Considerations in assessing blood glucose in mice: coping with interferences of intraperitoneal injection, noise, fasting, housing and blood sampling by Si-Li Zheng, Xue-Lian Wang, Pin Wang, Jin Chen, Chao-Yu Miao

“…During conscious ITT, animals housed in isolated cages were more likely to have smoothly decreased levels of blood glucose with a lower minimal value as compared to those in social cages. …”
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EzSkiROS: enhancing robot skill composition with embedded DSL for early error detection by Momina Rizwan, Christoph Reichenbach, Ricardo Caldas, Matthias Mayr, Volker Krueger

“…This paper proposes an approach to help developers catch these errors as soon as we have some context (typically at pre-launch time) with minimal additional efforts. We use embedded domain-specific language (DSL) techniques to enforce early checks. …”
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Addressing Gender Disparities in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Scoping Review of Life Skills-Based Education in Pakistan by Bushra Anwar, Sayema Awais, Muhammad Moeed Azwar Bhatti, Sania Ahmed, Muhammad Bin Aslam Zahid, Hafsa Malik

“…Two independent reviewers assessed the papers to minimize bias. Given the limited availability of peer-reviewed studies (only three articles), relevant non-peer-reviewed literature was also incorporated into the final analysis. …”
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Acute dental pain and the different management methods among adults in Taif, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study by Bandar S. Shukr, Ayman Mandorah, Faisal K. Altalhi, Yousef A. Alqurashi, Hassan T. Shawli, Ali A. Alqarni, Mohammed A. Alzubaidi

“…In addition, the utilization of teledentistry services was minimal within this population.…”
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Extrapolation of Metal Gate With High-K Spacer in Strained Nanosystem Channel QWB Cylindrical FET for High-Speed Applications by Rasmita Barik, Rudra Sankar Dhar, Kuleen Kumar, Yash Sharma, Amit Banerjee

“…Hence, the device (nanowire-strained channel QWB CGAA FET) with a tungsten gate is better suited for low-power, high-speed applications with minimal short-channel effects, and is the device of future connecting numerous RF and digital applications as well as faster switching speed.…”
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Bioresorbable Material in Secondary Orbital Reconstruction Surgery by Hui Pan, Zhenzhen Zhang, Weiwei Tang, Zhengkang Li, Yuan Deng

“…This study demonstrates that secondary orbital reconstruction of previously repaired orbital fractures using bioresorbable material can achieve excellent functional and aesthetic results with minimal complications. Bioresorbable material should be considered in secondary orbital reconstruction when clinically indicated.…”
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Low Profile Planar Inverted-L Antenna (PILA) for UHF RFID Tag on Signal Absorption and Reflection Surfaces by Minh-Tan Nguyen, Yi-Fang Lin, Chien-Hung Chen, Hoang-Son Luong, Hua-Ming Chen

“…With this configuration of six adjacent coupled PILA antennas, the proposed tag minimizes electromagnetic field absorption from surfaces, such as containers filled with water or the human body, while enhancing radiation from reflective surfaces like metal. …”
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Coordinated frequency modulation strategy considering source–load uncertainty by Xiaohong Dong, Shuo Wang, Dengxin Ai, Yang Ma, Xiaodan Yu

“…It strengthens frequency stability by leveraging complementary strengths.DiscussionConsideration of wind speed prediction errors can improve WTG adjustable capacity estimation, boosting FM accuracy; Coordinated task allocation minimizes WTGs intermittent FM output impacts, ensuring stable grid frequency. …”
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Air Heat Pump in Wind Power by L. I. Gretchikhin, A. I. Hutkouski

“…In order for the air heat pump to perceive the impacting air flow from the ventilator, it must rotate with minimal power. As a result, for two standard twin-bladed propellers mounted on a 100 W engine under the wind generated by the ventilator which speed is 2.17 m/s the conversion factor was 5.04. …”
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Clinical features, pathological characteristics, and prognosis of patients with IgA nephropathy complicated with nephrotic syndrome by Li Tan, Lu-Hua Jin, Yi-Qin Wang, Wei Chen, Qiong Wen

“…A total of 207 patients with IgAN and NS were categorized into four pathological groups: IgAN with mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (IgAN-MsPGN) (n = 150), IgAN with minimal change disease (IgAN-MCD) (n = 49), IgAN with membranous nephropathy (IgAN-MN) (n = 7), and IgAN with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IgAN-MPGN) (n = 1). …”
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Diet supplementation with phytase and xylanase on laying performance, egg quality, apparent metabolizable energy, and phosphorous use in laying hens by Autchara Kayan, Sombat Prasongsook, Theerawit Poeikhampha

“…Background and Aim: The inclusion of supplementary enzymes, such as phytase and xylanase, in poultry diets enhances nutrient digestibility and reduces excreta output, minimizing environmental impact. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of phytase and xylanase supplementation on laying performance, egg quality, apparent metabolizable energy (AME), and phosphorus utilization in laying hens. …”
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Pembangunan Aplikasi Latihan Soal IPA SD dengan Gamifikasi dan Mersenne Twister by Naufal Irfan Hayanto, Seng Hansun

“…The questions generated by this application will be randomly given with the use of Mersenne Twister algorithm so that the chance of getting the same question will be minimize. Testing of this application has been held in the public elementary school, Sukasari 4 Tangerang, with ‘very good’ results in aspect of joy, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, curiosity, control and ‘good’ results in aspect of behavioral intention to use and focused immersion. …”
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A Nonfunctioning Pituitary Macroadenoma Presenting as Cyclical Vomiting and Severe Hyponatremia in a Young Female by Dinuka S. Warapitiya, Dimuthu Muthukuda, W. A. H. P. Sanjeewa, Kushalee Poornima Jayawickreme, Shyama Subasinghe

“…Severe hyponatremia with minimal hyponatremic symptoms was suggestive of chronic hyponatremia, which was accentuated by ongoing vomiting and possible reduced intake of salt. …”
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Presenting a model for solving lot-streaming hybrid flow shop scheduling problem by considering independent setup time and transportation time by Roja Ruhbakhsh, Esmaeil Mehdizadeh, Mohammad Amin Adibi

“…After performing the experiments and comparing the algorithms with each other, the results show NRGA algorithm performs bether than NSGA-II.Originality/Value: In this paper, for solving a multi objective hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with lot-streamingm mathematical model with the aim of minimizing the makespan and total tardiness, the sequence-dependent setup time and the transportation time constraints between consecutive stages are considered. …”
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Pressure-Less Liquid-Phase Sintering of Aluminum-Based Materials by Ana Teresa Sucgang, Laurent Cuzacq, Jean-Louis Bobet, Yongfeng Lu, Jean-François Silvain

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis also revealed an expanded lattice parameter, with minimal microstrain and a crystallite size closely resembling those of the initial Al powder. …”
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Effect of power training on physical functional performance of patients with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Samuel Brito de Almeida, Emmanuelle Silva Tavares Sobreira, Charles Phillipe de Lucena Alves, Danielle Pessoa Lima, Janine de Carvalho Bonfadini, Manoel Alves Sobreira-Neto, Thiago Holanda Freitas, Simony Lira do Nascimento, Pedro Braga-Neto

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Parkinson's disease (PD) is becoming more prevalent, highlighting the urgency of developing treatments to minimize its effects on muscular strength and physical function. …”
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Development of a Bowtie Inversion Technique for Real‐Time Processing of the GOES‐16/‐17 SEISS MPS‐HI Electron Channels by A. Boudouridis, J.V. Rodriguez, B.T. Kress, B.K. Dichter, T.G. Onsager

“…The goal of the bowtie analysis is to calculate for each energy channel an energy/geometric factor pair applicable to a wide range of energy spectra and for which the geometric factor error is minimized. Rather than using idealized analytical spectral functions, we use observed high‐resolution spectra from the cross‐calibrated Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) Medium Electron Sensor A and High Energy Electron Fluxmeter data set from the period 1990–1991, restricted to 6 < L < 8. …”
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Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…RandLA-Net with HOPE achieved a 1.4% improvement on the large-scale outdoor dataset Toronto3D, all with minimal additional computational cost. PointNet++ and PointMetaBase had approximately only a 0.1 M parameter increase. …”
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RESILSTIGMA. Resilience to self-stigmatization experienced by people living with HIV: Which self-reported factors improve awareness among health workers? by Christine Jacomet, Cécile Miele, Emilie Goncalves, Céline Lambert, Clément Belletier, Françoise Linard, Josiane Phalip-Le Besnerais, Pierre Dellamonica, Michaël Dambrun

“…Those health workers who did not minimize the prevalence of self-stigmatization among PLHIV had no particular characteristics.…”
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Automatic priority analysis of emergency response systems using internet of things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) by Abu S.M. Mohsin, Shadab H. Choudhury, Munyem Ahammad Muyeed

“…By integrating machine learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT), automatic priority analysis of emergency response systems could revolutionise this vital process, save life and minimize damages. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for deploying an IoT, and ML-driven emergency response system (ERS), which uses real-time data analysis and predictive modelling to identify patterns and prioritise responses based on their expected impact, urgency, distance and available resources. …”
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