A Campus Landscape Visual Evaluation Method Integrating PixScape and UAV Remote Sensing Images by Lili Song, Moyu Wu

“…Six evaluation factors, including Naturalness (N), Normalized Shannon Diversity Index (S), Contagion (CONTAG), Shannon depth (SD), Depth Line (DL), and Skyline (SL), are selected to evaluate the landscape vision of four viewpoints in the campus based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. …”
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Effect of antacid gastric syrups on surface properties of dental restorative materials: an in vitro analysis of roughness and microhardness by Fikri Öcal, Burak Dayi

“…Materials and methods Three different composite resins, nanohybrid, microhybrid and giomer, and four antacid gastric syrups were used in the study. …”
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Prediction Model for Spontaneous Combustion of Coal around Boreholes Using Bedding Gas Drainage by Youxin Zhao, Qingjie Qi, Xinlei Jia

“…COMSOL Multiphysics was used to model the orthogonal test results, and a multielement statistical analysis of four factors and their relationships with the spontaneous combustion of coal around the borehole and a single-factor analysis in line with the site conditions were performed on the modeling results through multiple regression. …”
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Research on TCN Model Based on SSARF Feature Selection in the Field of Human Behavior Recognition by Wei Zhang, Guibo Yu, Shijie Deng

“…In addition, we compared the TCN classification model with other deep learning models in terms of evaluation metrics such as F1 score, recall, precision, and accuracy, and the results showed that the TCN model outperformed the other control models in all four metrics. Meanwhile, it also outperforms the existing recognition methods in terms of accuracy and other aspects, which have some practical application value.…”
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Developing explicit and implicit L2 knowledge with Duolingo’s input-based features: Case studies of L2 Spanish learning by Anthony Brandy, Phil Hiver

“…We investigated the effect of Duolingo’s Stories feature and Podcast feature on two Spanish-L2 learners’ performance on a battery of implicit and explicit L2 knowledge tests. Once a week, over a four-week period using these input-based features, both participants repeatedly performed oral narrative tasks, timed and untimed grammaticality judgment tasks, and metalinguistic knowledge tests. …”
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Frequency And Unusual Clinical Manifestation Of Orbital Xanthogranulomas: An Overview by Amna Manzoor, Fariha Taimur, Muhammad Saad, Saadullah Ahmad, Faizan Tahir, Sumeya Khan

“…The presenting symptoms for these 6 patients included proptosis in 5 cases, loss of vision in 5 cases, and redness of the eyes in 1 case. In four patients, bony erosions were seen preoperatively. …”
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Badges of (Dis-)Honour: Manifesting the ‘Conquest’ of Uluṟu via Wearable Material Culture by Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Sharnie Hurford

“…The background to the history of climbing Uluṟu in the context of European invasion (‘exploration’), the nature of tourism at Uluṟu and the role climbing played in this, as well as the management decisions that led to the closure of the climb can be grouped into four thematic periods: the beginnings of settler colonialist ascents (1873–1950), the ‘heroic’ age of Uluṟu tourism (1950–1958), lodges in a National Park (1958–1985), and joint management and the eventual closure of the climb (1985–2019). …”
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Association of anti-phospholipid antibodies and hepatitis B virus infection in Najaf Governorate by Ameer Mohammed Kadhim, Hawraa Ameer Mubark, Dhefaf Hameed Al-Mudhafar, Zainab Hayder Abdulmajeed

“…The Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0 was used for statistical analysis. Results: Only four patients were positive for HBc total and IgM the remaining 109 were positive for IgG only, 38 (33.63%) were positive for APLA, and the age group (41–50 years) with the highest rate of APLA positivity. …”
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Artificial Neural Network-based Model for Predicting Cardiologists’ Over-apron Dose in CATHLABs by Reza Fardid, Fatemeh Farah, Hossein Parsaei, Hadi Rezaei, Mohammad Vahid Jorat

“…We then used these data to train a multilayer perceptron neural network with four input features: DAP, energy spectrum, tube angulation, and the resulting cardiologist’s dose. …”
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THE ALBANIAN FACTOR OF DESTABILIZATION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS: SCENARIO APPROACH by E. G. Ponomareva

“…Substantiation of the probability of the development and implementation of the scenario is given in four key parameters, including political, economic, military and cultural and religious spheres.Among the main actors of the scenario the author singles out the armed forces of Kosovo, Albanian paramilitary formations on the territory of western Macedonia, transnational corporations, private military companies, as well as the United States, Britain, Turkey and the Arab monarchies who support the project politically and financially.The article concludes that there is a need for an objective political assessment of the situation in the region, an analysis of security threats and risks of another round of destabilization of the Western Balkans. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey Questionnaire by Seyed Alireza Alavi Dehkordi, Maryam Ramezani, Mohanna Javanbakht, Mohsen Vahedi

“…Methods: A psychometric study involved 100 participants aged 18–60, categorized into four groups based on hearing status and tinnitus presence. …”
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Text leads, images and videos follow: the impact of processing paths and input modalities on metaphorical competence in Chinese foreign language learners by Siyun Li, Yang Zhao

“…This study explored how these variables relate to influence Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners' metaphorical competence.MethodsAdvanced CFL participants (N = 60) were divided into four groups using combinations of various processing paths (rational processing and contextual guessing) and input modalities (unimodal and multimodal), and subsequently completed three posttests. …”
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Performance of Three Reanalysis Precipitation Datasets over the Qinling-Daba Mountains, Eastern Fringe of Tibetan Plateau, China by Gefei Wang, Xiaowen Zhang, Shiqiang Zhang

“…The advantages of involving more precipitation observation stations was probably the main reason of the different performance of three precipitation reanalysis products, and the benefit of a four-dimensional variational analysis model over a three-dimensional variational analysis model may be another reason. …”
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Shared perceptions of flavored cigarette pack design among young adults who smoke in Mexico and the Philippines by Graziele Grilo⁺, Jennifer L. Brown⁺, Joanna E. Cohen, Katherine Clegg Smith

“…Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of five focus groups held in Mexico and four in the Philippines with young adults who smoke (aged 18–24 years), separated by gender, in which participants interacted with cigarette packs purchased locally. …”
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Prevention of Localized Osteitis in Mandibular Third-Molar Sites Using Platelet-Rich Fibrin by Donald R. Hoaglin, Gary K. Lines

“…The patients were managed with standard surgical techniques, intraoperative IV antibiotic/steroid coverage, and routine postoperative narcotic analgesics/short-term steroid coverage. …”
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HCV5’－NCR序列克隆和转录重组质粒构建

“…选取ＩＶ基因型ＨＣＶ及中国和台湾代表株ＨＣＶ的５’ＮＣＲ区保守序列合成引物，以ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ从输血后非甲非乙型肝炎病人血浆中扩增一段３００ｂｐ的ｃＤＮＡ片段作目的基因，钝端插入ｐＵＣ１９的ＳｍａＩ切点，构建了ｐＵＨＣＶ－ＮＣ重组质粒。…”
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Nebular and Nonthermal Radio Emissions for Young Stellar Populations with PARSEC v1.2s by Ikechukwu A. Obi, Pius N. Okeke, Bonaventure I. Okere

“…In this paper, we compute, by means of the recently and thoroughly updated PARSE v1.2 s database of stellar nonrotating evolutionary tracks, the integrated stellar spectra, the ionizing photon budget, and the supernovae rates of young simple stellar populations (SSPs), for five metallicities between 0.0001 and 0.02 and four choices of stellar initial mass function (IMF) upper mass limits between 40 M _⊙ and 350 M _⊙ . …”
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Investigation of Vibration Energy Harvesting in Multilayer Composite Plates with Anisotropic Piezoelectric Patches by Asghar Jamshiddoust, Morteza Karamooz Mahdiabadi, Amin Farrokhabadi

“…The investigation focuses on two common boundary conditions: cantilevered composite plate (CFFF) and all-four-edges clamped (CCCC), employing a combination of analytical techniques and numerical simulations. …”
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Treatment of gingival recession with vestibular incision subperiosteal tunnel access and advanced platelet-rich fibrin by Marwa Abdelhaleem, Wafaa Saleh, Samah Elmeadawy

“…Therefore, the aim of the current randomized clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of A-PRF with VISTA technique in the treatment of Cairo class 1 gingival recession (RT1). Methods Twenty-four patients who met the eligibility criteria were randomly allocated into two groups. …”
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ARRT Development for the Upcoming Human Exploration Missions by S. Hu, S. Monadjemi, J. E. Barzilla, E. Semones

“…To enable ARRT to handle variant scenarios of any possible ESPEs in an automatic manner for mission operation, two data sets were employed in developing its modules, one involving historical solar protons recorded over the past four decades and the other using the real‐time telemetry readings of dosimeters onboard International Space Station (ISS). …”
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