A Review of Sulfate Removal from Water Using Polymeric Membranes by Jamal Al Mehrate, Sadek Shaban, Amr Henni

“…Access to clean and reliable water has become a critical concern due to the global water crisis. …”
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Risedronate Attenuates Podocyte Injury in Phosphate Transporter-Overexpressing Rats by Yohei Asada, Takeshi Takayanagi, Tsukasa Kawakami, Eisuke Tomatsu, Atsushi Masuda, Yasumasa Yoshino, Sahoko Sekiguchi-Ueda, Megumi Shibata, Tomihiko Ide, Hajime Niimi, Eishin Yaoita, Yusuke Seino, Yoshihisa Sugimura, Atsushi Suzuki

“…Osteoporosis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are becoming common in our superaging society. Renal dysfunction causes phosphorus accumulation in the circulating plasma and leads to the development of CKD-mineral bone disorder (MBD). …”
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Spam detection using hybrid model on fusion of spammer behavior and linguistics features by Amna Iqbal, Muhammad Younas, Saman Iftikhar, Fakeeha Fatima, Rabia Saleem

“…E-commerce sites, forums, and blogs have become popular platforms for people to share their views. …”
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Metrics and Methods for Evaluation of Over-The-Air Performance of MIMO User Equipment by Yifei Feng, Werner L. Schroeder, Christoph von Gagern, Adam Tankielun, Thomas Kaiser

“…Commercial User Equipment (UE) testing and certification has become more complex for state-of-the-art mobile communication standards such as 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) due to the extensive use of Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission techniques. …”
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Healthcare utilisation by pregnant patients with asthma in South Korea: a cohort study using nationwide claims data by Deog Kyeom Kim, Chang-Hoon Lee, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Joon Yim, Eun Jin Jang, Jimin Kim, Yun Jung Kim, Seongmi Choi, Joon-Ho Lee

“…A significant number of patients with asthma were likely to stop taking antiasthmatic drugs after becoming pregnant.Conclusions The prevalence of asthma requiring healthcare utilisation during pregnancy was not very high. …”
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Balanced operation strategies of district heating systems based on dynamic hydraulic-thermal modeling by Xiaojie Lin, Ning Zhang, Zheng Luo, Encheng Feng, Wei Zhong

“…As the improvement of district heating systems, the fine-tuning of operational equipment has become a promising direction. However, in the practical district heating systems, relying solely on manual control and the existing basic models, the dynamic hydraulic-thermal process is hard to cover. …”
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Premier Dynamic Bandwidth Management and Tensile Wavelength Selection Ensuring QoS for NG-EPONs by Purushottam Singh, Pushpendra Kumar, Harshita Patel, Kanojia Sindhuben Babulal, Gayathri Ananthakrishnan

“…As data demands continue to surge with technological advancements, the need for efficient bandwidth management and wavelength selection in NG-EPONs becomes paramount. This paper presents two innovative algorithms—Tensile Wavelength and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (TW-DBA) and Premier Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (PDBA)—designed to optimize bandwidth allocation and maintain Quality of Service (QoS) under varying network conditions. …”
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Cyclin-dependent protein kinases and cell cycle regulation in biology and disease by Ilenia Pellarin, Alessandra Dall’Acqua, Andrea Favero, Ilenia Segatto, Valentina Rossi, Nicole Crestan, Javad Karimbayli, Barbara Belletti, Gustavo Baldassarre

“…Finally, we discuss how CDKs inhibitors have become standard therapies in selected human cancers and propose novel ways of investigation to export their targeting from cancer to other relevant chronic diseases. …”
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A phylogenetic epidemiology approach to predicting the establishment of multi-host plant pests by Shannon Colleen Lynch, Edeli Reyes-Gonzalez, Emily L. Bossard, Karen S. Alarcon, Natalie L. R. Love, Allan D. Hollander, Beatriz E. Nobua-Behrmann, Gregory S. Gilbert

“…Plant communities dominated by close relatives of known epidemiologically critical hosts were four times more likely to become infested than communities with more distantly related species. …”
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Fiber-tip photonic crystal for real-time referenced biosensing in serum by Mathias Dolci, Paco Dreverman, Mildred S. Cano-Velázquez, Arthur L. Hendriks, Emiel Veth, P.J. van Veldhoven, Andrea Fiore, Peter Zijlstra

“…Fiber optic sensors have become increasingly well-established due to the many advantages they provide such as immunity to electromagnetic interference, multiplexing capabilities, and remote sensing. …”
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Structural characteristics, functions, and counteracting strategies of biofilms in Staphylococcus aureus by Yanze Xia, Zhenghui Hu, Qiyuan Jin, Qi Chen, Chenhao Zhao, Rui Qiang, Zonggang Xie, Liubing Li, Haifang Zhang

“…Consequently, preventing and eliminating biofilms has become a critical focus in clinical management and research. …”
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Risk-Based Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction during Pregnancy by Masanao Ohashi, Seishi Furukawa, Kaori Michikata, Katsuhide Kai, Hiroshi Sameshima, Tsuyomu Ikenoue

“…Testing of women with a personal history or current symptoms of thyroid disease during pregnancy may be insufficient to detect women with thyroid dysfunction, who will become at high-risk pregnancy.…”
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Learning-based DoS attack game strategy over multi-process systems by Zhiqiang Hang, Xiaolin Wang, Fangfei Li, Yi-ang Ren, Haitao Li

“…However, with the introduction of open media such as wireless networks, cyber-physical systems may become vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, which can pose significant security risks and challenges to the systems. …”
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Using satellite imagery to assess the glacier retreat in King George Island, Antarctica by Ibeth Rojas-Macedo, Cinthya Bello, Wilson Suarez, Edwin Loarte, Fiorella Vega-Jacome, Maria G. Bustamante Rosell, Pedro M. Tapia

“…In recent decades, remote sensing has become a powerful tool for continuously monitoring glacier dynamics in remote areas, enabling the identification of significant spatiotemporal changes due to its capacity to provide multitemporal information at regional and global scales. …”
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Synthesis, characterization, In silico, and In vitro studies of CuS–ZnO nanocomposite using mushroom extract by S. Anbazhagi, A. Murugesan, M. Paramanantham, K. Chinnaiah, Karthik Kannan, Nadezhda Palko, K. Gurushankar

“…The spherical morphology was identified in SEM and HR-TEM analyses. Elemental composition in the EDAX analysis supported the resulted as a nanocomposite. …”
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Education as a Fundamental Element in Ensuring the National Security of the State by Vasilii A. Dadalko, Aleksandr G. Kostanyants, Gleb A. Neustroev

“…The development of the education system should become a priority task of State policy, as it is through the education of literate, responsible and patriotic citizens that the long-term well-being and sustainable development of the country can be achieved.…”
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SCORING ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING- ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE (MRI-AQ) WITH HEART RATE TO PATIENTS ANXIETY LEVEL AT LUMBOSACRAL MRI EXAMINATION by Mirza Isna Amaliya, Rosy Setiawati, Amillia Kartika Sari, Lailatul Muqmiroh, Muhaimin Muhaimin

“…Background: Anxiety during MRI examination becomes a common constraint and can have a negative effect that is the quality of the resulting image due to the existence of motion artifacts until the failure of the examination. …”
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Pri-DDQN: learning adaptive traffic signal control strategy through a hybrid agent by Yanliu Zheng, Juan Luo, Han Gao, Yi Zhou, Keqin Li

“…Methods based on deep Q-leaning network (DQN) have become the mainstream to solve single-intersection traffic signal control. …”
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Systematic Review of Fake News, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Examining Authors, Content, and Social Impact Through Machine Learning by Darius Plikynas, Ieva Rizgeliene, Grazina Korvel

“…As a result, conspiracy theories, echo chambers, filter bubbles and other processes of fragmentation and marginalization are polarizing, radicalizing, and disintegrating society in terms of coherent politics, governance, and social networks of trust and cooperation. …”
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Investigation of Laminar Separation Bubble on Flat Plate with Adverse Pressure Gradient: Time-Averaged Flow Field Analysis by Yonglei Qu, Dario Barsi, Daniele Simoni, Pietro Zunino, Yigang Luan

“…Boundary layer integral parameters are discussed for the different cases in order to understand the flow phenomena in terms of flow time-mean properties.…”
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