Impact of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco on Salivary Flow Rate, pH Levels and Salivary Electrolytes by Syeda Sadia Hassan, Syed Hussain Askary, Syed Mohammad Ahmed Bukhari, Amir Akbar Shaikh, Syed Akbar Abbas Zaidi, Abubakar Abdullah, Hassan Shahid

“…Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted at community health centers, dental clinics, and public spaces in Hyderabad from January 2024 to July 2024. …”
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The Domestic Acoustic Environment in Online Education—Part 1: Differences by Gender, Perceived Academic Quality, and Self-Rated Performance by Virginia Puyana-Romero, Angela María Díaz-Márquez, Christiam Garzón, Giuseppe Ciaburro

“…The differences between the groups evaluated in pairs suggest that these aspects should be taken into account when designing domestic spaces and strategies to improve the quality of the acoustic environment for students.…”
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Annexin A2 Expression in Aerogenous Metastasis of Pulmonary Invasive Mucinous Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report including Immunohistochemical Analysis by Kazumori Arai, Masahide Hirose

“…In the primary site, ANX A2 immunopositivity on the cell-cell borders weakened as tumor cells projected and separated into alveolar spaces. In AM, tumor cell aggregates with ANX A2 immunopositivity near the surface and within the cytoplasm attached to alveolar epithelial cells, then engulfed them and formed a protrusion. …”
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Residual Stresses Characterisation of Hard Ceramic Coating (SiC-5wt%Al2O3) Using X-Ray Diffraction Technique by Samah R. Hassan, Mudhar. A. Al-Obaidi, Hamid M. Mahan, Konovalov Sergey

“…The diffraction angle, 2θ, is measured experimentally, and the lattice spacing is calculated using Bragg's Law using the measured diffraction angle and the known X-ray wavelength. …”
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Analysis and Dynamic Prediction of Bus Dwell Time Under Rainfall Conditions by Baoyun SUN, Yaping YANG, Lei DONG, Honglin LU, Zimin WANG

“…The Pearson correlation analysis method and SPSS software were used to reveal the degree of influence of parameters, such as the number of passengers boarding and alighting buses, rainfall level, number of berthing spaces, load rate and presence of signalised intersections, on the bus stop time under rainfall conditions. …”
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Photo-curing hyaluronic acid-Janus antibacterial packs as O2 generator precisely modulate the infectious microenvironment for antibiotic-free periodontal therapy by Runxiu Wei, Gaojie Li, Yuying Huang, Linjing Mi, Jiamin Wu, Huan Huang, Na Yin, Yuling Chen, Qiang Yang, Wenjun Zhang, Bingzhi Sun, Ran Sun, Ling Guo, Min Feng

“…Our results demonstrated that a 4 wt% precursor solution of the antibacterial packs could be molded into various shapes by exposure to UV irradiation for less than 1 min, allowing the packs to seamlessly fill the irregular spaces of periodontal pockets. In vitro studies showed that the antibacterial packs gradually released lauric acid and oxygen over 7 days, exhibiting significant anti-biofilm effects against both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. …”
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EXPLORING STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE IN SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Katleho Nolwandle MAFONGOSI, Bankole Osita AWUZIE, Alfred Atsango TALUKHABA

“… Although mixed performances have been documented in attempts by South African higher education institutions (HEIs) to integrate the ethos of sustainable development (SD) into their core activities, neglect of such integration in the management of built assets and spaces on their campuses has been observed. This prompted the introduction of the Green Campus Initiative (GCI) in South Africa in 2012, among other things. …”
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Magnetic Field Distribution and Energy Losses in a Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor Under Stick-Slip Friction by Paweł Olejnik, Yared D. Desta, Marcin Mydłowski

“…Numerical simulations using COMSOL Multiphysics evaluate the magnetic field and system geometry in two- and three-dimensional spaces. Key findings include mechanical stick-slip vibrations, numerical modeling of the linear drive, and comparative analysis of experimental and simulated inductor current variations. …”
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A deep learning ICDNET architecture for efficient classification of histopathological cancer cells using Gaussian noise images by Hui Zong, Wenlong An, Xin Chen, Zhanhui Yang, Heng Zhou, Xiangchao Liu, Jianchu Lin, Chuanyue Zong

“…This network structure solves internal communication issues and enriches contextual semantic information, extracting local features and global representations from different internal spaces. To evaluate the performance of the ICDNET network model, experiments were conducted on four major public datasets with the addition of Gaussian noise. …”
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Magnetic MXene/g-C3N4 nano catalyst for photocatalytic degradation of clindamycin contaminate in wastewater by Hadeel A. Abbas, Khalid K. Abbas, Ahmed M.H. Abdulkadhim Al-Ghaban

“…The study also observed the stability of the catalyst over four cycles, maintaining a removal level of > 58 %, highlighting its potential applications in water treatment processes by increasing the interlayer spacing, g-C3N4, and MXene combined to produce an excellent surface area with more active sites on their surface, which enhanced the transfer of electron/hole pairs and provided excellent degradation capacity.…”
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Prediction of Convective Storms at Convection-Resolving 1 km Resolution over Continental United States with Radar Data Assimilation: An Example Case of 26 May 2008 and Precipitatio... by Ming Xue, Fanyou Kong, Kevin W. Thomas, Jidong Gao, Yunheng Wang, Keith Brewster, Kelvin K. Droegemeier

“…For the first time ever, convection-resolving forecasts at 1 km grid spacing were produced in realtime in spring 2009 by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma. …”
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Study on the LES of Premixed Gas Flame Dynamics in a Weak Confinement Structure: The Influence of Continuous Obstacle Plates by X. Shao, J. Gao, B. Hao, B. Ai, Y. Han, Y. Wu, B. Guo

“…The layout of equipment and structures in underground utility tunnels has a significant impact on the safety of spaces. In this paper, experimental and simulation methods are combined to investigate the detonation characteristics of propane(C3H8)-air mixtures. …”
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How Color Properties Can Be Used to Elicit Emotions in Video Games by Erik Geslin, Laurent Jégou, Danny Beaudoin

“…We have observed a correlation between the RGB additives color spaces, HSV, HSL, and HSI components of video game images, presented to n=85 participants, and the emotional statements expressed in terms of arousal and valence, recovered in a subjective semantic questionnaire. …”
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Enhancing Rooftop Photovoltaic Segmentation Using Spatial Feature Reconstruction and Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation by Yu Xiao, Long Lin, Jun Ma, Maoqiang Bi

“…Rooftops, as underutilized spaces, are ideal locations for installing solar panels, avoiding the need for additional land. …”
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Structural Investigation of Chloride Ion-Containing Acrylate-Based Imidazolium Poly(Ionic Liquid) Homopolymers and Crosslinked Networks: Effect of Alkyl Spacer and N-Alkyl Substitu... by Mahmoud Al-Hussein, Lisa Ehrlich, Doris Pospiech, Petra Uhlmann

“…However, the large inter-backbone spacing achieved seems to limit the ionic conductivity of these PILs. …”
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Bilateral Peritonsillar Abscess in an Infant: An Unusual Presentation of Sore Throat by Mariana Manzoni Seerig, Letícia Chueiri, Janaina Jacques, Maria Fernanda Piccoli Cardoso de Mello, Martin Batista Coutinho da Silva, Daniel Buffon Zatt, Rosana Cristine Otero Cunha, Andre Souza de Albuquerque Maranhão

“…Bilateral peritonsillar abscess should be diagnosed and treated promptly and adequately to prevent respiratory obstruction and to avoid dissemination into the deep neck spaces.…”
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Experimental study and physical modeling of ceiling temperature distribution of fires in a large open-plan compartment with unilateral asymmetric openings by Xiaoyu Shan, Yuanzhou Li, Yong Jiang, Yong Hu

“…The previous classical models based on open confined spaces underestimated the maximum ceiling temperature, whereas the model relying on the virtual origins performed well. …”
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Multiple Scattering of P1 Waves by Arbitrarily Arranged Cavities in Saturated Soils by Miaomiao Sun, Huajian Fang, Xiaokang Zheng, Ru Zhang, Shimin Zhang, Lianying Zhou

“…The results clearly demonstrate optimum design proposals with rows of cavities: with the multiple scattering order increases, the displacement amplitude tends to converge and the deviation caused by subsequent scattering cannot be neglected; it will obtain higher calculation accuracy when the order of scattering is truncated at m=4; it is considered to select 2.5≤sp/as≤3.0 and 2.5≤h/as≤3.5, while designing cavity spacing and row-distance, respectively. The isolation properties of elastic waves with rectangular arrangement (counterpoint) are weaker than that with hexagonal arrangement (counterchanged) when the row-distance of barrier is uniform.…”
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CMT wire-arc additive manufacturing of 310 austenitic stainless steel: Microstructure-properties relationships by Ali Rahimi, Morteza Yazdizadeh, Masoud Vatan Ara, Majid Pouranvari

“…The geometry of the dendrites, including primary and secondary dendrite arm spacing, is influenced by variations in cooling rates both along the building direction and within each deposited layer, as well as by remelting phenomena occurring in the interlayer boundary zone. …”
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New Operational Matrix via Genocchi Polynomials for Solving Fredholm-Volterra Fractional Integro-Differential Equations by Jian Rong Loh, Chang Phang, Abdulnasir Isah

“…This is achieved by approximating the FIDE using Genocchi polynomials in matrix representation and using the collocation method at equally spaced points within interval [0,1]. This reduces the FIDE into a system of algebraic equations to be solved for the Genocchi coefficients of the solution f(x). …”
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