Using Different Angles of Rotating Blades Using the Finite Element Method by Hassan Ali Hassan, Ahmad Soheili Mehdizadeh

“… One of the most important operations in agriculture is tillage, which has a great contribution to increasing crop yield and aeration of the soil and, ultimately, root development. …”
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Life Cycle Carbon Emission Analysis of Buildings with Different Exterior Wall Types Based on BIM Technology by Yuelong Lyu, Nikita Igorevich Fomin, Shuailong Li, Wentao Hu, Shuoting Xiao, Yue Huang, Chong Liu

“…We examined four residential buildings in China’s cold regions and hot summer–cold winter regions, utilizing prefabricated concrete sandwich insulation exterior walls (PCSB) and autoclaved aerated concrete block self-insulating exterior walls (AACB). …”
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Sc-doped GeTe thin films prepared by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering by Marek Bouška, Jan Gutwirth, Kamil Bečvář, Vladimír Kucek, Stanislav Šlang, Petr Janíček, Lubomír Prokeš, Josef Havel, Virginie Nazabal, Petr Němec

“…Simultaneously, huge variations of optical functions were found as demonstrated by absolute values of optical contrast values (at 405 nm) in the range of |Δn|+|Δk| = 1.88–3.75 reaching maximum for layer containing 8 at% of Sc.…”
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Interneuron FGF13 regulates seizure susceptibility via a sodium channel-independent mechanism by Susan Lin, Aravind R Gade, Hong-Gang Wang, James E Niemeyer, Allison Galante, Isabella DiStefano, Patrick Towers, Jorge Nunez, Maiko Matsui, Theodore H Schwartz, Anjali Rajadhyaksha, Geoffrey S Pitt

“…While best studied as a voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav) regulator, we observed no effect of Fgf13 ablation in interneurons on Navs but rather a marked reduction in K+ channel currents. …”
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Loss of PKM2 dysregulates inflammatory signaling in the infarcted murine heart by Katie C. Y. Lee, Allison L. Williams, Akitoshi Hara, Vedbar S. Khadka, Jeffrey Hayashi, Ralph V. Shohet

“…These findings suggest Pkm2 ablation primes the heart for increased oxidative stress, inflammation, and fibrosis post‐MI. …”
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The Role of Prenatal Exposure to Lead and Manganese in Child Cognitive Neurodevelopment at 18 Months: The Results of the Italian PHIME Cohort by Valentina Rosolen, Fabiano Barbiero, Marika Mariuz, Maria Parpinel, Luca Ronfani, Liza Vecchi Brumatti, Maura Bin, Luigi Castriotta, Francesca Valent, D’Anna Latesha Little, Janja Snoj Tratnik, Darja Mazej, Ingrid Falnoga, Milena Horvat, Fabio Barbone

“…This study investigated the effects of prenatal exposure to Pb and Mn on neurodevelopment in children at 18 months of age, using data from 607 Italian mother–child pairs enrolled in the Northern Adriatic Cohort II (NAC-II). All children born at term (≥37 weeks) were assessed with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, third edition. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLY GAMMA GLUTAMIC ACID (Γ -PGA) FROM A LOCAL ISOLATE OF THE BACILLUS MEGATERIUM by E. J. Al-Attar, A. H. H. Alzobaay, S. K. Hasan

“…Higher productivity was achieved by agitation and aeration at a ratio of 5:1 of the fermentation media size to flask volume in the rotary shaker incubator at 180 rpm/min, using an inoculum size of 2.8×106 cfu/mL in the production medium till the total γ-PGA concentration reached 7.22 mg/ml. …”
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CULTURAL MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS STRAINS by V. S. Rusaleyev, О. V. Pruntova, D. A. Vasilyev

“…Bacillus subtilis strains were found to have antagonistic effect on Escherichia coli, Salmonella and Staphylococcus. Area of growth inhibition of the said bacteria was 15–20 mm. …”
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Unusual open-system behaviour revealed by LA-MC-ICP-MS U–Th dating of coral and coralline algae bio-carbonates by Condomines, Michel, Bruguier, Olivier, Hajji, Inès, Zaara-Ben Mosbah, Chedia

“…This paper presents new U–Th ages obtained by LA-MC-CP-MS (laser ablation - multi-collector - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry) on coral samples from a sedimentary core of the Tunis lagoon. …”
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DeepTGIN: a novel hybrid multimodal approach using transformers and graph isomorphism networks for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction by Guishen Wang, Hangchen Zhang, Mengting Shao, Yuncong Feng, Chen Cao, Xiaowen Hu

“…To evaluate the performance of DeepTGIN, we compared it with state-of-the-art models using the PDBbind 2016 core set and PDBbind 2013 core set. …”
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Dense Nursery Stock Detecting and Counting Based on UAV Aerial Images and Improved LSC-CNN by PENG Xiaodan, CHEN Fengjun, ZHU Xueyan, CAI Jiawei, GU Mengmeng

“…The ablation experiment proved that the improved LSC-CNN model could effectively resolve the issues of missed detections and false positives in the LSC-CNN model, which were caused by the density and large-scale variations present in the nursery stock dataset. …”
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The effectiveness of Lemna perpusilla as phytoremediation agent in giant gourami culture media on 3 ppt by Alexander Burhani Marda, Kukuh Nirmala, Enang Harris, Eddy Supriyono

“…The treatments were A (L. perpusilla and 3 ppt salinity), B (L. perpusilla, 3 ppt salinity and filter), C (L. perpusilla, 3 ppt salinity and aeration), and D (L. perpusilla, 3 ppt salinity, filter and aeration). …”
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The hype around ctDNA guiding an informed perioperative therapeutic strategy in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer by Gaia Passarella, Stefania Canova, Maria Ida Abbate, Giulia Caspani, Luca Sala, Alessandro Russo, Paola Muscolino, Francesca Colonese, Diego Luigi Cortinovis

“…Circulant tumoral DNA (ctDNA) emerged as a promising prognostic and predictive biomarker that may guide the future perioperative strategy and pave the way to personalized medicine also in this exciting field. This narrative review aims to put in the context the employment of ctDNA, give some perspective and suggestions weighing the pros and cons of this technique for our tomorrow clinical practice.…”
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Galectin-1 as an Emerging Mediator of Cardiovascular Inflammation: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities by Ignacio M. Seropian, Germán E. González, Sebastián M. Maller, Daniel H. Berrocal, Antonio Abbate, Gabriel A. Rabinovich

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Therapeutic Decision Making in Hepatocellular Carcinoma According to Age and Child–Pugh Class: A Nationwide Cohort Analysis in South Korea by Sunmin Park, Chai Hong Rim, Young Kul Jung, Won Sup Yoon

“…For a single HCC, the majority of patients selected transarterial therapy as the initial treatment, followed by surgical resection and local ablative therapy. The surgical resection rate decreased significantly with age (p<0.001), and the transarterial therapy rate significantly increased (p<0.001). …”
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition With Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Feature Enhancement by Zhen Wang, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Manabu Okumura

“…Our approach provides a robust foundation for real-world applications such as sign language education and communication tools, while ablation and case studies highlight the impact of each module, paving the way for future research in CSLR.…”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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A Rare Case Report of Thyroglossal Duct Cyst Carcinoma Coexisting with Thyroid Carcinoma in an Adolescent by Kleanthi Mylopotamitaki, Dionisios Klonaris, Georgios Kazamias, Christos Simandirakis, Irene Vourliotaki, Efthimios Karakostas

“…The patient received adjuvant radioactive iodine ablation (RAI) therapy and is closely followed. Conclusion. …”
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Patients’ Experiences of Living with Atrial Fibrillation: A Mixed Methods Study by Marie Stridsman, Anna Strömberg, Jeroen Hendriks, Ulla Walfridsson

“…Patients with AF were included in the SMURF study and referred for catheter ablation. Patients completed questionnaires on symptoms, health-related quality of life, depression, anxiety, and perceived control and were interviewed. …”
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CenterNet-Elite: A Small Object Detection Model for Driving Scenario by Lingling Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaoyan Chen, Bin Zhou

“…A series of comparative experiments and ablation studies demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in small object detection. …”
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