Automatic Roadway Backfilling of Caving Gangue for Cutting Roofs by Combined Support on Gob-Side Entry Retaining with No-Pillars: A Case Study by Shengrong Xie, Xiaoyu Wu, Dongdong Chen, Yaohui Sun, Junchao Zeng, Qing Zhang, Chunwei Ji, Qiong Cheng, En Wang, Yuxin Ren

“…Automatic roadway technology for cutting roofs by combined support on gob-side entry retaining with no-pillars is adopted for the condition of thick immediate roof and medium-thick coal seam mining, cutting off the immediate roof and the main roof on the gob by combined support. …”
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Responses of Soil Profile Hydrology, Structure and Microbial Respiration to Organic Amendments Under Different Tillage Systems on the Loess Plateau by Lili Zhao, Lusheng Li, Xiangjie Chen, Yanbin Li, Jiankun Ge, Xiaowen Wang

“…Given the issue of subsurface soil compaction in our study area, it is recommended that local farmers adopt NT-MBF to enhance the soil’s microbial, structural and hydrological properties.…”
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Hybrid Harmony Search Algorithm Integrating Differential Evolution and Lévy Flight for Engineering Optimization by Feng Qin, Azlan Mohd Zain, Kai-Qing Zhou, Norfadzlan Bin Yusup, Didik Dwi Prasetya, Rozita Abdul Jalil, Zaheera Zainal Abidin, Mahadi Bahari, Yusri Kamin, Mazlina Abdul Majid

“…HSA-DELF leverages multi-mutation strategies of DE and LF random walk combined with weighted individuals to improve exploration and exploitation based on population fitness standard deviation comparison, and adopts pairwise iterative updates of the population to achieve faster convergence and higher solution quality. …”
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Contributions of Limb Joints to Energy Absorption during Landing in Cats by Xueqing Wu, Baoqing Pei, Yuyang Pei, Nan Wu, Kaiyuan Zhou, Yan Hao, Wei Wang

“…Furthermore, the joint angles and angular velocities exhibit similar variations, indicating that a generalized motor program can be adopted to activate limb joints for different landing heights. …”
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Synthesis of Potato Starch-Acrylic-Acid Hydrogels by Gamma Radiation and Their Application in Dye Adsorption by Md. Murshed Bhuyan, Nirmal Chandra Dafader, Kazuhiro Hara, Hirotaka Okabe, Yoshiki Hidaka, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Khan, Nazia Rahman

“…The authors further investigated the availability of the starch/AAc hydrogel as an adsorbent recovering dye waste from the industrial effluents by adopting methylene blue as a model material; the hydrogels showed high dye-capturing coefficients which increase with the starch ratio. …”
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Children in Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State: Patients’ Condition and Caregivers’ Burden by A. M. Giovannetti, M. Pagani, D. Sattin, V. Covelli, A. Raggi, S. Strazzer, E. Castelli, A. Trabacca, A. Martinuzzi, M. Leonardi

“…“Problem-oriented” (P<0.001) and “emotional-oriented” (P<0.001), were more adopted than “potentially dysfunctional” ones. DRS scores (mean = 22.0; SD = 1.9) did not significantly correlate to any psychological measure. …”
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Adaptive Hybrid Soft-Sensor Model of Grinding Process Based on Regularized Extreme Learning Machine and Least Squares Support Vector Machine Optimized by Golden Sine Harris Hawk Op... by Wei Xie, Jie-sheng Wang, Cheng Xing, Sha-Sha Guo, Meng-wei Guo, Ling-feng Zhu

“…In order to deal with the problem that the prediction accuracy of the model decreases due to changes of industrial status, this paper adopts moving window (MW) strategy to adaptively revise the LSSVM (MW-LSSVM), which greatly improves the prediction accuracy of the LSSVM. …”
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An Updating Method for Finite Element Models of Flexible-Link Mechanisms Based on an Equivalent Rigid-Link System by R. Belotti, R. Caracciolo, I. Palomba, D. Richiedei, A. Trevisani

“…Some tools to improve the problem conditioning are also proposed in the formulation adopted, to handle large dimensional models and achieve reliable results. …”
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An Efficient Frequency Encoding Scheme for Optical Convolution Accelerator by Gongyu Xia, Jiacheng Liu, Qilin Hong, Pingyu Zhu, Ping Xu, Zhihong Zhu

“…This implies that under the constraints of essentially the same hardware physical performance, adopting our newly proposed encoding scheme can achieve a significant improvement in computational performance. …”
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Research progress on climate change adaptation strategies to control invasive crop pest in sub-Saharan Africa: a bibliometric and systematic review by Eméline Sêssi Pélagie Assèdé, Eméline Sêssi Pélagie Assèdé, Calvince Ouko Othoo, Calvince Ouko Othoo, Ahmadou Ly, Gobena Bayisa, Temesgen Gashaw Tarkegn, Temesgen Gashaw Tarkegn, Mègnissè Zohoun, Anje-Jokebed N’goran

“…Findings indicated that pests such as armyworms, fruit flies and coffee berry borer cause huge losses. Communities are adopting integrated pest management, water harvesting, drip irrigation, resistant varieties, and improving production efficiency. …”
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Simulation Strategies for Mixed Traffic Conditions: A Review of Car-Following Models and Simulation Frameworks by Bhargav Naidu Matcha, Satesh Narayana Namasivayam, Mohammad Hosseini Fouladi, K. C. Ng, Sivakumar Sivanesan, Se Yong Eh Noum

“…This review identified various vehicle parameters adopted by existing CF models and whether the current 2D traffic models developed from CF models effectively captured the vehicle behaviour in mixed traffic conditions. …”
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Perspectives of healthcare stakeholders in Nigeria on the impact of COVID-19 on health services by Adeponle O. Adeoye, Yewande T. Nejo, Chinwe L. Ochu, Josephine Bayigga, Rodgers R. Ayebare, Adedayo O. Faneye, Charles O. Adewemimo, Oluwaseun Emmanuel Falayi, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Prosper Okonkwo, Adewale Victor Opayele, Gloria Ogochukwu Nwiyi, Sunday Obiajunwa Eziechina, Ikemefule Rex Uzoma, Priscilla Ibekwe, Tamrat Shaweno, Nebiyu Dereje, Francis Kakooza, Mosoka Papa Fallah, Georgina Njideka Odaibo

“…Methods: This was a cross-sectional qualitative study that adopted an exploratory study design. Key Informant Interviews were used to elicit information from twenty-eight healthcare stakeholders in relevant government health Ministries and Agencies as well as partners of the government on health. …”
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An Intelligent Frequency Control Scheme for Inverting Station in High Voltage Direct Current Transmission System by Saleem, Muhammad Amir Raza, Syed Waqar Umer, Muhammad Faheem, Touqeer Ahmed Jumani, Muhammad Yameen

“…The result reveals that the ANN controller performs more accurate results in HVDC transmission system than the other proposed control and, displaying its capacity to successfully reduce frequency deviations and maintained a controlled frequency 50 Hz. Adopted method suggested the easy integration of HVDC with AC grid and enhances the system power quality and stability.…”
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PB: A Message Transmission Method Based on Area Layer Division in UAV Networks by Lisong Wang, Feifei Zhu, Qing Zhou, Kui Li, Liang Liu

“…Message transmission between area layers adopts a geographical routing manner, that is, messages are transmitted to the area layer closer to the ground station. …”
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lncRNA IGHCγ1 Acts as a ceRNA to Regulate Macrophage Inflammation via the miR-6891-3p/TLR4 Axis in Osteoarthritis by Pengjun Zhang, Jianmei Sun, Caihong Liang, Bingjie Gu, Yang Xu, Hongying Lu, Bo Cao, Hao Xu

“…Luciferase reporter assay was adopted to validate the ceRNA role of IGHCγ1 as miRNA sponge. lncRNA IGHCγ1 was primarily localized in macrophage cytoplasm and upregulated in OA. miR-6891-3p inhibited macrophage proliferation, migration, and inflammatory response by targeting TLR4, while lncRNA IGHCγ1 promoted TLR4 expression by functioning as a ceRNA for miR-6891-3p through the NF-κB signal in macrophages. …”
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Application of the principle of retroactivity in ukrainian legislation for commitment of applicable offenses against property by Lototskyi M., Dzundza L.

“…During the study, it was recognized that in the legislation of Ukraine, in the process of creating and implementing legal norms, general principles of law are applied, which are guided by state authorities and local governments in their activities within the framework of their competence. When adopting new regulatory legal provisions or making changes to existing ones, general principles of law must be applied. …”
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Quantitative Damage and Fracture Mode of Sandstone under Uniaxial Load Based on Acoustic Emission by Ying Xu, Qiangqiang Zheng, Xin Gao, Rongzhou Yang, Xian Ni, Qianqian Wang

“…Aiming at the problem of quantitative damage and fracture mechanism of the loaded rock, this paper adopts acoustic emission (AE) to monitor the loading process of sandstone under uniaxial loading. …”
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MO-GCN: A multi-omics graph convolutional network for discriminative analysis of schizophrenia by Haiyuan Wang, Runlin Peng, Yuanyuan Huang, Liqin Liang, Wei Wang, Baoyuan Zhu, Chenyang Gao, Minxin Guo, Jing Zhou, Hehua Li, Xiaobo Li, Yuping Ning, Fengchun Wu, Kai Wu

“…The methodology of machine learning with multi-omics data has been widely adopted in the discriminative analyses of schizophrenia, but most of these studies ignored the cooperative interactions and topological attributes of multi-omics networks. …”
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Free Radical-Scavenging, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antibacterial Activities of Water and Ethanol Extracts Prepared from Compressional-Puffing Pretreated Mango (Mangifera indica L.) Pe... by Chun-Yung Huang, Chia-Hung Kuo, Chien-Hui Wu, Ai-Wei Kuan, Hui-Ru Guo, Yu-Hua Lin, Po-Kai Wang

“…In the present study, a compressional-puffing process was adopted to pretreat the peels of various mango cultivars, and then the bioactive compounds of mango peels were extracted by water or ethanol. …”
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The Scale Effect of Coarse-Grained Materials by Triaxial Test Simulation by Xiaotao Ai, Guangjin Wang, Xiangyun Kong, Bo Cui, Bin Hu, Hongling Ma

“…The parallel grading method was adopted to create six grading curves for numerical simulation based on one in situ grading curve. …”
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