Evaluation of Water Quality of Water Storage Cisterns in Apartments (Case Study of Kermanshah City) by Mohana Faraji, Milad Roshanbas, Mitra Javan

“…Additionally, the factors affecting the problems that have been created inside the cisterns of the apartments have been evaluated. …”
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Examining Indonesian College Students’ Behavioral Intention of Using Moodle App for E-Learning Platform by Siti Nur Azizah, Tono Suwartono, Sri Nurhayati, Endang Sungkawati, Nur'aeni Nur'aeni

“…This study also has revealed that both computer self-efficacy and other-efficacy directly affect the intention of utilizing Moodle application for e-learning platform. …”
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Analysis of reservoir rock permeability changes due to solid precipitation during waterflooding using artificial neural network by Azizollah Khormali, Soroush Ahmadi, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Aleksandrov

“…Abstract Waterflooding can lead to formation damage, which is affected by various parameters. This study experimentally examined changes in the permeability of rock samples due to calcium sulfate precipitation over a wide range of temperatures, sulfate ion concentrations, injection rates, and injected pore volumes. …”
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Microcrack feature extraction method for chaotic optical surface of silicon nitride ceramic bearing roller based on multi-scale wavelet transform enhancement and optimized PSO-FCM... by Yi Jiang, Mengtao Tang, Wenjie Dong, Guoxing Tang, Weiwen Hu, Jiao Li

“…To address the issue of chaotic optical gradient feature and non-target interference factors affecting the feature extraction effect of chaotic optical surface microcracks in silicon nitride ceramic bearing rollers, an algorithm for extracting microcrack features from chaotic optical surfaces of silicon nitride ceramic bearing rollers based on multi-scale wavelet transform enhancement and optimized PSO-FCM coupling is proposed. …”
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Accidental findings of maxillary sinuses in dental patients on CBCT images. A retrospective study by Fedil Andraws Yalda

“…The findings of the present study recommend a thorough interpretation of the whole volume CBCT scans, by an oral radiologist, to ensure a proper diagnosis as it might have an impact on the patient’s medical status and advice the referred practitioner about the findings which may affect the treatment plan accord[1]ingly. Finally, referral of the patient to a spe[1]cialist if necessary. …”
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Deep learning-based skin lesion analysis using hybrid ResUNet++ and modified AlexNet-Random Forest for enhanced segmentation and classification. by Saleem Mustafa, Arfan Jaffar, Muhammad Rashid, Sheeraz Akram, Sohail Masood Bhatti

“…Segmentation cuts off the lesion from the surrounding skin, giving the classification phase a dedicated area of interest and the ability to clear the background noise that may affect classification rates. The isolation enables the model to better analyze anatomical lesion features in order to achieve accurate benign and malignant classifications. …”
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Early Detection of Seasonal Outbreaks from Twitter Data Using Machine Learning Approaches by Samina Amin, Muhammad Irfan Uddin, Duaa H. alSaeed, Atif Khan, Muhammad Adnan

“…Dengue and flu brought an impact on various countries in the years 2017–2019 and streaming Twitter data reveals the status of dengue and flu outbreaks in the most affected regions. This research work presents that Social Media Analysis (SMA) can be used as a detector of the epidemic outbreak and to understand the sentiment of social media users regarding various diseases. …”
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The effect of electronic money and new payment instruments on the monetary aggregation variables and the role of banks in inflation and liquidity by Ali Rahbar, Hadi Rahmani Fazli, Parviz Davoodi, Hosein Samsami Mazraeh Akhond

“…On the other hand, banks play a crucial role in the development, expansion, and adoption of novel payment instruments, potentially affecting macroeconomic policies and variables. Hence, this study aims to examine the impact of electronic money and innovative payment instruments on monetary aggregates, taking into account the intermediary role of banks.Methodology: Therefore, in this study, to study the subject, panel data technique, simultaneous equations, vector regression model and data from 1370 to 1398 were used.Findings: Based on the results, the expansion of electronic money and payment instruments lead to increased liquidity and inflation. …”
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Comparing Health Care Financing in Indonesia and Thailand from 1995-2010: What Lessons Could Be Learned? by Darius Erlangga, Lizheng Shi

“…The objective of this study is to examine health systems in each country and to determine lessons on how health care financing can affect the health status of a population. **Methods:** The study is based on statistical data from various publicly available resources. …”
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Characterization of soundscapes with acoustic indices and clustering reveals phenology patterns in a subtropical rainforest by Yan-Tin Lai, Sheng-Shan Lu, Ming-Tang Shiao

“…In the subtropical rainforest, rain and wind affected the soundscape from October to March, whereas bird songs were prominent only in the early mornings from February to May, which were subsequently replaced by cicada calls that continued until late August. …”
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Numerical Study on the Relationship between the Dominant Frequency of Blasting Vibration and the Development of Plastic Zone in Cylindrical Charge by Da Liu, Xiaohua Zhao, Jianglin Gao, Binghan Xue, Xiaobin Wu, Songtao Hu, Fang Chen

“…Blasting vibration is a widely studied harmful effect of rock blasting excavations. Many factors affect its dominant frequency, which makes analyzing, evaluating, and predicting it difficult. …”
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The effect of dienogest and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist on pelvic pain after laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis: An RCT by Fatemeh Davari Tanha, Azam Rasti, Hamideh Pakniat, Shohreh Salimi Setudeh

“… Background: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition associated with debilitating chronic pelvic pain that affects women’s quality of life. Several drugs have been used to reduce pain and psychological distress associated with this disease. …”
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Smart Predictor for Spontaneous Combustion in Cotton Storages Using Wireless Sensor Network and Machine Learning by Umar Farooq Shafi, Waheed Anwar, Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Hina Sattar, Iqra Yaqoob, Aqsa Mahmood, Shabana Ramzan

“…Consequently, the actual fire occurs, cotton silently smoldering which not only affects cotton quality but also became the reason of big fire event. …”
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LCANet: a model for analysis of students real-time sentiment by integrating attention mechanism and joint loss function by Pengyun Hu, Xianpiao Tang, Liu Yang, Chuijian Kong, Daoxun Xia

“…The experimental results show that our LCANet model has good recognition rates on both the public emotion datasets FERPlus, RAF-DB and AffectNet, with accuracies of 91.43%, 90.03% and 64.43%, respectively, with good robustness and generalizability. …”
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International Aspects of Investment Liberalization in the PRC: A Case of EU-China Cooperation by D. A. Potapov

“…All these contradictory trends have directly affected China’s foreign investment regime reform. …”
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Formation of Russian magistracy: implementation of the digital economy requests in the educational process by E. V. Voevodina

“…Some aspects of Russia’s accession to the Bologna process have been affected – problems of transition associated with a lack of understanding of the essence of transformations by the main stakeholders have been noted. …”
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Kinematic Characteristics of Male Runners With a History of Recurrent Calf Muscle Strain Injury by Christopher Bramah, Stephen J Preece, Niamh Gill, Lee Herrington

“…# Background Calf muscle strain injuries are a common running injury affecting male runners and are known to have high reoccurrence rates. …”
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Potential biomarkers for predicting the risk of thyroid cancer in immunosenescence: a population-based and externally validated multi omics study by Qian Li, Yuanyuan Zhao, Jiawei Yan, Chao He

“…Additionally, we performed meta-analyses to pinpoint loci and genes affected by pleiotropic effects. Finally, complementary results were obtained from an independent cohort analyzed at Chongqing Medical University Yongchuan Hospital and Bulk-RNA seq from GEO database.ResultsCausal analysis suggests that DNA methylation age acceleration as measured by the Hannum method increases the risk of thyroid cancer (OR: 1.126, 95% CI: 1.002-1.265, P=0.046). …”
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Study Environment and Psychological Factors of University Students’ Intention to Drop out by Laima Bulotaitė, Rūta Sargautytė, Irena Žukauskaitė, Dalia Bagdžiūnienė

“… Student dropout is a pressing issue demanding immediate attention from most universities. It profoundly affects the psychological well-being of students, their financial status, career path, relationship with others while also raising concerns within the university about the quality of studies, study programs, academic personnel, resource reallocation or reputation management. …”
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The Influence of the Preservation Method and Gamma Irradiation Sterilization on TGF-β and bFGF Levels in Freeze-Dried Amnion Membrane (FD-AM) and Amnion Sponge by Heri Suroto, Deny M. Aryawan, Camilla A. Prakoeswa

“…However, each step of the process could affect its biological properties. Even so, there are only a few studies that report the influence of the preservation method and gamma irradiation on growth factor levels in preserved amniotic grafts. …”
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