Sustainable ceiling panels: exploring the potentials of groundnut shell and sugarcane bagasse-modified plaster of Paris by Ubong Williams Robert, Sunday Edet Etuk, Okechukwu Ebuka Agbasi, David Adeniran Oyegoke, Sylvester Andrew Ekong

“…Abstract Plaster of Paris (POP) ceiling has several advantages over other panels but because it is very expensive, only those in the elite class could afford it. Also, groundnut shell (GNS) and sugarcane bagasse (SGB) are recyclable wastes generated in large quantities annually, yet, majorly under-utilized. …”
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Natural Cyclic Peptides: Synthetic Strategies and Biomedical Applications by Devan Buchanan, Shogo Mori, Ahmed Chadli, Siva S. Panda

“…Natural cyclic peptides, a diverse class of bioactive compounds, have been isolated from various natural sources and are renowned for their extensive structural variability and broad spectrum of medicinal properties. …”
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: short- and long-term results from a cohort in Brazil by Fabio Solano de Freitas Souza, Marcelo Gottschald Ferreira, Iury Andrade Melo, Marta Ferreira Leite de Sá, Camila Melo Coelho Loureiro, Rosalvo Abreu, Paulo Henrique Alves de Carvalho, Mateus dos Santos Viana, Valdemar Oliveira Jr, Luiz Eduardo Fonteles Ritt

“…There was an increase in the six-minute walk distance and an improvement in functional class. Acute lung injury with clinical manifestations was observed after 7% of the BPA sessions. …”
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CONDIÇÕES DE VIDA: UMA DAS BASES DAS PROPOSTAS DO I CONGRESSO DA INDÚSTRIA E SUA IMPORTÂNCIA PARA O PROJETO DA BURGUESIA INDUSTRIAL BRASILEIRA by Moacir de Freitas Jr

“…Tal disposição permitiu neutralizar em partes o poder do setor agrário e dos setores da burguesia não associados à ideia de um plano de desenvolvimento, bem como abriram espaço para a aproximação do proletariado, que passou a defender o projeto industrialista de desenvolvimento, vislumbrando em tal aliança um maior espaço político para defender os interesses dos trabalhadores, que naquele momento histórico lutavam por melhores condições de vida e de trabalho e também para se consolidar enquanto classe social com interesses políticos próprios. Ressalta-se o papel de Roberto Simonsen para este processo, responsável por formular e apresentar as propostas debatidas no trabalho, defendia que a pauperização precisaria ser superada, a fim de que o Brasil pudesse se estabilizar socialmente; ainda, que a pobreza só seria superada pela industrialização. …”
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Soil erosion susceptibility maps and raster dataset for the hydrological basins of North Africa by Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Essam Heggy

“…We validate SESMAR using the Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa) and the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) datasets as well as published peer-reviewed reports across 20 watersheds, demonstrating a robust agreement in assessing the average annual soil loss values and soil erosion classes in local areas covered by independent study teams. …”
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Expected annual minima from an idealized moving-average drought index by J. H. Stagge, K. Sung, K. Sung, I. F. Munyejuru, M. A. I. Haidar

“…To accomplish this, we derive a stochastic model and use it to simulate 10 <span class="inline-formula">×10⁶</span> years of daily or monthly SPI values in order to determine the distribution of annual exceedance probabilities. …”
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Renoprotective Effect of Thai Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treated with SGLT-2 Inhibitors versus DPP-4 Inhibitors: A Real-World Observational Study by Apichaya Chanawong, Suriyon Uitrakul, Supatcha Incomenoy, Natnicha Poonchuay

“…Patient medication records of all patients who used those two antidiabetic classes at Fort Wachirawut Hospital were reviewed. …”
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Quantitative Assessment of Gaseous Effluents during Routine Operation: A Comparative Study of Planned Nuclear Power Plants at Lubiatowo-Kopalino and Pątnów Sites in Poland by Edyta Agata Macieja, Juyoul Kim

“…Westinghouse AP1000 reactor was selected by Polish government to be built as the first plant in the location of Lubiatowo-Kopalino, on the coast of the country. In the meantime, Poland’s ZE PAK, Polska Grupa Energetyczna, and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power have signed the letter of intent to collaborate on the project that evaluates the feasibility of building South Korean APR1400 on Pątnów site in central Poland. …”
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Genomic insights into multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated from Dhaka, Bangladesh by Sadia Ferdous, K M Shayerul Abedin Shayer, Afia Anjum, Sabbir R. Shuvo, Ishrat Jabeen, Kristi Paul Hridi, A.K.M. Imrul Hassan, Md Imran Khan, Mohammad Fazle Alam Rabbi, Mahmud Hossain, Kazi Nadim Hasan, Sohidul Islam

“…All strains carried different classes of β-lactamase genes, including the carbapenem hydrolyzing enzyme coding genes blaoxa-23 and blaoxa-51. …”
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Instruction and demonstration-based secure service attribute generation mechanism for textual data by LI Chenhao, WANG Na, LIU Aodi

“…Concurrently, to prevent semantic loss due to over-generalization, a cosine similarity threshold was regulated, enabling the generation of a service attribute set. …”
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Deformation and strengthening behavior of Al-Cu-based alloys at ambient and elevated temperatures by Mehran Shahhosseininia, Mohammadreza Zamani

“…To evaluate the mechanical properties and deformation behavior of each alloy, the tensile test process was conducted at ambient and elevated (250°C) temperatures. For the Al-Cu-Mg-Ag class, the influence of grain size on yield strength (YS) and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) was studied. …”
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Monitoring the physical fitness of students aged 10-15 and 15-18 during online education by Olena Nesen, Lesia Korobeinikova, Iryna Ivanyshyn, Olga Goncharova

“…The research was conducted at the Velikosknitsky Lyceum (Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine) during offline physical education classes at the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year. …”
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Risk characterisation of chemicals of emerging concern in real-life water reuse applications by Jan C. Specker, Antonia Praetorius, Milo L. de Baat, Nora B. Sutton, Annemarie P. van Wezel

“…However, a thorough risk assessment of CECs during water reuse is currently limited due to a focus on a defined class of contaminants in the literature, i.e., pharmaceuticals, and falls short of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. …”
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Regime Change: The Need for Scientific Critical Consciousness by Usama Javed Mirza

“…This article outlines how the curriculum, teaching and assessment methodologies of traditional science classes can be enhanced to inculcate SCC. This is illustrated by presenting a “revamped” curriculum of the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) O’ level physics, complete with a learning outcomes and assessment framework. …”
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Volatile-Olfactory Profiles of cv. Arbequina Olive Oils Extracted without/with Olive Leaves Addition and Their Discrimination Using an Electronic Nose by Ítala M. G. Marx, Nuno Rodrigues, Ana C. A. Veloso, Susana Casal, José A. Pereira, António M. Peres

“…In all oils, total volatile contents varied from 57.5 to 65.5 mg/kg (internal standard equivalents), being aldehydes followed by esters, hydrocarbons, and alcohols the most abundant classes. No differences in the number of volatiles were observed. …”
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Preparation and mechanical properties of (SiCnp+NiTip)/Al composites with triple-modal grain structure by Xue Zhang, Mingfang Qian, Xuexi Zhang, Lin Geng

“…Large-size pure Al powder with coarse grains (CG, average grain size 9.4 μm) were mixed with Al-SiCnp and Al-NiTip powders via low energy ball milling. …”
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Ethnotherapeutic Uses and Phytochemical Composition of Physalis peruviana L.: An Overview by Félicien Mushagalusa Kasali, Jonans Tusiimire, Justin Ntokamunda Kadima, Casim Umba Tolo, Anke Weisheit, Amon Ganafa Agaba

“…Several phytochemical classes were found in the plant, especially terpenes (26.09%) and phenolic compounds (14.94%). …”
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Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms in Short-term Forecasting of PM10 and PM2.5 Concentrations in Selected Polish Agglomerations by Bartosz Czernecki, Michał Marosz, Joanna Jędruszkiewicz

“…Employing analysis and cross-validation, we found that XGBoost performed the best, followed by random forests and neural networks, and stepwise regression performed the worst. …”
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Enhancing cardiac diagnostics: a deep learning ensemble approach for precise ECG image classification by Ahmed Alsayat, Alshimaa Abdelraof Mahmoud, Saad Alanazi, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa, Nasser Alshammari, Majed Abdullah Alrowaily, Hosameldeen Shabana, Mohamed Ezz

“…The most effective ensemble, composed of Inception, MobileNet, and NASNetLarge, achieved an F1 score of 0.9651 and a balanced accuracy of 0.9640, indicating a superior predictive performance. …”
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Gene Ontology and Expression Studies of Strigolactone Analogues on a Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line by Mohammed Nihal Hasan, Syed Shoeb Razvi, Hani Choudhry, Mohammed A. Hassan, Said Salama Moselhy, Taha Abduallah Kumosani, Mazin A. Zamzami, Khalid Omer Abualnaja, Majed A. Halwani, Abdulrahman Labeed Al-Malki, Jiannis Ragoussis, Wei Wu, Christian Bronner, Tadao Asami, Mahmoud Alhosin

“…Strigolactone (SL) is a novel class of phytohormone, whose analogues have been reported to possess anticancer properties on a panel of human cancer cell lines through inducing cell cycle arrest, destabilizing microtubular integrity, reducing damaged in the DNA repair machinery, and inducing apoptosis. …”
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