Characterizing a complex buildup in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the northern South China Sea: an interplay of carbonates and igneous rocks by Beichen Chen, Leyi Xu, Baojun Liu, Lili Zhang, Dong Xiao, Ya Gao, Ya Gao, Feng Wu, Xueqi Yang, Yaming Zou, Yongkun Ma, Yinglin Zhang

“…Well-to-seismic calibration was used to delineate the stratigraphic units, and typical seismic profiles of the buildup were analyzed. …”
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Sustainability assessment of pectin extraction from Citrus paradisi peel to support the encapsulation of lactic acid bacteria by Natalia A. Di Clemente, Enzo La Cava, Sonia Sgroppo, Andrea Gomez-Zavaglia, Esteban Gerbino

“…The system boundaries were considered to be laboratory scale and the functional units were 1 kg of freeze-dried encapsulated bacteria in pectin extracts from Citrus paradisi peel obtained by TS or CHE. …”
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Clinicians’ perspectives of parental decision-making following diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly: a qualitative study by Lucy K Smith, Natalie Armstrong, Robyn Lotto

“…The ways in which they seek to overcome the difficulties in interpreting the law may result in variations in the offer of late TOP, both between and within units. This may inadvertently affect the options available to women least able to engage in this idealised form of decision-making.…”
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A single mutation in dairy cow-associated H5N1 viruses increases receptor binding breadth by Marina R. Good, Monica L. Fernández-Quintero, Wei Ji, Alesandra J. Rodriguez, Julianna Han, Andrew B. Ward, Jenna J. Guthmiller

“…Abstract Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 is causing an unprecedented outbreak in dairy cows in the United States. To understand if recent H5N1 viruses are changing their receptor use, we screened recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) from historical and recent 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses for binding to distinct glycans bearing terminal sialic acids using a glycan microarray. …”
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Soil Surface Roughness in Temperate Forest During SMAPVEX19-22 by Victoria A. Walker, Michael H. Cosh, William A. White, Andreas Colliander, Victoria R. Kelly, Paul Siqueira

“…A total of 410 valid pinboard transects were collected across 24 sites between the two temperate forest domains located in the northeastern United States. Two experimental methods (handheld lidar and ultrasonic robot) were additionally tested at select sites. …”
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3D Crystal Construction by Single‐Crystal 2D Material Supercell Multiplying by Wenhao Li, Jichuang Shen, Yaqing Ma, Xiang Xu, Han Chen, Lida Yu, Chen Ji, Menglin He, Kezhao Ma, Yiwei Duo, Li Wang, Tongbo Wei, Liping Shi, Muhong Wu, Kaihui Liu, Huaze Zhu, Wei Kong

“…In this study, a supercell multiplying approach is introduced that enables high‐throughput construction of 3D superstructures on a macroscopic scale, utilizing artificially stacked single‐crystalline 2D multilayers as foundational repeating units. By employing wafer‐scale single‐crystalline 2D materials and referencing the crystal orientation of substrates, the method ensures precise alignment of crystal orientation within and across each supercell, thereby achieving controllable periodicity along all three axes. …”
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Energy-efficient and fast memristor-based serial multipliers applicable in image processing by Seyed Erfan Fatemieh, Bahareh Bagheralmoosavi, Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad

“…The proposed multipliers have improved significantly compared to State-Of-the Art (SOA) by applying the proposed Partial Product Units (PPUs) and overlapping computational steps. …”
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Solar Wind Speed Prediction With Two‐Dimensional Attention Mechanism by Yanru Sun, Zongxia Xie, Yanhong Chen, Xin Huang, Qinghua Hu

“…Second, considering the characteristics of time series data, we adopt the gated recurrent units (GRU) model which can deal with long‐term dependence as the prediction part of our model. …”
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Ketamine for the Treatment of Chronic Pain: A Comprehensive Review by Jacob E. Israel, Samantha St Pierre, Emily Ellis, Josephine S. Hanukaai, Nazir Noor, Giustino Varrassi, Markus Wells, Alan D. Kaye

“…As the opioid crisis in the United States continues to persist, this review aims to understand better multimodal analgesia, which can improve how chronic pain is managed.…”
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The Timing of Femur Fracture Fixation is an Important Factor for Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation by Hyung Chul Choi, Kwang Hwan Jung, Kyu Hyouck Kyoung, Seong Ho Choi

“…The PMV group required more red blood cell (RBC) transfusions within 7 days RBC (7dRBC) (12.8 vs. 6.8 units; p=0.03) and the time to femur fracture fixation (TFFF) was longer (7.9 vs. 2.7 days; p=0.018). …”
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Identifying depression subtypes and investigating their consistency and transitions in a 1-year cohort analysis. by Carolin Oetzmann, Nicholas Cummins, Femke Lamers, Faith Matcham, Sara Siddi, Katie M White, Josep Maria Haro, Srinivasan Vairavan, Brenda W J H Penninx, Vaibhav A Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, Ewan Carr

“…A secondary analysis of a two-year cohort study called Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder (RADAR-MDD), which collected data every three months from patients with a history of recurrent MDD in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain (N = 619). …”
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Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Talensi District, Northern Ghana by Larry Pax Chegbeleh, Bismark Awinbire Akurugu, Sandow Mark Yidana

“…Classifications based on the United States Salinity Laboratory (USSL), Wilcox, and Doneen diagrams suggest that groundwater from the unconfined aquifers of the district is of excellent quality for irrigation purposes.…”
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Latino Family Childcare Providers’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study by Ana C. Lindsay, Judith A. Salkeld, Mary L. Greaney, Faith D. Sands

“…Latino children are the fastest-growing segment of the child population in the United States, and research shows that Latino families use preschools and day care centers much less than those of other ethnic groups, apparently because of cultural preferences for family-like care. …”
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Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of a Compact Aerosol Wind Tunnel and its Application for Performance Investigation of Particulate Matter Instruments by Prashant Patel, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Then, after constructing the wind tunnel, we experimentally evaluated its overall performance based on different parameters per the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. …”
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GorillaFACS: The Facial Action Coding System for the Gorilla spp. by Catia Correia-Caeiro, Raquel Costa, Misato Hayashi, Anne Burrows, Jordan Pater, Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki, Jack L Richardson, Martha M Robbins, Bridget Waller, Katja Liebal

“…It avoids subjective attributions of meaning by objectively measuring independent movements linked to facial muscles, called Action Units (AUs). FACS has been adapted to 11 other taxa, including most apes, macaques and domestic animals, but not yet gorillas. …”
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A comprehensive overview of acupuncture therapy over the past 20 years: Machine learning-based bibliometric analysis by Chen Liu, Shuqing Liu, Yu Wang, Xinyi Xia, Yu Zhang, Huili Jiang, Tuya Bao, Xuehong Ma

“…The publications were derived from 57 countries, with China, The United States and England being the top three countries. …”
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Deconstructing the Monolith: An Educational Module for Understanding Disparities Within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Populations by Karan D. Luthria, Dylan K. Kim, Samantha Xing, Mina Yuan, Jerry Zhou, Catherine A. Shu, Usha S. Krishnan

“…Introduction Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) people represent one of the largest and most rapidly growing groups in the United States and are often aggregated as a homogeneous, rather than diverse, population in medical research and education. …”
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RISKS OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA'S MILITARY AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE AND INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA by Mădălina RĂDOI, Mihaela ENE

“…The response of the European Union, the United States of America and Great Britain came very quickly to the aggressions generated by Russia; thus, a package of sanctions was implemented targeting: Russian oligarchs, annexed regions, certain banks, entities, individuals, but also certain goods or services provided by/for natural or legal persons from Russia, thereby wanting to decrease the power economic of Russia. …”
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Navigating Privacy: A Global Comparative Analysis of Data Protection Laws by Sungjin Lim, Junhyoung Oh

“…This study fills this gap by conducting a comparative analysis of privacy information protection acts in five major regions: the European Union (EU), the United States (focusing on California), China, Japan, and South Korea. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Different Decontamination Methods on Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm by Ece Açıkgöz Alparslan, Ufuk Bağcı, Ayşegül Kurt

“…Following decontamination procedures, colony-forming units and viable biomass were analyzed to identify the biofilm removal efficacy of the treatments and the viability of bacteria remaining on the surface. …”
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