Moving Toward a Smoke-free Campus: A Survey of Students’ Knowledge, Behavior, and Opinions by Ülken Tunga Babaoğlu, Hüseyin İlter

“…The fact that male students and smokers oppose implementation requires investigation of the reasons for these attitudes in future studies, and monitoring tobacco use trends after implementation is important to effectively evaluate smoke-free campus implementation.…”
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Modeling the role of healthcare access inequalities in epidemic outcomes by Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Muntaser Safan, Sherry Towers, Jay Taylor

“…Recent empirical evidence suggests that higher levels of socioeconomic inequalities are associated with worsened public health outcomes, including higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) and lower life expectancy. However, the reasons for these associations are still speculative. …”
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Can Obesity Prevalence Explain COVID-19 Indicators (Cases, Mortality, and Recovery)? A Comparative Study in OECD Countries by Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner

“…Yet, other indicators, such as the number of infected per 10,00,000 persons, rates of severe SARS-CoV-2 virus cases, rates of recovered SARS-CoV-2 virus patients, and SARS-CoV-2 virus, as the cause of death exhibit quadratic, rather than linear, patterns. The reasons for these nonlinear patterns might be explained by several conditions such as increased metabolic reserves, more aggressive treatment, other non-SARS-CoV-2 virus complications for obese persons, and unidentified factors that should be examined in future research.…”
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Effect of HLA-G5 Immune Checkpoint Molecule on the Expression of ILT-2, CD27, and CD38 in Splenic B cells by Hana Rohn, Cordula Lang, Sabine Schramm, Falko M. Heinemann, Mirko Trilling, Anja Gäckler, Oliver Witzke, Peter A. Horn, Vera Rebmann

“…Based on these results, further investigation regarding the role of HLA-G as a prognostic factor and a potential therapeutic agent with respect to B cell function appears reasonable.…”
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Functional outcome and quality of life index after endonasal versus external dacryocystorhinostomy by Rashmi A Dave, Suryasnata Rath, Devjyoti Tripathy, Samir Mahapatra, Mohd Hasnat Ali

“…When longitudinally followed over time, functional outcome and QOL index showed reasonably rapid and marked improvement in both groups after surgery compared to baseline scores. …”
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Settlement Behavior of Soft Subgrade Reinforced by Geogrid-Encased Stone Column and Geocell-Embedded Sand Cushion: A Numerical Analysis by Jia-Jun Gao, Hui Xu, Jian-Wen Qian, Yi-Fan Gong, Liang-Tong Zhan, Ping Chen

“…The simulating settlement was in good agreement with the field monitoring data, indicating the reasonability of the designed model and adopted parameters. …”
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Simulating the Tone River eastward diversion project in Japan carried out 4 centuries ago by J. Trošelj, J. Trošelj, N. Hanasaki

“…First, we confirmed that our modeling framework reasonably reproduced the present river flows by adding two present-day bifurcation functions. …”
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Learning-based pattern-data-driven forecast approach for predicting future well responses by Yeongju Kim, Baehyun Min, Alexander Sun, Bo Ren, Hoonyoung Jeong

“…Among these methods, LPFA provided the most accurate predictions for future well responses and reasonable uncertainty intervals, achieving an error of 2.3%. …”
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Serum assisted PD-L1 aptamer screening for improving its stability by Yu Zhou, Haozhe Zhang, Yujing Ding, Changyuan Yu, Hao Li

“…Furthermore, defatted and deproteinized serum were used to investigate the potential reasons for the improved stability of Apt-S1. The results hinted that the pre-adaptation to nucleases present in serum during the selection process might have contributed to its higher stability. …”
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Quality Assurance System Using Statistical Process Control: An Implementation for Image Cytometry by David Chiu, Martial Guillaud, Dennis Cox, Michele Follen, Calum MacAulay

“…Comparability among the four systems is reasonably good. Semi‐annual measurements have shown stable camera linearity. …”
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Benthic Marine Diatom Flora (Bacillariophyta) of Yap, Micronesia: Preliminary Annotated List, with Some New Mangrove Species by Christopher S. Lobban, Bernadette G. Tharngan

“…Floristic studies of benthic diatoms are limited partly by the shortage of taxonomic studies, and we present the taxa for which we can make reasonable arguments for identification, supporting light microscopy with scanning electron micrographs whenever possible. …”
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A harmonic model validation methodology for power generation units based on voltage-current phasor characteristic by Kia Malekian Boroujeni, Farhad Safargholi, Kaveh Malekian

“…The particular advantage of this methodology is the interpretability of its results for the diagnosis of possible reasons for the invalidity in the models. In the case of having an invalid harmonic model, the proposed methodology could give the model developers some valuable hints for improving their models. …”
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Semi-Active Suspension Design for an In-Wheel-Motor-Driven Electric Vehicle Using a Dynamic Vibration-Absorbing Structure and PID-Controlled Magnetorheological Damper by Kyle Samaroo, Abdul Waheed Awan, Sheikh Islam

“…This study provides further confidence to manufacturers to commercially develop and implement the IWM layout as its major disadvantage can be reasonably addressed using a simple readily available control approach.…”
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Plant breeders' rights by Lončar Gordana

“…In this connection the expressions: "reasonable opportunity" "unauthorized use" are also clarified. …”
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Optimization of Electromagnetic Parameters for the 3rd-generation FC MOLD by Duan　Fuchun, Wang　Yuping, Zhu　Zhiqiang

“…In the compound mode of stirring and braking， the precision of liquid level was controlled within ± 3 mm， exceeding 95%. The reasonable range of surface flow velocity of molten steel in the mold reached 80% in the range of 0.2 m/s-0.4 m/s. …”
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Study on Flow Structure Characteristics Along the Latticework Duct Subchannels and Classification Boundary Prediction by Minlong Li, Huishe Wang, Ke Yang, Rongguo Yu, Jingze Ton

“…To reasonably divide the types of flow units along the latticework subchannel, one must prepare for the establishment of a one-dimensional fluid network model of the latticework in the middle region of the turbine blade. …”
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Machine learning-random forest model was used to construct gene signature associated with cuproptosis to predict the prognosis of gastric cancer by Xiaolong Liu, Pengxian Tao, He Su, Yulan Li

“…Abstract Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common tumors; one of the reasons for its poor prognosis is that GC cells can resist normal cell death process and therefore develop distant metastasis. …”
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Mechanical-Chemical-Mineralogical Controls on Permeability Evolution of Shale Fractures by Yunzhong Jia, Yiyu Lu, Jiren Tang, Yi Fang, Binwei Xia, Zhaolong Ge

“…The experimental observations imply that (1) CO2-rich aqueous fluids have significant impact on the evolution of fracture permeability and may influence (and increase) shale gas production; (2) shale mineralogy, especially calcite mineral, decides the chemical reaction and permeability increasing when CO2-rich aqueous fluids flow through fractures by free-face dissolution effect; (3) clay mineral swelling reduces fracture aperture and additively calcite pressure solution removes the bridging asperities, which are the main reasons for fracture permeability decrease; (4) competition roles among clay mineral swelling, mineral pressure solution, and free-face dissolution determine how fracture permeability changes. …”
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Colon Cancer Genetic and Epigenetic Changes, Etiopathogenesis, Risk Factors, Treatment: Literature Review by Gabrielė Ūbaitė, Aurelija Remeikaitė, Justas Žilinskas

“…Recent years have witnessed an increase in the incidence of CRC. The main reasons are ageing population, increased consumption of processed food, obesity, genetic predispositions. …”
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Trabajo asociado y tecnología: reflexiones a partir del contexto y de la experiencia de las Incubadoras Tecnológicas de Cooperativas Populares en Brasil by Pedro Claudio Cunca Bocayuva

“…At the political level, the article suggests that the project provides access to rights and a space to experiment different institutional forms. For these reasons, the ITPCs serve as modes of knowledge production, fabrication, transmission and application of processes, products and tools, that are critical of those produced by the capitalist system.…”
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