Mechanical properties of a polylactic 3D-printed interim crown after thermocycling. by Re-Mee Doh, Won-Il Choi, Seo Young Kim, Bock-Young Jung

“…However, its performance under intraoral conditions, particularly under heat and moisture, remains underexplored. This study evaluated the mechanical properties of PLA interim crowns compared with those of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and bisphenol crowns under simulated intraoral conditions with thermocycling. …”
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Improved printed circuit board defect detection scheme by Lufeng Bai, Wen Hao Xu

“…On the one hand, the $$C2f_E$$ module is introduced to facilitate cross-layer feature fusion to ensure that the rich texture information at the lower layer and the abstract semantic information at the higher layer complement each other, which is conducive to improving the contextual understanding of small target detection; on the other hand, a detection head specialized for small targets is designed and added to enhance the ability of locating and identifying tiny defects. …”
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Efficacy and safety of molecular targeted therapies in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a network meta-analysis by Htet Htet, Jwala Rebacca James Anaghan, Heethal Jaiprakash, Ismail Abdul Sattar Burud, Thiruselvi Subramaniam, Igor Iezhitsa, Renu Agarwal

“…Abstract Background Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common head and neck cancers worldwide. The majority of the new cases were from Asia and are the leading cause of cancer in China. …”
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TARREAN: A Novel Transformer with a Gate Recurrent Unit for Stylized Music Generation by Yumei Zhang, Yulin Zhou, Xiaojiao Lv, Jinshan Li, Heng Lu, Yuping Su, Honghong Yang

“…Additionally, we apply masked multi-head attention to prevent the model from accessing future information during training, preserving the causal structure of music sequences. …”
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Optimization of Load Rejection Regulation for Compressed Air Energy Storage by Yinghao Wu, Xiankui Wen, Shihai Zhang, Qiang Fan, Huayang Ye, Chao Wu

“…As long as the expander is cut off, the high-temperature and high-pressure air will remain in the internal pipe and the heat exchanger of the system, which will cause the speed of the generator to soar again. …”
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Structure, Immune and Anti-aging Activities of Capsular Polysaccharide Produced by Lactobacillus plantarum W1 by Yongjiao GAO, Kun WANG, Jing ZHAO, Feng ZUO

“…The average lifespan of nematodes under normal, oxidative stress and heat shock conditions reached its maximum at 125 μg/mL, with lifespan extension rates of 21.05%±0.21%, 42.86%±0.27% and 50.00%±0.27%, respectively. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Wet Snow Accumulation on Inclined Cylindrical Surfaces by Behrouz Mohammadian, Mehdi Sarayloo, Ahmed Abdelaal, Asif Raiyan, Douglas K. Nims, Hossein Sojoudi

“…Commonly the accumulated snow on bridge cables is removed by external means such as mechanical removal or heat treatment which are expensive, time-consuming, and high-risk processes and are conducted based on little or no information available regarding the actual size and shape of the accumulated snow. …”
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Use of Eggshells as Bone Grafts around Commercially Pure Titanium Implant Screws Coated with Nano Calcium Sulfate by Dher Riyadh Kadhim, Thekra Ismael Hamad, Abdalbseet A. Fatalla

“…After 2 to 6 weeks of healing, a significant improvement in bone regeneration and an increase in torque removal values were observed when the bone defect around the CpTi implant coated with nano calcium sulfate was filled with eggshell powder as the bone substitute. …”
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Comparison of MRI and CT in the Evaluation of Unilateral Maxillary Sinus Opacification by Elise Chua, Annakan V. Navaratnam, Dominic St Leger, Vincent Lam, Samit Unadkat, Alexander Weller

“…A retrospective analysis of 49 patients presenting with complete UMSO to a tertiary referral centre was performed, investigated with both CT and MRI. Two head and neck radiologists independently reviewed each imaging modality and recorded both a final diagnosis and Likert-scale diagnostic certainty score. …”
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COMMUNITY POLICING AS A PANACEA FOR MITIGATING ARMED BANDITARY IN CENTRAL NIGERIA by Fidelis Achoba, Peace Oluwatoyin Irefin

“…Although studies on community policing in the area are equally rare, with the current global security challenges, a lot of lessons can be drawn from Ankpa’s present community policing architecture comprising the neigbourhood watch, the village committee level headed by the king and council of chiefs as well as all the other local government organised levels. …”
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FEATURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE UK: EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY FOR UKRAINE by Olha Andrieieva, Nataliia Larina, Yurii Ruban

“…Brexit has caused serious divisions between the main ruling parties in Northern Ireland - Sinn Féin, which heads the regional government and advocates a reunited Ireland, and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which advocates the region remaining within the UK. …”
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Ecosystem of structural and technological development: restarting growth of firms and entrepreneurial factor by V. V. Spitsin, L. Yu. Spitsina, M. A. Hasanov, S. N. Popova

“…It has been proven that one of the growth factors is human capital, namely the head of the organization (entrepreneurial factor). …”
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Construction of complex three-dimensional vascularized liver tissue model in vitro based on a biphasic cell-laden embedding medium by Weikang Lv, Haoran Yu, Abdellah Aazmi, Tuya Naren, Wanli Cheng, Mengfei Yu, Zhen Wang, Xiaobin Xu, Huayong Yang, Liang Ma

“…This medium possesses yield stress and self-healing properties, facilitating efficient and continuous three-dimensional shaping of sacrificial ink within it. …”
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Synthesis, X-Ray Crystal Structures, Biological Evaluation, and Molecular Docking Studies of a Series of Barbiturate Derivatives by Assem Barakat, Hazem A. Ghabbour, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Majid, Qurat-ul-ain, Rehan Imad, Kulsoom Javaid, Nimra Naveed Shaikh, Sammer Yousuf, M. Iqbal Choudhary, Abdul Wadood

“…All barbiturates derivatives (4a–4x, 4z, and 5a–5m) were found to be noncytotoxic against human prostate (PC-3), Henrietta Lacks cervical (HeLa) and Michigan Cancer Foundation-7 breast (MCF-7) cancer cell lines, and 3T3 normal fibroblast cell line, except 4y which was cytotoxic against all the cell lines.…”
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Recommendations of the Russian Gastroenterological Association in Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, A. S. Trukhmanov, T. L. Lapina, O. A. Storonova, O. V. Zayratyants, O. B. Dronova, Yu. A. Kucheryavyy, S. S. Pirogov, R. G. Sayfutdinov, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, A. A. Sheptulin, D. N. Andreev, D. E. Rumyantseva

“…Patients should be conclusively performed esophageal 24-hour pH-metry or pH-impedance monitoring, high-resolution manometry to thoroughly examine functionality of esophagus, esophagogastric junction and assess disease prognosis and therapy outcomes.Treatment of GERD should be personalised accounting for clinical manifestations and severity, as well as aimed at symptom improvement, lesion healing in erosive esophagitis, averting complications, Barrett's esophagus progression, dysplasia and esophageal adenocarcinoma.Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are most effective agents in primary (4-8 weeks) and maintenance anti-GERD therapy. …”
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The Antibacterial Property of Nigella sativa (Black seed) Oil Against Gram-positive and Gramnegative Bacteria by Sakar Ahmed Abdullah, Tara Faeq M. Salih, Abdullah Ahmed Hama, Salar Ibrahim Ali, Hassan Hussein Hamaamin

“…that face the world today, and it is heading toward the post-antibiotic era. Traditionally, herbal extracts, medicinal plant oil extracts, and probiotics have been used as an alternative to antibiotics due to bacterial resistance and drug side effects. …”
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Genotype-Dependent Difference in 5-HT2C Receptor-Induced Hypolocomotion: Comparison with 5-HT2A Receptor Functional Activity by Darya V. Bazovkina, Elena M. Kondaurova, Vladimir S. Naumenko, Evgeni Ponimaskin

“…We also compared the interstrain differences in functional response to 5-HT2C and 5-HT2A receptors activation measured by the quantification of receptor-mediated head-twitches. These experiments revealed significant positive correlation between 5-HT2C and 5-HT2A receptors functional responses for all investigated mouse strains. …”
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Identification of Crotonylation Metabolism Signature Predicting Overall Survival for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Jie Zheng, Yingqing Liu, Kai Wei, Jiewu Shi, Lin Li, Xuefeng Jiang, Lingsong Tao

“…Additionally, we employed Cell Counting Kit-8, wound healing, and Transwell chamber assays to assess changes in the proliferative and metastatic ability of A498 and 786-O cells. …”
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The Effect of Planting Distance and Spraying with Different Concentrations of (Micronate15) on Vegetative Growth and Yield Traits of Pea Plant (Pisum Sativum L.) by Ismael Ahmad Hassan

“…The aim of this study was to find the effect of planting distances and spraying with different concentrations of leaf fertilizer with micronate15 on some vegetative growth traits and yield of pea variety Green Canada in non-heated greenhouses, by using three planting distance (factor A) which includes:  A1:20, A2: 30, and A3:40 cm and four spray concentrations as foliar application (factor B) which includes: B0: zero, B1: 0.5, b2: 1.5 and b3: 2.5 liter of water). …”
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Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…What started as a zoological debate heated up in an intellectual war because the ‘mermaid question’ was imbedded in larger issues related to hybridism. …”
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