Influence of Vertical Facial Growth Pattern on Herbst Appliance Effects in Prepubertal Patients: A Retrospective Controlled Study by Maria Rita Giuca, Marco Pasini, Sara Drago, Leonardo Del Corso, Arianna Vanni, Elisabetta Carli, Antonio Manni

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Herbst on dental and skeletal structures and to evaluate possible influence of vertical facial growth patterns. …”
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A review of participatory modelling techniques for energy transition scenarios by Jair K.E.K. Campfens, Mert Duygan, Claudia R. Binder

“…Drawing on a comprehensive literature review and semi-structured interviews, we extract findings by evaluating participatory modelling techniques against criteria such as normative dimensions, non-linearity, actors and agency, uncertainty and emergence. …”
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Organizational Internal Factors and Sustainable Performance: A Serial Mediation Model by Faisal Ejaz, Sidra Abid, Aemin Nasir, Jorge Alberto Esponda-Pérez, Sarmad Ejaz, Md Billal Hossain

“…Data were collected through a structured questionnaire distributed among the employees of 350 SMEs operating in Pakistan’s different regions. …”
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Soft Lithography and Minimally Human Invasive Technique for Rapid Screening of Oral Biofilm Formation on New Microfabricated Dental Material Surfaces by Marta Alvarez-Escobar, Sidónio C. Freitas, Derek Hansford, Fernando J. Monteiro, Alejandro Pelaez-Vargas

“…In the present pilot study, microwell structures were microfabricated on the PDMS surface via soft lithography with a spacing of 5 µm. …”
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Binding Orientations and Lipid Interactions of Human Amylin at Zwitterionic and Anionic Lipid Bilayers by Zhenyu Qian, Yan Jia, Guanghong Wei

“…We find that the adsorption of hIAPP to POPC bilayer is mainly initiated from the C-terminal region and the peptide adopts a helical structure with multiple binding orientations, while the adsorption to POPG bilayer is mostly initiated from the N-terminal region and hIAPP displays one preferential binding orientation, with its hydrophobic residues exposed to water. hIAPP monomer inserts into POPC lipid bilayers more readily than into POPG bilayers. …”
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Energy Management System for Smart Grid in the Presence of Energy Storage and Photovoltaic Systems by Alireza Kermani, Amir Mahdi Jamshidi, Zahra Mahdavi, Amir ali Dashtaki, Mohammad Zand, Morteza Azimi Nasab, Tina Samavat, P. Sanjeevikumar, Baseem Khan

“…Due to the unpredictable behavior of renewable resources, it is necessary to use energy storage resources in the microgrid structure. The power generation source and the storage source in microgrids should be selected in such a way that it has the ability to respond to the maximum demand in the state connected to the grid and operate independently. …”
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Prediction of old goaf residual subsidence integrating EDS-InSAR with EsLSTM in the Loess Plateau, China by Fei Ma, Fei Ma, Qingbin Zhang, Lichun Sui

“…In China, the Loess Plateau’s fragile geological structure leads to complex and variable surface subsidence in old gob areas following coal mining activities. …”
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Survivors’ Narratives of the Oklahoma City Bombing Retold Seven Years Post-Disaster by Elizabeth W. Pollio, Samir Abu-Hamad, Jennifer Wang, Carol S. North, David E. Pollio

“…<b>Results:</b> The thematic content of the bombing experience was structured in a chronological fashion from the bomb blast (sensory, cognitive, and emotional), its immediate aftermath (e.g., escaping danger), and later experiences, (e.g., leaving the bomb site and receiving hospital treatment). …”
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Psychometric properties of the Stress Coping Scale Brief-COPE 28 in a Peruvian population by Neicer Joel Delgado-Requejo, Julio Cesar Castillo Ramos, Lourdes Carolina Cerda Sánchez

“…In terms of internal structure, the four-factor model obtained a good fit SB-χ²/gl=1.836; CFI=0.92; TLI=0.90, SRMS=0.09 and RMSEA=0.10. …”
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Clerodendrum trichotomum Thunb.: a review on phytochemical composition and pharmacological activities by Linzhen Li, Linzhen Li, Linzhen Li, Zhiyi Tang, Zhiyi Tang, Shengjia Xiao, Shengjia Xiao, Xiangjie Dai, Xiangjie Dai, Yutong Wang, Yutong Wang, Xi Wei

“…A total of 164 secondary metabolites were isolated from C. trichotomum, and their structural types were mainly terpenoids, flavonoids, steroids, phenylpropanoids and phenylpropanoid glycosides, phenylethanosides, phenolic glycosides, anthraquinones, polyketones, cyclohexylethanoids, alkaloids and acid amides. …”
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Nitrogen Sorptiometric Study of Phosphation and Dispersion of Lanthanum(III) Oxide on Alumina Catalysts by Gamal A.H. Mekhemer, Ali F. Bukhzam, Amal S. El-Towaty, Mohamed I. Zaki

“…The results suggested that lanthanum(III) oxide loadings up to 30 wt% exist as high-dispersion two- and three-dimensional structures on the surface of alumina that are not XRD-detectable (particle size < 2 nm). …”
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) in Iranian university students and clinical samples by Mojtaba Elhami Athar, Olivier F. Colins, Sadeghi Dehcheshmeh Edris, Morteza Azizi, Ali Ebrahimi

“…This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian TriPM in university students (n = 941, aged 18–67, Mage = 28.36, SD = 9.09; 39.1 % male) and a male clinical sample (n = 188, aged 18–65, Mage = 35.05, SD = 10.75) in Iran. Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) supported the original three-factor model only in the clinical sample, though with notable instances of poor item functioning (e.g., low loadings and high cross-loadings). …”
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Cardiac cycle: an observational/interventional study protocol to characterise cardiopulmonary function and evaluate a home-based cycling program in children and adolescents born ex... by Jeanie L Y Cheong, Michael M H Cheung, Melanie M Clarke, Jonathan P Mynard, Claire E Willis

“…Cardiopulmonary function assessed via measures of blood pressure, arterial stiffness, capillary density, peak oxygen consumption, lung clearance indexes and ventricular structure/function, will be compared with 58 age-matched and sex-matched term-born controls at baseline and post intervention. …”
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Dynamics of phase separation from holography by Maximilian Attems, Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Miguel Zilhão

“…We numerically solve Einstein’s equations to follow the evolution, in which we identify four generic stages: a first, linear stage in which the instability grows exponentially; a second, non-linear stage in which peaks and/or phase domains are formed; a third stage in which these structures merge; and a fourth stage in which the system finally relaxes to a static, phase-separated configuration. …”
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ID-UNet: A densely connected UNet architecture for infrared small target segmentation by Diankun Chen, Feiwei Qin, Ruiquan Ge, Yong Peng, Changmiao Wang

“…Additionally, the UNet structure parameters were compressed, reducing the parameters by 81% compared to the traditional UNet configuration. …”
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Intra- and Extracranial MR Venography: Technical Notes, Clinical Application, and Imaging Development by M. Paoletti, G. Germani, R. De Icco, C. Asteggiano, P. Zamboni, S. Bastianello

“…In the last few decades, the MRI venography (MRV) field has developed a number of valuable sequences to better investigate structural anatomy, vessel patency, and flow characteristics of venous drainage in the intra- and extracranial systems. …”
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Evaluating the Functionality of a Field-Based Test Battery for the Identification of Risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: An Exploratory Factor Analysis by Charis Tsarbou, Nikolaos I. Liveris, Sofia A. Xergia, George Papageorgiou, Vasileios Sideris, Giannis Giakas, Elias Tsepis

“…This study investigates the interrelationships between elements of an experimental field-based test battery during pre-season assessment (PA), with the purpose of enhancing comprehension of the underlying structure of the assessed variables and suggesting guidelines for the tests incorporated in a PA. (2) Methods: Sixty-two professional football athletes performed a PA, including isometric muscle strength, triple hop and core stability tests, the LESS, and evaluation of landing performance through kinetic and electromyographic data. (3) Results: For the dominant lower limb, the factor analysis resulted in six factors, explaining 79.04% of the variance including core stability, ground reaction forces, dynamic balance, hamstrings strength, quadriceps–hamstring EMG ratio, and quadriceps performance. …”
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A Multiplier-Less Discrete Cosine Transform Architecture Using a Majority Logic-Based Approximate Full Adder by Elham Esmaeili, Farshad Pesaran, Nabiollah Shiri

“…This paper proposes a new approximate full adder (FA) based on the majority logic (ML) concept. The fundamental structure of the ML concept is a 3-input majority voter and is widely utilized in digital arithmetic cells. …”
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High-resolution tumor marker detection based on microwave photonics demodulated dual wavelength fiber laser sensor by Jie Hu, Weihao Lin, Liyang Shao, Chenlong Xue, Fang Zhao, Dongrui Xiao, Yang Ran, Yue Meng, Panpan He, Zhiguang Yu, Jinna Chen, Perry Ping Shum

“…Compared with traditional wavelength domain analysis, the demodulation resolution is improved by three orders of magnitude, based on the same sensing structure. To validate its biosensing performance, carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 5 (CEACAM5) is selected as the detection target. …”
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Influence of surfactant type on the microstructure, mechanical and thermal properties of phenolic foams by Mohammad Hamid Shadnia, Sajad Rasouli, Mohammad Fasihi

“…All the surfactants created an open-cell morphology, except Tween80 with a semi-open-cell structure consisting of large cells and thicker cell wall thickness. …”
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