The Level of Osteoporosis Knowledge and the Related Factors Among Women Who Attended İskenderun Public Education Center Courses by Ceren Gezer, Ecem Ocak

“…The OSES-exercise scores of selfemployed women were 2.4 times higher than those of housewives. A relationship was determined between the OKT and OSES total scores, OKT-nutrition and OSES-calcium, and OKT-exercise and OSES-exercise scores.Conclusion:Women participating in İskenderun Public Education Center courses have low levels of osteoporosis knowledge and self-efficacy. …”
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Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from 7 hospitals in China by Liang Jin, Jing-Rong Cao, Xin-Ying Xue, Hua Wu, Li-Feng Wang, Ling Guo, Ding-Xia Shen

“…The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of Fluconazole with Yeast one was 2~4 times higher than that with ATB fungus 3 and MICs of antifungal agents against VGII strains were higher than against VGI strains. …”
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Reactant-Transport Engineering Approach to High-Power Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells by Zhongyang Wang, Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, Vijay Ramani

“…DBFCs fulfilling these criteria provide a 2.4 times higher power density at 1.5 V compared to state-of-the-art polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) that typically operate at 0.75 V. …”
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Observed wave energy variations in coastal regions of the northern South China Sea during Typhoon Lupit (2021) by Junliang Liu, Wuyang Chen, Junmin Li, Lu Sun, Bo Li, Ping Shi

“…For example, the energy density is enhanced by 2–4 times, i.e. from 1.2–4.2 kW/m to 5.9–9.5​ kW/m, and the available level frequency maintains as high as 100%. …”
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VarKFaceNet: An Efficient Variable Depthwise Convolution Kernels Neural Network for Lightweight Face Recognition by Qinghua Ma, Peng Zhang, Min Cui

“…At the same time, the measured speed on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano platform is 159 times, 4.2 times, and 2.4 times that of ResNet-50, EfficientNet, and MobileFaceNet, respectively. …”
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Design and Performance Analysis of a TLET-Type Flexure Hinge by Ngoc Le Chau, Ngoc Thoai Tran, Thanh-Phong Dao

“…The displacement of the TLET joint is 2.4 times greater than that of the traditional LET joint. …”
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Experimental study and newly proposed correlations for maximum ceiling gas temperature rise in tunnel fires with natural ventilation by Wei Cong, Shibin Nie, Xin Li, Kun He, Wei Peng

“…The flame length was characterized using a modified diameter of the fire source considering the air entrainment, and found that the non-dimensional flame length is 2.4 times the 2/5th power of the non-dimensional heat release rate. …”
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Demand for Endodontic Treatment and its Impact on Quality of Life by Bruna Scarlot Avancini, Lorrayne Cesario Maria, Wellen Gobi Botacin, Pamela Barbosa dos Santos, Maria Helena Monteiro de Barros Miotto

“…In terms of education level, participants who completed high school or more reported an 88.4% impact on the disability dimension, with around 2.4 times greater chances of suffering impact on this dimension. …”
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Platelet function suggests cardioembolic aetiology in cryptogenic stroke by Priya Dev, Mohammad Ekhlak, Debabrata Dash, Abhishek Pathak

“…Compared to healthy controls, platelet-monocyte and platelet-neutrophil interactions were significantly elevated in cryptogenic (2.7 and 2.1 times) and cardioembolic stroke (3.9 and 2.4 times). P-selectin expression on platelet surface was 1.89 and 2.59 times higher in cryptogenic and cardioembolic strokes, respectively, compared to healthy control. …”
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Changes in peripheral blood immune cell population in thyroid cancer patients treated with lenvatinib by Meihua Jin, Chae A. Kim, Dong Jun Bae, Sang-Yeob Kim, Tae Yong Kim, Won Bae Kim, Young Kee Shong, Won Gu Kim, Min Ji Jeon

“…After obtaining informed consent from patients, we prospectively collected 20 ml of whole blood at 2–3 months intervals 2–4 times from each patient; peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were separated, and the Maxpar Direct Immune Profiling Assay was performed. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of white matter hyperintensities in patients with heart failure using an innovative magnetic resonance image analysis method: Association with disrupted cir... by Takahiro Komori, Satoshi Hoshide, Ken‐ichi Tabei, Hidekazu Tomimoto, Kazuomi Kario

“…In conclusion, using the newly developed MRI analysis software, we successfully quantitatively measured the volume of WMHs and found that the WMH volume increased 2.4 times in patients with a non‐dipper pattern of nocturnal BP compared with those with a normal dipper pattern.…”
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FPGA Implementation of a Deep Learning Acceleration Core Architecture for Image Target Detection by Xu Yang, Chen Zhuang, Wenquan Feng, Zhe Yang, Qiang Wang

“…The proposed framework achieves 14 Frames Per Second (FPS) inference performance of the TinyYolo model at 5 Giga Operations Per Second (GOPS) with 30% higher running clock frequency, 2–4 times higher arithmetic power, and 28% higher Digital Signal Processing (DSP) resource utilization efficiency using less than 25% of FPGA resource usage.…”
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Slabs for Prefabricated Road Surfaces with the Least “Keyboard” Effect by S. I. Zinevich, A. К. Кayumov

“…The vertical displacements of the ends of the slabs with ribs are two times less than those of the slabs without ribs, and the stresses are 2.4 times less. It is obvious that the use of concrete slabs with transverse ribs at the ends will reduce the unevenness of the prefabricated coating at the points of their mating.…”
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Location-Aware Source Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks of AUVs by Edward A. Carlson, Pierre-Philippe J. Beaujean, Edgar An

“…LASR delivers 2-3 times as many messages as flooding in 72% of the simulated missions and delivers 2–4 times as many messages as DSR in 100% of the missions. …”
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Blunt trauma of the scrotum and testicle: algorithm of choice of treatment tactics by S. K. Yarovoy, R. A. Khromov

“…When using the algorithm, the following clinical advantages were noted: reducing the likelihood of acute post-traumatic orchitis 2.4 times (p = 0,0271); reduced likelihood of postoperative infectious-inflammatory complications is reduced 2.0 times; reducing the likelihood of orchiectomy or hardening of the testicle 1.4 times.…”
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Casa Covida by Rael, Ronald, San Fratello, Virginia, Curth, Alexander, Arja, Logman

“…This system allows essentially simultaneous construction between domes, continuously printing without waiting for drying time on one structure so that a continuous cycle of printing can proceed through the three stations 2-4 times in a day, thereby minimizing machine downtime. …”
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On the crack resistance and damage tolerance of 3D-printed nature-inspired hierarchical composite architecture by Yu, S, Park, S, Lee, KT, Hwang, JY, Hong, SH, Marrow, TJ

“…Alternating stacking sequences induce cracks propagating in the arrestor direction, which boost the fracture energy up to 2.4 times higher than the same layup stacking sequence. …”

Microbubble-enriched lavage fluid for treatment of experimental peritonitis. by Sharma, P, Rakhorst, G, Engels, E, van der Mei, H, Busscher, H, Ploeg, R

“…The introduction of air-liquid interfaces in the form of microbubbles made CPPL up to 2.4 times more effective than lavage without bubbles. …”

Helium-implantation-induced lattice strains and defects in tungsten probed by X-ray micro-diffraction by Das, S, Liu, W, Xu, R, Hofmann, F

“…Increase of helium dose from 300 appm to 3000 appm increases volumetric strain by only ~2.4 times, indicating that defect retention per injected helium is ~3 times higher at low helium doses. …”

Vibrio fischeri Bioassay for determination of toxicity in petroleum contaminated soils from Tropical Southeast Mexico by Adams, Randy H., Rodríguez, Verónica I. Domínguez, Cruz, Joel Zavala

“…In an area restored by phytoremediation, the simple method used by Petróleos Mexicanos achieved recovery and superficial detoxification in the treated plot, exhibiting a toxicity reduction of 2.4 times with respect to untreated soil and a toxicity even slightly lower than the uncontaminated control in the same ecosystem (22.2 TU). …”
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