A Study of Volatile Organic Compounds in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Chuan Hao Gui, Zhunan Jia, Zihao Xing, Fuchang Zhang, Fang Du, Alex Chengyao Tham, Ming Yann Lim, Yaw Khian Chong, Agnes Si Qi Chew, Khai Beng Chong

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The Role of Antioxidant Enzymes in Adaptive Responses to Sheath Blight Infestation under Different Fertilization Rates and Hill Densities by Wei Wu, Xuejie Wan, Farooq Shah, Shah Fahad, Jianliang Huang

“…Toothpick method had greater lesion length than agar block method in late season. A higher MDA content was found under toothpick method compared with agar block method, which led to greater POD and SOD activities. …”
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Numerical Modeling and Stability Analysis of Surrounding Rock of Yuanjue Cave by Zhigang Meng, Fangzheng Fan, Xuebin Cui, Shu Tao, Yi Cao

“…The cliff displacement increases gradually from the east to the west. The independent block above the corner has the largest free space displacement, and there is a risk of independent collapse. …”
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Atrioventricular Conduction Delay in the Second Trimester Measured by Fetal Magnetocardiography by Annette Wacker-Gussmann, Henrike Paulsen, Krunoslav Stingl, Johanna Braendle, Rangmar Goelz, Joerg Henes

“…If complete AV block appears, it is believed to be irreversible. …”
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The Effect of Telemedicine on Access to Acute Stroke Care in Texas: The Story of Age Inequalities by Karen C. Albright, Amelia K. Boehme, Michael T. Mullen, Tzu-Ching Wu, Charles C. Branas, James C. Grotta, Sean I. Savitz, Catherine Wolff, Bisakha Sen, Brendan G. Carr

“…Our survey of Texas hospitals found that as the median age of a block group increased, the odds of having access to acute stroke care decreased.…”
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Synthesis of Phthalimide Imine Derivatives as a Potential Anticancer Agent by Hayman Sardar Abdulrahman, Mohamed Hassan Mohammed, Lina A. Al-Ani, Mohd Hafiz Ahmad, Najihah M. Hashim, Wageeh A. Yehye

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Investigation of the Effect of Restitution Coefficient on 3-Dimensional Rockfall Analyses by İbrahim Uykun, Mutluhan Akın, Ogün Ozan Varol

“…These coefficients govern the energy and velocity losses of a block upon impact with the slope surface, thereby influencing the trajectory and movement dynamics of the block within the model. …”
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Structural Characteristics of Regenerated Roof and Distribution Law of Overburden Porosity in Downward Mining of a Bifurcated Coal Seam by Ru Hu, Jiwen Wu, Xiaorong Zhai, Wenbao Shi, Kai Huang

“…Results show that the overburden structure of the lower coal seam is altered due to the mining influence of the upper coal seam, and the regenerated roof of the lower coal seam is divided into three structural types from top to bottom, namely: intact rock mass+block fracture rock mass+loose rock mass (type I structure); intact rock mass+block fracture rock mass+loose rock mass+cataclastic rock mass (type II structure); and intact rock mass+block fracture rock mass+loose rock mass+cataclastic rock mass+slab-rent rock mass (type III structure). …”
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Investigating the effect of neighboring buildings’ orientation and the passage on the amount of energy consumption (case example: common residential buildings in Tehran) by Meysam Zekavat, Mansoure Tahbaz, Mohammad Reza Hafezi

“…The north blocks have an energy label of D, whereas the south blocks, except for the end block that receives light from three sides (north, south, and west), have an energy label of C. …”
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Segment search for local extremums of images based on the analysis of brightness of adjacent homogeneous areas by V. Yu. Tsviatkou, Anh Tuan Nguyen

“…The problem of finding local extrema on halftone images is considered. Well-known block-search algorithms provide high speed, but they extract only strict (single-pixel) extremes, skipping extreme areas formed by non-strict extremes. …”
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An Approach to Segmenting Initial Object Movement in Visual Sensor Networks by Seok-Woo Jang, Si-Ho Cha

“…Then, the frames are partitioned into nonoverlapping square blocks of pixels, and finally, the block-based motion vectors, which represent the movement information between two adjacent frames, are extracted from the received images using a block-matching algorithm. …”
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Improving Heat Exchange Performance of Massive Concrete Using Annular Finned Cooling Pipes by Lemu Zhou, Fangyuan Zhou, Hanbin Ge

“…It is found that, for the concrete block using the proposed annular finned cooling pipe system, the peak value of the interior temperature can be further lowered. …”
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Isoproterenol Induced Insulin Resistance Leading to Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Ryan Hoff, Chung-Kay Koh

“…Isoproterenol is known to cause insulin resistance and is often used to treat bradyarrhythmias from atrioventricular block. We report a case of isoproterenol induced diabetic ketoacidosis in a 77-year-old female patient treated with isoproterenol for atrioventricular block prior to insertion of permanent pacemaker. …”
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Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation on the Effect of Measures Operation for Oil-Water Well by Zhi-Bin Liu, Wei Qing, Xin-Hai Kong

“…The evaluation model can be used to evaluate the operation effect of single well, oil block, or the branch company. Based on the actual data of measures operation of a branch company, using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach to evaluate each block in the branch company, this paper obtained the same conclusion as the qualitative analysis.…”
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Impact of Brake Pad Structure on Temperature and Stress Fields of Brake Disc by Guoshun Wang, Rong Fu

“…A method was proposed for improving heat flow distribution of the brake disc through optimizing the position of the friction block of the brake pad. Structure optimization was conducted on brake pads composed of 5 or 7 circular friction blocks. …”
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The New Method of Sensor Data Privacy Protection for IoT by Yue Wu, Liangtu Song, Lei Liu

“…The IoT gateway node verifies the integrity and source of the data, then creates a block, and submits the block chain transaction. In order to avoid tracking the source of the data, a ring signature is used to anonymize the gateway transaction. …”
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A Hierarchical Framework Approach for Voice Activity Detection and Speech Enhancement by Yan Zhang, Zhen-min Tang, Yan-ping Li, Yang Luo

“…The modified Wiener filter (MWF) approach is utilized for noise reduction in the speech enhancement block. For the feature selection and voting block, several discriminating features were employed in a voting paradigm for the consideration of reliability and discriminative power. …”
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Digital Image Forgery Detection Using JPEG Features and Local Noise Discrepancies by Bo Liu, Chi-Man Pun, Xiao-Chen Yuan

“…To achieve this target, a special descriptor for each block was created combining the feature from JPEG block artificial grid with that from noise estimation. …”
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A New (Related-Key) Neural Distinguisher Using Two Differences for Differential Cryptanalysis by Gao Wang, Gaoli Wang, Siwei Sun

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we apply it to the block ciphers: Simon, Speck, Simeck, and Hight. Compared to the existing results, our method can provide improved accuracy and even increase the number of rounds that can be analyzed. …”
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A Note on the Minimum Wiener Polarity Index of Trees with a Given Number of Vertices and Segments or Branching Vertices by Sadia Noureen, Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti, Akbar Ali

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