Research on health monitoring of concrete structure based on G-S-G by Jiaqi Wang, Hongbi Kang, Kexin Li

“…Abstract An improved concrete structure health monitoring method based on G-S-G is proposed, which fully combines an optimized Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) with an improved Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network to achieve accurate and real-time concrete structure health monitoring. First of all, in order to obtain a dynamic image of the crack damage region of interest (ROI) with clear contrast and obvious target, the image acquisition system and image optimization method are used to process the damaged image. …”
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Is “Bed Sharing” Beneficial and Safe during Infancy? A Systematic Review by Rashmi Ranjan Das, M. Jeeva Sankar, Ramesh Agarwal, Vinod Kumar Paul

“…Eligible studies were observational studies that enrolled infants in the first 4 weeks of life and followed them up for a variable period of time thereafter. Results. A total of 21 studies were included. …”
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Sustained remission in large-Vessel vasculitis: Do they ever burn out? by Sakir Ahmed, Padmanabha Shenoy, Debashish Danda, Ramnath Misra

“…Both TA and GCA can have grumbling courses with relapse rates increasing over time.…”
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IAPSM’s Position Paper on Influenza Vaccines for Adult Immunization in India by Nikita Sharma, Madhur Verma, Kapil Goel, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Anu Bhardwaj, Sahil Sharma, Tejbeer Singh, Madhu Gupta, Anuradha Nadda, Lalit R. Sankhe

“…IAPSM emphasizes conducting community-based studies regarding influenza’s burden, vaccine efficacy, timing of vaccination, and cost-effectiveness among Indian adults to generate evidence.…”
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Life Table of Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Five Soybean Cultivars by Samira Farahani, Ali Asghar Talebi, Yaghoub Fathipour

“…The highest value of finite rate of increase (𝜆) was on Williams (1.18 day−1), which was significantly different from other cultivars. The mean generation time (𝑇𝑐) was significantly different on various cultivars, ranging from 32.0±0.3 days (on L17) to 28.8±0.3 days (on Sahar). …”
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Adsorption, isotherms and kinetics characteristics of solid state Mg exchanged bentonite for removal of methylene blue by Ahdieh Bavi, Mohammad Ghorbanpour, Mohammed Jaafar Ali Alatabe

“…The best conditions for removing methylene blue using magnesium exchanged bentonite was pH 10, adsorbent dosage 0.05 mg/liter, initial concentration of solution 100 mg per liter, and contact time of 120 minutes with a Removal efficiency of 96.67. …”
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Attending to adolescent experience: Tragic drama as a stimulus and a model by Lucy Elvis, Michela Dianetti

“…Weil and Murdoch provide accounts of the moral value of attention that are both timely and enriching for the practice of philosophy for and with young people. …”
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Costs of surgical futility in emergency laparotomy by C.L. Downey, D.G. Jayne

“…A national patient-level costings system was used to determine the costs of hospital care from the day of surgery to the time of death. Results: In a cohort of 741 patients, there was a 3.6 % surgical futility rate. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“…The reviewer has based this paper on 60 peer-reviewed publications spanning a time period of 28 years – from 1995 – 2022, originating from over a dozen different countries, and encompassing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. …”
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Association between alcohol consumption and sleep difficulty in a nationwide Korean survey by In Cheol Hwang, Yujin Park, Hong Yup Ahn, Kwan Jung Kim, So-Jung Park

“…Individuals who drank <1 per week (frequency) or 1–2 cups per time (amount) had the lowest prevalence of substantial sleep difficulty, even compared with nondrinkers. …”
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Examination of optimal performance mood status in sedentary women according to certain variables by Orhan Ahmet Şener, Osman İmamoğlu

“…According to the behavioral change stages, a statistically significant change was found in the dimensions of task difficulty, awareness in action, clear goals, secondary notification, focus on the task, sense of control, transformation of time and experience of achieving the goal, and decrease in awareness subscales in optimal performance emotional state (p<0.001). …”
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Cocaine Induced Pleural and Pericardial Effusion Syndrome by Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Omkar Vaidya, Al-Ma’Mon Abu Ghanimah, Ahmed Elkhanany, Ashraf Gohar

“…She was admitted three years back with acute kidney injury and skin rashes. At that time, skin biopsy was consistent with leukocytoclastic vasculitis and renal biopsy revealed proliferative glomerulonephritis. …”
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Enhancing Africa’s agriculture and food systems through responsible and gender inclusive AI innovation: insights from AI4AFS network by Nicholas Ozor, Joel Nwakaire, Alfred Nyambane, Wentland Muhatiah, Cynthia Nwobodo

“…Through a set of case studies, we explore AI-driven solutions for pest and disease detection across crops such as cashew, maize, tomato, and cassava, including a real-time health monitoring tool for Nsukka Yellow pepper. …”
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Comparative evaluation of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and conventional oxygen therapy (COT) in infants after non-cardiac surgery: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial... by Diwei Zhang, Tianqing Gong, Qinghua Huang, Qianqian Zhang, Kai Liu, Jia Li, Hai Yu, Yu Cui

“…Secondary outcomes include the rate of mild upper airway obstruction, the rate of severe respiratory depression, the rate of transfer to PICU, duration of oxygen therapy, length of PACU stay, the time to reach full enteral feeding, and postoperative adverse events, including nasal injury, agitation, vomiting, and unplanned secondary surgery related to the initial surgery.…”
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A Study on the Seismic Response Characteristics of an Oblique Pile Group-Soil-Structure with Different Pile Caps by Desen Kong, Yifei Bai, Yongpo Chen, Meixu Deng

“…The maximum horizontal displacement of the pier of the two models occurs at the same time.…”
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TEC Map Completion Through a Deep Learning Model: SNP‐GAN by Yang Pan, Mingwu Jin, Shunrong Zhang, Yue Deng

“…Meanwhile, the end‐to‐end styled generator of SNP‐GAN saves time in the map completion step by avoiding iterative mapping used in DCGAN‐PB. …”
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Secure User Authentication With Information Theoretic Security Using Secret Sharing-Based Secure Computation by Keiichi Iwamura, Ahmad Akmal Aminuddin Mohd Kamal

“…For example, the average execution time of the claimant was less than 0.1 [ms], proving that the proposed methods are very efficient.…”
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Spatial zoning and spatial analysis of urban poverty using spatial analysis (Case study: Mashhad city) by Hadi Soleimani moghadam, rahman zandi, ebrahim akbari

“…With understanding the poverty change process over time, planners can make the necessary decisions. …”
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Inside trade system development in Lithuanian province in 1861-1914 by Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė

“…The consumers wanted to purchase necessaries of life every day and at a convenient time. This inside trade form, due to its impermanent timetable of work, could not satisfy. …”
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Theoretical Analysis of Rockfall Impacts on the Soil Cushion Layer of Protective Structures by Xing Wang, Yongxu Xia, Tianyue Zhou

“…During the Wenchuan Earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.12, collapses and rockfall hazards persisted for a long time after the initial investigations carried out by research fellow S. …”
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