STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION FOR FLOOR BEAM OF RACK EMU BODY CONSIDERING MODAL FACTORS by CHEN RuiWen, YIN XiangYun, LI Gang, TU Xu, YIN GuoFu

“…The results show that the strength, stiffness and modal performance of the configuration satisfy with the requirements of the rack EMU body, and the quality of the optimized structure is 6.835% lower than the original structure.…”
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Distance-Ranked Fault Identification of Reconfigurable Hardware Bitstreams via Functional Input by Naveed Imran, Ronald F. DeMara

“…The configurations which utilize permanently damaged resources and hence manifest discrepant outputs, receive lower rank are thus less preferred for instantiation on the FPGA. …”
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In Vitro Dissolution Profile of Dapagliflozin: Development, Method Validation, and Analysis of Commercial Tablets by Rafaela Zielinski Cavalheiro de Meira, Aline Biggi Maciel, Fabio Seigi Murakami, Paulo Renato de Oliveira, Larissa Sakis Bernardi

“…The precision showed results with RSD values lower than 2%. The recovery of 80.72, 98.47, and 119.41% proved the accuracy of the method. …”
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New Method for Fine Calculation of Bridge Temperature Field Based on BIM Solar Radiation Analysis by Yin-Gang Wang, Xiong-Jun He, Fang Ouyang, Jia He, Wei-Wei Wu, Chao Wu

“…Compared with previous methods, the proposed method has significant advantages, such as a more accurate calculation for solar radiation, a lower technical threshold, a higher degree of automation, less computational time, and easier finite element modeling.…”
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Reducing DNA extraction costs through factorial design for the DNAdvance Kit by Carson J. Neal, Zachery D. Zbinden, Michael E. Douglas, Marlis R. Douglas

“…Our study demonstrates that sufficient DNA can be extracted at 75% lower costs than the manufacturer's standard protocol. …”
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Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool Performance in a Large Sample of Postmenopausal Women of Mendoza, Argentina by Fernando D. Saraví

“…Osteoporotic patients had lower OST scores (P<0.0001). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve showed an area under the curve of 71% (P<0.0001), with a sensitivity of 83.7% and a specificity of 44% for a cut-off value of 2. …”
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Age-Related Changes of the Ocular Surface: A Hospital Setting-Based Retrospective Study by Laura Ottobelli, Paolo Fogagnolo, Marta Guerini, Luca Rossetti

“…Adherence to treatment in OSD was very high (94%); recovery rates were lower in patients aged 21–40 and 61–80 (resp., 65.5% and 77.8%) and this was associated with higher OSDI scores. …”
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In Situ Stress Prediction in Subsurface Rocks: An Overview and a New Method by Yushuai Zhang, Shangxian Yin, Jincai Zhang

“…The uniaxial strain method is oversimplified for the minimum horizontal stress determination; however, it is the lower bound minimum horizontal stress. Based on this concept, a modified stress polygon method is proposed to obtain the minimum and maximum horizontal stresses. …”
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Centrifuge Model Test on the Settlement of Valley-Type Loess Filled after Construction and Subjected to Rainfall Infiltration by Jiwen Zhang, Jie Cao, Bo Li, Kunye Zhou, Xilin Lü

“…Comparison of the test results showed that insufficient compaction in the lower part of the filling body significantly increases the ground settlement at the postconstruction stage.…”
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The impact of atopy on the clinical characteristics of mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in pediatric patients by Yujie Qin, Yuxia Yang, Junxiang Li, Jun Guan

“…Additionally, neutrophil percentage, procalcitonin levels were lower in the atopic group than in the non-atopic group (P < 0.05). …”
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The first ornithocheiromorph humerus from Wuerho (Urho), China, with a new isotopic age of the Tugulu Group by JUNYI SONG, YUTING ZHONG, SHUNXING JIANG, XIAOLIN WANG

“…Abstract Pterosaur remains are rare from the lowermost Cretaceous, hampering our understanding of the taxonomic and morphological diversities of pterosaurs during this period. The Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group in Wuerho, China is renowned for hosting the Wuerho Pterosaurian Fauna (WPF), which has so far yielded numerous fossil remains of two dsungaripterid pterosaurs, Dsungaripterus weii and Noripterus complicidens. …”
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Salivary Lactate Dehydrogenase Level: A Prognostic Biomarker for Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders by Jigna Shah, Kinjal Joshi

“…Result: The mean salivary LDH level in the control group was lower (128.31) than in the study group. A highly significant (P = 0.000) relationship was discovered between the groups and salivary LDH levels. …”
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Analysis of spectral efficiency of multiuser MISO downlink based on large-scale antennas by Ju-fang LI, Rui ZHAO, Bin JIANG, Yong-ming HUANG, Lv-xi YANG, Hai ZHANG

“…The limit expression of the system spectral efficiency using zero-forcing (ZF) normalized precoding is equal to that using maximum ratio transmission (MRT) normalized precoding. Finally, the lower bound of the spectral efficiency of multi-user downlink applying space time block code was presented and the correctness of the above conclusions was confirmed by the simulation analyses.…”
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Material Effects on Tangent Modulus of Steel Square Hollow Section by Seyed Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Milad Shakiba, Behrouz Zaeimdar

“…Stub column specimens made from a material that has been pre-stretched in tension have a significantly lower tangent modulus of elasticity than those specimens made from as-received material; the reduction is caused by the Bauschinger effect and a resulting reduction in tangent modulus and yield strength. …”
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Risk Evaluation of Multi-objective Dispatching Scheme for Shaanxi Hanjiang-to-Weihe River Diversion Project by GAO Chen, REN Mengzhi, LIU Dengfeng, HUANG Qiang

“…After evaluation of operation schemes under twoprior water supply modes, respectively, the results show that the comprehensiverisk of the scheme is mainly affected by insufficient indicators of water supplyrisk; the comprehensive risk rate of the two schemes under mode 1 of prior watersupply for Huangjinxia Reservoir is lower than that of the two schemes under mode2 of prior water supply for Sanhekou Reservoir, and the two schemes under mode 1have better water supply recovery than that under mode 2. …”
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The Effect of Storage Temperature and Time on the Concentrations of Bovine Serum Amyloid A and Its Mammary Associated Isoform by Csilla Tóthová, Oskar Nagy, Herbert Seidel, Gabriel Kováč

“…In the refrigerated samples, we found non-significantly lower values of SAA, as well as M-SAA. Presented results indicate that the storage temperature and duration may markedly affect the concentrations of bovine SAA and M-SAA.…”
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Unified ultraviolet communication and sensing:modeling and system optimization by Chen GONG, Yuchen PAN, Zhengyuan XU

“…Currently, there exist few communication works which combine with sensing.It is necessary to build up a unified communication and sensing signal model and system joint design optimization framework.Based on this, a unified ultraviolet communication and sensing framework was proposed, consisting of a transmitter, a sensing detector and a communication receiver.The transmitter sent modulated signals to the communication receiver for information transmission.Due to the non-line of sight scattering effect, certain components of the transmitted signals reached the unknown target which further reflected to the sensing detector for target detection.Two performance metrics for communication and sensing were considered, including the mutual information between the transmitted symbol and the signal at the communication receiver, and the miss detection probability for the target detector.The relationship between the two metrics and the transmission parameters was further analyzed, including the transmission power for the high-level signal, the transmission power for the low-level signal, and the prior probabilities.The results demonstrate a tradeoff between the communication performance metric and sensing performance metric.It is also shown that the power for the high-level signal should be set to be the peak power, and the power for the low-level signal and the prior probabilities should be optimized, to minimize the miss detection probability given a lower bound on the mutual information.…”
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Nature and Properties of Lateritic Soils Derived from Different Parent Materials in Taiwan by Tzu-Hsing Ko

“…Loupi and Pingchen soils would be the older lateritic soils because of the lower active iron ratio. For the iron minerals, the magnetic iron oxides such as major amounts of magnetite and maghemite were found for Tamshui and Tungwei lateritic soils, respectively. …”
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Design and implementation of a lab-on-a-chip for assisted reproductive technologies by Firooz Safaefar, Javad Karamdel, Hadi Veladi, Masoud Maleki

“…Conclusion: The application of this chip necessitates a lower level of operator expertise compared to enzymatic and mechanical techniques. …”
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La territorialisation des politiques environnementales. Le cas de la pollution nitrique de l’eau par l'agriculture by Anne Lacroix, François Bel, Amédée Mollard, Emmanuelle Sauboua

“…This level should at least allow for a trade-off between lower expenses due to an appropriate tuning to the local conditions and heavier costs of decentralised measures. …”
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