The “guild” concept in riparian ecology: Use, limitations and prospects for improving the reproducibility and transferability of results by Philippe Janssen

“…I identified 24 original research articles and extracted information on the traits used, guild construction methods and study contexts. Results showed that an average of 14 traits out of a total of 74 were used to construct an average of 7 guilds. …”
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Traffic Status Prediction of Arterial Roads Based on the Deep Recurrent Q-Learning by Wei Hao, Donglei Rong, Kefu Yi, Qiang Zeng, Zhibo Gao, Wenguang Wu, Chongfeng Wei, Biljana Scepanovic

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Experimental Study on Fatigue Characteristics and Life Prediction of Rotating Restricted Short Suspender in Suspension Bridge by Lei Zhao, Zhili Yang, Xianneng Tong, Yang Zhang, Ruifeng Nie

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Assessment of an Existing RC Building before and after Strengthening Using Nonlinear Static Procedure and Incremental Dynamic Analysis by Amir A. Hedayat, Hakan Yalciner

“…Inadequate attention during design and construction of some of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Cyprus has raised questions about the performance level of these existing buildings under future earthquakes. …”
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Increases in vegetation cover increase response more to climate change than to human activities in the Baiyangdian watershed by Jiashan Gao, Jianying Yang

“…This study provides a scientific basis for the ecological management of Baiyangdian and the construction of forestry engineering.…”
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The evolution and development of railway passenger transportation clearing method in China by Yin Zhou, Wei Fang, Yan Xu, Huaixiang Wang, Lu Liu

“…Originality/value – This paper summarized the factors influencing the development of China’s railway passenger transportation clearing approach evolution, including the simplified rules of clearing, enhanced the market adaptability, establishing and perfecting the incentive mechanism, strengthening the construction of informatization, etc. This paper puts forward the ways to improve the railway passenger transportation clearing future development thinking.…”
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Genetic diversity analysis of apricots from Dagestan using SSR markers by D. M. Anatov, I. I. Suprun, I. V. Stepanov, S. V. Tokmakov

“…The UPGMA and NJ dendrogram construction techniques revealed the genetic similarity among the Dagestani apricots, confirmed by a low level of cluster significance. …”
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Continuous cooling transformation diagrams of HSLA steel for seamless tubes production by Schindler I., Kawulok R., Seillier Y., Kawulok P., Opěla P., Rusz S., Vodárek V., Turoň R.

“…The CCT and two DCCT diagrams were constructed for the HSLA steel containing Cr, V, Nb, and N microadditions, taking into account industrial processing parameters of this material in a seamless tubes rolling mill. …”
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Freeze-Thaw Stability Analysis of the High-Ice Content Soil-Rock Cutting Slope: A Case Study in Oroqen Autonomous Banner, North China by Yuxia Zhao, Jun Feng, Kangqi Liu, Qi Wu, Liqun Wang, Hongyan Liu

“…The study can provide guidance for the design and construction of road cutting slope in the permafrost regions of the Daxing’anling Mountains.…”
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Protocol for correlating the gut microbiome and metabolomics in patients with intracranial aneurysms by Hongyu Xu, Zetian Jia, Junhui Liu, Runming Liu, Wei Wei, Xiang Li

“…We describe steps for sample collection, fecal genomic DNA extraction, rRNA PCR amplification, sequencing library construction, and rRNA sequencing. We then detail procedures for metabolite extraction, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) non-targeted metabolomics sequencing, and ELISA for cerebrospinal fluid and plasma samples. …”
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Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization of Single-Layer Reticulated Shell Structures Using Multi-Point Constraint and Variable Density Methods by Xianjie Wang, Yongdang Chen, Zhaoyi Wang, Yue Tang, Xin Wang, Chengpeng Lu

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Study on the Vibration Effect of Short Footage Blasting Load on Surrounding Rock-Support Structure of Tunnel by Chunquan Dai, Hongtao Sui, Chao Ma

“…The results show that the damage accumulation effect is produced in the surrounding rock of each section during the blasting construction, among which the accumulation is the largest at the arch bottom. …”
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Research on the City Network Structure in the Yellow River Basin in China Based on Two-Way Time Distance Gravity Model and Social Network Analysis Method by Duo Chai, Dong Zhang, Yonghao Sun, Shan Yang

“…City network research is widely applied to guide regional planning, infrastructure construction, and resource allocation. China put forward the Yellow River Basin Development Strategy in 2019, but no research has been conducted on regional social connections among cities. …”
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Error Characteristic Analysis and Filtering Algorithm for GNSS Time-Series Data by Hongli Zhang, Yijin Chen, Kemeng Li, Yinggang Wang

“…Under regional environmental conditions such as open-pit mines and construction sites, there are usually fixed GNSS measurement points. …”
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Integration of data sets for modelling gender violence and perception of insecurityZenodo by Sandra Lucía Hernández Zetina, Ana Belén Anquela Julián, Ángel Esteban Martín Furones, Carlos Martinez Montes, Santos Fernández Noguerol

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Effects of Contact Angle on the Hysteresis Effect of Soil-Water Characteristic Curves during Dry-Wet Cycles by Gaoliang Tao, Ziyue Li, Lisheng Liu, Yangyang Chen, Kai Gu

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AIR-POLSAR-CR1.0: A Benchmark Dataset for Cloud Removal in High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images with Fully Polarized SAR by Yuxi Wang, Wenjuan Zhang, Jie Pan, Wen Jiang, Fangyan Yuan, Bo Zhang, Xijuan Yue, Bing Zhang

“…This paper constructs a high-resolution remote sensing dataset, AIR-POLSAR-CR1.0, based on optical images, backscatter feature images, and polarization feature images using the fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data. …”
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Urban landscape pattern affects plant diversity in green spaces: Evidence from street view imagery by Yang Ye, Hongfei Qiu, Xingcan Zhou, Xiong Li

“…More native and exotic plant species appear in green spaces whose surrounding woodland is greater while construction land is less extensive. These findings not only provide experience for the built environment research application of street view imagery but also enlighten the way to protect plant diversity in urban environment.…”
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Utilization of bark extract of Phyllanthus emblica as a sustainable corrosion inhibitor to reinforced concrete infrastructures in aggressive environments by Gautam Madhab, Subedi Dhruba B., Dhungana Jivan R., Bhattarai Nootan P., Bhattarai Jagadeesh

“…Reinforced concrete (ReC) infrastructures are used widely in construction due to their durability and strength. However, the premature corrosion of reinforced concrete (ReC) infrastructures poses a significant global problem. …”
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First Report of Two Cases of Acute Gastric Ischemia after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy by Nikolaos Grivas, Alexander D. Horsch, Esther Wit, Annemarie Bruining, Johanna van Sandick, Henk G. van der Poel

“…Minimal invasive robotic surgery requires adaptation of the surgical approach for cystectomy and derivation construction such as the use of pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg positioning of the patient. …”
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