Combining LiDAR and Time-Domain Frequency Analysis for Enhanced Spatial Understanding of Vibration Responses by Oliver L. Geibendorfer, Christoph Holst

“…Analyzing objects concerning their periodic behavior is mostly performed with inertial measurement units (IMUs) or global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensors fixed to its surface. …”
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Attitudes toward Management of Sickle Cell Disease and Its Complications: A National Survey of Academic Family Physicians by Arch G. Mainous, Rebecca J. Tanner, Christopher A. Harle, Richard Baker, Navkiran K. Shokar, Mary M. Hulihan

“…Data was collected as part of the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) survey in the United States and Canada that targeted family physicians who were members of CERA-affiliated organizations. …”
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A Comparison of Cholesterol Uptake and Storage in Inflammatory and Noninflammatory Breast Cancer Cells by Breonna J. Martin, Kenneth L. van Golen

“…Important risk factors that have been associated with the development of aggressive breast cancers, such as IBC, include obesity and diet, which are evident in the United States, where the overconsumption of high-fat foods continues to contribute to obesity in the nation. …”
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Understanding the Effects of Social Value Orientations in Shaping Regulatory Outcomes through Agent-Based Modeling: An Application in Organic Farming by Saba Siddiki, Christopher Frantz

“…Specifically, we employ agent-based modeling as a tool suited to understanding emergent behaviors to assess how variation in the social value orientations of farmers participating in the United States’ voluntary organic farming regulatory program may shape aggregate and sub-group compliance. …”
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Exploring the community of inquiry framework in higher education: a bibliometric analysis by Aarti Pushp Rawal

“…The findings revealed a surge in publications in 2022, with the United Kingdom leading in contributions (n = 100), highlighting the framework’s global impact. …”
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Impact of Outlet Pressure on Internal Flow Characteristics and Energy Loss in Pump-Turbine System Under Pump Operation Conditions by Tianding Han, Qifei Li, Licheng Feng, Xiangyu Chen, Feng Zhou, Zhenggui Li

“…Understanding the impact of outlet pressure variations on the internal flow field is crucial for the further development of turbine units. This study employs numerical methods to systematically analyze the effects of outlet pressure changes on flow characteristics and energy loss. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization of a Fractional-Order PID Controller for Pumped Turbine Governing System Using an Improved NSGA-III Algorithm under Multiworking Conditions by Chu Zhang, Tian Peng, Chaoshun Li, Wenlong Fu, Xin Xia, Xiaoming Xue

“…The experimental results on eight test functions and a real-world PTGS have shown that the proposed multiobjective framework can improve the Pumped storage units’ adaptability to changeable working conditions and the proposed LCNSGA-III algorithm is able to solve the MO-FOPID problem effectively.…”
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A morfometria da bacia hidrográfica do rio Mimoso, um sistema cárstico do Mato Grosso do Sul/ Brasil by Rafael Brugnolli Medeiros, André Geraldo Berezuk, Charlei Aparecido da Silva

“…We used the Digital Terrain Model - MDT / SRTM made available by the United States Geological Survey. The methodology also consisted of conferences of the information obtained in in situ maps, from the inclinations and the length and altitude of the terrain ramps. …”
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The Committee on Public Information: A transmedia war propaganda campaign by Benson Krystina

“…It develops an understanding of how propaganda entered journalism and popular culture in the United States during World War I through an examination of materials created by the Committee on Public Information (CPI). …”
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RETRACTED: Research on smart grid management and security guarantee of sports stadiums based on GCNN-GRU and self-attention mechanism by Song Li

“…This paper proposes a method based on the Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and a self-attention mechanism. The objective is to predict trends and influencing factors in smart grid management and security of sports stadiums, facilitating the formulation of optimization strategies and policies.Methods: The proposed method involves several steps. …”
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Time to pregnancy recognition among users of an FDA-cleared fertility application by Agathe van Lamsweerde, Jack T. Pearson, Rachel Urrutia, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Helena Kopp Kallner, Anita Nelson, Eleonora Benhar, Carlotta Favaro, Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Raoul Scherwitzl

“…Timely pregnancy recognition can help individuals in health and pregnancy management, reducing maternal and foetal risk and costs, whilst increasing treatment options, availability, and cost.Methods This dataset contained 23,728 pregnancies (conceived between June 2018 and December 2022) from 20,429 participants using a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared fertility app in the United States. Most participants (with non-missing information) identified as Non-Hispanic White, and one-third reported obtaining a university degree. …”
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Participation of Small-Scale Fishermen in the Design of a Project for Creating Artificial Reefs in the South of Brazil by José Milton Andriguetto-Filho, Naina Pierri

“… Since 2004, a project has been in progress off the coast of ParanáState (Brazil) to set up artificial reefs and anti-trawling units on the shallowcontinental shelf. The object is to restrict large-scale bottom trawling inorder to protect and recover marine biodiversity and fish stocks, thus favouringthe sustainability of small-scale fishing. …”
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENERGY SYSTEMS OF UKRAINE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN ENERGY COMPANIES IN CONDITIONS OF RISK by Liubov Gutsalenko, Oleksandr Hutsalenko, Uliana Marchuk, Serhiy Zabolotnyy

“…Furthermore, the share of Ukraine’s contribution to the energy supply of other countries is indicated. Today, the United Energy System of Ukraine is one of Europe’s most significant energy com- plexes with seven regional electric power systems (REES), including Dnipro, Western, Crimean, Southern, Southwestern, Northern, and Central. …”
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Knowledge exchange between practitioners for the purpose of co-creating nature-based solutions by Borjana Bogatinoska, Angelique Lansu, Stefan C. Dekker, Jean Hugé, Jetse Stoorvogel

“…To achieve this, we applied the SECI model across eight brook catchments in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom. The study involved deploying various knowledge exchange instruments, which were then evaluated for their impact on fostering collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders, including landowners, non-governmental organizations, local communities and other key beneficiaries of nature-based solutions. …”
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Missed Testing Opportunities for HIV Screening and Early Diagnosis in an Urban Tertiary Care Center by Joseph DeRose, Jason Zucker, David Cennimo, Shobha Swaminathan

“…Newark, New Jersey, is disproportionally affected by HIV with one of the highest prevalence rates in the United States. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is a major healthcare provider to Newark’s underserved population and has implemented a HIV testing program that can diagnose and link newly diagnosed individuals to care. …”
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Smartphone based non invasive real time white blood cell counter leveraging blue light and static magnetic field by Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith, Masud Rabbani, Kazi Shafiul Alam, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

“…Our innovation provides an easy, affordable, and instantaneous solution for monitoring WBCs in various healthcare settings, including homes and critical care units. Additionally, it serves as a beacon of hope for low- and middle-income nations, where access to and affordability of traditional lab tests are limited.…”
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Wives, Clerks, and 'Lady Diplomats': The Gendered Politics of Diplomacy and Representation in the U.S. Foreign Service, 1900-1940 by Molly M. Wood

“…In the first few decades of the twentieth century, as the United States asserted itself on the world stage, American women played important roles in the work of diplomacy within the formal U.S. …”
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Efficient Parallel Implementation of Active Appearance Model Fitting Algorithm on GPU by Jinwei Wang, Xirong Ma, Yuanping Zhu, Jizhou Sun

“…The emergence of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) that feature a many-core, fine-grained parallel architecture provides new and promising solutions to overcome the computational challenge. …”
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CPT-Based Probabilistic Characterization of Undrained Shear Strength of Clay by Mi Tian, Xiaotao Sheng

“…This paper presents Bayesian approaches for probabilistic characterization of undrained shear strength using cone penetration test (CPT) data and prior information. Homogeneous soil units are first identified using CPT data and subsequently assessed for weak stationarity by the modified Bartlett test to reject the null hypothesis of stationarity. …”
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HIV and Menopause: A Systematic Review of the Effects of HIV Infection on Age at Menopause and the Effects of Menopause on Response to Antiretroviral Therapy by Kentaro Imai, Madeline Y. Sutton, Rennatus Mdodo, Carlos del Rio

“…More than half of persons living with HIV infection in the United States (U.S.) will be ≥50 years of age by 2020, including postmenopausal women. …”
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