Experimental Investigation of the Deformation Characteristics of Tianjin Clays under Coupled Dynamic Stress and Seepage Fields by Huayang Lei, Shuangxi Feng, Rui Jia, Mingjing Jiang

“…Soft soil ground not only bears the vibration load during operation and construction but also receives seepage effects caused by the bursting of pipelines and variations in groundwater levels. Under the coupling action of dynamic and seepage loads, large settlement can occur in soft soil since the deformation is related to both cyclic stress and seepage. …”
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Simulation Analysis of Air Distribution in the Public Area of Single-Span Arch-Shaped Underground Station under the Centralized Air Return Mode by FENG Rao, LUO Yanping, LI Bijia, HU Zilin

“…Therefore, it is necessary to study how to reduce the ventilation and air conditioning pipelines in the public areas of such underground stations on the premise of reasonable air distribution so as to provide more innovative space for decoration. …”
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Application of microbially induced calcite precipitation to mitigate soil frost heave by M.F. Nikshoar, M.A. Rowshanzamir, S.M. Abtahi, S. Soleimanian-Zad

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Soil frost heaving causes significant destruction to road pavements, railways, pipelines, and other lifeline infrastructures. The conventional methods for dealing with the soil frost heave are primarily based on using the materials whose production and use are harmful to the environment. …”
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Design of High-Speed Multiway Merge Sorting Networks Using Fast Single-Stage N-Sorters and N-Filters by Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis

“…In the AMD-Xilinx Ultrascale+ xcvu9p FPGA, the two 8-way merge networks have speedups of 1.85 and 1.74 versus the comparable 2-way networks. A fully pipelined 3-way merge network in this FPGA is capable of fully sorting 500 million lists of 729 unsorted 32-bit values in one second. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Gas–Liquid–Solid Three-Phase Erosion in a Gas Storage Tank Tee by Zongxiao Ren, Chenyu Zhang, Zhaoyang Fan, Yanfei Ren

“…The objective is to address the issue of gas-carrying particles generated by erosion wear problems in the transportation process of gas storage reservoir pipelines. In accordance with the principles of the multiphase flow theory, the particle discrete phase model, high temperature, high pressure, water volume fraction, and other pertinent factors, this paper presents a three-phase gas–liquid–solid erosion mathematical model of a three-way gas storage reservoir. …”
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BIMSSA: enhancing cancer prediction with salp swarm optimization and ensemble machine learning approaches by Pinakshi Panda, Sukant Kishoro Bisoy, Amrutanshu Panigrahi, Abhilash Pati, Bibhuprasad Sahu, Zheshan Guo, Haipeng Liu, Prince Jain

“…The BIMSSA model implements a pipelined feature selection method to effectively handle high-dimensional microarray data. …”
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RNA sequence analysis landscape: A comprehensive review of task types, databases, datasets, word embedding methods, and language models by Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Muhammad Ali Ibrahim, Tayyaba Asif, Andreas Dengel

“…It streamlines the development of new predictors by providing a comprehensive survey of 58 word embeddings and 70 language models based predictive pipelines performance values as well as top performing traditional sequence encoding based predictors and their performances across 47 RNA sequence analysis tasks.…”
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Resistance to medically important antimicrobials in broiler and layer farms in Cameroon and its relation with biosecurity and antimicrobial use by Ronald Vougat Ngom, Ronald Vougat Ngom, Andrea Laconi, Roberta Tolosi, Adonis M. M. Akoussa, Stephane D. Ziebe, Vincent M. Kouyabe, Alessandra Piccirillo

“…Additionally, the study examined the relationship between these ARGs and biosecurity implementation, as well as farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward antimicrobial use (AMU) and AMR, including their perception of AMR risk.Materials and methodsFecal, drinking water, and biofilm samples from drinking water pipelines were collected from 15 poultry farms and subsequently analyzed by real-time PCR and 16S rRNA NGS.ResultsAll samples tested positive for genes conferring resistance to (fluoro) quinolones, 97.8% to macrolides, 64.4% to polymyxins, and 11.1% to carbapenems. …”
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An Efficient K-Best MIMO Detector for Large Modulation Constellations by Yu-Xin Liu, Shih-Jie Jihang, Yeong-Luh Ueng

“…A low-complexity fully-pipelined architecture is devised in order to implement the proposed MIMO detection without the need to use any dividers. …”
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Fetal-BET: Brain Extraction Tool for Fetal MRI by Razieh Faghihpirayesh, Davood Karimi, Deniz Erdogmus, Ali Gholipour

“…Fetal brain extraction is a necessary first step in most computational fetal brain MRI pipelines. However, it poses significant challenges due to 1) non-standard fetal head positioning, 2) fetal movements during examination, and 3) vastly heterogeneous appearance of the developing fetal brain and the neighboring fetal and maternal anatomy across gestation, and with various sequences and scanning conditions. …”
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Extracellular vesicles, RNA sequencing, and bioinformatic analyses: Challenges, solutions, and recommendations by Rebecca T. Miceli, Tzu‐Yi Chen, Yohei Nose, Swapnil Tichkule, Briana Brown, John F. Fullard, Marilyn D. Saulsbury, Simon O. Heyliger, Sacha Gnjatic, Natasha Kyprianou, Carlos Cordon‐Cardo, Susmita Sahoo, Emanuela Taioli, Panos Roussos, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Edgar Gonzalez‐Kozlova, Navneet Dogra

“…Here, we address these gaps by describing the following points by (1) focusing on the large canopy of the EVs and particles (EVPs), which includes, but not limited to – exosomes and other large and small EVs, lipoproteins, exomeres/supermeres, mitochondrial‐derived vesicles, RNA binding proteins, and cell‐free DNA/RNA/proteins; (2) examining the potential functional roles and biogenesis of EVPs; (3) discussing various transcriptomic methods and technologies used in uncovering the cargoes of EVPs; (4) presenting a comprehensive list of RNA subtypes reported in EVPs; (5) describing different EV‐RNA databases and resources specific to EV‐RNA species; (6) reviewing established bioinformatics pipelines and novel strategies for reproducible EV transcriptomics analyses; (7) emphasizing the significant need for a gold standard approach in identifying EV‐RNAs across studies; (8) and finally, we highlight current challenges, discuss possible solutions, and present recommendations for robust and reproducible analyses of EVP‐associated small RNAs. …”
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Private, public, and bottled drinking water: Shared contaminant-mixture exposures and effects challenge by Paul M. Bradley, Kristin M. Romanok, Kelly L. Smalling, Stephanie E. Gordon, Bradley J. Huffman, Katie Paul Friedman, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Brett R. Blackwell, Suzanne C. Fitzpatrick, Michael J. Focazio, Elizabeth Medlock-Kakaley, Shannon M. Meppelink, Ana Navas–Acien, Anne E. Nigra, Molly L. Schreiner

“…Thus, the results emphasize the need for improved understanding of the adverse human-health implications of long-term exposures to low–level inorganic–/organic–contaminant mixtures across all three distribution pipelines and do not support commercial messaging of BW as a systematically safer alternative to public-TW. …”
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JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum by Dana R. Louie, Elijah Mullens, Lili Alderson, Ana Glidden, Nikole K. Lewis, Hannah R. Wakeford, Natasha E. Batalha, Knicole D. Colón, Amélie Gressier, Douglas Long, Michael Radica, Néstor Espinoza, Jayesh Goyal, Ryan J. MacDonald, Erin M. May, Sara Seager, Kevin B. Stevenson, Jeff A. Valenti, Natalie H. Allen, Caleb I. Cañas, Ryan C. Challener, David Grant, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Daniel Valentine, Mark Clampin, Marshall Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, Roeland P. van der Marel, C. Matt Mountain

“…We analyze our data using three independent data analysis pipelines, finding excellent agreement between results. …”
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Multiscale study on the compressive performance of diverse solid waste backfill bodies by Hang Yin, Jiepeng Liu, Xuhong Zhou, Hongtuo Qi, Shuxian Liu, Shuai Pang

“…The research findings can provide reference for the design and construction of solid waste backfill pipelines and trenches.…”
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Semifield Evaluation of Improved Passive Outdoor Host Seeking Device (POHD) for Outdoor Control of Anopheles arabiensis Mosquitoes by Stella T. Kessy, Bruno A. Nyundo, Ladslaus L. Mnyone, Issa N. Lyimo

“…Despite the considerable progress made so far, the effectiveness and mass application of odour-baited outdoor mosquito control devices in pipelines is limited by several factors. These include the design and size of the devices, optimal placement of attractive blends, and nature of materials into which the blends are impregnated. …”
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Palmitoleic acid sensitizes vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to vancomycin by outpacing the expression of resistance genes by Zajeba Tabashsum, Michelle Angeles-Solano, Ashelyn E. Sidders, Joshua B. Parsons, Sarah E. Rowe

“…Despite this, antibiotic development pipelines remain sparse which makes using adjuvants to reverse antibiotic resistance a promising therapeutic strategy. …”
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CitySEIRCast: an agent-based city digital twin for pandemic analysis and simulation by Shakir Bilal, Wajdi Zaatour, Yilian Alonso Otano, Arindam Saha, Ken Newcomb, Soo Kim, Jun Kim, Raveena Ginjala, Derek Groen, Edwin Michael

“…Here, we describe how we have coupled advances in the construction of digital or virtual models of real-world cities with an agile, modular, agent-based model of viral transmission and data from navigation and social media interactions, to overcome these challenges in order to provide a new simulation tool, CitySEIRCast, that can model viral spread at the sub-national level. Our data pipelines and workflows are designed purposefully to be flexible and scalable so that we can implement the system on hybrid cloud/cluster systems and be agile enough to address different population settings and indeed, diseases. …”
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Biodesulfurization of high-sulfur oil from the Karazhanbas field of Kazakhstan with deep eutectic solvents by A.O. Akimbek, G.A. Jamalova, A.K. Yernazarova, G.K. Kaiyrmanova, B.K. Yelikbayev, M.C. Pagano, A.G. Zazybin, Kh. S. Rafikova

“…It is known that sulfur negatively affects the operational properties of petroleum products, causes the corrosion of pipelines, and adversely affects the environment and the human body. …”
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Modifying Nitrous Oxide Delivery at Stanford: Observational, Pilot Intervention Study by Eric P Kraybill, David Chen, Saadat Khan, Praveen Kalra

“…In phase 2, a pilot study was conducted in the 8 operating rooms of SHC campus A (Redwood City). The central N2O pipelines were disconnected, and E-cylinders were used in each operating room. …”
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Comprehensive genomic surveillance reveals transmission profiles of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Pará, Brazil by Davi Josué Marcon, Davi Josué Marcon, Abhinav Sharma, Alex Brito Souza, Alex Brito Souza, Rafaella Bonfim Barros, Valnete das Graças Dantas Andrade, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Guimarães, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Lima, Lúcia Helena Martins Tavares Monteiro, Ana Judith Pires Garcia Quaresma, Ana Judith Pires Garcia Quaresma, Layana Rufino Ribeiro, Layana Rufino Ribeiro, Philip Noel Suffys, Robin Mark Warren, Carlos Augusto Abreu Alberio, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Emilyn Costa Conceição

“…Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) was obtained using Illumina Nextera-XT and NextSeq 550 and genomes were analyzed using the MAGMA and TB-Profiler pipelines interpreted according to the World Health Organization (WHO) mutations catalog 2nd edition. …”
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