Patient Perspectives of Dignity, Autonomy and Control at the End of Life: Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography. by Andrea Rodríguez-Prat, Cristina Monforte-Royo, Josep Porta-Sales, Xavier Escribano, Albert Balaguer

“…Three themes emerged: a) dignity mediated by the loss of functionality, linked to the loss of control; b) dignity as identity; and c) autonomy as a determining factor of perceived dignity, understood as the desire for control over the dying process and the desire for self-determination. We propose an explanatory model which highlights that those patients with an intrinsic sense of dignity maintained a positive view of themselves in the face of their illness.…”
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Prediction of instability of formwork concrete pier based on big data machine learning for secondary mining without coal pillar mining by Yanhui Zhu, Ye Tian, Peilin Gong, Kang Yi, Tong Zhao

“…The findings revealed that stress concentration in the columns during mining could lead to excessive damage, compromising safety. A Gaussian process regression (GPR)-based stress prediction model was developed (optimal kernel: ARD-Rational-Quadratic-Kernel, with MSE = 1.3463, RMSE = 1.1603, MAE = 0.6138, and MAPE = 0.4041), demonstrating significantly higher accuracy than linear regression models (error reduced by 1–2 orders of magnitude) and BP neural networks (MSE = 2.0962). …”
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Evaluation of the presence of emerging contaminants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Durango, Mexico by Alexis Rubén Bracamontes-Ruelas, Diana Ibarra-Rodríguez, Jacobo Rodríguez-Campos, Jesús Bernardino Velázquez-Fernández, Yolanda Reyes-Vidal, Liliana Reynoso-Cuevas

“…Nine out of thirteen emerging contaminants and some wastewater quality parameters were almost completely (100 %) removed in the secondary process. However, emerging contaminants such as DEET (N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide), ciprofloxacin, and triclosan were not removed with average residual effluent concentrations of 1.96, 1.33, and 0.75 ng/L in the sampling campaigns performed, indicating that the WWTP does not have the capacity to remove all emerging contaminants, which may represent a potential risk to the regional environment.…”
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Matrix-Based ACO for Solving Parametric Problems Using Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Computers and SIMD Accelerators by Vladimir Sudakov, Yuri Titov

“…According to the results of this research, when solving the problem of optimizing benchmark functions of various dimensions, it was possible to accelerate the method by more than 12 times on matrix SIMD central processing unit (CPU) accelerators. When calculating on the graphics processing unit (GPU), the acceleration was about six times due to the difficulties of implementing a pseudo-random number stream. …”
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A systematic review of digital twins’ potential for citizen participation and influence in land use agenda-setting by David Adade, Walter Timo de Vries

“…This study employed a systematic review following the PRISMA process to identify 34 articles about applying digital twins for citizen participation in planning decision-making. …”
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Perspectives of health, and human and social sciences professionals on student transformation regarding racial discrimination in healthcare by Mathilde Lambert, Malika Mansouri, Adil Mouhab, Rahmeth Radjack, Marie Rose Moro

“…Discussion Our findings suggest the need to spell out the realities and remove taboos before awareness can be raised and the process initiated; the importance of storytelling and the hierarchical example in encouraging people to speak out; and the need to take account of the complex context in which this demanding decentring takes place. …”
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Multi-sensor Fault Detection for Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plants Based on Multiple Robust Input Training Neural Network Models by Zheng HUANG, Hongxing WANG, Haiquan YU, Dou LI, Fengqi SI

“…The influence of numerous failure data with significant errors can be effectively inhibited by virtue of reliable sensor data calculated from cooperative multi-model, such that the accuracy and reliability of fault detection is greatly improved. In addition, the process for sensor fault detection is presented to establish a complete fault dectection system. …”
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A global evaluation of urban agriculture potential for pollinator‐dependent crops in major cities by Ehsan Rahimi, Chuleui Jung

“…Therefore, a pivotal step in the urban planning process for local food production involves estimating the potential and available area for urban agriculture. …”
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Analysis of natural circulation characteristics for pool-type fast reactor system by Yufeng Lv, Zhiwei Zhou, Xingmin Liu

“…The analysis results show that in the early stage of the transient process, the flow re-distribution phenomenon occurs in the pool-type vessel. …”
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FGMFN: Fine-Grained Multiscale Cross-Modal Sentiment Analysis in Advertisements by Han Wang, Peng Chen, Xiangyu Du

“…The model is designed to process multi-scale feature inputs, facilitate efficient sentiment fusion between images and text. …”
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Research on conflict resolution control strategy for vehicles and aircrafts on airport surface by Haiyan Zhang, Jian Zhang, Feng Zhu, Pinzheng Qian, Han Jiang, Xuejian Yao

“…To mitigate the risks of vehicle-aircraft conflicts during the operation process on the airport surface, this paper identifies the conflict areas based on airport surface operational rules and establishes driving models for both vehicles and aircrafts. …”
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Research of Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation on Strength Behavior of Reinforced Sand by Jianye Wang, Xiao Li, Liyun Peng, Shuang Lu, Jin Zhang, Xintao Du

“…Micro-CT imaging and fractal dimension analyses reveal that the precipitation process decreases both the size and connectivity of the pores, while simultaneously increasing their surface heterogeneity and enhancing the overall toughness. …”
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Artificial intelligence-assisted phase recognition and skill assessment in laparoscopic surgery: a systematic review by Wenqiang Liao, Ying Zhu, Hanwei Zhang, Dan Wang, Lijun Zhang, Tianxiang Chen, Ru Zhou, Zi Ye

“…As key technologies, laparoscopic phase recognition and skill evaluation aim to identify different stages of the surgical process and assess surgeons’ operational skills using automated methods. …”
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Thermal Behavior of a Historic Building Housing Books Across Past and Future Climate Scenarios by Gianluca Cadelano, Alessandro Bortolin, Antonio della Valle, Giovanni Ferrarini, Paola Cattaneo, Fabio Peron, Giuseppe Emmi

“…This study aims at contributing to the long-term sustainability and resilience of historic buildings, as well as proposing best practices for planning interventions involving sensitive cultural heritage materials, considering the effects of climate change in the renovation process. The results show strategies to address the climatic changes through a methodology optimizing renovation interventions. …”
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Comparative analysis of heart disease prediction using logistic regression, SVM, KNN, and random forest with cross-validation for improved accuracy by Yagyanath Rimal, Navneet Sharma, Siddhartha Paudel, Abeer Alsadoon, Madhav Parsad Koirala, Sumeet Gill

“…The novelty lies in the data preparation process, where numerical features were imputed using the mean, categorical features were imputed using chi-square methods, and normalization was applied. …”
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The ticking time-bomb. Health literacy in the context of genetic risk prediction in familial breast-ovarian cancer; A qualitative study by Mariya Lorke, Laura Harzheim, Kerstin Rhiem, Christiane Woopen, Saskia Jünger

“…The current study aims at understanding health literacy (HL) among persons at risk of developing familial breast-ovarian cancer (FBOC) from a bottom-up perspective—incorporating their viewpoints into the research process. Its qualitative design integrates an ethnographic-narrative approach and findings from 10 narrative interviews with women who have undergone genetic testing, analysed by using reflexive grounded theory. …”
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Bismuth sensitized iron oxide on exfoliated graphene oxide (Bi–Fe2O3@GO) for oxygen evaluation reaction by Akhtar Munir, Shaheer Jamal, Humaira Yasmeen Gondal, Javed Iqbal, Aamir Hussain, Arslan Aziz, Mahammad Nisar, Muhammad Zubair, Abdul Momin, Ali Haider

“…However, the demand for high anodic potential and sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) restrict the efficiency and feasibility of the water-splitting process. In this quest, transition metal oxides and alloys are considered potential candidates owing to their natural occurrence and high redox potential for OER. …”
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The law of flowing water grouting travel and sedimentary plugging under the influence of many factors by Fuyu Wang, Jiafan Zhang, Xiangrui Qin, Huimei Zhang

“…According to each working circumstance, the diffusion patterns in the process of grouting water plugging are categorized into three types: cross-section, comet, and elongated streamline. …”
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A Marginal Maximum Likelihood Approach for Hierarchical Simultaneous Autoregressive Models with Missing Data by Anjana Wijayawardhana, David Gunawan, Thomas Suesse

“…A common practice is introducing measurement error into SAR models to separate the noise component from the spatial process. However, prior studies have not considered incorporating measurement error into SAR models with missing data. …”
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A multi-objective deep reinforcement learning method for intelligent scheduling of wind-solar-hydro-battery complementary generation systems by Yuanyu Ge, Jun Xie, Jiaqi Chang, Shuo Feng

“…Then, the scheduling problem is developed into a Markov decision process (MDP), in which the state, action, and reward functions of the WSHBCS are designed accordingly. …”
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