Antimicrobial Evaluation of Bacterial Isolates from Urine Specimen of Patients with Complaints of Urinary Tract Infections in Awka, Nigeria by Perpetua A. Ekwealor, Malachy C. Ugwu, Ifeanyi Ezeobi, George Amalukwe, Belinda C. Ugwu, Ugochukwu Okezie, Catherine Stanley, Charles Esimone

“…Urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for one of the major reasons for most hospital visits and the determination of the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of uropathogens will help to guide physicians on the best choice of antibiotics to recommend to affected patients. …”
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A hybrid method of optimal sensor placement for dynamic response monitoring of hydro-structures by Bo Chen, Zishen Huang, Dongjian Zheng, Liyu Zhong

“…The results showed that the method proposed in this article provides linear independent and orthogonal modal vectors, minimizing the relative mean square error of the measured vibration modes, which fundamentally indicates that the identified vibration characteristics of the concrete arch dam are accurate and reasonable.…”
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A case study of newly tunnels over-crossing the existing subway tunnels by Ben Wu, Wei Liu, Peixin Shi, Xiangyang Xu, Yingjing Liu

“…The torsional deformation of the rail bed and the convergence of the existing tunnels are explored, and the reasons for the changes of the over-crossing sections are analyzed at the same time.…”
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Displasia septo-óptica: um relato de caso sobre síndrome de Morsier by Marina Bonagurio Julio, Brenna Marques Amorim Tenorio, Helen Vinco Secchin, Juliana Brizzante Ferreira, Marina Dall'Ara de Souza

“…CONCLUSION: The pediatrician must be capable of clinical diagnostic reasoning of rare syndromes, as he is the first professional who has contact with the patient, in order to initiate early intervention, reducing associated morbidities.…”
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Overexpression of FERM Domain Containing Kindlin 2 (FERMT2) in Fibroblasts Correlates with EMT and Immunosuppression in Gastric Cancer by Sheng-yan Yin, Yuan-jie Liu, Jie-pin Li, Jian Liu

“…The mesenchymal feature, dominated by epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stromal cell activation, is one of the main reasons for the aggressive nature of tumors, yet it remains poorly understood. …”
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Integration of physiotherapy in the instructional-educational process in the correction of weight status in children by Svetlana Savițchi, EugeniuAgapii, Vladimir Rosca

“…Recovery programs should incorporate reasonable weight loss goals, dietary correction, activity management and physical activity into both theinstructional process and daily physical activity. …”
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Control Strategy of Islanded AC/DC Hybrid Microgrid Power System Based on Adaptive Segmented Double-Droop by MI Yang, GU Fuyike, LI Chunxu, BAO Wei, YAN Yuehao, LIU Xiaohui, YANG Yanan

“…Second，to plan the operating mode of the bidirectional AC/DC converter reasonably，the load states of the AC and DC subnets are divided. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Pressure Field of Curved Shell Structure Subjected to Interior Blast by Jialu Ma, Feng Fan, Lingxin Zhang, Chengqing Wu, Xudong Zhi

“…The blast loading values at specific positions were obtained with the key parameters varied within a reasonable scope. The blast loading from blast tests and simulations were presented. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Feasibility Study of Issuance of Sukuk in Iranian Economy Case Study of Mining and Mineral Industries by Hamidreza Abdollahian

“…This is one of the most important reasons why various economic sectors do not welcome Sukuk as an Islamic financing tool.…”
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Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of teaching philosophy to children on students' critical thinking by Leila Mirzaei, Zahra Golizade

“…Abstract Critical thinking is a thought process that is based on conclusions, decision-making and drawing, related data including analysis, explanation, hypothesis, reasoning and development of thinking. The present research was done by meta-analysis method and by combining the research on teaching philosophy’s effectiveness to children. …”
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Phenomenological kinetic model for biosorption of cesium (Cs) by poly-γ-glutamic acid sodium salt (γ-PGANa) by Misaki Hisada, Shigeki Sakamoto, Kenta Sugiyama, Yoshinori Kawase

“…The capability of the proposed kinetic model was proved by reasonable agreement between the model predictions and the experimental results.…”
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A cooperative control strategy for power quality based on parallel grid-connected converters by LIANG Xiaorui, LUO Yuhang, ZHANG Huaying, TU Chunming, LIU Huicong, ZHENG Yuting

“…This approach can improve the flexibility of harmonic compensation and reasonably apportion harmonic between grid-connected converter of different capacities. …”
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Novel Multiple Criteria Group Decision-Making Method Based on Hesitant Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm by Hongya Bian, Deqing Li, Yuang Liu, Rong Ma, Wenyi Zeng, Zeshui Xu

“…The results illustrate that the proposed method can provide more reasonable and credible rankings comparing with existing methods owing to keeping original data during computation.…”
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Performance Comparison of Mode Choice Optimization Algorithm with Simulated Discrete Choice Modeling by Hyuk-Jae Roh, Satish Sharma, Prasanta K. Sahu, Babak Mehran

“…The proposed algorithms show a stable estimation performance and the reasons were studied and discussed. Furthermore, useful insights educated in custom-built modeling are present.…”
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Traffic Status Prediction of Arterial Roads Based on the Deep Recurrent Q-Learning by Wei Hao, Donglei Rong, Kefu Yi, Qiang Zeng, Zhibo Gao, Wenguang Wu, Chongfeng Wei, Biljana Scepanovic

“…The research results show that the prediction of the traffic delay index is within a reasonable interval, and it is significantly better than traditional prediction methods such as the LSTM, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), exponential smoothing method, and Back Propagation (BP) neural network, which shows that the model proposed in this paper has the feasibility of application.…”
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Hackathon as a testing ground for creating digital tools in domestic Oriental studies by Kudakaev R.F., Mokretskiy A.Ch., Kostyrkin A.V.

“…Therefore, when planning and developing next-generation digital tools, it is necessary to operate at functionally and semantically higher levels of generalization closer to human reasoning.…”
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Hydrological Modeling of the Jiaoyi Watershed (China) Using HSPF Model by Chang-An Yan, Wanchang Zhang, Zhijie Zhang

“…Another result in this paper was that HSPF was also capable of estimating the water balance components reasonably and realistically in space through the whole watershed. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Study on Influence of Different Charging Structures on Blasting Vibration Energy by Wenbin Gu, Zhenxiong Wang, Jianghai Chen, Jianqing Liu, Ming Lu

“…Besides, when employing decoupling charging, there exists a reasonable decoupling coefficient helping realize impedance matching of explosive and rock.…”
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TNM-Like Classification: A New Proposed Method for Heart Failure Staging by Francesco Fedele, Maria Chiara Gatto, Alessandra D’Ambrosi, Massimo Mancone

“…With an eye on the TNM staging used in oncology, we drawn up a classification that will consider the different involvement of organs such as lungs, kidneys, and liver in addition to psychological pattern and quality of life in HF patients. For all these reasons, it is our intention to propose a valid and more specific classification available for the clinical staging of HF that takes into account pathophysiological and structural changes that can remark prognosis and management of HF.…”
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Effect of Solid-to-Gas Ratio on Powder Fuel Mixing in a Cavity-Based Supersonic Combustion Chamber with Induced Shock: A Numerical Study by Zuodong Liang, Ming Jiang, Shaoqing Hu, Kai Ma, Guiyang Xu, Wenjie Wang, Yuezu Miao, Hongyan Li

“…Vortex structures with the required intensity and area can be obtained by adjusting the appropriate solid-to-gas ratio. Moreover, reasonable induction methods can enhance the interaction between particles and vortex structures, thereby achieving mixing enhancement. …”
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