Transformative Service Research and the role of service robots: a bibliometric analysis by Priscila Pasti Barbosa, Felipe Facco Mendes Ferreira, Larissa Cayla Cesário, Glauco Henrique de Souza Mendes

“…The analysis of several use cases of service robots in elderly care is carried out in the article to highlight the importance of using this service in cases of great importance, such as in cases of dementia. Cultural sensitivity and personalization of robots emerged as essential factors for increasing user acceptance and scalability, particularly in diverse healthcare environments. …”
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Experimental Study of the Influence of Excavation Surface Stability and Sand Flowability Caused by Dense Slurry–Earth Pressure Balance Shield Tunneling in Silty Sand Stratum by Yongjin Qian, Fanlu Min, Zhenze Mo, Xihui Fan

“…The type of filter cake of the DS-EPB shield was only internal filter cake during tunneling, which reduced the disturbance of the excavation face and improved the flowability of the sand. These results are of great significance to the application and promotion of DS-EPB shields in sandy cobble strata.…”
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Quality Risk Propagation of Complex Product Collaborative Manufacturing Supply Chain Network Based on CN and SoV by Tengjiao Li, Hongzhuan Chen, Jie Yuan, Jingye Qian, Abdul Waheed Siyal

“…Quality risks which bring enormous hidden danger to the product quality can be propagated and accumulate along the supply chain. It is of great significance to quantify the propagation mechanism of quality risk between supply chain network nodes and identify the key quality risk factor that causes fluctuation of product quality. …”
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Presentation of an Approach on Determination of the Natural Frequency of Human Lumbar Spine Using Dynamic Finite Element Analysis by Fan Ruoxun, Liu Jie, Liu Jun, Wang Weijun

“…When the excitation frequency is close to the natural frequency, resonance occurs, causing great changes in the numerical fluctuation amplitudes and the cycles of lumbar mechanical parameters. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Pilot Study on the Effect of Vaginal Acupressure (Hippocratic Pelvic Massage) by Søren Ventegodt, Birgitte Clausen, Joav Merrick

“…Acupressure through the vagina/pelvic massage must be done according to the highest ethical standard with great care, after obtaining consent and the necessary trust of the patient within the framework of the local laws. …”
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Molecular Characterization of Staphylococci Recovered from Hospital Personnel and Frequently Touched Surfaces in Tianjin, China by Yuting Liu, Liqin Chen, Yuping Duan, Zhen Xu

“…Staphylococci are major hospital-associated pathogens, and the dissemination of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in hospitals poses a great challenge for managing hospital-acquired infections. …”
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Parametric Modelling Techniques for Rhine Castle Models in Blender by Etienne Sommer, Mathieu Koehl, Pierre Grussenmeyer

“…Recent advances in 3D modelling have greatly improved the digital reconstruction of historic buildings. …”
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A Reliable Method for Identification of Antibiotics by Terahertz Spectroscopy and SVM by Jin Guo, Hu Deng, Quancheng Liu, Linyu Chen, Zhonggang Xiong, Liping Shang

“…Thus, our study does not only confirm that the t-SNE-PSO-SVM model proves to be a reliable method for antibiotics identification, but also confirms that the combination of THz-TDS and chemometric pattern recognition has great potential for drug detection.…”
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Data-Driven Technology in Event-Based Vision by Ruolin Sun, Dianxi Shi, Yongjun Zhang, Ruihao Li, Ruoxiang Li

“…Generally, this paper reveals the great prospects of event-based data-driven technology and presents a comprehensive overview of this field, aiming at a more efficient and bio-inspired visual system to extract visual features from the external environment.…”
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Characterization of patients with clinical suspicion of dengue and warning signs. Pediatric Hospital. Cienfuegos, 2019 by Delfín Rodríguez Buergo, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Diana Rosa Rodríguez Delgado, Roxana Gutiérrez Morán, Lisset María Martínez González

“…The correct hospital approach to these cases, to avoiding fatal outcomes, is of great importance for the maternal and child area.…”
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Janus flame-retardant polyester fabric with one-way water transfer for fog collection: Influence of plasma duration, aluminum phosphate, and TiO2 nanoparticles by Najmeh Izadi, Majid Montazer, Aminoddin Haji

“…FESEM and EDX confirmed the distribution and adhesion of NTO to the fabric surface with AP. AP gave the fabric great flame resistance and a limiting oxygen index (LOI) of 32.8 %. …”
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Use of real-time polymerase chain reaction for investigation of Senecavirus infection occurrence in Russia by M. V. Timanov, A. M. Timina, M. V. Biryuchenkova

“…Senecavirus, previously known as Seneca valley virus, is an emerging virus belonging to Senecavirus genus, Picornaviridae family, that can cause idiopathic vesicular disease clinically indistinguishable from foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis and swine vesicular disease and thereby posing a great threat for pig holdings. Recently, evidence of Senecavirus A occurrence in pig herds in such countries as Brazil, the USA, Colombia, China and Thailand has been provided in foreign literature. …”
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Environmental Characteristics of Modern Systems of Domestic Use of Fuel. Part 1 by B. S. Soroka, V. V. Horupa

“…Under some compositions of burning mixture the correlation could be set as [NO2] >> [NO], resulting in great danger for the human health. With regard to the formation of particularly toxic NO2 effluents observed in some cases, an influence of the reaction temperature and the composition of the combustible mixture on the possibility of nitrogen dioxide formation in the combustion products have been analyzed. …”
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The effect of an information brochure on patients undergoing cardiac catheterization on their anxiety, knowledge and fear: A randomized controlled study. by Maria Malliarou, Vasiliki Pappa, Iokasti Papathanasiou, Ilias Andreanidis, Athanasios Nikolentzos, Ioannis Apostolakis, Pavlos Sarafis

“… # Conclusions Providing information in the form of a brochure regarding cardiac catheterization before the procedure, is of great importance and constitutes an efficient intervention.…”
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A Day Ahead Electrical Appliance Planning of Residential Units in a Smart Home Network Using ITS-BF Algorithm by Amir Ali Dashtaki, Morteza Khaki, Mohammad Zand, Mostafa Azimi Nasab, P. Sanjeevikumar, Tina Samavat, Morteza Azimi Nasab, Baseem Khan

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Experimental Study on Lateral Bearing Mechanical Characteristics and Damage Numerical Simulation of Micropile by Ning Liu, Yi-Xiong Huang, Bo Wu, Wei Huang

“…The result shows the following: (1) the micropile specimens with external steel pipe had better flexural performance than the bare micropiles and the mechanical characteristics of the specimens changed from brittleness to plasticity; (2) the degree of concrete damage is greatly reduced after the external steel pipe is attached, and the bearing capacity of the micropile specimen of the same diameter is increased by 70% after the external steel pipe is added; and (3) the specimens were mainly damaged due to tensile damage. …”
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Identifying Ocean Submesoscale Activity From Vertical Density Profiles Using Machine Learning by Leyu Yao, John R. Taylor, Dani C. Jones, Scott D. Bachman

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Video as a Documentation Method: A Qualitative Study of Physiotherapists' Experiences by Silje Bechmann Granås, Ingrid Konstanse Ledel Solem, Ingrid Eitzen, Jenny M. Bergschöld, Cecilie Våpenstad, Wencke Vooren Aase, Trond Halvorsen

“…Several facilitators and barriers for use and implementation were identified, including challenges related to time consumption, privacy concerns, the need for training and technical support and accessible and relevant technology. Conclusion: There is great potential for the use of video in physiotherapy. …”
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Development of creative abilities of primary school students by means of project-based technologies in foreign countries by Y. Petrytsa

“…Studies that demonstrate the successful use of project-based technologies in foreign countries, namely: Finland, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Japan, and methods that contribute to the development of creative and critical thinking in primary school students are analysed. …”
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E2F1 activates breast stromal fibroblasts and promotes their paracrine pro-carcinogenic effects by Layla A. Al-Kharashi, Falah H. Al-Mohanna, Abdelilah Aboussekhra, Abdelilah Abousekhra

“…Together, these findings indicate that the transciption factor E2F1 plays a critical role in the transactivation of breast stromal fibroblasts, and therefore could be a great therapeutic target for precision therapeutics of BC patients.…”
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