Patterns and Reasons for Junk Food Consumption among Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Study from a Medical College in South India by Poonam Ramesh Naik, S. Vineetha, Nagendra Navya

“…Results: In the study, it was observed that (62.2%) eat junk food during snack time. Students staying with friends (35.3%) consumed more junk food compared to the ones staying with family (13.8%). …”
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Fabrication of Electrospun Polyamide-6/Chitosan Nanofibrous Membrane toward Anionic Dyes Removal by Mozhdeh Ghani, Ali Akbar Gharehaghaji, Mokhtar Arami, Negar Takhtkuse, Babak Rezaei

“…The optimum values for solution pH, initial dye concentration, electrospinning time, and chitosan ratio were predicted to be 5, 50 mg/L, 4 hr, 30% and 5, 100 mg/L, 4 hr, 10%, respectively, for achieving 96% and 95% removal of Solophenyl Red 3BL and Polar Yellow GN. …”
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Stephania japonica Ameliorates Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairment in Mice through Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase and Oxidative Stress by Md. Yusuf Al-Amin, Amitav Lahiry, Rafia Ferdous, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Md. Abdul Kader, AHM Khurshid Alam, Zahangir Alam Saud, Md. Golam Sadik

“…In experimental mice, the chloroform fraction restored the impaired learning and memory induced by scopolamine as evidenced by a significant decrease in latency time and increase of quadrant time in probe trial in Morris water maze task. …”
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Locational Marginal Pricing: A Fundamental Reconsideration by Leigh Tesfatsion

“…., as mechanisms enabling just-in-time nodal power deliveries to meet just-in-time nodal power demands as well as system reliability requirements.…”
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Frequency of Electrolyte Derangement after Transurethral Resection of Prostate: Need for Postoperative Electrolyte Monitoring by Wajahat Aziz, M. Hammad Ather

“…. ± 10.34) and had a longer mean resection time (42.5 ± 20.04 min versus 28.34 ± 14.64 min). …”
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Reference Input Signals Formation for Induction Motor Control in Traction Drive by O. F. Opeiko

“…The purpose of this work is to build the analytical improved (with resistances estimation) real time computation of the reference inputs for rotor flux and torque in the vector control system of an induction motor of a traction electric drive. …”
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BALANCING MOTHERHOOD AND ACADEMIC PURSUITS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR NIGERIAN WOMEN by Rosemary Onchi Daniel, Doris Lami Madugu

“…Findings reveal that traditional gender roles significantly limit the time and energy women can dedicate to academic pursuits. …”
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Alternative dispute resolution: Mediation as a model [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Naser Sherman, Bashar Talal Momani

“…Among ADR methods, mediation stands out for its ability to reduce time, costs, and litigation duration. This study explores the conceptual framework, essential conditions, and procedural aspects of mediation. …”
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Logging Response Mechanism and Content Evaluation of Laumontite-Bearing Glutenite Reservoir: A Case Study of Lower Urho Formation of Permian of the Junggar Basin by Jia Jun, Xue Kunlin, Ni Liping, Luo Yang, Liu Yuchao

“…The acoustic interval transit time shows no significant differences, while the NMR T2 spectrum exhibits a short relaxation time.…”
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Changes on Sugar and Starch Contents during Seed Development of Synergistic Sweet Corn and Implication on Seed Quality by Bhornchai Harakotr, Warisa Sutthiluk, Panumart Rithichai

“…The optimal time to harvest seeds was genotype-dependent, which were 38 DAP for triple-recessive gene (btbtsh2sh2wxwx) and single-recessive genes (BtBtsh2sh2WxWx and Sh2Sh2susuWxWx) and 42 DAP for double-recessive genes (BtBtsh2sh2wxwx). …”
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Challenges in Assessing Outcomes among Infants of Pregnant HIV-Positive Women Receiving ART in Uganda by Barbara Castelnuovo, Frank Mubiru, Ivan Kalule, Shadia Nakalema, Agnes Kiragga

“…We included 700 pregnant women from January 2012 to August 2014 with a follow-up extended to August 2016; the median age was 31 years (IQR: 26–35), 36.3% in WHO stage 3/4; median CD4 count was 447 cells/μL (IQR: 301–651) and 73.3% were already on ART for a median time of 28 (IQR: 10–57) months; 52% infants were male and median weight was 3.2 Kg (IQR: 2.5–3.5). …”
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Spatial Distribution of the Intellectual Capital of Russia by A. S. Mikhaylov, I. Yu. Peker

“…Petersburg, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. At the same time, the ranking includes universities of all large urban agglomerations. …”
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Temperature Profile Measurement in Simulated Fuel Assembly Structure with Wire-Mesh Technology by Hiroki Takiguchi, Masahiro Furuya, Takahiro Arai

“…To investigate the measurement performance in the bundle test section, it was confirmed that a predetermined temperature calibration line with respect to time-average impedance was calculated and became a function of temperature. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Study Determining the Warpage Phenomenon of Thin-Wall Injection Molding by Yueh-Tzu Huang, Chiung-Fang Huang, Bou-Yue Peng, Chun-Wei Chang, Hsing-Chung Cheng, Yi Lin, Yung-Kang Shen, Hao Wang

“…Finally, the authors found that the most important processing parameter was the packing time for warpage phenomenon of thin-walled parts by thin-wall injection molding.…”
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Multitask Convolutional Neural Network for Rolling Element Bearing Fault Identification by Mingxing Jia, Yuemei Xu, Maoyi Hong, Xiyu Hu

“…The one-dimensional convolution kernel and the pooling layer are directly applied to the original time domain signal. Feature extraction and classifier are merged together, and the extracted features are used to judge the damage degree at the same time. …”
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Analog Sequential Hippocampal Memory Model for Trajectory Learning and Recalling: A Robustness Analysis Overview by Daniel Casanueva‐Morato, Alvaro Ayuso‐Martinez, Giacomo Indiveri, Juan P. Dominguez‐Morales, Gabriel Jimenez‐Moreno

“…Neuromorphic engineering has emerged as a solution that attempts to mimic the brain to incorporate its capabilities to solve complex problems in a computationally and energy‐efficient way in real time. Within neuromorphic computing, building systems to efficiently store the information is still a challenge. …”
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Efficient direct asymmetric aldol reactions in water using chiral diamide as organocatalysts by Benrzeil Hajar, Tazi Bouchra, Guenoun Farhate

“…Organic solvents, such as DMSO, DCM, and hexane, offered excellent diastereoselectivity, but had reaction times four times longer than those in water. This study highlights the potential of organocatalyst IVa for environmentally friendly asymmetric aldol reactions.…”
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Study on Elevated Interval Evacuation of Metro Train considering the Influence of Fire, Railings, and Track Bed by Jianyao Tu, Bozhezi Peng, Liwei Bai, Chaoyang Li, Yi Zhang

“…The length of evacuation walkaway could highly reduce evacuation time and density. Railings had a negative impact on evacuation while the usage of track bed had a positive effect. …”
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Robotic Ultrasonic Measurement of Residual Stress in Complex Curved Surface Components by Qinxue Pan, Chang Shao, Dingguo Xiao, Ruipeng Pan, Xiaohao Liu, Wei Song

“…The robotic arm controls the movement of the two ultrasonic transducers along the set scanning path which is based on the geometric model of components and adjusts the transducer’s posture in time according to the shape of the workpiece being measured. …”
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Global Teleconnections of Rapid Ionospheric Fluctuations as Observed via GNSS Measurements by Enric Monte-Moreno, Manuel Hernandez-Pajares, Heng Yang

“…Previous research has mainly focused on the impact of ionospheric irregularities in limited regions, weather conditions, and short time periods, while our findings indicate the occurrence of this phenomenon globally and during both high and low space weather activity.…”
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