Using drinking data and pharmacokinetic modeling to calibrate transport model and blind deconvolution based data analysis software for transdermal alcohol biosensors by Zheng Dai, I.G. Rosen, Chuming Wang, Nancy Barnett, Susan E. Luczak

“…Alcohol researchers/clinicians have two ways to collect subject /patient field data, standard-drink self-report and the breath analyzer, neither of which is passive or accurate because active subject participation is required. …”
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Socio-economic benefits and challenges confronting oil palm production among indigenous rural farmers in Karonga district, Malawi by Noel Mweta, Alex Somuah Obeng, John Windie Ansah

“…Again, the Pearson correlation analysis between acres of land cultivated and benefits from oil palm production revealed −0.195 with a sig value of 0.000, signifying that as more acres of land farmers cultivate, benefits tend to reduce moderately. The researchers therefore recommended that the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture should collaborate with other stakeholders in the agriculture sector, including financial institutions and the manufacturing industry, in the provision of extension services as a means of information access, creating the market, and providing credits to indigenous rural farmers so that they can invest and buy equipment necessary for this agricultural activity.…”
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Lung cancer classification with Convolutional Neural Network Architectures by Shivan H. M. Mohammed, Ahmet Çinar

“…One of the DL approaches that have used is Transfer Learning (TL) to eliminate training costs from scratch and to train for deep learning with small training data. Nowadays, researchers have been trying various deep learning techniques to improve the efficiency of CAD (computer-aided system) with computed tomography in lung cancer screening. …”
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3D Printed Multi‐Cavity Soft Actuator with Integrated Motion and Sensing Functionalities via Bio‐Inspired Interweaving Foldable Endomysium by Zhonggui Fang, Shaowu Tang, Yinyin Su, Xiaohuang Liu, Sicong Liu, Juan Yi, Zheng Wang, Jian S. Dai

“…Abstract The human muscle bundle generates versatile movements with synchronous neurosensory, enabling human to undertake complex tasks, which inspires researches into functional integration of motions and sensing in actuators for robots. …”
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A strategy for controlling Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: inhibition of ClpV expression by Wenke Liu, Dan Wang, Qiangxing He, Shiwen Cao, Jiaxin Cao, Huajie Zhao, Junwei Cui, Fan Yang

“…Therefore, exploring some new drugs or strategies for treating hvKP infection is an urgent issue for scientific researchers. In the present study, the clpV gene deletion strain of hvKP (ΔclpV-hvKP) was constructed using CRISPR-Cas9 technology, and the biological characteristics of ΔclpV-hvKP were investigated to explore the new targets for controlling this pathogen. …”
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Structuring and restructuring COVID-19 Intensive Care Units: a systematic review by Luis Fernando Reis Macedo, Kenya Waléria de Siqueira Coelho Lisboa, Thais Rodrigues de Albuquerque, Alexandre Pazetto Balsanelli, Sarah De Lima Pinto, Izabel Cristina Santiago Lemos de Beltrão, Gyllyandeson de Araujo Delmondes

“…The results were exported to the Rayyan software for subsequent screening and blind selection by two independent researchers as well as for assessing the risk of bias and individual methodological quality of selected studies. …”
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Adaptive Gain Control Method of a Phase-Locked Loop for GNSS Carrier Signal Tracking by Zhibin Luo, Jicheng Ding, Lin Zhao

“…Adaptive loop noise bandwidth techniques proposed by previous researches can improve PLL tracking behavior to some extent. …”
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ICT and agriculture in India by Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Rico Lie, Pierre Grard

“…OSCAR was evaluated through extensive interactions with farmer groups, extension personnel, IT specialists, NGO and UN staff, government officials, scientific researchers and PhD students in various disciplines and MSc students from various programs in all the four IGP countries. …”
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The Convergence of AI and animal-inspired robots for ecological conservation by Naqash Afzal, Mobeen ur Rehman, Lakmal Seneviratne, Irfan Hussain

“…By harnessing the capabilities of AI-driven animal robots, researchers can gain a multifaceted toolkit to explore and understand the behaviors, communication patterns, and ecological roles of various species. …”
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Transformer enabled multi-modal medical diagnosis for tuberculosis classification by Sachin Kumar, Shivani Sharma, Kassahun Tadesse Megra

“…Abstract Recently, multimodal data analysis in medical domain has started receiving a great attention. Researchers from both computer science, and medicine are trying to develop models to handle multimodal medical data. …”
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A New Approach to the Economic Problem of Dumping based on Game Theory with Grey Parameters by Davood Darvishi Selokolayi, Samira Heydari Gorji

“…Originality/Value: Game theory is one of the applied fields that has grown in decision-making and economics and has attracted the attention of many researchers. Utilizing this theory can help the current knowledge about the further application of this theory in the country's economic conditions.…”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. The database is constructed from the 2010 release of the Antwerp COR*-historical demographic database, which was created using a letter sample of the whole district of Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). …”
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Why is it problematic for technicians to say they teach in higher education? by Tim Savage, Kelly Vere

“…Writing from their experiences as technicians and educational researchers within the creative arts (Savage) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) (Vere), the authors question why many technicians feel unable to describe their teaching activities as teaching, calling for greater recognition of technicians’ pedagogic contribution to the sector, while also arguing that through the activities of teaching, the boundaries between academic and technical roles have become increasingly blurred.   …”
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Exhaust Emissions and Physicochemical Properties of Hydrotreated Used Cooking Oils in Blends with Diesel Fuel by Iraklis Zahos-Siagos, Dimitrios Karonis

“…The final product, usually referred to as “paraffinic diesel,” is a high cetane number, clean burning biofuel which is rapidly gaining popularity among researchers and the industry. Nevertheless, the costly isomerization step can be omitted if normal paraffins are to be directly mixed with conventional diesel in low concentrations. …”
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Ciudadanía sexual: género y sexualidad en universidades públicas mexicanas by Adriana Leona Rosales Mendoza, Aymara Flores Soriano

“…Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with teacher-researchers of higher education institutions in Mexico City and the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Chiapas and Yucatan.…”
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CAPITAL INFLOWS, FINANCIAL DEEPENING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS: THE MISSING LINK by Amassoma Ditimi, Azeez Oluwatobiloba

“… The purpose of this study was to investigate direct effects of capital inflow, financial deepe-ning on economic growth in Nigeria due to diverse contentions it stirred among researchers from 1981 to 2018 using the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) co-integration approach. …”
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Color Variability of Cosmopolitan Beetles in Mindanao, Philippines by Ernel Bagbag, Mark Anthony J. Torres, Cesar G. Demayo

“…However, studying these patterns poses challenges, given the intricate nature of colors in the natural world. While past researchers have explored beetle color patterns, quantifying colors requires costly equipment and sophisticated software. …”
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Comparing the Urine Ketone Strip Test and the Handheld Ketone Meter to Diagnose Ketosis in Early Lactation Dairy Cows by Klibs N. Galvão, Achilles Vieira Neto, Gustavo Peña, Joao Bittar, Lucas Ibarbia

“…Measuring BHBA in serum or plasma is considered the gold standard diagnostic test for subclinical ketosis, because this method has stability, but the price for ketone strips is approximately $0.08/strip while the price for the electronic BHBA measuring system is approximately $1.00. UF/IFAS researchers conducted a study to compare the two, using 72 Holstein cows between 14–40 days in milk from three dairy farms in north-central Florida with 450–800 lactating dairy cows. …”
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Continuous electrocoagulation treatment of chromium from tannery wastewater in a cylindrical column by Nahid M. Genawi, Nafis Mahmud, Elfatih A. Hassan, Muftah H. El-Naas

“…Discharging tannery wastewater into the water resources can lead to several environmental implications due to its high chromium and pollutants content, adversely affecting both aquatic and human life. Consequently, researchers are focusing on the development of efficient treatment methods for post-tanning effluents with the target of removing chromium to alleviate this pollution problem. …”
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SPREAD OF LOW PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA А/Н9N2 IN THE WORLD AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION. CHALLENGES OF DISEASE ERADICATION by M. S. Volkov, A. V. Varkentin, V. N. Irza

“…In spite of the availability of specific prevention, the opinions of the researchers divided between its opponents and proponents. …”
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