Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking by Quantum Zhuo, Mansour N. Al-Harbi, Petrus C. Pistorius

“…In previous work, inputs such as the proportion of DRI, fluxes, natural gas, and oxygen were linearly correlated with the specific electricity consumption. …”
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Prognostic Roles of Inflammatory Markers in Pancreatic Cancer: Comparison between the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio by Dongwook Oh, Jung-Soo Pyo, Byoung Kwan Son

“…The correlations between high inflammatory marker expression levels and prognosis in 7105 patients with pancreatic cancer from 34 eligible studies were investigated. Additionally, subgroup analyses based on study location, tumor stage, treatment, and value cutoffs were performed. …”
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A long road to educational equity: Tracking trends through PISA 2000–2018 by Ekaterina Enchikova, Tiago Neves, Cibelle Toledo, Gil Nata

“…Results show that, on average, PISA-participating countries have only slightly improved their equality of opportunity. Additionally, there is an absence of clear patterns regarding the relationship between equity levels and equity change, highlighting the diversity of national pathways to equity and underscoring the importance of analysing specific contexts when assessing equity. …”
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Polatuzumab vedotin combined with bendamustine and rituximab for relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A systematic review protocol. by Mohammadreza Eslami, Mahdi Mehrabi, Mehrdad Payandeh, Fakhredin Saba

“…Data synthesis will utilize fixed-effect or random-effects models, and subgroup and meta-regression analyses will examine heterogeneity. Additionally, publication bias and sensitivity analyses will be performed, and the GRADE approach will be applied to assess the certainty of the evidence.…”
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Anthropomorphic service recovery: the panacea following service failure of automated CSAs by Nobukhosi Dlodlo

“…The findings showed a significant effect between empathy and anthropomorphism with perceived trustworthiness. In addition, anthropomorphic CSAs provide a trust shield effect, reducing the loss of trust following a service failure. …”
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Impact of artificial rice from Gracilaria sp. seaweed on Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) levels in prediabetic and diabetic patients by Purwaningsih Sri, Wahyu Ramadhan

“…Both groups had the same vegetables and side dishes. Additionally, the chemical content of the product was tested. …”
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15-Deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2 Exerts Antioxidant Effects While Exacerbating Inflammation in Mice Subjected to Ureteral Obstruction by Line Nilsson, Fredrik Palm, Rikke Nørregaard

“…Protein and RNA expression were examined using immunoblotting and qPCR. 15d-PGJ2 increased NF-E2-related nuclear factor erythroid-2 (Nrf2) protein expression in response to UUO, and heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1), a downstream target of Nrf2, was induced by 15d-PGJ2. Additionally, 15d-PGJ2 prevented protein carbonylation, a UUO-induced oxidative stress marker. …”
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Interpretive structural modeling of factors affecting the internal development of cities in arid regions (Case study: Ardakan city by mohamad reza hatafi ardakani, mphammad hosein saraei, mohamad mahdi karimnejad, seyed ali almodaresi, saideh moayed far

“…Because physical development, in addition to land use change, has met the basic needs of urban society, including the provision of safe and sufficient water, green space per capita, urban waste management and environmental pollution. …”
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Optimization and analysis of surface flashover triggered vacuum switch conduction delay time characteristics by Ming Zhang, Minfu Liao, Liang Bu, Gang Lu, Longfei Yu, Yifan Sun, Xiongying Duan

“…The shorter the main gap distance, the smaller the conduction delay time of the STVS. In addition, increasing the trigger current and operating voltage can diminish the conduction delay time of STVS.…”
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Evaluation of heart rate and pulmonary uptake in dipyridamole myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with suspected coronary artery disease and their relationship with clinical r... by Siamak Derakhshan, Bahar Moassesghafari, Khaled Rhmani

“…Conclusion: Although diabetes and hypertension increased RHR, the only factors affecting PHR were age and gender, so that the lowest heart rate response to dipyridamole was observed in older adults and men. In addition to an abnormal scan, male gender also increased the likelihood of an abnormal LHR.…”
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The importance of managing the psychosocial potential of human resources for employee job satisfaction / Importanța gestiunii potențialului psihosocial al resurselor umane pentru s... by CEBOTARI Veaces

“…People's job satisfaction levels can range from extreme satisfaction to extreme dissatisfaction. In addition to having attitudes about their jobs as a whole, people may also have attitudes about various aspects of their work, such as the type of work they do, their peers, supervisors or subordinates, and pay them. …”
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The development of a new bread wheat genotype carrying two loci for endosperm softness by A. V. Simonov, A. K. Chistyakova, E. V. Morozova, L. V. Shchukina, A. Börner, T. A. Pshenichnikova

“…It is also possible to use them for technical purposes for the production of bioethanol. In addition, these lines may serve as a genetic model for the study of the functional activity of homoeoallelic genes in the complex polyploid genomes of plants.…”
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SCO and BRICS in an emerging multipolar world order by D. V. Malyshev

“…The author emphasizes that in addition to addressing traditional challenges, the SCO member states are actively cooperating in countering new threats, such as separatism, drug trafficking, terrorism, and Islamic extremism. …”
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Assessment of Water Poverty Index (WPI) Under Changing Land Use/Land Cover in a Riverine Ecosystem of Central India by Girish Kumar, M. M. Singh, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Bal Krishan Choudhary , Vijay Kumar Singh Rathore and Pramod Kumar

“…The Upper Tons River Basin faces challenges such as unfavorable rainfall patterns and inadequate planning for irrigation at the fundamental and local levels. Additionally, its geographical location in a rainfed area negatively affects the WPI.…”
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Computational Modeling of Desiccation Properties (CW, LS, and VS) of Waste-Based Activated Ash-Treated Black Cotton Soil for Sustainable Subgrade Using Artificial Neural Network, G... by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Jamshid Shakeri, Hasel Amini-Khoshalan, Thompson F. Usungedo, Mohammadreza Alimoradi-Jazi

“…There was appreciable improvement in the shrinkage and crack parameters over the 30-day drying period due to the addition of ASDA. The intelligent model results showed that the three techniques successfully predicted the CW, LS, and VS with a performance accuracy above 90%, while ANN produced the minimal error in performance outperforming the other techniques. …”
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Liquefaction Analysis According to Turkish Building Earthquake Regulation (2018) and Sığacık (Seferihisar/İzmir) Case Study by Seda Durukan, Ezgi Akbuğa

“…In the third scenario, the related area was found to be 71% safe. In addition, possible post-liquefaction settlements were also calculated with two different methods for the first scenario. …”
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Changes to muscle and fascia tissue after eighteen days of ankle immobilization post-ankle sprain injury: an MRI case study by Meeghage Randika Perera, Pan Su, Samantha Holdsworth, Geoffrey Handsfield

“…Thigh muscles displayed hypertrophy of 6% in the hamstrings, while the quadriceps atrophied by 2.5%. Additionally, fascia thickness increased from 0.94 mm to 1.03 mm. …”
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Vibration and Sound Transmission Performance of Sandwich Panels with Uniform and Gradient Auxetic Double Arrowhead Honeycomb Cores by Qing Li, Deqing Yang

“…The results indicated that the vibrating mode shapes and deformations of the DAH sandwich models were strongly affected by the patterned gradient metamaterials. In addition, the sound insulation performance of the considered DAH sandwich models was investigated regarding the sound transmission loss (STL) from 1 Hz to 1500 Hz under a normal incident planar wave, and this performance was compared with that for hexagonal honeycomb sandwich panels. …”
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Causal effects of retinol and vitamin D on tongue cancer risk: a mendelian randomization study by Jiawei Zhang, Yake Lou, Hong Chen, Xiaofeng Huang

“…The sensitivity analysis did not detect any significant horizontal pleiotropy or heterogeneity. …”
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Extent and Resistance Patterns of ESKAPE Pathogens Isolated in Pus Swabs from Hospitalized Patients by Salim S. Masoud, Anna Kovacevich, Raidah Gangji, Helmut Nyawale, Mary Nyange, Albert Ntukula

“…A. baumannii showed the highest resistance towards 3rd generation cephalosporin and carbapenems. In addition, P. aeruginosa showed high resistance to 3rd generation cephalosporins with 89.5% resistance, with E. coli showing high resistance to carbapenems with 50.0% resistance. …”
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