Association between Urinary N-Acetyl-Beta-D-Glucosaminidase and Microalbuminuria in Diabetic Black Africans by Francis Patrick Udomah, Udeme Ekpenyong Ekrikpo, Emmanuel Effa, Babatunde Salako, Ayodeji Arije, Solomon Kadiri

“…The strong association found between albumin/creatinine ratio and NAG/creatinine ratio perhaps indicates the need for further investigation of the clinical utility of NAG/creatinine ratio as a screening tool for early nephropathy in African diabetics.…”
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Magnitude of Prelacteal Feeding and Its Associated Factors among Mothers Having Children Less than One Year of Age: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Eastern Zone, T... by Senait Gebreslasie Gebremeskel, Tesfay Tsegay Gebru, Selam Shushay Kassahun, Berhanu Gebresilassie Gebrehiwot

“…Pretested and structured interviewer-administered tool was used for data collection. Data were entered, coded, and cleaned by Epi-Info version 7 and analyzed by using SPSS 22.0. …”
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Use of BP Neural Networks to Determine China’s Regional CO2 Emission Quota by Yawei Qi, Wenxiang Peng, Ran Yan, Guangping Rao

“…The allocation of China’s provincial CO2 emission quotas (hereafter referred to as quotas) is crucial for building a unified national carbon market, which is an important policy tool necessary to achieve carbon emissions reduction. …”
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Are Exercise Therapy Protocols For The Treatment of Hip-Related Pain Adequately Described? A Systematic Review of Intervention Descriptions by August Estberger, Joanne L Kemp, Kristian Thorborg, Anders Pålsson, Eva Ageberg

“…Two independent researchers used the Cochrane risk of bias tool version 2 to analyze risk of bias, and the Consensus on Exercise Reporting Template (CERT) checklist and score (1-19) to synthesize reporting completeness…”
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Progress in plant genome sequencing: research directions by M. K. Bragina, D. A. Afonnikov, E. A. Salina

“…Although many of the published genomes are considered incomplete, they proved to be a valuable tool for identifying genes involved in the formation of economically valuable plant traits, for marker-assisted and genomic selection and for comparative analysis of plant genomes in order to determine the basic patterns of origin of various plant species. …”
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Clinical Assessment of the Nystagmus Fixation Suppression Test: An Experimental Study by Stefanie Siegrist, Thomas Wyss, Athanasia Korda, Georgios Mantokoudis

“…BACKGROUND: Assessment of nystagmus fixation suppression can be used as an additional diagnostic tool for patients with an acute vestibular syndrome to distinguish between a central or peripheral cause. …”
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Review and Critique of "Physical Education in Schools" by Mohsen Hallaji

“…For this purpose, the questionnaire "Review and review of texts and books of humanities (national books)" developed by the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies as a tool and framework of critique was used. The face, structure, and content validity of the questionnaire were determined by a panel of faculty members inside and outside the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies. …”
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Development of Automated Image Processing for High-Throughput Screening of Potential Anti-Chikungunya Virus Compounds by Pathaphon Wiriwithya, Siwaporn Boonyasuppayakorn, Pattadon Sawetpiyakul, Duangpron Peypala, Gridsada Phanomchoeng

“…This technology can be seamlessly integrated into existing virological research pipelines, offering a scalable and efficient tool to accelerate drug discovery and improve diagnostic workflows for vector-borne and emerging viral diseases. …”
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Strategy for Reducing Stunting Rate Using Analytical Hierarchy Process in Garut District by Mila Karmila, Ikeu Kania, Mochammad Iqbal Fadhlurrohman, Dena Ananda Hilmaniah

“…The analysis method uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process method along with an analysis tool called Expert Choice software to make choosing the most important criteria, sub-criteria, and options easier. …”
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Use of failure mode and effect analysis to improve the monoclonal antibody drugs management process in pharmacy intravenous admixture services by Jian Cai, Min-Xian Li, Shuai Lu, Dan Shen, Wei Xie, Jian-Jun Zhu, Guo-Jun Jiang, Chun-Xiao Lu

“…This study utilized failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) as a risk management tool to manage mAb drugs within the PIVAS. The nine-member multidisciplinary team mapped the processes; evaluated the severity, occurrence, and detection of each subprocess; and calculated the risk priority number (RPN). …”
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Insight of microRNA role in Colorectal Cancer by Kwan-Liang Lye, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Hui-Min Yap

“…Thus, miRNAs have emerged as highly useful tool for scientists to comprehend carcinogenesis better. …”
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Current trends in physical and physiological profile of elite WKF karate athletes: a systematic review by Eliza Gaweł, Miłosz Drozd, Adam Zając

“…A JBI Qualitative Data Extraction Tool for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence was fulfilled in order to determine which variables should be extracted. …”
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Privacy-preserving data compression scheme for k-anonymity model based on Huffman coding by Yue YU, Xianzheng LIN, Weihai LI, Nenghai YU

“…The k-anonymity model is widely used as a data anonymization technique for privacy protection during the data release phase.However, with the advent of the big data era, the generation of vast amounts of data poses challenges to data storage.However, it is not feasible to expand the storage space infinitely by hardware upgrade, since the cost of memory is high and the storage space is limited.For this reason, data compression techniques can reduce storage costs and communication overhead.In order to reduce the storage space of the data generated by using anonymization techniques in the data publishing phase, a compression scheme was proposed for the original data and anonymized data of the k-anonymity model.For the original data of the k-anonymity model, the difference between the original data and the anonymized data was calculated according to the set rules and the pre-defined generalization level.Huffman coding compression was applied to the difference data according to frequency characteristics.By storing the difference data, the original data can be obtained indirectly, thus reducing the storage space of the original data.For anonymized data of the k-anonymity model, the anonymized data usually have high repeatability according to the generalization rules of the model or the pre-defined generalization hierarchy relations.The larger the value of k, the more generalized and repeatable the anonymized data becomes.The design of Huffman coding compression was implemented for anonymous data to reduce storage space.The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the original data and the anonymous data compression rate of the k-anonymity model.Across five models and variousk-value settings,the proposed scheme reduces the compression rate of raw and anonymized data by 72.2% and 64.2% on average compared to the Windows 11 zip tool.…”
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Factors Influencing Post-Study Employment by International Graduates of Regional Universities (Case of Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation) by M. Yu. Makhotaeva, O. A. Bakumenko

“…As a result of the analysis of foreign experience, the authors come to a conclusion that locally-trained international graduates’ employment is an effective tool for replacing the migration outflow from the periphery to megalopolises. …”
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In Vivo and In Vitro Studies Assessing the Antiviral Efficacy of Double Combinations Against Coxsackievirus B Infection by Adelina Stoyanova, Simeon Galabov, Vadim Makarov, Angel S. Galabov

“…Drug therapy is an important tool for controlling enterovirus infections, but clinically effective drugs do not currently exist, mainly due to the development of drug resistance. …”
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The Role of Modern Artistic Media in Cultural Discourse with Emphasis on Globalization by Sara Jahangiri, Mohammadreza Sharifzadeh, MohammadKazem Hassanvand

“…This research can serve as a valuable tool in increasing the visibility and public awareness of new artistic media, thereby fostering improvement within urban societies. …”
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The Eye of the Censor: A Critical Genealogy of Censorship as Transparency (16th-18th Centuries) by Magali Bessone

“…The second part centres on John Locke’s and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s uses of the notion of censorship as deeply connected to the “law of opinion”, progressively becoming the “law of public opinion”. An effective tool for governing, censorship paradoxically came to be regarded as legitimate when it escaped the exclusive domain of political authorities and became internalized as a prevalent means of ensuring virtue and rationality among good, self-disciplined citizens. …”
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Efficiency Assessment of Economic International Cooperation in Development of Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Resources by P. V. Beresneva

“…CBA is used in some countries (EU, USA, Australia) as an analytic tool to make public policy decisions. CBA is based on the method of discounting cash flows associated with costs and benefits of public policy. …”
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Structural reliability analysis of steel structural covering based on the theory of evidence by S. A. Solov’ev, A. E. In’kov, A. A. Solov’eva, V. A. Smirnov

“…The paper considers the use of the theory of evidence as an effective tool for reliability analysis of steel span structures in problems with interval uncertainty of statistical data.Results. …”
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Interdisciplinary Approaches in Doctoral and Higher Research Education: An Integrative Scoping Review by Kritika Rana, Sarah J. Aitken, Ritesh Chimoriya

“…Eligibility criteria were based on the SPIDER tool (Sample, Phenomenon of Interest, Design, Evaluation, Research Type). …”
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