Evaluation of flood determination with various methods: Case study of Ayamama Creek by Orkan Özcan

“…In many developing countries, rapid urbanization, disaster risks and affectability pose a great problem. Uncontrolled developments will bring out the inherent risks related with high-density environments and inadequate infrastructure. …”
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Living, Caring, Learning – Collaborating across borders to support a haemophilia patient with a rare complication by Githinji Cyrus

“…After consulting with experts in other countries, surgery was deemed too great a risk. Initiating FVIII prophylaxis with the aim of shrinking the pseudotumour was identified as the most appropriate approach to treatment, however supply issues made it difficult to maintain a prophylactic regimen. …”
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Privacy-Preserving Efficient Data Retrieval in IoMT Based on Low-Cost Fog Computing by Na Wang, Yuanyuan Cai, Junsong Fu, Jie Xu

“…Second, multidimensional physiological data are of great value, and we use ciphertext retrieval to protect privacy of patient data in this paper. …”
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Location Problem - Routing a vehicle with a specified fuel capacity based on a tough time window and customer satisfaction by Mohammad Moshrefi

“…Although factors such as customer satisfaction with receiving services, fuel constraints in vehicles and the existence of important time intervals, which are referred to as hard time window, are of great importance in location and routing problems, less has been paid to them. …”
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Analytical Solution of Seepage Field in Karst Tunnel by Chong Jiang, Han-song Xie, Jia-li He, Wen-yan Wu, Zhi-chao Zhang

“…Furthermore, due to the great influence of the grouting ring and initial support on the pressure head and seepage flow, the thickness and permeability coefficient of the grouting ring and initial support should be taken into account carefully during construction.…”
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Analysis of the Response of Urban Water Consumption to Climatic Variables: Case Study of Khorramabad City in Iran by Omid Hamidi, Hamed Abbasi, Hamid Mirhashemi

“…The amount of water consumed in a city is affected by the weather conditions greatly such that as the weather changes, the amount of water consumed changes as well. …”
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Comparative metagenomics reveals the metabolic flexibility of coastal prokaryotic microbiomes contributing to lignin degradation by Qiannan Peng, Lu Lin

“…However, the metabolic potentials of these consortia remain elusive. This greatly hinders our understanding of the global carbon cycle and the “bottom-up” design of synthetic consortia to enhance lignin conversion. …”
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Enhancement of Fracture Toughness of NiTi Alloy by Controlling Grain Size Gradient by Kai Huang, Zhongzheng Deng, Hao Yin

“…Theoretical analysis reveals that in such a gradient structure, phase transition in the coarse-grained matrix greatly absorbs the surface energy of subcritical and stable propagation. …”
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Changing Trends in Meteorological Elements and Reference Evapotranspiration in a Mega City: A Case Study in Shenzhen City, China by Haijun Liu, Xian Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Xuming Wang

“…This type of change in city can greatly affect the climatic conditions. In this study, the daily, monthly, and annual climatic variables and the reference crop evapotranspiration (ET0) for Shenzhen from 1954 to 2012 were computed using the FAO Penman-Monteith equation (PM), and these parameters were analyzed to study the temporal trends of ET0 and meteorological factors. …”
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Solidification/Stabilization of Textile Sludge as Subgrade: Usage of Binders and Skeleton Material by Xiao Cheng, Bingyi Li, Geng Chen, Shihu Gao

“…Scanning electron microscopy test shows the physical microstructure of sludge is greatly improved for the particular space grid structure formed by the particles and cementitious products. …”
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Revealing the decision-making practices in automated external defibrillator deployment: insights from Shanghai, China by Chaowei Wu, Yeling Wu, Lu Qiao

“…Abstract In recent years, the government has promoted the increased deployment of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places with dense crowds, which is of great significance for ensuring that residents enjoy equal health rights. …”
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Impact of Deacetylation Degree on Properties of Chitosan for Formation of Electrosprayed Nanoparticles by Hien Thi-Thanh Nguyen, Tinh Ngoc Tran, Anh Cam Ha, Phu Dai Huynh

“…Therein, the specific parameters to the physicochemical nature of chitosan greatly determine the efficiency of its drugs carrier. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations of Extreme Precipitation Events in the Jinsha River Basin, Southwestern China by Dan Zhang, Wensheng Wang, Shuqi Liang, Shunjiu Wang

“…Temporal trends of extreme precipitation showed great spatial variability. It is notable that extreme precipitation increased apparently in higher elevation areas. (3) The abrupt change of extreme precipitation in the northwestern, midsouthern, and southeastern mainly appeared in the late 1990s and the 2000s. …”
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Intelligent Video Surveillance Technology in Intelligent Transportation by Fangcheng He

“…Eased urban traffic road pressure and greatly reduced the incidence of traffic accidents, which is conducive to socialist harmony social construction.…”
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Oriental Studies by D. V. Streltsov

“…Evacuation of many prominent representatives of the Moscow and Leningrad school of Oriental Studies during the Great Patriotic War to Kazan and Central Asia gave new impetus to oriental studies at universities in these regions.…”
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Investigating Gram-negative bacilli isolates’ sensitivity to ceftazidime/avibactam by Sunali, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Mukesh Kumar, Maneesh Kumar, Nishant Ranjan

“…The results show that ceftazidime avibactam can cure MDR and CRE infections, especially urinary tract infections, better than conventional antibiotics, which is a great help in the fight against increasing antibiotic resistance.…”
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Title of Lithuanian Ruler Vytautas: When did Vytautas Start to Title Himself as the Grand Duke? by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…Thus, the Latin document of 1396, where Vytautas titled himself as the grand duke, is of very great importance. With reference to this, we can assume that Vytautas titled himself officially for the first time as the grand duke of Lithuania. …”
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An overview of fake news detection: From a new perspective by Bo Hu, Zhendong Mao, Yongdong Zhang

“…While making life more convenient, the Internet also promotes the wide spread of fake news, which will have a great negative impact on countries, societies, and individuals. …”
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Osmopriming duration in Araçá-boi seeds germination by Marcela Liege da Silva, Edvan Alves Chagas, Elias Ariel de Moura, Pollyana Cardoso Chagas, Oscar José Smiderle, Rosemary Vilaça Vilaça

“…The Araca-boi is a native fruit of the Amazon region and its fruits have great potential for agro-industrial use due to the intrinsic characteristics of the pulp. …”
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Big data and urban form: a systematic review by Vladan Djokić, Aleksandra Djordjević, Aleksandra Milovanović

“…Recently, with the actualization of big data, the study of urban form is going under change as well, where these technological advancements present both the great potential for urban form analysis, understanding, modelling, simulation, and even imagination, and a challenge for the profession of architecture and urbanism itself, which must come to grips with the growing field of big data research. …”
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