Patterns of Location and Other Determinants of Retail Stores in Urban Commercial Districts in Changchun, China by Feilong Hao, Yuxin Yang, Shijun Wang

“…First, the interaction between consumer behavior and location choice in retail stores promotes the evolution of retail formats and trends in the development of comprehensive, specialized, and hierarchical retail commercial spaces. Second, the retail format determines the spatial layouts and the historical inheritance of the format. …”
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Impact of lecture hall’s background noise on undergraduates’ higher order thinking skills: A field study by Nada Atef, Yasser Mansour, Hanan Sabry

“…Acoustics is recognized as a vital indoor environmental quality aspect having a significant impact over the learning performance of students inside learning spaces whether classrooms or large lecture halls. …”
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Prediction of BlastInduced Ground Vibration (BIGV) of Metro Construction Using Difference Evolution AlgorithmOptimized Gaussian Process (DE-GP) by Tengfei Jiang, Annan Jiang, Shuai Zheng, Mengfei Xu

“…In view of the fact that traditional blasting peak particle velocity (PPV) empirical formulas cannot be accurately predicted, this study selected 88 sets of blasting monitoring data, based on distance from the blast-face, maximum charge per delay, total charge, hole depth, spacing, burden, stemming length, and powder factor being used as input variables and PPV being used as output variable to characterize BIGV. …”
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Separable roles of the DNA damage response kinase Mec1ATR and its activator Rad24RAD17 during meiotic recombination. by Margaret R Crawford, Jon A Harper, Tim J Cooper, Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat, Bertrand Llorente, Matthew J Neale

“…Despite these differences, complex multi-chromatid events initiated by closely spaced DSBs-rare in wild-type cells-occur more frequently in the absence of either Rad24 or Mec1, suggesting a loss of spatial regulation at the level of DSB formation in both. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of pregnancy termination for childbearing women using the modified Poisson regression model: a cross-sectional study of the Tanzania Demographic and Hea... by Sizwe Vincent Mbona, Retius Chifurira, Bonginkosi Duncan Ndlovu, Anisha Ananth

“…In particular, women’s age, level of education, marital status, history of pregnancy losses, wealth status, attempt to delay or avoid getting pregnant outside the ideal birth spacing, and recent internet use, total children ever born, desire for more children, were significantly associated with pregnancy termination. …”
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Disturbed: Doing deep transformative work – Reflections on social justice work in South African higher education by Bernadette Johnson

“…Alternative dispute resolution, anti-discrimination, anti-bullying, diversity and inclusion in higher education has been the focus of my work over the past four years. Spaces in which I have immersed myself include transformation at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) with multiple stakeholders, transformation engagement across the South African higher education system with academics, leaders, and managers and the most recent and perhaps most prominent has been my participation in the University of Cape Town (UCT) Panel which was appointed by its Council at the end of 2022 to investigate governance failures at the university as well as my facilitation engagements in transformation at Stellenbosch University since 2023. …”
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Uremic Leontiasis Ossea due to Resistant Secondary Hyperparathyroidism by Kubra Tuna, MD, Olesya Ilkun, MD, PhD, Peter T. Dziegielewski, MD, Anu Sharma, MD

“…Physical examination revealed bony overgrowth in her upper jaw and hard palate, widely spaced teeth, and calcinosis cutis. Her parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcium, and phosphorus levels were 5066 pg/mL (normal range, 12-88 pg/mL); 10.0 mg/dL (8.4-10.2 mg/dL); and 5.4 mg/dL (2.7-4.5 mg/dL); respectively. …”
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Comportamiento a cortante en vigas de concreto reforzado con deterioro por corrosión en los estribos Shear strength behaviour on corrosión damaged stirrups of reinforced concrete b... by Bianca Guevara, César Juárez, Gerardo Fajardo, Pedro Castro-Borges

“…Two series of eight beam specimens were constructed, each series having a stirrup spacing distance of 150 and 200 mm. The beams are exposed under wetting/drying cycles, with a 3.5% NaCl solution. …”
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Spatial and hydrological analysis of the water supply system in as-Sila'/Sela (Tafila, Jordan) based on a 3D model by Roser Marsal, Jesús García-Carpallo

“…Through our analysis, we identified spaces for accessing, managing, and utilising available water resources, including settlement density and flooding zones. …”
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Étude tracéologique des bois de construction du port romain de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) by Frédéric Épaud

“…The numerous closely spaced semi-circular grooves preserved in the mortises suggest a manual machine with a toothed circular disc 0.48 m in diameter with a very rapid movement, characteristic of a circular saw. …”
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Short dentin etching with universal adhesives: effect on bond strength and gingival margin adaptation by Hoda Saleh Ismail, Hanan Ahmed Nabil Soliman

“…Abstract Background Short dentin etching, a relatively recent technique, aims to improve resin-dentin bonding by preserving hydroxyapatite crystals within the collagen spaces. This study explores short dentin etching’s potential in mitigating over-etching issues in deep proximal dentin/cementum margins, an aspect not previously investigated. …”
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Unlocking Potential Score Insights of Sentimental Analysis with a Deep Learning Revolutionizes by Ibrahim R. Alzahrani

“…The proposed model incorporates various text preprocessing techniques, such as removing extraneous elements like URLs, emojis, and blank spaces. Following preprocessing, tokenization is applied to break down the text into smaller components or tokens. …”
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Analysis of anthropogenic transformation of the hydrographic network in the northern part of Lviv according to cartographic sources by Ye. Іvanov, O. Pylypovych

“…The emergence of new and densification of existing urban spaces in Lviv leads to anthropogenic transformation of the hydrographic network. …”
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The Potential for Observing African Weather with GNSS Remote Sensing by Olalekan A. Isioye, Ludwig Combrinck, Joel O. Botai, Cilence Munghemezulu

“…The benefit of using spaced based GNSS radio occultation (RO) data for atmospheric sounding is highlighted and filling of geographical gaps from the station-based observation network with GNSS RO is also proposed.…”
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Biocompatibility of new cement based capping material prepared from eggshell and biopolymer (chitosan). by Hemn M. Sarmamy, Dara H. Saeed

“…Results: The histological preparation in control group at 7 days time period demonstrated simple inflammatory reaction represented by slight looseness of the collagen fibers with increase the extracellular spaces between the fibers indicating mild edematous inflammation. …”
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Soil chemical properties and growth response of Moringa oleifera to different sources and rates of organic and NPK fertilizers by A. G. Adebayo, H. A. Akintoye, A. O. Shokalu, M. T. Olatunji

“…Seeds were sown at 75 cm × 75 cm spacing. Data were taken on plant height (cm), stem girth (cm), number of leaves, leaf biomass, stems weight and post-planting soil properties. …”
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Condensed Aerosol Generators in Fire Safety of Buildings. Part 1 – Analysis of Normative and Legal Documents by Robart Śliwiński

“…However, unlike these detection and alarm systems, fire extinguishing systems based on condensed aerosol generators focus on providing an adequate level of protection for property, as they are dedicated to spaces that are not normally occupied. For this reason, emphasis is placed on the reliability of the generators, whose only task is to trigger appropriately at a specific time and fill the protected area with aerosol. …”
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A Novel Numerical Treatment to One Dimensional Heat and Wave Equations with Second Order Accuracy by Muhammad Abid, Muhammad Shahid

“…However, the solutions exhibit high sensitivity to time step size and grid spacing, indicating the vital need for careful parameter tuning. …”
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Existence of a weak solution to a regularized moving boundary fluid-structure interaction problem with poroelastic media by Kuan, Jeffrey, Čanić, Sunčica, Muha, Boris

“…The nonlinear coupling over the moving interface presents a major difficulty since both the fluid domain and the poroelastic medium domain are functions of time, and the finite energy spaces do not provide sufficient regularity for the corresponding weak formulation to be well-defined. …”
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Geometric Detail-Preserved Point Cloud Upsampling via a Feature Enhanced Self-Supervised Network by Shengwei Qin, Yao Jin, Hailong Hu

“…This module adjusts the spacing of reconstructed points, ensuring that they are neither too close nor too far apart, thus maintaining point uniformity. …”
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