Flexural Fatigue Life Reliability of Alkali-Activated Slag Concrete Freeze-Thaw Damage in Cold Areas by Bin Chen, Jun Wang

“…The results show that the flexural fatigue life decreases with freeze-thaw cycles from 0 to 150 times. Through a distribution fitting test and K-S test results, the flexural fatigue life followed both the two-parameter and three-parameter Weibull distributions. …”
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Understanding of Punishment in the Philosophical, Political and Legal Doctrines of Ancient China by Ye. S. Lohvynenko, I. A. Lohvynenko

“…Religion and the morale of those times greatly influenced on that process.…”
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Educators’ perceptions of the life orientation programme in schools and its effect on HIV/AIDS by Abiodun Folakemi Fatoba, Daniel Angaama, Meshach Bolaji Ogunniyi

“…The introduction of LO to South African schools cannot be underestimated because of its well-timed intervention. However, all involved must be committed to ensure successful implementation of the programme.…”
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Stress intensity factors for mixed-mode crack growth in imitation models under biaxial loading by R.R. Yarullin, V.N. Shlyannikov, I.S. Ishtyriakov, M.M. Yakovlev

“…Two different stress ratio values are applied several times to each imitation model in order to establish the experimental positions of the crack fronts. …”
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The effect of phytase levels in the diet on the digestibility and growth performance of white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei by Muhammmad Agus Suprayudi, Dini Harianto, Dedi Jusadi

“…All diets were supplied with 0.5% of Cr2O3 as an indicator for digestibility measurement shrimp fed three times daily at satiation levelfor how many days of rearing. …”
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The problem with two-event sequence learning by pigeons by Thomas R. Zentall, Daniel N. Peng

“…To correct for this, there are three times as many AB trials as each of the other sequences. …”
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Analysis of Coupling Effect and Heavy Load of High-Temperature Stability of Asphalt Mixture by Lu Bai, Yong-sheng Zhang, Dai-song Luo

“…The APA test results, which were used to evaluate the anti-rutting performance of the asphalt mixture on the basis of the ratio of the rutting depth difference to action times from 6000 to 8000, showed a good correlation with the CLWT test results. …”
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A large-scale dataset for Chinese historical document recognition and analysis by Yongxin Shi, Dezhi Peng, Yuyi Zhang, Jiahuan Cao, Lianwen Jin

“…To the best of our knowledge, HisDoc1B is the largest dataset in the field, surpassing existing datasets by more than 200 times in scale. Additionally, it is the only dataset with book-level annotations and punctuation annotations. …”
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Household Food Insecurity, Low Dietary Diversity, and Early Marriage Were Predictors for Undernutrition among Pregnant Women Residing in Gambella, Ethiopia by Mamo Nigatu, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Desta Hiko Gemeda

“…Pregnant women who were married before their age of eighteen, who were from food insecure households, and who had low dietary diversity score were nearly four (AOR = 3.9, 95% CI: 2.2–6.9), two (AOR = 2.3, 95% CI : 1.2–3.6), and two (AOR = 2.1, 95% CI: 1.3–4.16) times more likely to be undernourished as compared to their counterparts, respectively. …”
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Synthetic Gene Drives in Plants: Development Strategies, Potential Applications, and Ethical Considerations by Yawen Liu, Bingke Jiao, Wenfeng Qian

“…We explore various factors that influence the effectiveness of gene drives, including the emergence of suppressor mutations and life‐history traits such as sexual and asexual reproduction patterns, seed and pollen dispersal methods, and the variability in plant generation times. Additionally, we discuss the biosafety concerns related to gene drive experiments and field releases, strategies to counteract unwanted gene drives, and the ethical implications, particularly considering the risk of the intentional misuse of gene drive technology and the need for robust regulatory and monitoring frameworks.…”
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Comparison of the Effects of Intrathecal Fentanyl and Intrathecal Morphine on Pain in Elective Total Knee Replacement Surgery by Refika Kılıçkaya, Yavuz Orak, Mehtap Arda Balcı, Fatih Balcı, İlker Ünal

“…The fentanyl group also had lower first analgesic requirement times than did the morphine group. In terms of nausea and vomiting, there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups.…”
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The Effect of Using Fluorescent Concretization Intervention on Hand Hygiene Training in Primary School Students by Cevriye Yüksel Kaçan, Hülya Yılmaz

“…There was an increase in the mean hand washing checklist scores and hand washing times of all participants before and after the training (p lt; 0.05). …”
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Load Transfer Efficiency Analysis and Void Evaluation of Composite Pavement Cement Concrete Slab by Hao Li, Naren Fang, Xuancang Wang, Yang Fang, Xianghang Li, Chao Li, Siyin Ding

“…It is of great significance to evaluate the spring stiffness, void size, and soil base elastic modulus at the bottom of cement concrete slab timely and accurately for the maintenance and guarantee of the pavement performance. …”
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The impacts of wild boars (Sus scrofa) on fish community and on instream physical habitat of two small streams in a protected area in Brazil by Marina F. Moreira, Larissa B. S. Milhomens, Pedro L. C. Uzeda, Ana Luiza V. Andrade, Paulo S. Pompeu

“…We characterized the physical habitat and the fish community of two streams five times between 2009 and 2022. We found differences after the wild boar invasion. …”
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Financing of capital investments by budgetary and autonomous institutions: modern tendencies by I. I. Kokhanovskaya, Ya. V. Nazarenko

“…The procedure for capital investment has changed many times in recent years. In the article the tendencies of changing the legislation in this sphere in recent years are considered. …”
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Failure Mechanism of Gob-Side Roadway under Overlying Coal Pillar Multiseam Mining by Hongwei Mu, Anhu Wang, Dazhao Song, Dongfang Su, Donghui Li

“…For the particular cases considered in this study, the peak stress of the gob-side roadway could reach 1.8 times of the self-weight stress of overlying strata. …”
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Investigating the role of age, admission systolic blood pressure, and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in predicting left ventricular hypertrophy among patients with primary hyperten... by Xiaoyong Hu, Djandan Tadum Arthur Vithran, Zhaoying Yang, Ting Zou, Rui Tang, Hongjian Li

“…Our combined diagnostic model provides valuable insight for early LVH screening, aiding timely clinical intervention.…”
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Giant Amoebic Liver Abscess: A Rare Diagnosis in a Rural Setting of Sub-Saharan Africa by Cyril Jabea Ekabe, Jules Kehbila, Njinju Asaba Clinton

“…Good clinical evaluation and timely nonsurgical therapy can provide recovery to some patients.…”
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The Rise and Fall of the Iraqi Sunni Awakening Movement by Ramiz Sevdimaliyev

“…The disintegration of the Awakening was strongly influenced by two US decisions that were of strategic importance to Iraq: (a) support for al-Maliki following his defeat in the 2010 parliamentary elections, won by the secular Sunni-Shiite coalition; (b) poor timing of the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, as by the end of 2011, the Iraqi security forces were still not ready to ensure the country's security. …”
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A contribution to Porogramme (Polyporaceae, Agaricomycetes) and related genera by Wei-Lin Mao, Ying-Da Wu, Hong-Gao Liu, Yuan Yuan, Yu-Cheng Dai

“…The molecular clock analyses estimate the divergence times of the six clades based on a dataset (ITS + LSU + TEF1 + RPB1 + RPB2), and we recognize the mean stem ages of the six genera are earlier than 50 Mya. …”
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