Experimental Study on Interfacial Area Transport of Two-Phase Flow under Vibration Conditions by Xiu Xiao, Qingzi Zhu, Shao-Wen Chen, Mamoru Ishii, Yajun Zhang, Haijun Jia

“…In the void fraction and IAC profiles, the peak near the inner wall is weakened or even disappearing and a strong peak skewed to outer wall is gradually observed with the increase of vibration frequency. …”
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Reproductive Strategy of Labeobarbus batesii (Boulenger, 1903) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Mbô Floodplain Rivers of Cameroon by Claudine Tekounegning Tiogué, Minette Tabi Eyango Tomedi, Joseph Tchoumboué

“…The sex ratio was female skewed (overall sex ratio: 1 : 1.42). Females reach sexual maturity at a larger size (213 mm) than the males (203 mm). …”
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Structural Characterization of Prosopis africana Populations (Guill., Perrott., and Rich.) Taub in Benin by Towanou Houètchégnon, Dossou Seblodo Judes Charlemagne Gbèmavo, Christine Ajokè Ifètayo Nougbodé Ouinsavi, Nestor Sokpon

“…The diameter distribution and height observed at the theoretical Weibull distribution show that the diameter and height of the populations of the species are present in all positively skewed distributions or asymmetric left, a characteristic of single-species stands with predominance of young individuals or small diameters or heights.…”
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Numerical Investigation on Flapping Aerodynamic Performance of Dragonfly Wings in Crosswind by Chao Wang, Rui Zhang, Chaoying Zhou, Zhenzhong Sun

“…These may accelerate the lateral skewing of the dragonfly, and the increased rolling and pitching moments will further aggravate the instability of the dragonfly model. …”
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The BAMBOO method for correcting batch effects in high throughput proximity extension assays for proteomic studies by H. M. Smits, E. M. Delemarre, A. Pandit, A. H. Schoneveld, B. Oldenburg, F. van Wijk, S. Nierkens, J. Drylewicz

“…However, discrepancies between measurements, known as batch-effects, potentially skew downstream statistical analyses and increase the risks of false discoveries. …”
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HIV Progression Perturbs the Balance of the Cell-Mediated and Anti-Inflammatory Adaptive and Innate Mycobacterial Immune Response by Andrew R. DiNardo, Anna M. Mandalakas, Gugu Maphalala, Godwin Mtetwa, Temhlanga Mndzebele, Piluca Ustero, Makhosazana Hlatshwayo, Emily M. Mace, Jordan S. Orange, George Makedonas

“…As HIV disease progresses, both the adaptive and innate branches skew away from an inflammatory and towards anti-inflammatory phenotype.…”
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Study on the Effect of Radish Sprouts on Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Gut Microbial Diversity in Healthy Individuals by Ru Li, Xuehong Chen, Cong Shi, Yi Zhu

“…The results indicated that the gut microbiota produced a substantial amount of SCFA within 48 h of fermentation, with a right-skewed distribution across all groups. The addition of both digestates enhanced <i>Firmicutes</i> diversity, while <i>Bacteroidetes</i> and <i>Proteobacteria</i> diversity remained stable between the control and fresh sprout groups. …”
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Fire Model Test on Temperature Field in the Rescue Station of an Extralong Railway Tunnel by Yanhua Zeng, Kelin Liu, Yong Fang, Xianfu Zhang, Yun Bai

“…The results show that (a) the temperature distribution along the tunnel is stable without ventilation, the temperature is lowest when the fire occurs 50 m from the entrance; (b) the fresh air stirred up by fans promotes burning and increases the temperature; (c) the chimney effect causes the temperature field to skew in an uphill direction; (d) the opening of both fans in the adit makes the high-temperature zone to connect through; and (e) the temperature increase at the rescue station can be divided into four stages, and the response of different fire source positions to the opening of fans is not consistent. …”
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Alteration in the Cytokine Secretion of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells from Patients with Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia Contribute to Impaired Hematopoietic Supportive Activity by Hui Shi, Yingshao Wang, Rong Li, Wen Xing, Feng-Chun Yang, Jie Bai, Yuan Zhou

“…In addition, CMML-BMSCs led to a skewed differentiation of CB CD34+ cells favoring myeloid lineage compared with HD-BMSCs. …”
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Soil mesofauna diversity in agricultural systems of Slovenia using the QBS index and its modifications by Vid Naglič, Nataša Šibanc, Tine Grebenc, Irena Bertoncelj

“…In fruit production systems, the ratio of Collembola to Acarina differed from that of arable fields, skewing in favour of Collembola, possibly related to the use of copper-containing pesticides in organic orchards and systemic herbicides in IPM systems. …”
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ChestX-Transcribe: a multimodal transformer for automated radiology report generation from chest x-rays by Prateek Singh, Sudhakar Singh

“…This may result in underrepresentation of certain demographics or conditions not prevalent in those healthcare settings, potentially skewing model predictions when applied to more diverse populations or different clinical environments. …”
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‘Fission Chips’: An Activist’s View on Anti-Nuclear Activism in South Africa from the 1980s to the 21st Century by Mike Kantey

“…Evidence of the decisive role played by Eskom is presented, while we show how energy policy became implacably skewed in favour of nuclear power by means of a ‘policy-adjusted’ IRP2010, which became the unchallenged justification for the nuclear fleet. …”
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Lateral Quadratus Lumborum Block versus Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Study by Omar Sayed Fargaly, Maged Labib Boules, Mohamed Ahmed Hamed, Mohammed Abdel Aleem Abbas, Mohammed Ahmed Shawky

“…Statistical analysis was done with the 2-sample t-test, and Mann–Whitney U testing was utilized to compare medians for skewed end points. Qualitative data were introduced as numbers and percentages, and chi-squared testing was utilized to determine the significance. …”
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Change in angle of depressed medial tibial plateau following extra-articular mechanical realignment surgery in children with Blount’s disease who presented late for treatment by Zi Hao Phang, Mohammed Albaker, Roshan Gunalan, Adrian Yen Xian Lee, Aik Saw

“…Normally distributed data were analysed using Student’s t-test when comparing two groups or one-way analysis of variance when comparing more than two groups. Skewed data were analysed using Mann–Whitney test. …”
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EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE BASED ON BILATERAL FILTERING AND ITERATIVE THRESHOLD SELECTION ALGORITHM AND TRANSFER LEARNING FOR TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION by Milind PARSE, Dhanya PRAMOD

“…The TSIRS fails to recognize the traffic signs in challenging conditions such as skewed signboards, scratches on traffic symbols, discontinuous or damaged traffic symbols, etc. …”
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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

“…Yai’s writing, in other words,was an exercise in textural sculpture, akin to a furnace of skewed intellectual contestation, and a work of unyielding scribal architecture. …”
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Apoptotic Cell Death and the Proliferative Capacity of Human Breast Cancers by Gabriele A. Losa, Riccardo Graber

“…The DNA fragmentation had a left‐skewed frequency distribution and an overall median value of 1.64%, whilst the median %S‐phase fraction was 8%. …”
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Exploration Degree Bias: The Hidden Influence of Node Degree in Graph Neural Network-Based Reinforcement Learning by Peter Tarabek, David Matis

“…This phenomenon impacts exploration in RL, skewing it away from mid-degree nodes, potentially hindering the discovery of optimal policies. …”
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Efficient Handling of Data Imbalance in Health Insurance Fraud Detection Using Meta-Reinforcement Learning by Supriya Seshagiri, K. V. Prema

“…Data imbalance is one of the major challenges in health insurance fraud detection where the distribution of classes within the dataset is significantly skewed, leading statistical models to be biased toward the dominant class. …”
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Fusion of multi-scale attention for aerial images small-target detection model based on PARE-YOLO by Huiying Zhang, Pan Xiao, Feifan Yao, Qinghua Zhang, Yifei Gong

“…Moreover, the EMA-GIoU loss function is proposed to mitigate class imbalance and enhance robustness, particularly in scenarios characterized by skewed class distributions. Evaluation on the VisDrone2019 dataset indicates that PARE-YOLO achieves a 5.9% improvement in mean Average Precision (mAP) at a threshold of 0.5, compared to the original YOLOv8 model. …”
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