Life cycle assessment of an entirely wood floor system designed for carbon negativity, future adaptability, and end-of-life de/re/construction by Muzan Williams Ijeoma, Sovanroth Ou, Amin Nabati, Hao Chen, Michael Stoner, Patricia Layton, Dustin Albright, Brandon Ross, Weichiang Pang, Michael Carbajales-Dale

“…Mass timber offers a promising alternative, with lower embodied carbon (EC) and the potential to function as a carbon sink when sustainably sourced. …”
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Dynamic and efficient vehicular cloud management scheme with privacy protection by Min XIAO, Tao YAO, Yuanni LIU, Yonghong HUANG

“…The vehicular cloud (VC) formed by vehicles is used for localization processing and consumption of traffic sensing data to achieve timely intelligent traffic management.The vehicle cloud is highly dynamic, self-organizing and timely, in which the identity and location privacy of vehicle users need to be protected as this poses challenges to the vehicular cloud management.A dynamic and self-organizing vehicle cloud management scheme based on the asymmetric group key agreement protocol was designed, where the vehicle cloud is automatically formed through the self-organized group key agreement of vehicles.The group key was used to control the provision and access of vehicle cloud services, and the dynamic management of the vehicle cloud was implemented through group key update.The scheme used traceable one-time pseudonym technology to achieve anonymous authentication and conditional privacy protection of vehicle users, and the group key agreement stage only included one bilinear pair operation to achieve high efficiency.In addition, the key negotiation and update process used lightweight signatures, supporting batch verification, to achieve efficient message source authentication and integrity authentication.Then the security and efficiency of vehicle cloud communications in the self-organizing environment can be ensured.The dynamic key update mechanism of the key agreement protocol realized the dynamic joining or exiting of vehicles in the vehicle cloud, adapting to the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle cloud.Under the random oracle model and the difficult assumption of the inverse computational Diffie Hellman (ICDH) problem, it was proved that the asymmetric group key agreement scheme satisfied the selective-plaintext security.The security analysis shows that the scheme can protect the identity and location privacy of vehicle users, realize the legal tracking of malicious vehicles, and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and anti-counterfeiting of communications, as well as the forward security of vehicle cloud dynamic management.The performance comparison analysis shows that this scheme has certain advantages in communication and computing efficiency under the condition of the same function and security level.…”
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Exploring Nonlinear Threshold Effects and Interactions Between Built Environment and Urban Vitality at the Block Level Using Machine Learning by Cong Li, Yajuan Zhou, Manfei Wu, Jiayue Xu, Xin Fu

“…This study proposed to develop a comprehensive framework for urban vitality by incorporating multi-source data, and the central urban area of Xi’an, China, was selected as the study area. …”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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Isolation and Screening of Lactic Acid Bacteria From Sumbawa Buffalo Milk (Bubalus bubalis) as Potential Starter Cultures by Deni Harmoko, Tri Ardyati, Yoga Dwi Jatmiko

“…Besides containing nutrients that are very beneficial for human health, buffalo milk is also a potential source of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with technological and functional properties. …”
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CHARTER OF THE STAVROPOL KRAI: PROBLEM ISSUES AND SEARCH FOR SOLUTION by V. Cherepanov

“…The interpretation of the source of the government of the Stavropol Krai, which is the people of the Stavropol Kraias part of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, has been proposed. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of restrictive lung disorder among quarry workers at the Umuoghara quarry site, Ebonyi State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Ngozika Substance Ike-Samuel, Osaeloka C. Ekwueme, Susan Chioma Udeh

“…Data was collected using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire among 300 quarry workers selected by simple random sampling method. Lung function test was performed using a spirometer- spirovit SPI schiller and data was analyzed with the use of IBM SPSS version 23.0. …”
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Peri-Urban Land Transformation in the Global South: Revisiting Conceptual Vectors and Theoretical Perspectives by Shiwaye M. Tesfay, Genet Alem Gebregiorgis, Daniel G. Ayele

“…Data extraction involved detailed coding of study characteristics, theoretical orientations, and thematic insights. Using open and selective coding, 19 thematic codes were identified. …”
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Systemic model of segregation and transformation of urban solid waste by Alex Rengifo Rojas, Nelino Florida Rofner, Luis Morales y Chocano, José Raúl Rodríguez Lichtenheldt, Julio Pedro Atoche Cornejo

“…Simple and cluster random sampling methods were used to select 119 households and 229 non-domestic establishments, in addition to non-random sampling for 26 special establishments. …”
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Diverse ancestral representation improves genetic intolerance metrics by Alexander L. Han, Chloe F. Sands, Dorota Matelska, Jessica C. Butts, Vida Ravanmehr, Fengyuan Hu, Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez, Nicholas Katsanis, Carlos D. Bustamante, Quanli Wang, Slavé Petrovski, Dimitrios Vitsios, Ryan S. Dhindsa

“…These findings highlight the need for enhanced population representation in genomic resources to fully realize the potential of precision medicine and drug discovery. …”
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Integrated microbiome and metabolome approaches reveal the resistant mechanisms of leaf blight resistant plum cultivar by Xinyan Zhou, Yufei Wei, Yu Zhu, Jiaoming Li, Runche Zhou, Qingju Xiao, Ruihong Luo, Shangdong Yang

“…Results The results showed that higher microbial diversity and richness could be detected in RP cultivar than those of SP cultivar. …”
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Glucosylceramides containing very long-acyl-chain fatty acid are critical for cotton fiber elongation by influencing brassinosteroid synthesis and signaling by Qiaoling Wang, Xingying Yan, Qi Niu, Hongju Zhang, Huidan Tian, Zheng Chen, Fan Xu, Yu You, Yinghui Gao, Zhiqing Qiao, Ming Luo

“…Cotton fiber is one of the longest plant cells and sphingolipids are closely associated with the development of cotton fiber cells. However, their function in cotton fiber cell development and its action mechanism is unclear. …”
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Metagenome Analysis Identified Novel Microbial Diversity of Sandy Soils Surrounded by Natural Lakes and Artificial Water Points in King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Royal Natural Reserve,... by Yahya S. Al-Awthan, Rashid Mir, Fuad A. Alatawi, Abdulaziz S. Alatawi, Fahad M. Almutairi, Tamer Khafaga, Wael M. Shohdi, Amal M. Fakhry, Basmah M. Alharbi

“…Results: In this study, sandy soil samples from the surroundings of natural and artificial water resources of two distinct natures were used. Based on 16S rRNA sequencing, a total of 24,563 OTUs were detected. …”
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Effect of triclosan on phosphate solubilising bacteria in mangrove ecosystem: In-vitro and In-vivo by R.K. Dash, K. Kumar, S.P. Shukla, S. Kumar, S. Kumar H, S. Karmakar, T. Paul

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Correction of Disturbances Influence on Results of Elongated Objects's Probe Microscopy Using Predictive Relief Estimates by P. V. Gulyaev

“…It has been established that control information in the form of forecast estimates can be used in image processing in probe microscopy to detect and partially eliminate disturbances. The formation of predictive images enhances the sharpness of objects and increases the probability of their correct selection using methods based on the analysis of changes in the brightness function.…”
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Community structure of shallow tropical reefs undergoing invasion by Tubastraea spp. in a Brazilian Marine Protected Area by Yollanda Carolina da Silva Ferreira Vançato, Joel Creed, Beatriz Grosso Fleury

“…At one site a significant reduction in Tubastraea spp. was detected after mechanical control. We conclude that the MPA’s status as a conservation unit was important to attract research and thus for establishing a baseline, quantifying change due to the invasion and focusing limited management resources, but not in providing significant biotic resistance to the invasion.…”
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Mapping Landslide Sensitivity Based on Machine Learning: A Case Study in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, China by Baoxin Zhao, Jingzhong Zhu, Youbiao Hu, Qimeng Liu, Yu Liu

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Pemeriksaan Operasional Terhadap Aktivitas Produksi Percetakan Koran Pikiran Rakyat Untuk Meningkatkan Efektivitas dan Efisiensi Aktivitas Produksi by Felina Kusnakhin, Melissa Isabella Senastra

“…To make production activity and function run effectively, managers should be able to detect important problems and also can control and oversee the very limited resources. …”
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In silico and in vivo Study of the Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Azomethine Derivatives of 2-amino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1-benzothiophene-3-carboxamide and 2-substituted 5,6,7,8-tetra... by Chiriapkin, A.S., Kodonidi, I.P., Abisalova, I.L., Diakova, I.N.

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Features of the morphological structure of plants and biochemical properties of introduced and domestic varieties of Cannabis sativa L. by А. С. Полякова, Л. М. Горшкова, Д. Б. Рахметов

“…Nowadays C. sativa is the main source of phyto material for industrial production of natural CBD. …”
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