Investigation of the Impact of Combustion Chamber Geometry on Engine Combustion and Emission Performance Under Various Fuel Injection Timings With Biodiesel Blending by Dongge Wang, Guangyuan Bao, Chao He, Jiaqiang Li, Yanlin Chen, Longqing Zhao, Haisheng Yu

“…ABSTRACT This study uses AVL FIRE 2020 R1 software for simulation and experimental verification to deeply analyze the impact of combustion chamber geometry and biodiesel on diesel engine performance at different injection timings. …”
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Hybrid Method for Point Cloud Classification by Abdurrahman Hazer, Remzi Yildirim

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U-Sodar: Noncontact Vital Sign Detection Technology Based on Ultrasonic Radar by Shuaiming HUANG, Xiaohua ZHU, Wubin WANG, Heng ZHAO, Hong HONG

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Variations in the Urinary Iodine Concentration and Urinary Iodine/Creatinine Ratio among Preschool Children by Dong An, Rui Yang, Yuping Du, Xuan Wang, Ying Yang, Wenxing Guo, Junhong Yang, Dongmei Meng, Weiwei Gao, Jiayi Zhang, Wen Chen, Wanqi Zhang

“…In addition, the UIC and UI/Cr ratio showed moderate correlations (r = 0.52, P < 0.001), with kappa values of 0.42 in assessing iodine nutrition. …”
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Inflammatory proteins related to depression in multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis by L.A. Kiropoulos, V. Rozenblat, N. Baes

“…A meta-analysis showed that higher concentrations of TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-6 and IL-10 were significantly associated with higher levels of depression in individuals with MS (r = 0.35, 95% CI [0.6,0.03], p = .015. Meta-analyses undertaken for individual inflammatory proteins of IFN-γ and IL-10 found positive associations between these proteins and level of depression although these did not reach statistical significance. …”
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Dynamic characteristics of a two-phase mechanically pumped cooling loop for avionics by Shaohuan Qi, Zhaohao Xu, Jiale Wang, Yu Xu

“…Here, an experimental MPCL system charged with R134a was established, and its performance was evaluated under cold source temperatures of 16–46 °C and heat fluxes of 50–150 kW/m2. …”
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Osteopontin Expression in the Brain Triggers Localized Inflammation and Cell Death When Immune Cells Are Activated by Pertussis Toxin by Maria Cecilia Garibaldi Marcondes, Ryan Ojakian, Nikki Bortell, Claudia Flynn, Bruno Conti, Howard S. Fox

“…Relative to β-gal, OPN increased the levels of inflammatory markers, including IL13Rα1, CXCR3, and CD40L. In Ptx-treated OPN KOs, apoptotic TUNEL+ cells surrounding the OPN expression site increased, compared to β-gal. …”
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Trend Analysis of Lake Surface Temperatures in Lake Van by Kebir Emre Saraçoğlu, Fevziye Ayça Saraçoğlu

“…Measurement data covering for the period of 2016-2020 and NASA-Day, NASA-Night satellite data were highly compatible (R=0,94- 0,99). NASA-Night water surface temperatures were found to be more compatible with measurement data than NASA-Day satellite data. …”
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Microwave spectroscopy assisted by electromagnetically induced transparency near natural Förster resonance on Rubidium by Naomy Duarte Gomes, Daniel Varela Magalhães, J.D. Massayuki Kondo, Luis Gustavo Marcassa

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Empathy and attitude of university students toward students with disabilities in Jordan: A cross-sectional study by Mutaz F. ALRADAYDEH, Izzeddin A. BDAIR, Gladys Marie L. MARIBBAY

“…The level of empathy among university students was negatively correlated with the total score of ATDP (r = -.197, p≤ .001). Discussion: The findings suggest that exposure to students with disabilities' culture may promote positive attitudes and better cultural understanding toward them. …”
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Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Impact on Life Quality in a Cohort of Russian Patients with Parkinson’s Disease I-III H&Y Stage by A. A. Pilipovich, O. V. Vorob’eva, S. A. Makarov, N. N. Shindryaeva, Yu D. Vorob’eva

“…The use of the stepwise method, adding GSRS-SI and UPDRS III scores to the BDI predictor, improved the model (R2 increased from 0.454 to 0.574). The investigation of GSRS domain’s influence revealed that PDQ-39 SI had a significant correlation with almost all of them, but the regression analysis showed significant QoL impacts of only two factors: constipation and abdominal pain (β = 0.288, p<0.01 and β = 0.243, p<0.05 accordingly). …”
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Educating the future: Serbian healthcare students’ knowledge and attitudes toward urinary incontinence by Dragana Milutinović, Dragana Simin, Marijana Ostoić, Sonja Golubović, Dragana Živković

“…Kuder-Richardson Coefficient (K-R 20) showed high reliability of the UIKS at 0.83, while Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.62 for the UIAS. …”
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Modeling Soil Behavior with Machine Learning: Static and Cyclic Properties of High Plasticity Clays Treated with Lime and Fly Ash by Gebrail Bekdaş, Yaren Aydın, Sinan Melih Nigdeli, İnci Süt Ünver, Wook-Won Kim, Zong Woo Geem

“…The results showed that these ML techniques can predict the static and cyclic properties of extremely high plasticity clays with high performance (R² > 0.99). These results highlight the general applicability of the used ML models on different datasets containing soil properties.…”
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An improved SPWM control approach with aid of ant lion optimization for minimizing the THD in multilevel inverters by Alaa M. Abdel-hamed, Abdelrahman M. Nasser, Hamdy Shatla, Amr Refky

“…Experimental results validation of the suggested scheme, using a dSPACE R&D controller board unequivocally, confirmed its robustness and effectiveness. …”
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Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the chloroplast genome of endangered Impatiens chishuiensis by LAN Wenxiang, MO Qing, HUANG Haiquan, HUANG Meijuan

“…It encodes a total of 120 genes, including 95 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 17 tRNA genes. (2) A total of 87 SSR sequences was detected. 20 327 codons were detected, with leucine (Leu) being the most abundant and tryptophan (Trp) being the least. (3) Impatiens was divided into two subgenera, including subg. …”
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Optimizing Hydrogen Production in the Co-Gasification Process: Comparison of Explainable Regression Models Using Shapley Additive Explanations by Thavavel Vaiyapuri

“…Support Vector Regression (SVR) exhibited superior performance, achieving the highest coefficient of determination (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>) of 0.86. …”
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Ameliyathane Hemşirelerinde Zihinsel Yorgunluk ile Klinik Karar Verme Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi by Özlem İbrahimoğlu, Betül Güven

“…Zihinsel Yorgunluk Ölçeği ile Hemşirelikte Klinik Karar Verme Ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması arasında negatif yönde ve zayıf şiddette istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu belirlendi (r = -0,165; p lt; 0,05).Sonuç: Ameliyathane hemşirelerinin zihinsel yorgunluğunun klinik karar vermelerini olumsuz yönde etkilediği sonucuna ulaşıldı. …”
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Mitochondrial ATP-Sensitive K+ Channel Opening Increased the Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation by Activating the PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathway in a Rat Model of Asthma by Min Gao, Qinran Sun, Qingfa Liu

“…The ASMCs were treated with a potent activator of mitoKATP, diazoxide, or an inhibitor of mitoKATP, 5-hydroxydecanoate (5-HD). Rhodamine-123 (R-123) was used for detecting the mitochondrial membrane potential (Δψm). …”
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Ranging Method for Navigation Based on High-Speed Frequency-Hopping Signal by En Yuan, Wangdong Qi, Peng Liu, Li Wei, Longliang Chen

“…Finally, we formed a time&#x2013;frequency matrix, so that a high UMR could be guaranteed without any harmful consequences on the ranging accuracy in the middle to high levels of the signal-to-noise ratio. The Cram&#x00E9;r&#x2013;Rao lower bound of TFMR is derived as the benchmark of the method. …”
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Enhanced Blastocystis subtyping from stool samples using semi-nested barcode PCR: validation with an NGS-based approach by Carlos Nieto-Clavijo, Liliana Morales, Andrés Delgado-Aldana, Paula C. Hernández, Isabel Torres-Molina, Amanda Gonzalez-Cuiza, Fabián Cortés-Muñoz, Jacqueline Chaparro-Olaya

“…In 2006, a PCR method was introduced to subtype Blastocystis by Sanger sequencing of an ≈610 bp amplicon of the 18S rRNA gene. This method, known as barcoding-PCR, has become widespread, although the primer pair used can amplify non-Blastocystis sequences, which can result in false positives. …”
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