What Do We Know of Childhood Exposures to Metals (Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury) in Emerging Market Countries? by Lindsey M. Horton, Mary E. Mortensen, Yulia Iossifova, Marlena M. Wald, Paula Burgess

“…The reported concentrations of metals in blood and urine from these studies were generally higher than US reference values, and many studies identified adverse health effects associated with metals exposure. …”
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Leakage Characteristic of Helical Groove Seal Designed in Reactor Coolant Pump by Meng Zhang, Xiao-fang Wang, Sheng-li Xu, Shuo Yin

“…It can be predicated that, for a bigger helix angle, the friction factor increases slightly with an increase in high axial Reynolds number, which arises from the high-pressure operation condition, and the friction factor is generally sensitive to changes in the helix angle in this operation condition. …”
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Distribution changes of Ormosia microphylla under different climatic scenarios by Pan Huang, Yaqin Xiao, Yurong Sun, Huihua Huang, Zhiwei Gong, Yingfang Zhu

“…In the three future periods (2030s (2021–2040), 2050s (2041–2060) and 2090s (2081–2100)), the medium and high suitable areas under different climate scenarios generally showed an expanding trend, while the low suitable areas mostly showed a decreasing trend. …”
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Temporal-Spatial Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on Prompt Learning by Siteng Cai, Gang Liu, Jing He, Yulun Du, Zhichao Si, Yunhao Jiang

“…Existing studies utilizing deep learning for traffic flow prediction often suffer from distribution shift issues, leading to poor generalization capabilities when dealing with data that has different spatiotemporal distributions. …”
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Designing of 2-Stage CPU Scheduler Using Vague Logic by Supriya Raheja, Reena Dhadich, Smita Rajpal

“…Results are based on the dual concept of fuzzy theory and its generalization, vague theory. Additionally, this work comprises the evaluation of VOPS and shortest job first algorithm. …”
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Determinants of Academic Achievement in Turkey by Bekir S. Gür, Sadri Şensoy, Mahmut Özer, Eren Suna, Prof. Dr. Selahattin Gelbal, Petek Aşkar

“…In Turkey, the achievement gap between schools is relatively high, therefore, examining the factors related to achievement is crucial to the mitigation of these differences. Related studies generally utilize international large-scale assessments and yield results for particular school types. …”
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Loadability Analysis of Smart Solid-State Transformer Considering its Interactions Amongst all the Ports by Junru Chen, Yi Zhang, Muyang Liu, Yutian Chen, Rongwu Zhu

“…A solid power deliver amongst these integrated subsystems is critical to maintain the power balance and to ensure the ST stable operation, while the research on ST loadability analysis is insufficient. Generally, the ST is composed of three-stage offering medium voltage alternative current (MVAC), medium voltage direct current (MVDC), low voltage direct current (LVDC) and low voltage alternative current (LVAC) connectivity. …”
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Tube Thoracostomy: Complications and Its Management by Emeka B. Kesieme, Andrew Dongo, Ndubueze Ezemba, Eshiobo Irekpita, Nze Jebbin, Chinenye Kesieme

“…Tube thoracostomy is widely used throughout the medical, surgical, and critical care specialities. It is generally used to drain pleural collections either as elective or emergency. …”
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The Fundamenta compositionis Jean Kuhnaus 1703. Edition, Translation, and Commentary by Frederik Kranemann, Derek Remeš

“…Until now, scholars have generally doubted whether Johann Kuhnau, J. S. Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, was indeed the author of the manuscript treatise, Fundamenta Compositionis Jean Kuhnaus 1703. …”
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Surfacing the ‘silent foundation’: which information behaviour theories are relevant to public library reference service? by Amy VanScoy, Africa S. Hands, Katarina Švab, Tanja Merčun

“…Bounded rationality or “satisficing” was seen as most relevant for information service, while the key difference between Slovenian and United States librarians was observed in their perception of “information poverty”. Participants were generally able to provide examples of how the theories were used in practice, but usually did not recall learning about the theory or the theory’s name. …”
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Automatic Gauge Control in Rolling Process Based on Multiple Smith Predictor Models by Jiangyun Li, Kang Wang, Yang Li

“…Meanwhile, it is also a typical complex electromechanical system; distributed control has become the mainstream of computer control system for rolling mill. Generally, the control system adopts the 2-level control structure—basic automation (Level 1) and process control (Level 2)—to achieve the automatic gauge control. …”
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RULES OF ORGANIZATION SOCIAL-ROLE INTERACTION OF STUDENTS TO IMPROVE THEIR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE by Valeriya S. Suyskaya, Mariya V. Kharlamova

“…«Living» this role, students realize the effects of foreign culture, and thus perceive it, which generally contributes to the formation of their intercultural communicative competence. …”
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Excessive activation of JAK-STAT signaling contributes to inflammation induced by acute Vibrio infection in shrimp by Hongliang Zuo, Xiya Yang, Youxi Wang, Bangping Hu, Zhiming Zhu, Zhixun Guo, Shaoping Weng, Jianguo He, Xiaopeng Xu

“…In shrimp, Vibrio infection is generally characterized by the sudden onset of disease, with pathological signs of opaque and whitish muscle tissue. …”
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Hypoglycemic polysaccharides from Auricularia auricula and Auricularia polytricha inhibit oxidative stress, NF-κB signaling and proinflammatory cytokine production in streptozotoci... by Huan Xiang, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Chun Cui

“…At the same dose, APP generally performed more effective than AAP, and AAP-10/APP-10 seemed slightly more beneficial than AAP/APP. …”
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Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Resembling Clinical Absence with Atypical EEG Pattern by Channaiah Srikanth Mysore, Najib Murr, Rana Zabad, John Bertoni

“…For both, EEG revealed the presence of a high voltage generalized sharply contoured theta activity. A diagnosis of NCSE with clinical features of AS was made based on both clinical and EEG features. …”
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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Erythema Multiforme Induced by Imiquimod 5% Cream by Ilaria Salvi, Ilaria Trave, Riccardo Castelli, Aurora Parodi, Emanuele Cozzani

“…The treatment is commonly associated with local inflammatory reactions, while systemic side effects are rare and generally mild. Only few cases of erythema multiforme and Stevens-Johnson syndrome have been described in association with topical imiquimod application. …”
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INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: ESTABLISHMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING by Петро ПІДСАДНЮК

“…With the help of an interdisciplinary approach, it was possible to identify the historical background of the origin of the phenomenon of selfless human activity, a systematic political and legal analysis of international and domestic legislation helped to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of international charitable organizations in the United States, Europe and Ukraine, and a generalization of the obtained results crystallized the foundations and features of their direct involvement in problem areas. …”
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Participants’ satisfaction with social security is closely associated with their acceptance of vulnerable groups: a nationwide cross-sectional study in China by Chaowei Guo, Yifan Wu, Lina Ge, Li Qi, Yi Ma, Shuang Zang

“…Against this backdrop, this study explores the association between social security satisfaction and acceptance of vulnerable groups.MethodsThis study involved 9923 participants. Generalized linear regression and smooth curve fitting were used to assess the association between social security satisfaction and acceptance of vulnerable groups. …”
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A Novel Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach for Einstein Weighted Average Operator under Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Environment by Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth, Fahd Jarad, Jihen Majdoubi, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Aiyared Iampan, Imran Siddique

“…The PFHSS is the most influential and operative extension of the Pythagorean fuzzy soft set (PFSS), which handles the subparameterized values of alternatives. It is also a generalized form of Intuitionistic fuzzy hypersoft set (IFHSS) that provides better and more accurate assessments in the decision-making (DM) process. …”
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Fair allocation of fixed cost in one- and two-stage systems using data envelopment analysis by Faranak Hosseinzadeh Saljooghi, Ali reza Pishgooy, Farhad Hamidi

“…Cost allocation is obtained uniquely. Then, to generalize the model in a two-stage mode, the data of 24 insurance companies with input, intermediate and output indicators have been used.…”
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