Additive Manufacturing Enabled by Electrospinning for Tougher Bio-Inspired Materials by Komal Agarwal, Yinning Zhou, Hashina Parveen Anwar Ali, Ihor Radchenko, Avinash Baji, Arief S. Budiman

“…The toughness of the surface-treated helicoidal sample was found to be two times higher than the surface-treated unidirectional sample and five times higher than the helicoidal sample without surface treatment. …”
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OPTIMAL LOSSES IN POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS by M. I. Fursanov

“…The more branching of network the less will be effective line’s resistance and so the value of optimal load factor will be more significant.Networks 0,38 kV mainly influence on formation and value of total electricity losses in network 0,38–10 kV as losses in 0,38 kV networks under the equal conditions are higher than in 10 kV networks in times (or ten times). Losses in 0,38 kV network to a great extend decreases the value of generalized coefficient of network load and increases optimal value of relative loss in network 0,38–10 kV. …”
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Increased leg muscle strength and power after 6 weeks of trapping exercise in male college students by Bayu Akbar, Hari Setijono, Oce Wiriawan, Muhammad Wahyono, Achmad Nuryadi, Septyaningrum Putri Purwoto, Adi Pranoto

“…Trapping exercise were carried out for 6 weeks with a frequency of 3-times exercise per week. A back and leg dynamometer was used to measure strength and the Accupower was used to measure power. …”
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Regenerative and Innovative Utilization of Coffee Residue and Waste Cooking Oil: Improving Rheological Properties of Recycled Asphalt by Ruipeng Zhu, Chunhua Hu

“…Additionally, at strain levels of 2.5% and 5%, the fatigue life of W₈S₁₈ was approximately 3.39 times and 2.34 times greater, respectively, than that of the virgin asphalt. …”
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Prepared with Mexican Pre-Hispanic Dyes by Mario Alberto Sánchez-García, Xim Bokhimi, Sergio Velázquez Martínez, Antonio Esteban Jiménez-González

“…Nocheztli is a natural red dye obtained from the cochineal insect Dactylopius coccus; the dye dates from pre-Hispanic times and contains high levels of carminic acid (CA). …”
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A Comparative Study of Passenger Multitasking Activities on Commuting and Leisure Electrified Intercity Railways by Xing Yao, Chunhui Jing, Yaoxuan Huang, Jinyi Zhi

“…The probability of taking a break for passengers on the commuting line was 3.625 times that of the leisure line, and passengers who were not seated on this line were found to be more likely to be idle. …”
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Distributed user privacy preserving adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services by Jianlong XU, Jian LIN, Yusen LI, Zhi XIONG

“…Personalized quality of service （QoS） prediction is crucial for developing high-quality cloud service system.However, the traditional collaborative filtering method, based on centralized training, presents challenges in protecting user privacy.In order to effectively protect user privacy while obtaining highly accurate prediction effect, a distributed user privacy adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services （DUPPA） was proposed.The model adopted a “server-multi-user” architecture, in which the server coordinated multiple users, handled multiple users’ requests for uploading model gradients and downloading global model, and maintained global model parameters.To further protect user privacy, a user privacy adjustment strategy was proposed to balance privacy and prediction accuracy by adjusting the initialization proportion of local model parameters and gradient upload proportion.In the local model initialization stage, the user calculated the difference matrix between the local model and the global model, and selected the global model parameters corresponding to the larger elements in the difference matrix to initialize the local model parameters.In the gradient upload stage, the user can select some important gradients to upload to the server to meet the privacy protection requirements of different application scenarios.To evaluate the privacy degree of DUPPA, a data reconstruction attack method was proposed for the distributed matrix factorization model gradient sharing scheme.The experimental results show that when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1 and the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the predicted MAE and RMSE are reduced by 1.27% and 0.91%, respectively, compared with the traditional centralized matrix factorization model.Besides, when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1, the privacy degree is 5 times higher than when the gradient upload proportion is 1.And when DUPPA sets the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the privacy degree is 3.44 times higher than when the local model parameter initialization proportion is 1.…”
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypertension in Adolescents: Effect on Neurobehavioral and Cognitive Functioning by Irina Madaeva, Olga Berdina, Vladimir Polyakov, Sergey Kolesnikov

“…Speech index was significantly 2.8 times lower in OSA patients than in non-OSA patients (P<0.05). …”
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Top-Emission Organic Light Emitting Diode Fabrication Using High Dissipation Graphite Substrate by Yu-Sheng Tsai, Lin-Ann Hong, Jian-Ji Huang, Kuan-Hung Yeh, Fuh-Shyang Juang

“…Graphite component lifetime was determined to be 1.875 times higher than the glass components and 1.125 times higher than that of copper.…”
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Finite Element Method-Based Spherical Indentation Analysis of Jute/Sisal/Banana-Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Composites by Nitish Kaushik, Ch. Sandeep, P. Jayaraman, J. Justin Maria Hillary, V. P. Srinivasan, M. Abisha Meji

“…Compared to the sisal-polypropylene composite, for the same interference ratio, the load-carrying capacity is two times high for banana-polypropylene composite, whereas four times high for jute-polypropylene composite, but this effect decreases as the L/D ratio decreases. …”
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Development and validation of a prognosis risk score model for neonatal mortality in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A prospective cohort study by Mengstu Melkamu Asaye, Yohannes Hailu Matebe, Helena Lindgren, Kerstin Erlandsson, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye

“…Background A neonatal mortality prediction score can assist clinicians in making timely clinical decisions to save neonates’ lives by facilitating earlier admissions where needed. …”
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Information Access and Promotion of Human Rights: A Case Study of High Court Kabale Municipality. by Akwasiibwe, Bonitah

“…The study results on the state of access to information and promotion of human rights at the High Court in Kabale Municipality were; availing of information through constitutions, provision for the timely processing of requests for information, provision of the right to truth about human rights violations and ensuring inaccessible laws under the principle of ignorance of the law is no excuse. …”
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A multiscale functional map of somatic mutations in cancer integrating protein structure and network topology by Yingying Zhang, Alden K. Leung, Jin Joo Kang, Yu Sun, Guanxi Wu, Le Li, Jiayang Sun, Lily Cheng, Tian Qiu, Junke Zhang, Shayne D. Wierbowski, Shagun Gupta, James G. Booth, Haiyuan Yu

“…Applied to 33 cancer types, NetFlow3D identifies 2 times more 3D clusters and incorporates 8 times more proteins in significantly interconnected network modules compared to traditional methods.…”
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Interventional Treatment of Abdominal Compartment Syndrome during Severe Acute Pancreatitis: Current Status and Historical Perspective by Dejan V. Radenkovic, Colin D. Johnson, Natasa Milic, Pavle Gregoric, Nenad Ivancevic, Mihailo Bezmarevic, Dragoljub Bilanovic, Vladimir Cijan, Andrija Antic, Djordje Bajec

“…Additional data are necessary to resolve uncertainties regarding ideal timing and indication for operative treatment.…”
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Anisotropic robust Poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels inspired by bio-tissue by Qifeng Jin, Suli Xing, Su Ju, Ya Cao, Ke Duan, Li Jin, Yulin Zhang, Yonglyu He, Jinyao Chen, Jianwei Zhang

“…The tensile strength and toughness of the resulted PVA hydrogel are 3.7 MPa and 3.27 MJ⋅m−3, which are 7.7 times and 9.9 times greater than those of conventional PVA hydrogels produced by freeze-casting method. …”
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Possible Usefulness of Gadolinium-Enhanced Brain MRI for Evaluating Risk of Perioperative Hemorrhage: A Case of Infective Endocarditis by Chikahiko Koeda, Atsushi Tashiro, Tomohiro Takahashi, Masanobu Niiyama, Ryohei Sakamoto, Takumi Kimura, Yoshihiro Morino, Katsutoshi Terui, Ryoichi Tanaka, Kunihiro Yoshioka, Hajime Kin, Hitoshi Okabayashi, Motoyuki Nakamura

“…We explored the optimum timing for surgery by employing gadolinium (Gd) contrast medium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T2* weighted image (black dots) due to her high risk of perioperative cerebral hemorrhage. …”
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The different faces of GATA2 deficiency: implications for therapy and surveillance by Luca Vinci, Brigitte Strahm, Carsten Speckmann, Carsten Speckmann, Miriam Erlacher, Miriam Erlacher

“…Nevertheless, the optimal timing, method, and even the indication for HSCT in certain cases are still matter of debate and warrant further research. …”
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Thromboelastography to Monitor Clotting/Bleeding Complications in Patients Treated with the Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System by Esther B. Bachli, Jörg Bösiger, Markus Béchir, John F. Stover, Reto Stocker, Marco Maggiorini, Eberhard L. Renner, Beat Müllhaupt, Reto A. Schuepbach

“…Nine relevant complications occurred: the MARS system clotted 6 times 3 times we observed hemorrhages. Absent thrombocytopenia and elevated plasma fibrinogen predicted clotting of the MARS system (ROC 0.94 and 0.82). …”
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SPIGOLON, Nima Imaculada; LEITE, Sandra Fernandes; PALMEN, Sueli; FABIANO, Edson; DRI, Wisllayne de Oliveira; SOUZA, Vanessa Cristina de (Orgs.). Reinventar a universidade: exte... by Victor Hugo Nedel OLIVEIRA

“… O resumo do artigo em português deve ser apresentado em fonte Times New Roman, em itálico, tamanho 10, espaçamento simples entre linhas e alinhamento justificado. …”
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Ipotesi per una contestualizzazione dell’Hypnos del Prado by Graziella Becatti

“…Evidence also exists that suggests the Hypnos may have been located in the imperial Palatine Palace during ancient Roman times. …”
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