Stability of a Roadway below a Coal Seam under Dynamic Pressure: A Case Study of the 11123 Floor Gas Drainage Roadway of a Mine in Huainan, China by Pingsong Zhang, Yuanchao Ou, Chang Liu, Binyang Sun, Chong Xu

“…To study deformation due to dynamic pressure, the failure characteristics of the floor, and their effect on the stability of the floor gas drainage roadway, a comprehensive monitoring method combining Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry- (BOTDR-) distributed fiber optics and self-potential exploration was adopted. Dynamic data monitoring of the rock strata between the 11123 working face floor and the floor gas drainage roadway of a mine in Huainan was carried out. …”
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Establishment of predictive models for head loss and filtration efficiency of pontoon mesh rotary filter based on dimension analysis by Zhen Jin, Lingwei Chen, Qiao Li, Mahemujiang Aihemaiti, Youwei Jiang, Hongfei Tao

“…In this study, we used a pre-pump filter-pontoon mesh rotary filter as the research object and conducted physical model tests under the flow rate (798–1050 L1 h−1), sand content (0.5–2.5 g1 L−1), and aperture of the filter screen (0.125–0.180 mm). We then adopted range analysis, variance analysis (ANOVA), dimensional analysis, and the multiple linear regression (MLR) method to analyze the results. …”
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A specific role of village doctors in reducing disparities: a quantile regression analysis of end-of-life medical care by Yuan Fang, Shih-Ting Huang, Chengrui Xiao

“…Methods The analysis is based on the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), which has national representativeness and contains information about the oldest old at an average age of 80 in China, with available information from 2002 to 2019. We adopt the quantile regression to illustrate the heterogeneous impacts of village doctors on the EOL medical care spending from the distribution perspective. …”
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PSMA antibody, humanized PSMA.CAR10.3, or Cetuximab increases prostate cancer localization of NF-κB p50-deficient immature myeloid cells (p50-IMC) and phagocytosis by their macroph... by Mohammad A. Alzubi, Theresa Barberi, Alan D. Friedman

“…Abstract Adoptive transfer of immature myeloid cells lacking the repressive NF-κB p50 subunit (p50-IMC) slows the growth of syngeneic murine prostate cancer and other tumors. …”
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A Fusion Method Incorporating Dual-Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning Into UNet++ for Remote Sensing Image Coastline Extraction by Yanru Song, Bai Xue, Yueyue Meng, Xiang Qin, Yixiao Li, Qi Liu

“…Secondly, an improved joint loss function is adopted to enhance training effectiveness, thereby significantly improving the accuracy of semantic segmentation. …”
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Predicting Exposure to Dust Particles Using Spirometric Index and Perception Studies among Farmers in Selected Farm Settlements in Ogun State, Nigeria by Funmilola Felicia Oyebanji, Godson Rowland E. E. Ana, Yahaya Mijinyawa, Olusola Olabisi Ogunseye

“…Hence, we advise farmers to adopt the use of PPE and follow safety measures. …”
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Assessing Microbial Diversity in Páramo Soils (Multistrategy Analysis): Effects of Potato Farming and Livestock Grazing in Nevados National Natural Park, Colombia by Lizeth Manuela Avellaneda-Torres, Tomás León Sicard, Edlin Guerra Castro, Esperanza Torres-Rojas

“…Four of the six evaluated matrices (physicochemical, enzymatic activities, most probable number, and arable functional groups) revealed significant differences according to land use. The strategy adopted by the arable functional group matrix, in which the diversity of nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, and cellulolytic compounds was evaluated, showed the most significant impacts of the different factors (land use, season, and elevation), especially those caused by potato cultivation and livestock. …”
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Do dogs preferentially encode the identity of the target object or the location of others’ actions? by Lucrezia Lonardo, Christoph J. Völter, Robert Hepach, Claus Lamm, Ludwig Huber

“…We tested companion dogs (N = 21) in two screen-based eye-tracking experiments, adopting a task previously used with human infants and apes, to assess which aspects of an agent’s action dogs consider relevant to the agent’s underlying intentions. …”
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Identification of Decision-Making Skills of the High School Students Participating in School Sports Activities by Ayla Karakullukçu, Mehmet Öçalan, Pelin Avcı

“…As a result of the evaluation, the fact that the students participating in the study adopted the style "Self-Esteem (Self-Confidence) in Decision-Making" at the most supports the hypothesis of this study.…”
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Investigation of the Normal Blowing Approach to Controlling Wingtip Vortex Using LES by Yubiao Jiang, Wanbo Wang, Chen Qin, Patrick N. Okolo, Kun Tang

“…Large eddy simulation (LES) technique applied to a straight NACA0012 wing having a chord length (c) of 0.4 m is adopted for this study. The Reynolds number based on the chord length is 1.6×106 and the angle of attack is 12°. …”
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Experiences of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus with low socioeconomic status: a qualitative study by Vahide Semerci Çakmak, Ebru Sönmez Sari, Serap Çetinkaya Özdemir

“…However, these individuals managed their difficulties by adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors and relying on family support. …”
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Discrete choice modelling of hypertension patients’ preferences for attributes of a public medical facility in Ibadan, Nigeria by Oluwaseun Aramide Otekunrin, Tekiyat Abiola Adebisi, Sururoh Adeniran-Babatunde, Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin

“…An efficient D-optimal choice design was adopted and used in generating nine hypothetical choice sets for the experiment. …”
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Analysis on Rock Burst Risks and Prevention of a 54 m-Wide Coal Pillar for Roadway Protection in a Fully Mechanized Top-Coal Caving Face by Zhihua Li, Ke Yang, Jianshuai Ji, Biao Jiao, Xiaobing Tian

“…Hence, wide coal pillars become the regions with rock burst risks on the working face. The working face adopts some local prevention technologies, such as pressure relief through presplitting blasting in roof, pressure relief through large-diameter pores in coal seam, coal seam water injection, pressure relief through large-diameter pores at bottom corners, and pressure relief through blasting at bottom corners. …”
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Wide Anterior Maxillary Reconstruction with Equine Bone Xenograft: A Case Report of 24-Month Follow-Up by Davide De Cicco, Giuseppe Colella, Gianpaolo Tartaro, Nicola Zerbinati, Romolo Fragola, Raffaele Rauso

“…At 12-month follow-up, the patient refused the implant placement and spontaneously adopted a mobile prosthesis. One year later, plates and screws were removed, because of the exposure of a titanium plate. …”
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Ideas of Multipolarity in the Conceptual Frame of the Soviet Diplomacy during the Final Phases of the Great Patriotic war (1943–1945) by I. E. Magadeev

“…Departing from this convention, this article adopts a methodological approach that seeks to explore the underlying conceptual foundations upon which the ideas of Litvinov and Maisky were constructed. …”
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On-Farm Experimentation with Improved Maize Seed and Soil Amendments in Southern Ghana: Productivity Effects in Small Holder Farms by E. Marfo-Ahenkora, K. J. Taah, E. Owusu Danquah, E. Asare-Bediako

“…To contribute to addressing these challenges in maize production, two on-farm experiments were conducted each in the semi deciduous forest and coastal savannah agroecological zones (AEZs) of Ghana during the major and minor cropping seasons of 2017. The study adopted a 3 × 4 factorial arranged in an RCBD with four replications in the major season. …”
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Non-pharmaceutical interventions and epigenetic aging in adults: Protocol for a scoping review. by Alina Liebich, Shenglin Zheng, Theresa Schachner, Jacqueline Mair, Mia Jovanova, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Tobias Kowatsch

“…Synthesizing evidence of interventions on epigenetic aging that can be adopted by a wider population is key to guide healthy aging initiatives and to reduce the burden of NCDs and CMDs. …”
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Highway Travel Time Prediction of Segments Based on ANPR Data considering Traffic Diversion by Wenjun Du, Bo Sun, Jiating Kuai, Jiemin Xie, Jie Yu, Tuo Sun

“…Second, the attention mechanism is adopted to combine the hidden layer of LSTM with dynamic temporal weights. …”
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CAN WE PREDICT INCIPIENT DIABETES MELLITUS IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT β-THALASSEMIA (β-TDT) REFERRED WITH A HISTORY OF PREDIABETES? by Vincenzo De Sanctis, Ashraf Soliman, Shahina Daar, Ploutarchos Tzoulis, Christos Kattamis

“…Methods: The ADA criteria for the diagnosis of glucose dysregulation were adopted. Investigations included evaluation of plasma glucose levels and insulin secretion, analysis of glycemic trajectories and indices of β-cell function and insulin sensitivity/resistance assessed in steady state and during OGTT. …”
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Prostate cancer screening knowledge and attitude among men over 50 at a referral Hospital in Oshana region, Namibia by Lonia Kashihakumwa, Daniel O. Ashipala, Yahaya Jafaru

“…Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional design was adopted. Census sampling was employed, and the data were collected through the use of a structured, self-administered questionnaire. …”
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