<italic>C&#x2099;</italic>&#x00B2; Modeling for Free-Space Optical Communications: A Review by Florian Quatresooz, Claude Oestges

“…., models giving vertical profiles of the refractive index structure parameter <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, highlighting differences between astronomical and optical communication sites. …”
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MMP-9 Contributes to Dendritic Spine Remodeling Following Traumatic Brain Injury by Barbara Pijet, Marzena Stefaniuk, Leszek Kaczmarek

“…Spines are dynamic structures that undergo morphological transformation throughout life. …”
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Hybrid Simulated Annealing-Evaporation Rate-Based Water Cycle Algorithm Application for Medical Image Enhancement by Eyob Mersha Woldamanuel

“…The findings of the present study showed that the proposed strategy outperforms all of the compared methods in terms of objective function fitness and perceptual visual IQA metrics such as the Harr wavelet-based perceptual similarity index (HaarPSI), visual signal-to-noise ratio (VSNR), and information content weighted structural similarity index measure (IW-SSIM). The suggested technique also exhibited better stability and faster convergence time to the optimum solution. …”
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Data backup methods for mission-critical information systems by S. V. Shaytura, P. N. Pitkevich

“…The method for solving the problem was to create backup copies of enterprise information systems using a flexible architecture based on the backup—as a service in external cloud structures—in combination with technical resources of the organization.Results. …”
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Public Acceptance of Driverless Buses in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on an Extended UTAUT Model by Jian Chen, Rui Li, Mi Gan, Zhiyan Fu, Fatao Yuan

“…The quality of this extended model was verified through survey data collected in Chongqing, China. The structural equation modeling (SEM) method was adopted to quantitatively describe the impact of each factor on acceptance intention (AI) as well as the mutual influence relationships between the factors. …”
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The never-ending story of public administration reform in Slovenia (from 1991 to further development) by Polona Kovač

“…In the last few years after year 2000 the reform has been built up as constant development of public administration based on several pillars such as civil service system, reorganisation of administrative structures, e-government etc. The public administration reform in Slovenia is therefore aimed at upgrading the existing system in terms of greater professionalism, transparency, efficiency and user-friendly delivery of public services, all together incorporated in the principles of new public management and good governance. …”
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Butein Inhibits Oxidative Stress Injury in Rats with Chronic Heart Failure via ERK/Nrf2 Signaling by Peng Liu, Quanli Pan

“…Rats in CHF+butein and sham+butein group were given 100 mg/kg butein via gavage every day to detect the effect of butein on oxidative stress injury and myocardial dysfunction. The cardiac structural and functional parameters, including the left ventricular end-systolic dimension (LVESD), the left ventricular end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD), the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and the left ventricular fractional shortening (LVFS), were measured. …”
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IC-GraF: An Improved Clustering with Graph-Embedding-Based Features for Software Defect Prediction by Xuanye Wang, Lu Lu, Qingyan Tian, Haishan Lin

“…However, the former exhibited limitations in capturing semantic and structural features, while the latter encountered constraints due to differences in data distribution across projects. …”
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An Investigation of Electrospun Clerodendrum phlomidis Leaves Extract Infused Polycaprolactone Nanofiber for In Vitro Biological Application by Siranjeevi Ravichandran, Rajesh Jegathaprathaban, Jeyalakshmi Radhakrishnan, R. Usha, V. Vijayan, Aklilu Teklemariam

“…This study examined the morphology, thermal properties, mechanical properties, structure, and in vitro drug release studies of electrospun nanofibers. …”
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Antagonistic functions of CTL1 and SUH1 mediate cell wall assembly in Arabidopsis by Nguyen Thi Thuy, Hyun‐Jung Kim, Suk‐Whan Hong

“…Abstract Plant genomes contain numerous genes encoding chitinase‐like (CTL) proteins, which have a similar protein structure to chitinase belonging to the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family but lack the chitinolytic activity to cleave the β‐1,4‐glycosidic bond in chitins, polymers of N‐acetylglucosamine. …”
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Effects of Acorn Flour Addition on Baking Characteristics of Wheat Flour by Emilia Szabłowska, Małgorzata Tańska

“…High levels of acorn flour addition (>30%) resulted in bread with a dense, gummy, and less spongy crumb structure, accompanied by a reduction in loaf volume (by 40–52%). …”
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Permeability Enhancement Technology for Soft and Low-Permeability Coal Seams Combined with Hydraulic Perforation and Hydraulic Fracturing by Zhengjie Shang, Zhaofeng Wang, Zhiheng Cheng, Hongbing Wang, Liang Chen, Lei Li, Jianhua Fu, Hao Liu

“…The No. 21 coal seam in the Zhengzhou mining area is a soft, three-layer, low-permeability coal seam prone to outbursts. The three-layer structure includes the coal seam and the roof and floor layers, which exhibit high gas contents and poor permeability. …”
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Degree of corrosion and other deterioration effects in highway bridge deck component using non-destructive self potential and vibration testing: case study from SW Nigeria by O. O. Falowo, O. Makinde, Y. Akindureni

“…Abstract Recently, the corrosion of steel reinforcement and high vibration intensity have become a major problem in highway bridge stability analysis, and structures that involved reinforcing steel. Therefore, based on suspected human perception, the Ogbese highway bridge stability was investigated using non-destructive half-cell method and vibration measurement. …”
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A Storm Frame Optimization Method for Predicting and Warning the Safety Status of a Shearer by Pei Zhang, Yanpeng He, Li Ma, Changkui Cong

“…Second, a virtual machine is constructed to host the Storm framework, parallel optimized real‐time processing of data is performed on the Storm framework, and real‐time data flow patterns are constructed to speed up data processing and retrieval, ensuring each tuple is fully processed through the topology structure. Finally, the optimized GRU model is embedded into the optimized Storm framework to achieve real‐time prediction and early warning of different dimensional data of the shearer. …”
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Sing A Song for Home: How Displaced Iranian Song-Writers in LA Conceive of Home and Homeland by Pouya Morshedi, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

“…Our findings suggest that distance from one’s home expands the definition and image of home from a structure where one dwells and calls home, to an imagined community at the personal (home family), local (hometown), and regional (homeland) levels. …”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…The methodological basis is related to structuring, analytical analysis and synthesis of media features; highlighting phenomena that illustrate modern communicative situation; characteristics of media trends influence for the specific functioning of religious communication. …”
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Potential application areas and benefits of blockchain-enabled smart contracts adoption in infrastructure Public-private partnership (PPP) projects by Emmanuel Chidiebere Eze, Ernest Effah Ameyaw

“…Data analysis was done using means analysis, normalisation value, coefficient of variation, Kendall's coefficient of concordance, Kruskal-Wallis test and partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The study found high awareness and knowledge of the potential benefits of smart contract adoption in infrastructure PPP projects. …”
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Constructing habitat networks to protect endangered migratory birds in the Jiaozhou Bay area by Xinyu Liu, Ye Zhao, Lin Fan

“…Although habitat networks have proven effective in enhancing habitat connectivity, many studies of migratory bird habitat networks oversimplify coastal areas, treating them as nodes in a graphical structure and failing to adequately address the relationship between environmental characteristics and bird distribution. …”
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Analyzing the Influence of Online Test-Driving Reviews on the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles by Chuan Hui Liao, Xuan Zheng Wang, Ren Gang Guo, Siqi Wang

“…Questionnaire surveys and structural equation modeling were used to test the hypotheses. …”
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From Middle Jurassic extension to Late Jurassic obduction: sedimentary records from the Greater Adriatic margin of the Neotethys Ocean in NE Hungary by Szilvia Kövér, János Haas, Nevenka Djerić, Ottilia Szives, Péter Ozsvárt, László Fodor

“…Micropaleontological, sedimentological and structural investigation of more than thirty wells resulted in the detailed characterisation and 3D depositional model of the area, which may have formed in the eastern continuation of the Slovenian Basin or in a similar sub-basin. …”
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