Roadway Deformation and Control under Multidisturbed Secondary High Stress by Xiaoguang Sun, Haibin Wang, Xiaofang Wo, Zhimeng Sun, Wenliang Sun, Chunge Li

“…According to the actual site conditions of 3318 working face belt transport drift in Xuchang Coal Mine, this paper proposed a new bolt-net support technology scheme with high strength, high stiffness, and asymmetric characteristics and obtained through numerical simulation analysis: (1) when the 3318 working face begins to mining, the distribution of the maximum principal stress in the surrounding rock of the roadway changes from weak symmetry to strong asymmetry, especially the maximum principal stress in the surrounding rock of the two sides; (2) the superposition effect of leading abutment pressure, lateral abutment pressure, and fault structure has a strong influence on the distribution of the maximum principal stress of roadway surrounding rock. …”
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Designing and Implementing a Competency-Based Training Program for Anesthesiology Residents at the University of Ottawa by Emma J. Stodel, Anna Wyand, Simone Crooks, Stéphane Moffett, Michelle Chiu, Christopher C. C. Hudson

“…However, with approval from the RCPSC, the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa, launched an innovative competency-based residency training program July 1, 2015. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the program and offer a blueprint for other programs planning similar curricular reform. …”
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Influence of Underpinning Pile Drilling Construction on the Bearing Behavior of Existing Loaded Foundation Piles: Case Study by Hua-feng Shan, Tang-dai Xia, Feng Yu, Hai-bing Tao, Shao-heng He

“…The mechanism of drilling borehole and its influence on the bearing behavior of existing foundation piles are unclear, hindering the application of excavation techniques. This paper proposes a new excavation scheme for high-rise buildings in downtown and develops theoretical formulas to calculate the skin friction and end resistance of existing foundation piles affected by adjacent borehole drilling for installing underpinning piles. …”
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Construction Time of Three Wall Types Made of Locally Sourced Materials: A Comparative Study by Wojciech Drozd, Agnieszka Leśniak, Sebastian Zaworski

“…At present, when sustainable development, ecology, and awareness of people’s impact on the environment grow in importance, low impact buildings can become an innovative alternative construction technology for the highly industrialized construction sector. The paper presents a comparative study of three walls made of available materials used locally, which can be classified as biosourced materials, in terms of construction time. …”
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Digital Footprint: Assessing Student Satisfaction with Education Quality by M. M. Krishtal, A. V. Bogdanova, M. G. Myagkov, Yu. K. Alexandrova

“…The importance of student satisfaction with the education quality in online learning is increasing, since it is an important condition for motivation. The paper shows that based on the analysis of students’ messages in the social network, it is possible to observe and analyze the overall dynamics and trends in student community satisfaction with the quality of the learning / the efficiency of universities and conduct a comparative analysis of the identified characteristic data groups with their totality. …”
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Learning-based DoS attack game strategy over multi-process systems by Zhiqiang Hang, Xiaolin Wang, Fangfei Li, Yi-ang Ren, Haitao Li

“…To better understand the impact of denial-of-service attacks on cyber-physical systems and develop corresponding defense strategies, several research papers have explored this issue from various perspectives. …”
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Optimal Pricing Strategy of Electric Vehicle Charging Station for Promoting Green Behavior Based on Time and Space Dimensions by Xiaomin Xu, Dongxiao Niu, Yan Li, Lijie Sun

“…Considering that the charging behaviors of users of electric vehicles (EVs) (including charging time and charging location) are random and uncertain and that the disorderly charging of EVs brings new challenges to the power grid, this paper proposes an optimal electricity pricing strategy for EVs based on region division and time division. …”
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Economic impacts and management of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in smallholder agriculture: a panel data analysis for Ghana by Justice A. Tambo, Monica K. Kansiime, Idah Mugambi, Lakpo Koku Agboyi, Patrick K. Beseh, Roger Day

“…Using panel data from Ghana, this paper assessed the impact of FAW on maize productivity and the changes in the strategies adopted by smallholder farmers for the management of the pest. …”
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Developing climate governance strategies in Nigeria: An emphasis on methane emissions mitigation by Onwusameka Sonny Ogbowuokara, Tambari Gladson Leton, John Nwenearizi Ugbebor, Ochuko Felix Orikpete

“…It highlights the pivotal role of the Climate and Clean Air Program (CCAP) and its compliance with the National Climate Change Policy and Response Strategy (NCCPRS) and the Paris Agreement. The paper also stresses the importance of integrating scientific inquiry with practical governance, exploring the benefits of synergistic collaborations. …”
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Effect of rare earth Ce on the microstructure, physical properties and thermal stability of a new lead-free solder by Chen W., Kong J., Chen W.J.

“…In this paper, in order to develop a low silver content lead-free solder with good overall properties, a newly designed solder alloys of Sn-0.3Ag-0.7Cu-20Bi-xCe type, with addition of varying amounts of rare earth Ce (0.05 mass%, 0.1 mass% and 0.2 mass%) were studied. …”
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Laser Capture Microdissection in Dentistry by Uraiwan Chokechanachaisakul, Tomoatsu Kaneko, Takashi Okiji, Reika Kaneko, Hideaki Suda, Jacques E. Nör

“…Thus, the advance of immuno-LCM method allows us to improve the validity of molecular biological analysis and to get more accurate diagnosis in pathological field in contrast to conventional LCM. This paper is focused on the presentation and discussion of the existing literature that covers the fields of RNA analysis following LCM in dentistry.…”
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MiCML: a causal machine learning cloud platform for the analysis of treatment effects using microbiome profiles by Hyunwook Koh, Jihun Kim, Hyojung Jang

“…However, for this, we first need to comprehend which microbes help (or prevent) the treatment to cure the patient’s disease. Results In this paper, we introduce a cloud platform, named microbiome causal machine learning (MiCML), for the analysis of treatment effects using microbiome profiles on user-friendly web environments. …”
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Recycling of Building Interior Decoration and Renovation Waste: A Case Study in China by Wenjia Pan, Hong Zhang, Shanggang Hei, Yingjian Yang, Xifeng Xu, Chao Zhou, Baolin Huang, Haochen Xu

“…Soft inorganic materials such as aerated concrete and gypsum made up 5–25%, slag 15–20%, timber 5–10%, combustible matter such as plastic, rubber, and paper 9–12%, and glass and metal 1–5%, and (ii) artificial intelligence (AI) sorting offers better sorting performance and economic advantages over manual sorting, promoting the application of artificial AI sorting equipment as important solutions to face the key challenges of D&R waste recycling.…”
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Groundwater and soil moisture data collected in the coastal critical zone of the Delmarva Peninsula, United StatesCUAHSI Hydroshare by Dannielle Pratt, Rachel W. McQuiggan, Eva Snell Bacmeister, Amanda Sprague-Getsy, Holly A. Michael

“…Data presented in this paper were collected from three agricultural and three forested sites along the Delmarva Peninsula, United States between March 2021 and July 2024. …”
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Une analyse de la démultiplication des éthos dit et montré dans le discours du Bourget de François Hollande raconté par Laurent Binet by Alain RABATEL

“…The present paper examines François Hollande's speech at Bourget in 2012, which marks the opening of his presidential campaign after his victory in the primary election, as it has been staged by Laurent Binet in his narrative of the campaign, Nothing goes as planned. …”
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FingerDTA: A Fingerprint-Embedding Framework for Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction by Xuekai Zhu, Juan Liu, Jian Zhang, Zhihui Yang, Feng Yang, Xiaolei Zhang

“…A fusion of global information and local patterns can construct neural network calculations closer to actual biological processes. This paper proposes a Fingerprint-embedding framework for Drug-Target binding Affinity prediction (FingerDTA), which uses CNN to extract local patterns and utilize fingerprints to characterize global information. …”
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THE RELIABILITY OF DETERMINING THE SHORT CIRCUIT ZONE OF THE LINES OF 6–35 kV by F. А. Romaniuk, E. V. Buloichyk, O. A. Huryanchyk, V. S. Kachenya

“…A method of increasing the reliability of determining the zone of short-circuit at the current step protection of the lines of 6–35 kV with unilateral power, aimed at improvement of their technical perfection, is presented in the paper. Having taken the relative simpleness of the current protection into account the authors consider the unilateral remote method of accounting the parameters of the emergency mode and the type of fault to be the most suitable for the implementation of the algorithm of its functioning as compared with the existing methods of fault location. …”
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Design and Experimental Validation of a Model-Free Controller for Beam Stabilization in Adaptive Optics Systems by Sicheng Guo, Tao Cheng, Kangjian Yang, Lingxi Kong, Chunxuan Su, Shuai Wang, Ping Yang

“…Motivated by this, a new filter-based off-policy policy iteration (FB-OPPI) control scheme is proposed and experimentally verified in this paper to provide AO systems with a flexible beam stabilization method. …”
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Autoregulation of the glial gene reversed polarity in Drosophila by Jamie L. Wood, Saroj Nepal, Bradley W. Jones

“…Evidence supports autoregulation to be one of the mechanisms that maintains repo expression, as ectopic repo expression in embryos can activate repo-lacZ reporter constructs. In this paper we further explore the ability of repo to activate reporter constructs in transgenic embryos and in cultured S2 cells. …”
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Challenges for Air Transport Providers in Czech Republic and Poland by Anna Toruń, Czesław Burniak, Jerzy Biały, Justyna Tomaszewska, Norbert Grzesik, Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova, Marta Woch, Mariusz Zieja, Adam Rurak

“…The aim of this paper is to find a trend in air transport behaviour in the Czech Republic and Poland, based on data collected between the years of 2004 and 2016. …”
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