Magnetic Resonance Thermometry of Focused Ultrasound Using a Preclinical Focused Ultrasound Robotic System at 3T by Antria Filippou, Nikolas Evripidou, Andreas Georgiou, Leonidas Georgiou, Antreas Chrysanthou, Cleanthis Ioannides, Christakis Damianou

“…Conclusions: MR thermometry performed at 3T achieved short temporal resolution with temperature dependencies exhibited with the sonication and imaging parameters. …”
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Factors in the choice of volitional regulation strategies among university students by V.N. Shlyapnikov

“…The following methods were used: "Action Control Scale", "Questionnaire for identifying the severity of self-control in the emotional sphere, activity and behavior", "Brief Academic Motivation Scale", PIL test, "General Self-Efficacy Scale", a modification of the Dembo-Rubinstein self-assessment technique, "Big Five Short Portrait Questionnaire (B5-10)". To assess the strategies of volitional self-regulation, students were offered a list of ways to solve problems that arise in the course of their studies, which they had to evaluate by the frequency of their use. …”
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Small world of the miRNA science drives its publication dynamics by A. B. Firsov, I. I. Titov

“…To tackle the problem of the institution name writing variability, we proposed the k-mer/n-gram boolean feature vector sorting algorithm, KOFER in short. This approach utilizes the fact that the contents of the affiliation are rather consistent for the same organization, and to account for writing errors and other organization name variations within the affiliation metadata field, it converts the organization mention within the affiliation to the K-Mer (n-gram) Boolean presence vector. …”
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Can We Intercalibrate Satellite Measurements by Means of Data Assimilation? An Attempt on LEO Satellites by Angélica M. Castillo, Yuri Y. Shprits, Nikita A. Aseev, Artem Smirnov, Alexander Drozdov, Sebastian Cervantes, Ingo Michaelis, Marina García Peñaranda, Dedong Wang

“…Data‐assimilative intercalibration of satellite observations is an efficient approach that enables intercalibration of large data sets using short periods of data.…”
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Econometric modelling of the Lithuanian economic indicators by Žilvinas Kalinauskas

“… The paper is devoted to model relations between Lithuanian indicators of production, foreign trade, income and prices and to present short-term forecasts. The join behaviour of Lithuanian GDP, exports and imports of goods and services, money, salaries and prices is examined by the structural vector auto-regression models (SVAR). …”
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A population genomics approach to unlock the genetic potential of lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet), an underutilized tropical forage crop by A. Teshome, E. Habte, J. Cheema, A. Mekasha, H. Lire, M. S. Muktar, J. Quiroz-Chavez, C. Domoney, C. S. Jones

“…Abstract Background Lablab is one of the conventionally grown multi-purpose crops that originated in Africa. It is an annual or short-lived perennial forage legume which has versatile uses (as a vegetable and dry seeds, as food or feed, or as green manure) but is yet to receive adequate research attention and hence remains underexploited. …”
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Evaluation of Steel Frame Equipped with the Replaceable Shear Link Made of Shape Memory Alloy under the Impact Load by Reza Kamgar, Seyed Ali Mahmoudy, Roham Zakavi

“…In return, a framed tube system with deep beams and short spans suits the high-rise structures. Due to the differences between the span length-to-depth ratios of the beams in this structural system, the regulations for MFs cannot apply to them. …”
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APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR IMPROVING SITUATIONAL TRAINING OF CYBERSECURITY SPECIALISTS by Yurii V. Shchavinsky, Tetiana M. Muzhanova, Yuriy M. Yakymenko, Mykhailo M. Zaporozhchenko

“…The application of ChatGPT allowed the creation of the necessary number of situational tasks with options for correct solutions in a short time, covering all areas of activity for cybersecurity specialists. …”
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Development of a Simple and Powerful Analytical Method for Formaldehyde Detection and Quantitation in Blood Samples by Yong-Hyun Kim, Jeongsik Park

“…The method reported herein can quantitatively analyze FA in blood at a sub-nanogram level within a short period of time and is validated for application in blood analysis.…”
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Effectiveness and tolerability of lactic acid vaginal gel compared to oral metronidazole in the treatment of acute symptomatic bacterial vaginosis: a multicenter, randomized-contro... by Fiona Tidbury, Grégory Brülhart, Gabriela Müller, Elena Pavicic, Susanna Weidlinger, Gerrit Eichner, Michael von Wolff, Petra Stute

“…A number of objective and subjective parameters including the Amsel score, the Nugent score and a subjective symptom score were recorded at day 0, three weeks, three months, and six months after the study start. Results In the short-term, lactic acid vaginal gel showed inferior clinical (Amsel criteria) and microbiological (Nugent score) cure rates compared to metronidazole. …”
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African Activism Through Pugwash by Nola Dippenaar, Joelien Pretorius

“…This opinion piece is based on a preliminary exploratory effort to highlight how Africans engaged the Pugwash movement, to know more about the impact that Africans had in Pugwash and Pugwash had in Africa, and to look to the future—to encourage science activism and youth participation in peace and anti-nuclearism on the continent. We start off with a short introduction of Pugwash, telling its origin story and then proceed to Africans’ participation in and adoption of Pugwash to exercise peace activism. …”
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Photobiomodulation Can Enhance Stem Cell Viability in Cochlea with Auditory Neuropathy but Does Not Restore Hearing by So-Young Chang, Eunjeong Kim, Nathaniel T. Carpena, Jae-Hun Lee, Doo Hee Kim, Min Young Lee

“…Nevertheless, it is noteworthy in this study that the cells are distributed in most cochlear tissues and the proliferation of stem cells was very active in animals irradiated with PBM compared to other groups wherein the stem cells had disappeared immediately after transplantation or existed for only a short period of time.…”
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Insights from the single-cell level: lineage trajectory and somatic-germline interactions during spermatogenesis in dwarf surfclam Mulinia lateralis by Yajuan Li, Huilan Wei, Xiaoting Dai, Lijing Zhang, Liangjie Liu, Xiaomei Chen, Tian Liu, Ya Shu, Yaxin Yang, Shi Wang, Zhenmin Bao, Lingling Zhang

“…The dwarf surfclam (Mulinia lateralis) is considered an optimal bivalve model due to its relatively short generation time and ease of breeding in laboratory settings. …”
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The Preparation of C-S-H Powder Seeds and Their Effect on the Early Hydration Performance of Cement Paste by Chunlong Huang, Yiren Wang, Zhongyuan Wei, Yong Yu

“…As the content of nucleating agents increased, higher dosages of nucleating agents accelerated the production of more products within a short period, causing the system to rapidly transition to phase boundary reaction control. …”
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Disruption Risk Analysis of Substitutable Dual Product Supply Chain: A System Dynamics Framework by Jing Ke, Weiqiang Jia, Ye Zhou, Xin Wang

“…In addition, the disruption of traditional products will cause consumers to flow to the green product market, resulting in a sudden increase in order for green products and components in a short period of time, causing a delayed impact on the inventory of suppliers and manufacturers of green products. (2) The disruption of upstream suppliers in traditional products causes the highest profit losses for all traditional product suppliers, while the disruption of downstream suppliers in green products causes the highest profit losses for the manufacturer and all green product suppliers. (3) From the perspective of the service level, compared to other components, the disruption of critical components in traditional products poses the highest risk of out of stock in the supply chain, while the risk of out-of-stock in the intermediate component of green product is the smallest. (4) Common sense may suggest that the more the suppliers disrupt, the higher the damage of the supply chain. …”
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IS THERE ANY FUTURE FOR COAL POWER PLANTS IN EUROPE? by A. V. Zimakov

“…This will allow for coal power plants to retain their market share in a short to medium term. But in the longer run one can expect a significant decrease of coal fired generation inEurope, even in the countries traditionally dependent on coal.…”
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Endogenous Estrogen Influences Predator Odor-Induced Impairment of Cognitive and Social Behaviors in Aromatase Gene Deficiency Mice by Yaner Gao, Lei Ma, Feng Gao, Zuoli Sun, Zhengrong Zhang, Yuhong Li, Rena Li

“…In this study, the aromatase gene heterozygous (Ar+/-) mice were used as an endogenous estrogen deficiency model and age- and sex-matched wild type mice (WT) as controls to study the predator odor 2,3,5-trimethyl-3-thiazoline- (TMT-) induced short- and long-term cognitive and social behavior impairments. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Lithium Battery State of Health Prediction Research by Kun Li, Xinling Chen

“…To address the problem of predicting the state of health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries, this study develops three models optimized using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, including the long short-term memory (LSTM) network, convolutional neural network (CNN), and support vector regression (SVR), for accurate SOH estimation. …”
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Leveraging Quantum LSTM for High-Accuracy Prediction of Viral Mutations by Prashanth Choppara, Bommareddy Lokesh

“…The one-hot encoding technique is a standard technique in machine learning for encoding protein sequences into data that can be used in neural networks.The proposed QLSTM outperformed existing deep learning architectures such as the Attention-Augmented Convolutional Neural Network (AACNN), Stacked Recurrent Neural Network (Stacked RNN), Retention Network (RetNet), and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BiLSTM). These results indicate that QLSTM not only provides high accuracy in mutation predictions in SARS-CoV-2 protein sequences but also provides deep insights into the functional implications of such mutations. …”
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The impact of internal and macroeconomic factors on the profitability of the banking sector. A case study of the Western Balkan countries by Arsim Hoxha, Roberta Bajrami, Ylber Prekazi

“…The impact of industry factors such as liquid assets, deposits, and short-term funding, as well as bank Z-score, on profitability is mixed. …”
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