Push-Out Tests on Large Diameter and High Strength Welded Stud Connectors by Fei Yang, Yuqing Liu, Yongjun Li

“…The load-slip relationships proposed by Ollgaard and Buttry can be used to predict the load-slip curves of large diameter and high strength welded stud connectors.…”
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Perceptions and practices of dental faculty members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan regarding smartphones as an adjunct teaching tool by Syed Muhammad Junaid, Brekhna Jamil, Usama Aurangzeb, Sana Shah, Natasha Nadeem

“…It would be incredibly beneficial to use cellphones to improve the learning possibilities for our medical students, since nearly all students and faculty members use them in some form. …”
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Global uranium market dynamics: analysis and future implications by Sa’d Shannak, Logan Cochrane, Daria Bobarykina

“…The econometric analysis examines the long-term relationship between prices and production volumes, using multiple methods to ensure robustness. Supply curve modeling shows how uranium availability changes with price, which helps gauge market resilience under various conditions. …”
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Semisupervised Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Classification in Edge Networks by Yang Yang, Rui Lyu, Zhipeng Gao, Lanlan Rui, Yu Yan

“…However, the existing traffic classification framework needs to conduct a unified analysis, which leads to the huge bandwidth resources required in the process of transferring all captured packet files to train a global classifier. …”
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Memoryscapes of the Great War (1914-1918): A paradigm shift in tourism research on war heritage by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, Wanda George

“…The challenge is to introduce new concepts to link past and present, heritage sites and memorial events, in time and place, to critically reflect on the content and trendy use of vaguely defined “scape” concepts in relation to heritage. …”
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Optical Sensor Implementation for Health Care Monitoring Based on Optical Fiber Technology: A Review by Nadia Ahmad Mohamad, Ali Al-Askery, Adnan Hussein Ali, Safiye Ghasemi Ghasemi

“…Optics are two areas in which OFS has yet to realize its huge potential fully. The most recent published studies (2010-2023) were our main focus except for a few cases. …”
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Robustness evaluation of commercial liveness detection platform by Pengcheng WANG, Haibin ZHENG, Jianfei ZOU, Ling PANG, Hu LI, Jinyin CHEN

“…Liveness detection technology has become an important application in daily life, and it is used in scenarios including mobile phone face unlock, face payment, and remote authentication.However, if attackers use fake video generation technology to generate realistic face-swapping videos to attack the living body detection system in the above scenarios, it will pose a huge threat to the security of these scenarios.Aiming at this problem, four state-of-the-art Deepfake technologies were used to generate a large number of face-changing pictures and videos as test samples, and use these samples to test the online API interfaces of commercial live detection platforms such as Baidu and Tencent.The test results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images is generally very low by the major commercial live detection platforms currently used, and they are more sensitive to the quality of images, and the false detection rate of real images is also high.The main reason for the analysis may be that these platforms were mainly designed for traditional living detection attack methods such as printing photo attacks, screen remake attacks, and silicone mask attacks, and did not integrate advanced face-changing detection technology into their liveness detection.In the algorithm, these platforms cannot effectively deal with Deepfake attacks.Therefore, an integrated live detection method Integranet was proposed, which was obtained by integrating four detection algorithms for different image features.It could effectively detect traditional attack methods such as printed photos and screen remakes.It could also effectively detect against advanced Deepfake attacks.The detection effect of Integranet was verified on the test data set.The results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images by proposed Integranet detection method is at least 35% higher than that of major commercial live detection platforms.…”
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Bringing Children into the Sociology of Consumption: A Symbolic Consumption Perspective by Belinda Senooane, Johannes Wiid

“…Data were collected through a survey of 192 children aged 10–14, using a questionnaire developed from the literature on symbolic consumption. …”
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Pan-Cancer Analysis of the Cuproptosis-Related Gene DLD by Jiahui Lin, Guowei Wang, Sha Cheng, Yanan Hu, Huan Li, Wanjiang Feng, Xiaoming Liu, Canxia Xu

“…Cancer affects millions of people each year and imposes a huge economic and social burden worldwide. Cuproptosis is a recently discovered novel mode of cell death. …”
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Route Selection of Multimodal Transport Based on China Railway Transportation by Hui Zhang, Yao Li, Qingpeng Zhang, Dingjun Chen

“…Finally, taking a multimodal transport network in China as an example, an improved ant colony algorithm is used to solve the model and the results verify the rationality of the model.…”
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Multidimensional Dynamics and Forecast Models of Network Public Opinions Based on the Fusion of Smart Transportation and Big Data by Guojun Sheng, Yi Guan

“…However, due to the huge scale of information, some false and harmful information and opinions will inevitably be mixed into it, which will make the network public opinion unable to perform its due function smoothly. …”
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The Search for the Optimal Methodology for Predicting Fluorinated Cathinone Drugs NMR Chemical Shifts by Natalina Makieieva, Teobald Kupka, Oimahmad Rahmonov

“…NMR spectroscopy is one of the most versatile methods for identifying the structure of organic substances. However, its use could sometimes be very difficult and time-consuming due to the complexity of NMR spectra, as well as the technical limitations of measurements. …”
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The effect of sunflower wax and carnauba wax on the storage stability and sensory evaluation of palm-based chocolate spread by N. A. Mohd Hassim, S. Kanagaratnam, T. K. Tang, N. S. Sofian Seng

“…The hardness, spreadability and stability of the chocolate spreads were analyzed by means of Texture Analyzer, observation and LUMiFuge Stability Analyzer, respectively. A sensory evaluation of these chocolate spreads was conducted using a 7-point hedonic scale. …”
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Improve TAT Refurbishment Process Excavator 20 Tons in Heavy Equiment Workshop by Refnal Marzuki, Rino Sukma, Nofriyandi R, Rusmardi Rusmardi

“…In this study, the authors use the method used in this analysis: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC). …”
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Competition between microstructure and defect in multiaxial high cycle fatigue by F. Morel, R. Guerchais, N. Saintier

“…This study aims at providing a better understanding of the effects of both microstructure and defect on the high cycle fatigue behavior of metallic alloys using finite element simulations of polycrystalline aggregates. …”
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Site Selection of Landfill with emphasis on Hydrogeomorphological – environmental parameters Shahrood-Bastam watershed by Ahmad Reza Arabameri, Mohammad Hossein Ramesht

“…Landfill site selection in urban areas is a critical issue due to its huge impact on the economy, ecology, and the environmental health. …”
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An Analysis of QoS in ZigBee Network Based on Deviated Node Priority by Md. Jaminul Haque Biddut, Nazrul Islam, Md. Maksudul Karim, Mohammad Badrul Alam Miah

“…These devices act as a network and send huge data traffic to the Coordinator. End devices at different zones have different roles in communication with each other. …”
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Distribution and new hosts of the parasitic fungus Inonotus nidus-pici in Serbia by Ivan Milenković, Zlatan Radulović, Michal Tomšovský, Katarzyna Sikora, Vesna Golubović Ćurguz, Dušan Jovanović, Dragan Karadžić

“…After the detailed sampling, isolation and identification of the fungus using both classical and molecular methods, the current distribution and host range were determined. …”
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Development and application of sugarcane yellow leaf virus vectors in sugarcane by Yuteng Yin, Pingzhi Zhao, Yanwei Sun, Tian Han, Mengrong Wang, Meixin Yan, Jianming Wu, Hui Zhou, Jian Ye

“…Abstract The aphid-transmitted polerovirus, sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV), is one of the most widespread sugarcane viruses and causes huge economic losses to the global sugarcane production. …”
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ARM-Cortex M3-Based Two-Wheel Robot for Assessing Grid Cell Model of Medial Entorhinal Cortex: Progress towards Building Robots with Biologically Inspired Navigation-Cognitive Maps by J. Cuneo, L. Barboni, N. Blanco, M. del Castillo, J. Quagliotti

“…This article presents the implementation and use of a two-wheel autonomous robot and its effectiveness as a tool for studying the recently discovered use of grid cells as part of mammalian’s brains space-mapping circuitry (specifically the medial entorhinal cortex). …”
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