Modeling and Simulation of Departure Passenger’s Behavior Based on an Improved Social Force Approach: A Case Study on an Airport Terminal in China by Yaping Zhang, Jialin Li, Dexuan Kong, Xiaoqing Xing, Qian Luo, Jian Mao

“…Based on the theory of original social force model, video data from a departure hall of a large airport terminal in China were analyzed to summarize passengers’ path planning characteristics. …”
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Health Equity and Its Economic Determinants (HEED): protocol for a pan-European microsimulation model for health impacts of income and social security policies by Alastair H Leyland, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Anna Pearce, Mikael Rostila, Matteo Richiardi, Daniel Kopasker

“…In the final phase, the microsimulation model will be extended across other European countries.Ethics and dissemination This project will use deidentified secondary data for which ethical approval and consents were received by the original data collectors. No further ethical approval will be required for our main analytical datasets. …”
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Explicit Nonlinear Finite Element Geometric Analysis of Parabolic Leaf Springs under Various Loads by Y. S. Kong, M. Z. Omar, L. B. Chua, S. Abdullah

“…Results indicate that the newly designed high vertical stiffness parabolic spring provides the bus a greater roll stability and a lower stress value compared with the original design. Bus safety and stability is promoted, as well as the load carrying capability.…”
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Rapid Acquisition of High-Pixel Fluorescence Lifetime Images of Living Cells via Image Reconstruction Based on Edge-Preserving Interpolation by Yinru Zhu, Yong Guo, Xinwei Gao, Qinglin Chen, Yingying Chen, Ruijie Xiang, Baichang Lin, Luwei Wang, Yuan Lu, Wei Yan

“…After the inverse transformation, the original image is obtained and subjected to noise reduction to complete the image reconstruction process. …”
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Association of pre-exiting heart failure with long-term mortality and the recurrence of sepsis by Jin-Wen Zhu, Xiu-Ping Hu, Jun Jin, Bai Xu, Run Zhang, Sen Ye, Fang-Xiao Gong, Jun Hong, Qian Li, Xiang-Hong Yang, Ren-Hua Sun

“…After matching, Kaplan–Meier survival analysis showed significantly poorer long-term survival rates in patients with heart failure, both in the original (p < 0.0001) and the matched cohort (p = 0.00059). …”
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Investigation of the Ultrasonic Treatment-Assisted Soaking Process of Different Red Kidney Beans and Compositional Analysis of the Soaking Water by NIR Spectroscopy by Matyas Lukacs, Tamás Somogyi, Barasa Mercy Mukite, Flóra Vitális, Zoltan Kovacs, Ágnes Rédey, Tamás Stefaniga, Tamás Zsom, Gabriella Kiskó, Viktória Zsom-Muha

“…Our aim was to examine the hydration process of red kidney beans of varying sizes and origins. Despite the varying surface areas, the beans’ soaking times of 13–15, 15–17, and 17–19 mm did not reveal significant differences between any of the groups (control; low power: 180 W, 20 kHz; high power: 300 W, 40 kHz). …”
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Intraspinal Grafting of Serotonergic Neurons Modifies Expression of Genes Important for Functional Recovery in Paraplegic Rats by Krzysztof Miazga, Hanna Fabczak, Ewa Joachimiak, Małgorzata Zawadzka, Łucja Krzemień-Ojak, Marek Bekisz, Anna Bejrowska, Larry M. Jordan, Urszula Sławińska

“…Moreover, the effect of intraspinal grafting of serotonergic neurons on Htr2a and Htr7 gene expression was examined to test the possibility that the graft origin 5-HT innervation in the spinal cord of paraplegic rats could reverse changes in gene expression induced by SCI. …”
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The Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Historical Dynamics of Wild <i>Pyrus</i> Species on the Yunnan–Kweichow Plateau by Xiang Yang, Xingguang Dong, Kunming Li, Ying Zhang, Chenxi Xu, Hongliang Huo, Luming Tian, Jiayu Xu, Chao Liu, Dan Qi, Yufen Cao

“…Located in the southwestern region of China, the Yunnan–Kweichow Plateau, is closely related to the origins of <i>Pyrus</i> L. Despite this important status, there has been relatively little population genetics research focused on the wild <i>Pyrus</i> species in this area. …”
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Subgenome asymmetry of gibberellins-related genes plays important roles in regulating rapid growth of bamboos by Ling Mao, Cen Guo, Liang-Zhong Niu, Yu-Jiao Wang, Guihua Jin, Yi-Zhou Yang, Ke-Cheng Qian, Yang Yang, Xuemei Zhang, Peng-Fei Ma, De-Zhu Li, Zhen-Hua Guo

“…These findings are helpful for understanding of how polyploidization in general and subgenome asymmetry in particular contributed to the origin of innovative traits in plants.…”
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Resilience of Machine Learning Models in Anxiety Detection: Assessing the Impact of Gaussian Noise on Wearable Sensors by Abdulrahman Alkurdi, Jean Clore, Richard Sowers, Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler, Manuel E. Hernandez

“…By adding synthetic Gaussian noise to a well-known open access affective states dataset collected with commercially available wearable devices (WESAD), a performance baseline was established using the original dataset. This was followed by an examination of the impact of noise on model accuracy to better understand model performance (F₁-score and Accuracy) changes as a function of noise. …”
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Manganese Inhalation as a Parkinson Disease Model by José Luis Ordoñez-Librado, Verónica Anaya-Martínez, Ana Luisa Gutierrez-Valdez, Laura Colín-Barenque, Enrique Montiel-Flores, Maria Rosa Avila-Costa

“…The present study examines the effects of divalent and trivalent Manganese (Mn2+/Mn3+) mixture inhalation on mice to obtain a novel animal model of Parkinson disease (PD) inducing bilateral and progressive dopaminergic cell death, correlate those alterations with motor disturbances, and determine whether L-DOPA treatment improves the behavior, to ensure that the alterations are of dopaminergic origin. CD-1 male mice inhaled a mixture of Manganese chloride and Manganese acetate, one hour twice a week for five months. …”
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Stress wave attenuation and damage patterns of shale under methane/oxygen explosion by LUO Ning, CHAI Yabo, LI Penglong, YANG Mengdi, YANG Zhongzhou, LIAO Yucheng, CAO Xiaolong, ZHANG Haohao

“…The perforation length after extension increasesby 47 % compared to the original length.…”
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Performance Comparison of Two Gene Set Analysis Methods for Genome-wide Association Study Results: GSA-SNP vs i-GSEA4GWAS by Ji-sun Kwon, Jihye Kim, Dougu Nam, Sangsoo Kim

“…GSA runs were made with two sets of p-values from a Korean type 2 diabetes mellitus GWAS study: 259,188 and 1,152,947 SNPs of the original and imputed genotype datasets, respectively. …”
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Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017) by Evers, Serjoscha W., Foth, Christian, Joyce, Walter G., Hermanson, Guilherme

“…For groups with extant representatives, correlations of aspects of body shape with ecology can provide important insights to understanding extinct members of lineages. The origin and ancestral ecology of turtles is debated and various shell or limb proportions have been reported to correlate with habitat ecology among extant turtles, such that they may be informative for inferring the ecology of fossil turtles, including early shelled stem turtles. …”
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Interventions to promote healthy nutrition and lifestyle and to tackle overweight and obesity amongst children in need in Europe: a rapid literature review by Anela Halilagic, Renos Roussos, Matzourana Argyropoulou, Vaios Svolos, Vaios Svolos, Christina Mavrogianni, Odysseas Androutsos, Theodora Mouratidou, Theodora Mouratidou, Yannis Manios, Yannis Manios, George Moschonis, George Moschonis

“…There were 989 results originally identified from database searches, which then reduced to 8 studies for inclusion following abstract and full-text screening processes. …”
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A P2P Electricity-Carbon Trading Mechanism for Distributed Prosumers Based on Carbon Emission Flow Model by ZHAN Bochun, FENG Changsen, WANG Xiaohui, ZHANG Heng, MA Junwei, WEN Fushuan

“…Based on the improved Benders decomposition method, the original problem is decomposed into the main problem considering network constraints and the subproblem of optimal scheduling for prosumers. …”
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Enhancing Patient Loyalty Through Operational Strategies and Service Quality: The Impact of Patient Satisfaction on Company Revenue by Renaldus Iwan Sumarta, Maun Jamaludin, Iman Sudirman

“…Conclusion: Satisfied patients are more likely to return, contributing to increased revenue and sustainability for hospitals. Original/Value: This research innovatively links operational strategies to patient loyalty in private hospitals, demonstrating how service quality mediates this relationship and drives revenue growth and business sustainability. …”
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Characteristics Defining Broccoli Cultivars from Different Seed Producers by Elena Ordiales, Domingo J. Iglesias, María Victoria Alarcón, Lorena Zajara, Jesús Gil, Juan Ignacio Gutiérrez, Julio Salguero

“…Results revealed that both first and second principal components explained more than 75% of the variance and grouped data according their cultivar and commercial origin. Additionally, correlations between the scores of those components and the values of the phenotypic parameters suggested that head weights are main determinants of the phenotypic differences observed among the cultivars whereas the presence of internal leaves and granulometry and head weight appear to be key traits defining nurseries.…”
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Robustly detecting mpox and non-mpox using a deep learning framework based on image inpainting by Yujun Cao, Yubiao Yue, Xiaoming Ma, Di Liu, Rongkai Ni, Haihua Liang, Zhenzhang Li

“…On this basis, MIM measure the similarity between the inpainted image and the original image to detect mpox and non-mpox. Compared with multi-class classification models, MIM can handle unknown categories and abnormal inputs more effectively. …”
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Frequency Limited &#x0026; Weighted Model Reduction Algorithm With Error Bound: Application to Discrete-Time Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Turbines for Power System by Sajid Bashir, Sammana Batool, Muhammad Imran, Mian Ilyas Ahmad, Fahad Mumtaz Malik, Muhammad Salman, Abdul Wakeel, Usman Ali

“…However, these existing approaches also produce an unstable reduced-order model in some conditions and produce a large variation to the original system; consequently, they provide a large approximation error. …”
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