Research on health monitoring of concrete structure based on G-S-G by Jiaqi Wang, Hongbi Kang, Kexin Li

“…Abstract An improved concrete structure health monitoring method based on G-S-G is proposed, which fully combines an optimized Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) with an improved Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network to achieve accurate and real-time concrete structure health monitoring. First of all, in order to obtain a dynamic image of the crack damage region of interest (ROI) with clear contrast and obvious target, the image acquisition system and image optimization method are used to process the damaged image. …”
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Effect of Calcium Chloride and Trisodium Phosphate Fortification on Low Fat Buffalo Milk Cheeses by R. Perveen, M.S. Butt, U. Elahi, M.N. Babur

“…The cheeses supplemented with salt exhibited a noteworthy (p≤0.05) rise in pH, total nitrogen (TN), non-casein nitrogen (NCN), and non-protein nitrogen (NPN) for nearly all treatments. However, a subsequent decline was noted after storage. …”
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A Gamified Active-Learning Proposal for Higher-Education Heterogeneous STEM Courses by Mario J. Duran, Juan J. Aciego, Ignacio Gonzalez-Prieto, Juan Carrillo-Rios, Angel Gonzalez-Prieto, Alicia Claros-Colome

“…A full subject design is presented in a comprehensive manner aiming for satisfying courses with a heterogeneous students’ profile. All activities are carefully selected with a social constructivist approach in order to promote critical thinking, social interaction and students’ engagement. …”
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IAPSM’s Position Paper on Influenza Vaccines for Adult Immunization in India by Nikita Sharma, Madhur Verma, Kapil Goel, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Anu Bhardwaj, Sahil Sharma, Tejbeer Singh, Madhu Gupta, Anuradha Nadda, Lalit R. Sankhe

“…IAPSM recommends considering routine use of IIV for all individuals above 60 years, adults with comorbidities, and pregnant women in India. …”
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HHV-6B ribonucleotide reductase sequesters NF-κB subunit p65 to inhibit innate immune responses by Mansaku Hirai, Khoir Amaliin, Jing Rin Huang, Salma Aktar, Yasuko Mori, Jun Arii

“…Here, we show that the RNRs from all three human roseoloviruses inhibit NF-κB activation. …”
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Characteristics of split-step skills of the world's top athletes in badminton. by Hidehiko Shishido, Takeshi Nishijima

“…These results were similar among all top players evaluated. Analysis 2 showed that the difference in the number of shuttlecocks that hit the opponent's backhand rear court (LR) affected their degree of split-step skill.…”
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Lipidomics Analysis of the Lipid Composition of Three Tissues of Cyperus esculentus L. during Three Growth Stages Based on Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectro... by YANG Yaxuan, BIAN Miaomiao, LIU Yanqing, LIU Jun, XING Jun, TU Yixian

“…The main lipids accumulated in the growth process of C. esculentus L. were triacylglycerols (TAG). All three tissues had high proportions (higher than 57.3%) of unsaturated fatty acids relative to the total fatty acids (FAs), and the relative contents of unsaturated fatty acid FA(18:1) and FA(18:2) in the tubers were also high. …”
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The reproduction number $R_t$ in structured and nonstructured populations by Tom Burr, Gerardo Chowell

“…We find that the generation interval pdf is timedependent in all cases, which agrees with recent results reported elsewhere.We also find that the WT method performs essentially the samein the structured populations (except for a spatial network) as it does in the nonstructured population. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“…While there is no claim of any addition per se being made to the extant body of knowledge, the reviewer would like to describe this as an attempt to simply collate existing knowledge to serve the practical purpose of highlighting the plight of our impoverished, malnourished, oppressed brethren, to elicit appreciation, understanding and support for them, from policymakers in government, CSR personnel from the corporate world, journalists in the media, and most importantly, from the common urban denizens. All these entities can work shoulder to shoulder with the NGOs who have been relentlessly striving to help the rag-pickers to ‘stay afloat’. …”
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Investigating Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Dynamics in Beta-thalassemia Major: A Comparative Study from Al-Diwaniyah, Iraq by Hadeer Hayder Inteek, Shaymaa Rabeea Madhkhoor

“…RESULTS: Compared with the control group, patients with β-TM showed significantly higher MDA levels and increased activity of GST, CAT, and SOD P < 0.05. Patients all had elevated levels of serum ferritin, indicating iron overload. …”
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Connecting electronic health records to a biomedical knowledge graph to link clinical phenotypes and molecular endotypes in atopic dermatitis by Francesca Frau, Paul Loustalot, Margaux Törnqvist, Nina Temam, Jean Cupe, Martin Montmerle, Franck Augé

“…To succeed in providing personalized medicine to patients, it will be necessary to integrate medical, biological and molecular data in order to identify all complex disease subtypes and understand their pathobiological mechanism. …”
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Gender similarities in high school mathematics: affective and cognitive aspects by Negasi Hagos Tekola, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Hailu Hagos

“…Mathematics teachers in particular can practically use the findings to enhance good insights in students, successfully support their students, and can work on improving mathematics self-efficacy and thereby enhance learning and achievement in mathematics for all students. Theoretically, the study confirmed Hyde’s (2005) gender similarity hypothesis and this investigation in the Ethiopian high school mathematics context contributes to the contested research in gender and mathematics which could contribute to the theories in educational psychology. …”
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Adaptation of Organizational Social Entrepreneurship Scale into Turkish: Validity and Reliability Study by Ömer İşcan, Şahin Gafuroğlu

“…After the factors were determined by explanatory factor analysis, they were tested with confirmatory factor analysis to test their suitability for factor structures, and all factors were found to be statistically significant. …”
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Serum Magnesium and Vitamin D Levels as Indicators of Asthma Severity by Mohammed Nadeem Shaikh, Brahma Reddy Malapati, Ruchi Gokani, Bhavita Patel, Mitul Chatriwala

“…Serum levels of magnesium, 25-hydroxycholecalciferol [25(OH)D], and calcium were measured in all the subjects. Results. Significant correlation was found between vitamin D deficiency, hypomagnesemia, and asthma severity. …”
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Carbon sustainability reporting based on GHG protocol framework: A Malaysian practice towards net-zero carbon emissions by Hussein H. Sharaf-Addin, Ahmed Abdullah Saad Al-Dhubaibi

“…Results from Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) reveal that consistency, transparency, and accuracy significantly enhance carbon sustainability reporting, while relevance and completeness exhibit no direct influence. Furthermore, all five GHG principles positively influence net-zero carbon emissions, emphasizing their importance in emission reduction efforts. …”
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Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification: A Possible Cause of Refractory Cardiopulmonary Failure in Infancy by A. Nael, P. J. Siaghani, D. Chen, S. G. Romansky, L. Shane

“…This case report will emphasize the importance of taking this rare curable disease into consideration in all cases of infants with cardiopulmonary failure.…”
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THE SOCIAL THEORY OF MAX WEBER IN CONFLICT OF INTERPRETATIONS by Zenonas Norkus

“…Schluchter tried to mediate in this conflict seeing Weber’s work as led by "minimalist" evolutionist research program. In all interpretations abovementioned Weber is conceived as a macrosociological theorist whose substantive work stands in tension with his methodological and programmatic texts containing the concept of interpretative sociology, the outline of action theory and avocacy of the methodological individualism. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Tuberculosis in the State of Mexico, Mexico by Adrian Zaragoza Bastida, Marivel Hernández Tellez, Lilia P. Bustamante Montes, Imelda Medina Torres, Jaime Nicolás Jaramillo Paniagua, Germán David Mendoza Martínez, Ninfa Ramírez Durán

“…In Mexico, there were 18,848 new cases of TB of all clinical variants in 2010. The identification of clusters in space-time is of great interest in epidemiological studies. …”
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Traditional guidance mechanism based deep robust watermarking by Xuejing GUO, Yixiang FANG, Yi ZHAO, Tianzhu ZHANG, Wenchao ZENG, Junxiang WANG

“…With the development of network and multimedia technology, multimedia data has gradually become a key source of information for people, making digital media the primary battlefield for copyright protection and anti-counterfeit traceability.Digital watermarking techniques have been widely studied and recognized as important tools for copyright protection.However, the robustness of conventional digital watermarking methods is limited as sensitive digital media can easily be affected by noise and external interference during transmission.Then the existing powerful digital watermarking technology’s comprehensive resistance to all forms of attacks must be enhanced.Moreover, the conventional robust digital watermarking algorithm’s generalizability across a variety of image types is limited due to its embedding method.Deep learning has been widely used in the development of robust digital watermarking systems due to its self-learning abilities.However, current initialization techniques based on deep neural networks rely on random parameters and features, resulting in low-quality model generation, lengthy training times, and potential convergence issues.To address these challenges, a deep robust digital watermarking algorithm based on a traditional bootstrapping mechanism was proposed.It combined the benefits of both traditional digital watermarking techniques and deep neural networks, taking into account their learning abilities and robust characteristics.The algorithm used the classic robust digital watermarking algorithm to make watermarked photos, and the constructed feature guaranteed the resilience of traditional watermarked images.The final dense image was produced by fusing the conventionally watermarked image with the deep network using the U-Net structure.The testing results demonstrate that the technique can increase the stego image’s resistance to various attacks and provide superior visual quality compared to the conventional algorithm.…”
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Study on the Properties and Pest Control Effects of Five Common Wheat Flour Packaging Materials by HE Rui, ZHANG Feng, ZHANG Yuan-quan, CHEN Jin-shen, LV Jian-hua

“…However, when used as packaging bags, non-woven fabrics and woven bags demonstrated better performance in friction, drop, and pressure resistance. All five packaging materials effectively protected wheat flour from stored grain pests, with vacuum plastic bags and aluminum foil bags providing complete protection.…”
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