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Finally, we apply our criteria to some triangular arrays satisfying some recurrence relations, including Bessel triangles of two kinds and their generalizations, the Lah triangle and its generalization, the idempotent triangle, and some triangles related to binomial coefficients, rook polynomials, and Laguerre polynomials. We not only get total positivity of these lower-triangles, and $q$-Stieltjes moment properties and 3-$q$-log-convexity of their row-generating functions, but also prove that their triangular convolutions preserve the Stieltjes moment property. 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