Shear Behavior of RC Beams Strengthened by External Vertical Prestressing Rebar by Ying Li, Meizhong Wu, Weiqi Wang, Xingwei Xue

“…External vertical prestressing rebars (EVPRs) have proven to be an effective way to enhance structural shear resistance. …”
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Some Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability Results for a Class of <i>ϑ</i>-Fractional Stochastic Integral Equations by Fahad Alsharari, Raouf Fakhfakh, Omar Kahouli, Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

“…Moreover, the continuous dependence of solutions on initial conditions is proven. Additionally, we provide three examples to demonstrate our findings.…”
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A Fault Diagnosis Method for Oil Well Pump Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network Combined with Modified Genetic Algorithm by Deliang Yu, Yanmei Li, Hao Sun, Yulong Ren, Yongming Zhang, Weigui Qi

“…Through experimental analysis, the proposed method is proven to have good convergence performance, high accuracy, and high reliability.…”
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Multi-protective effects of wheat embryo globulin on D-gal-induced aging mice by Aimei Liaoa, Xing Lyu, Jiarui Ma, Yinchen Hou, Ming Hui, Na Liu, Yi Zhao, Yixiang Cui, Jihong Huang

“…Wheat embryo globulin (WEG) has been proven to possess multiple biological activities, including antioxidative properties, immunomodulatory, and so on. …”
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Using an SGB Decision Tree Approach to Estimate the Properties of CRM Made by Biomass Pretreated with Ionic Liquids by Ya-Qing Gu, Tao Shu, Bin Ge, Ping Wang, Chen Gao, Hamid Heydari

“…The use of ionic liquids (ILs) for biomass pretreatment to produce cellulose-rich materials (CRMs) has been well proven. In this research, due to the wide range of applications and ease of using artificial intelligence procedures, on the basis of the algorithm of stochastic gradient boosting (SGB) decision tree, an artificial intelligence approach is proposed to estimate the properties of cellulose-rich materials (CRMs). …”
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Caenorhabditis elegans in the biological activity research of tea: From “little transparent” to “big star” by Lingwei Yang, Zhonghua Liu, Ligui Xiong, Yushun Gong

“…Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has proven to be a valuable model organism for assessing active ingredients. …”
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A Rare Presentation of Lymphoma of the Cervix with Cross-Sectional Imaging Correlation by Brinda Rao Korivi, Corey T. Jensen, Madhavi Patnana, Keyur P. Patel, Tharakeswara K. Bathala

“…It was further evaluated with ultrasound, biopsy, and positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT), which demonstrated a growing biopsy-proven lymphomatous mass and new humeral head lesion. …”
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Positivity of Fundamental Matrix and Exponential Stability of Delay Differential System by Alexander Domoshnitsky, Roman Shklyar, Mikhail Gitman, Valery Stolbov

“…In this paper first sufficient results about nonnegativity of the Cauchy matrix of the delay system without this assumption are proven. A necessary condition of nonnegativity of the Cauchy matrix is proposed. …”
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Klebsiella pneumoniae Orbital Cellulitis: Clinical Manifestations and Outcomes in a Tertiary Medical Center in Taiwan by Chieh-Hung Yen, Shu-Ya Wu, Yi-Lin Liao

“…We reported four females and two males admitted to our hospital for Klebsiella pneumoniae orbital cellulitis proven by computed tomographies and bacterial cultures from May 1995 to March 2017. …”
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Notch Effect on Plastic Deformation of Metallic Glass: A Numerical Study by Revised Free-Volume Theory by J. F. Yan, W. J. Meng, Z. Chen, H. Guo, X. G. Yan

“…Combined with the free-volume distribution during deformation process, it was proven that the intersection of two major shear bands is the cause for the strength and plasticity enhancement found in sample with two symmetric notches. …”
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Solving class of mixed nonlinear multi-term fractional Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations by new development of HAM by Zainidin Eshkuvatov, Zaid Laadjal, Shahrina Ismail

“…Other than that, the existance and uniqueness of solution as well as the norm convergence with respect to ND-HAM, were proven in a Hilbert space. In addition, three numerical examples (including multi-term fractional IDEs) are presented and compared with the HAM, modified HAM and ”Generalized block pulse operational differentiation matrices method” developed in previous works by illustrating the accuracy as well as validity with respect to ND-HAM. …”
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Naive Bayes-Guided Bat Algorithm for Feature Selection by Ahmed Majid Taha, Aida Mustapha, Soong-Der Chen

“…The results showed that BANB significantly outperformed other algorithms in selecting lower number of features, hence removing irrelevant, redundant, or noisy features while maintaining the classification accuracy. BANB is also proven to be more stable than other methods and is capable of producing more general feature subsets.…”
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Prescribed Performance Tracking Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Time-Delay Systems with Multiple Constraints by Man Zhang, Ru Chang, Ying Wang

“…Based on stochastic mean-square stability theory, all signals in the closed-loop system are proven to be bounded under the designed control scheme. …”
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Compositional Characteristics and Antioxidant Activity of Edible Rose Flowers and Their Effect on Phenolic Urinary Excretion by Andrea Devecchi, Sonia Demasi, Francesca Saba, Rosalba Rosato, Roberto Gambino, Valentina Ponzo, Antonella De Francesco, Paola Massarenti, Simona Bo, Valentina Scariot

“…Petals of edible flowers (EF) are rich in biologically active compounds with many proven benefits for human health. However, studies on the effects of EF in humans after consumption are lacking. …”
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A Case of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Possible “Disease Flare” on Nivolumab Treatment by Shotaro Chubachi, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Hidehiro Irie, Koichi Fukunaga, Katsuhiko Naoki, Kenzo Soejima, Tomoko Betsuyaku

“…Recent clinical trials proven the clinically significant efficacy and tolerability of nivolumab, a programmed death 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, in previously treated patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …”
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A Review on the Effect of Crumb Rubber Addition to the Rheology of Crumb Rubber Modified Bitumen by Mohd Rasdan Ibrahim, Herda Yati Katman, Mohamed Rehan Karim, Suhana Koting, Nuha S. Mashaan

“…Crumb rubber modification has been proven to enhance the properties of pure bitumen. …”
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A Graph-Based Method for IFC Data Merging by Qin Zhao, Yuchao Li, Xinhong Hei, Mingsong Yang

“…The feasibility of the method is proven by a program, and the method can ignore the impacts of GUID and other factors.…”
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To suppress tin whisker growth by using (100)-oriented copper by Han-Wen Lin, Jia-Ling Lu, Chih-Chia Hu, K.N. Tu, Chih Chen

“…Furthermore, after 7944 h of RT storage, both the <111>− and the <100>-oriented Cu films are proven to be effective on preventing Sn whisker growth. …”
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Experimental Investigation on the Load-Carrying Capacity of Steel-to-Laminated Bamboo Dowel Connection I: Single Fastener with Slotted-In Steel Plate under Tension by Zhaoyan Cui, Liuhui Tu, Ming Xu, Zhongfan Chen, Qingfeng Xu

“…By considering the rigid-plastic model, the theoretical equation for the connections is proposed and proven to fit well with the experimental results. …”
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Role of business sustainability, patriotism of business actors, and digital transformation in increasing MSME tax compliance by Pambayun Kinasih Yekti Nastiti, Theresia Woro Damayanti, Maria Rio Rita, Supramono Supramono

“…This study also finds that the patriotism of business actors is proven to strengthen the positive effects of business sustainability on tax compliance intentions. …”
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