Identification of degradation risk areas and delineation of key ecological function areas in Qinling region by Xiaojuan Xu, Dayi Lin, Yue Yang, Jing Liu, Changxin Zou, Naifeng Lin, Fusheng Jiao, Qian Wu, Jie Qiu, Kun Zhang

“…Abstract As a critical component of the geographical divide between the northern and southern regions of China, the ecological stability of the Qinling region has profound implications for ecological balance within China and across East Asia. …”
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User avoidance behavior in pharmaceutical e-commerce intelligent customer service: a stressor-strain-outcome perspective by Jing Jia, Lu Chen, Chengzhen Wu, Manling Xiao

“…The analysis revealed strong explanatory power (R2 values ranging from 0.450 to 0.586) and confirmed the mediating role of emotional stress in the relationship between overload factors and user avoidance.DiscussionThis research highlights the critical role of emotional stress in user interactions with ICS, suggesting that pharmaceutical e-commerce companies must refine their ICS design to meet diverse user needs and reduce cognitive burdens. …”
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Comparison of single-point insulin sensitivity estimator (SPISE) index and cognitive performance in vitamin B12-deficient young adults: An analytical cross-sectional study by Himanshi Suri, K. A. Arul Senghor, V. M. Vinodhini, Koneru T. Sai, Jonathan Charles, S. Rooban

“…In the current younger population with more of electronic gadgets and scientific world seems to slow down critical thinking and impairs the trick of comprehensive subjective learning. …”
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A parametric study of the thermo-pneumatic microvalve performance for microfluidic platforms: A finite element analysis by Alireza Mohseni, Mohammad Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Amirsaman Bahramian, Esmail Pishbin

“…We systematically analyzed four critical design parameters: heating chamber geometry, gas composition, working fluid properties, and membrane materials. …”
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Nitrate Relationships between Stream Baseflow, Well Water, and Land Use in the Tomorrow-Waupaca Watershed by Henry Lin, Rebecca Cook, Byron Shaw

“…Analysis of seasonal variation in the stream data showed that winter nitrate concentrations were higher than summer concentrations, implying that winter stream monitoring may be more critical for the assessment of overall ground water quality in the watershed. …”
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Enhancing Ecologically Sustainable Management of Deadwood in Kenya’s Natural Forests by Sylvester Ngome Chisika, Chunho Yeom

“…However, the identification of deadwood, a critical component of natural forests, continues to receive little attention around the world. …”
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Predicting accrual success for better clinical trial resource allocation by Sisi Ma, Yinzhao Wang, John Wagner, Steve Johnson, Serguei Pakhomov, Constantin Aliferis

“…The ability to predict trial accrual success with high precision before the trial starts would be highly valuable, preventing the allocation of critical resources for trials unlikely to meet accrual goals. …”
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Genotype imputation in human genomic studies by A. A. Berdnikova, I. V. Zorkoltseva, Y. A. Tsepilov, E. E. Elgaeva

“…Imputation is a method that supplies missing information about genetic variants that could not be directly genotyped with DNA microarrays or low-coverage sequencing. Imputation plays a critical role in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). …”
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Navigating materials adaptation: English teachers’ experiences in Turkish secondary schools by Müzeyyen Nazlı Güngör, David Read, Mustafa Akın Güngör

“…The study highlights the critical role of material adaptation in meeting students’ language learning needs, revealing teachers' perceptions and strategies in addressing the limitations of national coursebooks. …”
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Powassan Encephalitis: A Case Report from New York, USA by Danielle A. Bazer, Matthew Orwitz, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna, Elizabeth Wirkowski

“…His hospital course was complicated by critical illness myopathy and respiratory failure requiring tracheostomy. …”
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The Rate and Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury among Cancer Patients’ Admissions in Palestine: A Single-Center Study by Zaher Nazzal, Fatima Abdeljaleel, Aseel Ashayer, Husam Salameh, Zakaria Hamdan

“…Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a critical issue for cancer patients despite recent treatment improvements. …”
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Method on intrusion detection for industrial internet based on light gradient boosting machine by Xiangdong HU, Lingling TANG

“…Intrusion detection is a critical security protection technology in the industrial internet, and it plays a vital role in ensuring the security of the system.In order to meet the requirements of high accuracy and high real-time intrusion detection in industrial internet, an industrial internet intrusion detection method based on light gradient boosting machine optimization was proposed.To address the problem of low detection accuracy caused by difficult-to-classify samples in industrial internet business data, the original loss function of the light gradient boosting machine as a focal loss function was improved.This function can dynamically adjust the loss value and weight of different types of data samples during the training process, reducing the weight of easy-to-classify samples to improve detection accuracy for difficult-to-classify samples.Then a fruit fly optimization algorithm was used to select the optimal parameter combination of the model for the problem that the light gradient boosting machine has many parameters and has great influence on the detection accuracy, detection time and fitting degree of the model.Finally, the optimal parameter combination of the model was obtained and verified on the gas pipeline dataset provided by Mississippi State University, then the effectiveness of the proposed mode was further verified on the water dataset.The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves higher detection accuracy and lower detection time than the comparison model.The detection accuracy of the proposed method on the gas pipeline dataset is at least 3.14% higher than that of the comparison model.The detection time is 0.35s and 19.53s lower than that of the random forest and support vector machine in the comparison model, and 0.06s and 0.02s higher than that of the decision tree and extreme gradient boosting machine, respectively.The proposed method also achieved good detection results on the water dataset.Therefore, the proposed method can effectively identify attack data samples in industrial internet business data and improve the practicality and efficiency of intrusion detection in the industrial internet.…”
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Protection of long-term land ownership: some problematic aspects by Yu. I. Chalyi

“…The ability of Ukrainian current legislation and law enforcement practice to provide effective protection of the interests of titleless bona fide landowners was critically assessed. It is noted that the problems of the long-term owners’ interests protection should be solved in the scope of a more general problem, namely the protection of titleless ownership as such. …”
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Derzhavin's dramaturgy as an artistic system by A.I. Razzhivin

“…The relevance of the research is determined by the growing interest of contemporary literary criticism in the boundary and transitional phenomena in the history of Russian culture, in particular, during the period of Russian pre-Romanticism, and in the dramaturgy of this period as a more static and conservative kind of literature. …”
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Evaluation of the Economic Efficiency of Radiology Units in Hospitals Affiliated with Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd by Ebrahim Bahrami Nia, Reza Shams Allahi, Sedigheh GHolamrezaee, Mohamad mehdi Zare shahne

“…Background and purpose: Radiology departments are among the most critical units in hospitals due to their significant role in diagnosing and treating diseases. …”
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PILIETINIO NEPAKLUSNUMO IR LIBERALIOS DEMOKRATIJOS SUDERINAMUMO PROBLEMA ŠIUOLAIKINĖJE TEISĖS FILOSOFIJOJE by Jūratė Černevičiūtė

“…Thirdly, the idea that obedience to law is a moral duty is critically explored, accepting the conclusion of J. …”
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FANT: Flexible Attention-Shifting Network Telemetry by Mingwei Cui, Yufan Peng, Fan Yang

“…To address this issue, we introduce the Flexible Attention-shifting Network Telemetry (FANT), which dynamically focuses on critical links in each measurement cycle. Specifically, FANT employs a metric categorization strategy that divides all measurement metrics into two categories: basic measurements, which are lightweight but cover fewer metrics, and detailed measurements, which are comprehensive but incur higher overhead. …”
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Experimental Research of the Influence of Microfracture Morphology on Permeability of Shale Rock by Xiaohe Huang, Yunqian Long, Yuyi Wang, Ming Yue

“…Taking the primitive effective stress (10 MPa) as a critical point, the permeability of shale with large initial permeability decreased by 26.4%, which is about twice as much as that of shale rock with small initial permeability (14.9%) in the selected pressure loading stage, owing to the difference of fracture width inside the shale rock. …”
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High speed national secret SM4 optical fiber communication system scheme based on FPGA by Peiyu HUANG, Jiabo SONG, Yangfan JIA

“…With the increasing use of optical fiber communication technology in the Industrial Internet of Things, cryptographic algorithms play a crucial role in ensuring the security of data transmission in embedded device environments.The SM4 packet cipher algorithm, developed independently in our country, is widely applied to wireless LAN and Internet of Things data encryption.However, the software-based encryption and decryption processes are relatively slow, which hampers their application in scenarios requiring high real-time performance, especially for embedded devices.To address this issue, a high-performance and secure optical fiber communication system was designed based on the FPGA platform and the SM4 algorithm.The FPGA was used to implement the MAC layer interface for SM4 algorithm encryption and decryption, as well as data transmission.Besides, an optimization scheme for the hardware implementation architecture of the SM4 algorithm was proposed.The critical path was shortened by employing a pipeline method, thereby improving the system clock frequency.Additionally, parallel processing of S-box transformation was accelerated to enable efficient data replacement.To reduce data reading delays, a dual-cache processing method was combined to facilitate easier processing of cache data and significantly reduce packet loss rates.This scheme greatly enhanced system data throughput.Experimental results demonstrate that compared to similar designs, the throughput of the SM4 algorithm encryption and decryption module in this scheme reaches up to 25.6 Gbit/s, with minimal differences in resource consumption.Due to limitations imposed by the 10-gigabit SFP+ optical module, the throughput of the entire optical fiber communication system reaches 9.4 Gbit/s.For 128-bit data, the average encryption speed is 0.47 μs/bit and the average decryption speed is 0.28 μs/bit, which can be applied to a variety of secure communication scenarios in the internet of things.…”
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Studies on the Association of GCK and GCKR Polymorphisms with Susceptibility to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis by Hongxia Tu, Youyi Zhang, Mingyi Wang

“…Methods: In this systematic review, we retrieved data from PubMed, EMBASE, Medline, EBSCO, Cochrane Library, and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases. Studies were critically appraised using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, and meta-analyses were performed using STATA 12.0. …”
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