Seismic Response of a Bridge Pile Foundation during a Shaking Table Test by Yunxiu Dong, Zhongju Feng, Jingbin He, Huiyun Chen, Guan Jiang, Honghua Yin

“…When the seismic intensity was greater than 0.50 g, the fundamental frequency of the pile foundation decreased slowly and tended to stabilize at 0.87 Hz. The bending moment was larger at the junction of the pile and cap, the soft-hard soil interface, and the bedrock surface, where cracks easily occurred. …”
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Equine Trypanosomiasis: Molecular Detection, Hematological, and Oxidative Stress Profiling by Mostafa Shoraba, Salma A. Shoulah, Faysal Arnaout, Abdelfattah Selim

“…Regarding oxidative stress profile, the infected horses showed decreased levels of glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and antioxidant capacity (TAC) compared to the control group. …”
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Hybrid Modification of Stone Mastic Asphalt with Cellulose and Basalt Fiber by You Huang, Zhaohui Liu, Li Liu, Yunbao Zhang, Qingxiang Xu

“…A series of tests including draindown, permanent deformation, low temperature bending, beam fatigue, and moisture damage resistance were conducted. …”
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Determination of alpha-napthyl acetate esterase activity of native and frozen-thawed bull sperm acrosome by Ülkü Nur Canbolat, İlhami Çelik, Rukiye Erdoğan

“…The native semen samples with low spermatozoon vitality and motility tended to display lower of alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase positivity rates. …”
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Retrofitting of a Multi-Span Simply Supported Bridge into a Semi-Integral Bridge by Zhen Xu, Xiaoye Luo, Khaled Sennah, Baochun Chen, Yizhou Zhuang

“…According to the response spectrum analysis, the maximum longitudinal displacement of the semi-integral bridge’s main beam is 11.6 mm, reduced by 80.1% compared to the simply supported bridge under a dead load and earthquake effects. The maximum bending moment and shear force on the pier of the semi-integral bridge are 984.7 kN·m and 312.6 kN, respectively, both below their ultimate bearing capacities. …”
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Developing a Framework to Support the Delivery of Effective Pain Management for Children: An Exploratory Qualitative Study by Joan Simons, Bernie Carter, Jennie Craske

“…Each interrelated element of the framework plays an important part in the overall management of children’s pain. The need now is to make the dissemination of the findings accessible to health care practitioners, parents, and educators. …”
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Introducing the spectral characteristics index: A novel method for clustering solar radiation fluctuations from a plant-ecophysiological perspective by Amila Nuwan Siriwardana, Atsushi Kume

“…This study presents the Spectral Characteristics Index (SCI), a novel method that integrates spectral quality and energy flux to classify daily SR conditions.Data were collected using a rotating shadow-band spectroradiometer. The study applied agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) based on cumulative Euclidean distance matrices and identified five SR clusters ranging from clear (SCI-01) to overcast (SCI-05) conditions, with spectral shifts from red to blue. …”
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Integrating piecewise and symbolic regression with remote sensing data for spatiotemporal analysis of surface water total dissolved solids in the Karun River, Iran by Javad Zahiri, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Adell Moradi-Sabzkouhi, Mitra Cheraghi, Nazmi Mat Nawi

“…By leveraging advanced regression techniques and uncertainty quantification, the findings enable more reliable predictions of TDS levels, which are crucial for sustainable river management.…”
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Insights into the photocatalytic removal of malachite green organic pollutant by highly efficient hard responsive Ba1 − xCoxDyyFe12−yO19 catalysts by Himanshi, Basant Lal, Ankit Verma, Suman, Jahangeer Ahmed, Arunima Singh, Chan Choon Kit, Rohit Jasrotia, Natrayan Lakshmaiya, Varun Mehra, Abhishek Kandwal

“…The specific surface area (SSA) of the HF1 sample is 3.523 m2/g, whereas the band gap values of co-doped barium hexaferrites are found within the range of 1.61 to 1.75 eV. …”
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Multichannel Enhanced Millimeter-Wave SAR Imaging via Low-Rank Tensor-Train Decomposition by Bangjie Zhang, Gang Xu, Xiang-Gen Xia, Jianlai Chen, Rui Zhou, Shuai Shao, Wei Hong

“…However, the high propagation loss of mmWave bands and the limitation of transmitting power have led to limited imaging performance for mmWave SAR. …”
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Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery: A finite element analysis of open and minimally invasive approach on L4-L5 segment by Kishore Pradeep, Bidyut Pal, Kaushik Mukherjee, Gautam M. Shetty

“…The models were analyzed using an axial compressive load (500 N) and physiological movements like flexion, extension, and lateral bending with a combined load and moment (150 N and 10 Nm). …”
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The method for impact analyzing of duplex plasma nitriding and DLC coatings on the cyclic performance of 16MnCr5 piston pin steel under plain and fretting fatigue testing by Mobin Dizisaz, Mohammad Sadegh Aghareb Parast, Mohammad Azadi

“…. • Fully reversed rotary bending plain and fretting fatigue testing was conducted at stress levels ranging from 250 to 550 MPa. …”
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Influence of welding sequences on residual stress and deformation of U-rib components fabricated by laser-arc hybrid welding by Shaoning Geng, Yuantai Li, Ping Jiang, Yilin Wang, Jun Jin, Chu Han

“…Segmental double-sided simultaneous welding with the “End→Middle←End” path significantly reduces residual deformation, decreasing the maximum bending deformation by approximately 33% compared to continuous sequential welding. …”
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Unlocking the Magnetic and Half-Metallic Properties of AMY2 (A = Cu, Ag; M = Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe; Y = S, Se) Compounds in Chalcopyrite Structure: An Ab Initio Study for Spintroni... by D. Vijayalakshmi, Tholkappiyan Ramachandran, G. Jaiganesh, G. Kalpana, Fathalla Hamed

“…For AFeY2 compounds (A = Cu, Ag; Y = S, Se), electronic band structures for both up spin and down spin states were identical, suggesting antiferromagnetic behavior at equilibrium, while AScY2 compounds (A = Cu, Ag; Y = S, Se) exhibited nonmagnetic properties at equilibrium. …”
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Seismic Sequence Effects on Buried Pipelines Crossing Nonuniform Sites with Ground Settlement by Dynamic Centrifuge Test by Hongtao Zhang, Yufei Zhao, Mingxu Gao

“…The mechanical model of the pipeline by earthquake indicated that the total strain of the pipeline was composed of bending deformation by PGD and axial deformation by TGD. …”
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Correlation Analysis Between Multi-Drug Resistance Phenotype and Virulence Factor Expression of Clinical <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> by Wenli Xu, Runcheng Zhou, Jingwei Pan, Zhuangcong Liu, Xuyu Huang, Yueqiao Lin, Nan Li, Kecan Chen, Wenbo Sun, Yi Deng, Anping Yang, Xin Chen

“…Among the strains with strong virulence factor expression, the gene bands showed little difference, suggesting that the gene is highly homologous. …”
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Data-driven exploration of weak coordination microenvironment in solid-state electrolyte for safe and energy-dense batteries by Zhoujie Lao, Kehao Tao, Xiao Xiao, Haotian Qu, Xinru Wu, Zhiyuan Han, Runhua Gao, Jian Wang, Xian Wu, An Chen, Lei Shi, Chengshuai Chang, Yanze Song, Xiangyu Wang, Jinjin Li, Yanfei Zhu, Guangmin Zhou

“…By adjusting the covalency competition between Metal−O and Li−O bonds within Hofmann complexes, we can manipulate weak coordination environment of lithium-ion for rapid conduction kinetics. …”
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Pulse-profile Modeling and Spin–Orbit Alignment in a Suzaku Sample of Accreting X-Ray Binary Pulsars by Silas G. T. Laycock, Rigel C. Cappallo, Pragati Pradhan, Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Biswajit Paul

“…We fitted each individual pulse profile with the Polestar geometric model, which accounts for X-ray emission from two hot spots modeled as a simple combination of fan+pencil beam components, including an approximation for gravitational light bending. In 14 of 21 cases, our measurements of the inclinations of the pulsar spin axes broadly agree with the corresponding inclinations of the orbital planes of the binary systems determined by various other means, a striking outcome with a mere 6 × 10 ^−7 probability of occurring by chance. …”
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Exploring the Enhanced Optical and Antibacterial Properties of Ag-Doped CdWO4 Nanopowders: Synthesis, Characterization, and Multifaceted Applications by Nooshin Heydarian Dehkordi, Morteza Raeisi, Sanaz Alamdari

“…Photoluminescence (PL) measurements at 2 excitation wavelengths and Ion Beam-Induced Luminescence (IBIL) results revealed that the shallow level of Ag+ dopant near the conduction band of WO66- enhanced its luminescence properties under UV (λ exc=280nm) and ion beam (E=2.2 MeV) excitations. …”
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Ecological concrete by partially substitution of cement with Cameroonian corn stover ash by Martial Ngnihamye Nde, Seidou Youssoufa, Fabien Kenmogne, Merveille Meto Kuigne, Michel Mbessa, Emmanuel Yamb Bell, Didier Fokwa

“…For this, as materials used, one has first the corn stovers coming from the Bandjoun town in the Koung-khi division, in the West region of Cameroon, which are used to obtain the ashes, while the sand used, came from the Sanaga River in the coastal region of Cameroon. …”
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