Evaluating Families’ Opinions of Routine Influenza Vaccination in Children Under 5 Years of Age in Spain by Sílvia Burgaya-Subirana, Anna Ruiz-Comellas, Queralt Miró Catalina, Mònica Balaguer

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1-Bit/2-Level Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Comparator and FPGA for Aperture Synthesis Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager by Xiangzhou Guo, Ghulam Mehdi, Muhammad Asif, Anyong Hu, Jungang Miao

“…The sampled data are captured by field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to perform further signal processing, and a data capture module performing the serial-to-parallel conversion and per-bit deskew is designed in the FPGA to transfer sampled data from the sampling clock domain to the internal processing clock domain. …”
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Navigating the Challenges of Sustainability in the Food Processing Chain: Insights into Energy Interventions to Reduce Footprint by Orlando Corigliano, Pietropaolo Morrone, Angelo Algieri

“…Investigations have revealed that the food system is highly energy-intensive, accounting for approximately 30% of total energy consumption (200 EJ per year). The sector remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels. …”
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Melatonin attenuates MPP+-induced autophagy via heat shock protein in the Parkinson’s disease mouse model by Yinli Guo, Chengbo Liu

“…Methods Twelve adult male C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into four groups (normal control, melatonin control, Parkinson’s model, and melatonin treatment; n = 3 per group) and housed in a single cage. 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) was injected intraperitoneally in the Parkinson’s model and treatment groups to establish a subacute PD model, while controls received saline. …”
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Analysis of macular retinal thickness in polyarteritis nodosa using spectral domain optical coherence tomography by Che-Ning Yang, Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Ting Hsieh

“…The RNFL was thinned by 1.22 μm per year of disease progression (95% confidence interval: 0.12, 2.32, p = 0.042). …”
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Low-Load Blood-flow Restriction Training for Medial Tibial Stress-Syndrome in Athletes: A Case Series by Anders F. Brekke, Johanne Bjørklund, Rosa C. Holse, Christian Larsen, Mikkel H. Hjortshoej

“…Participants underwent a progressive six-week home-based LL-BFR training intervention with three sessions per week and were allowed to continue sports activities if pain was ≤ NRS 5. …”
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Brazilian Dialysis Survey 2023 by Fabiana B. Nerbass, Helbert do Nascimento Lima, Jorge P. Strogoff-de-Matos, Bruno Zawadzki, José A. Moura-Neto, Jocemir Ronaldo Lugon, Ricardo Sesso

“…The estimated prevalence and incidence rates of patients per million population (pmp) were 771 and 251, respectively. …”
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Urban Economic Structures as Multidimensional Networks: A Complex Systems Framework for Analyzing Economic Development Trajectories by Shade T. Shutters

“…Traditional notions of economic structure are ambiguous and simplistic and typically consist of simple distributions, such as number of workers per industry. Yet to better understand, guide, or respond to system transitions, planners must move beyond these nebulous notions toward a theoretically grounded, quantifiable definition of economic structure. …”
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Modeling and Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock Using Sentinel-2 Imagery in Chure Region, Nepal by Ananta Poudel, Him Lal Shrestha, Niraj Mahat, Garima Sharma, Sahara Aryal, Rupesh Kalakheti, Basanta Lamsal

“…Finally, the developed regression equation was used to map AGB in the study area. The AGB per pixel ranges from 0 to 129.18 t·h−1, whereas the amount of CS ranges from 0 to 61.01 t·h−1. …”
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Evaluating the strength, durability and porosity characteristics of alluvial clay stabilized with marble dust as a sustainable binder by Mohamad Hanafi, Israf Javed, Abdullah Ekinci

“…ALM increased linearly with wet-dry cycles, with higher compaction and binder content reducing mass loss per cycle. More marble dust, however, led to greater mass loss at both curing ages, attributed to reduced cement content.…”
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Thrips dynamics in Allium crops: Unraveling the role of reproductive mode and weather variables in Thrips tabaci population development. by Bettina Porta, Ben Vosman, Pablo González Barrios, Richard G F Visser, Guillermo A Galván, Olga E Scholten

“…The thrips populations from each location studied were characterized by sequencing 33 individuals per sampling using the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Landslide Susceptibility Assessment: Review of Recent Progress by Muratbek Kudaibergenov, Serik Nurakynov, Berik Iskakov, Gulnara Iskaliyeva, Yelaman Maksum, Elmira Orynbassarova, Bakytzhan Akhmetov, Nurmakhambet Sydyk

“…Their relation to the AI models is illustrated using Sankey diagram, while a radar chart is used to further visualize the dataset size per reviewed work for comparative purposes. In the main part of the current review work, the main findings are summarized into a table form, where the reader can find the overall relations between landslide conditioning factors, landslide dataset size, applied AI models, and their accuracy on predicting LSM for selected geographical locations. …”
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Preamble Design and Noncoherent ToA Estimation for Pulse-Based Wireless Networks-on-Chip Communications in the Terahertz Band by Pankaj Singh, Sung-Yoon Jung

“…Recent advancements highlight the potential of the terahertz (THz) band, a largely untapped frequency range, for enabling ultrafast tera-bit-per-second links in chip multiprocessors. However, the ultrashort duration of THz pulses, often in the femtosecond range, makes synchronization a critical challenge, as even minor timing errors can cause significant data loss. …”
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Analysis of orthopaedic private healthcare patterns in England: A potential emerging two-tier system by Lucy McCann, Ian Holdroyd, Rowan Emberson, Helena Painter, John Ford

“…Methods: We analysed orthopaedic surgical volumes per 10,000 people using Private Healthcare Information Network data in England from 2019 to 2023 and compared them with waiting times in publicly funded health care provided by the NHS. …”
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Functional Outcomes and Reading Speeds following PRESBYOND LBV Using Nonlinear Aspheric Ablation Profiles Combined with Micro-Monovision by Sheetal Brar, Smith Snehal Sute, Sheetal N. Bagare, Sri Ganesh

“…The uncorrected reading speeds (words per minute) at the preferred reading distance of 46.17 cm, 60 cm, and 80 cm were significantly better (p value <0.01), whereas the smallest letter size and reading acuities were comparable to the preoperative values (p>0.05 for all distances). …”
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Nearly One in Three Lactating Mothers Is Suffering from Inadequate Dietary Diversity in Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia by Netsanet Fentahun, Elisabeth Alemu

“…Adequate dietary diversity was significantly associated with mobile phone usage (OR: 2.3; 95% CI: 1.15–4.55); practice of home gardening (OR: 4.1; 95% CI: 1.71–9.87); pulses production (OR: 4.8; 95% CI: 2.50–9.32); delivery in health center (OR: 4.7; 95% CI: 1.80–12.25); food secured household (OR: 2.4; 95% CI: 1.25–4.62); three meals per day within the previous seven days (OR: 11.12; 95% CI: 2.74–45.24); and practice of income generating activity (OR: 4.00; 95% CI: 2–8.33). …”
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Utilization of black soldier flies to reduce grease waste and support zero waste by Deffi Ayu Puspito Sari, Amelia Mumtaz, Diki Irawan, Prismita Nursetyowati, Aurino Djamaris

“…Univariate analysis using SPSS was conducted to determine the significance of differences in waste reduction, feed consumption, conversion efficiency of digested feed, and larvae biomass among the experimental groups.Results: The 16-day-old larvae fed with pure grease waste achieved a waste reduction index of 20.08 grams per day. Moreover, variations in feed composition influenced the growth rate of BSFL, with larvae fed a mixture of grease waste and expired milk exhibiting the largest weight (43 mg) and length (1.4 cm) among the 16-day-old larvae.Conclusion: Black Soldier Fly Larvae at 16 days old displayed remarkable effectiveness in reducing grease waste from restaurants. …”
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A Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) based framework and implementation tool for dietitians at South African central and tertiary public hospitals by Vertharani Nolene Naicker, Jane W. Muchiri, Keshan Naidoo, Modiehi Heather Legodi

“…Dietitians AWT at these facilities was calculated as 1528 h per year. A final list of 45 WC and aligned AS was obtained and provided the necessary contextualization. …”
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Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression in RAW264.7 Macrophage Cells to Study Phagocytosis by Parsa Kamali, Gregory Fairn

“…This makes phagocytosis experiments easier since more cells can be analyzed per experiment, allowing for population-based measurements where a ~10% transient transfection rate is insufficient. …”
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Benefits and Challenges of California Offshore Wind Electricity: An Updated Assessment by Adam Rose, Nathaniel Gundersen, Yamini Kumar, Joshua Jacobs, Isabel Reynoso, Najmedin Meshkati

“…First, we note that while estimates of OSW’s costs per MWh of installed capacity have generally documented and projected a long-term decline, recent technical, microeconomic, and macroeconomic factors have caused significant backsliding of this momentum. …”
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