Comparison of Perceived Achievement of Complex Thinking Competency Among American, European, and Asian University Students by José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, Jenny Paola Lis-Gutiérrez, Linda Carolina Henao-Rodriguez, Carlos Enrique George-Reyes, Claudia Lorena Tramon-Pregnan, Susana Del Río-Urenda, Ma Esther B. Chio, Rasikh Tariq

“…It was found that (i) there is no statistically significant difference by gender; (ii) there are statistically significant differences in all types of thinking per country, geographical area (continent), and Human Development Index (HDI).…”
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Analysis of operation and emission characteristics of refrigerated-vehicles based on remote technology by Xionghui Zou, Yanyan Yang, Zhengjun Yang, Jingyuan Li, Yu Liu, Yang Lu, Qian Feng

“…The urea levels of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles decreased by approximately 3 %–5 % per 100 km, and this trend in urea consumption paralleled the monthly variations in vehicle fuel consumption.…”
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High Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Networks: Cooperative and Cognitive Techniques by Heng Wang, Jiamo Jiang, Jian Li, Manzoor Ahmed, Mugen Peng

“…Heterogeneous network (HetNet) is considered as the main and eminent future communication technology, since it achieves high spectral efficiency per unit area and saves energy due to low transmission power. …”
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Preparation of Lipid Nanoemulsions Incorporating Curcumin for Cancer Therapy by Songyot Anuchapreeda, Yoshinobu Fukumori, Siriporn Okonogi, Hideki Ichikawa

“…The resultant nanoemulsions showed mean particle diameter of 47–55 nm, could incorporate 23–28 mg curcumin per 30 mL, and were stable in particle size for 60 days at 4°C. …”
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Motivation for Participating in a Weight Loss Program and Financial Incentives: An Analysis from a Randomized Trial by Melissa M. Crane, Deborah F. Tate, Eric A. Finkelstein, Laura A. Linnan

“…This analysis used data from a year-long randomized worksite weight loss program that randomly assigned employees in each worksite to either a low-intensity weight loss program or the same program plus small financial incentives for weight loss ($5.00 per percentage of initial weight lost). There were no differences in changes between groups on motivation during the study, however, increases in autonomous motivation were consistently associated with greater weight losses. …”
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Phenolic Profile and Antioxidant Activity of Crude Extracts from Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Strains by Idaira Jerez-Martel, Sara García-Poza, Gara Rodríguez-Martel, Milagros Rico, Cristina Afonso-Olivares, Juan Luis Gómez-Pinchetti

“…The strain Euglena cantabrica showed the highest concentration of phenolic compounds, particularly gallic and protocatechuic acids (5.87 and 2.97 mg per gram of dried biomass, resp.). Aqueous and methanolic extracts of microalgae Euglena cantabrica also exhibited the highest antioxidant activity, probably due to the presence of the high contents of phenolics.…”
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Enhancing Public Safety Through Dynamic Switching Between Unicast and Broadcast Transmission Modes in Cellular Networks by Mohamad Younes, Yves Louet

“…In the absence of standardized norms for determining the optimum mode, we are developing a model to establish a threshold for the number of users per base station, at which point each broadcast mode between SFN and PTM becomes more spectrally efficient than conventional UC and UC with beamforming. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Lamivudine, Zidovudine and Abacavir in Tablet Dosage Forms by RP HPLC Method by D. Anantha Kumar, G. Srinivasa Rao, J. V. L. N. Seshagiri Rao

“…The proposed method was validated as per ICH and USP guidelines and it was found suitable for the routine quality control analysis of the drugs in tablet dosage forms.…”
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The Impact of Socio-Economic Challenges and Technological Progress on Economic Inequality: An Estimation with the Perelman Model and Ricci Flow Methods by Davit Gondauri

“…The article examines the following parameters: income distribution, productivity (GDP per hour), unemployment rate, investment rate, inflation rate, migration (net negative), education level, social mobility, trade infrastructure, capital flows, innovative activities, access to healthcare, fiscal policy (budget deficit), international trade (turnover relative to GDP), social protection programs, and technological access. …”
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Development and Validation of a HPLC Method for Determination of Anastrozole in Tablet Dosage Form by D. Sathis Kumar, A. Harani, D. Sridhar, David Banji, Knv Rao, Guruviah, Yogesw Aran

“…The flow rate was 1.0 mL/min The procedure was validated as per ICH rules for Accuracy, Precision, Detection limit, Linearity, Reproducibility and Quantitation limit. …”
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Crònica legislativa de la Comunitat Valenciana. Primer semestre de 2024. by Reyes Marzal Raga

“…L’aprovació de l’anomenada Llei de llibertat educativa és un bon exemple d’aquest canvi en l’ensenyament del valencià als centres docents no universitaris, com també ho és l’aprovació de nous criteris lingüístics per a l’Administració de la Generalitat. En correspondència amb aquestes noves directrius, la toponímia ha iniciat un procés cap a la reintroducció de la denominació dels municipis en castellà, així com canvis en l’accentuació en el cas del municipi de València i d’altres curiositats que manifesten les mancances en la normalització lingüística del valencià.…”
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Real world federated learning with a knowledge distilled transformer for cardiac CT imaging by Malte Tölle, Philipp Garthe, Clemens Scherer, Jan Moritz Seliger, Andreas Leha, Nina Krüger, Stefan Simm, Simon Martin, Sebastian Eble, Halvar Kelm, Moritz Bednorz, Florian André, Peter Bannas, Gerhard Diller, Norbert Frey, Stefan Groß, Anja Hennemuth, Lars Kaderali, Alexander Meyer, Eike Nagel, Stefan Orwat, Moritz Seiffert, Tim Friede, Tim Seidler, Sandy Engelhardt

“…First, CNNs predict on unlabeled data per label type and then the transformer learns from these predictions with label-specific heads. …”
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Salivary Caries-Related Microorganisms and Demographics of a Group of Children by Alhan Ahmed Qasim, Muna Saleem Khalaf, Ghada Ibrahim Taha, Zainab Juma Jafar

“…After incubation, Streptococcus mutans counting of CFU (colony forming units) with morphology characterization and numbers of CFU per milliliter of saliva for lactobacilli. Demographic factors information was collected using a questionnaire. …”
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Evaluation of Relations between Extreme Precipitation and Temperature in Observational Time Series from the Czech Republic by Marta Martinkova, Martin Hanel

“…From the Clausius-Clapeyron relation (CC) it follows that the maximum moisture content of the atmosphere increases by approximately 7% per degree as temperature rises. However, the increases in observed hourly precipitation extremes of approximately two times the CC relation were described recently. …”
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Defining and Diagnosing Obesity in India: A Call for Advocacy and Action by Sanjay Kalra, Nitin Kapoor, Madhur Verma, Shehla Shaikh, Sambit Das, Jubbin Jacob, Rakesh Sahay

“…Developing countries are experiencing a more dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity in recent years. As per National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5), one in every four Indians is now having obesity. …”
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Online Incremental Learning for High Bandwidth Network Traffic Classification by H. R. Loo, S. B. Joseph, M. N. Marsono

“…The proposed incremental k-means classification using Manhattan distance can classify network traffic 3 times faster than Euclidean distance at 671 thousands flow instances per second.…”
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Variation in Anti-icing Power of Superhydrophobic Electrothermal Film under Different Temperatures and Wind Speeds by Shijie Xue, Yihua Liu, Yu Wang, Bing Xiao, Xiaoxin Shi, Jingchun Yao, Xianglian Lv, Weizheng Yuan, Yang He

“…It can be concluded that the water collection rate per unit area W and wetting coefficient ξw are the main factors affecting the power consumption of the superhydrophobic electrothermal film. …”
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The effect of different levels of sodium bicarbonate in lambs'ration on growth performance by Behiç Coşkun, Şakir Doğan Tuncer, Mehmet Ali Tekeş, Ali Akmaz, Şeref İnal

“…Total feed consumption for all groups were 1750; 1773 and 1817 g respectively. Total feed intake per kg weight gain were found to be 7.51; 9.19 and 8.78 kg, respectively.…”
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Landscape diversity promotes landscape functioning in North America by Sarah Mayor, Florian Altermatt, Thomas W. Crowther, Iris Hordijk, Simon Landauer, Jacqueline Oehri, Merin Reji Chacko, Michael E. Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus

“…Here, we show that landscape-level diversity, measured as number of land-cover types (different ecosystems) per 250×250 m, is positively related to landscape-wide remotely-sensed primary production across all of North America, covering 16 of 18 ecoregions of Earth. …”
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Using Infrared Raman Spectroscopy with Machine Learning and Deep Learning as an Automatic Textile-Sorting Technology for Waste Textiles by Pei-Fen Tsai, Shyan-Ming Yuan

“…Furthermore, AI technologies, including PCA, KNN, SVM, RF, ANN, and CNN, are integrated into the sorting process, further enhancing the efficiency to 1 piece per second with a precision of over 95% in grouping textiles based on the fiber compositional analysis. …”
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