Influence of Marble Powder and Polypropylene Fibers on the Strength and Durability Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) by Atizaz Ali, Zahoor Hussain, Muhammad Akbar, Ayub Elahi, Samiullah Bhatti, Muhammad Imran, Pu Zhang, Nembo Leslie Ndam

“…Properties of marble powder-based fiber reinforced SCC at fresh state were studied by means of slump flow diameter and flow time, V-funnel, and L-box test. The concrete properties at the hardened state were examined regarding compressive strength, split tensile strength, and flexural strength. …”
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Preferences for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Non-Stimulant Treatment Characteristics Among Children and Adolescents With ADHD and Their Caregivers by Emuella Flood, Kavita Gajria, Vanja Sikirica, Paul Hodgkins, M. Haim Erder, Frank Lopez, Daniel Connor

“…Based on importance ratings, the most influential attributes for both caregivers and children/adolescents were chance of somnolence, efficacy, and for caregivers, effect on oppositionality and black box warning. Most caregivers (95.3%) and children/adolescents (93.8%) preferred GXR over ATX. …”
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EMG-Based Continuous Estimation of Index Finger Movements With Varying Interjoint Coordination Patterns by Modeling Musculoskeletal Dynamics by Trenton A. Gilstrap, Mada M. Alghamdi, Thanh Phan, Sang Wook Lee

“…Generally, ‘black-box’ models with high complexity such as neural networks (NN) were used to improve prediction accuracy, which may not reproduce other important movement characteristics such as smoothness or kinematic similarity. …”
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Algae extract-based nanoemulsions for photoprotection against UVB radiation: an electrical impedance spectroscopy study by Aura Rocío Hernández, Lady Sepulveda, Yoshie Hata, Leonardo Castellanos, Sebastian Björklund, Tautgirdas Ruzgas, Marcela Aragón

“…This study aimed to develop oil-in-water photoprotective nanoemulsions containing marine macroalgae extract. A Box–Behnken experimental design was used to identify the most promising formulation composition, resulting in optimal physical properties. …”
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Estrogen-mediated modulation of sterile inflammatory markers and baroreflex sensitivity in ovariectomized female Wistar rats by Md. Iqbal Alam, Naba Sami, Aftab Alam, Sheema Wazib, Neha Dhyani, Sher Afghan, Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

“…Plasma levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and nitric oxide (NO) were measured, along with those of the inflammatory markers tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and high mobility group box-1 (HMGB-1). Results: The OVX group, compared with the sham-operated group, displayed significantly altered hemodynamic parameters and baroreflex sensitivity, along with elevated MDA levels and decreased SOD and NO levels. …”
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Mape: defending against transferable adversarial attacks using multi-source adversarial perturbations elimination by Xinlei Liu, Jichao Xie, Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Yuxiang Hu, Shumin Huo, Zhen Zhang

“…MAPE effectively eliminates adversarial perturbations in various adversarial examples, providing a robust defense against attacks from different substitute models. In a black-box attack scenario utilizing ResNet-34 as the target model, our approach achieves average defense rates of over 95.1% on CIFAR-10 and over 71.5% on Mini-ImageNet, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance.…”
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Towards Efficient Object Detection in Large-Scale UAV Aerial Imagery via Multi-Task Classification by Shuo Zhuang, Yongxing Hou, Di Wang

“…Our method leverages bounding box label information to construct a salient region generation branch. …”
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The Role of Silymarin in Mitigating Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment Induced by Ovariectomy in Wistar Rats by Razieh Moalefshahri, Hossein Javid, Fatemeh Gheybi, Somaye Fallahnezhad, Seyed Isaac Hashemy

“…Memory and learning were assessed using Morris water maze and shuttle box tests. Brain and liver tissues were analyzed for inflammatory factors (IL-1β, TNFα, and IL-6) and oxidative stress markers (CAT, SOD, and MDA) after sacrifice. …”
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Phytochemical screening and neuro-pharmacological activity of Mimosa pudica flowers: Integrating in vitro, in silico and in vivo approaches by Fahmida Alam, Rashedul Alam, A.T.M. Yusuf, Joya Datta Ripa, Raktim Das Nithin, Sourav Barua, Mohammed Fazlul Kabir, Seong-Tshool Hong, Hea-Jong Chung

“…These tests included the open field test, light-dark box test, elevated plus maze test, tail suspension test, forced swim test, Y-maze test, hole cross test, and social interaction test. …”
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Anti-IL-22 Antibody Attenuates Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease via Increasing Foxp3+ T Cell through Modulation of CD11b+ Cell Function by Jianbo Wu, Jian Gu, Shun Zhou, Hao Lu, Yunjie Lu, Ling Lu, Xuehao Wang

“…IL-22Ab treatment also decreased the percentage of interferon-γ+ and tumor necrosis factor-α+ T cells but increased the number of forkhead box p3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs). In the presence of Tregs and donor CD11b+ cells, IL-22Ab protected against aGVHD. …”
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Available phosphorus from phosphate extracted from swine wastewater for poultry by Fernando de Castro Tavernari, Airton Kunz, Vivian Feddern, Ricardo Steinmetz, Paola de Azevedo Mello, Valderi Luiz Dressler

“…The animals’ age was from 1 to 14 days old, which were housed in boxes and fed ad libitum (water and feed). At 14 days, 3 birds per experimental unit were slaughtered to evaluate tibia-breaking strength. …”
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Prediction of the axial compression capacity of ECC-CES columns using adaptive sampling and machine learning techniques by Khaled Megahed

“…Despite the robust performance of the ML models, their black-box nature limits practical applicability in design contexts. …”
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Changes in Drop and Repeated Jump Ground Reaction Forces After a 10-Week Offseason Strength and Conditioning Program in Division I American Football Players by Zachary Gillen, Reuben Burch, David Saucier, Lesley Strawderman, Tony Luczak, Anthony Piroli, Adam Petway, Ted Rath

“…The DJ was performed off a 30 cm box. The RJ protocol consisted of four consecutive jumps. …”
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Prediction of Transverse Reinforcement of RC Columns Using Machine Learning Techniques by Congzhen Xiao, Baojuan Qiao, Jianhui Li, Zhiyong Yang, Jiannan Ding

“…To interpret the “black box” ML model, the SHAP method and partial dependence plots are used to analyse the correlation between the input parameters and the transverse reinforcement ratio. …”
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Quantifying Emissions of PM10 Generated by the Implosion of Concrete Grain Silos by Mahmoud M. Abu-Allaban, Salahuddin M. Jaber, Aiman Soleiman, Hasan Almarayeh

“…To characterize these emissions, descriptive statistics, graphical methods, inverse distance weighting interpolation, decision trees constructed with recursive partitioning, the Gaussian dispersion model, the modified box model, and regression analysis were applied. …”
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Breaking the Silence: Exploring Peritraumatic Distress and Negative Emotions in Male and Female Physical Domestic Violence Victims by Pasquale Caponnetto, Vittorio Lenzo, Alberto Sardella, Graziella Chiara Prezzavento, Mirko Casu, Maria C. Quattropani

“…Descriptive statistics, box plots, and scatter plots were used to provide a clear picture of the sample characteristics…”
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Working memory and the need for explainable AI – Scenarios from healthcare, social media and insurance by M. Liebherr, E. Gößwein, C. Kannen, A. Babiker, S. Al-Shakhsi, V. Staab, B.J. Li, R. Ali, C. Montag

“…XAI is particularly needed in AI systems that remain relatively closed, i.e. black box, on how to make decisions whether for complexity or commercial sensitivity. …”
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Modelling the flowing bottom hole pressure of oil and gas wells using multivariate adaptive regression splines by Okorie Ekwe Agwu, Saad Alatefi, Ahmad Alkouh, Raja Rajeswary Suppiah

“…However, most ML models operate as black box models, lacking transparency and interpretability. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of teat end hyperkeratosis in cows from the Urals region of Russia by A.S. Barkova, V.V. Verkhoturov

“…It was noted that animals with milking frequency of more than 2 times a day have a higher level of hyperkeratosis; likewise, animals with permanence in the box and prolongued milking have a higher percentage of lesions, which can be related to the narrowing of the lumen of the teat canal and excretion of a large volume of milk. …”
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Reference genome provide insights into sex determination of silver aworana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) by Yi Liu, Chao Bian, Ka Yan Ma, Yexin Yang, Yuanyuan Wang, Chao Liu, Guochang Ouyang, Meng Xu, Jinhui Sun, Changwei Shao, Jiehu Chen, Qiong Shi, Xidong Mu

“…., around 26-kb upstream of foxl2 gene (encoding forkhead box L2). Its strong interaction with the neighboring foxl2 on the same chromosome suggests foxl2 as a candidate sex-related gene in silver arowana. …”
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