Speciation of Potentially Carcinogenic Trace Nickel(II) Ion Levels in Human Saliva: A Sequential Metabolomics-Facilitated High-Field ¹H NMR Investigation by Kayleigh Hunwin, Georgina Page, Mark Edgar, Mohammed Bhogadia, Martin Grootveld

“…However, at higher Ni(II) concentrations (140–670 µmol/L), weaker carboxylate O-donor ligands such as lactate, formate, succinate, and acetate were featured as major Ni(II) ligands, a consequence of their much higher WMSS concentrations, which were sufficient for them to compete for these higher Ni(II) availabilities. …”
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Design and implementation of adaptive mimic voting device oriented to persistent connection by Dacheng ZHOU, Hongchang CHEN, Guozhen CHENG, Weizhen HE, Ke SHANG, Hongchao HU

“…Results:A series of comparative experiments between the prototype system of the adaptive mimic voter and the traditional mimic voter is conducted as follows. (1) The evaluation of memory resource occupancy shows that the peak physical memory consumption and the total time of consuming physical memory when the adaptive mimic voter transmits 20MB web resources in chunked transfer encoding are significantly lower than those of the traditional mimic voter. (2) The evaluation of transmission delay shows that the response time of the adaptive mimic voter in the voting processing of 10MB to 320MB chunked transfer-encoded webpage resources is relatively low, indicating that its voting speed has been significantly improved. (3) The concurrency performance evaluation shows that the average of response time of the system applying the adaptive mimic voter under the request concurrency of 1000 to 5000 is lower than that of the traditional mimic voter,and the voting processing throughput is higher than that of the traditional mimic voter.(4)The evaluation of voting accuracy shows that the adaptive mimic voter based on the voting algorithm selects the strategy set is slightly weaker than the semantic feature algorithm and the AHP algorithm while far superior to the character similarity algorithm in the traditional mimic voter, which reveals that the adaptive mimic voter has an acceptable voting accuracy. …”
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Blinking characteristics analyzed by a deep learning model and the relationship with tear film stability in children with long-term use of orthokeratology by Yue Wu, Siyuan Wu, Yinghai Yu, Yinghai Yu, Xiaojun Hu, Ting Zhao, Yan Jiang, Bilian Ke

“…Independent t-test and Mann-Whitney test was used to analyze the blinking patterns and tear film characteristics between the long-term ortho-K wearer group and the control group. Spearman’s rank correlation was used to analyze the relationship between blinking patterns and tear film stability.ResultsOur deep learning system demonstrated high performance (accuracy = 98.13%, precision = 96.46%, sensitivity = 98.10%, specificity = 98.10%, F1 score = 0.9727) in the observation of blinking patterns. …”
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Unequal ageing: the quality of life of senior citizens in the EU before and after COVID-19. A multidimensional approach by Elżbieta Roszko-Wójtowicz, Klaudia Przybysz, Agnieszka Stanimir

“…Economic instability, limited access to healthcare, and weaker social security systems were identified as key contributors to this stagnation.Impact of COVID-19: the pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities, particularly in the domains of social relations and finances. …”
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Climate change policies reduce air pollution and increase physical activity: Benefits, costs, inequalities, and indoor exposures by Sean Beevers, Nosha Assareh, Andrew Beddows, Gregor Stewart, Mike Holland, Daniela Fecht, Yunzhe Liu, Anna Goodman, Heather Walton, Christian Brand, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Dylan Wood, Tuan Vu, David Dajnak

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Gravitational wave luminosity distance for Starobinsky gravity in viscous cosmological models by Jia-nan Chi, Ya-Bo Wu, Yu Sang, Xue Zhang, Yi-liang Hu, Wen-zhong Liu, Bo-hai Chen

“…In addition, by comparing the GW and EM luminosity distances of SG model with $$d_{L(GR)}$$ d L ( G R ) of Einstein GR, we find that the GW and EM signals in SG1 and SG2 change from stronger to weaker than the ones in GR as redshift increases and more difficultly to be detected in the same distance and detection sensitivity. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing the Carbon Sink Capacity of Urban Park Green Spaces by Yutong JI, Tianyi LIN, Lian LIU, Xiong LI

“…The influence of the external environment on carbon sink capacity is generally weaker but still requires attention in specific scenarios. …”
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F. NIETZSCHE: VALIOS SIEKTI GALIOS PRINCIPAS by Arūnas Mickevičius

“…The category of „life“ for Nietzsche does not mean inactive seclusion, but activity: possessing, subduing the weaker dominance of individual shapes, annexation. …”
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F. NIETZSCHE: VALIOS SIEKTI GALIOS PRINCIPAS by Arūnas Mickevičius

“…The category of „life“ for Nietzsche does not mean inactive seclusion, but activity: possessing, subduing the weaker dominance of individual shapes, annexation. …”
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Julius Kruopis – the pioneer of applied statistics in Lithuania by Vilijandas Bagdonavičius, Vydas Čekanavičius, Rūta Levulienė, Pranas Vaitkus

“…In contrast, the accuracy of normal approximation to discrete random variables is measured in weaker uniform metric only. A large part of J. Kruopis research in Probability Theory is related to so-called Signed Compound Poisson approximations – a topic very new in the early eighties. …”
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Le mobilier en cuir antique et médiéval du boulevard Dr Henri-Henrot à Reims/Durocortorum by Martine Leguilloux

“…Some patterns are recurrent, depending on the size and shape of the soles, suggesting an adjustment of decoration according to shoe use, and the gender or age of the wearer. Sandals represent 8.40% of the shoes identified in states 8 to 10. …”
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Group B streptococcus colonization in pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: a three-year monocentric retrospective study during and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Gregorio Serra, Lucia Lo Scalzo, Maria Giordano, Mario Giuffrè, Pietro Trupiano, Renato Venezia, Giovanni Corsello

“…These findings might be explained by the presence within the same metropolitan area of our Department of a COVID hospital and birthing center, which all the patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection referred to, and likely leading to a weaker concern of getting sick perceived by our patients. …”
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Étude de trois grands tonneaux mis au jour à Reims/Durocortorum (Marne) : le savoir-faire des tonneliers antiques by Pierre Mille, Philippe Rollet

“…While the vats reserved for the armies (a different supply chain) were filled with acetum (sour wine) used for the preparation of posca (the beverage of the legionnaires), those sold to private individuals or tavern keepers contained more elaborate wines, sometimes aged for twenty years such as Falernian wine, but all required transport over very long distances. …”
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Les textiles dans les tombes gauloises à dépôt de crémation en vase métallique : usages pratiques, mises en scène et perspectives anthropologiques (seconde moitié du vie s.-ve s. a... by Elsa Desplanques

“…It is likely that personal and sentimental criteria played a role in the choice of fabric: the fabric embodies the identity of its wearer, but also of its creator. The display of this fabric at the funeral would have symbolised the relationship between the deceased and their community, as well as their social rank and ethnic origin. …”
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Leveraging Local Community Capacities for Sustainable Security: A Case Study of the Border Villages in Darmiyan and Sarbisheh Counties by Javad Mikaniki

“…Furthermore, the research confirmed a favorable mentality towards social components in rural areas, which could foster the growth and development of security and its dissemination to weaker rural areas. Keywords: Sustainable Security, Social Participation, Social Trust, Social Cohesion. …”
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The effect of gamification on brand co-creation in app-based businesses: investigating the mediating role of consumer engagement and the moderating role of hedonic and innovativene... by Rayhane Rezagholizade, Zahra Sadeqi-Arani, Esmail Mazroui

“…Many people are pleasure-seekers and will stay engaged with a topic for a long time if the gamification is done right. …”
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