A Novel Technique for Handwritten Signature Recognition by Leila Boucerredj, Karima Kechroud, Bouaziz Noureddine, Abderrahmane Khechekhouche

“…The proposed method was validated using two prominent datasets, MCYT-75 and GPDS-300, with detailed descriptions of the CNN structure. Experiments, conducted on a personal computer equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro M1200 GPU, an Intel i7 processor, and 32 GB of RAM, demonstrated the model’s exceptional performance, achieving validation accuracies of 99.60% on the MCYT-75 dataset and 99.80% on the GPDS-300 dataset. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Malay Version of the Planned Happenstance Career Inventory for Malaysian University Students by Ansarul Haq Tahrir Adli, Mohd Izwan Mahmud, Salleh Amat, Sheerad Sahid, Mohd Azrin Mohd Nasir

“…EFA yielded a five-factor structure consistent with the original PHCI: curiosity, risk-taking, persistence, optimism, and flexibility, with all factors demonstrating strong factor loadings (>.6) and explaining 80.276% of the total variance. …”
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Advancements in Superhydrophobic Paper-Based Materials: A Comprehensive Review of Modification Methods and Applications by Yin Tang, Shouwei Ban, Zhihan Xu, Jing Sun, Zhenxin Ning

“…The paper-based materials, leveraging their porous structure and flexibility, are modified to achieve superhydrophobicity, which broadens their application in oil–water separation, anti-corrosion, and self-cleaning. …”
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Synthesis of Functional Polyester Based on Polylactic Acid and Its Effect on PC12 Cells after Coupling with Small Peptides by Na Qiang, Shuo Tang, Xiang Liao, Hao Liang, Fang Xie, Ji-xiang Zhu

“…The copolymer P(LA-co-BMD) was then synthesized through ring-opening copolymerization of L-LA and BMD, with dodecanol as initiator and stannous octoate as catalyst. Copolymer structure was characterized by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analyses. …”
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A Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Related to Thalassemia: A Cross-Sectional Study Among University Students in Swat, Pakistan by Sumaia Saif, Mena Ibrahim, Murad Ali Rahat, Akhtar Rasool, Muhammad Israr

“…Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional KAP survey was done on university students of different departments using a structured questionnaire consisted of 37 questions. …”
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Lattice Stabilized and Emission Tunable Pure‐Bromide Quasi‐2D Perovskite for Air‐Processed Blue Light‐Emitting Diodes by Yangyang Guo, Penghui Yang, Fan Dong, Huixin Li, Jialiang Gao, Zeyi Cheng, Jiandong Wu, Yadong Xu, Hongyue Wang, Hongqiang Wang

“…The work pioneers a simple method of electronic structure engineering to tune the emission of air‐processed blue perovskite, breaking the limitations of thermodynamic stability and crystallization kinetics control of perovskite in ambient air.…”
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Selective Oxidation Using Flame Aerosol Synthesized Iron and Vanadium-Doped Nano-TiO2 by Zhong-Min Wang, Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, Ashraf Aly Hassan

“…The increase in the concentration of V and Fe reduced the crystalline structure and the anatase-to-rutile ratios of the synthesized TiO2. …”
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CYTOTOXIC EFFECT OF FREEZE DRIED BOVINE CARTILAGE POWDER AND PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP) TO MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL (MSCs) by Dwikora Novembri Utomo, Anthoni Yusbida

“…Attempts to repair articular cartilage using scaffold usually found many problems, lacks the physical structure and mechanical properties necessary to ensure long-term efficacy to cartilage defect. …”
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Personality Disorders in Persons with Gender Identity Disorder by Dragana Duišin, Borjanka Batinić, Jasmina Barišić, Miroslav L. Djordjevic, Svetlana Vujović, Marta Bizic

“…The assessment of PDs was conducted by application of the self-administered Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II PDs (SCID-II). …”
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Low-Resource Active Learning of Morphological Segmentation by Stig-Arne Grönroos, Katri Hiovain, Peter Smit, Ilona Rauhala, Kristiina Jokinen, Mikko Kurimo, Sami Virpioja

“… Many Uralic languages have a rich morphological structure, but lack morphological analysis tools needed for efficient language processing. …”
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Synthesis of Magnetic Composite Based on Vermiculite by G. Kurmangazhi, S.M. Tazhibayeva, Haoran Zhang, K.B. Musabekov, Z.A. Tattibayeva

“…Introducing magnetite particles into the vermiculite structure is substantiated by the appearance of its diffractogram of 2θ angle values characteristic of magnetite. …”
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Validation of preoperative predictor score for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy and a modified intraoperative grading score of the difficulty of laparascopic cholecystectomy:... by Nurhussen Mossa Ahmed, Surafel Mulatu Djote, Getachew Desta Alemayehu, Wondwossen Amtataw, Sitotaw Mossa Ahmed

“…There are total of 10 scores for preoperative predictor score and 16 scores for the modified intraoperative grading of LC. Structured checklist questionnaire was used. Result prevalence of difficult LC was 40%. age greater than or equal to 50years, history of admission for acute cholecystitis, BMI > 30, palpable GB, impacted stone on imaging, adhesion burying GB, time to identify cystic artery/duct, bile/stone spillage and type of ligature were statistically significantly factors for difficult laparascopic cholecystectomy. …”
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Parameterless-Growing-SOM and Its Application to a Voice Instruction Learning System by Takashi Kuremoto, Takahito Komoto, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Masanao Obayashi

“…To overcome problems existed in traditional SOM (Kohonen, 1982), kinds of structure-growing-SOMs or parameter-adjusting-SOMs have been invented and usually separately. …”
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Bilingual Education Programs in Primary Education: What Do Parents Think? by Martina Soledad Ramírez-Orduña, Daniel Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Batista-Espinosa, Laura Barboyon Combey

“…Therefore, the objective of this research is to determine parental opinions on bilingual (English-Spanish) programs used in schools in the monolingual Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 136 parents of students in the final stage of Elementary Education to gather their perceptions of bilingual education programs. …”
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Behavior of Listeria innocua Strains Under Pressure Treatment – Inactivation and Sublethal Injury by Justyna Nasiłowska, Barbara Sokołowska, Monika Fonberg-Broczek

“…The maximum level of sublethal injury was observed when the cells were suspended in a buffer pH 7.0. Structural damage in cell membranes after HHP processing was observed using a transmission electron microscope (TEM).…”
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Polarization bistability of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers under Larmor precession of electron spins by Nobuhide Yokota, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Satoshi Iba, Takeo Katayama, Hiroshi Yasaka

“…However, polarization bistability is considered inherent to the material properties and cavity structure of VCSELs, which makes it difficult to optimize the complex dynamics to achieve the best computational performance. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of In Vitro Antibacterial and Antitumor Activities of Novel N,N-Disubstituted Schiff Bases by Heng Luo, Yu-fen Xia, Bao-fei Sun, Li-rong Huang, Xing-hui Wang, Hua-yong Lou, Xu-hui Zhu, Wei-dong Pan, Xiao-dong Zhang

“…We used the reaction between salicylaldehyde and different diamine compounds, including diamine, ethanediamine, and o-phenylenediamine, determining the structure of obtained molecules by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy. …”
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Morphological Evidence for a Subpopulation Selection Effect by Estrogen and Antiestrogen Treatments in the Heterogeneous MCF-7 Cell Line by Jacqueline Palmari, France Wallet, Julien Berard, Yolande Berthois, Pierre Marie Martin, Christophe Dussert

“…The combination of cell count, cytomorphology, and cell organisation revealed the magnitude of the potential of structuration of hormones or antihormones on in vitro growing cells.…”
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Exploring the Interactions Between Caffeic Acid and Human Serum Albumin Using Spectroscopic and Molecular Docking Techniques by Ali Jahanban-Esfahlan, Leila Roufegarinejad, Mahnaz Tabibiazar, José M. Lorenzo, Ryszard Amarowicz

“…The results of fluorescence and UV–Vis spectroscopy showed that CA induced conformational changes in HSA structure. The distance of CA and the tryptophan residue of HSA, was determined to be ~2 nm by using Forster resonance energy transfer theory. …”
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Characterization of a thermally stable red-light-emitting phosphor: synthesis, photoluminescence, and thermoluminescence studies of CsCaF3 compound doped with Eu3+ for solid-state... by N. Hema, B. Chandrasekaran, R. Kameshwaran, M. Ammal Dhanalakshmi, V. Rathina Mala, G. Annadurai, K. Ganesh Kumar, M. Vimalan, Mohammed F. Albeshr

“…To analyze the crystal structure of the synthesized phosphors, X-ray diffraction analysis was employed. …”
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