A Short Period of Ventilation without Perfusion Seems to Reduce Atelectasis without Harming the Lungs during Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion by Sandra Lindstedt, Leif Pierre, Richard Ingemansson

“…In the modified EVLP group, the arterial oxygen partial pressure (PaO2) was 18.5 ± 7.0 kPa before and 64.5 ± 6.0 kPa after the maneuver (P<0.001). …”
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The Influence of Dosing Modes of Coagulate on Arsenic Removal by Zhibin Zhang, Jinxiang Li, Cuizhen Sun, Yanhao Zhang, Lilong Huang, Meng Wang

“…Besides, the main arsenic speciation governing the arsenic-borne coagulates was the As (V) associated with poorly crystalline hydrous oxides of Fe in sequential or single dosing mode. Moreover, the particle size distribution analysis indicated that the sequential dosing mode was more prevalent in neutralizing and adsorbing the As (V) compared with the single dosing mode. …”
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Quantum theory-inspired inter-sentence semantic interaction model for textual adversarial defense by Jiacheng Huang, Long Chen, Xiaoyin Yi, Ning Yu

“…Guided by this insight, the input text is segmented into subsentences, with the model simulating contextual comprehension by representing each subsentence as a particle within a mixture system, utilizing a density matrix to model inter-sentence interactions. …”
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Dynamic Response and Time-Frequency Characteristic of Dangerous Rocks under the Combined Action of Rock Cavity Weathering and Earthquake by Qingyang Ren, Honghua Jin, Xiaokun Ren, Xingxing Zhang

“…In order to further reveal the failure mode and dynamic response law of dangerous rocks with different degree of weathering in the rock cavity under the action of earthquake and to provide early warning and forecast for steep slope of dangerous rocks in similar earthquake areas, a typical steep slope of dangerous rock in earthquake area of Sichuan, China, was taken as the research object, after detailed geological survey, and according to the chain development law of dangerous rock, the steep slope of dangerous rock before the earthquake was restored. Based on the 3D particle flow software PFC3D, the dangerous rock was divided into 3 modes according to the degree of weathering of the mudstone rock cavity, and the three-dimensional discrete element dangerous rock model under different modes was established. …”
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Optimal channel and feature selection for automatic prediction of functional brain age of preterm infant based on EEG by Ling Li, Jiahui Li, Hui Wu, Yanping Zhao, Qinmei Liu, Hairong Zhang, Wei Xu

“…To optimize channel selection, we combine Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) with Forward Addition (FA) and Backward Elimination (BE) methods. …”
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A Novel Strategy for Screening Active Components in Cistanche tubulosa Based on Spectrum-Effect Relationship Analysis and Network Pharmacology by Xiao-Tong Liu, Dong-Mei Sun, Wen-Xin Yu, Wei-Xiong Lin, Liao-Yuan Liu, Yu Zeng

“…The spectrum-effect relationships between the HPLC fingerprints and the biological capabilities were analyzed via partial least squares regression, bivariate correlation analysis, and redundancy analysis. …”
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Detection of genetic relations between species in the genus Prunus L. when using them in breeding of stone fruit crops by G. V. Eremin

“…This is characteristic of hybrids produced by the species of one section at the same level of ploidy;-    the second level: fertility of hybrids is reduced, but some of them produce fruits and partially fertile pollen. This level is typical for hybrids from crosses between species at the intersection level within one subgenus;-    the third level: F1 hybrids are infertile, but in some of them partial viability of pollen is observed. …”
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Analytical study of steady state axisymmetric stagnation-point gold–blood Casson nanofluid through a rotating stretchable disk by Usman Ali, Hamid Khan, Waris Khan, Emad E. Mahmoud, Marouan Kouki, Jabr Aljedani, Hakim AL Garalleh

“…By using scaling variables, the complex system of partial differential equations is simplified into a set of coupled high degree nonlinear ordinary differential equations with convective boundary conditions. …”
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A Dose-Response Relationship to Radiotherapy for Cutaneous Lesions of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis by Mark K. Farrugia, Carl Morrison, Francisco Hernandez-Ilizaliturri, Saif Aljabab

“…We delivered a single dose of 8 Gray (Gy) to 3 separate skin lesions, including the bilateral groin, right popliteal region, and right axillary lesion, which resulted in pain reduction and partial response at four-month follow-up. Subsequently, we decided to treat the left axillary untreated lesion to a higher dose of 24 Gy in 12 fractions. …”
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Temporal Aspects of Surface Water Quality Variation Using Robust Statistical Tools by Adamu Mustapha, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Mohammad Firuz Ramli, Hafizan Juahir

“…Discriminant analysis (DA) provided better results with great discriminatory ability by using five parameters with (P<0.05) for dry season affording more than 96% correct assignation and used five and six parameters for forward and backward stepwise in wet season data with P-value (P<0.05) affording 68.20% and 82%, respectively. Partial correlation results revealed that there are strong (rp=0.829) and moderate (rp=0.614) relationships between five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), total solids (TS) and dissolved solids (DS) controlling for the linear effect of nitrogen in the form of ammonia (NH3) and conductivity for dry and wet seasons, respectively. …”
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Optimization of dark chocolate formulation with roasted coriander cake as cocoa substitute by Javad Cheragheshahi, Ali Mohamadi Sani, Elham Mahdian, Sharareh Mohseni, Zahra Nazari

“…In the second phase, roasted coriander cake (RCC) was used as a partial replacement for sugar and cocoa powder. The physicochemical and rheological characteristics of RCC chocolates were evaluated. …”
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Characterization of Nora Virus Structural Proteins via Western Blot Analysis by Brad L. Ericson, Darby J. Carlson, Kimberly A. Carlson

“…Antisera were evaluated via Western blot against whole virus particles and Nora virus infected fly lysates. Viral purification yielded two particle types with densities of ~1.31 g/mL (empty particles) and ~1.33 g/mL (complete virions). …”
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Simulation of Surface Segregation in Nanoparticles of Pt-Pd Alloys by Jose Brito Correia, Ana Isabel de Sá

“…The potential energy, calculated from MD simulations, increases with a decreasing particle size due to surface creation, indicating higher reactivity for smaller particles. …”
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Beamforming Feedback-Based Line-of-Sight Identification Toward Firmware-Agnostic WiFi Sensing by Hiroki Shimomura, Koji Yamamoto, Takayuki Nishio, Akihito Taya

“…They can be obtained by capturing frames without custom firmware or specific chipsets and contain a beamforming feedback matrix (BFM) and subcarrier-averaged stream gain (SSG). These provide partial channel state information (CSI), and there are two major calculation steps involved from the CSI to the BFF: unquantized BFF (UQBFF) calculation and quantization. …”
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Experimental Study on the Damage of Artificial Fracture Permeability in Coal during the Flow Back of Guar-Based Fracturing Fluid by Shenggui Liu, Jinkuang Huang, Songlei Tang, Shixiong Shi, Xuan Wu, Xin Liu

“…The experimental results show that the fracturing fluid concentration, proppant type, proppant particle size, and proppant concentration all affect fracture permeability. …”
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Changes in streamflow seasonality associated with hydroclimatic variability in the north-central United States among three discrete temporal periods, 1946–2020 by Nancy A. Barth, Harper N. Wavra, Anthony R. Koebele, Steven K. Sando

“…New hydrologic insights for the region: In the 50-year trend period, five regions share common mean flood timing in the AMS and POT partial duration series. Changes from asymmetric distributions to reflective symmetric distributions are detected particularly among the 50- and 30-year trend periods in the northernmost States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. …”
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Temporary Fecal Diversion in the Management of Colorectal and Perianal Crohn’s Disease by Rudolf Mennigen, Britta Heptner, Norbert Senninger, Emile Rijcken

“…The response to temporary fecal diversion was complete remission in 4/29 (13.8%), partial remission in 12/29 (41.4%), no change in 7/29 (24.1%), and progress in 6/29 (20.7%). …”
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Experimental Study on Freeze-Thaw Effects on Creep Characteristics of Rubber Concrete by Qi Li, Fei Xu, Hemin Zheng, Junhao Shi, Jianyu Zhang

“…Meanwhile, it was found that the cracking and interfacial debonding between the matrix and the crumb rubber particle were the main reasons for the degradation of CRC creep performance. …”
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Air Quality and Public Health Risk Assessment: A Case of an Industrial Area in Haridwar City, Uttarakhand (India) by Alka Pant, Ramesh Chandra Joshi, Sanjay Sharma, Kamal Pant

“…Results: With the help of autocorrelation function (ACF)/partial ACF plots, a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (0,1,0) (1,0,0)[12] model was selected with the minimum akaike information criterion (253.143) and mean absolute percentage error (17.42%). …”
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The Particularities of Employees’ Green Ethical Behavior in the Oil and Gas Sector by Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu, Camelia Olivia Timpa

“…The article aims to evaluate the particularities of the green, ethical behavior of employees from the oil and gas sector in light of climate change and sustainable development. …”
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