Evaluation of Housing Quality Indicators Using Analytic Network Process (ANP) by hossein mobarra, Mahsa Faramarzi Asli

“…Hence, this research aims to identify the main indicators and components of housing quality and prioritize them, assuming equal weighting of their influence. The research methodology employed in this study is practical in its objective and descriptive-analytical in its approach. …”
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Is Telephysiotherapy an Option for Improved Quality of Life in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee? by Adesola C. Odole, Oluwatobi D. Ojo

“…Fifty patients with knee OA were randomly and equally assigned into two treatment groups: clinic group (CG) and telephysiotherapy group (TG). …”
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Inferior Oblique Weakening and Abnormal Head Position: Controlled Myotomy versus Recession by R. Migliorini, R. Malagola, A. M. Comberiati, L. Arrico

“…After 1 year, 20% of Group  A showed a small Vertical Deviation associated with a small AHP, while 80% had orthophoria and 40% of them had a small AHP. 80% of Group  B showed a small Vertical Deviation associated with an equally small AHP, while 20% had orthophoria with a full resolution of AHP. …”
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Delegitimizing, corruptive crises by Ángel R. Oquendo

“…The concept may describe a situation in which these collectivities must, at the outset, transition from an instrumental to a reflexive construction of legitimacy norms, such as autonomy, legality, and equality, in order effectively to regenerate a corrupt bureaucracy and, thereafter, struggle to recognize themselves after the changeover. …”
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A preliminary investigation of the properties of plantain starch-chitosan composite films containing Panadol leaf extracts by Chad Lafeuillee, Rohanie Maharaj

“…Plantain pulp starch was extracted using 25% NaOH and films were created via solvent casting by combining equal volumes of 5% starch and 2.5% chitosan. Phytochemical screening of the ethanolic leaf extracts employed spectroscopic methods. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Correlation Analysis of Sudden Drought and Flood Changes During Tobacco Growth in Guizhou Province by PENG Gaohui, LIU Zhentao, WANG Chao, XU Chenhui, WU Lijuan, ZHANG Zezhong

“…The results show that: During tobacco growth period, sudden changein long-period is mainly from drought to flood, and decreased gradually from westto east, the annual change curve of LDFAI intensity decreased at the rate of0.109/(10a), and the extremely sudden drought and flood events tend to decrease;Sudden drought and flood change occurs frequently in short period, the numberof drought to flood and flood to drought events is equal from May to June, theflood to drought occurs mainly from June to July, and the drought to flood occursmainly from July to August, the number of strong drought to flood events isgreater than that of strong flood to drought events, but the intensity isdecreased; Except for the eastern region, other regions and cities have astrong linkage between drought to flood and flood to drought, especially thecities with confidence of 100% will go through sudden drought and flood changeat the same time, so they should take the same preventive measures in advance.Theanalysis results provide a favorable help for tobacco farmers in flood control anddrought relief.…”
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Potential QT-prolonging drug-drug interactions in cardiovascular disease patients by Milena Kovačević, Milica Ćulafić, Marija Jovanović, Sandra Vezmar Kovačević, Katarina Vučićević, Branislava Miljković, Predrag Stevanović, Slavica Radovanović

“…A total of 351 patients were included in the analysis, with almost equal gender distribution (female 48.4%) and mean age 70±10 years. …”
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Effect of Calcium Soap of Fatty Acids Supplementation on Serum Biochemical Parameters and Ovarian Activity during Out-of-the-Breeding Season in Crossbred Ewes by Hayat H. M. El-Nour, Soad M. Nasr, Walid R. Hassan

“…Twelve crossbred ewes, 2-3 years of age and weighting 45–55 kg, were allocated into two equal groups. The first group was control and the other was treated with 50 g/head of CSFA. …”
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General and Specific Problems of the Formation of Intellectual Operations in Younger Schoolchildren with Learning Difficulties by A.I. Andriashina, L.A. Tishina

“… <p>The modern system of inclusive education implies equal access to knowledge for all categories of children. …”
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Protective Effect of Thyme Extract on Albino Rats Exposed to Paraquat by Nazar M. Shareef Mahmood

“…The current study was conducted on thirty-two (32) male albino rats, they were separated equally and randomly upon four (4) groups, all groups fed normal diet and drunk tap water ad libitum as following; the first group was considered as control. …”
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Thermos Array: Two-Dimensional Sparse Array with Reduced Mutual Coupling by Lei Sun, Minglei Yang, Baixiao Chen

“…Unfortunately, these arrays often suffer from mutual-coupling problems due to the large number of sensor pairs with small spacing d (usually equal to a half wavelength), which will degrade the performance of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. …”
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Hydrogen technologies in foundry and metallurgy: current state and perspectives (review) by M. V. Goltsova

“…In welded joints of titanium alloys, the THP equalizes the plasticity of the welded joint and the base metal, increases the cyclic life of the products by 2–2.5 times. …”
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Quantification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Wetlands in Aja-Pessu and Environs (Oil Bearing Communities) Warri South Delta, Nigeria by C. Ogwu, V. Ideh, J. Ogana, O. M. Adinkwu

“…The study concluded that the wetlands in Aja-Pessu and environs are polluted with PAHs investigated higher than EU 1881/2014 MPC, thus the produce will neither be fit for human nor animal consumption and will equally not be fit for export. The study recommended that oil companies operating in the settlement should adopt world best practices in their operations, the monitoring agencies NESREA and NOSDRA should be made to carry out their assignment expeditiously and the impacted wetlands should be remediated and restored for adoption of pen aquaculture for job creation in Nigeria. …”
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Methodological Approach for Optimizing Production of Oxygen by Adsorption of Nitrogen from Air using Zeolite Li-LSX by Marwa Al-Yousuf, Raghad F. Almilly, Riyadh Kamil

“…The maximum purity obtained was 73.15% at 16 cm packing height, 2.5 bar input pressure, and 6 L·min−1 inlet flowrate, and the productivity was equal to 18 mmol·(Kg·s)−1 at these conditions. A response surface methodology was used to determine the most influential variables and their interactions. …”
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Simplified segmental scleral buckling without localization and cryopexy: A retrospective comparison with conventional segmental scleral buckling by Pei-Hsuan Lin, Yi-An Lee, Lu-Chun Wang

“…CONCLUSION: The primary success rates for the SSSB and CSSB groups were comparable and equally high. SSSB required laser retinopexy more frequently and was a shorter procedure.…”
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Pore Structure and Permeability Variations during Gas Displacement in Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoirs through CT Reconstruction Analysis by Yuqiang Zha, Bao Cao, Fengying Li, Qing Ye, Shaopeng Zhu, Wei Zhou, Runfu Xiong

“…In terms of permeability and relative permeability changes with pore structure, the improvement of permeability after gas displacement was higher than that of porosity, and the continuous gas displacement would broaden gas-water flow region and lower irreducible water saturation and residual gas saturation, and then, the equal phase relative permeability point would shift to the right. …”
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“An Intense Level of Self-regulation”: Technological Opportunities and Limitations of Online Intergroup Dialogue by Grant Jackson, Sarah Schiffecker, Oleksandra Poquet

“…In this study, we interviewed 16 college students who had participated in IGD via Zoom regarding their online IGD experience, illuminating a variety of opportunities and limitations related to students’ use of cameras, microphones, and the chat feature; the physical spaces in which students experienced their online IGD; the online display of students’ IGD peers; students’ engagement in multi-tasking during IGD sessions; students’ experiences of small group activities in “breakout rooms”; and how the online delivery of IGD promoted and constrained students’ sense of equity and equality throughout their IGD experience. Implications of these findings for IGD practice and future research are discussed. …”
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Anal Incontinence after Anterior Rectum Resection in Cancer Patients by O. I. Kit, E. N. Kolesnikov, M. A. Averkin, S. V. Sanamyants, A. V. Snezhko

“…The anal sphincter function was studied in 144 patients with colorectal cancer, equally in 72 men and 72 women. The study was carried out at the Rostov Cancer Research Institute. …”
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Evaluating Oculomotor Tests before and after Vestibular Rehabilitation in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Pre-Post Study by Amirabas Abasi, Reza Hoseinabadi, Parvin Raji, Joseph H. Friedman, Mohammad-Reza Hadian

“…Materials and Methods. 11 idiopathic Parkinson’s patients voluntarily participated in this study based on inclusion criteria: central vestibular dysfunction and the Hoehn and Yahr scale scores less than or equal to 3. Videonystagmography (VNG) and the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) scores were measured at the baseline. …”
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Study on the mechanical properties of negative poisson’s ratio honeycomb prepared by equibiaxial compression method by LI Yuwei, SU Buyun, QIU Ji, SHU Xuefeng, LI Zhiqiang

“…ObjectiveNegative Poisson’s ratio materials are widely used in various fields because of their unique properties of expansion in tension and contraction in compression.MethodsA honeycomb material with negative Poisson’s ratio was obtained by equal biaxial compression of the two-dimensional Voronoi model, and the effects of different compression ratios on its static tensile/compressive mechanical properties were studied by numerical simulation.ResultsThe results show that the tensile and compressive stress-strain curves of the two-dimensional negative Poisson’s ratio honeycomb prepared by the above method have typical "three-stage" deformation characteristics of porous materials, and show significant tensile and compressive strength asymmetry. …”
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