Translating Building Information Modeling to Building Energy Modeling Using Model View Definition by WoonSeong Jeong, Jong Bum Kim, Mark J. Clayton, Jeff S. Haberl, Wei Yan

“…Our implementation shows that BIM2BEM (1) enables BIM models to be translated into ModelicaBEM models, (2) enables system interface development based on the MVD for thermal simulation, and (3) facilitates the reuse of original BIM data into building energy simulation without an import/export process.…”
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Assessment of Developmental Prosopagnosia in an Individual with Tourette Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Case Report by Petter Espeseth Emhjellen, Randi Starrfelt, Rune Raudeberg, Bjørnar Hassel

“…While ON’s DP, Tourette syndrome, and ADHD may have distinct genetic origins, impairment in face identity recognition has been observed across several neurodevelopmental conditions and is likely more common than currently thought.…”
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Microplastic and human health with focus on pediatric well-being: a comprehensive review and call for future studies by Rogers Wainkwa Chia, Ntegang Venant Atem, Jin-Yong Lee, Jihye Cha

“…Hence, here we identified and reviewed original research papers published in 2017–2023 across 11 database categories in PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science to improve our understanding of MPs with a focus on pediatric well-being. …”
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Investigating the effect of business intelligence competency dimensions on marketing performance considering the mediating role of customer relationship management by Hossein Norouzi, Mobina Rahmani Gohar, Hossein Imanipour

“…This shows that one of the ways to improve marketing performance and create a sustainable competitive advantage for managers is to use business intelligence.Originality/Value: In today's highly competitive world, the quality and timeliness of business information in organizations determine the difference between survival and bankruptcy. …”
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A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level by Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Claudia Greco, Zoraida Callejas Carrión, Carl Vogel, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

“…Regarding the two voices gendered as male, the high-quality one was considered as more original and capable to arouse positive emotional states than the low-quality one. …”
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DOA Estimation for a Mixture of Uncorrelated and Coherent Sources Based on Hierarchical Sparse Bayesian Inference with a Gauss-Exp-Chi2 Prior by Pinjiao Zhao, Weijian Si, Guobing Hu, Liwei Wang

“…The Gauss-Exp-Chi2 prior distribution exhibits a sharp peak at the origin and heavy tails, and this property makes it an appropriate prior to encourage sparse solutions. …”
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Preprocessing LOFARgram through U-Net++ neural network by Dan Peng, Xichen Xu, Wenhua Song, Dazhi Gao

“…Additionally, we introduce a new algorithm that utilizes data prior to the Closest Point of Approach (CPA) to predict the CPA parameters, applied to both the original LOFARgrams and those processed with U-Net++. …”
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Cytoplasmic male sterility and prospects for its utilization in breeding, genetic studies and seed production of potato by I. N. Anisimova, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…As in many plant species, cytoplasmic male sterility in potato is of hybrid origin. The results of investigating genetic control of male sterility in potato are presented that have been carried out using conventional approaches (hybridological analysis) and led to the formation of the concept of genic cytoplasmic male sterility in some species of section Petota of the genus Solanum. …”
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Medication nonadherence and its associated factors in psychiatric patients in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Parthasarathy Ramamurthy, Arya Jayasree, Susan Solomon, Vishnu V. Rudravaram, Vikas Menon, Pradeep Thilakan

“…The following databases were searched systematically: PubMed, Directory of Open Access Journals, and Google scholar. Articles originating from India published in peer reviewed English language journals before May 15, 2021 reporting the prevalence of MNA and associated factors among patients with psychiatric disorders were retrieved and the relevant data were abstracted. …”
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Towards Efficient Object Detection in Large-Scale UAV Aerial Imagery via Multi-Task Classification by Shuo Zhuang, Yongxing Hou, Di Wang

“…Existing methods typically split the original large UAV image into overlapping patches and perform object detection on each image patch. …”
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Clinical, Radiological and Pathological evaluation of breast lumps: a crosssectional study from a tertiary care hospital of north-east India by Kaushik Datta, Kaushik Datta, Susmita Dutta

“…After the histopathological findings as the final diagnosis, 33 cases were malignant and 147 cases were reported as of benign origin.Most lumps were located in the upper outer quadrant (42.2%). …”
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Overtourism: The Impact of Tourism on Madeira’s Social and Economic Environment by Piotr Majdak, Jakub Mosz, António Manuel Martins de Almeida

“…Then, the results of own research are presented, including the original analysis of existing data on electricity production, population growth and the number of overnight stays, as well as the results of a survey conducted in April 2021[1], among both permanent residents and tourists visiting the island. …”
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China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects by Qian Li

“…The author emphasizes that China is not only actively engaging into the existing UN peace-keeping mechanisms and initiatives, but also offers its own original conceptual approaches to address the challenges related to peacemaking and peacebuilding. …”
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Implementation of Islamic Education Values in Building Students' Religious Character through an Affective Approach Based on the Qur'an by Lili Sholehuddin Badri, Ahmed Abdul Malik

“…Research Implications/limitations – This research can have implications for teachers' teaching methods in instilling the values of compassion, care, and gentleness in face-to-face learning in the classroom. Originality/value – Integrating the three elements of affective value reconstruction simultaneously in the learning process can improve students' academic achievement, religious awareness, and good behavior. …”
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CONTEMPORARY LINGUODIDACTICS: DEFINING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING by T. K. Tsvetkova

“…The author suggests her own interpretation of goals and objectives of foreign language teaching based on the author’s original conception of mastering a foreign language as a process of bilingual development. …”
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A Multivariate and Multistage Medium- and Long-Term Streamflow Prediction Based on an Ensemble of Signal Decomposition Techniques with a Deep Learning Network by Muhammad Sibtain, Xianshan Li, Snoober Saleem

“…Finally, the predicted results of all components were aggregated, to formulate an ensemble prediction for the original monthly streamflow series. The predicted results showed that the performance of the proposed model was superior to the other developed models, in respect of several evaluation benchmarks, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed IVL model for monthly streamflow prediction.…”
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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON AFLATOXIN M1 IN PIG URINE AS A MARKER OF AFLATOXIN B1 EXPOSURE IN SERBIA by Miroslava Polovinski Horvatovic, Saša Krstović, Darko Guljaš, Marko Damjanović, Mile Mirkov, Igor Jajić

“…Four samples of a complete feeding mixture for fattening pigs originating from one farm were analyzed and the average AFB1 concentration of 0.046.3±0.0048 mg/kg was determined. …”
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Prevalence and influence factors of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: a Meta-analysis by TANG Yuhan, LUO Xinyu

“…Meta-analysis was performed using Stata 14.0 and RevMan 5.3 software.Results A total of 40 original studies involving 8,509 patients were included. …”
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Features of diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors by N. I. Bogomolov, T. V. Burdinskaya, M. A. Goncharova, A. G. Goncharov, N. N. Tomskikh

“…Material and methods. In original study overall 116 patients with stromal tumors of gastrointestinal tract according to the records of Chita and Transbaikal Regional pathological bureau were analyzed Results. …”
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Plant-based products: potential, production technology and challenges by Isabella Maciel Costa, Cosme Damião Barbosa, Nayana Hayss Araújo da Silva

“…One of the biggest challenges for the food industry is the development of new innovative products which do not contain ingredients of animal origin and contain nutritional support to act as a replacement for the daily consumption of the population. …”
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