Investigation of the Implications of “Haze Special Law” on Air Quality in South Korea by Jian Wang, Junseok Kim, Wei Shao

“…We found that the multifractal spectrum width after the implementation of the law was narrower than that before the law for all the cities, which shows that the enactment of the law has played a role in improving the efficiency of air pollution control in South Korea. …”
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The Effect of Carpal Tunnel Release on Neuropathic Pain in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Motoki Sonohata, Toshiyuki Tsuruta, Hiroko Mine, Akihiko Asami, Hideki Ishii, Kenji Tsunoda, Masaaki Mawatari

“…We found that 36% and 18% of patients with CTS had neuropathic pain before and 12 weeks after surgery, respectively, and pain was significantly stronger than in those without NP. …”
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Study on Ultraviolet Aging Performance of Composite Modified Asphalt Based on Rheological Properties and Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Mingxing Gao, Conghao Fan, Xinxin Chen, Meijian Li

“…When unaged, the modified asphalt has more asphaltenes than the matrix asphalt, and the change after UV aging is less than the matrix asphalt. …”
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VAS and NRS, Same or Different? Are Visual Analog Scale Values and Numerical Rating Scale Equally Viable Tools for Assessing Patients after Microdiscectomy? by Joanna Bielewicz, Beata Daniluk, Piotr Kamieniak

“…PRI correlated significantly (p<0.001) and more stronger with VAS than with NRS-L and NRS-B in every points of assessment. …”
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How Do College Students with Disabilities Do? Law, Self-determination, Self-advocacy, and Campus Resources by Jeong IL Cho, Kate Jones

“…Participants reported stronger agreement on their use of self-determination and self-advocacy skills than on campus resources. …”
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Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations by Olga Solaja, María Fernández-López, Davide Crepaldi, Manuel Perea

“…Variability inherent to handwriting has been suggested to help establish more robust letter representations than other methods (e.g., typing). The present study tests whether encoding letter strings from a novel alphabet becomes more resistant to distortion when trained with variable input. …”
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Decrease in Self-Reported Tanning Frequency among Utah Teens following the Passage of Utah Senate Bill 41: An Analysis of the Effects of Youth-Access Restriction Laws on Tanning Be... by Rebecca G. Simmons, Kristi Smith, Meghan Balough, Michael Friedrichs

“…States that have imposed age restrictions on access to indoor tanning generally show lower self-reported rates of indoor tanning than states with no restrictions, but currently no studies have assessed indoor tanning use before and after such restrictions. …”
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Stability Analysis of a Weathered-Basalt Soil Slope Using the Double Strength Reduction Method by Xiaoliang Liu, Xin Chen, Mei Su, Shilin Zhang, Dengfeng Lu

“…When the water content is less than 25%, the reduction coefficient of the friction angle is greater than the cohesion, which shows that the attenuation of the friction angle is stronger than that of the cohesion. …”
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The effect of workplace spirituality on employees' contextual performance through work effectiveness by Irvandi Gustari, Widodo Widodo

“…Furthermore, work effectiveness had a stronger direct influence on contextual performance than workplace spirituality. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization of Yokeless Axial-Field Flux-Switching Permanent Magnet Motor Using the Hybrid Taguchi Genetic Algorithm for Expanded Speed Range by Javad Rahmani-Fard, Saeed Hasanzadeh

“…The Taguchi method is employed to generate offspring individuals within GA; it inherits parameter characteristics from stronger offspring, saving considerable computation time. …”
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Surface Organic Modification of TiO2 Powder and Relevant Characterization by Hong Zhou, Sijia Sun, Hao Ding

“…The dispersity of TiO2 in organic medium was stronger than that in inorganic medium. The modifiers formed absorption with chemical property on TiO2 particle surface, so the inductive hydrophobicity of surface was stable.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 Event on the Characteristics of Atmospheric Single Particle in the Northern China by Zheng Li, Jingjing Meng, Ling Zhou, Ruiwen Zhou, Mengxuan Fu, Yachen Wang, Yanan Yi, Aijing Song, Qingchun Guo, Zhanfang Hou, Li Yan

“…The single particles during DP were more aged than those during BP, owing to the stronger atmospheric oxidizing capacity during DP.…”
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Investigation on the strength of expanded clay aggregate concrete specimens after thermal exposure by Danguolė Plungytė, Ričardas Plungė

“…The comparison of the results of the compressive strength of expanded clay concrete samples with coarse fillers suggests that the samples with fibre remained stronger after exposure to high temperature (600 °C) than the samples without additives. …”

Making Collaboration Work: Fostering Positive Experiences and Attitudes around Psychological Safety, Diversity, and the Value of Teamwork by Kathryn S. Plaisance, Christine Logel, Christopher Lok

“…At the end of the course, students reported increased psychological safety in their teams, more positive attitudes towards teamwork, and stronger beliefs that diversity is beneficial. At the end of the following term, students reported higher levels of psychological safety in their teams than before the course, and their attitudes about psychological safety and teamwork still remained more positive. …”
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Prediction Method of TBM Tunneling Parameters Based on Bi-GRU-ATT Model by Qinglong Zhang, Boyu Yang, Yanwen Zhu, Chen Guo, Chong Jiao, Anmin Cai

“…Compared with the Bi-GRU, GRU, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models, it can be seen that the Bi-GRU-ATT model has a goodness of fit for predicting TBM tunneling parameters above 0.92, and the average absolute percentage error is less than 1.8%. The results show that the prediction method of TBM tunneling parameters based on Bi-GRU-ATT model proposed in this paper has stronger learning and prediction capabilities. …”
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Self-adaptive fuzzing optimization method based on distribution divergence by XU Hang, JI Jiangan, MA Zheyu, ZHANG Chao

“…On the benchmark Magma, stronger vulnerability triggering capability is demonstrated by the prototype on the benchmarks openssl, libxml, and sqlite3.…”
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The Dependence of Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensification Rates on Environmental Factors by Xinyan Lyu, Xuguang Wang, Lance M. Leslie

“…It was found that deep-layer and upper-mid vertical wind shear (VWS), upper-level outflow, sea surface temperature (SST), and ocean heat content (OHC) are statistically different among RI, NI, and SI both before and during intensification. RI is enhanced by weaker and decreasing VWS, warmer oceans, and stronger and increasing outflow. …”
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Bond Strength of Porcelain Fused to Casting and Selective Laser Base Metal Alloy with a Bonding Agent by Rafal Kareem Rasheed, Nidhal Sahib Mansoor

“…Result: Bond strength was much stronger in Co-Cr specimens with bonding agents than in Co-Cr specimens without bonding agents. …”
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Performance of sulfur/steel slag composite matrix in removing nitrate from surface water with low-carbon content by PENG Xianchun, ZHENG Lili, LU Haoran, WANG Zhefeng, ZHU Zheng, LIANG Wenyan

“…The sulfur/steel slag system had stronger denitrification performance compared to the sulfur/limestone system. …”
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Alkaloid content variability in the seeds of narrow-leafed lupine accessions from the VIR collection under the conditions of the Russian Northwest by M. A. Vishnyakova, A. V. Salikova, T. V. Shelenga, G. P. Egorova, L. Yu. Novikova

“…It is meaningful that the second group mainly included accessions that came to the collection before the 1950s, i. e., before the times when low-alkaloid cultivars were intensively developed. …”
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