Assessing self-determined motivation for drinking alcohol via the Comprehensive Relative Autonomy Index for Drinking by Jimikaye Beck Courtney, Jimikaye Beck Courtney, Michael A. Russell, David E. Conroy, David E. Conroy

“…Participants rated drinking behavioral regulations on the 24 original CRAI-Drinking items on a 5-point Likert Scale. …”
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North America’s Potential for an Environmentally Sustainable Nickel, Manganese, and Cobalt Battery Value Chain by Gary Vegh, Anil Kumar Madikere Raghunatha Reddy, Xia Li, Sixu Deng, Tongchao Liu, Khalil Amine, Karim Zaghib

“…Most available data originate from Asia (primarily China), accounting for 85% of the production of EV LIB cathode materials. …”
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The so-called Mongolian spots and suspected child abuse - difficulties in differential diagnosis by Szymon Rzepczyk, Paweł Świderski, Damian Rusek, Jakub Czerwik, Ryszard Żaba, Czesław Żaba

“…This case describes a two-week-old girl of Roma origin, who was transferred from a temporary to a foster family. …”
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Efficient degradation of neomycin by Bacillus velezensis and Cupriavidus basilensis isolated from mangrove soil and pharmaceutical wastewater by Qian Yang, Wenzhuan Huang, Xue Yan, Qiang Ding, Jiaxin Liu, Bo Cheng, Tao Duan

“…This challenges the assumption that antibiotic-degrading microorganisms mainly originate from polluted environments. The findings expand the diversity of known neomycin-degrading microorganisms and demonstrate their potential for removing refractory neomycin from pharmaceutical wastewater.…”
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Experimental Study on Repairing and Strengthening Seismically Damaged RC Frames by Installing H-Shaped Steel by Yuebing Li, Qushenglin Song, Hang Wang, Liang Shan, Dawei Liu, Shuang Xing

“…The results showed that the seismic performance of the repaired and strengthened frames exceeded that of the original frame, and the failure mode of the frame changed from joint shear and column-end bending to ideal beam-end yielding. …”
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Adaptation and validation of the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sport (CEQS) in Arabic: enhancing team dynamics assessment by Jaouher Hamaidi, Mohamed Mansour Bouzourraa, Mouna Saidane, Mohamed Ben Aissa, Mohamed Ali Boujelbane, Khaled Trabelsi, Haitham Jahrami, Achraf Ammar, Noomen Guelmami, Makrem Zghibi, Ismail Dergaa

“…The A-CEQS demonstrated exceptional reliability across its subscales (Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega >0.9), with EFA identifying a factor structure consistent with the original scale. CFA supported the model’s fit (χ2(190) = 10998.745, p < 0.001; RMSEA = 0.040 [0.033–0.047]; CFI = 0.987; TLI = 0.986; GFI = 0.942; AGFI = 0.928). …”
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Relationship between assessment of physical activity with body mass index and maximum oxygen volume in adult men with overweight and obesity by Anang Fajar Aryanto, Damayanti Tinduh, I Putu Alit Pawana Putra, Soenarnatalina Melaniani, Vitria Wuri Handayani

“…Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of early adult mortality, often originating in adolescence. Obesity a prevalent NCD, commonly develops during youth and can measured by body mass index (BMI). …”
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Laryngeal cancer diagnosis based on improved YOLOv8 algorithm by Xin Nie, Xueyan Zhang, Di Wang, Yuankun Liu, Lumin Xing, Wenjian Liu

“…The experiments utilized a real-world endoscopic image dataset from the hospital, and the results indicated that MSEC-YOLO outperformed the original YOLOv8 model and its multi-kernel versions across multiple evaluation metrics, especially in critical categories such as malignant tumors, polyps, and papillomas, demonstrating extremely high precision and recall rates.…”
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Railway Foreign Object Intrusion Detection Using UAV Images and YOLO-UAT by Yang Yang, Zhanhao Liu, Junming Chen, Haiming Gao, Tao Wang

“…YOLO-UAT reduces the number of parameters by 36% compared to the original YOLOv5s and mAP increased by 6.1% to 91.5%. …”
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Obtention of stable neuroprotective extracts from orange by-products by gas-expanded liquids extraction (GXLE) and liposomal microencapsulation by Victor M. Amador-Luna, Lidia Montero, Pablo Mendoza-Orbaneja, Elena Ibáñez, Miguel Herrero

“…Consequently, the overall bioactivity of the encapsulated product was reduced due to this value, although the product was demonstrated to be stable for >4 months of storage under accelerated conditions (45 °C and 80 % humidity), while the non-encapsulated original extract lost 50 % of its activity in less than a month. …”
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Bio-carbon composite for supercapacitor electrodes: Harnessing hydrochar frameworks and bio-tar polymerization by Jixiu Jia, Yuxuan Sun, Lili Huo, Lixin Zhao, Ziyun Liu, Zhidan Liu, Kang Kang, Shuaishuai Zhang, Teng Xie, Yanan Zhao, Zonglu Yao

“…The results showed that the prepared bio-carbon exhibited a stable morphological structure in which the hydrochar skeleton supported the wrapping of bio-tar originated carbon, specifically at a hydrochar to bio-tar ratio of 1:6. …”
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Intelligent Target Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based on Multi-Level Fusion by Qiaoyu Liu, Ziqi Ye, Chenxiang Zhu, Dongxu Ouyang, Dandan Gu, Haipeng Wang

“…The pixel-level fusion method through the channel fusion of original images and their features after scattering feature enhancement represents an initial exploration of image fusion. …”
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The effect of tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) muteins on human neutrophils in vitro by H. Tchorzewski, K. Zeman, J. Kantorski, E. Paleolog, M. Kahan, M. Feldmann, M. Kwinkowski, P. Guga, B. Szymanska, P. Parniewski, A. Wilk, J. Jarosz

“…To verify the suggestion that the receptor binding domain includes the region close to the N-terminus of the TNF-α molecule, four TNF-α derivatives termed muteins were constructed, using a synthetic cDNA fragment substituting the N-terminal 3–7 selected hydrophilic or hydrophobic amino acids in the original TNF-α genomic DNA. Binding of muteins to PMN was assessed using monoclonal antibodies recognizing either the 55 kDa (p55) or the 75 kDa (p75) TNF receptor subtypes. …”
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Experimental approach to obtaining subcutaneous xenograft of non-small cell lung cancer by E. A. Lukbanova, M. V. Mindar, E. A. Dzhenkova, A. Yu. Maksimov, A. S. Goncharova, Yu. S. Shatova, A. A. Maslov, A. V. Shaposhnikov, E. V. Zaikina, Yu. N. Lazutin

“…A comparative histological analysis of tumor material from 3 patients showed that the PDX models retained the original histotype. We also demonstrated the identity of the EGFR mutations in the established xenografts from 3 patients and the donor tumors, which proved the value of these PDX models for preclinical studies of substances with potential antitumor activity. …”
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Persistent cross-species transmission systems dominate Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 epidemiology in a high incidence region: A genomic epidemiology study by Gillian AM Tarr, Linda Chui, Kim Stanford, Emmanuel W Bumunang, Rahat Zaheer, Vincent Li, Stephen B Freedman, Chad R Laing, Tim A McAllister

“…To assess the impact of persistent cross-species transmission systems on the epidemiology of E. coli O157:H7 in Alberta, Canada, we sequenced and assembled E. coli O157:H7 isolates originating from collocated cattle and human populations, 2007–2015. …”
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Measuring Chinese negative emotion towards climate change: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Climate Change Anxiety Scale by Sam SS Lau, Kubi Appiah, Cherry CY Ho, Marco CH Cheng, Bo-Yi Yang

“…Results: Unlike the two-factor structure of the original scale, our results revealed a three-factor structure of the 13-item CCAS version that captured three dimensions of climate change anxiety: intrusive symptoms, reflections on climate anxiety, and functional impairment. …”
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InSAR-YOLOv8 for wide-area landslide detection in InSAR measurements by Ruopu Ma, Haiyang Yu, Xuejie Liu, Xinru Yuan, Tingting Geng, Pengao Li

“…We also replace the original C2f module with the lighter C2f_Faster module to process information more efficiently, making the model lighter and more efficient. …”
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Mechanism and Prevention and Control of Mine Earthquake in Thick and Hard Rock Strata considering the Horizontal Stress Evolution of Stope by Ming Zhang, Xuelong Hu, Hongtao Huang, Guangyao Chen, Shan Gao, Chao Liu, Lihua Tian

“…It was determined that the stress concentrations mainly originated from the release and transfer of horizontal stress during the rock fractures and movements in the roof areas, which were calculated using a theoretical estimation model. …”
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Synergy Effects of the Indian Summer Monsoon and the Tibetan Plateau Heating on Summer Rainfall over North China by Siwen Zhao, Jie Zhang, Zhihong Lv

“…Meanwhile, there is another Rossby wave originating in North Africa and moving eastward to the Pacific Ocean, which interferes with circulation at mid- to high-latitudes, i.e., it strengthens the cyclone over the Baikal region and stretches the western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) northward to northeastern Asia, and results in abundant water vapor transported to NC. …”
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A One Health approach for the genomic characterization of antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter isolates using Nanopore whole-genome sequencing by Ana Hurtado, Medelin Ocejo, Beatriz Oporto, José Luis Lavín, Ruth Rodríguez, María Ángeles Marcos, Mikel Urrutikoetxea-Gutiérrez, Mikel Urrutikoetxea-Gutiérrez, Miriam Alkorta, Miriam Alkorta, Miriam Alkorta, José María Marimón, José María Marimón

“…Genotypic resistance profiles were independent of genotypes, indicating no apparent association between resistance and phylogenetic origin. This study demonstrates that ONT sequencing is a powerful tool for molecular surveillance of bacterial pathogens in the One Health framework.…”
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