Electron–phonon coupling and coherent energy superposition induce spin-sensitive orbital degeneracy for enhanced acidic water oxidation by Yanfeng Shi, Lupeng Wang, Miao Liu, Zuozheng Xu, Peilin Huang, Lizhe Liu, Yuanhong Xu

“…This selective rearrangement in RuMW-Mn1-xCrxO2 with particular spin-differentiated polarizations can induce localized spin domain inversion from reversed to parallel direction, which makes RuMW-Mn1-xCrxO2 demonstrate a high current density of 1.0 A cm−2 at 1.88 V and over 300 h of stability in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer. The cost per gallon of gasoline equivalent of the hydrogen produced is only 43% of the 2026 target set by the U.S. …”
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Metallic Nanotube Array Enabling Far Infrared Thermal Emitter Performance Enhancement by Hansen Kurniawan Njoto, Alfreda Krisna Altama, Wei-Xing Lu, Ting-Hao Chang, Kuan-Chou Lin, San-Liang Lee, Jinn P. Chu, Chih-Ting Lin

“…The device incorporating stainless steel MeNTA exhibits 1.4 times improvement in luminous efficiency, reaching 7.45 × 10^−3, accompanied by a radiated power of 11.034 mW and 0.681 mW/mm² radiated power per area. These outcomes suggest the potential for expanding the fabrication process with alternative geometries and periods to tailor specific infrared emissions, which enables suitable thermal emitters for biomedical applications.…”
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Contributions of Nonleaf Organs to the Yield of Cotton Grown with Different Water Supply by Dongxia Zhan, Ying Yang, Yuanyuan Hu, Yali Zhang, Honghai Luo, Wangfeng Zhang

“…Water deficit reduced the total surface area per plant but increased the proportion of nonleaf to total plant surface area. …”
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Cross-Country Analysis of Funding Models of Medical Organizations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic by S. S. Budarin, D. O. Vatolin, Iu. V. Elbek

“…It is based on the assumption that declining number of visits to medical organizations reduces the level of organizations’ expenditures while maintaining the volume of their income at almost the same level due to the principle of per capita state financing of medical organizations that provide outpatient medical care. …”
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Different Strategies for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in China: An Economic Evaluation by Bin Wu, Jin Li, Houwen Lin, Haixiang Wu

“…Treatment with ranibizumab provided the greatest gains in quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). The cost per marginal QALY gained with bevacizumab over usual care was $1,258, $3,803, and $2,066 for the predominantly classic, minimally classic, and occult lesions, respectively. …”
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A Calibration Approach for Elasticity Estimation with Medical Tools by Grube S., Neidhardt M., Hermann A.-K., Sprenger J., Abdolazizi K., Latus S., Cyron C. J., Schlaefer A.

“…Considering the temperature of the gelatin sample we can represent different elasticities per phantom and thereby increase our training data.We report elasticity values ranging from 10 to 40 kPa for a 10% gelatin phantom, depending on temperature.…”
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Inhalative IL-10 Attenuates Pulmonary Inflammation following Hemorrhagic Shock without Major Alterations of the Systemic Inflammatory Response by Philipp Kobbe, Philipp Lichte, Helen Schreiber, Lucy Kathleen Reiss, Stefan Uhlig, Hans-Christoph Pape, Roman Pfeifer

“…Male C57/BL6 mice (8 animals per group) were subjected to pressure-controlled hemorrhagic shock for 1.5 hrs followed by resuscitation and inhalative administration of either 50 μL PBS (Shock group) or 50 μg/kg recombinant mouse IL-10 dissolved in 50 μL PBS (Shock + IL-10 group). …”
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An Innovative Approach to Treat Incisors Hypomineralization (MIH): A Combined Use of Casein Phosphopeptide-Amorphous Calcium Phosphate and Hydrogen Peroxide—A Case Report by Stefano Mastroberardino, Guglielmo Campus, Laura Strohmenger, Alessandro Villa, Maria Grazia Cagetti

“…The patient was instructed to use CPP-ACP for two hours per day for three months in order to obtain enamel remineralization followed by a combined use of CPP-ACP and bleaching agent for further two months. …”
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Synthesis, Microstructural Characterization, Mechanical, Fractographic and Wear Behavior of Micro B4C Particles Reinforced Al2618 Alloy Aerospace Composites by G. Veeresha, B. Manjunatha, V. Bharath, Madeva Nagaral, Virupaxi Auradi

“…. % of B4C composites were studied as per ASTM G99 standards with varying loads and sliding speeds. …”
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An ultra-simplified protocol for PCR template preparation from both unsporulated and sporulated Eimeria oocysts by Aruto Takano, Dennis V. Umali, April H. Wardhana, Dyah H. Sawitri, Isao Teramoto, Toshimitsu Hatabu, Yasutoshi Kido, Akira Kaneko, Kazumi Sasai, Hiromitsu Katoh, Makoto Matsubayashi

“…The most sensitive PCR assay was achieved with the template prepared by disrupting oocysts suspended in distilled water, followed by bead-beating and heating at 99°C for 5 min, which detected 0.16 oocysts per PCR. This ultra-simplified protocol for preparation of PCR template, which does not require expensive reagents or equipment, will significantly enhance the sensitive and efficient molecular identification of Eimeria. …”
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MD-Unet for tobacco leaf disease spot segmentation based on multi-scale residual dilated convolutions by Zili Chen, Yilong Peng, Jiadong Jiao, Aiguo Wang, Laigang Wang, Wei Lin, Yan Guo

“…Furthermore, the model parameters, floating-point operations, and inference time per single image for MD-Unet were 4.65 × 107, 2.3392 × 1011, and 65.096 ms, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of Polyethylene-Based Long Lasting Treated Bed Net Netprotect on Anopheles Mosquitoes, Malaria Incidence, and Net Longivity in Western Kenya by M. T. O. Odhiambo, O. Skovmand, J. M. Vulule, E. D. Kokwaro

“…This index summarizes the numbers of holes in size categories and multiplies with the mean hole area per category. It is very sensitive to the impact of big holes in a few nets.…”
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Growth and Fruit Yield of Okro as Influenced by Genotypes and Mulch in the Guinea Savannah Conditions of Ghana by Richard Yaw Agyare, Mashark Seidu Abdulai, Samuel Saaka Buah, Emmanuel Ayipio, Samuel Kwame Bonsu, Regine Tchientche Kamga

“…The genotype Sasilon had the tallest plants (82.6 cm) and the highest fruit yield under all mulch conditions while Koni had the widest fruits (34.1 mm) with TZ SMN 10-3 having the longest fruits (16.11 cm). Number of fruits per plant ranged from 30 to 11 with an average of 21. …”
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El Constitucionalismo social, una visión desde el crecimiento económico en las instituciones públicas: el caso de los Ayuntamientos e INE del estado de Colima by Edgar Alfredo Nande Vázquez, Angélica Yedit Prado Rebolledo, Felipe Lázaro Barajas

“…Este artículo tiene como propósito reflexionar respecto a los derechos humanos de segunda generación y el cumplimiento de su objetivo, que es, determinar si el bienestar económico y la consolidación de su desarrollo en la entidad ha sido próspera, para ello, es necesario medir el impacto de variables de tipo económico sobre su crecimiento sugerido por el PIB per cápita del 2010 a 2021 en los Ayuntamientos del Estado de Colima y el INE como instituciones públicas, concretamente, si los indicadores económicos de gestión y del periodo de elecciones, responden de manera positiva en los indicadores de crecimiento económico (PIB). …”
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One-year mortality and re-admission rate by disease etiology in National Heart Failure Registry of India by Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Ajay Bahl, Ambuj Roy, Animesh Mishra, Jayesh Prajapati, CN Manjunath, Rishi Sethi, Santanu Guha, Santhosh Satheesh, RS Dhaliwal, Meenakshi Sharma, Sanjay Ganapathy, Panniyammakal Jeemon

“…Ischemic heart disease (71.9%), dilated cardiomyopathy (17.3), rheumatic heart disease (5.4), non-rheumatic valvular heart disease (1.9), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (0.8), congenital heart disease (0.7), peri-partum cardiomyopathy (0.5), restrictive cardiomyopathy (0.4), and infective endocarditis (0.1) were the main disease etiologies. Mortality rate per 100-person years of follow-up varied from 13.8 (95% CI: 6.2–30.7) in peri-partum cardiomyopathy to 92.9 (46.5–185.9) in infective endocarditis. …”
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Adaptive Evolutionary Optimization of Deep Learning Architectures for Focused Liver Ultrasound Image Segmentation by Ali Zifan, Katelyn Zhao, Madilyn Lee, Zihan Peng, Laura J. Roney, Sarayu Pai, Jake T. Weeks, Michael S. Middleton, Ahmed El Kaffas, Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, Claude B. Sirlin

“…The algorithm simultaneously adjusts the depth (number of layers) and width (neurons per layer) of the network, dropout, and skip connections. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of a Threatened African Tree Species, Milicia excelsa, Using Nuclear Microsatellites DNA Markers by Christine Ouinsavi, Nestor Sokpon, Damase P. Khasa

“…All loci were variable, with the mean number of alleles per locus ranging from 5.86 to 7.69. Considerable genetic variability was detected for all populations at the seven loci (AR=4.60; HE=0.811). …”
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Canopy humidity and irrigation regimes interactively affect rice physiology, grain filling and yield during grain filling period by Le Chen, Xueyun Deng, Hongxia Duan, Xueming Tan, Xiaobing Xie, Xiaohua Pan, Lin Guo, Tao Luo, Xinbiao Chen, Hui Gao, Haiyan Wei, Hongcheng Zhang, Yongjun Zeng

“…Creating HH lowered the seed setting rate, grains per panicle and yield relative both under AWD and CF, but was rather beneficial under DC. …”
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A new combined analytical–numerical probabilistic method for assessing the impact of DERs on the voltage stability of bulk power systems by Wanjoli, Paul, Moustafa, Mohamed M. Zakaria, Abbasy, Nabil H.

“…It closely matches MCS voltage estimates but requires fewer iterations (500 per loading increment) compared to MCS’s 1000, leading to faster computation times (a few hours to one day versus up to three days for MCS). …”
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A systematic analysis of the contribution of genetics to multimorbidity and comparisons with primary care dataResearch in context by Olivia Murrin, Ninon Mounier, Bethany Voller, Linus Tata, Carlos Gallego-Moll, Albert Roso-Llorach, Lucía A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Chris Fox, Louise M. Allan, Ruby M. Woodward, Xiaoran Liang, Jose M. Valderas, Sara M. Khalid, Frank Dudbridge, Sally E. Lamb, Mary Mancini, Leon Farmer, Kate Boddy, Jack Bowden, David Melzer, Timothy M. Frayling, Jane A.H. Masoli, Luke C. Pilling, Concepción Violán, João Delgado

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