An Automated Voice Control Home System Using Arduino and Bluetooth Module Hc-05. by Abamwesiga, Bless, Tumwekwatse, Armson

“…With an aging population and the increasing acceptance of community-based care, there is a growing need for electronic assistive technology to support independent living, particularly. The voice-controlled home system is a voice recognition system that aims to use the language of English to control the lighting system of a specific room. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Inorganic Fertilizer (NPK) and Organic Fertilizer (Poultry Manure) on the Sweat Potato Yield. by Mwebembezi, Obed

“…Utilizing a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three treatments (NPK, Poultry Manure, and control), the research evaluated tuber yield, weight, and the impact of soil-living organisms across nine plots. Results indicated that NPK fertilizer significantly enhanced tuber yield and weight, with tubers averaging around 0.5 kg, but its effectiveness was highly dependent on adequate moisture to prevent pest susceptibility. …”
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GPS Spoofing Detection using CAF Images and Neural Networks Based on the Proposed Peak Mapping Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm and TCNN Model by M. J. Jahantab, S. Tohidi, Mohammad Reza Mosavi, Ahmad Ayatollahi

“…Global Positioning System (GPS)-based positioning has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. A GPS receiver calculates its distance from a satellite by measuring the signal reception delay. …”
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Shining light on the dark sector: search for axion-like particles and other new physics in photonic final states with FASER by The FASER collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai, John Anders, Claire Antel, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson, Florian U. Bernlochner, Emma Bianchi, Tobias Boeckh, Jamie Boyd, Lydia Brenner, Angela Burger, Franck Cadoux, Roberto Cardella, David W. Casper, Charlotte Cavanagh, Xin Chen, Eunhyung Cho, Dhruv Chouhan, Andrea Coccaro, Stephane Débieux, Monica D’Onofrio, Ansh Desai, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Radu Dobre, Sinead Eley, Yannick Favre, Deion Fellers, Jonathan L. Feng, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio, Didier Ferrere, Max Fieg, Wissal Filali, Elena Firu, Edward Galantay, Ali Garabaglu, Stephen Gibson, Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla, Yuri Gornushkin, Carl Gwilliam, Daiki Hayakawa, Michael Holzbock, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Zhen Hu, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Tomohiro Inada, Luca Iodice, Sune Jakobsen, Hans Joos, Enrique Kajomovitz, Hiroaki Kawahara, Alex Keyken, Felix Kling, Daniela Köck, Pantelis Kontaxakis, Umut Kose, Rafaella Kotitsa, Susanne Kuehn, Thanushan Kugathasan, Lorne Levinson, Ke Li, Jinfeng Liu, Yi Liu, Margaret S. Lutz, Jack MacDonald, Chiara Magliocca, Toni Mäkelä, Lawson McCoy, Josh McFayden, Andrea Pizarro Medina, Matteo Milanesio, Théo Moretti, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, Laurie Nevay, Ken Ohashi, Hidetoshi Otono, Lorenzo Paolozzi, Brian Petersen, Titi Preda, Markus Prim, Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, Hiroki Rokujo, André Rubbia, Jorge Sabater-Iglesias, Osamu Sato, Paola Scampoli, Kristof Schmieden, Matthias Schott, Anna Sfyrla, Davide Sgalaberna, Mansoora Shamim, Savannah Shively, Yosuke Takubo, Noshin Tarannum, Ondrej Theiner, Eric Torrence, Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez, Svetlana Vasina, Benedikt Vormwald, Di Wang, Yuxiao Wang, Eli Welch, Yue Xu, Samuel Zahorec, Stefano Zambito, Shunliang Zhang

“…Abstract The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. …”
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Possible Factors Influencing the Seroprevalence of Dengue among Residents of the Forest Fringe Areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Juraina Abd-Jamil, Romano Ngui, Syahrul Nellis, Rosmadi Fauzi, Ai Lian Yvonne Lim, Karuthan Chinna, Chee-Sieng Khor, Sazaly AbuBakar

“…The present study suggested that both demographic and geographical factors contributed to the increasing risk of contracting dengue among the OA living at the forest fringe areas of Peninsular Malaysia. …”
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Severe infestation by tropical bedbugs (Cimex hemipterus) in Medellín, Colombia. Case series by Julián Felipe Porras-Villamil, Sandra Sáez-Durán, María Trelis-Villanueva, Rubén Bueno-Marí, Màrius Vicent Fuentes

“…Case presentation: A three-member family (mother aged 53 years and two daughters aged 25 and 22 years) living in Medellín (Colombia) requested a private teleconsultation due to generalized pruritus and psychological symptoms (feeling of isolation, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and jumpiness). …”
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Developmental coordination disorder questionnaire – translation and adaptation into Danish by Marta Topor, Anne Husted Henriksen, Rasmus Ahmt Rohde, Anna Bugge, Emma Bundgård Fals, Ida Jacobsen, Keenie Andersen, Jacob Wienecke

“…New tools are needed to enable easy and efficient screening of motor difficulties experienced by children living in Denmark.Aims/Objectives We translated and adapted the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ’07) into Danish and aimed to evaluate its utility.Materials and Methods A team of translators prepared the Danish version of the DCDQ’07 – DCDQ-DK. …”
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East China Sea Storm Surge Modeling and Visualization System: The Typhoon Soulik Case by Zengan Deng, Feng Zhang, Linchong Kang, Xiaoyi Jiang, Jiye Jin, Wei Wang

“…It is calculated that 0.15 m water level rise in this region can cause a submerge increase of ~0.2 km2, which could be catastrophic to the coastal environment and the living. Additionally, a Globe Visualization System (GVS) is realized on the basis of World Wind to better provide users with the typhoon/storm surge information. …”
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A link between phenotypic robustness and life expectancy in Drosophila melanogaster by L. P. Zakharenko, D. V. Petrovskii, I. G. Dranov, S. A. Fedorova, N. S. Yudin, A. V. Pindyurin, Y. M.  Moshkin

“…Long-lived systems are expected to be stable, i. e. resistant to either external influences, or internal failures. …”
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The effect of cassava effluent and empty oil palm fruit bunch on remediation of petroleum polluted soil and crop production in the tropics: A review by Fidelis Ifeakachuku Achuba, Oke Aruoren, Abigail Chioma Nmanedu, Patrick Chukwuyenum Ichipi-Ifukor, Uche Dennis-Eboh

“…This review focuses on the identification of potential benefits of two highly ignored agro wastes: cassava effluent and empty oil palm bunch, which contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases and increasing the disease causing potentials of these wastes for people living where they are disposed. Methods In this review, we utilized available literature to reveal the importance of agro wastes as well as their different beneficial applications especially as they concern the remediation of crude oil pollution. …”
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Abcesso hepático e Bacteriemia Causada por Desulfovibrio Desulfuricans by Tiago Guimarães Costa, Raquel Moura, Luís Rocha, Sara Pinto, Paula Ferreira

“…The patient, an 83-year-old Indian female, was living in Portugal for a long time. She had multiple comorbidities and presented with general malaise, asthenia associated with decreased appetite, and diarrhea. …”
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Analysis of Seed Vigor Using the Biospeckle Laser Technique by Roberto A. Braga, José Luís Contado, Karina Renostro Ducatti, Edvaldo A. Amaral da Silva

“…Among them, the biological laser speckle phenomenon, rooted in optical interferometry, has proven effective in sensitively detecting and monitoring activity levels in living tissues. Known as the biospeckle laser (BSL) technique, this approach offers reliable results in assessing seed vigor. …”
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Learning from “Knocks in Life”: Food Insecurity among Low-Income Lone Senior Women by Rebecca J. Green-LaPierre, Patricia L. Williams, N. Theresa Glanville, Deborah Norris, Heather C. Hunter, Cynthia G. Watt

“…Building on earlier quantitative work where we showed that lone senior households reliant on public pensions in Nova Scotia (NS), Canada lacked the necessary funds for a basic nutritious diet, here we present findings from a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with eight low-income lone senior women living in an urban area of NS. Using a phenomenological inquiry approach, in-depth interviews were used to explore lone senior women’s experiences accessing food with limited financial resources. …”
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Signal Recovery in Power Systems by Correlated Gaussian Processes by Marcel Zimmer, Daniele Carta, Thiemo Pesch, Andrea Benigni

“…Then, by making use of real data collected from the Living Lab Energy Campus—a real-life laboratory established at Forschungszentrum Jülich—we demonstrate the use of the proposed approach for recovering distribution grid signals. …”
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Challenges in Providing Treatment and Care for Viral Hepatitis among Individuals Co-Infected with HIV in Resource-Limited Settings by Wirach Maek-a-Nantawat, Anchalee Avihingsanon, Pirapon June Ohata

“…Southeast Asian countries are classified as “highly prevalent zones,” with a rate of hepatitis B and C coinfection in people living with HIV/AIDS of approximately 3.2–11%. Majority of hepatitis B coinfection is of genotype C. …”
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The Natural History of Depression in Parkinson’s Disease within 30-Month Follow-Up by Yuan-Yuan Xu, Sheng-Han Kuo, Zheng Liang, Hui Xu, Wu-Ruo Feng, Cui-Yu Yu, Wei-Guo Liu

“…In conclusion, cognitive decline is a disease related factor of worsening and the occurrence of depression. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) symptoms in PD and female gender may be crucial factors of increasing depressive symptoms.…”
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Endophytic fungi isolated from Vietnamese nut grass (Cyperus rotundus L. Cyperaceae) – A promising solution to mitigate the prime phenomenon of antibiotic resistance by Bac V.G. Nguyen, Linh X.T. Tran, Anh-Tu Ha-Nguyen, Minh-Tri Le, Thanh-Hoa Vo, Gia Phong Vu, Phuoc-Vinh Nguyen

“…In this study, endophytic fungi living in this plant were isolated, macro- and micrologically identified, and assessed for their antibacterial properties on both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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‘A new sense of my former self’ – transforming the self through vocational rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury by Pia Kold, Hanne Peoples, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Jesper Larsen Maersk

“…Background Acquired Brain injury (ABI) causes ripples throughout the occupational and social fabric. It enters people’s lives at a significant personal cost, encroaching on people’s sense of self. …”
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Anti-dendrite separator interlayer enabling staged zinc deposition for enhanced cycling stability of aqueous zinc batteries by Dun Wang, Sanlue Hu, Titi Li, Caiyun Chang, Senlin Li, Songde Guo, Huan Li, Qingming Liu, Jinqiu Gong, Jun Zhou, Cuiping Han

“…Consequently, Zn | |Zn symmetrical cells with hot-pressing separator interlayer demonstrate cycle lives of 3000 hours at 2 mA cm−2, 2 mAh cm−2. Moreover, Zn | |I2 pouch batteries with hot-pressing separator interlayer realizes 840 cycles lifespan with a capacity retention of 90.9% and a final discharge capacity of 110.6 mAh at 25 °C.…”
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Exploring imitation of within hand prehensile object manipulation using fMRI and graph theory analysis by Werner Krammer, John H. Missimer, Vanessa Vallesi, Manuela Pastore-Wapp, Georg Kägi, Roland Wiest, Bruno J. Weder

“…Abstract This study aims to establish an imitation task of multi-finger haptics in the context of regular grasping and regrasping processes during activities of daily living. A video guided the 26 healthy, right-handed volunteers through the three phases of the task: (1) fixation of a hand holding a cuboid, (2) observation of the sensori-motor manipulation, (3) imitation of that motor action. fMRI recorded the task; graph analysis of the acquisitions revealed the associated functional cerebral connectivity patterns. …”
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