Using Mass Timber in Multi-Storey and Non-Residential Construction Projects: Motivations and Barriers for Professionals in Quebec by Baptiste Giorgio, Aline Barlet, Pierre Blanchet, Matheus R. Cabral, Cédric Perez, Adrien Gaudelas

“…A thematic analysis approach enabled a study of the motivations and barriers to adopting mass timber and the specific reasons behind them, and to determine whether respondents’ perceptions differ significantly depending on their main professional activity. …”
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Analysis of Nutritional Composition in 23 Kinds of Edible Fungi by Qiannan Yu, Meijuan Guo, Bin Zhang, Hao Wu, Yan Zhang, Lantian Zhang

“…This study provides reference for people to use edible fungi in a more scientific and reasonable way.…”
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Extracting Implicit User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems Using Large Language Models by Woo-Seok Kim, Seongho Lim, Gun-Woo Kim, Sang-Min Choi

“…Although large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in recommendation systems owing to their superior language understanding and reasoning capabilities, extracting and utilizing implicit user preferences from conversations remains a formidable challenge. …”
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Absorbed Dose Measurements for Teletheraphy Prediction of Superficial Dose Using Halcyon Linear Accelerator by Raymond Njinga, Adeneye Samuel, Akinyode Ajimo, Christopher Olowookere

“…The beam quality TPR20,10 (Tissue phantom ratio) was reasonable with respect to the beam quality of the machine at a field size of 10 cm x 10 cm.Conclusion: The results of the beam quality and the absorbed dose rate showed a good consistency over the period of ten weeks with the commissioned measurement value.…”
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Shear Behaviors of the Intersurface between Rice Straw Rope and Dredger Fill Silt: Experimental and Mechanism Studies by Guizhong Xu, Ji Chen, Shenjie Shi, Angran Tian, Qiang Tang

“…The proper interfacial shear strength, tensile force, and reasonable degradation rate of rice straw rope make it ideal in drainage and consolidation of dredger fill silt.…”
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Laparoscopic and open surgery with D3-lymphadenectomy in patients with left-sided colon cancer: clinical and pathological parallels by P. V. Tsarkov, I. V. Reshetov, I. A. Tulina, A. Yu. Kravchenko, D. N. Fedorov, A. V. Leontyev

“…The feasibility and safety of laparoscopic technique in treatment of left-sided colon cancer is reasonable regarding to the specimen quality. Similar clinical and pathological results suggest that there is no oncological difference between open and laparoscopic techniques with D3-lymphadenectomy for left-sided colon cancer. …”
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Early Detection and Suppression of Thermal Runaway in Large-Format Lithium-Ion Batteries: Insights from Experimental Analysis by Sungsik Choi, Keunhyung Lee, Jaehoon Kim, Seun Oh, Jaehyun Joo, Eunsoo Bae, Hyeonu Lee, Misung Kim

“…Lithium-ion batteries have been increasingly demonstrated in reuse applications for environmental and economic reasons, and stationary energy storage systems (ESS) and mobile ESS are emerging as reuse applications for electric vehicle batteries. …”
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Sentinel Node Biopsy Alone versus Completion Axillary Node Dissection in Node Positive Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Rachna Ram, Jasprit Singh, Eddie McCaig

“…For patients with macrometastasis in the sentinel node, it is reasonable to consider omitting axillary dissection to avoid the morbidity of the procedure.…”
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A Real-World, Multicenter Assessment of Drugs Requiring Weight-Based Calculations in Overweight, Adult Critically Ill Patients by Sandra L. Kane-Gill, Nicholas P. Wytiaz, Lisa M. Thompson, Karina Muzykovsky, Mitchell S. Buckley, Henry Cohen, Amy L. Seybert

“…The purpose of this study was to identify “real-world” dose ranges of high-risk medications administered via continuous infusion requiring weight-based dosing and determine the reasons for dosing changes (ineffectiveness or adverse drug reactions). …”
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Learning by Teaching with Humanoid Robot: A New Powerful Experimental Tool to Improve Children’s Learning Ability by Frank Jamet, Olivier Masson, Baptiste Jacquet, Jean-Louis Stilgenbauer, Jean Baratgin

“…The areas of learning studied are writing, reading, vocabulary, and reasoning, but also there are some metacognitive abilities like task commitment and mental state attribution. …”
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Aquathermolysis of heavy oil catalyzed by transition metal salts and clay by Du, Yingna, Zhang, Liyuan, Jing, Rui, Li, Yongfei, Yang, Bo, Chen, Gang

“…Currently, researchers have indicated that inorganic minerals in reservoirs, such as clay minerals, carbonates and quartz, can catalyze the evolution of organic matter into oil and gas. Therefore it is reasonable to believe that the minerals in reservoirs may act as a catalyst support with the metal-containing catalyst added from outside during the thermal recovery of heavy oil. …”
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PDGPT: A large language model for acquiring phase diagram information in magnesium alloys by Zini Yan, Hongyu Liang, Jingya Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Shiyu Liang, Ziyuan Rao, Xiaoqin Zeng

“…Enhanced by prompt‐engineering, supervised fine‐tuning and retrieval‐augmented generation, PDGPT leverages the predictive and reasoning capabilities of large language models along with computational phase diagram data. …”
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Optimizing the PM2.5 Tradeoffs: The Case of Taiwan by Shihping Kevin Huang, Sin-Yao Chen, Kuei-Lan Chou, Wei Chung Hsu, Kang-Hua Lai, Tung-Hung Chueh, Lopin Kuo, William Lu

“…Finally, our model indicates that the use of fossil fuel based small tracks and tractor trailers should be reduced by 80% to maintain a reasonable level of PM2.5.…”
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Vaccination status of individuals with diabetes mellitus treated in Primary Healthcare: a cross-sectional study by Francisco João de Carvalho Neto, Luisa Helena de Oliveira Lima, Mônica Antar Gamba, Rosilane Lima de Brito, Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva, Ana Roberta Vilarouca da Silva

“…Results among individuals with diabetes mellitus, the following incomplete vaccination rates were found: 69.1% for hepatitis B; 64.6% for diphtheria and tetanus; 74.3% for yellow fever; 87.9% for pneumococcus; 87.9% for varicella; 24.5% for influenza; and 0.7% for COVID-19. The reported reasons for low vaccination rates included not knowing the importance of vaccination and not being informed by healthcare providers. …”
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Investigating the amount of macro, meso, and microplastics in the surface soil around the landfill of Tabriz and the effect of the prevailing wind on their distribution by Mohamad Javad Asadi, Mehdi Ghayebzadeh, Seyedeh Maryam Seyed Mousavi, Hassan Taghipour, Hassan Aslani

“…Indiscriminate use of plastics, especially single-use plastics, lack of attention to the hierarchy of waste management, as well as the lack of proper management of the landfill and turning it into a waste dump, are among the most important reasons for the presence of macro, meso, and MPs in the soil of the studied landfill.…”
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Research status of dietary nursing intervention of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients (血液透析患者高磷血症饮食护理干预的研究现状) by WANG Liwei (王丽伟), LIU Lin (刘玲), YANG Yufei (杨寓斐), E Haiyan (鄂海燕), TANG Ling (唐玲)

“…In clinical treatment and nursing, dietary nursing intervention can improve the prevention awareness of hyperphosphatemia in patients and their families, improve the level of blood phosphorus and nutritional status of patients, reduce the incidence of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients, and improve their quality of life under a scientific and reasonable diet planning. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the dietary nursing intervention of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients, summarize the dietary nursing intervention measures, and provide beneficial guidance for the practice of dietary nursing. …”
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State of charge estimation of lithium-ion battery based on state of temperature estimation using weight clustered-convolutional neural network-long short-term memory by Chaoran Li, Sichen Zhu, Liuli Zhang, Xinjian Liu, Menghan Li, Haiqin Zhou, Qiang Zhang, Zhonghao Rao

“…In this paper, to achieve reasonable and high accuracy SOC estimation and provide support for battery thermal management, SOC estimation based on state of temperature (SOT) is implemented. …”
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An Improved Scheme of Frequency-Dependent AVO Inversion Method and Its Application for Tight Gas Reservoirs by Jiong Liu, Jun-rui Ning, Xi-wu Liu, Chun-yuan Liu, Tian-sheng Chen

“…A simple model with gas-bearing reservoir is devised to validate the inversion scheme, and further analysis indicates that our scheme is more accurate and reasonable than the previous scheme. Our new scheme applied to the tight gas reservoirs in Fenggu area of western Sichuan depression of China finds that regions with high dispersion gradients correlate well with regions with prolific gas. …”
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An Updated Design Formula for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Plate: Elastic Buckling and Ultimate Compressive Strength by Do Kyun Kim, Hee Yeong Yang, Shen Li, Seungjun Kim

“…In total, 600 cases of reasonable plate scenarios are selected to update the design formula by broadly considering the plate geometry (i.e., plate length, breadth, and thickness), material property (i.e., elastic modulus and yield strength), and initial deflection. …”
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An Isothermal Sorption Model Based on the Flory-Huggins Theory: Application to Analyze Water Sorption of Wheat Flour by Wangming LI, Rongkun MA, Qingchao JIA, Na XU, Xinxin KONG, Xiaoxiao WEI

“…The results showed that the proposed model could give a good prediction of isothermal water sorption in wheat flour, with the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter χ ranging from 0.86 to 1.52 and the cross-linking density of polymer ranging from 3000 to 6400 mol/m3, which suggested that the model was reasonable. Analyzing the water sorption of wheat flour based on the proposed model indicated that the impact of temperature on equilibrium water content could mainly attribute to its influence on the Langmuir water, in addition, mixing effect dominated the chemical potential of water at low-mediate water activities, while elasticity effect became nonnegligible at high water activity levels.…”
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