Evaluating the Fatigue Resistance of the Innovative Modified-Reinforced Composite Asphalt Mixture by Gholamali Shafabakhsh, Mahdi Akbari, Hossein Bahrami

“…The results showed that the MRC-HMA mixture improved the fatigue life at the strain level of 500 μs by about 701, 172.5, and 156.4% compared to the control, NSM-HMA, and GR-HMA specimens, respectively. Based on the results, the use of GR-HMA specimens has almost the same results as NSM-HMA ones, but the use of the MRC-HMA mixture can significantly increase the fatigue life of MRC-HMA in all three levels of strain compared to all specimens studied in the present study. …”
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COVID-19 and pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using U.S. registry database by Christopher Schmitt, Gary Beasley, Karine Guerrier, Jennifer Kramer, Maryam Y. Naim, Heather Griffis, Bryan McNally, Paul S. Chan, Rabab Al-Araji, Joseph Rossano

“…Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) increased in the adult population during the COVID pandemic.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Objectives: We aimed to determine if OHCAs increased in the pediatric population during the COVID pandemic and whether the pandemic exacerbated pre-existing racial and socio-economic disparities.13,17,18,19,20 Methods: Utilizing data from 2015 to 2020 from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) database, 13,513 pediatric OHCAs were analyzed. …”
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A two-sex model for the influence of heavy alcohol consumption on the spread of HIV/AIDS by Gigi Thomas, Edward M. Lungu

“…., can be different for men and women, the primaryobjective of our present paper is to construct a two-sex model aimedat shedding light on how both sexes, with varying heavy alcoholconsumption trends, contribute differently to the HIV/AIDS spread.Based on numerical simulations, supported by the UNAIDSepidemiological software SPECTRUM and using the available data, ourstudy identifies heavy drinking among men and women to be a majordriving force for HIV/AIDS in Botswana and sub-Sahara Africa andquantifies its hazardous outcomes in terms of increased number ofactive TB cases and economic burden caused by increased need forAntiRetroviral Therapy (ART). …”
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Inverse Occlusion: A Binocularly Motivated Treatment for Amblyopia by Jiawei Zhou, Zhifen He, Yidong Wu, Yiya Chen, Xiaoxin Chen, Yunjie Liang, Yu Mao, Zhimo Yao, Fan Lu, Jia Qu, Robert F. Hess

“…The primary outcome measure was the binocular balance which was measured using a phase combination task; the secondary outcome measures were the best-corrected visual acuity which was measured with a Tumbling E acuity chart and converted to logMAR units and the stereoacuity which was measured with the Random-dot preschool stereogram test. …”
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Study of the corrosion behavior of cast Ti2AlNb alloy in HF–HNO3 solution by Yunyun Liu, Xianfei Ding, Lihong Wu, Xin Feng, Jiabin Zuo, Yunan Zhang, Lei Wen

“…Based on immersion weight loss and electrochemical methods, the corrosion behavior of cast Ti2AlNb alloy in HF–HNO3 solution was investigated. …”
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Microsatellite analyses reveal genetic diversity and population structure of Cipangopaludina chinensis in Guangxi, China by Xiao-kai Wei, Kang-qi Zhou, Xin-xi Zou, Xue-ling Zhang, Yu-Sen Li, Hui Luo, Yin Huang, Xue-song Du, Jun-qi Qin, Zhong Chen, Yong Lin, Xian-hui Pan, Hua Ye

“…In this study, the genetic diversity and population structure of 10 different geographical populations of C. chinensis from Guangxi, China, were analyzed using microsatellite DNA markers. …”
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Elevated plasma trimethyllysine is associated with incident atrial fibrillation by Mads M Svenningsson, Gard FT Svingen, Per M Ueland, Gerhard Sulo, Espen Ø Bjørnestad, Eva R Pedersen, Indu Dhar, Dennis W. Nilsen, Ottar Nygård

“…However, any association between circulating TML and incident AF has not yet been reported and was the aim of the current study in a large community based cohort. Methods: Information regarding AF was obtained by linking patient data to national health registries. …”
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Healthy lifestyle factors and male perpetration of intimate partner violence: a cross-sectional study in Mwanza, Tanzania by Anna E. Jacob, Gerry Mshana, Neema Mosha, Ramadhan Hashim, Simon Sichalwe, Donati Malibwa, Saidi Kapiga, Philip Ayieko, Heidi Stöckl

“…Conclusions The results from this study indicate that considering healthy lifestyle behaviours – diet, sleep, and exercise – in the design of intervention programmes may be beneficial in reducing IPV perpetration in Tanzania, and that they should be considered alongside previously established evidence-based risk factors.…”
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Tactical features of the scene inspection in the investigation of the taking of a government official or law enforcement officer as a hostage by O. Yu. Prokopenko

“…For each place of inspection, the peculiarities and the relevant algorithm of actions by the pre-trial investigation authorities have been identified. …”
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The Ghosts of Old Volcanoes, a Geoheritage Trail Concept for Eastern Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand by Ilmars Gravis, Karoly Nemeth, Chris Twemlow, Boglarka Nemeth

“…We recognize this as an opportunity to reassess a tourism model based on a high-volume of short stay visits to iconic sites.…”
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Predicting the exposure of mycophenolic acid in children with autoimmune diseases using a limited sampling strategy: A retrospective study by Ping Zheng, Ting Pan, Ya Gao, Juan Chen, Liren Li, Yan Chen, Dandan Fang, Xuechun Li, Fei Gao, Yilei Li

“…Ten algorithms, including Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Gradient Boosting Decision Tree, CatBoost, Artificial Neural Network, Grandient Boosting Machine, Transformer, Wide&Deep, and TabNet, were employed for modeling based on two, three, or four concentrations of MPA. …”
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Profiling of small RNAs derived from tomato brown rugose fruit virus in infected Solanum lycopersicum plants by deep sequencing by Mangle Chen, Donghai Wang, Jiali Yang, Yuhao Cao, Xuemei Song, Yuwen Lu, Hongying Zheng, Jiejun Peng, Guanwei Wu, Jian Wu, Junmin Li, Jianping Chen, Fei Yan, Shaofei Rao

“…In virus-infected plants, virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) are one of the key components involved in the RNA silencing-based antiviral activity in plants. The main function of vsiRNAs is to target and degrade viral RNA. …”
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The Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels (BNDF): A Systematic Review by Milosz Mielniczek, Tore Kristian Aune

“…Given the diversity in study designs and outcomes, a narrative synthesis was performed rather than a meta-analysis. Bias was evaluated using visualization tools such as RobVis, and the review was conducted by a single researcher, which may limit its comprehensiveness. …”
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Multicentre, prospective, randomised controlled trial to evaluate hexaminolevulinate photodynamic therapy (Cevira) as a novel treatment in patients with high-grade squamous intraep... by Fei Chen, Jinghe Lang, Peter Hillemanns, Youzhong Zhang, Zoltán Novák, Long Sui, Ling Han, Christian Dannecker, Ctirad Mokráš, Zhixue You

“…Primary endpoint is the proportion of the responders 6 months after first treatment. Secondary efficacy and safety endpoints will be assessed at 6 months, and data for secondary performance endpoints of the Cevira device will be collected at 3 months and 6 months, in case second treatment was administered. …”
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A New Method of Central Axis Extracting for Pore Network Modeling in Rock Engineering by Xiao Guo, Kairui Yang, Haowei Jia, Zhengwu Tao, Mo Xu, Baozhu Dong, Lei Liu

“…Firstly, digital core was reconstructed by using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method based on the binary images of a rock cutting plane taken from heavy oil reservoir sandstone. …”
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Application of failure model and effect analysis in nursing care for patients who have undergone endoscopic sub-mucosal dissection by Ying Liu, Kun-Kun Li, Lu Li, Ning Chang, Xiang-Ling Lun, Zhi-Hua Guan

“…A multidisciplinary team was established based on the FMEA model to analyze and create a nursing flowchart. …”
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Early Detection of Seasonal Outbreaks from Twitter Data Using Machine Learning Approaches by Samina Amin, Muhammad Irfan Uddin, Duaa H. alSaeed, Atif Khan, Muhammad Adnan

“…This work proposes a machine-learning-based approach to detect dengue and flu outbreaks in social media platform Twitter, using four machine learning algorithms: Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Decision Tree (DT), with the help of Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF). …”
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Role of plasma metabolome in mediating the effect of plasma lipidome on NAFLD: a Mendelian randomization study by Zhuyuan Zheng, Shaojie Yang, Wanlin Dai, Yang Sun, Jingnan Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Yiming Zheng, Jing Kong

“…Our mediation analysis revealed six mediation relationships, indicating the causal pathway from plasma lipids to NAFLD mediated by five specific metabolites. …”
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Rebuilding Participatory Institutions in Brazil: The <i>PPA Participativo</i> Between Corporate Demands and Climate and Animal Rights by Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, Priscila Zanandrez, Diego Matheus de Menezes

“…These citizens were invited to submit proposals, vote for up to three proposals, and choose from a set of pre-designed government programs. The main concerns that emerged from this open-ended process included corporate demands, stemming from highly organized sectors, such as public health and education employees. …”
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Increasing the MSMEs performance through cutting edge innovation capability by Muhammad Yamin Siregar, Warsani Purnama Sari, Ahmad Prayudi, Alfifto

“…A purposive sampling approach was used to select the respondents, with closed question for a sample of 218 leading MSME owner-managers in North Sumatera using the structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM). …”
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