Efficient Beach Litter Monitoring: Accelerated Surveys of Pollution Hotspots—A North African Case Study by Emna Ben Slimane, Mirco Haseler, Lilia Ben Abdallah, Fadhel Mhiri, Abdallah Nassour, Gerald Schernewski

“…We employed an innovative, accelerated multiple 10 m transect method tailored to highly polluted beaches, focusing on macro-litter (>2.5 cm). …”
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First African case report of hypoparathyroidism, deafness and renal dysplasia (HDR) syndrome due to inverted duplication and deletion of chromosome 10p by Tumelo M. Satekge, Glenrose Rikhotso, Bianca Rossouw, Bronwyn Dillon, Fiona Baine-Savanhu

“…Conclusion This case emphasizes that complex patients with developmental delay and multiple congenital anomalies are likely to benefit from evaluation by CMA. …”
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Physical properties of Alaska pollock surimi gel as affected by emulsified level and heating rates by Van-Thi Nguyen, Emiko Okazaki

“…The means were compared using Fisher’s multiple range test. The findings showed that the emulsification of fish oil into surimi promoted gel properties in both water bath heating and OH. …”
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Development of Novel Fluticasone/Salmeterol/Tiotropium-Loaded Dry Powder Inhaler and Bioequivalence Assessment to Commercial Products in Rats by Hyukjun Cho, Hyunji Lee, Duhyeong Hwang

“…However, differing operating procedures across the devices can lead to user errors and reduce treatment efficacy, especially when patients use multiple devices simultaneously. To address this, we developed a novel dry powder inhaler (DPI), combining fluticasone propionate (FP), salmeterol xinafoate (SX), and tiotropium bromide (TB) into a single device designed for bioequivalent delivery compared to existing commercial products in an animal model. …”
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Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of ZF-HD family in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) under drought and salt stresses by Kangping Zhang, Ruqian Yan, Xiaoqing Feng, Jingjing Zhang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Lin Li, Jianzhong Guo, Xianping Zhang

“…Despite the fact that zinc finger-homeodomain (ZF-HD) genes play an important role in responding to plant growth, development and stress resistance across the multiple species, the evolutionary history and abiotic function of the ZF-HD gene family in sunflower remain largely unexplored. …”
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Research on Technology of Optical Switch Devices with Integrated Tunable Filters by HU Di, XIAO Qingming, ZHENG Jie

“…MCS operates based on the Optical Switch (OSW) principle, enabling fast, accurate, and reliable transmission of multicast data by simultaneously switching multiple input channels to one or more output ports. …”
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Surgical sharp debridement alongside maggot debridement therapy (MDT) for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs): A systematic review of case reports by Babak Choobi Anzali, Anna Javanbakht, Maryam Rasouli, Nasim Talebiazar, Milad Hashemzadeh, Mir Amir Hossein Seyed Nazari

“…Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted across multiple databases, including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge in the Prevention and Management of Nasointestinal Tube Obstruction: A Cross Sectional Study by Wang L, Hou W, Liu Z, Chen L, Lin R, Huang Y

“…The univariate analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences in the knowledge scores of nasointestinal tube prevention and management among nurses with different age, educational background, professional title, hospital grade, department, length of exposure to nasointestinal tubes, qualification of nasointestinal tube placement, and training experience. The multiple linear regression analysis showed that professional title, department and training experience were the influencing factors of nurses’ knowledge of nasointestinal tube obstruction prevention and management. …”
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Simulator and on-road testing of truck platooning: a systematic review by Telmo Costa Botelho, Sérgio Pedro Duarte, Marta Campos Ferreira, Sara Ferreira, António Lobo

“…This concept involves linking multiple trucks through automated driving and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, promising to revolutionize the freight industry by enhancing efficiency and reducing operational costs. …”
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Explainable Machine Learning for Efficient Diabetes Prediction Using Hyperparameter Tuning, SHAP Analysis, Partial Dependency, and LIME by Md. Manowarul Islam, Habibur Rahman Rifat, Md. Shamim Bin Shahid, Arnisha Akhter, Md Ashraf Uddin, Khandaker Mohammad Mohi Uddin

“…Whereas most of the existing methods were built upon considering any single dataset, for getting more acceptability in general, our proposed model has been designed based on two benchmark datasets: the BRFSS dataset, which has multiple classes, and the Diabetes 2019 dataset, which has binary classes. …”
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Quality of life prognosis in patients with somatoform disorders with sleep disorders by V.V. Ogorenko, I.I. Makarova, A.V. Shornikov

“…As a result of the study, it was established that predictors of quality of life are the severity of sleep disorders and the presence of alexithymia and severe insomnia before the start of treatment. The multiple logistic regression model demonstrated the highest discriminatory ability (AUC 0.872 (95% CI 0.799–0.926)), with predictors of insufficient quality of life including sleep latency, personal anxiety, and depression before the intervention, as well as the presence of severe insomnia after intervention. …”
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Peripartum Severe Acute Pancreatitis with Rare Complications: Case Report and Review of Literature by Syed Muhammad Ali, Nissar Ahmed Shaikh, Zia Aftab, Ejaz Latif, Muhammad Sameer, Muhammad Burhan Khan, Mohannad Al-Tarakji

“…Computerized tomography (CT) showed pancreatic necrosis with multiple fluid collections and significant left-sided pleural effusion. …”
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Calendario polínico de especies potencialmente alergónenas y su relación con parámetros meteorológicos en Villa Ventana, Provincia de Buenos Aires. by Graciela Benedetti, Bárbara Sastre, Alicia Campo

“…El arbolado urbano asegura múltiples beneficios sociales y ambientales, para los residentes de las localidades, pero ¿qué ocurre si estas especies no son las correctas? …”
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Sub-toxic cisplatin concentrations induce extensive chromosomal, nuclear and nucleolar abnormalities associated with high malignancy before acquired resistance develops: Implicatio... by John G Delinassios, Robert M Hoffman, George Koumakis, Dimitrios Palitskaris, Kyriaki-Nefelli Poulatsidou, George J Delinasios

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>HeLa cells subjected to increasing concentrations of sub-toxic cisplatin exhibited large-scale, multiple-type abnormalities in nuclei, nucleoli, chromosomes, and chromosomal numbers, indicating genetic/chromosomal instability associated with high malignancy, before the development of cisplatin resistance. …”
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Finite Element and Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Buckling Strength in Additively Manufactured Lattice Stiffened Panels by Saiaf Bin Rayhan, Md Mazedur Rahman, Jakiya Sultana, Szabolcs Szávai, Gyula Varga

“…Numerical validation on both the stiffened panel and a lattice beam structure was established from multiple resources from the literature. Finally, the panels were tested against increments of a strut diameter ranging from 0.5 mm to 2 mm, which corresponds to a relative density of 6% to 78%. …”
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Learning Air Traffic as Images: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Airspace Operation Complexity Evaluation by Hua Xie, Minghua Zhang, Jiaming Ge, Xinfang Dong, Haiyan Chen

“…Thus, the model input is determined by combining multiple image channels composed of air traffic information, which are used to describe the traffic scenario. …”
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Zinc levels in severe eating disorders by Kara Leach, Dan V. Blalock, Judy Oakes, Melanie Hebert, Marina Foster, Philip S. Mehler

“…Abstract Purpose Severe eating and feeding disorders including Anorexia Nervosa of both restricting (AN-R) and binge-purge (AN-BP) subtypes and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) lead to multiple macronutrient and micronutrient deficiencies, including zinc, in the setting of inadequate dietary intake. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Expression Profiling Data Indicates Need for Combinatorial Biomarkers in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis by Xinxiu Li, Eun Jung Lee, Danuta R. Gawel, Sandra Lilja, Samuel Schäfer, Huan Zhang, Mikael Benson

“…Our findings indicate that biomarker identification in pediatric UC is complicated by the involvement of multiple pathways, each of which includes many different types of genes in the blood or inflamed intestine. …”
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Can Measurement and Input Uncertainty Explain Discrepancies Between the Wheat Canopy Scattering Model and SMAPVEX12 Observations? by Lilangi Wijesinghe, Andrew W. Western, Jagannath Aryal, Dongryeol Ryu

“…Since the discrepancy between the simulated and observed backscatter coefficients is due to both model and observation uncertainty, the uncertainty of the UAVSAR data was estimated by analyzing the scatter between multiple backscatter coefficients obtained from the same targets near-simultaneously, assuming the scatter represents the observation uncertainty. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of Aluminum Oxide Nanoparticle-Modified Asphalt Binder and Modelling the Viscoelastic Properties by Using Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector M... by Mustafa Alas, Sani Isah Abba, Shaban Ismael Albrka Ali, Abdur Rahim, Nur Izzi Md. Yusoff

“…The frequency sweep test and multiple stress creep recovery (MSCR) test results revealed that the optimum composition of Al2O3 was at 5% concentration considering the high temperature performance characteristics since further addition of the Al2O3 resulted in degradation in the enhanced properties due to agglomeration of the nanoparticles in the blend. …”
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