Local Stress Field Correction Method Based on a Genetic Algorithm and a BP Neural Network for In Situ Stress Field Inversion by Tianzhi Yao, Zuguo Mo, Li Qian, Jianhua He, Jianhai Zhang

“…By comparison with the multiple regression method, it is found that the method still has high inversion accuracy under complex geological conditions, and the average relative error of LSFC inversion results is 17.05%, which is much lower than the value of 43.58% via the multiple regression method. …”
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Seismic Damage Analysis of Large-Span Tied-Arch Bridge with Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes Subjected to Near-Fault Ground Motion by Yingzhi Xia, Jiawei Liu, Hui Li, Guoping Hu

“…The results indicated that the probability of damage caused by near-fault earthquakes is significantly higher than that by non-near-fault ground motions, and velocity pulses may cause more severe damages to certain components of the bridge during lower-intensity ground motions at certain excitation angles. …”
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Interleaved-LoRa Transmission Scheme for Satellite IoT by Jin LUO, Jiabao XIA, Yang BAI, Baoming BAI

“…The transmission distance of satellite IoT is much further than terrestrial IoT, resulting in a signifi cant power loss on the transmission link.Thus the received signal power at a receiver will be signifi cantly lower.Combining a high-performance FEC coding and LoRa modulation with a signifi cant spreading factor enables reliable communication at very low signal-to-noise ratios.However, LoRa modulation dramatically decrease spectral effi ciency as the spreading factor increases.An interleaved LoRa transmission scheme that could achieved high spectral effi ciency with a low bit error rate (BER) was proposed.Firstly, a non-coherent soft demodulation algorithm was presented for LoRa and the corresponding performance comparison with the use of Turbo and LDPC codes.Then proposed a soft demodulation algorithm for interleaved-LoRa transmission.Simulation results showed that Turbo coded interleaved-LoRa system outperformed the uncoded system by about 4 dB at a BER=10^-5, which was equivalently to a 55%~57% improvement on communication distance in free space.Furthermore, the spectral effi ciency was improved by approximately 23% compared to the existing Turbo-LoRa scheme.…”
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Potent Oral Hypoglycemic Agents for Microvascular Complication: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors for Diabetic Retinopathy by Eun Hyung Cho, Se-Jun Park, Seongwook Han, Ji Hun Song, Kihwang Lee, Yoo-Ri Chung

“…Moreover, treatment with a SGLT2i was associated with a significantly lower risk of DR progression (P=0.021), and this effect remained significant after adjusting for the age, duration of diabetes, initial DR grade, and HbA1c level by propensity score matching (P=0.013). …”
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Evaluation of quality of life of patients after rectal surgery by V. I. Pomazkin

“…At 46 patients the level of colorectal anastomosis was higher than 5 cm from anus, in 40 – lower, than 5 cm. An assessment carried out by proposed questionnaire including 34 items with defining of following scales: «General life satisfaction»; «Change of life mode»; «Social functioning»; «Change of psychoemotional status»; “Pain syndrome”; «Anal incontinence»; «Frequency of bowel movements» and «Disorders of evacuatory rectal function».Results. …”
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Placenta Percreta at 17 Weeks with Consecutive Hysterectomy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Natasha Gupta, Anu Gupta, Marlene Green, Hyung Shik Kang, Josef Blankstein

“…Patient lost more than 8000 cc blood through the 2 surgeries, received massive transfusions due to severe disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), and underwent a complicated surgery because of great difficulty in separating lower uterine segment and cervix from the bladder. …”
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Limit Equilibrium Method for Stability Analysis of Dangerous Rock Considering Surrounding Rock Constraints by SU Guoshao, ZHANG Jixiang, LIU Youneng, WANG Junmu

“…The proposed method considered the constraint effects of the back margin for dangerous rock of falling and sliding types with structural surfaces controlled by the upper margin and lower margin, respectively. For sliding-type dangerous rock with double structural surfaces, the influence of the fissure water pressure on the back margin was considered. …”
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Factors influencing the sustainability of university-incubated agribusinesses: the role of stigma failure, personality and motivation in Kenya by Racheal Gladys Nakiganda, Dickson Otieno Okello, Hillary Kiplangat Bett

“…To enhance the success of incubated agribusinesses, training programs should focus on necessity-driven motivations, while policymakers should consider interventions that reduce unemployment by institutionalizing UIPs. These could lower entrepreneurial opportunity cost and encourage more students to engage in sustainable agribusiness ventures.…”
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Normal Hearing Ability but Impaired Auditory Selective Attention Associated with Prediction of Response to Donepezil in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease by Yoshitaka Ouchi, Kenichi Meguro, Kyoko Akanuma, Yuriko Kato, Satoshi Yamaguchi

“…At baseline, the responders had higher vigilance and lower ASA test scores. Conclusion. Contrary to the common view, AD patients had a similar level of hearing ability to healthy elderly. …”
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Analysis of ACAM Data for Trace Gas Retrievals during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign by C. Liu, X. Liu, M. G. Kowalewski, S. J. Janz, G. González Abad, K. E. Pickering, K. Chance, L. N. Lamsal

“…From the standard deviations of the fitting residuals, the SNRs of ACAM nadir measurements are estimated to vary from ~300 at 310 nm to ~1000 in the blue spectral region; the zenith data are noisier due to reduced levels of illumination and lower system throughput and also show many more pixels with abrupt anomalous values; therefore, a new method is developed to derive a solar irradiance reference at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) from average nadir measurements, at instrument spectral resolution and including instrument calibration characteristics. …”
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Screening of Trace Elements in Hair of the Female Population with Different Types of Cancers in Wielkopolska Region of Poland by Bogusław Czerny, Krzysztof Krupka, Marcin Ożarowski, Agnieszka Seremak-Mrozikiewicz

“…Statistically significantly lower concentrations of selenium, zinc, copper, germanium and boron, iron, and magnesium were observed in the three groups of cancer patients. …”
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Extensive Bone Lengthening for a Patient with Linear Morphea by Kenichi Mishima, Hiroshi Kitoh, Masaki Matsushita, Tadashi Nagata, Yasunari Kamiya, Naoki Ishiguro

“…Dysplastic and/or atrophic bones of the affected lower extremity can lead to clinically significant leg length discrepancy (LLD). …”
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Recycler Reaction for the Government Behavior in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Distribution Network: Based on the System Dynamics by Xi gang Yuan, Xiao qing Zhang

“…When recyclers respond negatively to government policy making, recycling will reduce the proportion of recyclers. (2) When the recovery percentage of recyclers improves, manufacturers, Retailer 1, and Retailer 2 quantity fluctuations will reduce and the bullwhip effect will diminish. (3) When the proportion of recycled parts recyclers is lowered, manufacturers, Retailer 1, and Retailer 2 inventory fluctuation will increase and the bullwhip effect will be enhanced. (4) When recyclers recycling product delays increased, volatility manufacturers order quantity will rise, but there is little change in the amount of fluctuation of orders of the two retailers. (5) When recycling parts recyclers delay increases, fluctuations in the supplier order quantity will rise, but there is little change in the amount of fluctuation of orders of the two retailers.…”
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High-Resolution Monthly Precipitation Fields (1913–2015) over a Complex Mountain Area Centred on the Forni Valley (Central Italian Alps) by Golzio Alessio, Crespi Alice, Irene Maria Bollati, Senese Antonella, Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti, Pelfini Manuela, Maugeri Maurizio

“…A very good agreement between observed and modelled precipitation records was pointed out for most station sites. The agreement is lower, but encouraging, for Forni Glacier station data.…”
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Sorptive Property Dependence of Catalytic Performance in -Xylene Isomerization over H/Ga-ZSM-5 by S.V. Awate, P.N. Joshi, V.P. Shiralkar

“…In comparison to H/Al-ZSM-5, H/Ga-ZSM-5 with an almost identical framework composition exhibited lower para -selectivity. Even though all these zeolite catalysts possess identical frameworks consisting of 10-MR openings and intersecting channels, differences in the nature and concentration of the trivalent framework cations, the crystallite size and total acidity lead to changes in their sorptive properties and catalytic performance.…”
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Mechanical behaviour analysis of cemented tailings rock backfill materials: An insight from mesoscale modelling coupled with damage plasticity model by Chaoyi Yang, Hang Lin, Rugao Gao, Zhengrong Li, Dengjun Gan, Mingwu Liu, Qifan Ren

“…The key findings include: (1) incorporating waste rock significantly enhances elasticity but slightly reduces strength; (2) a lower cement-to-tailing ratio leads to compressive damage playing a more critical role in failure patterns; and (3) increasing the maximum particle diameter negatively impacts strength. …”
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Effective doses received by the gastrointestinal tract compartments of adults due to food intake in Egypt by Yasmine Abdalbasit, Khaled Salahel Din, Abdelbaset Abbady, Nagwa Saad

“…., stomach (ST), small intestine (SI), upper large intestine (ULI), and lower large intestine (LLI), due to the ingestion of the analyzed foods. …”
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Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Behavior of Novel Polythiophene Derivatives Functionalized with Disperse Red 19 Chromophore by Marilú Chávez-Castillo, Arelis Ledesma-Juárez, Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Jesús Castrellón-Uribe, Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz, Mario Rodríguez, José-Luis Maldonado, Jorge-Antonio Guerrero-Álvarez, Victor Barba

“…From these experiments it was observed that although the TRD19 incorporation into the side chain of the copolymers was lower than 5%, it was sufficient to increase their nonlinear response in solid state. …”
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Design of multi-bandgap metamaterial plate based on composite cylindrical resonators by Zhi Miao, Jianfei Yin, Yu Yang, Yibo Ke, Zhoufu Zheng, Xiaoming Geng, Qian Wang

“…Additionally, a nonperiodic gradient design is proposed by adjusting the stiffness of the resonators to ensure that the natural frequencies of the nonperiodic resonators are lower than those of the periodic resonators. This design approach demonstrates a significant 67.9% increase in normalized attenuation bandwidth. …”
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Groundwater nitrate response to hydrogeological conditions and socioeconomic load in an agriculture dominated area by Hui Jia, Hui Qian

“…Spatially, deep groundwater nitrate is much lower than that in shallow groundwater, supporting the anthropogenic origin of nitrate from surface. …”
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