Defense responses of the green microalgae Chlorella vulgaris to the vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles by Kalehjahi Hanifeh Akbarian, Kosari-Nasab Morteza, Amini Mojtaba, Movafeghi Ali

“…According to the obtained results, V2O5 NPs caused a significant reduction in cell number and biomass production of algae in a dose and time dependent manner. Moreover, flow cytometric analysis confirmed a reduction in the quantity of living cells. …”
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Convolutional Neural Network-Based Fish Posture Classification by Xin Li, Anzi Ding, Shaojie Mei, Wenjin Wu, Wenguang Hou

“…As such, how to detect the actual posture of fish in real time is a new and meaningful issue. Considering that in the actual situation, we only need to determine the four postures which are related to the head, tail, back, and belly of the fish, and we transfer this task into a four-kind classification problem. …”
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Effective Stance in Conservative Newspaper Opinion Articles on Irregular Immigration and Refugee Humanitarian Crises by Marta Carretero, Elena Domínguez Romero

“…The words are evenly distributed, with each newspaper contributing 30,000 words in articles pertaining to three humanitarian crises involving refugees: Syria (2015), Afghanistan (2021), and Ukraine (2022-2023), and 30,000 words relating to articles on irregular immigration coinciding in time with each of the three refugee crises. The primary objective of the paper is to discern notable differences between the two newspapers and across the different refugee and irregular immigration crises under investigation. …”
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SAILOR: perceptual anchoring for robotic cognitive architectures by Miguel Á. González-Santamarta, Francisco J. Rodrıguez-Lera, Vicente Matellan-Olivera, Virginia Riego del Castillo, Lidia Sánchez-González

“…SAILOR aims to maintain the link between symbolic data and perceptual data in real robots over time. It provides a semantic world modeling approach using two deep learning-based sub-symbolic robotic skills: object recognition and matching function. …”
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Study on the Adsorption Performance and Adsorption Mechanism of Graphene Oxide by Red Sandstone in Aqueous Solution by Na Li, WenHao Dai, HaiBo Kang, Beifeng Lv, Ping Jiang, Wei Wang

“…In this paper, the use of red sandstone to treat GO-contaminated aqueous solution is proposed for the first time, and the adsorption capacity and adsorption mechanism of red sandstone to GO are discussed. …”
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Evaluation of Urumiyeh (Iran) City Park in Terms of Noise Analysis and Sound Landscape by Serkan Özer, Nazli Esmaeili Hesar, Elif Önal

“…Measurements were made at these stations in three different time periods, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, in the afternoon, mid-afternoon and evening, for two months. …”
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Determination of Fatty Acid Metabolism with Dynamic [C]Palmitate Positron Emission Tomography of Mouse Heart In Vivo by Yinlin Li, Tao Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Min Zhong, Natalie N. Walker, Jiang He, Stuart S. Berr, Susanna R. Keller, Bijoy K. Kundu

“…FA metabolism was measured for the first time in mouse heart in vivo using dynamic [ 11 C]palmitate PET in a four-compartment tracer kinetic model. …”
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Optimizing Competency-Based Human Resource Allocation in Construction Project Scheduling: A Multi-Objective Meta-Heuristic Approach by Bahman Shojaei, Heidar Dashti Naserabadi, Mohammad Javad Taheri Amiri

“…A three-objective mathematical planning model aimed at minimizing project completion time, reducing implementation costs, and enhancing workforce competency is proposed. …”
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Dynamic-State Adsorption and Elution Behaviour of Uranium(VI) Ions from Seawater by a Fibrous and Porous Adsorbent Containing Amidoxime Chelating Functional Groups by Anyun Zhang, Gunzo Uchiyama, Toshihide Asakura

“…Φ 9.4 mm × h 525 mm and Φ 15.5 mm × h 290 mm, the amounts of U(VI) ions adsorbed and the corresponding equilibrium times were 340.6 mg/g and 10 h and 325.9 mg/g and 13.6 h, respectively, at a constant flow rate of 3.70 ml/min. …”
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Effect of quercetin on the transport of ritonavir to the central nervous system in vitro and in vivo by Liang Gongwen, Li Na, Ma Liping, Qian Zhonglian, Sun Yuwen, Shi Luwen, Zhao Libo

“…In the pharmacokinetic study, the presence of quercetin in the co-administration group and in the pretreatment group significantly decreased the area under the plasma concentration-time curve (AUC0–t) of ritonavir by 42.2 % (p < 0.05) and 53.5 % (p < 0.01), and decreased the peak plasma concentration (cmax) of ritonavir by 23.1 % (p < 0.05) and 45.8 % (p < 0.01), respectively, compared to the control group (ritonavir alone). …”
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Effect of 940 nm Diode Laser Irradiation and Dentin Bonding Agent on Permeability of Furcation Area in Primary Molars by Mohammad Atif, Nitesh Tewari, Vijay P. Mathur, Kalpana Bansal, Morankar Rahul

“…Rise in temperature in the perifurcal area was also recorded at the time of laser irradiation. Dunn’s pair-wise comparison analysis was used for the analysis for the difference in dye penetration among the group. …”
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Impact and integration of electric vehicles on renewable energy based microgrid: Frequency profile improvement by a-SCA optimized FO-Fuzzy PSS approach by Prakash Chandra Sahu

“…It is observed that proposed FO-Fuzzy PSS control scheme has the credential to reduce settling time of ΔF1 (area1 microgrid frequency) by 98.60% and 250.82% over fuzzy controller &amp; PID controller correspondingly. …”
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The Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) in Veterinary Medicine: A Focused Review in Dogs and Cats by Daniela Diamanti, Carolina Pieroni, Maria Grazia Pennisi, Veronica Marchetti, Eleonora Gori, Saverio Paltrinieri, George Lubas

“…The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) measures the rate at which erythrocytes aggregate and sediment in a fixed time in an anticoagulated blood tube and is expressed as a speed (mm/h). …”
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Evaluation of the cytogenetic and genotoxic effects of an abamectin-based pesticide on Allium cepa roots by Ili Pinar, Sari Fikret

“…Following 96-hour exposure to three concentrations of abamectin (1.25, 2.50, and 5.00 mg/L), cytogenetic and comet analyses indicated a significant concentration- and time-dependent decrease in the MI, alongside an increase in DNA damage. …”
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High-Throughput Screening and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Natural Products for the Identification of Anticancer Agents against MCM7 Protein by Xin Zhang, Hui Chen, Hui Lin, Ronglan Wen, Fan Yang

“…The MD simulations were also used for a time period of 50 ns to evaluate for stability and dynamics behavior of the compounds. …”
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Readability of informed consent documents and its impact on consent refusal rate by Yash V. Kamath, Yashashri C. Shetty, Ishita C. Lanjewar, Ankita Kulkarni

“…We used the Flesch–Kincaid Reading Ease Score (FRES), estimated reading time (ERT) and scored ICDs out of 13 points on the basis of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-mandated headings (ICD Quality Score [IQS]). …”
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A Marked Point Process Approach for Continuous Valence Estimation Using Respiration Activity by Revanth Reddy, Rose T. Faghih

“…The amplitude of the breath, time of inhalation, and inhalation rate are used to label individuals breaths as potential pleasant or unpleasant valence events using an unsupervised k-means clustering algorithm. …”
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The application of flipped classroom in foreign language education at Pesantren-based school by Moh. Najib Mubarok

“…The study revealed three main findings: first, the flipped classroom model utilized the DDFE (Divide, Differentiate, Facilitate, Evaluate) framework and integrated project-based learning strategies, aligning with the pedagogical principles of Pesantren schools; second, teachers faced challenges such as students' lack of motivation for pre-class activities, time constraints, and limited internet access; and third, students’ attitudes towards the model were shaped by personal, educational, and social factors. …”
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Enhancing throughput in labor intensive assembly lines by Ang Zixuan, Cheah Chew Keat, Prakash Joshua

“…Company X is located in Perak State, Malaysia. Comprehensive time studies and simulation analyses were conducted to identify key issues and specific bottlenecks affecting throughput and workflow. …”
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The Application of PSO in Structural Damage Detection: An Analysis of the Previously Released Publications (2005–2020) by Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…The paper also provides insights on the frequently used methodologies based on PSO, the computational time, and the accuracy of the existing methodologies. …”
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