Unbiased Diffusion through a Linear Porous Media with Periodic Entropy Barriers: A Tube Formed by Contacting Ellipses by Yoshua Chávez, Marco-Vinicio Vázquez, Leonardo Dagdug

“…The effective one-dimensional reduction is used with distinct forms of a position-dependent diffusion coefficient, D(x), found in literature, to obtain expressions for (I) narrow escape times from a single open-ended tube, (II) its correspondent effective diffusion coefficient, both as functions of the eccentricity of the tube, ε, where ε = 0 returns the system to a spherical vesicle with two open opposite sides, and (III) finally, Lifson-Jackson formula that is used to compute expressions to assess the mean effective diffusion coefficient for a periodic elliptic channel formed by contacting ellipses, also as a function of the eccentricity. …”
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How to Evaluate Students’ Entrepreneurial Projects? International Experience and Recommendations for Application in Russia by P. S. Sorokin, E. V. Morozova, D. Pavlyuk, T. D. Redko

“…The task becomes even more relevant with the necessity of technological modernization in times of economic crisis. In particular, it is necessary to develop a system of criteria that would not only serve educational purposes, but also simulate the emerging of new market enterprises, which remains problematic so far now, despite the active measures from the government to support student initiatives. …”
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Span Length Variance Effect on the Fatigue Life of FRP Bridge Deck by Ki-Tae Park, Young-Jun Yu, Hyunseop Shin

“…However, considering that the fatigue performance safety margin was approximately 1.6 times more than the design axle load of the DB-24 design truck load in Korea, even at the span of 2.5 m, it is judged that the FRP decks being considered can be effectively used at a span length of 2.5 m.…”
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Biomarkers to Improve Diagnosis and Monitoring of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: Current Status and Future Perspectives by Konstantinos Archontogeorgis, Evangelia Nena, Nikolaos Papanas, Paschalis Steiropoulos

“…Given that OSAS is associated with increased cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity, the ideal biomarker should enable timely recognition with the possibility of intervention. …”
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Exploring the potential role of EPSPS mutations for enhanced glyphosate resistance in Nicotiana tabacum by Bingjie Li, Bingjie Li, Chen Chen, Chen Chen, Mengmeng Cui, Yuhe Sun, Jing Lv, Changbo Dai

“…Our results demonstrate that overexpression of TIPS-NtEPSPS significantly enhances glyphosate tolerance, allowing plants to withstand up to four times the recommended dose without compromising their fitness. …”
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Super Partition: fast, flexible, and interpretable large-scale data reduction in R by Katelyn J. Queen, Malcolm Barrett, Joshua Millstein

“…Applications to high dimensional data sets show scalability to hundreds of thousands of features with reasonable computation times. Availability and implementation Super Partition is a new function within the partition R package, available on the CRAN repository (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/partition/index.html).…”
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Fixed start method for repetitive project scheduling with simulated annealing by Francisco Moreno, Eric Forcael, Francisco Orozco, Felipe Baesler, Duzgun Agdas

“…Thus, the combined FSM and SA (FSSA) is a new method that decreases the variability of scheduling duration while achieving project completion times. Finally, the proposed FSSA method for construction scheduling was validated in a case study using Discrete Event Simulation.…”
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Renal Replacement Therapy in the Critical Care Setting by Adeel Rafi Ahmed, Ayanfeoluwa Obilana, David Lappin

“…Recently published randomized control trials (RCTs) have further questioned our understanding of RRT in critical care. The optimal timing and dosing continues to be debatable; however, current evidence suggests delayed strategy with less intensive dosing when utilising RRT. …”
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Recurrent Huge Left Bartholin’s Gland Abscess for One Year in a Teenager by Athanase Lilungulu, Bonaventura C. T. Mpondo, Abdallah Mlwati, Dismas Matovelo, Albert Kihunrwa, Balthazar Gumodoka

“…Bartholin’s gland abscess is the commonest worldwide reported abscess in gynaecological outpatient clinics; it has also been reported that Bartholin’s gland abscess is three times more common in occurrences compared to Bartholin’s gland cyst. …”
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Static Magnetic Field Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing by Facilitating Resolution of Inflammation by Wenlong Shang, Guilin Chen, Yinxiu Li, Yujuan Zhuo, Yuhong Wang, Zhicai Fang, Ying Yu, Huiwen Ren

“…Impaired wound healing is commonly encountered in patients with diabetes mellitus, which may lead to severe outcomes such as amputation, if untreated timely. Macrophage plays a critical role in the healing process including the resolution phase. …”
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Rare Abdominal Wall Metastasis following Curative Resection of Gastric Cancer: What Can Be Learned from the Use of Percutaneous Catheters? by Arthur A. Parsee, Kerry L. Thomas, Masoumeh Ghayouri, Rutika Mehta, Kujtim Latifi, Jennifer Sweeney, Daniel Jeong, Abraham Ahmed

“…The oncologic patient provides many challenges and may require multiple catheters for drainage and at times infusion of nutrition or therapeutic agents. …”
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CTAB-Assisted Hydrothermal Synthesis of Bi2Sn2O7 Photocatalyst and Its Highly Efficient Degradation of Organic Dye under Visible-Light Irradiation by Weicheng Xu, Zhang Liu, Jianzhang Fang, Guangyin Zhou, Xiaoting Hong, Shuxing Wu, Ximiao Zhu, YunFang Chen, Chaoping Cen

“…The photocatalytic degradation test using rhodamine B as a model pollutant showed that the photocatalytic activity of the BSO assisted with CTAB was two times that of the reference BSO. Close investigation revealed that the size, the band gap, the structure, and the existence of impurity level played an important role in the photocatalytic activities.…”
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Research on Properties of High-Performance Cement Mortar for Semiflexible Pavement by Yazhen Sun, Yuanyuan Cheng, Min Ding, Xuezhong Yuan, Jinchang Wang

“…The strength at 7 days is 1.3 to 4 times that of the existing specifications, and the shrinkage rate is less than 0.2. …”
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A Persistent Fog Event Involving Heavy Pollutants in Yancheng Area of Jiangsu Province by Yuying Zhu, Chengying Zhu, Fan Zu, Hongbin Wang, Chengsong Yuan, Shengming Jiao, Linyi Zhou

“…Results include that (1) the fog process was characterized by long duration, low visibility, and high pollutants concentration, (2) the atmospheric general circulation contributed to the sustainability and development of the heavily polluted fog, (3) deep inversion was the key thermal factor causing the heavily polluted fog, (4) the fog exhibited obvious outbreaks with good visibility weather turned to severe fog several times, and (5) the weak cold air invasion and radiative cooling were the triggering factors to the sudden enhancement of the fog.…”
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Immobilization of Isolated Lipase From Moldy Copra (Aspergillus Oryzae) by Seniwati Dali, A. B. D. Rauf Patong, M. Noor Jalaluddin, Pirman, Baharuddin Hamzah

“…The immobilized lipase can be reused for at least six times.…”
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Trading Strategies of a Leveraged ETF in a Continuous Double Auction Market Using an Agent-Based Simulation by Isao Yagi, Shunya Maruyama, Takanobu Mizuta

“…A leveraged ETF is a fund aimed at achieving a rate of return several times greater than that of the underlying asset such as Nikkei 225 futures. …”
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Disk-Integrated Lunar Brightness Temperatures between 89 and 190 GHz by Martin J. Burgdorf, Stefan A. Buehler, Imke Hans, Marc Prange

“…As the Moon has appeared thousands of times in the field of view of all microwave sounders combined, this investigation demonstrates the potential of weather satellites for fine tuning models and establishing the Moon as extremely accurate calibration reference.…”
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Application of a Noncarboxylated Dye Compound in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Containing a Cyclodextrin Layer by Tatsuya Takeshita, Takao Umeda, Noriaki Oonishi, Michihiro Hara

“…In contrast, the IPCE of the device that was prepared without the CM-β-CD layer measured under 450 nm irradiation was approximately three times smaller. Accordingly, the current findings demonstrate the application of a noncarboxylated dye compound in DSSCs incorporating a CM-β-CD layer.…”
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Study on the Impact of LDA Preprocessing on Pig Face Identification with SVM by Hongwen Yan, Yulong Wu, Yifan Bo, Yukuan Han, Gaifeng Ren

“…Additionally, the training and testing durations were reduced to 0.7% and 0.3% of the original times, respectively. These findings suggest that LDA preprocessing significantly enhances the efficiency of individual pig identification using an SVM, providing empirical evidence for the deployment of SVM classifiers in mobile and embedded systems.…”
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Characterization of the expanded austenite developed on AISI 316 LM steel by plasma nitriding by Keddam M., Thiriet T., Marcos G., Czerwiec T.

“…AISI 316 LM samples were plasma nitrided at a temperature of 380°C for different times between 0.5 and 8 h in a 85%N2- 15%H2 gas mixture. …”
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