TerraSAR-X SAR data for classification of ice-free areas and glacier facies on Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica by ANDRÉ M. DE ANDRADE, ROBERTO F.M. MICHEL, KÁTIA K. DA ROSA, ULISSES F. BREMER, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER, JEFFERSON C. SIMÕES

“…Abstract The region of the Maritime Antarctic suffers significantly from climate change, resulting in regional warming and consequently affecting coverage. …”
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Scalable System to Support a Digital Twin of a Stone Factory Production Line by Diogo Francisco, Roberto Ribeiro, Nuno Rodrigues, Alexandrino Goncalves, Anabela Marto, Irene Ferreira

“…The industrial sector has suffered changes over time until it came to the fourth phase, Industry 4.0. …”
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Imaging method for airborne SAL data by Guangzuo Li, Ning Wang, Ran Wang, Keshu Zhang, Yirong Wu

“…Direct using of the conventional imaging algorithms to SAL data suffers from performance degradation. To address this problem, an effective imaging method based on subaperture phase gradient autofocus (PGA) and normalised cross correlation (NCC) is proposed for airborne SAL data. …”
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Comparison of Proangiogenic Effects of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells and Foreskin Fibroblast Exosomes on Artificial Dermis Prefabricated Flaps by Jiachao Xiong, Zhixiao Liu, Minliang Wu, Mengyan Sun, Yu Xia, Yuchong Wang

“…Large prefabricated flaps often suffer from necrosis or poor healing due to a lack of new blood vessels and related factors that promote angiogenesis. …”
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Lethal Male Combat of <i>Anastatus japonicus</i> (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), an Egg Parasitoid of Lepidopterous and Hemipterous Pests by Muhammad Yasir Ali, Gonzalo A. Avila, Zheng-Yu Luo, Muhammad Asghar Hassan, Khalid Ali Khan, Jin-Ping Zhang, Feng Zhang

“…Larger <i>A. japonicus</i> males won more contests than smaller males and honey-fed males defeated starved ones, where defeated males suffered the loss of appendages and/or died. Fighting appeared to be the norm in all-male groupings, regardless of the presence of females. …”
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Information on mouth breathing in children and adolescents’ mothers by Silvia Maholy Vera Torres, Genesis Magerly García Noguera, Jaime Fernando Armijos Moreta, Silvia Marisol Gavilánez Villamarín

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> the mouth breather syndrome is more common than it seems; most people suffer from it, but affects frequently children and adolescents.…”
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Enhancing Performance of SnO2-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using ZnO Passivation Layer by W. M. N. M. B. Wanninayake, K. Premaratne, R. M. G. R. Rajapakse

“…Although liquid electrolyte based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have shown higher photovoltaic performance in their class, they still suffer from some practical limitations such as solvent evaporation, leakage, and sealing imperfections. …”
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Label-Free Glucose Detection Using Cantilever Sensor Technology Based on Gravimetric Detection Principles by Shuchen Hsieh, Shu-Ling Hsieh, Chiung-wen Hsieh, Po-Chiao Lin, Chun-Hsin Wu

“…Though several methods are currently used, these suffer from impaired response and often unpredictable drift, making them unsuitable for long-term therapeutic practice. …”
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Three-Dimensional Bioreactor Technologies for the Cocultivation of Human Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells and Beta Cells by Florian Petry, Tobias Weidner, Peter Czermak, Denise Salzig

“…One therapeutic approach is the transplantation of functional beta cells, but it is difficult to generate sufficient beta cells in vitro and to ensure these cells remain viable at the transplantation site. Beta cells suffer from hypoxia, undergo apoptosis, or are attacked by the host immune system. …”
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HUMAN RESOURCES CAPACITY OF NATIONAL VETERINARY SERVICES IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION TERRITORIAL SUBJECTS by M. A. Shibayev, I. M. Klinovitskaya, A. S. Oganesyan, A. V. Belchikhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…Notwithstanding the diverse peculiarities of the RF regions, the majority of them suffer from an actual defcit of veterinarians in the local and laboratory institutions. …”
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Hubungan Kejadian Hipertensi dengan Kualitas Hidup Penduduk Lanjut Usia di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Rijali Desa Batu Merah Kota Ambon Maluku by Wa Ode Meyutya Zawawi, Indrawanti Kusadhiani, Presli Glovrig Siahaya

“…Results: This study showed that from 76 samples, as many as 40 people (52.6%) suffered from hypertension and 36 people (47.4%) did not. …”
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Cloud-Based Intrusion Detection Approach Using Machine Learning Techniques by Hanaa Attou, Azidine Guezzaz, Said Benkirane, Mourade Azrour, Yousef Farhaoui

“…Regardless of these advantages, cloud providers suffer from many security limits. Particularly, the security of resources and services represents a real challenge for cloud technologies. …”
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Control Strategies for Steer-By-Wire Systems: An Overview by Muhammad Arjuna Putra Perdana, Alexander C. Budiman, Rina Ristiana, Aam Muharam, Kristian Ismail, Muhammad Redho Kurnia, Amin, Naili Huda, Sunarto Kaleg, Abdul Hapid

“…However, these controllers often suffer from a downside known as chattering. In contrast, robust controllers like Model Predictive Controllers (MPCs) can effectively manage uncertain dynamics and eliminate chattering, although they pose challenges due to their high computational costs.…”
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Action inflexibility and compulsive-like behavior accompany neurobiological alterations in the anterior orbitofrontal cortex and associated striatal nuclei by Laura M. Butkovich, Sophie T. Yount, Aylet T. Allen, Esther H. Seo, Andrew M. Swanson, Shannon L. Gourley

“…Experimentally bred mice suffer excitatory dendritic spine attrition, as well as changes in inhibitory synapse-associated proteins, GAD67/GAD1 and SLITRK3, largely in the anterior and not posterior OFC (or medial frontal cortex). …”
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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Meteorological Drought in Shandong Province, China, from 1961 to 2008 by Xiaoli Wang, Xiyong Hou, Zhi Li, Yuandong Wang

“…The results indicated that the occurrence frequency of meteorological drought in Shandong province was generally high and some part of this region such as Jiaodong peninsula had suffered drought pressure with an evident ascending trend. …”
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Visible Light Broadband Achromatic Metalens Based on Variable Height Nanopillar Structures by Yongyang Li, Haiyang Huang, Cong Zhang, Xiangshuo Shang, Yang Liu, Junyan Hu, Dengyu Shan, Naiyun Tang, Wei Li

“…However, like traditional optical meta-atoms, ordinary metalenses suffer from a significant chromatic aberration problem because it is difficult to design the phase distribution for different wavelengths on a single-layer metalens. …”
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Respiratory Arrest in an Obese Pregnant Woman with Hyperemesis Gravidarum by Ayumi Iwashita, Yosuke Baba, Rie Usui, Akihide Ohkuchi, Shigeaki Muto, Shigeki Matsubara

“…A pregnant, non-Japanese-speaking Peruvian, and, thus, with communication difficulty, suffered hyperemesis gravidarum and had respiratory arrest, requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation. …”
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Procedure of Active Residual Heat Removal after Emergency Shutdown of High-Temperature-Gas-Cooled Reactor by Xingtuan Yang, Yanfei Sun, Huaiming Ju, Shengyao Jiang

“…During this procedure, the structure of steam generator may suffer cold/heat shock because of the sudden load of coolant or hot helium at the first few minutes. …”
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Evaluation of Algebraic Iterative Image Reconstruction Methods for Tetrahedron Beam Computed Tomography Systems by Joshua Kim, Huaiqun Guan, David Gersten, Tiezhi Zhang

“…While the TBCT system was designed to overcome the scatter and detector issues faced by cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), it still suffers the same large cone angle artifacts as CBCT due to the use of approximate reconstruction algorithms. …”
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Usefulness of C-Reactive Protein as a Marker for Prediction of Future Coronary Events in the Asian Indian Population: Indian Atherosclerosis Research Study by Veena S. Rao, Natesha B. Kadarinarasimhiah, Shibu John, Sridhara Hebbagodi, Jayashree Shanker, Vijay V. Kakkar

“…Levels of hsCRP were higher among subjects affected by CAD who suffered a repeat coronary event as compared to those who remained event free and subjects in the top quartile of hsCRP (>3.58 mg/L) were found to have a fourfold higher risk. …”
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