Research on health monitoring of concrete structure based on G-S-G by Jiaqi Wang, Hongbi Kang, Kexin Li

“…Abstract An improved concrete structure health monitoring method based on G-S-G is proposed, which fully combines an optimized Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) with an improved Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network to achieve accurate and real-time concrete structure health monitoring. First of all, in order to obtain a dynamic image of the crack damage region of interest (ROI) with clear contrast and obvious target, the image acquisition system and image optimization method are used to process the damaged image. …”
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Is “Bed Sharing” Beneficial and Safe during Infancy? A Systematic Review by Rashmi Ranjan Das, M. Jeeva Sankar, Ramesh Agarwal, Vinod Kumar Paul

“…Eligible studies were observational studies that enrolled infants in the first 4 weeks of life and followed them up for a variable period of time thereafter. Results. A total of 21 studies were included. …”
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Country-Specific Modeling of Methane Production and Emission Reduction Utilizing Pig Manure by Ilho Bae, Seokbo Park, Juhee Shin, Jin Mi Triolo, Seung Gu Shin

“…In this study, at a temperature of 37 °C and a hydraulic retention time of 30 days, the scraper method demonstrated the highest methane production rates, achieving 0.85 and 1.03 m³/m³/day for both mono-anaerobic digestion of manure and co-digestion with food wastewater. …”
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Sustained remission in large-Vessel vasculitis: Do they ever burn out? by Sakir Ahmed, Padmanabha Shenoy, Debashish Danda, Ramnath Misra

“…Both TA and GCA can have grumbling courses with relapse rates increasing over time.…”
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Life Table of Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Five Soybean Cultivars by Samira Farahani, Ali Asghar Talebi, Yaghoub Fathipour

“…The highest value of finite rate of increase (𝜆) was on Williams (1.18 day−1), which was significantly different from other cultivars. The mean generation time (𝑇𝑐) was significantly different on various cultivars, ranging from 32.0±0.3 days (on L17) to 28.8±0.3 days (on Sahar). …”
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Adsorption, isotherms and kinetics characteristics of solid state Mg exchanged bentonite for removal of methylene blue by Ahdieh Bavi, Mohammad Ghorbanpour, Mohammed Jaafar Ali Alatabe

“…The best conditions for removing methylene blue using magnesium exchanged bentonite was pH 10, adsorbent dosage 0.05 mg/liter, initial concentration of solution 100 mg per liter, and contact time of 120 minutes with a Removal efficiency of 96.67. …”
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Costs of surgical futility in emergency laparotomy by C.L. Downey, D.G. Jayne

“…A national patient-level costings system was used to determine the costs of hospital care from the day of surgery to the time of death. Results: In a cohort of 741 patients, there was a 3.6 % surgical futility rate. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“…The reviewer has based this paper on 60 peer-reviewed publications spanning a time period of 28 years – from 1995 – 2022, originating from over a dozen different countries, and encompassing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. …”
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Association between alcohol consumption and sleep difficulty in a nationwide Korean survey by In Cheol Hwang, Yujin Park, Hong Yup Ahn, Kwan Jung Kim, So-Jung Park

“…Individuals who drank <1 per week (frequency) or 1–2 cups per time (amount) had the lowest prevalence of substantial sleep difficulty, even compared with nondrinkers. …”
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Examination of optimal performance mood status in sedentary women according to certain variables by Orhan Ahmet Şener, Osman İmamoğlu

“…According to the behavioral change stages, a statistically significant change was found in the dimensions of task difficulty, awareness in action, clear goals, secondary notification, focus on the task, sense of control, transformation of time and experience of achieving the goal, and decrease in awareness subscales in optimal performance emotional state (p<0.001). …”
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Cocaine Induced Pleural and Pericardial Effusion Syndrome by Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Omkar Vaidya, Al-Ma’Mon Abu Ghanimah, Ahmed Elkhanany, Ashraf Gohar

“…She was admitted three years back with acute kidney injury and skin rashes. At that time, skin biopsy was consistent with leukocytoclastic vasculitis and renal biopsy revealed proliferative glomerulonephritis. …”
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On conventional versus direct aging of laser-directed energy deposited Mg–6Gd–3Y–0.5Zr alloy by Yiling Jiang, Haibo Tang, Zhuo Li, Yuanhang Gao, Zhe Xu, Huaming Wang

“…Mg–Gd–Y–Zr alloys, with high Gd and Y solubility, demonstrate significant application potential due to effective precipitation strengthening but face challenges from lengthy aging times. Hereby we fabricate a Mg–6Gd–3Y–0.5Zr alloy via laser-directed energy deposition (LDED) technique. …”
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Enhancing Africa’s agriculture and food systems through responsible and gender inclusive AI innovation: insights from AI4AFS network by Nicholas Ozor, Joel Nwakaire, Alfred Nyambane, Wentland Muhatiah, Cynthia Nwobodo

“…Through a set of case studies, we explore AI-driven solutions for pest and disease detection across crops such as cashew, maize, tomato, and cassava, including a real-time health monitoring tool for Nsukka Yellow pepper. …”
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Comparative evaluation of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and conventional oxygen therapy (COT) in infants after non-cardiac surgery: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial... by Diwei Zhang, Tianqing Gong, Qinghua Huang, Qianqian Zhang, Kai Liu, Jia Li, Hai Yu, Yu Cui

“…Secondary outcomes include the rate of mild upper airway obstruction, the rate of severe respiratory depression, the rate of transfer to PICU, duration of oxygen therapy, length of PACU stay, the time to reach full enteral feeding, and postoperative adverse events, including nasal injury, agitation, vomiting, and unplanned secondary surgery related to the initial surgery.…”
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Size of Left Cardiac Chambers Correlates with Cerebral Microembolic Load in Open Heart Operations by Elena Z. Golukhova, Anna G. Polunina, Svetlana V. Zhuravleva, Natalia P. Lefterova, Alexey V. Begachev

“…The associations between left ventricular diameters and number of cerebral microemboli remained significant when cardiopulmonary bypass time was included as a covariate into the analysis. …”
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A Study on the Seismic Response Characteristics of an Oblique Pile Group-Soil-Structure with Different Pile Caps by Desen Kong, Yifei Bai, Yongpo Chen, Meixu Deng

“…The maximum horizontal displacement of the pier of the two models occurs at the same time.…”
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TEC Map Completion Through a Deep Learning Model: SNP‐GAN by Yang Pan, Mingwu Jin, Shunrong Zhang, Yue Deng

“…Meanwhile, the end‐to‐end styled generator of SNP‐GAN saves time in the map completion step by avoiding iterative mapping used in DCGAN‐PB. …”
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Yukawa Potential Orbital Energy: Its Relation to Orbital Mean Motion as well to the Graviton Mediating the Interaction in Celestial Bodies by Connor Martz, Sheldon Van Middelkoop, Ioannis Gkigkitzis, Ioannis Haranas, Ilias Kotsireas

“…In this paper we consider a Yukawa potential and we calculate the time rate of change of the orbital energy as a function of the orbital mean motion for circular and elliptical orbits. …”
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A Novel Convex Hull Coverage Algorithm for the Deployment of Electric Taxi Swap Stations Based on Urban Traffic Flow by Xudong Zhu, Lijun Yao, Yuxin Mao, Renjie Wang, Hanxiao Shi, Ji Qi

“…The experimental results illustrate that the deployment scheme obtained by the proposed algorithm is significantly optimized in terms of the deployment cost and service load and has a lower algorithm time complexity than the typical unified deployment scheme. …”
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Intracellular pressure controls the propagation of tension in crumpled cell membranes by Raviv Dharan, Avishai Barnoy, Andrey K. Tsaturyan, Alon Grossman, Shahar Goren, Inbar Yosibash, Dikla Nachmias, Natalie Elia, Raya Sorkin, Michael M. Kozlov

“…Abstract Propagation of membrane tension mediates mechanical signal transduction along surfaces of live cells and sets the time scale of mechanical equilibration of cell membranes. …”
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