Application of Extreme Gradient Boosting Based on Grey Relation Analysis for Prediction of Compressive Strength of Concrete by Liyun Cui, Peiyuan Chen, Liang Wang, Jin Li, Hao Ling

“…This study presents a novel predictive system as follows: extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) based on grey relation analysis (GRA) for predicting the compressive strength of concrete containing slag and metakaolin. One of its highlights is a feature selection methodology, i.e., GRA, which was used to determine the main input variables. …”
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Contribution of domestic animals’ feces to the occurrence of diarrhoea among children aged 6–48 months in Sidama region, Ethiopia: a laboratory-based matched case-control study by Argaw Ambelu, Gorfu Geremew Gunsa, Alemayehu Haddis

“…Background In developing countries, due to improper management of domestic animals’ exposures, under-five (U5) children have been affected by diarrhoea. …”
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Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in lupus nephritis and beyond by Elisabet Svenungsson, Iva Gunnarsson, Andreas Jönsen, Ting Wang, Anders A Bengtsson, Christian Lood, Marina Barguil Macedo

“…The mechanism behind NGAL increase in SLE may be related to TLR8 pathway activation by circulating RNA-containing IC.…”
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Destruction investigation of foundry sand-liquid-glass cores under compression by Y. I. Gutko, V. V. Voytenko

“…Mathematical expressions for calculating a destruction probability of a foundry core containing an inhomogeneity are obtained.…”
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FFL-IDS: A Fog-Enabled Federated Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System to Counter Jamming and Spoofing Attacks for the Industrial Internet of Things by Tayyab Rehman, Noshina Tariq, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Shafqat Ur Rehman

“…The Internet of Things (IoT) contains many devices that can compute and communicate, creating large networks. …”
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Woody Species Composition, Structure, and Soil Seed Bank of the Degraded Parts of the Gera Moist Afromontane Forest, Southwestern Ethiopia by Dereje Egeta, Giche Yadesa, Abeje Eshete, Hailu Belay, Urge Charu, Tensay Teshome

“…The soil seed bank in the forest contained 77 plant species belonging to 41 families. …”
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Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) Modeling of Chiral CCR2 Antagonists with a Multidimensional Space of Novel Chirality Descriptors by Ramanathan Natarajan, Ganapathy S. Natarajan, Subhash C. Basak

“…In the present study, the final data set contains 198 chirality descriptors for each of the twenty CCR2 antagonist molecules, providing a multidimensional space for modeling. …”
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Efficacy of vaccines based on chimeric or multiepitope antigens for protection against visceral leishmaniasis: A systematic review. by Karine Ferreira Lopes, Mariana Lourenço Freire, Silvane Maria Fonseca Murta, Edward Oliveira

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Vaccine formulations containing various chimeric or multiepitope antigens have been developed and evaluated in different preclinical trials, with only one advancing to clinical trials and commercialization. …”
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AID PROHIBITION AS A TOOL OF THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: DE JURE AND DE FACTO by V. I. Bartenev

“…This paper examines the issue of aid prohibition. The first section contains a catalog and an original typology of effective universal (not country-specific) restrictions on foreign aid provision based on the type of the recipient government’s actions or inactions through its domestic policy or international behavior that trigger harming the U.S. economic interests. …”
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Harnessing the anticancer potential of Piper nigrum: a synergistic approach to chemotherapy enhancement and reduced side effects by Hesti Lina Wiraswati, Ilma Fauziah Ma’ruf, Nur Akmalia Hidayati, Julia Ramadhanti, Daniela Calina, Javad Sharifi-Rad

“…Piper nigrum, a widely available spice with a rich history in traditional medicine, contains bioactive compounds such as piperine, which have demonstrated significant anticancer activities including cell cycle arrest, apoptosis induction, and inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Randomized Double-Blinded Clinical Trial by Ghasem Bordbar, Mohammad Bagher Miri, Mahmoud Omidi, Saeed Shoja, Malihe Akhavan

“…Patients in the control arm received three tablets of 10 mg hyoscine butylbromide daily for two weeks, and the intervention arm was daily treated with two 250 mg softgel capsules containing 180 mg of essential oils of ZM, AG, and TA for two weeks. …”
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Nutritional safety and suitability of a specific protein hydrolysate manufactured by Fonterra Co‐operative Group Ltd derived from a whey protein concentrate and used in infant form... by EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA), Torsten Bohn, Montaña Cámara, Jacqueline Castenmiller, Stefaan de Henauw, Karen‐Ildico Hirsch‐Ernst, Angeles Jos, Alexandre Maciuk, Inge Mangelsdorf, Breige McNulty, Androniki Naska, Kristina Pentieva, Alfonso Siani, Frank Thies, Laurence Castle, Mary Fewtrell, Hildegard Przyrembel, Ariane Titz, Dominique Turck

“…The Panel concludes that the protein hydrolysate under evaluation is a nutritionally safe and suitable protein source for use in infant and follow‐on formula, as long as the formula in which it is used contains a minimum of 2.0 g/100 kcal protein and complies with the compositional criteria of Regulation (EU) 2016/127 and the amino acid pattern in its Annex IIIA.…”
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Proteomic evaluation of pathways associated with phosphine-induced mitochondrial dysfunction and resistance mechanisms in Tribolium castaneum against phosphine fumigation: Whole an... by Donghyeon Kim, Sung-Eun Lee

“…Upregulation of Complex I and III in the electron transport chain of the AUS-07 strain may lead to the excessive generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the form of superoxide, which can damage Fe-S cluster-containing proteins such as cytochrome P450s (CYP450s). …”
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Comparative measurement of short-term fluoride release and inhibition of caries around restoration by ion releasing restorative materials: an in vitro study by Eman T. El-Adl, Maha M. Ebaya, El-Sayed E. Habib, Nadia M. Zaghloul

“…Subsequently, teeth were immersed in a solution containing cariogenic bacteria for 30 days. After that, teeth were sectioned bucco-lingually and analyzed using a polarized light microscope to measure inhibition area, outer lesion depth, and extension. …”
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Facies distribution, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir quality of the Oligo-Miocene carbonate sequences (Asmari formation) in the Dezful embayment, SW Iran by Hamed Sadeqi, Mohsen Aleali, Ali Kadkhodaie, Mehran Arian

“…This succession in the Haft-Kel Field contains limestones, dolostones, anhydrites, and argillaceous limestones and is bounded between the Pabdeh and Gachsaran formations. …”
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Facile Synthesis of Graphene Oxide/Titanate Nanotube Composites and Their Application for Cobalt(II) Removal by Min-Da Xu, Zhen Jin, Wen-Jie Xie, De-Cai Wang, Guang-Song Xu, Ai-Jing Wang, Ran Zhang, Jian Huang

“…It is believed that the GTNT composites can be considered as a potential functional material for removing the radioactive metals containing wastewater.…”
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Evaluation of Prediction Models for the Capping and Breaking Force of Tablets Using Machine Learning Tools in Wet Granulation Commercial-Scale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing by Sun Ho Kim, Su Hyeon Han, Dong-Wan Seo, Myung Joo Kang

“…<b>Methods</b>: The machine learning-based models were trained on data to predict the CQAs of metformin HCl (MF)-containing tablets using a commercial-scale wet granulation process, and five models were each compared for regression and classification. …”
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Co-Combustion of Tire Pyrolysis Products and Wood Pellets by A. V. Grytsenko, N. V. Vnykova, O. I. Pozdnyakova

“…The deterioration of the quality of traditional carbon-containing energy resources leads to the need to develop technologies for co-combustion of biofuel and coal at small and large power plants. …”
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Digital Gangrene: An Unusual Manifestation of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma by Muhammad Shoaib Momen Majumder, Shamim Ahmed, Tajkia Haque, Syed Atiqul Haq, Saumitra Chakravarty, Md. Abu Shahin, Din-E-Mujahid Mohammad Faruque Osmany, Johannes J. Rasker

“…A 32-year-old male weaver had been smoking three to five cannabis-containing cigarettes daily for about ten years and methamphetamine four to five tablets daily for five years. …”
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The suffix -ee: history, productivity, frequency and violation of stress rules by Ives Trevian

“…The purpose of this paper is (1) to show how this historical process came into being, namely when the change occurred from usage in legal language to other uses; (2) to examine this suffix in terms of its morphological productivity, notably to distinguish well-established nouns from mere nonce words, chiefly used as strictly contrastive (e.g. cutter / cuttee, jester / jestee); (3) to ascertain the frequency of -ee suffixed nouns; to do so we have confronted our corpus of -ee nouns with the word frequency search engine Google Books Ngram Viewer and the Collins Dictionary’s Recorded Usage Charts, the former noting the frequency of words since the 16th century and the latter containing dated sentence examples; (4) to determine how many words in -ee violate the rule proscribing two consecutive stresses (e.g. aˌsyˈlee, aˌwarˈdee), this violation being, in principle, allowed only in compound words (e.g. …”
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