The Size Effect and Microstructure Changes of Granite after Heat Treatment by Zhongping Guo, Jian Li, Yongqi Song, Chengqian He, Fuyu Zhang

“…The fracture toughness of granite treated at 600°C is significantly lower than that of untreated granite, which is reduced by more than 60%. (2) No obvious size effect was found in the untreated granite, while the size effect of the granite after treatment at 600°C was significant. (3) The granite after high-temperature treatment showed strong nonlinear characteristics, and the SEL can reasonably describe and explain its nonlinear fracture characteristics. (4) The brittleness of the granite treated at 600°C decreased and the ductility increased. …”
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Morphological Characterization and Assessment of Genetic Variability, Character Association, and Divergence in Soybean Mutants by M. A. Malek, Mohd Y. Rafii, Most. Shahida Sharmin Afroz, Ujjal Kumar Nath, M. Monjurul Alam Mondal

“…Pod and seed number and maturity period appeared to be the first order traits for higher yield and priority should be given in selection due to their strong associations and high magnitudes of direct effects on yield. …”
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Physical Activity Patterns and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged and Elderly Northern Chinese Adults by Qian Wang, Xu Zhang, Li Fang, Qingbo Guan, Ling Gao, Qiu Li

“…Lower physical activity shows a strong and significant association with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. …”
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Crowding distance and IGD-driven grey wolf reinforcement learning approach for multi-objective agile earth observation satellite scheduling by He Wang, Weiquan Huang, Sindri Magnússon, Tony Lindgren, Chen Chen, Junyu Wu, Yanjie Song

“…Moreover, the algorithm introduces a reward mechanism based on the crowding distance and inverted generational distance (IGD) to maintain Pareto front diversity and distribution, ensuring a strong multi-objective optimization performance. The experimental results show that the algorithm excels at solving the MOAEOSSP, outperforming competing algorithms across several metrics and demonstrating its effectiveness for complex optimization problems.…”
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A Framework to Assess the Seismic Resilience of Urban Hospitals by Peng Yu, Weiping Wen, Duofa Ji, Changhai Zhai, Lili Xie

“…The phenomenon of hospital functional interruption has been widely observed in the historical moderate-strong earthquakes, indicating that hospital functionality cannot be well considered in the current seismic design methods. …”
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EScope: Effective Event Validation for IoT Systems Based on State Correlation by Jian Mao, Xiaohe Xu, Qixiao Lin, Liran Ma, Jianwei Liu

“…However, if a system has homogeneous sensors that have strong correlations among them, traditional threshold-based methods may cause information redundancy and noise amplification, consequently, decreasing the checking accuracy. …”
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Implementation of Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Model to Optimize Operational Process of Multiconfiguration Gas-Turbines by Chao Deng, Ahmed N. Abdalla, Thamir K. Ibrahim, MingXin Jiang, Ahmed T. Al-Sammarraie, Jun Wu

“…The predicted results reveal that the proposed model determines the operating conditions that strongly influence the performance of the gas-turbine. …”
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Dance Is an Accessible Physical Activity for People with Parkinson’s Disease by Sara Emmanouilidis, Madeleine E. Hackney, Susan C Slade, Hazel Heng, Dana Jazayeri, Meg E. Morris

“…There was moderately strong evidence that dance therapy was beneficial for balance, gait, quality of life, and disability. …”
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Prospects of Organic Farming in Bhutan: A SWOT Analysis by Sonam Tashi, Kesang Wangchuk

“…The strengths of OA were (i) good alignment of the principles of OA with Bhutan’s development philosophy, (ii) strong policy and political support, (iii) pristine environment, (iv) OA practices similar to traditional farming, and (v) compatibility of OA with the local farming knowledge. …”
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Mesenchymal Progenitors Derived from Different Locations in Long Bones Display Diverse Characteristics by Weiguang Lu, Bo Gao, Jing Fan, Pengzhen Cheng, Yaqian Hu, Qiang Jie, Zhuojing Luo, Liu Yang

“…Overall, our results provide strong evidence for the importance of selecting the appropriate source of skeletal progenitors for applications in future skeleton regeneration therapies.…”
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Deep characteristic learning model for real-time flow monitoring based on H-ADCP by Yu Li, Xin Zhao, Yibo Wang, Ling Zeng

“…The DCL model allows for adaptive algorithm selection and parameter adjustment according to the characteristics of river cross section and H-ADCP data. It shows strong self-learning capability and good simulation accuracy even with few training samples. …”
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Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…The results showed that extreme events such as La Niña strongly affected the water budget on land-use areas in both regions as the negative monthly rainfall anomalies were observed during the 1999-2000 event, while EI Niño and thunderstorms in summer caused positive rainfall anomalies with more than 70% in all study areas. …”
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Antenna Optimization Based on Auto-Context Broad Learning System by Wei-Tong Ding, Fei Meng, Yu-Bo Tian, Hui-Ning Yuan

“…Broad learning system (BLS), as an emerging network with strong extraction ability and remarkable computational efficiency, has revolutionized the conventional artificial intelligence (AI) methods and overcome the shortcoming of excessive time-consuming training process in deep learning (DL). …”
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A Novel Three-Dimensional Vector Analysis of Axial Globe Position in Thyroid Eye Disease by Jie Guo, Jiang Qian, Yifei Yuan, Rui Zhang, Wenhu Huang

“…There was no significant difference between EC→ and Hirschberg test, and a strong correlation was found between EC→ and synoptophore test. …”
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Multistage deep learning methods for automating radiographic sharp score prediction in rheumatoid arthritis by Hajar Moradmand, Lei Ren

“…It achieved a Huber loss of 4.9, an RMSE of 9.73, and an MAE of 5.35, demonstrating a strong correlation with expert scores (ICC = 0.702, P < 0.001). …”
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Why is Antonovsky's sense of coherence not correlated to physical health? Analysing Antonovsky's 29-item sense of coherence scale (SOC-29) by Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…We have previously concluded that the use of the Antonovsky sense of coherence (SOC) scale was unable to document a predicted strong association between SOC and physical health. …”
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Identifying the Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco-Related Predictors on Frequencies of Heavy Vehicle Traffic Accidents in Bangladesh: Linear and Binary Logistic Regression-Based Approa... by Md. Anwar Uddin, Mithun Debnath, Sumit Roy, Saima Adiba, Mohammad Mahbub Alam Talukder

“…This study demonstrates a strong association between the incidence of accidents and the number of times a person smokes, smokes while driving, and uses smokeless tobacco (SLT) daily. …”
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Investigating the effect of innovation capabilities on the relationship between international orientation and export performance by Hossein Norouzi, Mehdi Etemadi Far, Farzaneh Azmayesh Fard

“…In addition, from these dimensions, only two dimensions of research and development capacity and marketing capacity have a significant relationship with export performance.Originality/Value: The results of this study confirm the findings of the previous literature, which acknowledged that there is a strong and positive relationship between the company's capabilities and their performance in international markets. …”
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Multiple hosts, multiple impacts: the role of vertebrate host diversity in shaping mosquito life history and pathogen transmission by Vantaux, Amélie, Moiroux, Nicolas, Dabiré, Kounbobr Roch, Cohuet, Anna, Lefèvre, Thierry

“…However, blood meal type did have a strong impact on mosquito feeding rate, survival, lifetime fecundity, and offspring size. …”
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Enhanced optical properties of chitosan polymer doped with orange peel dye investigated via UV–Vis and FTIR analysis by Dyari M. Mamand, Dana S. Muhammad, Shujahadeen B. Aziz, Peshawa O. Hama, Bandar A. Al-Asbahi, Abdullah A. A. Ahmed, Jamal Hassan

“…FTIR analysis showed strong interactions between OPDs and the CS matrix, with functional groups such as O–H, C=O, and C=C. …”
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