Stiffness of a fire-damaged reinforced concrete column during unloading after high-intensity horizontal impact by A. G. Tamrazyan, V. I. Chernik

“…The model can be used as a basis for constructing a hysteresis diagram for low-cycle impacts after a fire, which is necessary for seismic analysis of structures in the time domain.…”
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The Effects of Exenatide Once Weekly (EXQW) and Exenatide Twice a Day (EXBID) on Beta-Cell Function in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Jie Wang, Xinye Jin, Ping An, Songyan Yu, Yiming Mu

“…Network meta-analysis was performed, and network diagrams were constructed to evaluate the effects. The primary outcome is HOMA-β, and the secondary outcomes are fasting blood glycose (FBG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and weight loss. …”
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Spatiotemporal Changes of Extreme Precipitation and Its Teleconnection Analysis with Climate Circulation Indices in Three Gorges Reservoir Area in Recent 60 Years by ZENG Huiqi, TENG Shunlin, SHAO Meng, ZHANG Lu, WANG Yuefeng

“…Analyzing the correlation between large-scale climate circulation and extreme precipitation is of great significance for regional flood and drought warnings and extreme weather management.Previous studies have well revealed the influence of a single climate circulation index,while the influence characteristics of multiple climate circulation indices are still unclear.According to the daily precipitation in 21 meteorological stations in Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) from 1960 to 2019,eight extreme precipitation indices (CDD,CWD,R10,R20,Rx1d,Rx5d,R95p,and R99p) were constructed in terms of precipitation duration and absoluteness,and Mann-Kendall (M-K) trend test,Spearman correlation analysis,and multiple linear regression (MLR) were used to analyze the spatiotemporal changes during extreme precipitation in the TGRA.Then the correlation between extreme precipitation and climate circulation was revealed in terms of single and multiple factors.The results showed that:①The R10,R20,Rx1d,Rx5d,R95p,and R99p in the TGRA spatially decreased from northwest to southeast from 1960 to 2019,which was similar to the spatial trend of multi-year average precipitation;②the CWD,CDD,R10,and Rx5d generally decreased,while R20,Rx1d,R95p,and R99p increased.The duration of continuous precipitation events in the TGRA shortened,but the frequency and intensity of short-term strong precipitation events increased;③in terms of teleconnection analysis of extreme precipitation and climate circulation index,the multiple factor regression analysis could better explain the extreme precipitation index than the single factor regression analysis.Specifically,the combination of the East Asian Summer Monsoon Index (EASMI) and the South Asian Summer Monsoon Index (SASMI) had the best performance in explaining the extreme precipitation index.This study can provide a scientific basis for coping with extreme climate change and weather disaster prediction and warning in the TGRA.…”
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Ordos Mausoleum of Genghis Khan: History and Modernity by Nomin D. Tsyrenova, Chingis Ts. Tsyrenov

“…Last but not the least, constructive cooperation between the regional historical community, private business and the party-state administration of the Ordos urban district has borne fruit. …”
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Regulatory networks of mRNAs and miRNAs involved in the immune response of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella to fungal infection by Mei-Qiong Xie, Long-Jiang Wang, Hua-Mei Xiao, Shu-Jun Wei

“…Here, we characterize the expression profiles of miRNA and mRNA, and construct the miRNA-gene regulatory network in DBM infected with I. fumosorosea. …”
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Assessing the Complexity of Intelligent Parks’ Internet of Things Big Data System by Jialu Liu, Renzhong Guo, Zhiming Cai, Wenjian Liu, Wencai Du

“…The traditional IoT systems are analyzed; on this basis, a relay node is added to the transmission path of the data information, and an intelligent park IoT big data system is constructed based on relay cooperation with a total of three hops. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells May Alleviate the Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Reducing the Oxidative Stress in Nucleus Pulposus Cells by Yongzhao Zhao, Qian Xiang, Yunzhong Cheng, Jialiang Lin, Shuai Jiang, Weishi Li

“…The ceRNA regulatory network, which contained 17 DElncRNAs, 240 miRNAs, and 10 hub OSRDEGs, was constructed. Moreover, a significant relationship between the oxidative stress score and autophagy score was observed (p<0.05), and 125 significantly related gene pairs were obtained (r>0.90, p<0.05). …”
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The interplay and synergistic relationship between urban land expansion and urban resilience across the three principal metropolitan regions of the Yangtze River Basin by Lei Ning, Shuangqing Sheng, Yue Meng

“…Leveraging remote sensing data on land use and socio-economic development indicators, we constructed a comprehensive evaluation index encompassing social, economic, ecological, and infrastructural dimensions. …”
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Investigation of the Large-Scale Pallet by Recycled Polypropylene and the Sequential Valve Gate System during the Injection Molding by Chun-Der Cheng, Hsi-Hsun Tsai, Yi-Ling Liao

“…The PTC Creo software is used to construct plastic pallets (1100 mm×1100 mm×140 mm), filled by twelve gates using a baffle cooling system. …”
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The Nature-based Tourism Sustainability: Cultural Measures and Personality Trait by Ali Imron, Siti Nurhayati, Nur Choirul Afif

“…Overall, this study contributes to the extant literature on tourism destination culture-personality by constructing a composite picture of tourism destination culture-personality dimensions on the tourist’ engagement, memorable tourism experience and revisit intention of NBT. …”
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Education for sustainable development: new opportunities with the rce network by Mariya V. Yurina, Yuliya V. Lopukhova, Galina D. Kuznetsova

“…Education for sustainable development (ESD) makes it possible to deal constructively and creatively with current and future global challenges and to create a sustainable society. …”
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Validating the self-competence in death work scale for end-of-life care volunteers by Zhuyun Lin, Vivian Weiqun Lou, Wallace Chi Ho Chan

“…The content validity of the SC-DWS was determined using data from the 341 volunteers who were screened prior to training. Construct validity was tested using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), which suggested that two-factors (subscales) offered the best combination of variables (Emotional and Existential Subscales). …”
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Conceptual Approaches to the Problem of national Security Concept by Yu. O. Zahumenna

“…It has been concluded that national security is not considered in modern, both domestic and international science, exclusively as an “acquisition” and a sphere of monopoly responsibility of the state; we cannot eliminate the active participation of civil society structures, which should exercise public control over the course of such a reform and, if necessary, should have the tools of close communication with state authorities at the stage of initiating the reform, constructing its goals and objectives, directions and perspectives and at the stages of its implementation. …”
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Fabrication of composite ceramic polymeric membranes for agricultural wastewater treatment by Neamatalla M. Azzam, Sahar S. Ali, Gehad G. Mohamed, Mohamed M. Omar, Shereen K. Amin

“…A ceramic supporting (CS) filter constructed from ball clay, kaolin, feldspar, and quartz using corn starch flour as a pore-developing agent. …”
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Transformer-Based Ionospheric Prediction and Explainability Analysis for Enhanced GNSS Positioning by He-Sheng Wang, Dah-Jing Jwo, Yu-Hsuan Lee

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of ionospheric models on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning and proposes an ionospheric prediction method based on a Transformer deep learning model. We construct a Transformer-based deep learning model that utilizes global ionospheric maps as input to achieve spatiotemporal prediction of Total Electron Content (TEC). …”
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¿Hacia dónde van las ciencias sociales? Un análisis sobre la tendencia en México a partir de la Revista Mexicana deSociología by Raul Anthony Olmedo Neri

“…In this context, the present work articulates an analysis on the field of study of the publications made in the Mexican Journal of Sociology (RMS) from 2010 to 2019, with the content analysis method to generate seven analytical categories that served to classify the texts and to be able to construct a panorama of their growth or decrease throughout the period analyzed.…”
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Women’s preferences for testing to predict breast cancer risk – a discrete choice experiment by Yi Wang, Peh Joo Ho, Langming Mou, Jingmei Li

“…Six attributes were selected to construct the DCE questionnaire: one-time cost of the test, methods for reducing late-stage breast cancer, annual breast cancer screening expenses, insurance coverage for early-stage breast cancer, family risk correlation, and risk communication methods. …”
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College major decision making behavior of urban and rural students under cultural capital impact in China by Congbin Guo, Mengchao Guo, Chenchen Fang, Xiaowei Hao

“…Employing a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed data from a nationwide sample of 19,772 college students across various institution types. We constructed a major tendency index and applied logit regression models to examine the decision-making patterns of four distinct groups: rural first-generation, rural second-generation, urban first-generation, and urban second-generation college students. …”
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Street Quality Measurement and Accessibility Analysis Based on Streetscape Data: The Case of Mingcheng District in Xi’an City by Wenting Zhang, Jiajing Chen, Yixin Tian

“…The findings indicate the following: (1) The spatial quality of streets in Mingcheng District ranges from 1.89 to 5.61, based on the scores ranked from highest to lowest; the streets are categorized into five quality levels: very high, high, medium, low, and very low. (2) Using a radius of 0.8 km for calculation, streets with a centrality value of 600 or above are classified as having high accessibility, whereas those below this threshold are considered to have low accessibility. (3) By constructing a “quality–accessibility” evaluation matrix, the following distribution is obtained: 21.4% of streets are classified as high-quality and high-accessibility, 27.1% as high-quality but low-accessibility, 35.3% as low-quality but high-accessibility, and 16.3% as both low-quality and low-accessibility. (4) A significant correlation exists between street quality, accessibility, and the classification of streets in Mingcheng District. …”
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Developmental and hormonal regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana ornithine-delta-aminotransferase by A. A. Egorova, S. V. Gerasimova, A. V. Kochetov

“…In the present work, the reporter gene construct containing the Escherichia coli β-glucuronidase gene (gus) under control of the A. thaliana OAT gene promoter was introduced into the genome of A. thaliana ecotype Columbia plants using the floral dip method; GUS activity was assayed in different experimental conditions including hormone treatment, low and high nitrogen and salinity. …”
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