Research note: Genetically diverse avian hepatitis E virus identified in chickens with hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome in Guangdong Province, China by Xue-Lian Zhang, Yu-Qian Zhang, Chun-Hong Liu, Yan Ma, Shu-Jian Huang, Jian-Wei Shao

“…Avian hepatitis E virus (HEV) is recognized as the primary causative agent of big liver and spleen disease, hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome, and hepatic rupture hemorrhage syndrome, resulting in substantial economic losses within the global poultry industry. …”
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Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of Significant Parameters for Superlarge Diameter Shield Excavation by Elton J. Chen, Yang-Yang Chen, Lin-Chun Wei, Han-Bin Luo

“…In this paper, we (i) utilize a BIM-based big data platform (BIM-BDP) to manage the essential construction data of tunnel project in digital format; (ii) adopt the global sensitivity analysis (SA) to recognize significant parameters for shield excavation based on polynomial chaos expansion (PCE)–extended Fourier amplitude sensitivity test (eFAST) model; and (iii) employ the uncertainty analysis (UA) to discover the correlation between significant parameters from the data of the BIM-BDP. …”
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Real-Time Facial Expression Recognition Based on Image Processing in Virtual Reality by Qingzhen Gong, Xuefang Liu, Yongqiang Ma

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Medicinal plants mediated the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their biomedical applications by Haajira Beevi Habeeb Rahuman, Ranjithkumar Dhandapani, Santhoshini Narayanan, Velmurugan Palanivel, Ragul Paramasivam, Ramalakshmi Subbarayalu, Sathiamoorthi Thangavelu, Saravanan Muthupandian

“…Silver nanotechnology has a big impact on medical applications like bio‐coating, novel antimicrobial agents, and drug delivery systems. …”
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The problem of deficit did not appear just before collapse of the USSR: on situation in trade in Gorky region at the beginning of perestroika by A. N. Veryaskina, N. Yu. Margolis, A. A. Fomenkov

“…A number of settlements of the region where there are big difficulties with trade and consumer services of the population are revealed. …”
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Macroscopic Profile Modification and Microscopic Displacement Mechanism of Weak Gel Flowing in Porous Media by Jian Wang, Bo Kang, Liehui Zhang, Beata Joanna Darowska, Peng Xu

“…The microscopic displacing experiments indicate that weak gel mainly intrudes into big pores rather than small ones, which can improve the conformance horizontally and increase the sweep efficiency benefiting from fluid diversion. …”
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Basalt Powder Waste Application as Affordable Concrete Admixture by Leopold Mbereyaho, Niyoyita Jean Bosco, Kimararungu Augustin, Ntakiyimana Desire

“…Almost all admixtures used in Rwanda are being imported from outside the country and this is one of factors affecting the construction cost. A big quantity of basalt powder at different sites in the country is left without being used and has been negatively impacting the environment. …”
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الميتاداتا : تحليل لاحق للانتاج الفکرى by رحاب محمد ابو الغار

“…. Conducting many studies on the topic of "Big Metadata" and "LinkedMetadata" Methods used to describe metadata between Arab and foreign indexes(that use correlated data): a comparative study. Future directions for describing metadata of indexes in the environment oflinked data: an exploratory study. …”
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Enhancing Stock Portfolio Selection with Trapezoidal Bipolar Fuzzy VIKOR Technique with Boruta-GA Hybrid Optimization Model: A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach by Sunil Kumar Sharma

“…Financial decision-making can be very hard for investors who have access to big data due to the overwhelming amount of information they are required to interpret. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence on Vibration Characteristics of Thin Cylindrical Shell with Hard Coating under Cantilever Boundary Condition by Hui Li, Wei Sun, Mingwei Zhu, Pengcheng Xue

“…It can be found that hard coating can play an important role in vibration reduction of TCS, and for the most modes of TCS, hard coating will result in the decrease of natural frequencies, but the decreased level is not very big, and its damping effects on the higher frequency range of the shell are weak and ineffective. …”
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Hotel websites characterisation framework for consumer’s information needs by Célia M.Q. Ramos, Marisol B. Correia, João M.F. Rodrigues, Carlos M.R. Sousa, Pedro M. Cascada

“…In the near future by using Big Data it is expected that hotel websites will be dynamic, they will adapt themselves on-the-fly, showing personalized information to each consumer. …”
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Prediction of Transverse Reinforcement of RC Columns Using Machine Learning Techniques by Congzhen Xiao, Baojuan Qiao, Jianhui Li, Zhiyong Yang, Jiannan Ding

“…To solve the over-fitting problem caused by the current situation of “few samples and big errors” of the experimental database, feature engineering aiming at dimension reduction is systematically carried out through an iterative process. …”
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Analysis of Rear-End Crash on Thai Highway: Decision Tree Approach by Thanapong Champahom, Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao, Vuttichai Chatpattananan, Ampol Karoonsoontawong, Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha

“…Classification and regression tree (CART) was used to analyze the complicated relationship of variables of big data. The analysis was conducted by creating two models: (1) a model which indicates the causes of rear-end crashes by applying Quasi-Induced Exposure to at-fault driver characteristics; (2) a determined model which studies fatal crashes. …”
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Using crafted features and polar bear optimization algorithm for short-term electric load forecast system by Mansi Bhatnagar, Gregor Rozinaj, Radoslav Vargic

“…PSO and PBO were comparable with XGBoost LightGBM and Random Forest while PBO highly surpassed PSO with the Bi-LSTM model. Hence PBO was proved to be highly effective for hyperparameter tuning for implementation in short-term electric load forecasting.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Barriers and Challenges in Adoption of Electronic Health Record System in Government and Private Hospitals of Islamabad by Ghazala Jawwad, Maleha Asim, Amanat Ali, Humaira Fayyaz Khan, Aiman Farogh Anjum, Abdul Qudoos Arain

“…Implementation of single module and multi module was a big challenge for government and private hospital respectively (p value <0.05). …”
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Impact Assessment of Orography on the Extreme Precipitation Event of July 2010 over Pakistan: A Numerical Study by Khan Muhammad Tahir, Yan Yin, Yong Wang, Zaheer A. Babar, Dong Yan

“…A low level jet is created on windward side of big mountains, yielding enhanced moisture flux and instability. …”
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Chatbot Programmes’ ‘Arms Race’: Africa and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics by Tapiwa Chagonda

“…The ‘arms race’ to create chatbots that can rival Open AI’s ChatGPT-4.0 technology by big technology companies such as Google and Meta, is not only hastening the pace of the AI revolution but is also bringing to the fore the double-edged nature of this technology. …”
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Modeling Pipe to Soil Potentials From Geomagnetic Storms in Gas Pipelines in New Zealand by Tim Divett, Malcolm Ingham, Gemma Richardson, Mark Sigley, Craig J. Rodger

“…We have developed a model of the gas pipelines in the North Island of New Zealand to identify whether a hazard exists to these pipelines and how big this hazard is. We used a transmission line representation to model the pipelines and a nodal admittance matrix method to calculate the PSPs at nodes up to 5 km apart along the pipelines. …”
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Digital maturity of business: Technological gap and limitations of digital transformation by I. S. Prokhorova, P. M. Gureev

“…As a result of the study, it was found that the main reasons for the unsystematic processes of digitalization of Russian business are the low quality of business digitalization with high digital activity and low technological capabilities for implementing Industry 4.0 technologies due to the limited use of the Internet mobile network in business, business cybersecurity tools, Internet communications and cloud services. …”
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Experimental Research of Continuous Concrete Beams with GFRP Reinforcement by Nikola Baša, Mladen Ulićević, Radomir Zejak

“…The use of the fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement in these objects and environments has a big significance, taking into account tendency of steel reinforcement to corrode. …”
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