Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…Set in the late-1840s, Wilkie Collins’s sensation novel The Woman in White uses the Italian War of Independence as more than a background. …”
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Normal tissue radioprotection by amifostine via Warburg-type effects by Michael I. Koukourakis, Alexandra Giatromanolaki, Christos E. Zois, Dimitra Kalamida, Stamatia Pouliliou, Ilias V. Karagounis, Tzu-Lan Yeh, Martine I. Abboud, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Christopher J. Schofield, Efthimios Sivridis, Costantinos Simopoulos, Savvas P. Tokmakidis, Adrian L. Harris

“…Amifostine selectively protects NCTC cells against radiation, whilst HepG2 neoplastic cells are sensitized. The radiation protection was correlates with HIF levels. …”
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A Multistage Decision-Feedback Receiver Design for LTE Uplink in Mobile Time-Variant Environments by Juinn-Horng Deng, Shu-Min Liao

“…Similar to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), SC-FDMA is highly sensitive to frequency offsets caused by oscillator inaccuracies and Doppler spread, which lead to intercarrier interference (ICI). …”
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Development of a Cost-effective Adsorption Dryer for High-quality Aerosol Sampling by Simonas Kecorius, Leizel Madueño, Susanne Sues, Josef Cyrys, Mario Lovrić, Mira Pöhlker, Kristina Plauškaitė, Lina Davulienė, Agnė Minderytė, Steigvilė Byčenkienė

“…., long-term measurements, intensive field campaigns, laboratory studies, and applications with low-cost sensors). The DD is equipped with ports for desiccant regeneration using clean and dry air, eliminating the need for desiccant removal from the dryer. …”
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An Inhibitive Enzyme Assay to Detect Mercury and Zinc Using Protease from Coriandrum sativum by Gunasekaran Baskaran, Noor Azlina Masdor, Mohd Arif Syed, Mohd Yunus Shukor

“…The crude proteases extracted from Coriandrum sativum showed good potential for the development of a rapid, sensitive, and economic inhibitive assay for the biomonitoring of Hg2+ and Zn2+ in the aquatic environments.…”
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Deep learning-assisted arrhythmia classification using 2-D ECG spectrograms by Pinjala N Malleswari, Venkata krishna Odugu, T. J. V. Subrahmanyeswara Rao, T. V. N. L. Aswini

“…The classification Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, F1-score, Precision, and Detection Error Rate of the CNN classifier are compared to AlexNet, GoogleNet, Vgg16, and SqueezeNet pre-trained networks. …”
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IoT in Urban Traffic Prediction Development Case Studies and Future Trends by Wang Renhe

“…With the rise of wireless communication technology, vehicle GPS navigation systems began to appear, which can provide real-time traffic information and route planning. Nowadays, various sensors, radio frequency identification devices (RFID), cameras, and other devices are widely used, making real-time data collection and analysis possible. …”
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Advanced Fraud Detection: Leveraging K-SMOTEENN and Stacking Ensemble to Tackle Data Imbalance and Extract Insights by Nurafni Damanik, Chuan-Ming Liu

“…This ensures a precise fraud detection mechanism without compromising sensitivity. Furthermore, the proposed model incorporates Explainable AI (XAI) techniques to enhance interpretability and trust. …”
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Meteorological drivers of melt at two nearby glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica by Marte G. Hofsteenge, Nicolas J. Cullen, Jonathan P. Conway, Carleen H. Reijmer, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Marwan Katurji

“…Future melt at Taylor Glacier will likely be more sensitive to changes in föhn events, while Commonwealth Glacier will be impacted more by changes in near coastal weather, where moisture inputs can drive cloud cover, snowfall and change albedo.…”
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EFFECT OF POST MORTEM INTERVAL TOWARD Β-TRYPTASE AND CHYMASE EXPRESSION OF ANAPHYLACTIC HEART MAST CELLS by Imam Susilo, Bilqisthi Ari Putra, Ahmad Yudianto

“…The measurement of β-tryptase and chymase expression was based on immunohistochemical IRS (immunoreactive score) in the heart organs of rabbits experiencing anaphylactic shock sensitization and induction of anaphylactic shock using ovalbumin. …”
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Water Quality Assessment of Tributaries of Batang Baleh in Sarawak Using Cluster Analysis by Teck-Yee Ling, Chen-Lin Soo, Teresa-Lee-Eng Heng, Lee Nyanti, Siong-Fong Sim, Jongkar Grinang, Karen-Suan-Ping Lee, Tonny Ganyai

“…Thus, there is an urgent need to reduce the pollutants in the tributaries of Batang Baleh for the health of the sensitive aquatic organisms.…”
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Non-high-density to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and its association with infertility in U.S. women: a cross-sectional study by Yajie Zhang, Cong Lu, Lili Li, Hongyu Li

“…To ensure the robustness of our results, we conducted subgroup and sensitivity analyses.ResultsBetween 2013 and 2018, our study included 2,947 participants, with 342(11.6%) self-reported infertility. …”
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Exploiting Partial Reconfiguration through PCIe for a Microphone Array Network Emulator by Bruno da Silva, An Braeken, Federico Domínguez, Abdellah Touhafi

“…The current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the deployment of relatively low-cost wireless sensor networks composed of MEMS microphone arrays for accurate sound source localization. …”
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Financial inclusion of vulnerable sectors with a gender perspective: risk analysis model with artificial intelligence based on complex thinking by Adriana Medina-Vidal, Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia, Miguel González-Mendoza, María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya

“…Abstract The objective is to present a proposal for a gender-sensitive risk analysis model using artificial intelligence (AI) within the framework of complex thinking that provides access to opportunities, specifically for vulnerable populations such as women from underprivileged sections. …”
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Security Analysis of Image Scrambling Cipher Based on Compound Chaotic Equation by Luoyin Feng

“…The improved encryption algorithm can realize the key avalanche effect, is very sensitive to the initial key and has high key security performance, and solves the security problem in the process of image transmission. …”
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Cortical direction selectivity increases from the input to the output layers of visual cortex. by Weifeng Dai, Tian Wang, Yang Li, Yi Yang, Yange Zhang, Yujie Wu, Tingting Zhou, Hongbo Yu, Liang Li, Yizheng Wang, Gang Wang, Dajun Xing

“…Sensitivity to motion direction is a feature of visual neurons that is essential for motion perception. …”
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Intravenous Flat-Detector Computed Tomography Angiography for Symptomatic Cerebral Vasospasm following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Jin Pyeong Jeon, Seung Hun Sheen, Yong-Jun Cho

“…The intra- and interobserver agreements were excellent for depicting vasospasm (k=0.84 and 0.74, resp.). IV FDCT showed a sensitivity of 95.7%, specificity of 92.3%, positive predictive value of 93.6%, and negative predictive value of 94.7% for detecting vasospasm (>50%) with DSA as the reference. …”
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Micro-mechanism analysis of Zhongchuan loess liquefaction disaster induced by Jishishan M6.2 earthquake in 2023 by Wang Yi, Wang Qian, Zhang Wuyu, Zhong Xiumei, Liu Fuqiang, Jia Shichao, Hu Xuefeng

“…The comprehensive analysis of the liquefaction mechanism shows that the rapid deformation of the soil skeleton and the destruction of the cementation and contact system of the water-sensitive minerals under seismic loading and hydraulic force lead to the collapse of the overhead macropores, the damage of structural strength, the increase of the complex pore channels, the rapid accumulation of pore water pressure, and the reduction of the effective stress, which leads to the liquefaction of the loess.…”
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The Effect of Mechanical Ventilation on TASK-1 Expression in the Brain in a Rat Model by Buqi Na, Hong Zhang, Guangfa Wang, Li Dai, Guoguang Xia

“…Background and Objective. TWIK-related acid-sensitive potassium channel 1 (TASK-1) is closely related to respiratory central control and neuronal injury. …”
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Outage and Throughput Analysis of Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access based SWIPT Cognitive Relay Network by Abdul Ali Khan, Punithavathi M. Thirunavakkarasu, Nawaf Waqas

“…This paper examines the performance of a half-duplex wireless sensor network (WSN) by using cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) integrated with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) over Rayleigh fading channel to improve the performance of far and cognitive users in terms of spectrum efficiency, prolonging the coverage area, and network lifetime. …”
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