Significant role of anionic behavior of cocoyl glutamate on lead(II) ion adsorption towards activated carbon adsorbent from cigarette butts by Moh Zeinur Ridho, Retno Pertiwi, Eldo Delta Bagaskara, Raya Rambu Rambani, Chika Synthia Pitaloka, Fanta Mei Wahyuni, Istiqomah Rahmawati, Muhammad Reza

“…However, the synthesized CA lacks functional groups facilitating the interaction with adsorbate, like heavy metal. This paper investigates the effect of Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate (DCG) modification on CA towards lead(II) ion adsorptions. …”
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Distributed Storage System for Electric Power Data Based on HBase by Jiahui Jin, Aibo Song, Huan Gong, Yingying Xue, Mingyang Du, Fang Dong, Junzhou Luo

“…However, relational databases cannot efficiently process and analyze massive electric power data when the data size increases significantly. In this paper, we show how electric power data can be managed by using HBase, a distributed database maintained by Apache. …”
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Quad-Band 3D Rectenna Array for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting by Fatima Khalid, Warda Saeed, Nosherwan Shoaib, Muhammad U. Khan, Hammad M. Cheema

“…This paper presents a quad-band, 3D mountable rectenna module for ambient energy harvesting. …”
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Retracted: Significance and Possibility of VR Technology Embedded in the Teaching of Ideological and Political Theory Course in Colleges and Universities by Ningbin Zhang, Xiuqin Chen, Han Yin

“…The main purpose of this paper is to combine VR technology with ideological and political theory course in Colleges and universities. …”
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Fully automatic fossa ovalis segmentation from computed tomography images using deep neural network with atlas-based localization by Gakuto Aoyama, Toru Tanaka, Yukiteru Masuda, Naoki Matsuki, Ryo Ishikawa, Masahiko Asami, Kiyohide Satoh, Takuya Sakaguchi

“…At present, this information is obtained manually from pre-procedural medical images, which is time consuming with limited reproducibility. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically segment the FO region from computed tomography (CT) images. …”
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On the need to better integrate the social environment in research on climate change and health: recommendations and thinking tools [version 4; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved... by Lola Neufcourt, Laurence Mabile, Valériane Leroy, Matthew Chersich, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Cyrille Delpierre

“…However, the extent to which research using such frameworks investigates social determinants of health is not clear. In this paper we discuss the ways in which the social environment has so far been considered in the literature to problematize and analyze the relationship between climate dysregulation and health within holistic frameworks and provide tools and recommendations to facilitate their apprehension. …”
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EEG-based multivariate and univariate analyses reveal the mechanisms underlying the recognition-based production effect: evidence from mixed-list design by Bohua Zhang, Bohua Zhang, Alhassan Abdullah, Minmin Yan, Yongqing Hou, Antao Chen, Helen McLaren

“…The results revealed significant decoding between 760 and 840 ms, which is consistent with the LPC old/new effect. The paper discusses both traditional theories and the Feature Space Theory based on our results, highlighting inconsistencies with assumptions regarding unconscious retrieval in the Feature Space Theory. …”
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Classification and Physical Characteristic Analysis of Fermi-GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts Based on Deep Learning by Jia-Ming Chen, Ke-Rui Zhu, Zhao-Yang Peng, Li Zhang

“…The deep learning classification strategy proposed in this paper provides a more reliable tool for future GRB research.…”
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PGMweb: an online tool for visualizing the X-ray beam path through plane grating monochromators by Patrick Yuheng Wang, Murilo Bazan da Silva, Matthew Hand, Hongchang Wang, Peter Chang, Victoria Beilsten-Edmands, Timur K. Kim, Tien-Lin Lee, Kawal Sawhney, Andrew C. Walters

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Study on Stability of Tunnel Surrounding Rock and Precipitation Disaster Mitigation in Flowing Sand Body by Yongyi He, Bole Sun, Mingnian Wang

“…Considering the characteristics of water seepage, how to improve the stability of flowing sand bodies and prevent the instability of surrounding rocks has become a difficult problem. In this paper, a parametric experiment on the surrounding rock taken from the project site was carried out, and then, a numerical simulation of the flowing sand body was conducted to study the precipitation construction method and stability of the flowing sand body. …”
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Development of real-time RT-PCR for N2 subtype avian influenza RNA-virus detection by P. B. Akshalova, A. V. Andriyasov, L. O. Scherbakova, S. N. Kolosov, N. G. Zinyakov, I. A. Chvala, D. B. Andreychuk

“…Data on oligonucleotide primer selection and reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction condition optimization for N2 AI virus detection are presented in the paper. Modified primers and probe proposed by B. …”
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Carbothermal reduction of fayalite: Thermodynamic and non-isothermal kinetic analysis by Li Z., Ma G.-J., Zou J.-J., Zheng D.-L., Zhang X.

“…The present paper investigated the thermodynamics and kinetics of carbothermal reduction of fayalite by non-isothermal method combining with thermogravimetric analyzer and applying the Flynn-Wall-Ozawa (FWO) and Málek models. …”
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Dealing with Pheochromocytoma during the First Trimester of Pregnancy by Konstantinos Kiroplastis, Apostolos Kambaroudis, Apostolos Andronikou, Andromachi Reklou, Dimitris Kokkonis, Panagiotis Petras, Apostolos Mamopoulos, Eudokia Anagnostara, Charalampos Spyridis

“…Pheochromocytoma in association with pregnancy is a very rare, without specific symptoms, life-threatening condition, increasing both maternal and fetal mortality up to 50%. The present paper illustrates the case of a pregnant woman, diagnosed with pheochromocytoma, aiming to demonstrate and discuss the difficulties that arouse during the diagnosis and the problems concerning the treatment. …”
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Pavement Disease Visual Detection by Structure Perception and Feature Attention Network by Bin Lv, Shuo Zhang, Haixia Gong, Hongbo Zhang, Bin Dong, Jianzhu Wang, Cong Du, Jianqing Wu

“…To address these challenges, this paper proposes a structure perception and feature attention network (SPFAN). …”
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The Influence of Coupled Thermomechanical Processes on the Pressure and Temperature due to Cold Water Injection into Multiple Fracture Zones in Deep Rock Formation by Bruno Figueiredo, Chin-Fu Tsang, Auli Niemi

“…Some very useful analytical solutions have been applied for a quick estimate of the water outlet temperature and injection/production pressures in this enhanced geothermal system (EGS), but they do not take into account the influence of thermomechanical and hydromechanical effects on the time evolutions of the pressure and temperature. This paper provided help for the engineering design of the EGS based on these analytical solutions, by evaluating the separate influences of the thermal (T), hydromechanical (HM), thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) effects on the fluid pore pressure and temperature. …”
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Secondary traumatic aniridic glaucoma: pathogenesis and treatment modalities by N.P. Sobolev, V.V. Teplovodskaya, M.A. Soboleva, E.P. Sudakova

“…Penetrating eye injuries rank first (22.5%), and blunt eye traumas rank second (7.65%). This paper addresses recent data on various surgical techniques for secondary traumatic aniridic glaucoma, their pros, and cons. …”
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Construction Control Technology and Monitoring Analysis of Walking Incremental Launching Construction of Small-Curvature Steel Box Girder Bridges Across Expressways by Hai Huang, Xiaomin Xue, Haitao Ma, Zhijun Zhou, Jianbo Dou, Heng Yang, Erwei Guo, Jianjun Ma

“…As urban areas keep growing, there are higher requirements for the carrying capacity of traffic operations, and there are more and more curve incremental launching projects with complex construction conditions. This paper builds upon the walking incremental launching project of a small-curvature steel box girder in Xuchang City and has developed a detailed construction method and monitoring technology. …”
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Audio-visual event localization with dual temporal-aware scene understanding and image-text knowledge bridging by Pufen Zhang, Jiaxiang Wang, Meng Wan, Song Zhang, Jie Jing, Lianhong Ding, Peng Shi

“…To address these challenges, a novel Dual Temporal-aware scene understanding and image-text Knowledge Bridging (DTKB) model is proposed in this paper. DTKB consists of forward and backward temporal-aware scene understanding streams, in which temporal dependencies and cross-modal correlations are explicitly captured from dual temporal-aware perspectives. …”
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Exploring patient-centered barriers to hemophilia care in Southern Nigeria: Study Protocol by Eguzo K, Ekwere T, Kirikareye B, Okoye H, Egharevba P, Oluoha C

“…Evidence shows that most PLwH in Nigeria do not know enough about the condition and face some barriers. The goal of this paper is to describe the study protocol used to develop and validate tools that would explore the barriers and knowledge gaps related to hemophilia, as a part of a larger needs assessment study. …”
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Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…To address these issues, this paper summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of mainstream position embedding methods and proposes a novel Hybrid Offset Position Encoding (HOPE) module. …”
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