Erosion–Seepage System (ESS) for Flow-Induced Soil Erosion Rate with Seepage by Yuhuan Zhang, Lin Cui, Dong-Sheng Jeng, Zheng Wang, Hualing Zhai

“…Through the designed ESS, the erosion height per unit time was measured directly on the Yellow River sand, and the upward seepage force was applied at the bottom of the soil sample in the process. …”
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SARS-CoV-2-induced cytokine storm drives prolonged testicular injury and functional impairment in mice that are mitigated by dexamethasone. by Stefanos Giannakopoulos, Jin Pak, Jackson Bakse, Monika A Ward, Vivek R Nerurkar, Michelle D Tallquist, Saguna Verma

“…Our results implicate virus-induced cytokine storm as the major driver of testicular injury and functional impairments, timely prevention of which limits testis damage. These findings serve as a model for evaluating therapeutics in long COVID patients and may guide clinical strategies to improve male reproductive health outcomes post-SARS-CoV-2 infection.…”
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Detection of Prunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus (PNRSV) and Apple Mosaic Virus (ApMV) in Rose (Rosa spp.) Plants in Konya Province by Adile Tuğçe Orhan, Serkan Yeşil

“…In this study, the infections of PNRSV and ApMV on roses in Konya province were determined for the first time by serological methods. These results will serve as an important source of information for rose producers and agricultural engineers in the region and will allow the development of strategies to control the spread of viruses and minimize infections.…”
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Drowsiness Detection in Drivers Using Facial Feature Analysis by Ebenezer Essel, Fred Lacy, Fatema Albalooshi, Wael Elmedany, Yasser Ismail

“…Additionally, the number of consecutive frames required is adjusted dynamically over time to enhance detection accuracy and more accurately indicate a state of drowsiness. …”
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Bilayer electrified-membrane with pair-atom tin catalysts for near-complete conversion of low concentration nitrate to dinitrogen by Xuanhao Wu, Xiaoxiong Wang, Yunshuo Wu, Huimin Xu, Zhe Li, Rongrong Hong, Kali Rigby, Zhongbiao Wu, Jae-Hong Kim

“…The sequential cathode-to-anode electrofiltration realizes near-complete removal of 10 mg-N L−1 NO3 − and ~100% N2 selectivity with a water resident time on the order of seconds. Our findings advance the single-atom catalyst design for NO3 − reduction and provide a practical solution for NO3 − contamination at low concentrations.…”
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Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Evolution Characteristics of Rainfall in Dongguan in the Past 30 Years by WANG Qiuliang, SUN Xiang, GAN Dufen, MEI Xinpei, CHENG Jie, ZAN Xiongfeng

“…Dongguan is an important city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area,which is a major contributor to the economic development of this area.However,its urban planning,rational allocation of water resources,flood prevention and disaster reduction are severely affected by torrential rain and floods,and thus its high-quality economic development is seriously hindered.Therefore,by using the 32-year daily rainfall data of 30 hydrological stations in Dongguan,this paper adopts methods such as GIS,the Mann-Kendall test,moving average,and cumulative anomaly to discuss the temporal and spatial distribution of rainfall in Dongguan.The results reveal that in the past 32 years,the temporal and spatial distribution of annual rainfall has gradually increased from west to east with a significant rising trend over time.During the flood season,the rainfall increases sequentially from west to east and gradually decreases from the central part to west,and from the central part to east,it drops before it rises.Rainfall in the flood season accounts for about 60%~95% of the annual total.The rainfall in the non-flood season is prominent in the central part,with great differences between east and west,namely that the rainfall in the central part tends to decrease gradually to both sides,and the southwestern part registers the smallest.The center of the maximum rainfall in the four seasons moves from the central part to the northeast,east,and central,and the southwest still records the minimum rainfall.The monthly average rainfall generally shows an increasing trend from west to east:Many years of data indicates that the average rainfall in June is the largest,accounting for 18.58% of the rainfall all year,while December sees the smallest,accounting for 1.88% of the yearly total.The research results can provide reference and support for the later development of Dongguan.…”
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The City of Orik in the Writings of Ancient Authors and Archaeological Records by Aleks Trushaj, Gladiola Elezi

“…The study provides valuable information about the evolution of Orik’s functions and status over time, its fortifications, economic activities, religious objects, and more. …”
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Nb-Doped TiO2 Photocatalysts Used to Reduction of CO2 to Methanol by M. V. Nogueira, G. M. M. M. Lustosa, Y. Kobayakawa, W. Kogler, M. Ruiz, E. S. Monteiro Filho, M. A. Zaghete, L. A. Perazolli

“…After characterization, the powders were modified through an Nb0 magnetron sputtering deposition using a metallic target in vacuum conditions of 2 × 10−3 torr, with a deposition time of 10 minutes, and calcination again at 500°C for two hours. …”
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Validation of Effective Models for Simulation of Thermal Stratification and Mixing Induced by Steam Injection into a Large Pool of Water by Hua Li, Walter Villanueva, Markku Puustinen, Jani Laine, Pavel Kudinov

“…Finally, the EHS-EMS models are validated against MIX-01 test which has improved space and time resolution of temperature measurements inside the blowdown pipe. …”
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Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System

“…Our experiments showed that appropriate filtrations could reduce certain low- and high-energy components of X-ray spectra which have limited contributions to image contrast. At the same time, such filtration could improve the contrast-detail detectability, particularly at relatively low kVp and high filtration. …”
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The Relationship between a New Biomarker of Vagal Neuroimmunomodulation and Survival in Two Fatal Cancers by Y. Gidron, M. De Couck, D. Schallier, J. De Greve, J. L. Van Laethem, R. Maréchal

“…In both samples, we examined the overall survival, while in sample 2, we additionally examined the survival time in deceased patients. Results. In PC patients, in a multivariate Cox regression controlling for confounders, the NIM index had a protective relative risk (RR) of 0.68 and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of 0.51–0.92. …”
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Problems of magnetic resonance diagnosis for gastric-type mucin-positive cervical lesions of the uterus and its solutions using artificial intelligence. by Ayumi Ohya, Tsutomu Miyamoto, Fumihito Ichinohe, Hisanori Kobara, Yasunari Fujinaga, Tanri Shiozawa

“…ICC (2,1) between first- and second-time CNN was evaluated, and these results were compared with those of readers.…”
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Catalytic Ozonation of Phenolic Wastewater: Identification and Toxicity of Intermediates by Mahdi Farzadkia, Yousef Dadban Shahamat, Simin Nasseri, Amir Hossein Mahvi, Mitra Gholami, Ali Shahryari

“…Magnetic carbon nanocomposite, as a novel catalyst, was synthesized and then used in the catalytic ozonation process (COP) and the effects of operational conditions such as initial pH, reaction time, and initial concentration of phenol on the degradation efficiency and the toxicity assay have been investigated. …”
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Revealing the Impact of Depth and Surface Property Variations on Infrared Detection of Delamination in Concrete Structures Under Natural Environmental Conditions by Chongsheng Cheng, Dequan Chen, Shuai Shao, Ri Na, Haonan Cai, Hongwen Zhou, Bo Wu

“…These findings contribute to a better understanding of the optimal detection window and present a new approach to quantifying delamination at different time windows. The conclusion also discusses the limitations of this study and future research directions.…”
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Determination of Very Low Level of Free Formaldehyde in Liquid Detergents and Cosmetic Products Using Photoluminescence Method by Ali Gholami, Atefeh Mohsenikia, Saeed Masoum

“…The investigated factors (variables) were temperature, % v/v ethanol, reaction time, ammonium acetate, and 2-methyl acetoacetanilide concentration. …”
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Characterization of patients with clinical suspicion of dengue and warning signs. Pediatric Hospital. Cienfuegos, 2019 by Delfín Rodríguez Buergo, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Diana Rosa Rodríguez Delgado, Roxana Gutiérrez Morán, Lisset María Martínez González

“…The variables analyzed were: sex, age, nutritional status and associated chronic diseases, time between admission and beginning of symptoms, warning signs of the disease, reflection in the clinical history of the home and / or study center environment epidemiological situation, hospital stay and clinical evolution.…”
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An Optimization Method for the Train Service Network Design Problem by Jie Xiao, Yi Xie, Haowei Yu, Hongying Yan

“…The NP-hard nature of the problem prevents an exact solution algorithm from finding the optimal solution within a reasonable time, even for small-scale cases. Therefore, an improved genetic algorithm is designed and employed here. …”
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Evaluation of NH4+ Adsorption Capacity in Water of Coffee Husk-Derived Biochar at Different Pyrolysis Temperatures by Nguyen Van Phuong, Nguyen Khanh Hoang, Le Van Luan, L. V. Tan

“…Kinetic surveys were carried out when biochar was exposed to a solution containing 8.3 mg NH4+/L for a varying length of time. The results showed that Langmuir and Freundlich models and the pseudo-second-order kinetic model are suitable to explain the NH4+ adsorption equilibrium and kinetics on the biochar forms derived from coffee husk. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Fracture Evolution in Sandstone Containing an Intersecting Hole under Compression Using DIC Technique by Hao Wu, Guoyan Zhao, Weizhang Liang, Enjie Wang, Shaowei Ma

“…., primary tensile cracks, secondary tensile cracks, and shear cracks, initiate from stress concentration zones, propagate along certain direction, and coalesce with each other into macrofractures. Both the real-time principal strain fields and horizontal displacement fields of specimens under compression could be visually displayed by DIC system, and they were in good consistency in characterizing the fracture behavior. …”
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Critical Segments Identification for Link Travel Speed Prediction in Urban Road Network by Xiaolei Ru, Xiangdong Xu, Yang Zhou, Chao Yang

“…And applications of these algorithms were in high-cost under the constraints of high quality of traffic data collecting in real-time on the large-scale road networks. This paper aims to deduce the traffic operational conditions of the road network with a small number of critical segments based on taxi GPS data in Xi’an city of China. …”
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