Minimizing Drying Shrinkage and Enhancing Impermeability of Foam Concrete Modified with Epoxy Resin by Jianqing Gong, Ke Li

“…Extensive laboratory testing yielded an optimum content of 4.0% EP, corresponding to a minimum drying shrinkage rate of 1.47 mm/m, which was 48% lower than that of the unmodified FC. At this optimum dosage of 4.0% EP, the permeability pressure was at a maximum level of 1.4 MPa, whereas the permeability coefficient was at its lowest value of 0.75 × 10−9  mm/h. …”
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Yield and Physicochemical Properties of Soluble Dietary Fiber Extracted from Untreated and Steam Explosion-Treated Black Soybean Hull by Meng Shen, Yunfei Ge, Ziyue Kang, Zhigang Quan, Juan Wang, Jinling Xiao, Weihao Wang, Longkui Cao

“…Soluble dietary fiber extracted from SE-treated hull exhibited lower molecular weight and improved functional properties, such as cholesterol-binding capacity, when compared to SDF extracted from untreated soybean hull. …”
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Personality Changes after Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease by Uyen Pham, Anne-Kristin Solbakk, Inger-Marie Skogseid, Mathias Toft, Are Hugo Pripp, Ane Eidahl Konglund, Stein Andersson, Ira Ronit Haraldsen, Dag Aarsland, Espen Dietrichs, Ulrik Fredrik Malt

“…Despite improvement in motor function and reduction in dopaminergic dosage patients reported lower score on the TCI Persistence and Self-Transcendence scales, after three months of STN-DBS, compared to baseline (P=0.006; P=0.024). …”
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Subject-Specialized Chatbot in Higher Education as a Tutor for Autonomous Exam Preparation: Analysis of the Impact on Academic Performance and Students’ Perception of Its Usefulnes... by Fulgencio Sánchez-Vera

“…Results showed that the chatbot was highly effective in clarifying doubts (91.4%) and aiding concept understanding (95.7%), although its perceived usefulness was lower in content review (42.9%) and exam simulations (45.4%). …”
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Psychosocial Underpinnings of Pain and Sleep Disturbance in Safety-Net Primary Care Patients by Sarah Griffin, Joseph Tan, Paul B. Perrin, Allison B. Williams, Erin R. Smith, Bruce Rybarczyk

“…A structural equation model suggested that higher cynical hostility was associated with lower social support, which in turn was associated with poorer mental health, which then corresponded with higher pain and sleep disturbance. …”
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Cooperative inference analysis based on DNN convolutional kernel partitioning by Jialin ZHI, Yinglei TENG, Xinyang ZHANG, Tao NIU, Mei SONG

“…With the popularity of intelligent chip in the application of edge terminal devices, a large number of AI applications will be deployed on the edge of networks closer to data sources in the future.The method based on DNN partition can realize deep learning model training and deployment on resource-constrained terminal devices, and solve the bottleneck problem of edge AI computing ability.Thekernel based partition method (KPM) was proposed as a new scheme on the basis of traditional workload based partition method (WPM).The quantitative analysis of inference performance was carried out from three aspects of computation FLOPS, memory consumption and communication cost respectively, and the qualitative analysis of the above two schemes was carried out from the perspective of flexibility, robustness and privacy of inference process.Finally, a software and hardware experimental platform was built, and AlexNet and VGG11 networks were implemented using PyTorch to further verify the performance advantages of the proposed scheme in terms of delay and energy consumption.It was concluded that, compared with the WPM scheme, the KPM scheme had better DNN reasoning acceleration effect in large-scale computing scenarios.And it has lower memory usage and energy consumption.…”
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Interaction between the Haptoglobin 2 Phenotype and Diabetes Mellitus on Systolic Pulmonary Arterial Pressure and Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in Hemodialysis Patients by Inbal Dahan, Evgeny Farber, Nadia Thauho, Nakhoul Nakhoul, Adi Francis, Mohamad Awawde, Andrew P. Levy, Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, Swati Basu, Farid Nakhoul

“…We found a statistically significant interaction between the Hp type and DM on the prevalence of elevated s-PAP and lower mean nitrite levels with the combination of elevated s-PAP and low nitrite levels being significantly more prevalent in Hp 2-2 DM individuals. …”
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Penile Livedoid Vasculopathy: First Reported Case by Ahmad Hallak, William Bennett, Mohammed Adib Tanbir, Supriya R. Donthamsetty, Bethaney Vincent

“…Livedoid vasculopathy is known to primarily affect the lower extremities. We report the first case of livedoid vasculopathy affecting the penis. …”
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Spectral Variations across Latitudes on Asteroid (3200) Phaethon by M. Angrisani, E. Palomba, A. Longobardo, E. Rognini, A. Migliorini, E. D’Aversa, G. Pratesi, C. Gisellu, F. Dirri, L. Piazzo, T. Arai

“…We find different solar radiation heating between the north and south regions, with very high surface temperatures in the south region (max peak ∼ 1050 K), while a lower temperature is found in the north region (a mean value of 760 K). …”
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Preserflo MicroShunt Implantation: A Narrative Review of Its Standalone Benefits vs. Combined Use with Phacoemulsification in Managing Open-Angle Glaucoma by Małgorzata Chilmonczyk, Kinga Gołaszewska, Emil Saeed, Joanna Konopińska

“…Trabeculectomy has been a traditional filtration procedure for decades, effectively lowering intraocular pressure. It is highly effective; however, it may cause sight-threatening complications. …”
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Quantifying the influence of eucalyptus bark and corncob biochars on the physicoâchemical properties of a tropical oxisol under two soil tillage modes by Boris Merlain Djousse Kanouo, Suzanne Edith Allaire

“…The total porosity was lower during the second production period compared to the first, while available water content and van Genuchten parameters increased during the second production period. …”
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Analysis of user behavior and satisfaction under the elderly adaptation mode of an APP based on the fuzzy-IPA model by Jian Yang, Taotao Yang, Lu Li

“…The key findings are as follows: (1) The APP aging mode is quite popular; (2) middle-aged and elderly users hesitate to use the aging mode due to “loss of original functions” and “secondary interface layout and font adjustments”; (3) better user experience in the aging mode leads to higher satisfaction, whereas higher initial expectations lead to lower satisfaction; (4) four aspects-“simple operation,” “ease of learning,” “understanding of function descriptions,” and “effective help system”-have high importance but low satisfaction levels. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of the Performances of Heat Exchangers with Aluminum and Copper Finned Tubes by Fang Wang, Yunding Li, Mengwei Liu, Dongqing Pang, Weifeng Du, Yichi Zhang, Xiaoqian Cheng, Tangtang Gu, Wenliang Guo

“…Under different inlet wind speeds, the heat transfer and heat transfer coefficient of the finned-tube heat exchanger with aluminum tubes are 4%–12% and 7%%–9% lower than those of an identically structured heat exchanger with copper tubes, respectively. …”
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A Cluster-Head Rotating Election Routing Protocol for Energy Consumption Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Jun Wang, Zhuangzhuang Du, Zhengkun He, Xunyang Wang

“…The election criterion composed of location and residual energy factor was proved to lower the probability of premature death of cluster heads. …”
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Novel Fuzzy Neural Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of MEMS Gyroscope by Zhe Wang, Juntao Fei

“…Compared with the traditional control method, the proposed strategy can obtain faster dynamic response speed and lower steady-state error with high robustness in the presence of system uncertainties and external disturbances. …”
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Effects of Visual Deprivation on Gait Dynamic Stability by Marco Iosa, Augusto Fusco, Giovanni Morone, Stefano Paolucci

“…We have tested 28 subjects during walking under two different visual conditions, full vision (FV) and no vision (NV), measuring their upper body accelerations. Lower accelerations were found in NV for the reduced walking speed. …”
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Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America by Eli Gavin Rau, Radha Sarkar, Susan C. Stokes

“…Skeptics note—among other criticisms—that turnout tends to be low in referendums, often lower than in candidate elections in the same country. …”
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Bifidobacterium breve BB05 alleviates depressive symptoms in mice via the AKT/mTOR pathway by Yanni Pan, Qingling Huang, Yuan Liang, Yuwuqi Xie, Fang Tan, Xingyao Long

“…BB05 treatment also reduced pathological ileal damage, alleviated inflammation, and lowered serum levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF-α. …”
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End-to-End Message Exchange in a Deployable Marine Environment Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Network by César Ortega-Corral, Luis E. Palafox, J. Antonio García-Macías, Jaime Sánchez-García, Leocundo Aguilar

“…We cover end-to-end application layer aspects. At the lower tier, we preconfigured endpoint (EP) transceivers for automatic data acquisition and wireless transfer using their native Application Program Interface (API) framework. …”
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EV Smart Charging in Distribution Grids–Experimental Evaluation Using Hardware in the Loop Setup by Yunhe Yu, Lode De Herdt, Aditya Shekhar, Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli, Pavol Bauer

“…The results demonstrate that the SC algorithm adequately lowers the EV charging cost while fulfilling the charging demand, and substantially reduces the peak power as well as the overloading duration, even when faced with input data uncertainty. …”
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