Low Streamflow Analysis in Yeşilırmak Basin by Sümeyye Özkan, Turgay Partal

“…Drought is generally defined as precipitation that drops significantly below recorded normal levels, negatively affecting soil and water resources in a region. …”
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Study of tomato growers' cultural practices and risks associated with the unreasoned use of chemical inputs in the Adamawa Region, Cameroon by Ramsès Tsala, Zacharie Bounyahré Mounkéné, Gaston Dimitri Amia, Maïmouna Abba, Lucien Tatchum Tchuenteu, Clautilde Megueni

“…To improve tomato productivity, farmers generally use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. …”
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Long-Term Effects of Activity Status in the Elderly on Cardiorespiratory Capacity, Blood Pressure, Blood Lipids, and Body Composition: A Five-Year Follow-Up Study by Eli Carmeli, Pini Orbach, David T. Lowenthal, Joav Merrick, Raymond Coleman

“…It is generally recognized that physical activity levels in the elderly do not remain constant over time, and typically there is a marked reduction in physical activities in the elderly. …”
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Pan-cancer analysis of SOX2: Prognostic implications and potential as a therapeutic target in immune checkpoint modulation by Shoukai Yu, Lingmei Qian, Liling Xu, Jun Ma

“…Although increased immune checkpoint expression is generally linked to poor prognosis, tumors with high SOX2 expression exhibited higher responsiveness to immune checkpoint inhibitors, suggesting that targeting SOX2 may improve immune checkpoint therapy efficacy.The study highlights SOX2 as a key factor in cancer prognosis and immune infiltration across multiple tumor types. …”
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A Semi-portable Enclosure to Measure Emission Rates from Small Fugitive Sources: Leaf Blower Dust Example by Dennis Fitz, David Pankratz, Sally Pederson, James Bristow

“…The EPA addresses some fugitive emission rates in their AP-42 document and these generally were developed from upwind-downwind sampling. …”
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Effects of thermal cycles and immersion in different beverages on color, translucency and hardness of different composite resins by Ömer Sağsöz, Pınar Gül

“…The effect of thermal cycles on color and transluceny was not statistically significant (P>0.05). TP values generally decreased especially after immersion in red wine (P…”
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Smoking Patterns among Primary School Students in Turkey by Yesim Uncu, Emel Irgil, Mehmet Karadag

“…The research related to cigarette smoking conducted among young people generally studied high school or university students. …”
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Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada by Jessica Ringrose, Debbie Ging, Faye Mishna, Betsy Milne, Tanya Horeck, Kaitlynn Mendes

“…Whist the young people generally reported benefitting from the intervention, in the context of increasing use of digital technologies amongst youth, we explore the context-specific challenges they faced in learning about and being supported through bystander strategies across a wide range of diverse school spaces. …”
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Comparative genomics reveal a novel phylotaxonomic order in the genus Fusobacterium by Cristian Molteni, Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani, Manuela Sironi

“…Thus, evidence herein calls for further evolutionary and phylogenomic analyses based on more Flavobacterium nucleatum genome sequences. More generally, our data inform future molecular profiling approaches to investigate the epidemiology of Fusobacterium-associated diseases.…”
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Study on the Loess Immersion Test of Metro Line 2 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China by Yuanjun Xu, Jiading Wang, Tianfeng Gu, Dengfei Zhang, Weiqian Ma

“…The scope of influence between the infiltrated and saturated zones gradually increases with depth, and the saturated zone is generally smaller than the infiltrated zone. The research results of this paper can provide technical support and reference for the construction of Xi’an Metro Line 2 and other related projects in the region.…”
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Influence of Sample Preparation on SERS Signal by Isabela Bianchi-Carvalho, Marcelo José dos Santos Oliveira, Cibely Silva Martin, Santiago Sánchez-Cortés, Carlos José Leopoldo Constantino

“…These findings emphasize that a consistent relationship between aggregate morphology and the SERS signal cannot be generalized across analytes. Analyte-specific properties play a crucial role in determining optimal aggregation conditions for SERS analysis.…”
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A Hierarchical Behavioral Dynamic Approach for Naturally Adaptive Human-Agent Pick-and-Place Interactions by Maurice Lamb, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Tamara Lorenz, Steven J. Harrison, Ali A. Minai, Michael J. Richardson

“…Participants were unable to explicitly detect whether they were working with an artificial (model controlled) agent or another human-coactor, further illustrating the potential effectiveness of the proposed modeling approach for developing systems of robust real/embodied human-robot interaction more generally.…”
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Multi-Kinects fusion for full-body tracking in virtual reality-aided assembly simulation by Yu Wang, Fuxiang Chang, Yuanjie Wu, Ziran Hu, Lihui Li, Pengyu Li, Pu Lang, Shouwen Yao

“…Then, the tracking skeletons from multiple Kinects are fused based on weighted arithmetic average and generalized covariance intersection. To evaluate the tracking confidence, the ellipsoidal surface fitting was used to model the tracking accuracy distribution of Kinect, and the relations between the user-Kinect crossing angles and the influences of the self-occlusion on the tracking of different parts of body were studied. …”
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Impact of non-Hermiticity and nonlinear interactions on disorder-induced localized modes by Bhupesh Kumar, Jonathan Andreasen, Patrick Sebbah

“…How Anderson localization is impacted by complex potentials, gain and loss and, more generally, nonlinearities has been the subject of numerous theoretical debates, without any conclusive experimental demonstration yet. …”
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YOLOV9-CBM: An Improved Fire Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOV9 by Xin Geng, Xiao Han, Xianghong Cao, Yixuan Su, Dongxue Shu

“…The revised model demonstrates good generalization performance and robustness. Code and dataset are at <uri>https://github.com/GengHan-123/yolov9-cbm.git</uri>.…”
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Old and Recent Advances in Life Cycle, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Malaria Including Perspectives in Ethiopia by Dejen Nureye, Solomon Assefa

“…The malaria parasite has a complex life cycle that takes place both inside the mosquito and human beings. Generally, diagnosis of malaria is classified into clinical and parasitological diagnoses. …”
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Verifica a fatica dei giunti saldati sulla base di misure di deformazione locale by V. Dattoma, R. Nobile, F.W. Panella

“…Lo studio della resistenza a fatica delle giunzioni saldate rappresenta un campo di prova molto interessante dal punto di vista scientifico, con ricadute pratiche altrettanto importanti. Si tratta in generale di fornire dei metodi di verifica e progetto deterministici, come è proprio dell’ingegneria, per revedere il comportamento meccanico di un materiale che, quando è sotto forma di saldatura, cambia le sue proprietà meccaniche e microstrutturali rispetto al materiale base, si dispone in una geometria locale del cordone estremamente variabile e non definibile a priori, è infine affetto da campi di tensione residua  non proprio trascurabili. …”
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Experimental Study of Blast-Induced Vibration Characteristics Based on the Delay-Time Errors of Detonator by Ping Wang, Yuanjun Ma, Yongjian Zhu, Jun Zhu

“…The delay-time of detonators in hole-by-hole blasting is generally calculated accurately considering they have great influence on the blasting effect, such as blasting vibration and blasting slungshot. …”
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ANALYTICAL STUDY OF DURABILITY AND CONTACT CHARACTERISTICS OF METAL-POLYMER COMPOSITE SLIDING BEARINGS FOR MEANS OF TRANSPORT by Myron CHERNETS, Rafał WRONA, Yuriy CHERNETS

“…With the use of the developed generalized author's analytical method of metal-polymer plain bearings on the basis of which it is laid the author's research methodology of materials wear kinetics at sliding friction (dry, lubricated), calculation of their durability is carried out. …”
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The Association of Physical Activity during Weekdays and Weekend with Body Composition in Young Adults by Clemens Drenowatz, Nicole Gribben, Michael D. Wirth, Gregory A. Hand, Robin P. Shook, Stephanie Burgess, Steven N. Blair

“…The purpose of the present study was to examine the prospective association between weekly PA patterns and weight change in generally healthy young adults. Anthropometric measurements, including dual X-ray absorptiometry, were obtained every 3 months over a period of one year in 338 adults (53% male). …”
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