Design and Evaluation of a Voice-Controlled Elevator System to Improve the Safety and Accessibility by Ander Gonzalez Docasal, Jon Alonso, Jon Olaizola, Mikel Mendicute, Maria Patricia Franco, Arantza Del Pozo, Daniel Aguinaga, Aitor Alvarez, Eduardo Lleida

“…In addition, latency times for these transcribers and two communication protocols were measured to enhance efficiency. Finally, two subjective evaluations on clean and noisy conditions were conducted simulating a real world scenario. …”
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Unveiling the Silent Threat: Exploring Hypertension Prevalence and Risk Factors Among University Students in Syria by Shuaib Alahmad, Abudlla Samman, Rawaa Al Kayali, Rawaa Al Kayali

“…This study aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and elevated blood pressure among university students and to identify the associated sociodemographic characteristics, and behavioral risk factors.MethodsThis study was designed as a cross-sectional investigation with 1,100 subjects randomly selected from the students of Aleppo and Al-Wataniya universities. …”
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Topical application of the ethanol extract and the hydroethanolic fraction of ripe Solanum lycocarpum A. St. Hil. fruit improves the healing of excisional wounds by Elisângela Elduina Ferreira, Renan Diniz Ferreira, Milena Santos de Almeida, Renan Araújo Costa, Izabela Caputo Assis Silva, Melissa Grazielle Morais, Karen Helaine Mendes Bertolin, Paula Vieira Teixeira Vidigal, Raquel Alves Costa, Luciana Alves Rodrigues dos Santos Lima, Flávia Carmo Horta Pinto

“…At the end of this period, the animals were euthanized, and the lesions were subjected to histopathological processing and analysis to evaluate macroscopic area of the wound and microscopic analysis by morphometry of the number of leukocytes, mast cells, fibroblasts, re-epithelialization, and matrix deposition. …”
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Canadian First Nations and Non-First Nations Patients by Julia Uhanova, Gerald Minuk, Federico Lopez Ficher, Natasha Chandok

“…Demographic, clinical, laboratory, imaging, and histologic data were analyzed. Results. 482 subjects fulfilled diagnostic criteria for NAFLD, including 33 (7%) FN. …”
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Exploration of Lipid Metabolism Alterations in Children with Active Tuberculosis Using UHPLC-MS/MS by Baixu Sun, Fang Liu, Qingqin Yin, Tingting Jiang, Min Fang, Li Duan, Shuting Quan, Xue Tian, Adong Shen, Kaixia Mi, Lin Sun

“…In the independent testing cohort with 49 subjects, three of the markers, PC (15:0/17:1), PC (17:1/18:2), and PE (18:1/20:3), presented with high diagnostic values. …”
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Textured mat influence on muscle activity and balance strategies for chronic ankle instability by Nanthiphak Konphet, Akkradate Siriphorn

“…Methods Using a within-subject design, we measured centre of mass (CoM) acceleration and muscle activation in 28 CAI patients on firm, foam, and textured surfaces during double-leg and single-leg stances. …”
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Experimental Comparison of HfO_2/X-Based ReRAM Devices Switching Properties by the MIM Capacitance by Fernando Jose da Costa, Aseel Zeinati, Renan Trevisoli, Durga Misra, Rodrigo Trevisoli Doria

“…An increase in the capacitance from 3.904 to 3.917 pF/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m2 was observed for the same device when it was subjected to a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$144~\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s pulse width, demonstrating a conductance quantization required for the application in in-memory computing systems. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating a Low-Volume PEG Solution Plus Ascorbic Acid versus Standard PEG Solution in Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy by Masahiro Tajika, Tsutomu Tanaka, Makoto Ishihara, Nobumasa Mizuno, Kazuo Hara, Susumu Hijioka, Hiroshi Imaoka, Takamitsu Sato, Tatsuji Yogi, Hideharu Tsutsumi, Toshihisa Fujiyoshi, Nobuhiro Hieda, Nozomi Okuno, Tsukasa Yoshida, Vikram Bhatia, Yasushi Yatabe, Kenji Yamao, Yasumasa Niwa

“…No significant differences in the safety profile were found between subjects aged less than 70 years and those aged 70 years or more; nevertheless, regardless of age, proper hydration is needed throughout the bowel preparation process.…”
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Design and Experimental Research on Sealing Structure for a Retrievable Packer by Yang Liu, Zhanghua Lian, Junwen Chen, Shengping Kuang, Yisheng Mou, Yuhai Wang

“…The results show that the upper packer is subjected to greater stress and mainly plays a sealing role in the sealing process. …”
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Factors associated with overweight among food handlers in public schools by Thamiris Rodrigues Macedo, Adriana Fernandez Versiani dos Anjos, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli Bethony, Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira

“…Overweight was diagnosed by means of body mass index measurements and was correlated to anthropometric, socioeconomic, health history and food habit variables that were obtained through a semi-structured questionnaire. 274 subjects participated, among whom 99.6% female, mostly married, adult with primary education and per capita income up to the Brazilian national minimum wage were studied. …”
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Cryptophyte diversity and assembly mechanisms reveal ecological discontinuities in a river-estuary-coast continuum by Changyun Wang, Yao Liu, Zhuyin Tong, Shujie Cai, Yichong Wang, Nengwang Chen, Bangqin Huang, Wupeng Xiao

“…These results underscore the importance of considering ecological discontinuities and habitat-specific processes in the management and conservation of connected aquatic ecosystems, particularly in transitional environments like estuaries that are subject to rapid environmental changes.…”
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The concept of creating an electric field strength meter with the determination of the error of the measurement result and the distance to the field source by S. V. Biryukov

“…The concept lies in the fact that along with the measurement of the modulus of the electric field strength vector, the error of the measurement result and the distance to the field source are subject to simultaneous instrumental determination. …”
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Classification of Human Learning Stages via Kernel Distribution Embeddings by Madeleine Shuhn-Tsuan Yuh, Kendric Ray Ortiz, Kylie Sue Sommer-Kohrt, Meeko Oishi, Neera Jain

“…We demonstrate our approach on experimental human subject data, and use our approach to evaluate the efficacy of cognitively-based adaptive automation designed to calibrate self-confidence. …”
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Supportive teachers, active students: Is teacher support a promising key to engaging students with and without migration backgrounds? by Simon Munk, Doris Holzberger, Ricardo Böheim, Tina Seidel

“…To investigate the generalizability of the process across different subjects, we examined video data from 20 eighth-grade classrooms of academic-track secondary schools in both German Language Arts and Mathematics (N = 387 students). …”
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Dual Modality Reverse Reranking (DM-RR) Based Image Retrieval Framework by Ikhlaq Ahmed, Naima Iltaf, Rabia Latif, Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail, Zafran Khan

“…The proposed system can be used in real-world applications subject to its practical implications, such as generalization to diverse domains, availability of domain specific data, nature of the data and queries, and availability of computational resources.…”
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Sodium Bicarbonate Therapy in Patients with Metabolic Acidosis by María M. Adeva-Andany, Carlos Fernández-Fernández, David Mouriño-Bayolo, Elvira Castro-Quintela, Alberto Domínguez-Montero

“…Sodium bicarbonate is the predominant buffer used in dialysis fluids and patients on maintenance dialysis are subjected to a load of sodium bicarbonate during the sessions, suffering a transient metabolic alkalosis of variable severity. …”
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Modeling a Mechanical Molecular Spring Isolator with High-Static-Low-Dynamic-Stiffness Properties by Zhanyong Li, Qian Chen, Fengshou Gu, Andrew Ball

“…The piston would support a lump of mass and be subjected to a specific external vibration excitation force. …”
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Fuzzy Filtering Method for Color Videos Corrupted by Additive Noise by Volodymyr I. Ponomaryov, Hector Montenegro-Monroy, Luis Nino-de-Rivera, Heydy Castillejos

“…Numerous simulation results confirm that this novel 3D fuzzy method performs better than other state-of-the-art techniques in terms of objective criteria (PSNR, MAE, NCD, and SSIM) as well as subjective perception via the human vision system in the different color videos.…”
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Research on Characteristic Stress and Constitutive Equation of Confined Sandstone during Damage Evolution Based on Energy Evolution Analysis by Xiaobin Yang, Hongming Cheng, Xin Hou, Chaogang Nie, Jiaqi Lv

“…The new method has strong maneuverability, clearer response to the damage evolution, better coordination with the damage evolution, and less subjective initiative. In addition, the dissipation energy proportion behavior is captured by fitting function and established a relationship with elastic modulus of sandstone, and then the damage evolution constitutive equation of sandstone is established based on energy proportion. …”
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Influence of Quenching Agents on Mechanical, Wear, and Fracture Characteristics of Al2O3 / MoS2 Reinforced Al-6061 Hybrid Metal Matrix Composite (MMCs) by K. R. Suchendra, M. Sreenivasa Reddy, M. Ravikumar

“…Heat treated hybrid composites were subjected to evaluate the hardness, tensile, and wear behavior. …”
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