IDENTIFICATION OF THE UNCERTAIN EVENTS IMPACTING ON CONSTRUCTION TIME OF SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHWAY PROJECTS by Alireza MOGHAYEDI, Abimbola WINDAPO

“…Also, it was found that each factor contains several uncertain events, which impact on construction time differently, through a combination of the uncertain events of the individual construction activities. …”
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Chromosomal Abnormalities in Allium cepa Induced by Treated Textile Effluents: Spatial and Temporal Variations by W. M. Dimuthu Nilmini Wijeyaratne, P. G. Minola Udayangani Wickramasinghe

“…The bioassay indicated that the mitotic index and phase index of the root meristematic cells of Allium cepa can be affected by the treated textile effluents released to the water body and the occurrence of C metaphase, chromosomal adherence, bridges, disturbed anaphase, vagrant chromosomes, and chromosomal breaks indicated that the treated textile effluent receiving tributary can possibly contain genotoxic and mutagenic compounds which can induce chromosomal abnormalities.…”
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CausMatch: Causal Matching Learning With Counterfactual Preference Framework for Cross-Modal Retrieval by Chen Chen, Dan Wang

“…However, most existing methods learn cross-modal attention based on conventional likelihood, leading to the fine-gained matching from regions and words containing numerous invalid local relationships and false global connections. …”
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AfriSign: African sign languages machine translation by Kate Takyi, Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening, Shester Msouobu Gueuwou, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Reindorf Nartey Borkor, Samuelson Israel Boadu-Acheampong, Linus Tabari

“…In this paper, we curate a novel video-to-text African sign languages translation dataset containing sign language videos of Bible verses from six (6) different African countries. …”
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BOston Neonatal Brain Injury Data for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (BONBID-HIE): I. MRI and Lesion Labeling by Rina Bao, Ya’nan Song, Sara V. Bates, Rebecca J. Weiss, Anna N. Foster, Camilo Jaimes, Susan Sotardi, Yue Zhang, Randy L. Hirschtick, P. Ellen Grant, Yangming Ou

“…We release the first public dataset containing neonatal brain diffusion MRI and expert annotation of lesions from 133 patients diagnosed with HIE. …”
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Job crafting as a tool to increase motivation and employee engagement by N. Yu. Kaufman, S. Yu. Zelentsova

“…The development perspective of personnel basic skills in the 21st century is shown, which includes, in addition to the traditionally necessary professional hard skills and soft skills, also existential skills containing the ability to self-development and self-learning. …”
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RESEARCH OF INFLUENCE OF THE IRON CONTENT ON FORMATION OF IRON-BEARING PHASES IN FOUNDRY ALUMINUM ALLOYS by V. I. Gorbachiova, A. V. Terentjeva, M. A. Turchanin, L. A. Dreval

“…The area of primary crystallization of the iron-containing a and b phases is assessed for the commercial silumin. …”
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Squeeze-and-Excitation Vision Transformer for Lung Nodule Classification by Xiaozhong Xue, Yanhe Ma, Weiwei Du, Yahui Peng

“…The SE mechanism assigns higher weights to patches containing crucial information. Finally, attention maps generated by Grad-CAM demonstrate that 2 attention mechanisms enable the model to focus on key areas for classifying benign and malignant lung nodules. …”
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Anomaly detection algorithm based on Gaussian mixture variational auto encoder network by Huahua CHEN, Zhe CHEN, Chunsheng GUO, Na YING, Xueyi YE, Jianwu ZHANG

“…Anomalous data, which deviates from a large number of normal data, has a negative impact and contains a risk on various systems.Anomaly detection can detect anomalies in the data and provide important support for the normal operation of various systems, which has important practical significance.An anomaly detection algorithm based on Gaussian mixture variational auto encoder network was proposed, in which a variational autoencoder was built to extract the features of the input data based on Gaussian mixture distribution, and using this variational autoencoder to construct a deep support vector network to compress the feature space and find the minimum hyper sphere to separate the normal data and the abnormal data.Anomalies can be detected by the score from the Euclidean distance from the feature of data to the center of the hypersphere.The proposed algorithm was evaluated on the benchmark datasets MNIST and Fashion-MNIST, and the corresponding average AUC are 0.954 and 0.937 respectively.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves preferable effects.…”
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Interrogation of a minor victim during the investigation of criminal offenses related to domestic violence by V. P. Gontarenko

“…An analysis of international legal acts containing relevant standards in the researched field, provisions of the current criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine, as well as scientific works, whose authors worked on the outlined issue, has been carried out. …”
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Alliance between the right to identity and the right to family life as a constitutional/conventional basis to rethink adoption in a contemporary key by Marisa Herrera

“…It happens that the right to identity, although always in a relational context such as that contained in filiation, focuses on the satisfaction and protection of people as such, would encounter certain limitations when delving into all interactions – beyond the binarism. relational – that involve certain contemporary problems of adoption. …”
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Design, synthesis, SAR and ADMET analyses of the novel class of synthetic 7-amino[1,2,5]oxadiazolo[3,4-b]pyridine-6-carboxylate derivatives with vasorelaxant activity by Anatolii Varenyk, Roman Vydzhak, Svitlana Panchishin, Irina Ivanova, Victor Zhirnov, Volodymyr Brovarets

“…Eight derivatives showed high vasorelaxant activity, ranging from 73.7 to 87.3 %. Six samples contained an ethyl carboxylate moiety at the 6th position and alkyl or cycloalkyl substituents at the 5th position. …”
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Active Ageing Level of Older Persons: Regional Comparison in Thailand by Md. Nuruzzaman Haque

“…Implementation of an Integrated Active Ageing Package (IAAP), containing policies for older persons to improve their health and economic security, to promote participation in social groups and longer working lives, and to arrange learning programs, would be helpful for increasing older persons’ active ageing level in Thailand.…”
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Residual Characteristics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Dinotefuran and Tolfenpyrad in Tea Processing by LI Chunyong, LÜ Ying, JIN Jing, WANG Xia, QIN Shu

“…The national estimated short-term intake (IESTI) of dinotefuran (containing its metabolites) remained at the same risk level before and after processing factor adjustment, which was lower than the acute reference dose (ARfD) of 1 mg/kg. …”
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Adaptive High-Performance Optimization Tool for Real-Time Operation of Renewable-Based Virtual Power Plants by Oluwaseun Oladimeji, Alvaro Ortega, Lukas Sigrist, Bogdan Marinescu, Vinu Thomas

“…However, real-time operation, particularly for ancillary services like Frequency Containment Reserve and automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve, remains challenging since the offered delivery of such ancillary services needs to be guaranteed at all times. …”
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Peptide-Loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles Prepared through Coacervation Technique by Marina Gallarate, Luigi Battaglia, E. Peira, Michele Trotta

“…The main goal of this experimental work was the entrapment of peptide drugs into SLN, which is a difficult task, since their chemical characteristics (molecular weight, hydrophilicity, and stability) hamper peptide-containing formulations. Insulin and leuprolide, chosen as model peptide drugs, were encapsulated within nanoparticles after hydrophobic ion pairing with anionic surfactants. …”
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Associations between prior healthcare use, time to diagnosis, and clinical outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease: a nationally representative population-based cohort study by Alex Bottle, Sonia Saxena, Richard C G Pollok, Jonathan Blackwell, Irene Petersen, Hanna Creese, Nishani Jayasooriya, Richard CG Pollok

“…For CD, time to diagnosis was associated with risk of CD-related hospitalisation (aHR=1.03, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.68); for UC, it was associated with reduced risk of UC-related hospitalisation (aHR=0.83, 95% CI 0.70 to 0.98) and colectomy (aHR=0.59, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.80).Conclusion Electronic records contain valuable information about patterns of healthcare use that can be used to expedite timely diagnosis and identify aggressive forms of IBD.…”
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Parkinson’s Disease Prevalence and Proximity to Agricultural Cultivated Fields by Maayan Yitshak Sade, Yair Zlotnik, Itai Kloog, Victor Novack, Chava Peretz, Gal Ifergane

“…The Negev (Southern Israel) contains approximately 252.5 km2 of agricultural cultivated fields (ACF). …”
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Impact of antibiotics, iron oxide, and sodium sulfate on microbial community composition in laboratory-built municipal solid waste microcosms. by Judy Malas, Sarah C Khoury, Michael Tanzillo, Gracie A Fischer, Jean E Bogner, D'Arcy R Meyer-Dombard

“…Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills represent underexplored microbial ecosystems. Landfills contain variable amounts of antibiotic and construction and demolition (C&D) wastes, which have the potential to alter microbial metabolism due to biocidal or redox active components, and these effects are largely underexplored. …”
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Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Fibril Binding to Catalase: A Transmission Electron Microscopy and Microplate Study by Nathaniel G. N. Milton, J. Robin Harris

“…Previous studies have shown that catalase binds to Aβ fibrils and appears to recognize a region containing the Gly-Ala-Ile-Ile sequence that is similar to the Gly-Ala-Ile-Leu sequence found in human IAPP residues 24-27. …”
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