia in children: A randomized clinical trial by Meerza Alam Pinjari, SVSG Nirmala, Sivakumar Nuvvula

“…Aim: Effective pain management is a critical and challenging aspect of behavior management in children during dental procedures. Among nonpharmacological methods for achieving painless local anesthesia (LA), devices utilizing the vibrotactile method have shown promise. …”
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Cytokines and inflammatory biomarkers and their association with post-operative delirium: a meta-analysis and systematic review by Md Parvez Mosharaf, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Rashidul Alam Mahumud

“…Abstract Delirium is a prevalent cognitive disorder among older patients and a common phenomenon following major surgical procedures. This study aimed to identify the significant proteomic biomarkers and examine their association with postoperative delirium (POD). …”
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Optimization Method for Solving the Reasonable Arch Axis of Long-Span CFST Arch Bridges by Xuesong Zhang, Ningyi Liang, Xiaohong Lu, Anbang Gu, Jidong Shan

“…The entire optimization procedure is performed using the Bosideng Yangtze River Bridge as an example. …”
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Impact of position of bolster on outcome of prone PCNL—A randomized clinical trial by Vikram Singh, Ishwar Ram Dhayal, Sanjeet Kumar Singh, Alok Srivastava, Nandan Rai

“…Four patients in group 1 and five patients in group 2 underwent ancillary procedure for clearance of residual stones. Conclusion In our study, the orientation of the bolster either horizontal or vertical does not affect the site of puncture during prone PCNL which probably resulted in no difference in pleural complications in two groups.…”
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Midwives’ competence in interpretation of the intrapartum cardiotocograph at public hospitals in Gauteng: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study by Sanele Lukhele, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, Rodwell Gundo

“…Background: Cardiotocograph (CTG) tracing is a routine intrapartum care procedure for women who have been diagnosed with high-risk pregnancy. …”
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Military experience predicts military multitasking better than laboratory measures in officer cadets by Yannik Hilla, Maximilian Stefani, Elisabeth V. C. Friedrich, Wolfgang Mack

“…We then tested if the laboratory measure predicted their military performance and if this relationship was mediated by working memory processing abilities using Bayesian procedures. We also controlled if demographics, military characteristics, media preferences, or social/personality traits affected any of these measures. …”
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DELAYS ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF CONCRETE PLACEMENT BY CRANES IN NIGERIA by Olaoluwa Olatunde, Ojo Stephen Okunola, Adesanya David Abiodun

“…The study involved a close observation of 35 daily concrete pours placed by crane and skip on 25 project sites selected through stratified random sampling procedure in Lagos. Productivity data obtained were analysed by multiple regression to obtain a model relating productivity to fractional delay. …”
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Optimized Metamaterials for Design of Enhanced-Performance High Order Mode Dipole-Driven Yagi-Uda Antenna for Millimeter Wave Applications by Bashar A. F. Esmail, Dustin Isleifson, Slawomir Koziel, Anna Pietrenko-Dabrowska

“…The rigorous numerical optimization procedure was employed to precisely adjust the dimensions and positions of the driven dipole, director, and reflectors. …”
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Fast and Accurate Sperm Detection Algorithm for Micro-TESE in NOA Patients by Mahmoud Mohamed, Konosuke Kachi, Kohei Motoya, Masashi Ikeuchi

“…Purpose: Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) presents major challenges in assisted reproductive technology (ART) due to the extremely low number of viable sperm within testicular tissue. In Micro-TESE procedures, embryologists manually search for sperm under DIC microscopy—a slow, labor-intensive process. …”
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Investigating the asymmetric impact of tourism, green fiscal policy, and fintech on environmental emissions and coastal water quality: an empirical study using the method of moment... by Mengqi Yang, Xing Tang

“…Exploring whether the impacts of these factors exhibit uniformity across quantiles will greatly benefit strategic solutions aimed at avoiding resource waste.MethodsThis paper aims to calibrate procedures to apply the method of moment quantile regression (MMQR) model to address this issue. …”
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Food allergen control at meat processing enterprise: scientific rationale and preliminary hazard analysis by E. V. Kryuchenko, I. M. Chernukha, Yu. A. Kuzlyakina, V. S. Zamula

“…Based on the results of the research, a procedure for allergen control has been developed, including additional measures for the control of food allergens.…”
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Expression Quantitative Trait loci (QTL) in tumor adjacent normal breast tissue and breast tumor tissue. by Alejandro Quiroz-Zárate, Benjamin J Harshfield, Rong Hu, Nick Knoblauch, Andrew H Beck, Susan E Hankinson, Vincent Carey, Rulla M Tamimi, David J Hunter, John Quackenbush, Aditi Hazra

“…SNP-gene associations can be explored using an open-source interactive browser distributed in a Bioconductor package. Using a new a procedure for testing hypotheses relating SNP content to expression patterns in gene sets, defined as molecular function pathways, we find that loci on 6q14 and 6q25 affect various gene sets and molecular pathways (FDR < 10%). …”
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The Crutch Usage and Rehabilitation after Hip Arthroscopy Surgery: A Systematic Review by Jui-Chang Kao, Chieh-An Chuang, Hao-Che Tang, Yi-Sheng Chan

“…As the prevalence of hip arthroscopic procedures continues to rise, understanding optimal post-operative care becomes paramount for achieving favorable outcomes. …”
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A Dynamic Precision Evaluation System for Physical Education Classroom Teaching Behaviors Based on the CogVLM2-Video Model by Chao Liu, Fan Yang, Chengyu Ge, Zhiyu Shao

“…Traditional evaluation methods primarily rely on manual analysis, which suffers from complex coding procedures, low efficiency, and suboptimal accuracy, hindering long-term sustainability in teaching quality improvement. …”
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