Nanomechanical characterization of soft nanomaterial using atomic force microscopy by Chi-Dat Lam, Soyeun Park

“…Chemical force microscopy, single-molecule force spectroscopy, and single-cell force spectroscopy are primary AFM methods that provide a comprehensive view of such properties through retract curve analysis.Furthermore, this paper, structured into key thematic sections, also reviews the exemplary application of AFM across multiple scientific disciplines. …”
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Didactic potential of metaphors used in medical discourse by Katarzyna Karska, Ewelina Prażmo

“…They enrich conceptualisation, structure the semantics of the message and serve a number of pragmatic functions, esp. in doctor to patient communication. …”
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Experimental study on in-situ simulation of rainfall-induced soil erosion in forest lands converted to cash crop areas in Dabie Mountains. by Gao Li, Tao Yang, Rui Chen, Haogang Dong, Feng Wu, Qinghua Zhan, Jinyan Huang, Minxuan Luo, Li Wang

“…Economic development in the Dabie Mountains of China has necessitated the conversion of vast tracts of forest land into economic crops, notably tea gardens and orchards, thereby disrupting soil structure and precipitating large-scale soil erosion. …”
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Pyriproxyfen, villain or good guy? A brief review by Andressa Pereira Cabral, Fabrício Pereira dos Santos Maia, D’Angelo Carlo Magliano, Jones Bernardes Graceli, Paula Soares, Eduardo Andrés Rios Morris, Leandro Miranda-Alves

“…Reductions in insect populations, induced by PPF, can disrupt food availability for higher trophic levels, potentially destabilizing community structure and ecosystem equilibrium. Given mounting evidence of unintended consequences, robust risk assessment and regulatory oversight are imperative. …”
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SOCIOECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA by Immaculata NWOKORO, Taibat LAWANSON, Olufunke EBUEHI, Samson FADARE, John AGWU, Oluwole SOYINKA

“…It further advocates for an interface of the formalinformal governance structures in order to find a mutually beneficial solution to the hitherto almost neglected people of the informal squatter waterfront settlements of Port Harcourt waterside communities. …”
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Designing and validating an adaptation tool for endometriosis: an exploratory mixed method study protocol by Sanaz Mollazadeh, Nahid Marvi, Talat Khadivzadeh

“…The research will involve women of reproductive age diagnosed with endometriosis. In-depth and semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions will be conducted. …”
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Men’s views on factors contributing to their poor health-seeking behaviour in Limpopo Province, South Africa by Lazarros Chavalala, Tsakani Rachel Lebese, Lufuno Makhado

“…A qualitative descriptive design was used and individual semi-structured interviews were used to collect data in May and June 2024 from 21 men who were purposively selected. …”
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Topic Modeling of Nursing Issues in the Media During 4 Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemics in South Korea: Descriptive Analysis by Jungok Kim, Eun Kyoung Yun

“…The selected news articles were preprocessed then analyzed for text and structure using a 3-step keyword analysis method, latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling, and keyword network analysis. …”
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T形方颈单边螺栓连接梁柱节点抗弯承载力研究 by 王新华, 孙乐乐, 王培军

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圆钢管混凝土柱火灾升温试验及钢管温度计算方法 by 王紫珮, 楼国彪, 饶雯婷, 刘晓光, 鞠晓臣, 许清风

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预应力中空夹层钢管混凝土构件拉-压滞回性能试验研究 by 王宇航, 徐浩然, 周绪红, 金开元, 毛捷

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Taking into account students' psychotypes and using their neuropsychological maps when implementing digital educational technologies within the Metaverse by Galiya Ldokova, Svetlana Frumina, Suad Abdalkareem Alwaely

“…To determine the students' psychotype, the Questionnaire of Character Accentuations, the Methodology for Determining the Dominant Hemisphere of the Brain and the Type of Interhemispheric Asymmetry, the Methodology for Diagnosing the Volitional Potential of an Individual, the Individual-Typological Questionnaire, and the Methodology for Determining the Structure of Temperament were used. The results of the psychodiagnostic testing were compared with the data of electroencephalography (EEG) neuroimaging. …”
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Teaching Academic English to Russian-speaking Academic Staff: The Case of the Office of Academic Writing by M. A. Chernysheva, A. O. Kozlova, E. V. Donova

“…Upon completion of these programs, authors of scientific papers gain knowledge about the basics of academic writing, the structure of a scientific paper, the English scientific style and its lexical and grammatical features, as well as editing a paper, working with scientific citation databases, and elaborating a publishing strategy. …”
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PROBLEMS OF DIPLOMACY IN THE PROCESS OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION by A. A. Durdyyeva

“…The Union State of Russia and Belarus and Organization of the Collective Security Treaty associations played a particular role in structuring the EAU. Today the establishment of the Union has become one of the defining trends of Russian policy. …”
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国产Q460高强钢焊接T形截面残余应力分布试验研究 by 熊晓莉, 王田, 谌磊

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ED‐ConvLSTM: A Novel Global Ionospheric Total Electron Content Medium‐Term Forecast Model by Guozhen Xia, Fubin Zhang, Cheng Wang, Chen Zhou

“…Abstract In this paper, we proposed an innovative encoder‐decoder structure with a convolution long short‐term memory (ED‐ConvLSTM) network to forecast global total electron content (TEC) based on the International GNSS Service (IGS) TEC maps from 2005 to 2018 with 1‐hr time cadence. …”
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Credit Rating Model of Small Enterprises Based on Optimal Discriminant Ability and Its Empirical Study by Zhanjiang Li, Lin Guo

“…Based on this principle, a nonlinear optimization model for credit rating division of small enterprises is built, and the approximate solution of the model is solved by a recursive algorithm with strong reproducibility and clear structure. The small enterprise credit rating division not only satisfies the principle that the higher the credit grade, the lower the default loss rate, but also satisfies the principle that the credit group of small enterprises matches the credit grade, with credit data of 3111 small enterprises from a commercial bank for empirical analysis. …”
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混合联肢部分外包组合剪力墙-钢连梁刚接节点极限承载力研究 by 陈锘, 石韵, 苏明周, 贺小刚

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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

“…Methods We applied a qualitative descriptive approach to explore physicians’ experiences and bioethical distinctions in providing MAiD and WLT. Results Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 physicians, and the transcripts were thematically analyzed to identify common patterns and divergences in their perspectives. …”
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Knowledge and willingness towards malaria vaccines among caregivers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Felista Mwingira, Deokary Matiya, Frank Chacky

“…In total, 293 caregivers attending Ante-Natal Clinics (ANC) in selected health facilities in Dar es Salaam were recruited. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect caregivers’ demographic information, knowledge of malaria, knowledge of malaria vaccines and willingness to receive malaria vaccines. …”
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