Efficacy of the ECHOMANTRA online intervention to support recovery from anorexia nervosa in adult patients: study protocol of a randomized controlled multi-center trial by Yolanda Quiles, Álvaro Ruiz, Eva León-Zarceño, Javier Manchón, Marie-Carmen Neipp, Sofía Payá-López, Katina Kovacheva, Valentina Cardi

“…The objective of this paper is to describe the study protocol of a randomized control trial (RCT) aimed at evaluating the efficacy of an adaptation of the ECHOMANTRA for adults AN inpatients and outpatients, and their carers, to be implemented as an add-on to treatment-as-usual (TAU). …”
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Cretaceous Limestone Dolomitization and Argument of Its Mg2+ Sources: Exampling the Bekhme and Qamchuqa Formations in the Zagros Collision Belt by Kamal Haji Karim, Sherzad Tofiq Mohamad

“…Previous studies proposed the dolomitization of these formations due to the ascent of Mg-rich hydrothermal solutions through deep faults but lacked substantial supporting evidence. This paper present new considerations suggesting that the dolomitization of the BQFs resulted from the Cretaceous environmental conditions and basin paleogeographic setting of the platform on which these formations were deposited. …”
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Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle Based on a Two-Layered Planning Model in Complex Environment by Jiajia Chen, Rui Zhang, Wei Han, Wuhua Jiang, Jinfang Hu, Xiaoshan Lu, Xingtao Liu, Pan Zhao

“…To address the problem of travelling in complex environments which consists of lots of obstacles, a two-layered path planning model is presented in this paper. This method includes a high-level model that produces a rough path and a low-level model that provides precise navigation. …”
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Grid structure optimization using slow coherency theory and holomorphic embedding method by Fei Tang, Mo Chen, Yuhan Guo, Jinzhou Sun, Xiaoqing Wei, Jiaquan Yang, Xuehao He

“…This paper addresses the issue of complex fault oscillation modes and weak voltage points in large power systems by proposing a network structure optimization method that balances system synchrony and node voltage stability. …”
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Statistical Analysis of the People Fully Vaccinated against COVID-19 in Two Different Regions by Abdullah Ali H. Ahmadini, Mohammed Elgarhy, A. W. Shawki, Hanan Baaqeel, Omar Bazighifan

“…Methodology. Through this paper, we aimed to compare individuals who have been completely vaccinated against COVID-19 in two locations: North American countries and Arabian Peninsula countries. …”
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Analysis of Railway Hub Function and Passenger Flow Demand under the Integrated Station-City-People Development by WU Qiong

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Post-processing enhances protein secondary structure prediction with second order deep learning and embeddings by Sotiris Chatzimiltis, Michalis Agathocleous, Vasilis J. Promponas, Chris Christodoulou

“…Machine Learning and in particular Deep Learning approaches show promising results for the PSSP problem. In this paper, we deploy a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained with the Subsampled Hessian Newton (SHN) method (a Hessian Free Optimisation variant), with a two- dimensional input representation of embeddings extracted from a language model pretrained with protein sequences. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in Fog Computing Scheduling: A Literature Review by Wu Chia Chuan, Shams Ul Arfeen Laghari, Selvakumar Manickam, Erum Ashraf, Shankar Karuppayah

“…Additionally, it identifies numerous prevailing challenges and issues. This survey paper aims to support the research community by highlighting potential avenues for future studies and key considerations in the development of scheduling strategies that leverage diverse contextual data.…”
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Implicit link prediction based on extended social graph by Ling Xing, Jinxin Liu, Qi Zhang, Honghai Wu, Huahong Ma, Xiaohui Zhang

“…To address these issues, this paper introduces an implicit link prediction algorithm based on extended social graph (ILP-ESG). …”
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Variation Diagnosis of Maximum Precipitation in Jiangxi Province in 60 Years by WU Shaofei, WANG Qi, HUANG Binbin, JU Xiang, XU Changbao, HE Miao

“…Hourly precipitation data of 91 meteorological stations in Jiangxi Province during 1954—2012 were selected to analyze the variation of maximum precipitation in consecutive 1 h,3 h,6 h,12 h and 24 h using hydrologic variation diagnostic system (HDMS) .Firstly,in the detailed diagnosis,linear trend,Kendall and Spearman methods were used for trend test,and M-K,cumulative anomaly,ordered clustering,sliding F,sliding rank sum and other test methods were adopted for jump diagnosis.Secondly,the efficiency coefficient R² was employed to determine the final diagnosis results and conduct the spatio-temporal analysis.Finally,the spatial characteristics of the occurrence frequency of maximum precipitation greater than or equal to 16 mm,30 mm and 50 mm were analyzed.The results show the followings:① The spatial distribution characteristics of maximum precipitation in Max1 h,Max3 h,Max6 h,Max12 h and Max24 h were similar in Jiangxi Province.With the increase in duration,most stations with variations witnessed a jumping increase.Those with significant variations were more in the northern plain than in the southern mountain area,namely that the spatial distribution was dense in the north and sparse in the south.② The degree of precipitation series variation was positively and negatively correlated with elevation in the southern mountain area and the northern plain area,respectively.Studies have shown that atmospheric circulation indexes AO (Arctic oscillation),NAO (North Atlantic oscillation) and PNA (Pacific-North American oscillation) had negative,positive and negative correlations with precipitation at stations in the study area,respectively.Therefore,the atmospheric circulation indexes have correlations with the change of precipitation series in Jiangxi Province,which are one of the causes of the maximum precipitation variation in the period.③ The frequency of regional rainstorms gradually decreased with the increase in duration,and rainstorm events in the northern plain area were less than those in other mountain areas due to the influence of topographic factors.Through the analysis of hourly precipitation data of many years in Jiangxi Province,this paper is expected to provide some reference for short-term rainstorm forecast and flood warning.…”
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Crystal structure of catena-poly[bis(N,O-dimethylhydroxylammonium) [di-μ-bromido-dibromidostannate(II)]] by Valerii Y. Sirenko, Mircea-Odin Apostu, Irina A. Golenya, Dina D. Naumova, Sofiia V. Partsevska

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Evaluation of the Cost of Intelligent Upgrades of Transportation Infrastructure for Intelligent Connected Vehicles by Zongwei Liu, Haokun Song, Hong Tan, Han Hao, Fuquan Zhao

“…In addition, the investment in intelligent upgrades of transportation infrastructure is mainly from the government, so the costs must be controlled reasonably to find the most cost-effective upgrade route. In this paper, the types of intelligent transportation infrastructures were determined by sorting out the demands of ICVs for transportation infrastructure, and the deployment methods and upgrade routes of intelligent transportation infrastructures were designed. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Thawing Frozen Sandstone by Gengshe Yang, Bo Liang, Hui Liu, Yanjun Shen, Hailiang Jia

“…The efficacy of the model was evaluated against the test data and was found to be reasonably accurate. This paper uses acoustic emission technology to simultaneously monitor the melting process of frozen rocks and reveal the relationship between intensity and temperature. …”
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Rethinking methane from animal agriculture by Shule Liu, Joe Proudman, Frank M. Mitloehner

“…Livestock production has been growing to meet the global food demand, however, increasing demand for production does not necessarily result in the proportional increase of CH4 production. The present paper intends to evaluate the actual effects of the CH4 emission from U.S. dairy and beef production on temperature and initiate a rethinking of CH4 associated with animal agriculture to clarify long-standing misunderstandings and uncover the potential role of animal agriculture in fighting climate change. …”
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Flexural behavior of high-strength reinforced concrete beam with hybrid fiber under normal and high temperature by Ahmed Ashteyat, Ala Obaidat, Tarik Kharabsheh, Ahmed Harahsheh

“…The low cost of basalt and steel fibers makes their use in enhancing concrete properties very attractive, this paper presents experimental research on the use of Basalt Fibers (BF) and Steel Fibers (SF) and their effect on compressive, tensile, and flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams under normal and elevated temperatures. …”

Establishment of safety power range and subsequent commutation failure suppression strategy for hybrid cascaded HVDC system by He Wang, Jiazhi Guo, Jing Bian, Guoqing Li, Tuo Wang

“…Therefore, a coordinated control strategy (CCS) based on the safety power range (SPR) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the adverse effects of electrical quantity fluctuation and LCC’s reactive power demand on system recovery under different control modes are analyzed. …”
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A Low-Power DNN Accelerator With Mean-Error-Minimized Approximate Signed Multiplier by Laimin Du, Leibin Ni, Xiong Liu, Guanqi Peng, Kai Li, Wei Mao, Hao Yu

“…Approximate computing is an emerging and effective method for reducing energy consumption in digital circuits, which is critical for energy-efficient performance improvement of edge-computing devices. In this paper, we propose a low-power DNN accelerator with novel signed approximate multiplier based on probability-optimized compressor and error compensation. …”
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STRATEGIC ALLIANCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: BARRIERS FACING ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN AN EMERGING MARKET by Funmilayo Iyabo BODUNDE, Ebunoluwa Akinrata, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Ayotunde Babalola

“…Despite the numerous benefits gained, there are still various barriers facing it in the developing world. This paper is aimed at analysing the current level of awareness and barrier facing SA procurement method in the building industry in an emerging market (EM) using Nigeria as a case study, to profound future steps in avoiding these barriers and to encourage maximum implementation in the construction industry. …”
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Abstractive Summarization of Historical Documents: A New Dataset and Novel Method Using a Domain-Specific Pretrained Model by Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

“…Transformer-based ATS methods have achieved success in various domains; however, there is a lack of research in the historical domain. In this paper, we introduce HistBERTSum-Abs, a novel method for abstractive historical single-document summarization. …”
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Error Correction of Meteorological Data Obtained with Mini-AWSs Based on Machine Learning by Ji-Hun Ha, Yong-Hyuk Kim, Hyo-Hyuc Im, Na-Young Kim, Sangjin Sim, Yourim Yoon

“…However, it is necessary to correct the data collected with Mini-AWSs because they might be affected by the external environment depending on the installation area. In this paper, we propose a novel error correction of atmospheric pressure data observed with a Mini-AWS based on machine learning. …”
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