Carbon monoxide intoxication from domestic fuel-burning furncaces and appliances by Dahari, N., Hassim, M. H., Abdullah, T. A. T.

“…Through CO samplings of charcoal and natural gas as control experiments, it is also found that both sources did not contribute to any serious health effects to the people using them as cooking fuels. …”
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An intuitionistic fuzzy based approach to resolve detected ambiguities in the user requirements document by Ahmad, Y., Wan Kadir, W. M. N., Husain, S., Ibrahim, N.

“…We implemented it in an online tool and conducted controlled experiments to evaluate our approach, and the results were compared. …”
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A systematic review on usability evaluation methods for m-commerce apps by Hussain, Azham, Mkpojiogu, Emmanuel O.C., Mohmad Kamal, Fazillah

“…The results from the review reveal that heuristic evaluation, formal test and think-aloud methods are the most commonly utilized methods in m-commerce application usability evaluation compared to the cognitive walk through and informal test methods.In addition, most of the studies applied control experiment (33.30% of the total reviewed studies); other studies that applied case study in usability evaluation make up 14.28%. …”
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CMP Pad Conditioning Using the High-Pressure Micro-Jet Method by Xin Li, Yinggang Wang, Hongyu Chen, Wenhong Zhao, Qianfa Deng, Tengfei Yin, Suet To, Zhe Sun, Xi Shen, Wei Hang, Julong Yuan

“…Accordingly, each polishing pad was set up with diamond conditioner and high-pressure micro-jet (HPMJ) conditioning control experiments. Subsequently, the fluctuation ranges of the material removal rate on the three polishing pads were 2.73–3.75 μm/h, 1.38–1.99 μm/h, and 2.36–4.32 μm/h, respectively under the HPMJ conditioning method, while the fluctuation ranges of the material removal rate on the three polishing pads were 1.80–4.14 μm/h, 1.02–2.09 μm/h, and 1.78–5.88 μm/h under the diamond conditioning method. …”
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Double-coated microencapsulation of honeybee endogenous probiotics as a new strategy for the biocontrol of the American foulbrood disease by Fatma Mahmoud, Eman E. Essa, Rasha M. A. Farag, Akila M. El Shafei, Ahmed S. Abou zeid, Hayam A. E. Sayed, Shireen A. M. Ma’moun

“…Conclusion The laboratory-controlled experiments revealed that the microencapsulation process with double coating can be used with some probiotics efficiently without affecting their activity.…”
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Ultra-sensitive real-time detection of cancer-derived exosomes directly from cell supernatants by a large Goos–Hänchen signal generation on plasmonic sensing interface by Manel Hedhly, Yuye Wang, Aude Brunel, Flavien Beffara, Hussein Akil, Mireille Verdier, Barbara Bessette, Aurelian Crunteanu, Ho-Pui Ho, Georges Humbert, Fabrice Lalloue, Shuwen Zeng

“…Moreover, the detection of unpurified exosomes directly in cell culture supernatant (CCS) has been successfully demonstrated with a significant experimental GH shift signal of more than 120 μm been detected. Multiple control experiments using exosome-free solutions and control antibody coated substrates have also been performed, which validates the specificity of our device. …”
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Interstitial nitrogen-induced efficiency alcohol oxidation over heterogeneous N–CoMn2O4 catalyst under visible-light by Hongwei Li, Yurong Zhang, Jun Tang, Guozheng Huang, Ping Cui, Qingping Ke

“…A plausible catalytic mechanism is proposed basis of control experiments and published studies, which suggests that this oxidation process probably occurs on Co2+ sites via an ionic reactive oxygen species pathway and 1O2 and O2·− species are the reactive oxygen species. …”
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An Evaluation of Boar Spermatozoa as a Biosensor for the Detection of Sublethal and Lethal Toxicity by Emmanuelle Castagnoli, Johanna Salo, Matti S. Toivonen, Tamás Marik, Raimo Mikkola, László Kredics, Alejandro Vicente-Carrillo, Szabolcs Nagy, Markus T. Andersson, Maria A. Andersson, Jarek Kurnitski, Heidi Salonen

“…The CMI values were calculated from digital micrographic videos using a custom MATLAB^® script by contrasting the motility index values of each experiment with those of the background and control experiments. Following a comparison of the CMI and VMI assays results, it was determined that their agreement depended on the shape of the dose-response curve. …”
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Transcranial static magnetic field stimulation of the supplementary motor area decreases corticospinal excitability in the motor cortex: a pilot study by Cristina Pagge, Jaime Caballero-Insaurriaga, Antonio Oliviero, Guglielmo Foffani, Claudia Ammann

“…These findings, if confirmed with double-blind, placebo-controlled experiments, support the potential of targeting the SMA for neuromodulating a large motor network in future therapeutic applications of tSMS.…”
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Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation Using Himawari-8 Satellite Cloud Products and Deep Learning by Jinkai Tan, Qidong Yang, Junjun Hu, Qiqiao Huang, Sheng Chen

“…Moreover, several controlled experiments using other deep learning architectures demonstrate that our designed model is conducive to estimating TC intensity, thus providing insight into the forecasting of other TC metrics.…”
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Economical Auto Moment Limiter for Preventing Mobile Cargo Crane Overload by Soo-Hoon Noh, Yong-Seok Lee, Sang-Ho Kim, Jae-Sang Cho, Chang-Soo Han, Seung-Yeol Lee, Dong-Eun Lee

“…The effectiveness and validity of the method are confirmed by comparing the outputs obtained by the controlled experiments performed by using a 7.6 ton crane on top of SCS887 and a straight-type maritime heavy-duty crane along with eAML. …”
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A feature enhancement framework for landslide detection by Ruilong Wei, Chengming Ye, Tianbo Sui, Huajun Zhang, Yonggang Ge, Yao Li

“…The design of the framework and experiments considers the disparities in data between UAV and satellite remote sensing. The controlled experiments reported that the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) for the proposed AMU-Net achieved 0.797, which was over 2% higher than other models. …”
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The influence of toxic metals As, Cd, Ni, and Pb on nutrients accumulation in Mentha piperita by Cristina Dinu, Gabriela Geanina Vasile, Anda Gabriela Tenea, Catalina Stoica, Stefania Gheorghe, Ecaterina Anca Serban

“…Simultaneously with these experiments, a control experiment (M) was performed. To evaluate the effect of the addition of AsCd and AsCdNiPb on the accumulation and transfer of Ca, Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Fe and Zn, the transfer coefficient (TC), the translocation factor (TF), and the enrichment factor (EF) were calculated. …”
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Comparing Quality Control Procedures Based on Minimum Covariance Determinant and One-Class Support Vector Machine Methods of Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay Data Assimilation in... by Jiajing Li, Yu Zhang, Siqi Chen, Duanzhou Shao, Jiazheng Hu, Junjie Feng, Qichang Tan, Deping Wu, Jiaqi Kang

“…Four numerical experiments were conducted to assess the impact of different AMDAR data qualities on typhoon forecasting, including a control experiment without data assimilation (EXP-CNTL), assimilating all AMDAR observations (EXP-RAW), assimilating observations after applying MCD-QC (EXP-MCD), and assimilating observations after applying OCSVM-QC (EXP-SVM). …”
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Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activation disrupts Pavlovian incentive motivation by Briac Halbout, Collin Hutson, Kate M. Wassum, Sean B. Ostlund, Sean B. Ostlund, Sean B. Ostlund, Sean B. Ostlund

“…A reporter-only control experiment indicated that our CNO treatment did not have non-specific behavioral effects. …”
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Application of Least-Squares Support Vector Machines for Quantitative Evaluation of Known Contaminant in Water Distribution System Using Online Water Quality Parameters by Kexin Wang, Xiang Wen, Dibo Hou, Dezhan Tu, Naifu Zhu, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang, Hongjian Zhang

“…In this paper, the practical application of the proposed method is considered, controlled experiments are designed, and data is collected from the experimental setup. …”
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Experimental Study on Enhanced Oil Recovery of Adaptive System after Polymer Flooding by Yanfu Pi, Xinyu Fan, Li Liu, Mingjia Zhao, Linxiao Jiang, Guoyu Cheng

“…The evaluation encompasses various critical aspects, including static performance tests, flow experiments, microscopic experiments, profile control experiments, and flooding experiments conducted on a four-layer heterogeneous physical model. …”
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Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits by Rebecca P. Lawson, Jessica Aylward, Jonathan P. Roiser, Geraint Rees

“…Here we examined the extent to which individual differences in magnitude of adaptation aftereffects for social and non-social directional cues are related to autistic traits and sensory sensitivity in healthy participants (Experiment 1); and also whether adaptation for social and non-social directional cues is differentially impacted in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relative to neurotypical (NT) controls (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, individuals with lower susceptibility to adaptation aftereffects, i.e. more ‘veridical’ perception, showed higher levels of autistic traits across social and non-social stimuli. …”
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Selective N-formylation of amines and carbon dioxide through the utilization of Nd2Sn2O7 supported by Ar-g-C3N4 on dendritic filamentous nanotitanium by Yuanfei Gao, Panpan Rong, Zhaoxia Si, Mengye Zhou, Seyed Mohsen Sadeghzadeh

“…Lastly, an explanation for the reaction between amine and carbon dioxide is put forward by conducting control experiments and verifying spectra.…”
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Sentinel protist taxa of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica: a review by Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Devon Popson, Rochelle Pereira, Jenna Dolhi-Binder, Amber Teufel, Wei Li, Isha Kalra, Shasten Sherwell, Emily Reynebeau, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach

“…Last, we will integrate knowledge gained from 25 years of lab-controlled experiments on key photosynthetic protists to extend our understanding of the function of these extremophiles within the MDV aquatic food webs. …”
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