Spatiotemporal variability of groundwater chemistry, source identification and health risks in the southern Chinese Loess Plateau by Zijun Li, Qingchun Yang, Chuan Xie, Hongyun Ma, Bin Wu, Yanli Wang

“…Groundwater pollution of the loess plateau regions has become a global concern due to its vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic influences. …”
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Estimating Long-Term Fractional Vegetation Cover Using an Improved Dimidiate Pixel Method With UAV-Assisted Satellite Data: A Case Study in a Mining Region by Shuang Wu, Lei Deng, Qinghua Qiao

“…Satellite-based methods, such as the dimidiate pixel method (DPM), struggle with spatial heterogeneity due to coarse resolution. Existing methods using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combined with satellite data (UCS) inadequately leverage the high spatial resolution of UAV imagery to address spatial heterogeneity and are seldom applied to long-term FVC monitoring. …”
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Electrooxidation and Development of a Highly Sensitive Electrochemical Probe for Trace Determination of the Steroid 11-Desoxycorticosterone Drug Residues in Water by Wejdan T. Alsaggaf, Mohammad S. El-Shahawi

“…Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs), a class of compounds frequently misused by competitors and unfortunately by the general population, have lately attracted international attention. …”
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NT-proBNP and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Who Received Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Prospective... by Zuoan Qin, Yaoyao Du, Quan Zhou, Xuelin Lu, Li Luo, Zhixiang Zhang, Ning Guo, Liangqing Ge

“…Age, number of implanted stents, Killip class, infarction-related artery, applied intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), creatine kinase (CK) peak value, CK-MB peak value, TnI peak value, and ST-segment resolution were independently associated with MACE (P<0.05). …”
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Diabetes beliefs, perceived risk and health behaviours: an embedded mixed-methods analysis from the Richmond Stress and Sugar Study by Briana Mezuk, Katherine Khosrovaneh, Viktoryia A Kalesnikava

“…However, the salience of perceived risk as it relates to diabetes prevention is contested. The goal of this cross-sectional, embedded mixed-methods study was to examine the relationships between perceived risk, diabetes beliefs and prevention behaviours among adults at elevated risk of type 2 diabetes.Methods Data come from the Richmond Stress and Sugar Study (n=125). …”
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Chemical Composition, Source Appointment and Health Risk of PM2.5 and PM2.5-10 during Forest and Peatland Fires in Riau, Indonesia by Sepridawati Siregar, Nora Idiawati, Puji Lestari, Abiyu Kerebo Berekute, Wen-Chi Pan, Kuo-Pin Yu

“…Samples of fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM2.5-10) particles collected during the dry season in Riau, Indonesia were analyzed to determine the mass concentrations of metallic trace elements, ionic compound, black carbon (BC), and organic carbon (OC). …”
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Occurrence Characteristics and Threshold Pore Throat Radius of Movable Fluids for Dolomite Intercrystalline Pores of Lacustrine Carbonate Rocks by Shiming Zhang, Xiaojun Zhang, Tingjing Zhang, Yongxian Zheng, Jun Cui, Juerong Fu, Chao Wang, Xiaofeng Yu

“…The samples with higher proportions of coarse pores and pore connectivity are associated with higher proportions of movable fluids. …”
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Study on stress corrosion behavior and failure mechanism of galvanized bolts in complex coal mine environments by Zhe He, Nong Zhang, Zhengzheng Xie, Chao Ma, Changliang Han, Fan Zhang, Huiqing Wang, Saad S. Alarifi

“…Thus, in deep underground engineering, it is not recommended to promote the use of galvanized anti-corrosion processes and Class A shaped bolts, especially in environments with high stress and high mineralization. …”
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miR-126 and miR-126*: New Players in Cancer by Jeannette Meister, Mirko H. H. Schmidt

“…In recent years, short noncoding RNAs termed microRNAs (miRNAs) have been described as a novel class of molecular regulators. These affect various signaling cascades during the progression of neoplastic diseases by the regulation of gene expression on the post-transcriptional level. …”
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Millimeter-Wave All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop Using Reference Waveform Oversampling Techniques by Teerachot Siriburanon, Chunxiao Liu, Jianglin Du, Robert Bogdan Staszewski

“…., harmonic distortion, differential path mismatches, and other nonideality factors, can be programmably compensated by the proposed digital manifold calibration scheme, resulting in low reference spurs. A class-F3 oscillator is used to generate a ~10-GHz signal for the feedback divider along with its third harmonic for the harmonic extractor to generate the ~30-GHz output. …”
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Progressive Self-Prompting Segment Anything Model for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Xiaoning Zhang, Yi Yu, Daqun Li, Yuqing Wang

“…Furthermore, we introduce a progressive self-prompting decoder module that performs prompt-guided multi-level feature integration and generates stage-wise mask prompts progressively, enabling the prompt-based mask decoders outside the backbone to predict saliency maps in a coarse-to-fine manner. The entire network is trained end-to-end with parameter-efficient fine-tuning. …”
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Measurement and predictors of the financial performance of public health enterprises in Italy by Peter PERGER, Achim HECKER

“…Introduction: In the healthcare sector, hospitals are by far the largest producers. As their costs continue to rise, sustaining long-term financial sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult. …”
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UAV launch methods by Oleksandr Dobrodomov, Vladyslav Proroka, Oleksii Kulyk

“…A crucial aspect of UAV development is the method of launch, as it directly impacts the overall system design, efficiency, cost, and operational conditions. With the continuous introduction of new UAV types, understanding the most effective launch methods for each specific case is paramount. …”
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The effect of two different types of removable partial dentures on chewing activity and muscle efficiency. by Banu Hiwa Mohammed, Rizgar Mohammedameen Hasan

“…Statistical analysis of data was achieved by means of (SPSS 25). And performing (independent sample T test, one‐way anova test, and multiple comparison Tukey test). …”
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Mechanical and Pharmacological Revascularization Strategies for Prevention of Microvascular Dysfunction in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Analysis from Index of Microc... by Ji-Hun Jang, Man-Jong Lee, Kyu-Yong Ko, Jin-Hee Park, Yong-Soo Baek, Kwon Sung-Woo, Sung-Hee Shin, Seong-Ill Woo, Dae-Hyeok Kim, Young Ju Suh, Jun Kwan, Sang-Don Park

“…Clinical factors for Killip class P=0.006, delayed hospitalization from symptom onset P=0.004, peak troponin-I level P=0.042, and multivessel disease P=0.003 were associated with high IMR. …”
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The Role of Subtropical High Pressure in the Spatial Daily Precipitation Distribution in Iran by Amir Hosein Halabian, Mehran Shabankari

“…These stations mainly encompass south coast of Caspian sea and north west of Iran. According to this analysis, the occurrence of precipitation in 96.9% of studied stations(1033 out of 1066) are intensively under control of subtropical high pressure at the time of the predominance of this system over Iran.…”
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Electronic Study Guides for Applied Bachelor’s Degree Programs by D. V. Maltsev, E. M. Genson, D. S. Repetskiy

“…Classroom lessons consist of lectures, laboratory and practical classes, additionally, coursework was provided. The difficulty of organizing and maintaining a laboratory in working condition is due to high labor and material costs for fuels and lubricants, electricity, forced-air ventilation, maintenance and repair of internal combustion engines, etc. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…Initially, the middle-class protagonist and her sister appear as old-fashioned Old Women at the beginning, but once the former unexpectedly turns into an infant, she indeed gets pushed out of a social safety net, as babyfarmers illegally adopt and abuse her. …”
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Evaluation of the practical application of the category-imbalanced myeloid cell classification model. by Zhigang Hu, Aoru Ge, Xinzheng Wang, Cuisi Ou, Shen Wang, Junwen Wang

“…During the evaluation of Loss function and attention mechanism, the Cost-Sensitive Loss Function (CS) and the channel attention mechanism Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SE) demonstrated superior performance. …”
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Presegmenter Cascaded Framework for Mammogram Mass Segmentation by Urvi Oza, Bakul Gohel, Pankaj Kumar, Parita Oza

“…The first-stage segmentation model of the cascade framework is used to generate a saliency map to establish a coarse region of interest (ROI), effectively narrowing the focus to probable mass regions. …”
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