AI-Enabled Sensing and Decision-Making for IoT Systems by Hao Qinxia, Shah Nazir, Ma Li, Habib Ullah Khan, Wang Lianlian, Sultan Ahmad

“…AI-enabled devices are more intelligent and capable of doing a specific task which saves a lot of resources and time. Different approaches are available in the existing literature to tackle diverse issues of real life based on AI and IoT systems. …”
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Characteristics and treatment modes of industrial wastewater in new energy vehicles industrial park by LI Dian, WANG Xun, LIU Yingming

“…Each region needed to conduct water quality and quantity analysis in advance based on the current situation and development plans of the park, and dispose key pollutants in a targeted manner. At the same time, more consideration should be given to investment promotion, enterprise wastewater supervision, and wastewater treatment fees in the park.…”
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Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework by Michal Sigron, Dorothy Langley, Stanisław Dylak, Edit Yerushalmi

“…Response to the continuing call to integrate scientific inquiry activities into high school education has taken different forms varying in student ownership, physical setting, time span, and mentoring resources. Important issues are how students perceive central dimensions of their experience, and the extent to which the inquiry framework design serves to promote a sense of growth in the participants. …”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…When processing NOISEX-92 noises, the system achieved an average short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) and perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) scores of 0.81 and 1.62, respectively, outperforming SE algorithms trained with only a single learning target. …”
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Characterization of 77 GHz Radar Backscattering from Sea Surfaces at Low Incidence Angles: Preliminary Results by Qinghui Xu, Chen Zhao, Zezong Chen, Sitao Wu, Xiao Wang, Lingang Fan

“…It provides a new method for fostering the usage of radar technologies for real-time ocean observations.…”
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Static assessment of brittle/ductile notched materials: an engineering approach based on the Theory of Critical Distances by R. Louks, H. Askes, L. Susmel

“…In this novel reformulation, one of these additional parameters, namely the critical distance, can be determined a priori, allowing design engineers to assess components whilst reducing the time and cost of the design process. This paper investigates reformulating the Theory of Critical Distances to be based on two readily available material parameters, i.e., the Ultimate Tensile Strength and the Fracture Toughness. …”
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A Smart Machine Learning Model for the Detection of Brain Hemorrhage Diagnosis Based Internet of Things in Smart Cities by Hang Chen, Sulaiman Khan, Bo Kou, Shah Nazir, Wei Liu, Anwar Hussain

“…Among others, the IoT plays a key role in the form of smart medical devices and wearables, with the ability to collect varied and longitudinal patient-generated health data, and at the same time also offering preliminary diagnosis options. …”
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Assessment of Dental Arch Width Expansion Effectiveness Using a Novel Hybrid Aligner with Virtual Brackets and Nickel–Titanium Archwires: A Prospective Clinical Study by Jhonny Leon-Valencia, Jose Antonio Alarcon, Conchita Martin

“…<i>Conclusions</i>: The GT group achieved comparable dentoalveolar expansion of canines and premolars in significantly less time and with fewer aligners than the CA group. The predictability of virtual setup measurements was similar for both systems, confirming their comparable performance in achieving planned expansion.…”
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Laccase-mimicking Cu@CDs-enabled bioinspired immunosensor using CuO nanoparticles for voltametric detection of serum thyroxine level in patients with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroid... by Mohammad Ali Farzin, Seyed Morteza Naghib

“…In this study, for the first time, a voltammetric bioinspired immunosensor was fabricated to determine free thyroxine (T4) based on the blocking nanozyme-dependent signaling pathway through masking the active sites of the laccase-mimicking Cu-doped CDs (Cu@CDs). …”
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Defining the cardiac surgical learning curve: a longitudinal cumulative analysis of a surgeon’s experience and performance monitoring in the first decade of practice by Shantel Chang, Ian Smith, Christopher Cole

“…Cardiopulmonary bypass time remained stable from 86.5 to 92 min across the decade. …”
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Safe Transition to Pembrolizumab following Ipilimumab-Induced Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Nicholas Gravbrot, Katalin Scherer, Srinath Sundararajan

“…Ipilimumab was discontinued, and the patient was monitored via surveillance imaging, as there was no evidence of active disease at that time. Several months later, he was found to have recurrent disease involving the lung, requiring right lower lobectomy. …”
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Integrating hydro-geomorphological adjustments into flood mapping for enhanced risk assessment by Tuhin Mukherjee, N. K. Goel, D. S. Arya, Manohar Arora

“…The Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-based technique known as DEM of Difference (DoD) enables the detection of terrain changes over time by comparing DEMs from distinct periods, offering insight into floodplain erosion. …”
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WELTKRIEGSPHILOSOPHIE AND SCHELER'S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by V. Y. Popov, E. V. Popova

“…Originality. For the first time in domestic historical and philosophical thought, it proved that the works by Max Scheler of the First World War played an outstanding role in the formation of philosophical anthropology as a separate philosophical trend. …”
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Folie à Deux in the Setting of COVID-19 Quarantine by Maxsaya Baez Nuñez, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Matthew DeLuca, Krishan Chirimunj, Monica Dhingra

“…Given that to the best of our knowledge, there have not been any reports describing the development of folie à deux in the setting of the COVID-19 quarantine, the authors aim to dissect how extended periods of shared isolation from society during such a significant time in history may have served as a significant precipitating factor in the onset of shared psychotic disorder, while simultaneously illustrating a parallel relation to how such conditions may predispose certain subgroups to similarly dynamic-based mental health disorders. …”
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Eggplant anthocyanin-mediated zinc oxide nanoparticles incorporated multifunctional film (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose/chitosan) for Caspian Sea white fish (kutum Rutilus frisii)... by Mahsa Salehi, Amir Shakerian, Zohreh Mashak, Ebrahim Rahimi

“…The HPMC-CH-ACNs-3%ZnONPs smart films effectively extended the shelf life of whitefish fillets by reducing mesophilic bacteria growth (8.16-7.67 log CFU/g) and total volatile basic nitrogen values (11.76±0.56 mgN2/kg), increasing a*color (redness) indices within 7 days of storage time.…”
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Comparative assessment of immunodiffusion and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay used for bovine leukosis diagnosis by A. R. Mustafayev, M. O. Baratov

“…The implementation of animal health improvement and disease prevention activities with respect to bovine leukosis involves a need for timely detection of cattle infected with bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) on livestock farms. …”
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Retrospective of legislation on the acquisition (purchase) of wild animals for the purpose of their maintenance and breeding in semi-free conditions or in captivity by O. Yu. Onishchenko

“…The author’s point of view is fair, according to which in Ukraine there is currently no effective system of normative legal acts, that ensure the proper regulation of the use and protection of wild animals, that are in a semi-free condition or in captivity. At the same time in order to preserve the diversity of wildlife and successfully restore their numbers it is necessary to have an effective and reliable national legal system, ecological and legal norms and regulations that would regulate the legal regime of wild animals in semi-free conditions or in captivity. …”
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Longitudinal Deformation Model and Parameter Analysis of Canal Lining under Nonuniform Frost Heave by Pengfei He, Jianhua Dong, Xin Ren, Xiaolei Wu

“…The frost heave amount in the frozen ground subgrade increases constantly, while the temperature decreases, but at the same time, the shear rigidity of the subgrade increases with it. …”
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A Multi-Branch Anchor-Free Detection Algorithm for Hospital Pedestrian by Keqiang Li, Yifan Li, Yiyi Wang, Haining Yu, Huan Zhang

“…Accurate and efficient real-time pedestrian detection in hospitals is crucial for improving safety operations and effective management. …”
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A proportionately increased small and equal batch delivery under consignment stock agreement for a single vendor, multiple buyers supply chain system by Kehinde Adegbola, Abdulrakib Abdulrahman

“…A mathematical cost function is developed to reduce the overall cost of the integrated supply chain system through the optimal cycle time and the optimal numbers of shipments to be delivered to each buyer. …”
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