Experimental Research on Coal and Gas Delay Outburst and AE Characteristics under Conditions of Geostress and Gas Pressure Disturbance by Geng Jiabo, Liu Jiangtong, Li Xiaoshuang, Nie Wen, Zhang Dongming, Xu Jiang

“…Adopting yellow mud as barrier layer materials, coal and gas delay outburst experiments under conditions of geostress and gas accumulation disturbance were carried out by using self-developed simulation system, to find out roles of geostress and gas pressure played in the process of the delay outburst and ways to predict it, through analysis of variations of gas pressure, and AE characteristics during the process. …”
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Investigating the Effectiveness of the Interest Rate Monetary Policy Tool on Inflation Management in the Condition of the Banking System Imbalance and Analyzing the Imbalance Based... by Mohammad Shirijian, Mohammad Reza Farzin, Manijeh Hadinejad, Marjan Daman Keshideh

“…Investigating the effect of monetary policies on macroeconomic variables through the channels that transmit these policies is one of the most important topics in macroeconomics, because mastering the mechanisms that transmit these policies and the factors that affect them play a significant role in adopting effective monetary policies and increasing the efficiency of these policies. …”
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A Multicenter Retrospective Survey regarding Diabetic Ketoacidosis Management in Italian Children with Type 1 Diabetes by Stefano Zucchini, Andrea E. Scaramuzza, Riccardo Bonfanti, Pietro Buono, Francesca Cardella, Vittoria Cauvin, Valentino Cherubini, Giovanni Chiari, Giuseppe d’Annunzio, Anna Paola Frongia, Dario Iafusco, Giulio Maltoni, Ippolita Patrizia Patera, Sonia Toni, Stefano Tumini, Ivana Rabbone, Diabetes Study Group of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (ISPED)

“…DKA treatment according to ISPAD guidelines was adopted in 68% of the centers. In the first 2 hours, rehydration was started with normal saline in all centers, but with different amount. …”
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Advanced groundwater potential and contamination vulnerability assessment using integrated GIS-based AHP techniques: A case study from the Bizerte watershed, Tunisia by Cyrine Belhadj, Rihab Riahi, Abdelaziz Sebei, Sinda Sifi, Noamen Rebai

“…A multidisciplinary approach was adopted, integrating multi-criteria analysis and a spatially referenced hydrogeological information system. …”
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The relationship between autonomy, optimism, work engagement and organisational citizenship behaviour among nurses fighting COVID-19 in Wuhan: a serial multiple mediation by Yang Liu, Hui Zhang, Yi Zhao, Leiwen Tang, Jing Shao, Zhihong Ye, Dandan Chen, Ping Zou, Shuanghong Lin

“…This study aimed to test if the effect of autonomy on organisational citizenship behaviour through the mediating effects of optimism and work engagement.Study design This was a cross-sectional study.Setting The study was conducted in the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in China.Participants In total, 242 nurses who came from multiple areas of China to work at the Wuhan Jinyintan hospital during the COVID-19 epidemic participated in this study.Methods A serial mediation model (model 6) of the PROCESS macro in SPSS was adopted to test the hypotheses, and a 95% CI for the indirect effects was constructed by using Bootstrapping.Results The autonomy–organisational citizenship behaviour relationship was mediated by optimism and work engagement, respectively. …”
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Xenopus laevis neural stem progenitor cells exhibit a transient metabolic shift toward glycolysis during spinal cord regeneration by Paula G. Slater, Paula G. Slater, Miguel E. Domínguez-Romero, Guillermo Campos, Guillermo Campos, Vania Aravena, Vania Aravena, Javier Cavieres-Lepe, Verónica Eisner

“…Furthermore, mitochondria adopted a swollen phenotype, which did not impair mitochondrial function or cellular energy balance. …”
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Orientation-dependent tunneling electroresistance in Pt/Pb(Zr,Ti)O3/Nb:SrTiO3 ferroelectric tunnel junctions by Chunyan Ding, Chunyan Zheng, Weijie Zheng, Chenyu Dong, Yahui Yu, Zheng Wen

“…Rhombohedral Pb(Zr[Formula: see text],Ti[Formula: see text])O3 (PZT) that has the polar axis along the [Formula: see text] orientation is adopted as potential barriers and two kinds of FTJs that are composed of (001)- and (111)-oriented PZT barriers and Nb:SrTiO3 (Nb:STO) electrodes, respectively, are fabricated. …”
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Circulating Interleukin-6 (but Not Other Immune Mediators) Associates with Criteria for Fried’s Frailty among Very Old Adults by Gilberto Santos Morais Junior, Diego Ignacio Valenzuela Perez, Audrey Cecília Tonet-Furioso, Lucy Gomes, Karla Helena Coelho Vilaça, Vicente Paulo Alves, Clayton Franco Moraes, Otávio Toledo Nóbrega

“…Clinical and biochemical data along with physical and cognitive assessments encompassing dual-energy X-ray scans and hand dynamometry were adopted to investigate frailty criteria, while circulating immune mediators (IFNγ, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, and TNFα) were assessed using high-throughput flow cytometry. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Blast Casting Results Based on Unascertained Measurement and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set by Li Ma, Jianguo Zhang, Chen Xu, Xingping Lai, Qiang Luo, Chendong Liu, Kemin Li

“…The unascertained measure theory was adopted to determine the membership degree of influencing factor indicator, which expanded the expression method of fuzzy information of evaluation indicators. …”
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Effects of rotation speed on microstructure and mechanical properties of non-prehole riveting process for high-strength aluminium alloys by Yunpeng Liu, Yunwu Ma, Ming Lou, Entao Zhou, Bowen Zhang, Zhilei Fan, Ende Ge, Huan Zhao, Yongbing Li

“…Traditional solid riveting and hi-lock bolt (HLB) are widely adopted in the aircraft assembly, but require pre-drilled holes before joining. …”
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Organizational Agility within the Context of Environmental Challenges: Assessing the Mediating Effect of Sustainable Prices Procurement by Nitasha Aaman, Jamshid Ali, Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, Navidreza Ahadi

“…Organizational agility as an emerging trend yields sustainability to attain the desired environmental goals and helps to adopt green practices like green procurement. This study empirically checked the direct and indirect impact of organizational agility (customer, partnering, and operational agility) on green project performance, and to understand the mediating role of green procurement between them in relation to the institutional theory, a quantitative analysis was performed. …”
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Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Radiation Belt Electrons Scattered by Lower Band Chorus Waves: An Integrated Model by Weixin Chen, Song Fu, Xin Ma, Binbin Ni, Deyu Guo, Qiongyue Zhang, Xiangyuan Tong, Yibo Zhao, Xing Cao, Zheng Xiang, Yuan Lei

“…However, the global wave and plasma density distributions adopted in the kinetic simulations are very difficult to be directly obtained by satellites. …”
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Effect of alloying elements on the stacking fault energies of dilute al-based alloys by Gao Q., Zhang H., Yang R., Fan Z., Liu Y., Wang J., Geng X., Gao Y., Shang S., Du Y., Liu Z.

“…Alias shear deformation is adopted in the present investigations. The presently calculated γSF for Al is in favorable accordance with experimental and other theoretical data. …”
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High-Precision Sub-Wavelength Motion Compensation Technique for 3D Down-Looking Imaging Sonar Based on an Acoustic Calibration System by Jun Wang, Peihui Liang, Junqiang Song, Pan Xu, Yongming Hu, Peng Zhang, Kang Lou, Rongyao Ren, Wusheng Tang

“…To solve the problem that the resolution of the current imaging sonar reduces rapidly with increase in distance and a scanning gap exists in side-scan sonar, we designed a down-looking 3D-imaging sonar with a linear array structure. The imaging scheme adopts a time-domain spatial beam-forming method with the Back Projection (BP) algorithm as the core, and the formation of a virtual plane array can effectively improve the along-track resolution. …”
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Study on the Full‐Cycle Stress Evolution Law and Reasonable Size of Isolated Coal Pillar by Xiao‐Xiang Wei, Qing‐Long Yun, Jing Wu, Xiao‐He Wang, Yin‐Wei Wang

“…ABSTRACT To study the stress distribution law under different mining times and spaces of the protected coal pillar in the isolated working face, this paper takes a coal mine in Shanxi as the engineering background and adopts numerical simulation and theoretical analysis to obtain the stress distribution law of protecting coal pillar in the isolated working face during the tunneling period and the mining period of the working face, and proves the reasonable size of protecting coal pillar. …”
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Spatial-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of ecosystem health in Three-River-Source national Park by Yanqin Wang, Huaju Xue, Aiqing Li, Xiaofan Ma, Ailing Sun, Jinhe Zhang

“…Taking Three-River-Source National Park (TNP) as a case study, this paper adopts multi-source data to quantitatively evaluate the spatial and temporal variations of ecosystem health within TNP from 2000 to 2020 by constructing the measurement model of “Vigor-Service-Resilience”. …”
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Multimodal marvels of deep learning in medical diagnosis using image, speech, and text: A comprehensive review of COVID-19 detection by Md Shofiqul Islam, Khondokar Fida Hasan, Hasibul Hossain Shajeeb, Humayan Kabir Rana, Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Munirul Hasan, AKM Azad, Ibrahim Abdullah, Mohammad Ali Moni

“…Motivated by the success of artificial intelligence applications during the COVID-19 pandemic, this research aims to uncover the capabilities of DL in disease screening, prediction, and classification, and to derive insights that enhance the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of science, technology, and innovation systems. Adopting a systematic approach, we investigate the fundamental methodologies, data sources, preprocessing steps, and challenges encountered in various studies and implementations. …”
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Association between heavy metals and risk of cardiovascular diseases in US adults with prediabetes from NHANES 2011–2018 by Sijia Yang, Zhuoshuai Liang, Yue Qiu, Xiaoyang Li, Yuyang Tian, Yawen Liu

“…Methods Five cycles of data (2011–2012, 2013–2014, 2015–2016, and 2017–2018) from the NHANES were adopted in this study. The plasma metals were measured in 1088 participants with prediabetes. …”
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Electro-Conductive Modification of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane for Electrified Wastewater Treatment: Optimization and Antifouling Performance by Jinzhuo Shi, Yisong Hu, Songhua Li, Wenqian Xiao, Yuan Yang, Jiayuan Ji

“…An in situ oxidative polymerization approach was applied to prepare PVDF-based conductive membranes (PVDF-CMs) and response surface methodology (RSM) was adopted to optimize modification conditions enhancing membrane performance. …”
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Analysing the Multidimensional Nature of Poverty: a Focus on Housing Insecurity in South Africa by Zamokuhle Ndaba, Steven Henry Dunga, Precious Mncayi-Makhanya

“…However, there is a lack of a comprehensive, multidimensional, and validated instrument for measuring the extent of housing insecurity despite housing significantly impacting household’s health, economic, and psychological well-being.Methods: This study sought to apply and adopt a newly developed multidimensional household housing insecurity index (HHII), consisting of eight dimensions that respond to the lack of universally accepted measures of housing insecurity. …”
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