Current and Emerging Protocols for Carbon Measurement in Agricultural Soils by Suraj Melkani, Noel Manirakiza, Shirley M. Baker, Jehangir H. Bhadha

“…They contain large C pools that can store three times more C than the atmosphere and four times more than plants. …”
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Experimental Study on In-Plane Seismic Performance of Reinforced Brick Walls Bonded with Mud by Hui Wang, Jian-jun Chang, Shi-qin He, Qing-lei Zhang

“…The results showed that the bearing capacity of the brick walls bonded with mud reinforced by the abovementioned three methods had been increased to 1.4, 1.7, and 2.2 times as much as that of the unreinforced brick walls, respectively, and the ductility of the reinforced brick walls had been increased to 4.7, 2.1 and 2.2 times, respectively. …”
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Insolvent Local Government: German Approaches to Prevention by Thomas Duve, Wolfgang Drechsler

“…The threat of insolvency looms large for many local governments, and therefore, it is unfortunately very timely to examine this issue. Can genuine bankruptcy occur, should it be allowed to occur, can it be prevented, and if it cannot be, how can it be managed well? …”
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Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy. A Case Report by Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Bárbara Rafael Truy

“…It consists in the implantation of pregnancy in some of the structures in the abdomen by what is considered a rare variety of ectopic pregnancy, and is generally associated with a high rate of maternal and fetal mortality; in these cases maternal mortality is seven times higher than in the tubal pregnancy and up to 90 times higher than in normal pregnancy. …”
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Design and Implementation of Group Animation Based on Multimedia Intelligent Algorithm by Qing Li

“…The experimental results show that after the PSO converges to the global optimal solution, the evolution times of the PSO converge to the global optimal solution again when the surrounding environment changes 10 times. …”
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OPTIMIZATION RESEARCH OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGY ON THE CATENARY SYSTEM BASED ON RELIABILITY CONSTRAINTS by LIU Huan, LIU ZhiGang, JIANG Jing

“…Conclusions showed that: appropriately increasing maintenance times can reduce maintenance costs; high reliability requires will increase maintenance times and repair costs significantly. …”
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Extended Kalman Filter-Based Approach for Autonomous Synchronization and Ranging in GPS-Denied Environments by Xiaobo Gu, Weiqiang Tan, Di Zhang, Yudong Lu, Ruidian Zhan

“…Network ranging and clock synchronization based on two-way timing stamps exchange mechanism in complex GPS-denied environments is addressed in this paper. …”
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Multi-Attention Fusion Modeling for Sentiment Analysis of Educational Big Data by Guanlin Zhai, Yan Yang, Heng Wang, Shengdong Du

“…In teaching evaluation, sentiment analysis can help educators discover the true feelings of students about the course in a timely manner and adjust the teaching plan accurately and timely to improve the quality of education and teaching. …”
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An Enhanced Differential Evolution Algorithm with Fast Evaluating Strategies for TWT-NFSP with SSTs and RTs by Rong Hu, Xing Wu, Bin Qian, Jian L. Mao, Huai P. Jin

“…The no-wait flow-shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times and release times (i.e., the NFSP with SSTs and RTs) is a typical NP-hard problem. …”
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Clinical case of the postinfarction ventricular septum defect successful closure with occluder at the 4th day of the disease by B.М. Todurov, М.F. Rotar, А.V. Khokhlov, К.S. Boiko, Yu.V. Hutsuliak

“…Our experience shows that the timely use of endovascular techniques to close the defect allows you to create a bridge for open surgery and provide an effective treatment.…”
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A prospective cohort study on the impact of healthy lifestyles on all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province by Jie ZHOU, Ling LI, Ji ZHANG, Lisha YU, Yujin REN, Wei JI, Yingjiao MU, Tao LIU

“…After adjusting for confounding factors such as sex, age, ethnicity, education level, marital status, residence, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose (FBG), 2-hour postprandial blood glucose (PBG), total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), the multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis showed that the risks of all-cause mortality among adult residents in Guizhou province with 4, 5, 6, and ≥ 7 healthy lifestyle factors were 0.732 times (HR = 0.732, 95%CI: 0.542 – 0.990), 0.667 times (HR = 0.667, 95%CI: 0.499 – 0.893), 0.664 times (HR = 0.664, 95%CI: 0.490 – 0.900), and 0.566 times (HR = 0.566, 95%CI: 0.391 – 0.820) that of those with ≤ 3 healthy lifestyle factors, respectively. …”
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Influence of Migration and Plugging of Nanoparticles on Coal Permeability in Coal Reservoirs by Xiaopeng Zhai, Weihong Chen, Yun Xu, Yishan Lou, Shuhong Xu, Lihui Zheng, Zhiyang Guo, Yuanchang Chen, Hongyong Hao, Jianfang Jiang

“…The viscosity of the fluid increased by two times, and permeability decreased by 1.21 times. …”
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Comparison of Medpor Coated Tear Drainage Tube versus Silicon Tear Drainage Tube in Conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy: Problems and Solutions by Selam Yekta Sendul, Halil Huseyin Cagatay, Burcu Dirim, Mehmet Demir, Ali Atakhan Yıldız, Zeynep Acar, Sonmez Cinar, Dilek Guven

“…In group 1, proximal and distal obstructions developed postoperatively in 4 eyes, while 1 eye showed tube malposition and 3 eyes developed luminal obstruction by debris 3 times. In group 2, tube extrusion developed in 4 eyes, whereas tube malposition developed in 6 eyes and luminal obstruction by debris developed in 6 eyes at different times, for a total of 20 times. …”
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High-Fiber Crackers Supplemented with Asparagus Hard-Stem: Impacts of Supplementation Ratios and Water Amounts in Cracker Recipe on the Product Quality by Thi Thu Tra Tran, Le Hong Ngoc Ngo, Nu Minh Nguyet Ton, Thi Hong Nhung Le, Thi Thuy Le, Van Viet Man Le

“…As the AHP ratio increased from 0 to 20%, the dietary fiber and total phenolic contents of the fortified crackers were improved by 5.0 times and 3.2 times, respectively, while their ferric reducing antioxidant power and DPPH scavenging capacity were enhanced by 6.1 and 1.4 times, respectively. …”
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Design of an Ultra Compact 180-Degree Ring Coupler With Harmonic Suppression Using Composite Lines for Modern RF Systems by Saeed Roshani, Farid Zubir, Mohsen Karimi, Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary, Maher Assaad, Fawwaz Hazzazi, Noorlindawaty Md Jizat, Sobhan Roshani

“…Moreover, the conventional 800 MHz HRC occupied <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.5~\lambda \times 0.25~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (140.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 70.8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm), while size of the proposed HRC is 10.7 mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 6.7$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.038~\lambda \times 0.024~\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula>), which provides 99% size reduction.…”
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The Prevalence of Depression Among Parkinson&rsquo;s Disease Patients in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Al-Qahtani Z, Alqahtani ASM, Alzuhairi AMS, Qarah M, Alqarni AA, Alqahtani AOM, AlShehri FAA, Alqathanin MAA, Alshahrani OMO, Alqahtani MAF, Mahmood SE

“…PD patients lacking social support were 8 times more likely to develop major depression [OR = 8.27, 95% CI (1.47– 46.31), p = 0.016] and 5 times more likely to experience anxiety symptoms [OR = 5.36, 95% CI (1.14– 25.26), p = 0.034]. …”
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