Will the Amaranthus tuberculatus Resistance Mechanism to PPO-Inhibiting Herbicides Evolve in Other Amaranthus Species? by Chance W. Riggins, Patrick J. Tranel

“…Resistance to herbicides that inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) has been slow to evolve and, to date, is confirmed for only four weed species. Two of these species are members of the genus Amaranthus L. …”
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SACU-Net: Shape-Aware U-Net for Biomedical Image Segmentation With Attention Mechanism and Context Extraction by Yinuo Cao, Yong Cheng

“…We have evaluated SACU-Net against various U-Net variants on four different medical image segmentation tasks: liver segmentation in abdominal CT scans, retinal vessel segmentation, nuclei segmentation, and COVID-19 lesion segmentation. …”
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Forecasting Method for Urban Rail Transit Ridership at Station Level Using Back Propagation Neural Network by Junfang Li, Minfeng Yao, Qian Fu

“…The performance of the proposed model is compared with three other benchmark models, which are linear model with population per distance band, BPNN model with total population, and linear model with total population, using four measures of effectiveness (MOEs), maximum relative error (MRE), smallest relative error (SRE), average relative error (ARE), and mean square root of relative error (MSRRE). …”
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Examination of memory and culture based on the architectural facade: Facadism at Beyoğlu district by Aliye Rahsan Karabetca, Sedef Sav

“…In the study, three of the selected four buildings are located on İstiklal street, the other one on Sıraselviler street, two places where the rapid structural/architectural identity transformation in the last 15-20 years can be seen most clearly. …”
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Soilscapes from Byers Peninsula, Maritime Antarctic: landform-lithology controls in soil formation by JÔNATAS PEDRO DA SILVA, MÁRCIO R. FRANCELINO, ANDRÉ LUIZ L. DE FARIA, HEITOR P. PALMA, ISABELLE DE A. OLIVEIRA, JOSÉ JOÃO L.L. DE SOUZA, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER

“…The soils are generally shallow, with lithic or paralithic contact within the first meter. Four main soil groups were identified: patterned-ground soils on plateaus, ornithogenic soils, non-ornithogenic soils, and non-ornithogenic sodic and sandy soils on beaches and marine terraces. …”
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Efficient and fully simulated oblivious transfer protocol on elliptic curve by Jiashuo SONG, Zhenzhen LI, Haiyang DING, Zichen LI

“…Oblivious transfer protocol, an important technology in secure multi-party computation, is the research hotspot on network and information security.Based on the bilinear pairs and the difficult problems on elliptic curves, an efficient 1-out-of-N oblivious transfer protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The protocol in semi-honest model was designed.It only needed two rounds of interaction.The receiver needed two times of bilinear pair arithmetic and one time of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n times of multi point arithmetic and n times of modular exponentiation.The security of the protocol was based on the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves.A zero-knowledge proof protocol and the oblivious transfer protocol in the standard malicious model were proposed respectively.The oblivious transfer protocol only needed four rounds of interaction.The receiver needed three times of bilinear pair arithmetic and three times of multi point arithmetic, and the sender needed n+1 times of multi point arithmetic and n+1 times of modular exponentiation.Besides, it can resist malicious behaviors of the party.The results show that the average running time of the protocol in the semi-honest model and in the standard malicious model were 0.787 9 s and 1.205 6 s respectively, which can further demonstrate the efficiency of the protocol.…”
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BANKING SERVICE INNOVATIONS AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN ILORIN METROPOLIS OF NIGERIA by Lukman Adebayo Oke ABDULRAUF, Emmanuel Semilore Tinuoye, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Fatai Akosile

“…The study employed survey research design and the population consist of bank customers in Ilorin metropolis from which four hundred and twenty five (425) customers were drawn as sample. …”
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Impact of Plastic Hinge Properties on Capacity Curve of Reinforced Concrete Bridges by Nasim Shatarat, Mutasem Shehadeh, Mohammad Naser

“…In response to this need, pushover analysis was carried out for four old highway bridges, of which two were widened using the same superstructure but with more attention to seismic detailing requirements. …”
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DAVRANIŞSAL İKTİSAT PERSPEKTİFİNDEN EMEK ARZI ANALİZİ by Zeynep Sümeyra Bakır, Senem Çakmak Şahin

“…Çalışmada (i) emek arzı kararlarında tam rasyonelliğin geçerli olmadığı (ii) emek piyasasında davranışsal ve bilişsel yanlılıkların söz konusu olduğu (iii) davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının emek arzı davranışlarını ve karar süreçlerini anlamaya dair önemli katkılar sunduğu (iv) davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının emek alanındaki teorileri iyileştirme ve alternetif teoriler geliştirme potansiyeli taşıdığı (v) emek ekonomisinin davranışsal iktisat yaklaşımının entegrasyonuna açık olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.…”
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Lifestyle interventions delivered by eHealth in chronic kidney disease: A scoping review. by Ffion Curtis, James O Burton, Ayesha Butt, Harsimran K Dhaliwal, Matthew M P Graham-Brown, Courtney J Lightfoot, Rishika Rawat, Alice C Smith, Thomas J Wilkinson, Daniel S March

“…The aim of this review was to provide an up-to-date overview of the literature on this topic. Four bibliographical databases, two trial registers, and one database for conference proceedings were searched from inception to August 2023. …”
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Simultaneous Detection of Different MicroRNA Types Using the ZIP-Code Array System by Sonja U. Weishaupt, Steffen Rupp, Karin Lemuth

“…Using synthetic miRNA templates, we demonstrate the specificity of the method for the different miRNA types, as well as the detection range up to four orders of magnitude. Moreover, mature and precursor miRNAs were detected and validated in human tumor cells.…”
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This is Not a Nest by Jean-Pierre Chupin

“…We conclude with a proposed grid indexing four types of contact zones in which metaphorical relationships are actively created and not just repeated.…”
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Two Sisters with Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis by Mehmet Gencer, Erkan Ceylan, Muharrem Bitiren, Ahmet Koc

“…The first patient was 23 years of age, and had suffered from dry cough and progressive dyspnea for four years. Her hemoglobin level was 60 g/L, total serum IgE level was 900 U/mL and eosinophilia was 9%. …”
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Using Intelligent Techniques in Construction Project Cost Estimation: 10-Year Survey by Abdelrahman Osman Elfaki, Saleh Alatawi, Eyad Abushandi

“…To analyse each proposal, the following four questions have been set. Which intelligent technique is used? …”
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Bachelor students’ soft skills development in course of foreign language instruction by Svetlana G. Men’shenina, Galina A. Pozdnyakova

“…Soft skills are a complex phenomenon that includes four categories. The category under study is focused on thinking skills, which, in turn, are related to different types of effective thinking: analytical, logical, critical, systemic, creative, structural, project, tactical and strategic thinking, as well as information search and analysis, decision making. …”
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Synthesis and Interface Activity of a Series of Carboxylic Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants in Hydraulic Fracturing by Shixin Dai, Yufei Gong, Feng Wang, Pan Hu

“…To further explore the anion effect of quaternary ammonium cationic surfactants on their relative performances, four fatty acid surfactants were prepared (cetyltrimethylammonium acetate (CTAAC), cetyltrimethylammonium butyrate (CTABU), cetyltrimethylammonium hexanoate (CTAHE), and cetyltrimethylammonium caprylate (CTACA)). …”
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PWS/AS MS-MLPA Confirms Maternal Origin of 15q11.2 Microduplication by Angelika J. Dawson, Janice Cox, Karine Hovanes, Elizabeth Spriggs

“…In the present study, a four-year-old nondysmorphic female patient with developmental delay was found to have a de novo ~5 Mb duplication within 15q11.2 by oligonucleotide genomic array. …”
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Review of An Introduction to Atonal Music Analysis by Mohammad Reza Azadehfar

“…This book consists of four main chapters. It begins by general issues on the analysis of atonal music in chapters one to three and focuses on structure of dodecaphonic music in the last chapter. …”
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Logs for acid-base chemistry: illustrating the potential of multidisciplinary learning support interventions from the third space by Joshua Wang, Elise Kenny

“…The session explicitly taught logarithmic concepts in context to students from four different chemistry units. Observations made during the workshop suggest that the intervention was able to efficiently improve acid-base calculation confidence in students from all attending cohorts.  …”
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Violencia y pandemia por COVID-19: punto de vista de médicos acerca de escasos recursos en salud durante situaciones críticas by Ivette María Ortiz Alcántara, Felicitas Holzer

“…Se identificaron cinco conjuntos de temas: (i) Información general de los médicos y motivos para trabajar en zonas críticas; (ii) efectos de la violencia y la pandemia por COVID-19 en la prestación de servicios de salud; (iii) Recursos en salud; (iv) La ambivalencia del triaje: alivio ante la escasez, pero descontento moral hacia los médicos y (v) Gobernanza y políticas públicas. …”
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