Capsule Endoscopy for Crohn’s Disease: Current Status of Diagnosis and Management by Dong-Hoon Yang, Bora Keum, Yoon Tae Jeen

“…Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) has a higher diagnostic yield than small bowel barium radiography and computed tomography enterography for the detection of small intestinal involvement of CD. …”
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Potential Protection of Coeloglossum viride var. Bracteatum Extract against Oxidative Stress in Rat Cortical Neurons by Zhe Guo, Rui-Yuan Pan, Xiao-Yan Qin

“…We further found that CE inhibited the activation of caspase-3 (Csp3) induced by hydrogen peroxide. …”
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A Variant of Concern (VOC) Omicron: Characteristics, Transmissibility, and Impact on Vaccine Effectiveness by Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Jodi Woan-Fei Law

“…Almost three years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Progress on spinal cord stimulation in treatment of peripheral neuropathy by ZONG Yun⁃fei, DONG Tie⁃yan, BAO Min

“…Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasive neuromodulation technique that has been widely applied and recognized for its efficacy in peripheral neuropathy such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), trigeminal neuralgia (TN), trigeminal postherpetic neuralgia, chemotherapy⁃induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), chronic groin pain, and lumbosacral radiculopathy syndrome. …”
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Research on Improved Ray Casting Algorithm and Its Application in Three-Dimensional Reconstruction by ZheShu Jia, DeYun Chen, Bo Wang

“…Aiming at the problem of too long volume rendering time caused by the trilinear interpolation sampling method in the reconstruction and visualization of the vertebra 3D model, an improved ray projection algorithm is proposed to quickly reconstruct a 3D vertebra model from medical CT vertebra images. …”
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NAVA: A Network-Adaptive View-Aware Volumetric Video Streaming Framework by Nguyen Long Quang, Truong Thu Huong, Duc Nguyen

“…We then present two solutions to decide the quality of each volumetric video in real-time. …”
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Direct Evidence of Reduction of Cloud Water after Spreading Diatomite Particles in Stratus Clouds in Beijing, China by Qiang Zhang, Mengyu Huang, Xuexi Tie, Xincheng Ma

“…This is a very difficult scientific issue, which is related to complicated cloud physical science, such as to accurately predict the large natural variability of cloud formation and precipitation. In this study, we report a clear evidence that the cloud water is reduced after spreading diatomite particles in stratus clouds during a field experiment in Beijing, China. …”
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Analysis of Influencing Factors and Mechanism of Strength of Cement-Modified Silty Sand by Weidong Jin, Zhe Wang, Yongming Ai, Chenyang Liu

“…Two kinds of different water qualities have little effect on unconfined compressive strength of cement-improved soil; with the increase in cement content, the unconfined compressive strength increases, and the power function equation established by the two is significantly correlated. …”
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Erratum to “Myocardial Restoration: Is It the Cell or the Architecture or Both?” by Duc Thang Vu, Eliana C. Martinez, Theo Kofidis

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Improved Security Patch on Secure Communication among Cell Phones and Sensor Networks by Ndibanje Bruce, Tae-Yong Kim, Hoon Jae Lee

“…In this paper, we show that their scheme is vulnerable to known attacks such as man-in-the-middle attack and reply attack, and it does not provide mutual authentication between gateway node and cell phone. …”
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Semantic-enhanced panoptic scene graph generation through hybrid and axial attentions by Xinhe Kuang, Yuxin Che, Huiyan Han, Yimin Liu

“…To address these issues, we propose a novel method of semantic-enhanced panoramic scene graph generation through hybrid and axial attentions (PSGAtten). …”
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Rupture History of the 13th November 2017 Mw 7.3 Iran-Iraq Border Region Earthquake Based on Teleseismic Data by Deyu Yin, Qifang Liu, Yuexin She, Yun Dong

“…Based on the nonnegative least square method and multi-time window, a finite fault model was used to parameterize the rupture process. …”
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Logarithmically Complete Monotonicity Properties Relating to the Gamma Function by Tie-Hong Zhao, Yu-Ming Chu, Hua Wang

“…We prove that the function fα,β(x)=Γβ(x+α)/xαΓ(βx) is strictly logarithmically completely monotonic on (0,∞) if (α,β)∈{( α,β):1/α≤β≤1, α≠1}∪{(α,β):0<β≤1,φ1(α,β)≥0,φ2(α,β)≥0} and [fα,β(x)]-1 is strictly logarithmically completely monotonic on (0,∞) if (α,β)∈{(α,β):0<α≤1/2,0<β≤1}∪{(α,β):1≤β≤1/α≤2,α≠1}∪{(α,β):1/2≤α<1,β≥1/(1-α)}, where φ1(α,β)=(α2+α-1)β2+(2α2-3α+1)β-α and φ2(α,β)=(α-1)β2+(2α2-5α+2)β-1.…”
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Span Length Variance Effect on the Fatigue Life of FRP Bridge Deck by Ki-Tae Park, Young-Jun Yu, Hyunseop Shin

“…The result showed that the fatigue life rapidly reduces to about 25% when the span increases by 25%. However, considering that the fatigue performance safety margin was approximately 1.6 times more than the design axle load of the DB-24 design truck load in Korea, even at the span of 2.5 m, it is judged that the FRP decks being considered can be effectively used at a span length of 2.5 m.…”
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Two-Stage Pricing Decision for Low-Carbon Products Based on Consumer Strategic Behaviour by Cheng Che, Zhihong Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Yi Chen

“…Through the analysis of low-carbon and ordinary products in two situations, the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) In a market where retailers only sell low-carbon products, product prices and profits increase as consumers’ green preference θ increases. (2) In the low-carbon product and ordinary product markets, the price and profit of low-carbon products increase with regard to consumers’ green preference θ. (3) In the second stage, when consumers’ intertemporal discount factor β for ordinary products is larger than that of low-carbon products, the retailer’s total profit is smaller. …”
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Variable Weighted Ordered Subset Image Reconstruction Algorithm by Jinxiao Pan, Tie Zhou, Yan Han, Ming Jiang

“…We propose two variable weighted iterative reconstruction algorithms (VW-ART and VW-OS-SART) to improve the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) and simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) and establish their convergence. …”
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Unleashing green technology innovation in agribusiness: traditional environmental regulations, carbon trading, or synergies? by Wei Wang, Yanan She, Yue Peng, Yunqiang Liu

“…Based on the data of listed agribusinesses from 2007 to 2020, this paper analyzes the incentive effects of traditional environmental regulatory tools, carbon trading, and policy synergies using the SDM-SDID model. It was found that: (1) Although both traditional environmental regulatory tools and carbon trading provide incentive effects, the former tends to exhibit more pronounced direct effects, making it more suitable for adoption by local governments, while the latter demonstrates stronger spatial spillover effects, making it more appropriate for application in a national market context. (2) Command-and-control environmental regulatory instruments and carbon trading are complementary policy mixes, and other environmental policy mixes are to be used as appropriate in the context of the actual situation. (3) The incentive effects of environmental policies are more significant in eastern regions, non-heavily polluting, and state-owned agribusinesses, but not in the basic agricultural sector. …”
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Dính rồi ! [Ça mord !] Ancrages sociaux et recompositions territoriales de la pêche de loisirs à Hồ Chí Minh Ville (Việt Nam) by Emmanuelle Peyvel, Ngọc Thắng Dương, Cẩm Thi Trần

“…Whether casual or sportive, we show that this practice remains the prerogative of working and middle class males, thereby exposing their territoriality within the city, ranging from opportunistic fishing in the city center to fee-based fishing in dedicated locations on the outskirts (câu cá giải trí and khu du lịch sinh thái). …”
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HCHs and DDTs in Soils around Guanting Reservoir in Beijing, China: Spatial-Temporal Variation and Countermeasures by Tie-yu Wang, Bing Tan, Yong-long Lu

“…Most of the current residues in soil come from the POPs used in the past years but some new input is also detected in certain regions. …”
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Optimization of Data Center Task Scheduling by Haiying Che, Zixing Bai, Rong Zuo, Honglei Li

“…The experiment report showed that the proposed algorithm worked better than the compared classical algorithms in the key performance metrics: average delay time of tasks, task distribution in different delay time levels, and task congestion degree.…”
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