Bipolar Transurethral Incision of Bladder Neck Stenoses with Mitomycin C Injection by Timothy D. Lyon, Omar M. Ayyash, Matthew C. Ferroni, Kevin J. Rycyna, Mang L. Chen

“…Initial success was 62%; five (38%) patients had a recurrence with a median time to recurrence of 7.3 months. Four patients underwent a repeat procedure, 2 (50%) of which failed. …”
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Design and Testing of MEMS Component for Electromagnetic Pulse Protection by Shiyi Li, Hengzhen Feng, Wenzhong Lou, Yuecen Zhao, Sining Lv, Wenxing Kan

“…In a DC environment, the breakdown voltage of the needle–needle structure of the MEMS electromagnetic energy-releasing component was 144 V, and the on-time was about 0.5 ms.…”
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Parameter analysis and optimization of polling-based medium access control protocol for multi-sensor communication by Jialin Guo, Fufang Li, Tian Wang, Shaobo Zhang, Yuqing Zhao

“…The theoretical expressions of the relationship between network parameters and performance including delay and energy consumption are given for the first time. The specific conclusions in this article are as follows: (1) awake duration is the parameter that has the greatest impact on delay and energy consumption. …”
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IMPLEMENTASI SISTEM PENGOLAHAN DATA SKY QUALITY METER BERBASIS VISUAL BASIC UNTUK ANALISIS PERUBAHAN TINGKAT KECERAHAN LANGIT by Mustofa Ahyar, Yudhiakto Pramudya, Okimustava Okimustava

“…Hence, it is able to graph the level of sky brightness versus time. …”
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Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other: making user and audience studies matter by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard

“…</b> All informants showed strong commitment to improving user studies and making them matter more to design, practice and society. At the same time, regardless of field or perspective, they struggled with the incoherencies of avalanches of user research. …”
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Performance Assessment of a Floating Photovoltaic Powerplant in Iran: A Case Study on Amir Kabir Dam, Karaj by Maryam Karami, Mojtaba Azhdari Khameneh

“…The average daily output of the floating PVPP is 280 kWh/day, which meets the daily needs of the village. The payback time is 9.88 years, 3.59 years, and 7.47 years by considering the electricity cost in Iran with subsidy and without subsidy and the electricity cost in the United States, respectively. …”
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Dual opposing quadrature-PT symmetry by Wencong Wang, Jacob Kokinda, Jiazhen Li, Qing Gu, Dongmei Liu, Jianming Wen

“…Summary: Our recent research on type-I quadrature parity-time (PT) symmetry, utilizing an open twin-beam system, not only enables observing genuine quantum photonic PT symmetry amid phase-sensitive amplification (PSA) and loss in the presence of Langevin noise but also reveals an additional classical-to-quantum (C2Q) transition in noise fluctuations. …”
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La double invisibilisation du care réalisé par les femmes en situation de post-catastrophe climatique : l’exemple de la vallée de la Roya. by Anouk Migeon

“…In order to question the invisibilization of women in their participation in the careof the post-disaster territory, the article analyzes media sources and political visibility of women and men in times of crisis (short time of emergency ) and during the (re)construction of the territory (long term). …”
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Small-angle scattering interferometry with neutron orbital angular momentum states by Dusan Sarenac, Melissa E. Henderson, Huseyin Ekinci, Charles W. Clark, David G. Cory, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Michael G. Huber, Owen Lailey, Jonathan S. White, Kirill Zhernenkov, Dmitry A. Pushin

“…We demonstrate this by resolving petal-structure signatures of helical wave interference for the first time: an implementation of the long-sought recovery of phase information from small-angle scattering measurements.…”
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Design of Modular Power Management and Attitude Control Subsystems for a Microsatellite by Anwar Ali, Shoaib Ahmed Khan, M. Usman Khan, Haider Ali, M. Rizwan Mughal, Jaan Praks

“…The modular development of the EPS and ACS helps to reuse them for future missions, and as a result, the overall budget, development, and testing time and cost are reduced. A specific satellite mission can be achieved by reassembling the required subsystems.…”
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Sensitive Integration of Multilevel Optimization Model in Human Activity Recognition for Smartphone and Smartwatch Applications by Samaher Al-Janabi, Ali Hamza Salman

“…The first stage relates to the collection of data from four sensors in real time (i.e., two smartphone sensors called accelerometer and gyroscope and two smartwatch sensors of the same name). …”
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Theoretical Study of Copper Complexes: Molecular Structure, Properties, and Its Application to Solar Cells by Jesus Baldenebro-Lopez, Norma Flores-Holguin, Jose Castorena-Gonzalez, Jorge Almaral-Sanchez, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…The density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT were utilized, using the M06 hybrid meta-GGA functional with the LANL2DZ (D95V on first row) and DZVP basis sets. …”
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Targeting ferroptosis: opportunities and challenges of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus by Le Dai, Qing Wang

“…However, recent studies have shown that ferroptosis is not only one of the key mechanisms of β-cell death, but also one of the reasons for extensive cell death within a short period of time after MSCs transplantation. Ferroptosis is a new type of regulated cell death (RCD) characterized by iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxides. …”
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Analysis of the Influence of Renewable Generator Frequency Endurance Capability on Low-Frequency Load Shedding: A Hunan Case Study by Yang-Wu Shen, Ding Wang, Hao Chen, Jian Zuo, Min Xu, Wei Cao

“…When the penetration rate of distributed photovoltaic is too high, it may cause load shedding, resulting in power grid load losses and, at the same time, leading to an overshoot phenomenon in the process of frequency recovery. …”
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A description on decadal changes in warm season average of precipitation over the Caspian coast of Iran territory by Hossein Asakereh, nasrin varnaseri ghandali

“…Since the original dataset pertaining to the precipitation prior to 1966 had noticeable missing values, and the data after 2016 were not accessible, a continuous time period from January 1966 to December 2016 was selected. …”
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Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…The use of specific identifiable locations also indicates, through their character’s engagement with their geographical setting, how place and time help construct the identity of the characters themselves. …”
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OGT-mediated O-GlcNAcylation regulates macrophage polarization in heart failure via targeting IRF1 by Guoqiang Jing, Yuhong Ma

“…After knockdown of OGT or overexpressing IRF1, macrophage polarization was evaluated using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and flow cytometry. …”
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Postural correlates of pleasant landscapes visual perception by Mbarka Akounach, Thierry Lelard, Harold Mouras

“…This research aimed to propose, for the first time, the use of posturography to study the different ways postural control is modulated by visual perception of pleasant scenes.MethodsA total of 37 participants (27 females, 10 males; mean age = 24 years ±5 years) were shown images of pleasant and neutral landscapes, while posturographic data were collected. …”
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Bacterial Infections across the Ants: Frequency and Prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia by Stefanie Kautz, Benjamin E. R. Rubin, Corrie S. Moreau

“…Next-generation sequencing approaches can characterize bacterial diversity associated with a host and at the same time facilitate the fast and simultaneous screening of infectious bacteria. …”
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Influence of cobalt substitution in CoFe2O4 nanoparticles on structural, morphological, cation distribution, optical and magnetic properties by Z. Mosleh, M. Beygmohammadvand, A. Ghotbi Varzaneh, P. Kameli

“…This paper presents the first-time synthesis of CoFe2−xCoxO4 nanoparticles (where x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6) through hydrothermal methods utilizing metal chloride precursors. …”
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