Stakeholder Focus Groups to Inform a Technology-Based Strategy of Preceptor Support by Cynthia A. Blum, Jeanette Kamciyan, Amy Dean

“…A team of academic and acute care nurse educators developed scripts for eventual filming of four podcasts focusing on unsafe practice issues, designed to provide continual support through web-based availability. …”
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Agronomic Efficiency of Biosolid as Source of Nitrogen to Banana Plants by Luiz Antonio Junqueira Teixeira, Ronaldo Severiano Berton, Aline Reneé Coscione, Luis Alberto Saes, Marcio Koiti Chiba

“…This followup work examines a three-year (2001–2004) field experiment designed to evaluate the response of banana plants (Cavendish subgroup) to the application of biosolid as source of nitrogen. …”
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Probiotics in the Modern World by Y. P. Uspenskiy, Y. A. Fominykh, K. N. Nadzhafova, S. V. Polyushkin

“…Probiotic strains, as well as medications designed on their basis, are widely applied and show good promise. …”
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Image smoothing method based on global gradient sparsity and local relative gradient constraint optimization by Siyuan Li, Yuan Liu, Jiafu Zeng, Yepeng Liu, Yue Li, Qingsong Xie

“…Additionally, to ensure the consistency of measurement results, a multi-directional gradient normalization method is designed. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our method exhibits significant advantages in preserving image edges compared to current advanced smoothing methods.…”
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Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL in Diabetes: Contributions to Endocrine Pancreas Viability and Function by Atenea A. Perez-Serna, Daniel Guzman-Llorens, Reinaldo S. Dos Santos, Laura Marroqui

“…Thus, understanding the biological processes in which these proteins are involved may be crucial to designing new therapeutic targets. This review summarizes the roles of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL in apoptosis and metabolic homeostasis. …”
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State switch control of magnetically suspended flywheel energy storage system in uninterrupted power supply system by Lingbo Zheng, Yili Zheng, Biao Xiang, Xiangbo Xu

“…Then, the switch strategy using the angle compensation of the flux linkage is designed to control the FESS-UPS system among different working states, and the peak values of current and voltage at the switch moment are suppressed. …”
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Experimental Analysis of Fabricated Synthetic Midthoracic Paediatric Spine as Compared to the Porcine Spine Based on Range of Motion (ROM) by Nor Amalina Muhayudin, Khairul Salleh Basaruddin, Ruslizam Daud, Fiona McEvoy, Tansey

“…The synthetic paediatric spine was designed as a 200% scaled-up model to fit into the Bionix Servohydraulic spine simulator. …”
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Context-Aware Dual-Task Deep Network for Concurrent Bone Segmentation and Clinical Assessment to Enhance Shoulder Arthroplasty Preoperative planning by Luca Marsilio, Andrea Moglia, Alfonso Manzotti, Pietro Cerveri

“…<italic>Methods:</italic> xCEL-UNet was designed as a dual-task deep network for humerus and scapula bone reconstruction in CT scans, and assessment of three GH joint clinical conditions, namely osteophyte size (OS), joint space reduction (JS), and humeroscapular alignment (HSA). …”
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SBS Content Detection for Modified Asphalt Using Deep Neural Network by Zhixiang Wang, Jiange Li, Zhengqi Zhang, Youxiang Zuo

“…Feature data of SBS content are derived from the spectra, which are obtained by the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy test. After designing DNN, preprocessed feature data are utilized as training and testing data and are fed into the DNN via a feature matrix. …”
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Electricity Theft Detection in Power Grids with Deep Learning and Random Forests by Shuan Li, Yinghua Han, Xu Yao, Song Yingchen, Jinkuan Wang, Qiang Zhao

“…In this model, a convolutional neural network (CNN) firstly is designed to learn the features between different hours of the day and different days from massive and varying smart meter data by the operations of convolution and downsampling. …”
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A Robust License Plate Detection and Character Recognition Algorithm Based on a Combined Feature Extraction Model and BPNN by Fei Xie, Ming Zhang, Jing Zhao, Jiquan Yang, Yijian Liu, Xinyue Yuan

“…Finally, a new feature extraction model is designed using three sets of features combination, training the feature vectors through BPNN to complete accurate recognition of the license plate characters. …”
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Utilization chatbot for Indonesian tourism: a post-pandemic solution of information accessibility by Hesti Fibriasari, Bakti Dwi Waluyo, Baharuddin Baharuddin, Tansa Trisna Astono Putri, Savitri Rahmadany

“…Therefore, this research aims to develop a Telegram-based ChatBot application to increase post-pandemic tourist visits. The ChatBot is designed to make it easier for tourists to obtain information related to transportation and accommodation at tourist attractions. …”
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Relationship between In-Hospital Sepsis Prediction Score and Prevalence of Community-Onset Sepsis: Triage for Sepsis Risk Management by Kyung Hyun LEE, Hyunwoo CHOO, Sungsoo HONG, Sungjun HONG, Ki-Byung LEE, Hochan CHO

“…Even though the sepsis prediction model was designed to predict in-hospital sepsis, high prediction scores are related to the prevalence of community-onset sepsis. …”
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Integrated Optimization of Bus Line Fare and Operational Strategies Using Elastic Demand by Chunyan Tang, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Ying-En Ge

“…An optimization approach for designing a transit service system is proposed. Its objective would be the maximization of total social welfare, by providing a profitable fare structure and tailoring operational strategies to passenger demand. …”
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Application of Non-Supervised Learning Tools and Visualization Techniques to Understand the Intrinsic Freshmen Enrollment Segmentation: An application to freshmen engineering stude... by Patricio Salas, Rodrigo De la Fuente, Patricio Sáez, Andrés Riquelme

“…Identifying significant subgroups among first-year students is crucial for designing educational policies that foster their academic and personal development. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance in diverse urban microbiomes: uncovering patterns and predictive markers by Rodolfo Brizola Toscan, Wojciech Lesiński, Piotr Stomma, Balakrishnan Subramanian, Paweł P. Łabaj, Witold R. Rudnicki, Witold R. Rudnicki

“…These results underscore the importance of MGEs in AMR profiling and provide valuable insights for designing targeted strategies to address AMR in urban settings.…”
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Feedback mechanism between gully landforms and sediment trapping efficiency in a check dam by Jiangang Chen, Xi'an Wang, Huayong Chen, Wanyu Zhao, Chenyuan Wang, Xiaoqing Chen

“…With increasing age, check dams gradually lose their sediment trapping function via the continuous deposition of material carried by debris flows and flash floods, and eventually, check dams become unable to perform the designed mitigation function. In this paper, the sediment deposit evolution in a dam with multiple debris flow surges and its influence on the sediment trapping effect were investigated. …”
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Preparation of APP@CNCSi-DA and its application in intumescent flame retardant polypropylene by Minyi Liang, Caimin Feng, Jiali Jiang, Yanyan Nong, Jianguang Huang, Cuixia Lian, Yingpeng Huo, Yikun Zhang, Guoheng Wei, Zhihao He, Peihong Chen, Weibing Wu, Hesong Peng

“…A Silicon-containing Oligomeric Charring Agent (CNCSi-DA) containing triazine rings and silicon was designed, synthesized and characterized. CNCSi-DA was chosen as macromolecular coating agent to modify Ammonium Polyphosphate (APP) to be core-shell coating-mixture (APP@CNCSi-DA). …”
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Unveiling the power of language models in chemical research question answering by Xiuying Chen, Tairan Wang, Taicheng Guo, Kehan Guo, Juexiao Zhou, Haoyang Li, Zirui Song, Xin Gao, Xiangliang Zhang

“…Correspondingly, we introduce a ChemMatch model, specifically designed to effectively answer chemical questions by fully leveraging our collected data. …”
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Reconfigurable anomalous reflectors with stretchable elastic substrates at 140 GHz band by Kato Yuto, Yonemura Kazuma, Seki Kento, Kambara Retsuku, Sanada Atsushi

“…To demonstrate the proposed approach, stretchable anomalous reflectors are designed at 140 GHz for normal incident waves. From full-wave simulations, we numerically confirm that highly efficient anomalous reflections with suppressed parasitic reflections in the undesired directions are achieved toward shallower angles as the substrate is stretched. …”
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