Feedback mechanism between gully landforms and sediment trapping efficiency in a check dam by Jiangang Chen, Xi'an Wang, Huayong Chen, Wanyu Zhao, Chenyuan Wang, Xiaoqing Chen

“…With increasing age, check dams gradually lose their sediment trapping function via the continuous deposition of material carried by debris flows and flash floods, and eventually, check dams become unable to perform the designed mitigation function. In this paper, the sediment deposit evolution in a dam with multiple debris flow surges and its influence on the sediment trapping effect were investigated. …”
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Diagnostic challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer in Lynch syndrome by Agnieszka Protasiuk, Agata Żak, Rafał Sierzpowski, Patrycja Tymoszuk, Bartosz Kasperek, Katarzyna Augustowska

“…The diagnostic criteria, including the Amsterdam Criteria and the Bethesda Guidelines, are reviewed. The paper highlights the diagnostic challenges posed by the nonspecific symptoms of ovarian cancer and emphasizes the importance of early detection and monitoring. …”
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Using a co-design approach to develop a Preventative Online Mental Health Program for Youth (POMHPY): a quality improvement project by Elnaz Moghimi, Kimberly Belfry, Sarah Farr, Shavon Stafford, Arina Bogdan, Megan Brush, Christopher Canning, Soyeon Kim

“…Co-design approaches to developing such programs actively involve young people, resulting in solutions tailored to their unique needs. The current paper details the co-design approach to creating a Preventative Online Mental Health Program for Youth (POMHPY)—a virtually delivered program designed for Ontario youth ages 12 to 25 that promotes mental, physical, and social wellbeing. …”
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Study on the Calibration Transfer of Soil Nutrient Concentration from the Hyperspectral Camera to the Normal Spectrometer by Xue-Ying Li, Guo-xing Ren, Ping-Ping Fan, Yan Liu, Zhong-Liang Sun, Guang-Li Hou, Mei-Rong Lv

“…There are few studies on the calibration transfer of soil nutrient concentration from a hyperspectral camera to a normal spectrometer. In this paper, 164 soil samples from three regions in Qingdao, China, were collected. …”
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Development of the cultural tailoring score (CTS): a scoring instrument to assess cultural tailoring of health messaging by Claudia Parvanta, Kayleigh Murray, Samantha Boddupalli, Natalie Erasme, Rheese McNab, Vijay Prajapati, Arabel Severe, Aura Reyes, Richard Harner, Rhonda Holliday

“…Open-ended comments from pretesting respondents support this finding and suggest that cultural components facilitated what the Elaboration Likelihood Model describes as central processing of the main health messages, thereby enhancing health literacy.Discussion The paper discusses recommendations for further development and testing of the CTS to produce a simple tool to guide future multicultural health communication materials production or pretesting.…”
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Coordinated Design of Power System Stabilizer and Virtual Inertia Control Using Modified Harris Hawk Optimization for Improving Power System Stability by Mohamad Almas Prakasa, Imam Robandi, Alberto Borghetti, Muhammad Ruswandi Djalal, Waseda Himawari

“…To address this problem, this paper proposes the coordinated design of Power System Stabilizer and Virtual Inertia Control (PSS-VIC) to improve the stability of the power system integrated with RES. …”
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Utilizing Partial Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (P-NOMA) in Drone-Enabled Internet-of-Things Wireless Networks by Hazim Shakhatreh, Sharief Abdel-Razeq, Ala Al-Fuqaha

“…As a result, the multiple access techniques and the physical layer for wireless communication systems have been rethought and redesigned. This paper proposes utilizing the partial non-orthogonal multiple access (P-NOMA) in drone-enabled IoT wireless networks, where a single drone provides wireless coverage for a set of IoT devices. …”
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Anti-microbial cetylpyridinium chloride suppresses mast cell function by targeting tyrosine phosphorylation of Syk kinase by Bright Obeng, Lucas J. Bennett, Bailey E. West, Dylan J. Wagner, Patrick J. Fleming, Morgan N. Tasker, Madeleine K. Lorenger, Dorothy R. Smith, Tetiana Systuk, Sydni M. Plummer, Jeongwon Eom, Marissa D. Paine, Collin T. Frangos, Michael P. Wilczek, Juyoung K. Shim, Melissa S. Maginnis, Julie A. Gosse

“…In the current study, these findings are extended to human mast cells (LAD2); this paper presents data indicating that a mechanism of action for CPC might center on its positively-charged quaternary nitrogen in its pyridinium headgroup. …”
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Experimental Study on Well Placement Optimization for Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage to Enhance Recovery of Thin Layer Oil Sand Reservoirs by Lei Tao, Xiao Yuan, Hao Cheng, Bingchao Li, Sen Huang, Na Zhang

“…It is extremely important to find an economical and practicable method to promote the steam chamber development in thin oil sand reservoirs in the process of SAGD production; optimizing well placement is a reliable method. In this paper, an improved well placement method is proposed to enhance production performance of traditional SAGD, which is changing the horizontal well spacing to place the production well below of the side of the injection well (two wells are not located on the same axis). …”
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Modelación numérica del concreto simple con elementos finitos mediante la teoría de la plasticidad y la función de fluencia de Hu y Schnobrich Numerical modeling of the simple conc... by Luis Rodríguez, Dorian Linero

“…The constitutive model presented in this paper was implemented in the nonlinear analysis finite element program with open source HYPLAS (de Souza Neto et al. 2008) and the post-process was performed using GiD (CIMNE 2008). …”
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Lightweight AES Design for IoT Applications: Optimizations in FPGA and ASIC With DFA Countermeasure Strategies by Salman Ahmed, Nabihah Ahmad, Nasir Ali Shah, Ghulam E. Mustafa Abro, Ardhi Wijayanto, Abdinasir Hirsi, Abdul Rehman Altaf

“…The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) remains the benchmark for securing IoT systems while balancing low power consumption, minimal area usage, and moderate throughput with high security. This paper offers a comprehensive review of the latest lightweight AES architectural designs, including optimizations to the Substitution Box (S-Box), Sub-Bytes, Shift Rows, Mix Columns, and Add Round Key steps, assessing their impact on gate count, area, maximum frequency, power consumption, and throughput in field programable gate arrays (FPGA) and Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementations. …”
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A state of the art review on geotechnical reinforcement with end life tires by M. Shariati, M. Afrazi, H. Kamyab, S. Rouhanifar, E. Toghroli, M. Safa, Sh. Chelliapan, H. Afrazi

“…This review examines how integrating scrap tires into geotechnical projects, such as retaining walls, slopes, and drainage systems, can offer sustainable alternatives while addressing environmental concerns. The paper extensively analyzes the mechanical behavior of sand-rubber mixtures through laboratory investigations. …”
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Synthetic Data Generation and Evaluation Techniques for Classifiers in Data Starved Medical Applications by Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Matthew Horak, Siddheshwari Bankar, Sartaj Bhuvaji, Sungroul Kim, Choon-Sik Park

“…This leads to a training dataset where healthy cases outnumber unhealthy ones, resulting in biased prediction models that struggle to detect the minority, unhealthy cases effectively. This paper addresses the problem of class imbalance, given the scarcity of training datasets by improving the quality of generated data. …”
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Using a Simplified Quantum Counter to Implement Quantum Circuits Based on Grover’s Algorithm to Tackle the Exact Cover Problem by Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Yu-Jie Wang

“…In this paper, we use a simplified quantum counter to implement Grover’s algorithm-based quantum circuits to tackle the NP-hard exact cover problem (ECP). …”
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Experimental study on mechanical properties of S-RM with different rock block proportions in fault zone by Peng-fei Wang, Xue-yang Xing, Yong-cheng Jin, Jian-biao Bai, Chang-hong Li

“…Abstract The distribution range of soil-rock mixtures (S-RM) in fault zones is wide, with significant differences in mechanical properties, making them the main sites for rock instability and support structure failure in mines. This paper takes the Sanshan Island fault zone as the engineering background, and uses a self-designed small-scale test device to conduct triaxial compression tests to study the strength and deformation failure laws of S-RMs with different rock block proportions (20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%). …”
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Integration of National Chemical Hazards Monitoring, Total Diet Study, and Human Biomonitoring Programmes for Food Safety Exposure Assessment in Singapore by Angela Li, Jun Cheng Er, Wei Ching Khor, Mei Hui Liu, Valerie Sin, Sheot Harn Chan, Kyaw Thu Aung

“…Food and food system innovation is a key strategy towards feeding the world in a more sustainable and climate-resilient manner. This paper highlights the use of a science-based risk assessment and management in Singapore’s food safety system, specifically in the integration of exposure assessment approaches to support evidence-based food safety risk analysis and decision-making. …”
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A spatial model of tumor-host interaction: Application of chemotherapy by Peter Hinow, Philip Gerlee, Lisa J. McCawley, Vito Quaranta, Madalina Ciobanu, Shizhen Wang, Jason M. Graham, Bruce P. Ayati, Jonathan Claridge, Kristin R. Swanson, Mary Loveless, Alexander R. A. Anderson

“…In this paper we consider chemotherapy in a spatial model of tumor growth. …”
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Electromagnetic compatibility of active cardiovascular implants to occupational magnetic field environments: impact of the field direction by Hammen, Lucien, Pichon, Lionel, Le Bihan, Yann, Bensetti, Mohamed , Fleury, Gérard

“…This specificity makes it possible to take into account the high variability of the operator’s position compared to the industrial source.In this paper, the study focused on the impact of the magnetic field direction on the PM’s functioning with bipolar leads, as is the case for the vast majority of devices implanted nowadays. …”
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Cross Flow Analysis over the Jet Pumps of a BWR-5 Reactor by G. Soto-Mendoza, A. Armenta-Molina, S. Pérez-Montejo, L.H. Hernández-Gómez, P. Ruiz-López, G.M. Urriolagoitia-Calderón, J.A. Beltrán-Fernández

“…In accordance with document BWRVIP-41 R4, it was concluded that the vibration induced by cross flow over the jet pump assemblies is one of the degradation mechanisms of such pumps. In this paper, the vibration induced by the cross flow at a jet pump assembly BWR-5 was analyzed. …”
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Research on ultrasonic testing method for tangential contact stress based on equivalent medium theory by Nana Niu, Yongsheng Zhao, Zhifeng Liu, Ying Li, Lele Liu

“…However, obtaining the distribution of contact stress is a key problem that urgently needs to be solved in exploring the mechanical properties of joint surface connections. In this paper, a tangential contact stress ultrasonic testing method based on the equivalent medium theory is proposed, providing data support for accurately characterizing the contact state of the joint surface. …”
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