A novel shell-and-tube heat exchanger design with alternative inclined baffles by Huy Minh Khoi Hoang, Hai-Lam Cao, Phuoc Minh Quang Pham, Ahmad Hajjar, Vu Linh Nguyen

“…The new exchanger is structured to overcome the weakness of single segmental baffles (SG-STHX) by achieving lower pressure drop and higher thermal efficiency. …”
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Metagenomic analysis of goat feces from Ogliastra (Sardinia, Italy) by Monica Rosaria Molotzu, Piera Angela Cabras, Lisa Di Marcantonio, Rossano Atzeni, Nicolò Pietro Paolo Macciotta, Antonella Canu

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Registered Nurses' Experience of Person‐Centred Care Through Digital Aids in Primary Care Setting During the COVID‐19 Pandemic by Annika Kjällman Alm, Ove Hellzen, Malin Rising‐Holmström

“…Methods Qualitative using semi‐structured interviews. Results Digitalisation requires organisational changes, with four subcategories. …”
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Tampered text detection via RGB and frequency relationship modeling by Yuxin WANG, Boqiang ZHANG, Hongtao XIE, Yongdong ZHANG

“…In recent years, the widespread dissemination of tampered text images on the Internet constitutes an important threat to the security of text images.However, the corresponding tampered text detection (TTD) methods have not been sufficiently explored.The TTD task aims to locate all text regions in an image while judging whether the text regions have been tampered with according to the authenticity of the texture.Thus, different from the general text detection task, TTD task further needs to perceive the fine-grained information for real-world and tampered text classification.TTD task has two main challenges.One the one hand, due to the high similarity in texture between real-world texts and tampered texts, TTD methods that only learn from RGB domain features have limited capability to distinguish these two-category texts well.On the other hand, as the different detecting difficulty exists in real-world texts and tampered texts, the network cannot well balance the learning process of the two-category texts, resulting in the imbalance detection performance between real-world and tampered texts.Compared with RGB domain features, the discontinuity of text texture in frequency domain can help the network to identify the authenticity of text instances.Accordingly, a new TTD method based on RGB and frequency information relationship modeling was proposed.The features in the RGB and frequency domains were extracted by independent feature extractors respectively.Thus, the identification ability of tampered texture can be enhanced by introducing frequency information during the texture perception.Then, a global RGB-frequency relationship module (GRM) was introduced to model the texture authenticity relationship between different text instances.GRM referred to the RGB-frequency features of other text instances in the same image to assist in judging the authenticity of the current text instance, which solved the problem of imbalanced detection performance.Furthermore, a new TTD dataset (Tampered-SROIE) was proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method, which contains 986 images (626 training images and 360 test images).By evaluating on the Tampered-SROIE, the proposed method obtains 95.97% and 96.80% in F-measure for real-world and tampered texts respectively and reduces the imbalanced detection accuracy by 1.13%.The proposed method will give new insights to the TTD community from the perspective of network structure and detection strategy.Tampered-SROIE also provides an evaluation benchmark for future TTD methods.…”
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Police Culture and Change: The Case Of Compstat In Police Organizations by Yusuf Yuksel

“…The findings suggest designing differently the structure and setting of the Compstat meetings in a way to spur brain storming and promote a learning environment. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…Such typical markers in Russian are as follows: типа, или там, как бы, вроде (and their structural variations). Presence of the functional units makes character speech more natural but may pose significant difficulties for translators who are forced to look for adequate analogues in the target language. …”
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Effect of Additives on Electrodeposition of Copper in Ch Cl-Gl A Low Eutectic Solvent by LIU Yang, HAO Jianjun, YIN Hongkun, WANG Xinhui

“…The use of additives facilitates the deposition of copper on metal substrates.In this work，using choline chloride glacial acetic acid(Ch Cl-Gl A) as a low eutectic solvent and copper acetate as the main salt， the effects of ascorbic acid(C6H8O6)， disodium ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid(EDTA-2Na) and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid(DTPA) as additives on electrodeposition of copper on iron substrate were investigated.Electrochemical behavior was studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometry (CA)； scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and X-ray diffraction(XRD) were used to observe and analyze the morphology and composition of the coating.The UV-visible absorption spectrum of the complex formed in the electrodeposited solution with different additives was analyzed by a UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer.Results indicated that in Ch Cl-Gl A， the electrodeposition of copper involved two steps of oxidation-reduction with the first step of Cu2＋→Cu＋and the second step of Cu＋→Cu.All three additives promoted the deposition of copper in Ch Cl-Gl A，and ascorbic acid had the best effect，which could obtain a copper coating with good performance at room temperature.The electrodeposition of copper in Ch Cl-Gl A followed a three-dimensional instantaneous nucleation process and was an irreversible reaction controlled by diffusion.Moreover，the diffusion coefficients of Cu2＋and Cu＋could reach 4.003 9×10－7 cm2/s，4.762 7×10－7 cm2/s，respectively.The copper crystal prepared with ascorbic acid as additive was a polygonal sheet-like structure with distinct grains，and the optimal crystal plane was the (111) crystal plane.Besides，the average grain sizes of the copper layer with additives DTPA，EDTA-2Na and C6H8O6 were 50.71，55.12 and 52.73 nm.The average grain size of the copper layer without additive was 44.73 nm.…”
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Evaluation of quality policies and strategies in health systems: a scoping review by Zenewton André da Silva Gama, Márcia Cunha da Silva Pellense, Pedro Jesús Saturno Hernández, Anna Cláudia Sales Gomes Caldas

“…Among the elements recommended by the WHO for the implementation of strategic policies for quality, the most present were governance and organisational structure.Conclusions Although the evidence provides an indication of how countries have implemented their quality policies and strategies, we identified the need for tools to assess their impact on health systems.…”
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Where is Batho Pele? The perspective of child and adolescent mental health service users in the Western Cape Province of South Africa by Stella Mokitimi, Kim Jonas, Marguerite Schneider, Petrus J. de Vries

“…Methods Using focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews, qualitative data were collected from purposively sampled CAMHS users (caregivers and adolescents) across the Western Cape Province. …”
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Effects of nitrogen fertilizer application rate on lodging resistance for rice (Oryza sativa L.) stem by Yuya Lu, Jiehao Cui, Shuying Bao, Weiyang Liu, Yanqiu Geng, Xuanhe Liang, Shangze Li, Liying Guo, Xiwen Shao

“…Four japonica rice varieties with different lodging resistance were used, and six nitrogen fertilizer levels were set up to analyze the morphological structure, mechanical properties, and chemical components of rice stems under such treatments. …”
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Exploring optimal control strategies in a nonlinear fractional bi-susceptible model for Covid-19 dynamics using Atangana-Baleanu derivative by Azhar Iqbal Kashif Butt, Waheed Ahmad, Hafiz Ghulam Rabbani, Muhammad Rafiq, Shehbaz Ahmad, Naeed Ahmad, Saira Malik

“…The novelty of the current study is attributed to the application of the structure-preserving Toufik-Atangana numerical scheme, utilized in a backward-in-time manner, to comprehensively analyze the optimally designed model. …”
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Experimental Study on Physicomechanical Properties of Deep Sandstone by Coupling of Dry-Wet Cycles and Acidic Environment by Xin Huang, Jianyong Pang, Guangcheng Liu, Yu Chen

“…This caused the underground structure to erode and has also threatened its safety and durability. …”
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The Effect of an Educational Intervention Based on the Health Belief Model on the Level of Breastfeeding Self-efficacy in Mothers Referring to Qazvin Health Centers: A Randomized C... by fatemeh mohammadi, mahdi ranjbaran, hamed bigdeli, zinat jourabchi

“…Commencing from the 36th week of pregnancy, the intervention group underwent 4 virtual breastfeeding training sessions, structured around the principles of the health belief model. …”
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Beyond the Surface: Investigating Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dynamics in Knee Injuries: A Cross-sectional Study by Gaurav Singh, Vineet Kumar, Swagat Mahapatra, Pankaj Aggarwal, Ammar Mohd. Aslam, Prabhat Pandey, Prakhar Mishra

“…These diagnostic approaches provide valuable insights into the structural integrity of these knee components, allowing for a comprehensive assessment without the need for invasive procedures.…”
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Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve by Jasmin Packer, Mark Kohler, Dolly Dawson, Nusrat Asad, Rosslyn von derBorch, Anna Chur‐Hansen

“…We investigated the specific target audience and behaviours through semi‐structured interviews of dog walkers within a nature reserve where dogs are legally required to be on lead, qualitative content analyses of the interview transcripts, and review of motivations and underlying values identified from this and past studies. …”
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Analyzing the Perspectives of Instructors of General Medical Modules on the Inclusion of Health Humanities Fundamentals in the Curriculum by SeyedAmir Mohseni, Fattaneh Amuei, Siavash Moradi

“…Data collection continued until the collected data duplicated the previous data and data saturation occurred. Semi-structured group interview with a focus group discussion method was used for data collection and conventional content analysis method was used for data analysis. …”
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Synergetic effect of fungal pretreatment and lignin modification on delignification and saccharification: a case study of a natural lignin mutant in mulberry by James Paul T. Madigal, Masami Terasaki, Masatsugu Takada, Shinya Kajita

“…This study was conducted to examine the effects of combining these two approaches using three white rot fungi and mulberry wood with an altered lignin structure. Results Mulberry wood prepared from homozygotes or heterozygotes with a loss-of-function in the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene (CAD) was pretreated with three fungal species. …”
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Film Properties, Water Retention, and Growth Promotion of Derivative Carboxymethyl Cellulose Materials from Cotton Straw by Yongni Wu, Mengfan Yu, Yanju Li, Yue Wu, Ziqiang Shao, Yanhua Liu

“…Three kinds of derivative carboxymethyl cellulose (DCMC) materials, CMC-Na, CMC-K, and CMC-NH4, were prepared from cotton straw fiber. Their chemical structure, film morphology, water retention, biodegradability, and growth promotion were investigated with infrared spectroscopy (IR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and field experiments. …”
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The Role of Higher Education Through the Eyes of Hungarian Undergraduate Students and Graduates: A Qualitative Exploratory Study by Zsófia Kocsis, Gabriella Pusztai

“…Methods: To answer these questions, semi-structured inteviews were conducted. Qualitative research methods were preferred, which offer the possibility of uncovering hidden mechanisms. …”
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GENOME POLITICS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS by Jonas Rubikas

“…Genome controls directly or indirectly all human functions: body structure, physiology. Human mental and consciousness activity, brain functions obtained by learning mask the dependence of these activities on the genome. …”
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