C-Reactive Protein Levels in relation to Incidence of Hypertension in Chinese Adults: Longitudinal Analyses from the China Health and Nutrition Survey by Bo Chen, Yuze Cui, Mengyun Lei, Wenlei Xu, Qiongjie Yan, Xiaotong Zhang, Minghui Qin, Shaoyong Xu

“…The areas under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were used to evaluate the predictive value of the hs-CRP. …”
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Treatment of Achilles tendon rupture using different methods by Grubor Predrag, Grubor Milan

“…Surgical treatment, percutaneous tenorrhaphy, performed in a small operating theatre under local anaesthesia, should be preferred in cases of fresh ruptures of the Achilles tendon.…”
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Examining the determinant factor of football technical skills by Panuwun Joko Nurcahyo, Kusnandar Kusnandar, Didik Rilastiyo Budi, Arfin Deri Listiandi, Erwin Oliver Estrella, Mohhamad Ashraf Khan, Mohammed Asim Ghazi, Mazuki Mohd Yasim, Mohd Izwan Shahril

“…Measurement of football skills using a football skill test. Data analyze is operating the SPSS 21 application to examine the normality and linearity of the data. …”
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Experimental investigation on thermal management of lithium-ion battery pack for formula student electric vehicle using air-cooling system by Sagar Wankhede, Ajay D. Pingale, Atharva Kale

“…The results of this investigation provide valuable insights for designing and improving active cooling systems for LIBPs in FSEVs. The average variance of the obtained temperature data was 4.256% based on simulation results. …”
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Development of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) – Based Quality Management System for Concrete Bridges Maintenance Works to Improve Maintenance Performance by Naufal Laksono, Fairus Kanza Mashito, Yusuf Latief, Bambang Trigunarsyah

“…Quantitative findings from expert validation showed high suitability of the QMS framework, with average scores of 4.0 to 5.0 across content, format, and performance effectiveness. …”
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Accurate and Robust Train Localization: Fusing Degeneracy-Aware LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Visual Landmark Correction by Lin Yue, Peng Wang, Jinchao Mu, Chen Cai, Dingyi Wang, Hao Ren

“…Firstly, an IMU preintegration factor considering the Earth’s rotation and a LiDAR-inertial odometry factor accounting for degenerate states are constructed to adapt to railway train operating environments. Subsequently, a lightweight network based on YOLO improvement is used for recognizing reflective kilometer posts, while PaddleOCR extracts numerical codes. …”
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Design and Experiment of a Single-Disk Silage Corn Harvester by Wenxuan Wang, Wei Sun, Hui Li, Xiaokang Li, Yongwei Yuan

“…At that time, the machine productivity was 38 t·h⁻¹, the average standard grass length rate was 82.15%, and the stubble qualification rate was 91.95%. …”
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Novel Physical Unclonable Function Implementation for Microcontrollers and Field Programmable Gate Arrays by Marco Grossi, Martin Omana, Cecilia Metra, Andrea Acquaviva

“…The proposed PUF based scheme has been implemented on five different FPGA devices, in order to experimentally verify their correct operation under various realistic operating conditions. …”
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Evaluation of machine learning techniques for real-time prediction of implanted lower limb mechanics by Chase Maag, Clare K. Fitzpatrick, Paul J. Rullkoetter

“…Applications of this work could be applied to provide pre-operative guidance on optimal target implant alignment or given the real-time prediction ability of these models, could also be used intra-operatively after integration of patient-specific intra-op kinematic and soft-tissue information.…”
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Model Predictive Control-Based Energy Management System for Cooperative Optimization of Grid-Connected Microgrids by Sungmin Lim, Jaekyu Lee, Sangyub Lee

“…Additionally, cooperative MG operation resulted in an average 46.18% reduction in external resource usage compared to independent operation. …”
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Transthoracic Lung node biopsy under navigation of C-arm based universal angiographic complex by I. S. Baryshnikov, A. O. Egorova, Dmitry Alexandrovich Polezhaev

“…The procedure was made with local anesthesia in an interventional operating room. The postoperative observation time was 1 day.Results. …”
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Competency and Performance of Seaweed Farmers in Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi by Nuraeni Nuraeni, Andi Maslia Tenrisau Adam, Tsalis Kurniawan Husain, Fatimah Azzahra

“…The results revealed an average dried seaweed yield of 3,390 kg per hectare. …”
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Techno-Economic Assessment of Alternative-Fuel Bus Technologies Under Real Driving Conditions in a Developing Country Context by Marc Haddad, Charbel Mansour

“…Results also show that accounting for additional energy consumption from the use of climate-control auxiliaries in hot and cold weather can significantly impact the performance of all bus technologies by up to 44.7% for electric buses on average. Performance of all considered bus technologies improves considerably in free-flowing traffic conditions, making BRT operation the most beneficial. …”
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Adaptive Motion Planning Leveraging Speed-Differentiated Prediction for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments by Tengfei Liu, Zihe Wang, Jiazheng Hu, Shuling Zeng, Xiaoxu Liu, Tan Zhang

“…This paper presents a novel motion planning framework for mobile robots operating in dynamic and uncertain environments, with an emphasis on accurate trajectory prediction and safe, efficient obstacle avoidance. …”
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Persistent GeV Counterpart to the Microquasar GRS 1915+105 by Guillem Martí-Devesa, Laura Olivera-Nieto

“…We find that if the jet has been operating at an average of 1% of the Eddington limit for 10% of the time that GRS 1915+105 spent in its current mass transfer state, the transfer of 10% of the available power to protons is enough to reach the ∼3 × 10 ^49 erg required to explain the GeV signal. …”
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A Combined Index of Steady-State Pattern Electroretinogram and Optical Coherence Tomography Improved the Detection of Early Glaucoma by Hwayeong Kim, Sangwoo Moon, EunAh Kim, Jinmi Kim, Jiwoong Lee

“…We compared the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) for ssPERG, OCT, and VF test parameters. …”
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Artificial neural network applying for justification of tractors undercarriages parameters by V. A. Kuz’Min, R. S. Fedotkin, V. A. Kryuchkov

“…The database of crawler agricultural tractors particularly in such parameters as traction class and basic operational weight, engine power rating, average ground pressure, square of track basic branch surface area was modeled. …”
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Impact of Multimodal Fast-Track Protocols on Recovery in End-Stage Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis Patients Undergoing ex vivo Liver Resection and Autotransplantation: a Preliminar... by Qin Y, Li J, Ren Q

“…Postoperative hospital stays ranged from 4 to 51 days, with an average of 23.5 days. Hospital costs averaged $3 million (range $1.94– 4.07 million). …”
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Implementation of Modular Depot Concept for Switchgrass Pellet Production in the Piedmont by Jonathan P. Resop, John S. Cundiff, Shahabaddine Sokhansanj

“…In the bioenergy industry, highway hauling cost is typically 30%, or more, of the average cost of feedstock delivered to a biorefinery. …”
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A VCA Combined MHSA-CNN for Aero-Engine Hot Jet Remote Sensing Mixed Spectral Feature Extraction by Zhenping Kang, Yurong Liao, Xinyan Yang, Zhaoming Li

“…Among the mixed samples, the average abundance values of the two pure spectra were 0.78 and 0.22, respectively. …”
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