Subsidence Control Design Method and Application to Backfill-Strip Mining Technology by Xiaojun Zhu, Feng Zha, Guangli Guo, Pengfei Zhang, Hua Cheng, Hui Liu, Xiaoyu Yang

“…First, the stability of the composite support pillar of the filling body and coal pillars in the backfill-strip mining is analyzed, and the values of the main subsidence influencing factors that include the filling material, the size of the backfilling working face, caving mining face, and residual coal pillar are preliminarily determined. …”
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Prioritized aggregation operators for Schweizer-Sklar multi-attribute decision-making for complex spherical fuzzy information in mobile e-tourism applications by Khawlah Alhulwah, Muhammad Azeem, Mehwish Sarfraz, Nasreen Almohanna, Ali Ahmad

“…Additionally, the suggested operators' specific instances were examined. The main outcome of this work includes new aggregation techniques for CSFS information, based on t-conorm and t-norm from Schweizer-Sklar (SS). …”
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Predicting Crash Frequency for Urban Expressway considering Collision Types Using Real-Time Traffic Data by Hui Zhang, Siyao Li, Chaozhong Wu, Qi Zhang, Yafen Wang

“…Current studies on traffic crash prediction mainly focus on the crash frequency and crash severity of freeways or arterials. …”
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The structure of the local detector of the reprint model of the object in the image by A. A. Kulikov

“…It outputs both the probability that the object is present in its limited area and a set of “instance parameters” that can include the exact pose, lighting, and deformation of the visual object relative to an implicitly defined canonical version of this object. The main advantage of capsules that output instance parameters is a simple way to recognize entire objects by recognizing their parts. …”
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The Impact of Tillage and Weed Control Methods on Physical Properties of Sandy Clay Loam Forest Ochrosol in Cassava Cultivation by Maxwell Budu, Thomas Atta-Darkwa, Harrison Amaglo, Nicholas Kyei-Baffour, Isaac Albert Aidoo, Samuel Kojo Ahorsu, Enoch Bessah

“…The split-plot design was used in the study, with tillage serving as the main factor and weed control serving as the subplot factor. …”
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Ab Externo Choroidal Fluid Drainage, Pars Plana Vitrectomy, and Endotamponade for the Management of Persistent Hypotony following Glaucoma Surgery by Susanna Friederike Koenig, Efstathios Vounotrypidis, Christian Maximilian Wertheimer, Armin Wolf

“…Five out of six patients required additional surgery, mainly to further increase the IOP even though choroidal detachment had already resolved. …”
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Impact of Monetary Policy on the Level of Economic Inequality in the United States by M. L. Dorofeev

“…Given the cyclical nature of economic inequality, the main method of research was chosen as a graphical statistical analysis, since it allows to identify trends effectively and keep in focus more than 100-year picture of changes in the analyzed indicators. …”
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Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Cigarette Smokers and Use of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abdul Hameed, Daud Malik

“…However, when asked why they had not succeeded, 52.9% reported addiction to nicotine as the main impediment. In Pakistan, lack of smoking cessation services is the weak link in the fight against the tobacco epidemic. …”
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Evaluating regional sustainable energy potential through hierarchical clustering and machine learning by Selen Avcı Azkeskin, Zerrin Aladağ

“…First, the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm is employed to perform fuzzy clustering using three main criteria and three different distance metrics—Euclidean, Manhattan, and Minkowski—, resulting in 21 clustering scenarios. …”
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Peculiarities of normative and legal regulation for the activity of higher education institutions with specific conditions which provide training for the National Police of Ukraine by D. V. Shvets

“…It has been noted that one of the main features of the legal regulation of higher education institutions with specific learning conditions is their management by several central executive bodies. …”
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Patrons and clients. The specificity of female clientelism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of the seventeenth century. Research postulates. by Bożena Popiołek

“…The vast majority of scholars focus mainly on male patron-client relations. They seek these ties in a court, military and dietine (sejmiki) environment. …”
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Recruitment and retention of participants in randomised controlled trials: a review of trials funded and published by the United Kingdom Health Technology Assessment Programme by Stephen J Walters, Daniel Hind, Richard M Jacques, Steven A Julious, Joanne Rothwell, Oscar Bortolami, Laura Flight, Inês Bonacho dos Anjos Henriques-Cadby, Christopher Knox, Ben Nadin, Michael Surtees

“…Many trials fail to reach their planned sample size within the envisaged trial timescale and trial funding envelope.Objectives To review the consent, recruitment and retention rates for single and multicentre randomised control trials funded and published by the UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme.Data sources and study selection HTA reports of individually randomised single or multicentre RCTs published from the start of 2004 to the end of April 2016 were reviewed.Data extraction Information was extracted, relating to the trial characteristics, sample size, recruitment and retention by two independent reviewers.Main outcome measures Target sample size and whether it was achieved; recruitment rates (number of participants recruited per centre per month) and retention rates (randomised participants retained and assessed with valid primary outcome data).Results This review identified 151 individually RCTs from 787 NIHR HTA reports. …”
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INFLUENCE OF EXOGENOUSLY APPLIED AMINO ACIDS ON SOME GROWTH TRAITS AND YIELDS OF THREE WHEAT CULTIVARS (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) by I. A. Sarhan, S. I. Neamah

“…The investigation was conducted using a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replicates in a split-plot arrangement. The main plots contained amino acid concentrations of 0, 3.0, and 6.0 ml L-1 together with the Iba 99, Al- Rasheed, and Abu Ghraib-3 wheat cultivars in the subplots. …”
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Abnormal Migration of Distal End of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Retrospective Case Series at Sohag University by Ahmed Kamal Abdelhameid, Khaled Nasser Fadle, Bahaa Ghareeb Hassanin

“…Results: We included twelve patients with median age 12.5 months and male to female ratio (3:1) manifested by ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication: extrusion through the anus ( 4 cases 33.3%), scrotum (two patients 16.7%) other sites( 6 patients 50%) like: coiling of the distal end around the flusher, migration to the urinary bladder or flanks, myelomeningocele wound, and an exploratory wound. The main complaint was the fever (100%), early meningeal symptoms (50%). …”
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Survival Outcomes of a Large Cohort of Acral Melanoma Patients Treated at a South African Referral Hospital by Bianca Tod, Tonya Esterhuizen, Willem Visser, Maritha Kotze, Anne Bowcock, Johann Schneider, Henriette Burger

“…Analysis occurred in 2022 and 2023. The main outcomes of interest were survival time in months (overall and progression-free, OS and PFS). …”
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Psychoemotional states under pandemics / Stări psihoemoționale asociate situației pandemice by BALODE Neli

“…We also asked participants to indicate what kind of news about the virus they were mainly focused on: a) news emphasizing exclusively the threats and danger of the new virus; b) news relating about the research, findings and scientific progress made in understanding the new virus; 3) avoid reading any news related to pandemics and the virus. …”
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Vitamin D Status and Usual Nutrient Intake of Filipino Children Aged 6–12 Years in Selected Areas in the Philippines: A 2018 National Nutrition Survey by Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa, Keith V. Tanda

“…The usual intake of vitamin D (2 μg/day) among children was below the adequate intake of 5 μg/day. The main food sources of vitamin D are coming from fish (53%), pork (19%), and egg/egg dishes (16%). …”
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Étude multicritères sur le passage à un régime sans fruits chez les Cébidés et les Cercopithécidés by Flore Viallard, Sébastien Lefebvre, Alexandre Petry, Irène Vonfeld, Benoît Quintard

“…Diets in captivity are often higher in non-structural carbohydrates and lower in fibre, resulting in health issues such as obesity, dental issues, diarrhoea and behavioural problems. The main objective of this study was to establish and monitor a change to a fruit-free diet in five species of primates (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris, Cercopithecus hamlyni, Allochrocebus lhoesti, Cercopithecus roloway, Sapajus xanthosternos). …”
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FACTORS RELATED TO INCIDENCE OF MALNUTRITION IN UNDER FIVE CHILDREN by Jaa Oktafa Once Okta, Annasari Mustafa, Ika Yudianti

“…Background: Malnutrition is one of the main nutritional problems in Indonesia and East Java. …”
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Development of Carbon Emission Disclosure Indicators in Indonesia and Analysis of Determining Factors by Septiani Fransisca, Bernadette Robiani, Inten Meutia, Yusnaini Yusnaini

“…Furthermore, this research analyses various determinants that affect carbon emission disclosure. There are four main groups of variables determined in this study, namely financial performance, ownership, committee, and board of directors. …”
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