Face Masks and Prevention of Respiratory Viral Infections: An Overview by Chiu-Sen Wang

“…The water in exhaled droplets begins to evaporate in air and, as a result, the droplets are reduced in size shortly after being emitted. Face masks are effective for capturing droplets just released from the nose and mouth. …”
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Temporal variation of Manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation and its relationship with various field parameters by Hadi Rezaei Rad, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Fatemeh Khalaji, Mahshid Shabani Arani

“…Additionally, findings suggested that if the advance phase is short relative to the total irrigation time, the Manning’s n from the advance phase can be applied to the whole irrigation event without separate consideration for storage phase roughness. …”
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Effect and Mechanism of Soluble Dietary Fiber from Corn Bran on Loperamide-induced Constipation in Mice by Xiangrui ZENG, Caixia JIANG, Xiaolan LIU, Xiqun ZHENG, Xuyao WEI

“…CSDF supplementation also increased the abundance of beneficial gut bacteria (Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Lachnospiraceae) and elevated levels of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), with typical SCFAs (acetic, propionic, and butyric acids) reaching 1.89-, 1.60-, and 4.35-fold higher levels, respectively, in the L-CSDF group than that in the model group. …”
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The growth–environment nexus amid geopolitical risks: cointegration and machine learning algorithm approaches by Md. Idris Ali, Md. Atikur Rahaman, Mohammed Julfikar Ali, Md. Ferdausur Rahman

“…Using Canadian time series data spanning from 1980 to 2022, this research employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) estimation technique to explore short- and long-term cointegrating relationships among key variables, including economic growth, energy consumption, trade openness, foreign direct investment (FDI), ICT development, and financial development. …”
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The Efficacy of Intravitreal Conbercept for Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy by Jianbo Mao, Caiyun Zhang, Chenyi Liu, Lijun Shen, Jimeng Lao, Yirun Shao, Yiqi Chen, Jiwei Tao

“…Intravitreal injection of conbercept may effectively reduce the CMT and improve the BCVA in chronic CSC in a short term of 6 months.…”
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Advanced Algorithmic Model for Real-Time Multi-Level Crop Disease Detection Using Neural Architecture Search by Slimani Hicham, El Mhamdi Jamal, Jilbab Abdelilah

“…Moreover, all models exhibit short training times, requiring less than 3 hours. …”
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Notes on Post-criticality: Towards an Architecture of Reflexive Modernisation by Robert Cowherd

“…Beyond the confining dichotomies of the post-criticality debate is a perspective offered by sociologists Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash and Anthony Giddens on what they have called a ‘second modernity’ or ‘reflexive modernisation’. …”
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Skin Microbiota: Mediator of Interactions Between Metabolic Disorders and Cutaneous Health and Disease by Magdalini Kreouzi, Nikolaos Theodorakis, Maria Nikolaou, Georgios Feretzakis, Athanasios Anastasiou, Konstantinos Kalodanis, Aikaterini Sakagianni

“…Advances in metabolomics and microbiome sequencing have unveiled critical biomarkers, such as short-chain fatty acids and microbial signatures, predictive of therapeutic outcomes. …”
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Coastal Sceneries of Albania, An Emerging 3S Destination: Analysis of Physical Characteristics and Human Activity Impacts by Alfredo Fernández Enríquez, Alexis Mooser, Giorgio Anfuso, Javier García-Onetti

“…The increase in tourism economic benefits is the most common purpose along the Mediterranean coastal regions but, very often, conflicts of interest arise between short-term benefits and long-term conservation goals. …”
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EXPERIENCE IN PRESERVING THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF STONE FRUITS USING THE BORDER HEDGING TECHNOLOGY by G. V. Eremin, T. A. Gasanova, V. G. Eremin, I. S. Chepinoga

“…The basic elements of this technology are dense arrangement of plants (intervals for high-growing plants: 4.0–5.0 m between rows, and 1.0–1.5 m in a row; for low-growing ones: 2.5 m between rows, and 0.5–1.0 m in a row) and annual pruning of shoots at a height of 1.0–1.2 m. Years of experience in using a denser planting pattern for collection garden maintenance helped to identify a number of most significant factors in this system, which make up the scientific basis of the technology for optimally efficient preservation of genotypes and their genetic compliance (representativeness). …”
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The biodegradation of low-density polyethylene by Bacillus species by Felicia E. Uwakwe, Tobias I.N. Ezejiofor, Ernest A.A. Anyalogbu, Toochukwu E. Ogbulie

“…Polyethylene (PE) products have short-term applications, resulting in the daily release of enormous quantities of plastic wastes into the environment with their attendant public and environmental health threats of global concern. …”
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Level of elderly-supportive infrastructure, fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease hospitalisations: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Wuhan by Mengxue Qin, Xingyuan Liu, Luyao Wang, Tengchong Huang, Xiuran Zuo, Yuliang Zou

“…When the buffer zone was extended to 500 and 1000 m, a higher level of elderly-supportive infrastructure mitigated the adverse effects of short-term PM2.5 exposure on cardiovascular hospitalisations (p = 0.013), particularly for stroke (p = 0.017) and ischaemic heart disease (p = 0.026). …”
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Drivers’ Braking Behaviors in Different Motion Patterns of Vehicle-Bicycle Conflicts by Lian Hou, Jingliang Duan, Wenjun Wang, Renjie Li, Guofa Li, Bo Cheng

“…The braking intensity and brake Pedal Speed are higher in short-TTC patterns in both conflict types. Therefore, TTC is not a proper activation threshold but a reasonable indicator of braking intensity and Pedal Speed for driver-adaptive AEB systems. …”
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Pharmacist-led DE-eSCALation of opioids post-surgical dischargE (DESCALE) – A multi-centre, non-randomised, feasibility study protocol [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approv... by Ellie Santer, Julie H Hedayioglu, Vanessa J Short, Sabina Hulbert, Emma L Veale, Melanie Rees-Roberts, Johanna Theron

“…Background Opioids are frequently prescribed for short-term acute pain following surgery. Used appropriately, opioids deliver extremely favourable pain relief. …”
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Physicians Skills Library by Sema Arıcı, Yıldız Kayalı, Fatma Selman

“…Students were given practical training after a short theoretical training. After the training, they were asked to complete an online survey.Results: Thirty-nine percent of the students who participated in the study were term 3 students, and 29% were term 2 students. …”
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An In-Depth Study of Personalized Anesthesia Management Models in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Based on Multimodal Deep Learning by Hanqi Shi, Hongyu Wang, Xibing Ding, Zheng Dang

“…Based on these findings, a multimodal deep learning model was developed that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, hyperparameter geometric manifold optimization (GMO) methods and data-driven sparse matrix classifiers. …”
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Motivation for physical activity among university students residing in areas of military conflict in Ukraine by Tetiana Yermakova, Vasyl Lutskyi, Daria Piatnytska

“…The study involved 196 students from three Ukrainian universities, two in the eastern region (Kharkiv - included in the list of territories of active military operations) and one in the western part (Ivano-Frankivsk - a territory that is under constant threat of shelling). A short-form 'Physical Activity Questionnaire' (PAQ) with seven Likert scale questions was used. …”
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A brief essay on the administrative system of astrakhan kalmyks by Ivan Cherkasov: problem of authorship, reflection of the main stages of kalmyk history and features of public adm... by Evgeniy A. Gunaev

“…At the same time, this source does not try to smooth out the sharp corners of Russian-Kalmyk relations, but shows the difficult way for Kalmyks to acquire Russian citizenship. …”
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Dynamic transmission modeling of COVID-19 to support decision-making in Brazil: A scoping review in the pre-vaccine era. by Gabriel Berg de Almeida, Lorena Mendes Simon, Ângela Maria Bagattini, Michelle Quarti Machado da Rosa, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho, Ricardo de Souza Kuchenbecker, Roberto André Kraenkel, Cláudia Pio Ferreira, Suzi Alves Camey, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Cristiana Maria Toscano

“…The main modeling objectives were to analyze epidemiological scenarios (testing interventions' effectiveness) and to project short and long-term predictions, while few articles performed economic impact analysis. …”
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Automated Cattle Monitoring System for Calving Time Prediction Using Trajectory Data Embedded Time Series Analysis by Wai Hnin Eaindrar Mg, Thi Thi Zin, Pyke Tin, Masaru Aikawa, Kazayuki Honkawa, Yoichiro Horii

“…Our system incorporates a 4-h forecasting of cattle movement using Euclidean fluctuating summation (EFS) feature combined with our custom long short-term memory model. Experimental results demonstrate a detection accuracy of 98.70%, tracking and identification accuracy of 99.18%, and forecasting with an average error rate of 14.07%. …”
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