Enhancement of Tech-Sil25 Maxillofacial Silicone Mechanical Properties after Artificial Weathering through Addition of Nanoparticles by Shahad Fadhil Bunyan, Fatanah Mohamad Suhaimi, Faraedon Mohidden Mostafa Zardawi, Siti Noor Fazliah Mohd Noor, Muhammad Azrul Zabidi

“…Samples were exposed to artificial weathering for 100 hours, and subjected to characterizations involving tear strength, shore A hardness, roughness, and tensile strength tests. …”
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Immunocompromised Children with Severe Adenoviral Respiratory Infection by Joanna C. Tylka, Michael C. McCrory, Shira J. Gertz, Jason W. Custer, Michael C. Spaeder

“…There is substantial case fatality as well as short- and long-term morbidity associated with severe adenoviral respiratory infection in immunocompromised children.…”
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Investigation of Growth Performance, Proximate and Fatty Acid Composition of Freshwater (Euglena gracilis, Chlorella vulgaris) and Marine (Pavlova lutheri, Diacronema vlkanium) Mic... by Kamil Mert Eryalçın, Merve Sayar

“…Microalgal culture should have high biomass in a short time of culture and in this study, E.gracilis and P.lutheri showed high growth and essential nutrients gain in laboratory scale production and this result could be applied in larger volume photobioreactor.…”
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Exploring Social-Ecological Pathways From Sexual Identity to Sleep Among Chinese Women: Structural Equation Modeling Analysis by Chanchan Wu, Pui Hing Chau, Edmond Pui Hang Choi

“…All participants completed a structured questionnaire containing a set of sociodemographic items referring to the social-ecological model of sleep health, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Social Support Rating Scale, and social relationships and environment domains of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-abbreviated short version. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the relationship between sleep quality and social support as well as the two domains of quality of life. …”
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Multivariate Segment Expandable Encoder-Decoder Model for Time Series Forecasting by Yanhong Li, David C. Anastasiu

“…MSEED features a hierarchical encoder-decoder architecture, a short-term-enhanced subnet, and a feature assembling layer that integrates spatial and temporal information across multivariate inputs. …”
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Evaluation Of Participation In Recreational Exercise With Basic Psychological Needs And Happiness Parameters During The COVID-19 Pandemic Process by Nazlı Deniz Öz, Murat Erdoğdu

“…., 2013) and "Oxford Happiness Scale-Short Form" (Hills and Argyle, 2002; Doğan and Çötok, 2011) were used. …”
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Early Postoperative Outcomes and Medication Cost Savings after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Morbidly Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Bethany J. Slater, Nina Bellatorre, Dan Eisenberg

“…We investigated the effect of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on morbidly obese diabetics and examined the short-term impact of LSG on diabetic medication cost. …”
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An Integrated Strategy for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems to Stabilize the Frequency of the Power Grid Through Primary Frequency Regulation by Dan Zhou, Zhiwei Zou, Yangqing Dan, Chenxuan Wang, Chenyuan Teng, Yuanlong Zhu

“…Simulation validation is conducted under three scenarios: step disturbances, short-term continuous disturbances, and long-term RES disturbances. …”
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Any Sugar with That? Assessment of Dissolved Sucrose as Supplementary Feed in Nursery Rearing of Juvenile Bivalves by Andy Jordan, Bradley Skelton, Maria Mugica, Andrew Jeffs

“…This demonstration that dissolved sucrose can significantly improve the growth and nutritional composition of mussel spat over periods as short as 2 h shows promise for the commercial application of sucrose as low-cost supplementary feed in bivalve nurseries.…”
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A review of five years’ experience on the effect of fibers on the autogenous healing of Ultra High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by M. Roig-Flores, H. Doostkami, P. Serna

“…Two UHPFRC mixes were evaluated: one with 65/35 3D steel fibers in a dosage of 40 kg/m³ and another with short straight-shaped steel fibers (13/0.2) in a dosage of 160 kg/m³. …”
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Changes in the Profile of Antibiotic Prescriptions by Dentists in Brazil during the Pandemic by Fernando de Sá Del Fiol, Isaltino Pereira de Andrade-Jr, Marcus Tolentino da Silva, Silvio Barberato-Filho, Luciane Cruz Lopes, Cristiane de Cassia Bergamaschi

“…The exaggerated use of this antibiotic during the pandemic will certainly have consequences in the short and medium term on indicators of bacterial resistance. …”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai P. Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“…In this paper, we investigate how the reproductive behavior of families in the historical Krummhörn region was affected by their social status and by short-term fluctuations in their socioeconomic conditions. …”
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The Reduced-Order Model for Droplet Drift of Aerial Spraying under Random Lateral Wind by Wencheng Li, Wenyun Wang, Xiaomao Huang, Chenyang Li

“…Based on the input and output dataset of CFD, the recursive algorithm including nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model and surrogate-based recurrence framework and the deep learning method for time-series prediction called long short-term memory neural network are used to build the efficient reduced-order model, respectively. …”
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Adaptive hip exoskeleton control using heart rate feedback reduces oxygen cost during ecological locomotion by Ali Reza Manzoori, Davide Malatesta, Alexandre Mortier, Johan Garcia, Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri

“…However, we found discernible patterns in HR shortly after the onset of such changes that can be exploited to improve responsiveness. …”
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The daily production of Soviet women during the Great Patriotic War (on the example of Ishim Shoe Factory No. 4) by A. A. Frolova

“…The author comes to the conclusion that thanks to the efforts of women, who were the main labor force of the factory, in a short time the evacuated enterprise not only began to function in a new place, but also became a model for other enterprises of the Ishim region. …”
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Leveraging Next-Generation Sequencing Application from Identity to Purity Profiling of Nucleic Acid-Based Products by Rucha Wadapurkar, Swarda Deo, Renuka Khanzode, Ajay Singh

“…<b>Methods</b>: We proposed a workflow for the purity assessment of NAPs through short-read Illumina NGS followed by data analysis of mRNA vaccine and pDNA samples. …”
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Design and Verification of Simulation Data Generator for Rail Transit Switch Machine Oriented to Intelligent Operation and Maintenance by ZOU Jinbai, WEI Shiyan, LIU Jiang, SHA Quan, WU Jie, JI Guoyi

“…Through building a platform for SD generator, and using the time series features of learning the power data by LSTM (long short-term memory) prediction model, three characteristics of the generated gradual fault power data such as the crest factor, standard deviation, and variance are tested. …”
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Stability Improvement of an Efficient Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistor-Based SRAM Design by Mathan Natarajamoorthy, Jayashri Subbiah, Nurul Ezaila Alias, Michael Loong Peng Tan

“…However, there are obstacles that appear with downscaling of the transistors primarily various short-channel effects. Graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor (GNRFET) is an emerging technology that can potentially solve the issues of the conventional planar MOSFET imposed by quantum mechanical (QM) effects. …”
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead by James Schatz

“…When the opportunity to contribute a short essay about Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez presented itself in the context of this wonderful birthday celebration my immediate reaction was por supuesto que sí! …”
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Removal of an Aural Foreign Body by Magnetism by Emily Prentice, Emily Bartlett, Jonathan S. Ilgen

“…Removal of AFBs can be challenging, often requiring specialized equipment or specialty referral for management. Using magnetism over short distances for the purpose of extracting metallic AFBs presents a low-cost, low-risk intervention. …”
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