Spatial spread of sexually transmitted diseases within susceptible populations at demographic steady state by Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Bingtuan Li

“…It isshown that there exists a unique spreading speed (where thespreading speed is characterized as the slowest speed of a classof traveling waves connecting two endemic equilibria) at which theinfectious population carrying the invading stronger strainspreads into the space where an equilibrium distribution has beenestablished by the population with the weaker strain. Finally, wegive sufficient conditions under which an explicit formula for thespreading speed can be found.…”
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Mechanical and structural performance of hardwood charcoal-reinforced polyester composites: Effects of particle size and filler loading by Francis O. Edoziuno, Benjamin U. Odoni, Cynthia C. Nwaeju, M. Saravana Kumar, Alaa F. Abd El-Rehim

“…. %) due to uniform stress distribution, while larger fillers and high loadings reduced performance due to voids and weaker adhesion. Optimized filler size and loading effectively enhance the mechanical properties of hardwood charcoal-reinforced polyester composites.…”
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Research on the impact of artificial intelligence technology on urban public health resilience by Erdong Chen, Huaxin Zhang

“…The results demonstrate that AI technology significantly enhances resilience by improving resource allocation and response efficiency, with stronger impacts observed in eastern and central regions compared to western regions, where economic and technological capacities are weaker. Spatial analysis reveals significant positive spillover effects, particularly from patent authorizations, which enhance public health resilience in neighboring cities through cross-regional collaboration and resource sharing. …”
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Experimental Study on Sand Inrush Hazard of Water-Sand Two-Phase Flow in Broken Rock Mass by Junce Xu, Hai Pu, Jiarui Chen, Ziheng Sha

“…The smaller the initial porosity of the broken rock mass, the weaker its permeability, and the less probable to form a dominant channel for the water and sand inrush disasters. …”
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Analysis of Dynamic Response Mechanism of Roadway Bolt by Qinjian Zhan, Xigui Zheng, Niaz Muhammad Shahani, Xiao Tan, Tao Li, Jiping Du

“…Axial force of the bolt has responded strongly to the frequency at the interface, and the farther away from the interface, the weaker the response.…”
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Intellectual Capital and Firm Performance in the Context of Venture-Capital Syndication Background in China by Yuzhong Lu, Zengrui Tian, Guillermo Andres Buitrago, Shuiwen Gao, Yuanjun Zhao, Shuai Zhang

“…Furthermore, IC showed weaker impact on PFP of mixed VCS-backed firms compared to pure VCS-backed firms and showed diminished effect on higher VCS member heterogeneity mainly reflected in the impact of relational capital on firm performance. …”
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A Survey on the Relationship between Ocean Subsurface Temperature and Tropical Cyclone over the Western North Pacific by Difu Sun, Junqiang Song, Kaijun Ren, Xiaoyong Li, Guangjie Wang

“…Specifically, compared with the subsurface warm years, there are larger relative vorticity, higher relative humidity, smaller vertical wind shear, weaker net longwave radiation, and higher ocean mixed layer temperature in the southeastern quadrant during cold years, which are all favorable for genesis and development of TC.…”
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The effect of anti mullerian hormone and follicle stimulating hormone discordance on oocyte quality and live birth rates by Seray Kaya, Murat Genc, Bensu Bulut, Medine Akkan Oz, Mustafa Ozturk

“…AMH is known to predict oocyte count effectively, but its ability to predict live births is weaker. This study aimed to investigate which parameter is more useful in predicting oocyte count, quality, and live birth outcomes in cases of discordance. …”
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Characteristics of the South China Sea Monsoon from the Onset to Withdrawal before and after 1993/94 by Zhao Xiaofang, Wang Lijuan

“…However, during the early-onset period in 1994–2016, the SCSSM is associated with a weaker onset intensity and comparatively faster retreat. …”
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The role of starting knee angle in squat jump force-velocity profiles: interactions with subjects’ strength levels and imputed push-off distance by Xuelin Qin, Beibei Liu, Ruolin Tang, Yan Liu, Amador García-Ramos, Amador García-Ramos

“…IntroductionThis study investigated whether differences in the force-velocity (F-v) profile obtained using Samozino’s method during squat jumps (SJ) performed at varying knee angles are influenced by subjects’ strength levels and the push-off distance (HpO) used in the analysis.MethodsTwenty-one resistance-trained men were classified as stronger (n = 10) or weaker (n = 11) based on the external load required to achieve a 10 cm SJ height. …”
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An Easy-to-Understand Method to Construct Desired Distance-Like Measures by Wen Qing Fu, Sheng Gang Li, Harish Garg, Heng Liu, Ahmed Mostafa Khalil, Jingjing Zhao

“…Metrics and their weaker forms are used to measure the difference between two data (or other things). …”
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Anticipating The Return of Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Indonesia-Australia’s Initiative on Sub-Regional Meetings on Counterterrorism by Nuri Widiastuti Veronika

“…This study adopted Buzan and Weaver’s regional security complex elements in explaining to what extent this regional security issue has put aside Indonesian-Australian differences and led them to the co-leadership position in anticipating the return of FTFs to Asia Pacific, prone to terrorist attacks and violent extremist beliefs. …”
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Mapping Variability of Mycotoxins in Individual Oat Kernels from Batch Samples: Implications for Sampling and Food Safety by Irene Teixido-Orries, Francisco Molino, Bianca Castro-Criado, Monika Jodkowska, Angel Medina, Sonia Marín, Carol Verheecke-Vaessen

“…Correlation analyses revealed strong associations between DON and its derivatives but weaker correlations with other toxins. Mycotoxin ratios varied widely, indicating that although they often co-occur, their concentrations differ between kernels. …”
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Effect of microstructure and neutron irradiation defects on deuterium retention in SiC by Alex Leide, Weicheng Zhong, Isabel Fernandez-Victorio, Isabel Fernandez-Victorio, Duc Nguyen-Manh, Duc Nguyen-Manh, Takaaki Koyanagi

“…Deuterium is released at lower temperatures in neutron irradiated polycrystal SiC compared to pristine polycrystal SiC, suggesting weaker trapping by radiation-induced defects compared to grain boundary trapping sites in the pristine materials. …”
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Sustainable regional development from the perspective of economic resilience: Based on the impact of COVID-19. by Aotian Peng

“…Henan Province has the lowest total production resilience in the selected regions, but it is in the second position in terms of development potential resistance, while it is in the middle range in terms of resilience performance, and it has a weaker resistance performance in terms of the resilience indicator of the standard of living of the residents. …”
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The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories by Alessandro Savino, Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Meredith J. Durbin, Nitya Kallivayalil, Andrew Wetzel, Jay Anderson, Gurtina Besla, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Thomas M. Brown, James S. Bullock, Andrew A. Cole, Michelle L. M. Collins, M. C. Cooper, Alis J. Deason, Aaron L. Dotter, Mark Fardal, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Tobias K. Fritz, Marla C. Geha, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, Rodrigo Ibata, Michael J. Irwin, Myoungwon Jeon, Evan N. Kirby, Geraint F. Lewis, Dougal Mackey, Steven R. Majewski, Nicolas Martin, Alan McConnachie, Ekta Patel, R. Michael Rich, Evan D. Skillman, Joshua D. Simon, Sangmo Tony Sohn, Erik J. Tollerud, Roeland P. van der Marel

“…(iv) A comparison with TNG50 and FIRE-2 simulated satellite dwarfs around M31-like hosts shows that some of these trends (dependence of SFH on satellite luminosity) are reproduced in the simulations while others (dependence of SFH on galactocentric distance, presence of the delayed-quenching population) are weaker or absent. We provide all photometric catalogs and SFHs as High-Level Science Products on MAST.…”
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Corneal epithelial thickness as a diagnostic tool in ophthalmology – a case series by Karolina Deja, Justyna Izdebska, Jerzy Szaflik

“…Abnormal corneal epithelial thickness is observed in individuals with early keratoconus, in chronic contact lens wearers, and post corneal refractive surgery. In this paper, we present selected clinical cases in which corneal epithelial mapping performed with the Cirrus 5000 HD-OCT system (Zeiss) was used. …”
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Reconstruction of Extreme Geomagnetic Storms: Breaking the Data Paucity Curse by M. I. Sitnov, G. K. Stephens, N. A. Tsyganenko, H. Korth, E. C. Roelof, P. C. Brandt, V. G. Merkin, A. Y. Ukhorskiy

“…It is shown that the new method significantly reduces the statistical bias of the original NN algorithm toward weaker storms. In the DM approach the magnetic field is reconstructed using a small NN subset of the large historical database, with the subset number KNN ≫ 1 being still much larger than any simultaneous multiprobe observation number. …”
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Geomagnetic Storm‐Induced Plasma Density Enhancements in the Southern Polar Ionospheric Region: A Comparative Study Using St. Patrick's Day Storms of 2013 and 2015 by P. R. Shreedevi, R. K. Choudhary, Smitha V. Thampi, Sneha Yadav, T. K. Pant, Yiqun Yu, Ryan McGranaghan, Evan G. Thomas, Anil Bhardwaj, A. K. Sinha

“…This combined with the action of neutral winds at midlatitudes favored the formation of higher plasma densities in the regions of SED formation on this day. The same was weaker during the 17 March 2013 storm due to the fast fluctuating nature of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) Bz. …”
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Feasibility of Using H3PO4/H2O2 in the Synthesis of Antimicrobial TiO2 Nanoporous Surfaces by Benjamín Valdez-Salas, Ernesto Beltrán-Partida

“…Therefore, in the present work, we applied a controllable and stable oxidative nanopatterning strategy by applying H3PO4, a weaker dissociating acid, as a substitute for H2SO4 in the classical piranha reaction. …”
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