Studying the Properties of SBS/Rice Husk Ash-Modified Asphalt Binder and Mixture by Zhen Lu, Aimin Sha, Wentong Wang, Junfeng Gao

“…Sustainable materials in the field of road pavement have become a research direction in recent years. In this study, the rice husk ash with small dosage of styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) was added as a bioadditive into the base asphalt to modify its properties. …”
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Implementation of Ghana’s Standards-Based Curriculum by Religious and Moral Education Teachers in the Kwahu West Municipality by Samuel Ayetey Chaitey, Gabriel Kumah, Martin Yaw Adjei, Anthony Mensah

“…This study would also assist leaders in directing and enabling teachers to engage in professional development activities which will, in turn, assist them in becoming efficacious in implementing the new curricula.…”
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Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging of Bacterial Infections with a Hydrophilicity‐Switching, Self‐Immobilizing, Near‐Infrared Fluorogenic β‐Lactamase Probe Enriched within Bacteria... by Fangfang Chen, Yuyao Li, Yan Peng, Yifan Zhu, Gao He, Zhengwei Zhang, Hexin Xie

“…The discovery of effective therapies against antibiotic‐resistant pathogens has become an urgent need, necessitating innovative approaches to accelerate the identification and development of novel antibacterial agents. …”
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Combined effects of low-heat cement, expansive agent and shrinkage-reducing admixture on drying shrinkage and cracking of concrete by Lei Fang, Dabao Fu, Qiang Yuan, Song Xu, Dong Zhang, Huangyi Cai, Xiaoqing Zeng, Yong Wang, Jin Zhou

“…The cracking of double-block ballastless track slab concrete has become a critical issue, which can be mitigated through the use of low-heat Portland cement (LC), a MgO-based expansive agent (ME), and a shrinkage-reducing admixture (SR). …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Small Bowel in Crohn’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Osman Ahmed, David Mario Rodrigues, Geoffrey C. Nguyen

“…Magnetic resonance has become a useful modality for assessing small bowel activity. …”
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Spatio-temporal changes of glaciers, geomorphology, and meteorological influences on debris flow in the alpine environment: insights from a case study in the Hopar Nagar Valley, No... by Abrar Hussain, Jingfeng Liu, Muzaffar Ali, Wajid Hassan, Chengyuan Wang

“…Alpine environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, as retreating glaciers and abrupt weather shifts lead to frequent flooding and debris flows globally. …”
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Active Hybrid Control Algorithm with Sky-Hook Damping and Lead-Lag Phase Compensation for Multi-DOFs Ultra-Low Frequency Active Vibration Isolation System by Min Wang, Xiaoqing Li, Xuedong Chen

“…With the improvement of performance in the ultra-precision manufacturing engineering, the requirements for vibration isolation have become more stringent. In order to obtain a wider effective bandwidth and a higher performance of a multi-DOFs active vibration isolation system (AVIS), active hybrid control (AHC) technology is applied in this paper. …”
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A lung nodule segmentation model based on the transformer with multiple thresholds and coordinate attention by Tianjiao Hu, Yihua Lan, Yingqi Zhang, Jiashu Xu, Shuai Li, Chih-Cheng Hung

“…With the rapid development of deep learning, lung nodule segmentation models based on the encoder-decoder structure have become the mainstream research approach. However, during the encoding process, most models have limitations in extracting edge and semantic information and in capturing long-range dependencies. …”
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Abril y la crisis del régimen. Comentarios al Dossier de Iconos 23 by Pablo Ospina Peralta

“…Ambos tienen más bien la intención de brindar testimonios etnográficos de dos hechos: “lo que sucedió en Ciespal” la tarde turbulenta del 20 y el acto del regreso triunfal de Abdalá Bucaram a Guayaquil el 2 de abril. …”
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Examining the Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Weight Status: Empirical Evidence from a Population-Based Survey of Adults in Taiwan by Tai-Hsiung Hung, Pei-An Liao, Hung-Hao Chang, Jiun-Hao Wang, Min-Chen Wu

“…Given the upward trend in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, it is important to help overweight and obese people to become more fit and reach their healthy weight.…”
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Unraveling mechanisms of electrolyte wetting process in three-dimensional electrode structures: Insights from realistic architectures by Fei Chen, Tianxin Chen, Zhenxuan Wu, Zihan Zhou, Kunjie Lu, Jinyao Su, Yihua Wang, Jianfeng Hua, Xin Lai, Xuebin Han, Minggao Ouyang, Yuejiu Zheng

“…However, this advancement poses significant challenges in terms of the filling and wetting processes of battery electrolytes. …”
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Successful Resuscitation of a Patient with Life-Threatening Metabolic Acidosis by Hemodialysis: A Case of Ethylene Glycol Intoxication by Ikuyo Narita, Michiko Shimada, Norio Nakamura, Reiichi Murakami, Takeshi Fujita, Wakako Fukuda, Hirofumi Tomita

“…Ethylene glycol intoxication causes severe metabolic acidosis and acute kidney injury. Fomepizole has become available as its antidote. Nevertheless, a prompt diagnosis is not easy because patients are often unconscious. …”
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Untreated Active Tuberculosis in Pregnancy with Intraocular Dissemination: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shadi Rezai, Stephen LoBue, Daniel Adams, Yewande Oladipo, Ramses Posso, Tiffany Mapp, Crystal Santiago, Manisha Jain, William D. Marino, Cassandra E. Henderson

“…However, the incidence in developed countries has decreased over the past decades causing physicians to become unfamiliar with its unspecific symptoms. Pregnant individuals are especially difficult because many symptoms of active TB can mimic normal physiological changes of pregnancy. …”
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Extracecellulr vesicles (EVs) microRNAs (miRNAs) derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in osteoarthritis (OA); detailed role in pathogenesis and possible therapeutics by Seyede Sara Pakdaman Kolour, Saeide Nematollahi, Masoud Dehbozorgi, Farnaz Fattahi, Fatemeh Movahed, Neda Esfandiari, Mohammad Saeed Kahrizi, Nima Ghavamikia, Bahareh Salmanian Hajiagha

“…Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have become a practical treatment choice for preclinical and clinical OA palliation in recent years, mainly due to their unique immunomodulatory attributes. …”
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Türkiye’de Bireysel Emeklilik Sistemi’nin (Bes) Algılanma Düzeyi: Ordu İli Örneği by Osman Yıldırım, Ceyda Şataf

“…Bu açıdan çalışan bireylerin çalışma hayatlarından çekilmeleri sonrası geçmiş hizmetleri karşılığında hak kazandıkları emeklilik gelirlerine ilave bir katkı sunmaktadır. …”
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From Location Advantage to Innovation: Exploring Interprovincial Co-Funding Networks in Mainland China by Feifei Wang, Hanbai Wang, Yuxuan An, Rui Xue, Yuanke Zhang, Tianqi Hao

“…The findings reveal that the co-funding network has become increasingly balanced over time, significantly enhancing the location-based innovation advantages of individual provinces and strengthening the network’s overall capacity to foster innovation. …”
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LotusSQL: SQL Engine for High-Performance Big Data Systems by Xiaohan Li, Bowen Yu, Guanyu Feng, Haojie Wang, Wenguang Chen

“…In recent years, Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for big data processing. …”
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Microplastic accumulation in snake-eyed lizard (Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832) after long-term monitoring: habitats matter, not years by Cantekin Dursun, Kamil Candan, Kaan Karaoğlu, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Elif Yıldırım Caynak, Serkan Gül

“…Abstract Microplastics (MPs) have become pervasive environmental pollutants with significant impacts on ecosystems, particularly aquatic environments. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Re-Identification Methods of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Models by Bartlomiej Kizielewicz, Jakub Wieckowski, Bogdan Franczyk, Jaroslaw WaTrobski, Wojciech Salabun

“…Due to factors like limited access to domain experts, some models become impractical, leading to the need for methods that aid in their re-identification. …”
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Exposure, sensitivity, or adaptive capacity? Reviewing assessments that use only two of three elements of climate change vulnerability by Amanda A. Hyman, Erin R. Crone, Abigail Benson, Jason Dunham, Abigail J. Lynch, Laura Thompson, Meryl C. Mims

“…Although two‐element CCVA approaches have become more common, their utility and procedures remain poorly documented. …”
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