Identification of specific risk factors and predictive analytics for cardio-cerebral arterial stenosis: a comparative study utilizing framingham risk stratification insights by Gege Zhang, Sijie Dong, Fanfan Feng, Weihao Kan, Taozhen Shi, Hongmei Ding, Ruiguo Dong

“…This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of ICAS and COAS among ischemic stroke patients across different risk strata and to construct a predictive model for assessing atherosclerosis risk. …”
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Study on Model and Tests of Sheet Pile Wall with a Relieving Platform by Ming Zhang, Wei Wang, Ronghua Hu, Ziyi Wang

“…Finally, the displacement of the rib pillars is greater than the calculated results using the finite difference method and exceeds the standard requirements, owing to the failure of the retaining wall, and the unloading board needs to be constructed to improve the retaining wall’s behaviour. …”
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Modeling and Vibration Analysis of a 3-UPU Parallel Vibration Isolation Platform with Linear Motors Based on MS-DT-TMM by Wei Chen, Jiaqi Tong, Hehe Yang, Fulong Liu, Zhen Qin, Zhiyong Ren

“…Finally, the prototype of the vibration isolator is constructed and assembled, and the vibration experiment is conducted. …”
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The crane radar: Development and deployment of an operational eco-digital twin by K. De Koning

“…Thereby, digital twins guide policy makers in addressing twenty-first century challenges.Yet, it is also a new concept to many scientists and policy makers in the environmental domain, which demands more clarity about what digital twins are and how they are built, in order to support constructive developments in digital twining. This paper therefore aims to outline the main concept and the steps involved in building digital twins for ecological decision making. …”
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Using Network Pharmacology and Animal Experiment to Investigate the Therapeutic Mechanisms of Polydatin against Vincristine-Induced Neuropathic Pain by Peng Xi, Rui Mao, Shiyan Wu, Lei Liu, Ceng Cai, Lei Lu, Cailin Zhang, Yimei Li

“…Subsequently, the intersection targets were obtained using the Venn tool, and the protein-protein interaction (PPI) was constructed by the STRING database. GO and KEGG enrichment analyses were performed to investigate the biological functions of the intersection targets. …”
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Trading house of merchant A.S. Kolmakov in Tyumen. Experience of complex research, restoration and adaptation of the object by A. I. Klimenko, M. Yu. Gaydouk

“…The results of the building survey are given, town-planning, architectural-artistic, constructive and engineering features of the object are considered.Conclusions. …”
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Adsorption of Heavy Metals on Bentonitic Soil for Use in Landfill Liners by Daniela Lima Machado da Silva, Maria Eugenia Gimenez Boscov, Marcela de Almeida Costa, Laércio Leal dos Santos, Márcio Camargo de Melo, Veruschka Escarião Dessoles Monteiro

“…The experimental cell consists of a landfill unit on an experimental scale, with the same constructive elements of a sanitary landfill. Disturbed and undisturbed samples of the investigated soil were collected at a quarry in the rural zone of Boa Vista (state of Paraiba, Northeast Brazil). …”
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An automatic cervical cell classification model based on improved DenseNet121 by Yue Zhang, Chunyu Ning, Wenjing Yang

“…Finally, the Atrous Dense Block (ADB) is constructed, and four ADB modules are integrated into DenseNet121 to enable the model to acquire global and local salient feature information. …”
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Exploring the charge storage ability of the spinel-type high entropy oxide (MnFeCoNiZn)3O4 nanoparticles for supercapacitor applications by Arun S R, George Jacob

“…Additionally, an asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) was constructed of ((MnFeCoNiZn)3O4 HEO NPs // activated carbon (AC)) which exhibited a 1.5 V voltage window. …”
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A Hybrid Approach Integrating Multiple ICEEMDANs, WOA, and RVFL Networks for Economic and Financial Time Series Forecasting by Jiang Wu, Tengfei Zhou, Taiyong Li

“…First, we employ ICEEMDAN with random parameters to separate the original time series into a group of comparatively simple subseries multiple times. Second, we construct RVFL networks to individually forecast each subseries. …”
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From On-Air Rebelliousness to the Cult of Positivity: Mediated Identities and Technological Change in Pump Up the Volume (1990) and Eighth Grade (2018) by Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín

“…Mostly lacking parental supervision, virtual spaces become one of the few arenas where teenagers have unrestricted freedom to perform and construct their identities. Teenage films have depicted the possibilities and dangers of adolescents using technology since personal computers became commonplace in the 1980s. …”
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Cells Grouping Detection and Confusing Labels Correction on Cervical Pathology Images by Wenbo Pang, Yi Ma, Huiyan Jiang, Qiming Yu

“…To address this issue, we perform a labels correction module with feature similarity by constructing feature centers for typical cells in each category. …”
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Flexibly funding WHO? An analysis of its donors’ voluntary contributions by Andrew Harmer, Jonathan Kennedy, Obichukwu Iwunna

“…In the past few years, the WHO Secretariat has pushed for donors to increase the amount of flexible funding they provide.Methods This paper aims to add to the literature on WHO financing by constructing and analysing a dataset based on figures extracted from WHO documents for the period 2010–21. …”
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On the pursuit of reproducibility: the importance of large sample sizes in psychoimmunology by Manivel Rengasamy, Daniel Moriarity, Rebecca Price

“…However, in typically-sized psychoimmunology studies (N < 200) that explore associations between PIMs and neurobiological/psychosocial constructs related to depression and studies that examine less-studied PIMs (e.g., interferon gamma), significant concerns about reproducibility of results exist. …”
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PROMOTING HANDICRAFT FAMILY BUSINESS THROUGH DIGITAL MARKETING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE by Santus Kumar DEB, Muhammad Shoeb Ur RAHMAN, Shohel Md. NAFI

“…Moreover, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze data and find out the causal relationship among the constructs and hypothesis testing. As per the results of the study, among the 6 hypotheses paths all were supported along wit h 24 relationship path coefficients were noteworthy. …”
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The Life Adjustment Process in Chronic Pain: Psychosocial Assessment and Clinical Implications by Ann-Christine Gullacksen, Jan Lidbeck

“…Adjustment eventually progressed into Stage III with the constructive use of past experiences, and competence and control increased. …”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on enhanced image smoothness by Jinghan WANG, Hui ZHU, Helin LI, Hui LI, Xiaopeng YANG

“…With the prosperity of Internet technology and the popularity of social networks, reversible data hiding technology has been widely adopted in concealed information transmission of medical and military fields with its advantages on secret information recovery.Traditional reversible data hiding schemes mainly focus on the enhancement of embedding capacity and the reduction of the distortion rate of stego image, but pay less attention to the understanding of image details with the human eyes.Thus, it is difficult to resist hidden information detection methods.To solve the above challenge, a reversible data hiding algorithm was proposed, which ensured the visual quality of the stego image in the process of data hiding through the image visual smoothness enhancement.Specifically, the original image was divided into reference area and non-reference area.The secret data was embedded through the translation of the difference, which was calculated according to the predicted pixel value and the original pixel value of the non-reference area.To guarantee the visual quality of the image, smoothing mechanism was constructed, in which a Gaussian filter was utilized as a template to filter the predicted value and to add the filter difference into the cover image without loss.The pixel value of the reference region was used as edge information for lossless restoration of the original image.The filtering coefficient in Gaussian function was exploited as the embedded key to ensure the security of secret information.Simulation results regarding a large number of classical image data sets illustrated that the visual smoothness of stego image processed by this scheme was effectively enhanced with lower distortion rate, higher embedding rate, and higher embedding and extraction efficiency.In a typical circumstance, the similarity between the generated stego image and the Gaussian filter image can reach 0.9963.The PSNR and the embedded capacity can be up to 37.346 and 0.3289 BPP, respectively.…”
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Comparisons between Asphalt Pavement Responses under Vehicular Loading and FWD Loading by Song Yang, Bing Qi, Zhensheng Cao, Shaoqiang Zhang, Huailei Cheng, Ruikang Yang

“…Two full-scale asphalt pavement structures, namely, flexible pavement and semirigid pavement, were constructed and instrumented with strain gauges. The strain responses of asphalt layers under vehicular and FWD loadings were measured and analyzed. …”
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Retaining Severely Damaged Talar Body and Medial Malleolar Cartilage for Diabetic Ankle/Hindfoot Charcot Arthrodesis Using Intramedullary Nail: A Short Report by Kaissar Yammine MD, PhD, Camille Samaha MD, Chahine Assi MD, MSc

“…Conclusion: When performing TTC arthrodesis for diabetic Charcot, preserving the talus even when the body is severely damaged could add to the stability of the construct resulting in bone healing and some leg length preservation. …”
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Risk Factors for Urgency Incontinence in Women Undergoing Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery by Leslie M. Rickey, Liyuan Huang, David D. Rahn, Yvonne Hsu, Heather J. Litman, Elizabeth R. Mueller

“…Multivariate models were constructed with UUI and symptom severity as outcomes. …”
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