Investigation on Mechanical Properties and Reaction Characteristics of Al-PTFE Composites with Different Al Particle Size by Jia-xiang Wu, Xiang Fang, Zhen-ru Gao, Huai-xi Wang, Jun-yi Huang, Shuang-zhang Wu, Yu-chun Li

“…The microstructure of selected specimens was anatomized through adopting a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to correlate the mesoscale structural characteristics to their macroproperties. …”
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From shadowing to active learning: exploring the impact of supervised teaching clinics on gynecology education by Sangsang Ren, Hong Zhan, Asanga Fernando, Asanga Fernando, Xiangrong Xu, Weiguo Lu

“…Tutors and patients provided positive feedback, noting the STC’s role in fostering effective student-patient interactions and comprehensive learning.ConclusionThe structured design of the STC, with a focus on goal direction, relationships, and supporting services, significantly improved educational outcomes in gynecology. …”
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Evaluation of the potential value of artificial intelligence (AI) in public health using fluoride intake as the example by Wei Wei, Tianshu Gu, Yanhong Cao, Shuqiu Sun, Dan Wei, Minghui Li, Alyce D. Fly, Weikuan Gu, Lan Yao, Dianjun Sun

“…The descriptions provided by ChatGPT on the effects of fluoride intake were comprehensive and well-structured. Six out of 8 answers were graded as excellent and the other 2 as good. …”
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Autophagy: An Overview of Molecular Mechanisms and Its Therapeutic Implications for Health and Disease by Hourolein Arab, Mohammad Reza Mofid, Mahboube Rahmati, Elahe Gharehkhani, Armin Mokhtariye, Mohammad Shokrzadeh

“…This process involves the formation of a structure known as the autophagosome, which sequesters damaged cellular components such as misfolded proteins and dysfunctional organelles. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Bump-Prone Coal with Different Porosities and Its Acoustic Emission-Charge Induction Characteristics under Uniaxial Compression by Xin Ding, Xiaochun Xiao, Xiangfeng Lv, Di Wu, Jun Xu

“…Discreteness of mechanical property affected by the intimal damage, which emerged with various degrees of material composition and geological structure, is the difference in porosity macroscopically. …”
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Signatures of lower respiratory tract microbiome in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia using shotgun metagenomic sequencing by Ting-Yu Yen, Ching Hsu, Ni-Chung Lee, Chao-Szu Wu, Hsin Wang, Kuan-Yi Lee, Chia-Ray Lin, Chun-Yi Lu, Mo-Li Tsai, Tzu-Yu Liu, Che Lin, Chien-Yu Chen, Luan-Yin Chang, Feipei Lai, Li-Min Huang

“…There were significant differences in microbial community structure between different severity groups, and microbial abundance was negatively correlated with disease severity. …”
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Quad-Band 3D Rectenna Array for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting by Fatima Khalid, Warda Saeed, Nosherwan Shoaib, Muhammad U. Khan, Hammad M. Cheema

“…A dual polarized cross-dipole antenna featuring asymmetric slots as well as central ring structure enables multiband response and improved matching at the higher three frequency bands, whereas a loaded monopole wire antenna is used at the lower FM band. …”
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Rare-earth-induced peroxo-phosphotungstates: Enhanced proton conductivity in corresponding membranes by Qianqian Shang, Keqin Shen, Dongyan Zhao, Xiaoyue Wang, Yuting Wei, Haiying Wang, Guan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Jingyang Niu

“…However, although the original {P3W6(O2)6} building block remained, a completely new structure was achieved in these two lanthanide-based peroxo-POT derivatives that was induced by the rare-earth cations. 2D-Ln2 was composed of {P2W6(O2)4} polyanion units linked by replacing {PW3(O2)3} with {PW3(O2)2}, while 1D-Ln was composed of two symmetric {P2W3(O2)3} cores connected by rare-earth cations. …”
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An improved ShuffleNetV2 method based on ensemble self-distillation for tomato leaf diseases recognition by Shuiping Ni, Yue Jia, Mingfu Zhu, Mingfu Zhu, Yizhe Zhang, Wendi Wang, Shangxin Liu, Yawei Chen

“…The ensemble model, acting as the teacher, dynamically transfers knowledge to ShuffleNetV2 and the shallow models during training, significantly enhancing the performance of ShuffleNetV2 without changing the original structure.ResultsExperimental results show that the optimized ShuffleNetV2 achieves an accuracy of 95.08%, precision of 94.58%, recall of 94.55%, and an F1 score of 94.54% on the test set, surpassing large models such as VGG16 and ResNet18. …”
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Electron Push-Pull Effect of Benzotrithiophene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Hongguang Guo, Jiaqin He, Yixi Guo, Yunxi Chang, Haidong Ju, Yizhou Li

“…This study confirms that BTT-based COFs are a class of promising photocatalysts for the degradation of PPCPs in water, and their performance can be further optimized by tuning the structure and composition of the frameworks.…”
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To cool or not to cool: understanding and improving cooling centre use in metro vancouver through community-based participatory action research by Liv Yoon, Giulia Belotti, Rachel Stern, Katherine White, Aida Mohajeri, Abby Zhou, Eduardo Rosales Miranda, Erika Siao, Thanh Le, Jeff Masuda, Eun-young Lee, Chris Buse

“…Initially focused on cooling centres, our research expanded to include the complexities of individual and systemic responses to heat, highlighting the complex interplay between personal preferences and structural barriers. Key barriers to cooling centre usage reported by participants included concerns over safety, hygiene, stigma, lack of information, and infrastructural challenges such as transportation. …”
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Response of Plant Leaf Traits to Environmental Factors in Climax Communities at Varying Latitudes in Karst Regions by Gang Xie, Yang Wang, Zhifeng Chen, Yangyang Ji, Yao Lu, Yi Liang, Ruiyu Zhou, Juan Tao

“…Additionally, we examined the relationship between functional traits and environmental factors, integrating species characteristics and community structure into our analysis. The results indicated that (1) there were significant differences in both the community leaf aspect ratio and the community-specific leaf area. (2) Soil organic carbon content exhibited significant variations across different latitudes, while soil nitrogen content was notably higher in mid-latitude and low-latitude regions compared to high-latitude areas. …”
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The response of soil microbial community to application of organic amendment to saline land by Peifei Cong, Peifei Cong, Peifei Cong, Pengfei Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang

“…By conducting indoor potted plant experiments, determine the effects of applying microbial organic fertilizer on the physicochemical properties of soil and the structure of soil microbial communities under different salinity concentrations.ResultsCompared with the control, higher OM content, total N, and higher crop biomass were observed in samples with organic amendment at the same salinity level. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effects of Dynamic High Water Pressure on the Deformation Characteristics of Limestone by Dawen Tan, Heng Cheng, Chunyao Hou, Yanan Lei, Chenfang Jiang, Yuntian Zhao, Hongyi Zhang

“…Limestone was subjected to both external water pressure and internal pore water pressure in a cyclic cycle, where pore water pressure promotes pore creation and expansion, while external water pressure prevents water from degrading the pore structure. The periodic change of water pressure has a significant influence on rock mechanics and deformation behavior, and the rock mass will undergo elastic deformation, plastic deformation, and even fracture. …”
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iMESc – an interactive machine learning app for environmental sciences by Danilo Cândido Vieira, Danilo Cândido Vieira, Fabiana S. Paula, Luciana Erika Yaginuma, Gustavo Fonseca

“…We demonstrate iMESc’s flexibility with four workflows applied to a case study predicting nematode community structure based on environmental data. The classical statistical approaches, the Redundancy Analysis (RDA) and Piecewise RDA (pwRDA), explained 30.7% and 53%, respectively. …”
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Drought-induced stress on rainfed and irrigated agriculture: Insights from multi-source satellite-derived ecological indicators by Yanan Chen, Ying Wang, Chaoyang Wu, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Meihong Fang, Li Yao, Guihua Liu, Qiuyi Xu, Lintao Chen, Xuguang Tang

“…Our study revisited the spatio-temporal evolution of record-breaking drought event of 2012 in the continental United States by using a 3-month Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI3), and analyzed the impacts of such drought based on three satellite-based ecological metrics, including structural metric (LAI) and physiological metrics (GPP, GOSIF) across the irrigated and rainfed croplands, respectively. …”
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Angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibition versus individualized RAAS blockade: design and rationale of the PARALLAX trial by Rolf Wachter, Sanjiv J. Shah, Martin R. Cowie, Peter Szecsödy, Victor Shi, Ghionul Ibram, Ziqiang Zhao, Jianjian Gong, Sven Klebs, Burkert Pieske

“…Methods PARALLAX is a prospective, randomized, controlled, double‐blind multicentre clinical trial in patients with chronic symptomatic HF with EF >40%, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II–IV symptoms, elevated natriuretic peptides, and evidence of structural heart disease. Eligible patients are randomized to sacubitril/valsartan vs. …”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

“…The immune MNBs, immune Au@PtNCs, and bacterial samples were introduced into a novel passive microfluidic micromixer for full mixing, resulting in the formation of a double-antibody sandwich structure due to antigen–antibody immune reactions. …”
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A population genomics approach to unlock the genetic potential of lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet), an underutilized tropical forage crop by A. Teshome, E. Habte, J. Cheema, A. Mekasha, H. Lire, M. S. Muktar, J. Quiroz-Chavez, C. Domoney, C. S. Jones

“…The population genetic structure of the lablab accessions, based on ~ 500,000 informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), revealed an independent domestication pattern for two-seeded and four-seeded lablab accessions. …”
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Ossification Vesicles with Calcium Phosphate in the Eyes of the Insect Copium teucrii (Hemiptera: Tingidae) by Javier Garcia-Guinea, Alberto Jorge, Laura Tormo, Marta Furio, Elena Crespo-Feo, Virgilio Correcher, Pedro Prado-Herrero, Ana C. Soria, Jesus Sanz, Jose L. Nieves-Aldrey

“…A complete survey of Copium eye specimens was performed by ESEM using energy-dispersive spectroscopy, backscattered electron detector and cathodoluminescence (CL) probes, field emission scanning electron microscopy, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy in order to learn ommatidia features, such as chemical composition, molecular structure, cell membrane, and internal ommatidium eye fluids and calcium-phosphate distribution deposits. …”
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