The Principle and Downhole Testing of Water Injection Exploration in Depleted Reservoirs by Jinpeng Xu, Hui Zhao, Bing Dong, Yi Li, Chuang Wang

“…The exploration of depleted areas, especially old tunnels, presents significant challenges, and achieving the required borehole density for exploration in depleted areas is difficult in reality. …”
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Improving Crack Detection Precision of Concrete Structures Using U-Net Architecture and Novel DBCE Loss Function by Andrew Prasetyo, I Ketut Eddy Purnama, Eko Mulyanto Yuniarno, Priyo Suprobo

“…Crack500 covers cracks with significant distress such as gravel, and CrackForest focuses on small cracks in concrete.The proposed U-Net model achieved Maximum accuracies between 98.58% and 99.22%, Maximum Dice coefficients from 88.27% to 98.03%, and Maximum F1-scores up to 97.11%. …”
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Grouting Mechanism in Water-Bearing Fractured Rock Based on Two-Phase Flow by Bo Ren, Wenqiang Mu, Bingyou Jiang, Guofeng Yu, Lianchong Li, Tingshuang Wei, Yunchun Han, Diancai Xiao

“…When the single-hole grouting was carried out, the predetermined value can be achieved in the height range, but it was only about 15 m on the side because of the water flowing, which cannot meet the requirements. …”
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FD-YOLO: A YOLO Network Optimized for Fall Detection by Hoseong Hwang, Donghyun Kim, Hochul Kim

“…The proposed Fall Detection YOLO (FD-YOLO) network, developed by integrating the Swin Transformer and GAM into YOLOv9, achieved a high mAP@0.5 score of 0.982 and recorded only 134 missed fall incidents, demonstrating optimal performance. …”
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Nutrient Budget and Economic Assessment of Blended Fertilizer Use in Kenya Tea Industry by Kibet Sitienei, Hellen W. Kamiri, Gilbert M. Nduru, David M. Kamau

“…The economic optimum nitrogen rate (EONR) was achieved at 75 kg·N·ha−1·yr−1 at Kagochi with all fertilizers, while at Timbilil, EONR was variable, between 75 and 225 kg·N·ha−1·yr−1 with fertilizer types. …”
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Archived Cytogenetic Cell Pellets Used to Detect a BCR::ABL1 Driver Mutation Eight Years before Disease Presentation by Ramakrishnan Sasi, Michelle Spruill, Peter L. Perrotta

“…The patient responded to imatinib and achieved a sustained complete hematologic and cytogenetic remission. …”
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Rehabilitation of an Upper Extremity Weight-Bearing Athlete with an Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injury: A Case Report by Annemieke D. Corbitt, William D. Bandy

“…The subject demonstrated 105% limb symmetry index with the return to sport (RTS) UE functional testing of one-armed seated shot-put throw (SSPT) and achieved normative values with the closed kinetic chain upper extremity stability test (CKCUEST)…”
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Accelerated TLPD bonding of reliable IMCs micro joints using Cu–8Ni substrate under thermal gradient: Experiments and theoretical calculations by Yanqing Lai, Mingjie Wang, Donghui Zheng, Meiping Liu, Bao Chen, Jinmei Lv, Ning Zhao

“…The results indicated that the IMCs micro joints mainly consisted of fine and non-preferred orientation (Cu,Ni)6Sn5 grains could be successfully achieved after TLPD bonding under TG (TG-TLPD bonding) at 260 °C for only 9 min. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain(Herniated Lumbar Disc) by Working Group of Clinical Practice Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain (Herniated Lumbar Disc), Wei ZHANG, Bidan LOU, Jinxiang LI, Rong LUO, Wenying SHI, Xiaoye LU, Jiang PAN, Jinzhong TANG

“…The clinical practice guidelines of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)rehabilitation for herniated lumbar disc based on evidence-based medicine are of great significance and will help standardize the clinical diagnosis and treatment techniques of TCM and achieve better curative effects. This guideline standardizes the diagnosis and treatment process of herniated lumbar disc from the aspects of scope, terminology and definition, diagnosis, syndrome differentiation, treatment and nursing, in order to provide guidance and reference for re-levant clinicians such as orthopedics and traumatology department of TCM, orthopedics department of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion department, massage department, rehabilitation department, etc.①The diagnosis part: the diagnosis starts from six aspects of medical history, symptoms and signs, imaging examination, diagnosis points, differential diagnosis, and syndrome diagnosis, reflecting the characteristics and advantages of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.②Rehabilitation assessment: it mainly includes pain assessment, functional impairment assessment, neuromuscular function assessment.③Treatment: it is mainly divided into two parts: non-drug therapy and drug therapy, and the indications and recommended levels of various treatment methods were described in detail. …”
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Interfacial tension reduction using nitrogen graphene quantum dots with various precursors, molar ratios, and synthesis durations for enhanced oil recovery by Younes Gholamzadeh, Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh, Mohammad Sharifi

“…The highest IFT reduction value is achieved by using 1000 ppm ethylenediamine-derived GQDs, which reduces the IFT from 19.03 to 0.70 mN/m at 200,000 ppm NaCl concentrations without using any surfactants. …”
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Functional alignment is a feasible alignment strategy in robotic assisted total knee arthroplasty for knee osteoarthritis with extra-articular deformity – A case series by Eu Wei Cheong, Yuik Ho Jade Pei, Kunalan G.

“…Soft tissue release was gradually released and followed by adjustments of implant positioning in order to achieve a balanced medio-lateral gap. Results: Postoperatively, the lower limb alignment of all patients were restored within 6° (mean 4.54°) based on functional alignment boundaries. …”
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Investigation of the Large-Scale Pallet by Recycled Polypropylene and the Sequential Valve Gate System during the Injection Molding by Chun-Der Cheng, Hsi-Hsun Tsai, Yi-Ling Liao

“…Many filling gates can reduce the welding lines to enhance the structural strength of the pallet to achieve injection molding using a lower locking force machine. …”
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Medical students and ChatGPT: analyzing attitudes, practices, and academic perceptions by Ahmed Samir Abdelhafiz, Maysa I. Farghly, Eman Anwar Sultan, Moaz Elsayed Abouelmagd, Youssef Ashmawy, Eman Hany Elsebaie

“…The survey comprised four sections: socio-demographic characteristics, perceptions, attitudes, and practices. Results The survey achieved a response rate of 96%, with 614 out of 640 approached students participating. …”
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A multi-stage weakly supervised design for spheroid segmentation to explore mesenchymal stem cell differentiation dynamics by Arash Shahbazpoor Shahbazi, Farzin Irandoost, Reza Mahdavian, Seyedehsamaneh Shojaeilangari, Abdollah Allahvardi, Hossein Naderi-Manesh

“…The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our segmentation approach in accurately separating the spheroid from the background. Furthermore, it achieves performance comparable to fully supervised state-of-the-art approaches. …”
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It depends on how you tell: a qualitative diagnostic analysis of the implementation climate for community-wide mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminth by Judd L Walson, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Sarah Lawrence, Khumbo Kalua, Euripide Avokpaho, Amy Roll, Angelin Titus, Yesudoss Jacob, Marie Claire Gwayi-Chore, Félicien Chabi, Comlanvi Innocent Togbevi, Abiguel Belou Elijan, Providence Nindi, Moudachirou Ibikounle, Kumudha Aruldas, Arianna Rubin Means

“…However, the success of such programmes depends on achieving high treatment coverage and uptake. This formative analysis was conducted to evaluate the implementation climate for cMDA and to determine barriers and facilitators to launch.Settings Prior to the launch of a cMDA trial in Benin, India and Malawi.Participants Community members (adult women and men, children, and local leaders), community drug distributors (CDDs) and health facility workers.Design We conducted 48 focus group discussions (FGDs) with community members, 13 FGDs with CDDs and 5 FGDs with health facility workers in twelve randomly selected clusters across the three study countries. …”
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Drp1–associated genes implicated in sepsis survival by Marissa D. Pokharel, Marissa D. Pokharel, Anlin Feng, Anlin Feng, Ying Liang, Ying Liang, Wenli Ma, Wenli Ma, Saurabh Aggarwal, Hoshang Unwalla, Stephen M. Black, Stephen M. Black, Stephen M. Black, Ting Wang, Ting Wang, Ting Wang

“…Such biomarkers would be invaluable in clinical settings, aiding healthcare providers in the early identification of high-risk patients and improving treatment strategies. To achieve this goal, we utilized the major mitochondrial fission regulatory protein dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1, gene code DNM1L) and identified Drp1-associated genes that are enriched with sepsis survival genes. …”
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Genetic sources for barley (<i>Hordeum vulgare</i>) breeding in the Volga-Vyatka region by O. N. Shupletsova, I. N. Shchennikova

“…Increased productivity in stressful environments was achieved by combining different breeding techniques, including application of cell technologies.Materials and methods. …”
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Prevalence, determinants and knowledge about herbal medicine and non-hospital utilisation in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Olujimi Aina, Lata Gautam, Padam Simkhada, Sarah Hall

“…Therefore, a scientifically valid analysis of this claim within the study population may help achieve a cheaper and affordable healthcare alternative which will be safe. …”
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Modeling solar power plant electricity supply chain toward renewable energy consumption by Mohammad Reza Eslami Rasekh, Farzad Mohammad Sharifi, Somaieh Alavi, Nassibeh Janatyan

“…Considering the maximum weight coefficients for CO2 plant emissions and gas consumption, five solar power plants are the optimal number that is achieved by proposed algorithm. The power capacity of five solar power plants is optimized 4.100,4.222,3.920,4.375and 3.991MW, respectively. …”
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Education for sustainable development: new opportunities with the rce network by Mariya V. Yurina, Yuliya V. Lopukhova, Galina D. Kuznetsova

“…The goals of sustainable development can not be achieved only through technological innovation, policy decisions and financial support. …”
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