Stability Study of Shield Tunnel Excavation Face Induced by Shield Chamber Pressure Entering in Shallow-Buried Sand Stratum by GE Jun

“…Then, based on the numerical simulation results, the failure mode applicable to shallow-buried sandy soil stratum is constructed, and the corresponding ultimate support pressure is solved. Finally, the model is applied in the Hangzhou Metro Line 5 pressurized inlet project, and the ground settlement is monitored. …”
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Inhibitory Effect on the Tyrosinase Activity and Low Cytotoxicity of Monounsaturated Long-Chain Chelating Fatty Ester by ANTONIO SERGIO C. CARVALHO, TATIANA N. PEDROSA, HERONILDES A. DANTAS FILHO, RAQUEL C. MONTENEGRO, EMERSON S. LIMA, MARNE C. DE VASCONCELLOS, ALBERDAN S. SANTOS

“…The IC50 and IC90 values for tyrosinase inhibitory activity for chelating fatty ester and their complexes are values > 400 µM. Finally, the assay with the series showed no hemolytic activity (EC50> 250 μg mL-1), and not cytotoxic to B16F10, ACP-02, and human dermal fibroblast cells at 100 µM and showed no hemolytic potential at the concentration of IC50 250 µM.…”
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A Novel Opportunity Losses-Based Polar Coordinate Distance (OPLO-POCOD) Approach to Multiple Criteria Decision-Making by Reza Sheikh, Soheila Senfi

“…By considering opportunity losses, decision-makers gain a better understanding of the trade-offs involved in selecting alternatives, enabling them to make more informed decisions. Finally, the proposed method is exhibited through the use of numerical an example to illustrate its process. …”
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Assessing the Safety Level of Hospitalized Patients: Analyzing Patient Activities by Sayedeh Somayyeh Mousavipour, Mousa Jabbari, Mahnaz Saremi, Abbas Ebadi, Ehsan Shariat Bahadori, Davoud Khorasani Zavareh

“…Experts' opinions were used to rank the risk, and finally the risk level of the identified hazards was determined before and after the control measures. …”
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Deeply Learned Classifiers for Age and Gender Predictions of Unfiltered Faces by Olatunbosun Agbo-Ajala, Serestina Viriri

“…Technically, our network is pretrained on an IMDb-WIKI with noisy labels and then fine-tuned on MORPH-II and finally on the training set of the OIU-Adience (original) dataset. …”
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ROCK Inhibitor-Induced Promotion of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell Motility during Wound Healing by Hiroyuki Kamao, Atsushi Miki, Junichi Kiryu

“…The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of Rho-associated coiled-coil containing kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y27632 on retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell motility during wound healing. …”
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A multi-task model for failure identification and GPS assessment in metro trains by Pratik Vinayak Jadhav, Sairam V. A, Siddharth Sonkavade, Shivali Amit Wagle, Preksha Pareek, Ketan Kotecha, Tanupriya Choudhury

“…The local interpretable model agnostic explanations (LIME) technique was used to provide explanations for the model predictions. Finally, a dashboard was developed for the same application consisting of the best-trained algorithm for decision-making, along with trend visualizations and explanations. …”
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Analysis of Overburden Structure and Pressure-Relief Effect of Hard Roof Blasting and Cutting by Hao Liu, Jin Dai, Jinquan Jiang, Pu Wang, Jiqiang Yang

“…Moreover, the optimal roof-cutting position (5 m) and angle (15°) are obtained with the specific mining conditions. Finally, on-site monitoring of the anchor-cable force and support force in panel 5312 of the Jining no. 3 coal mine is used to verify the pressure-relief effect after roof blasting and cutting. …”
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Conception de soutenabilité de l’habitation : étude des discours de 4 organisations promouvant la géonef (earthship) by Guillaume Lessard

“…Using green marketing strategies, they notably overstate its performance and adaptability and downplay its limitations, a situation which could explain why the earthship is popular in inhospitable climates such as in Quebec. Finally, in light of the sustainable transition theoretical framework, the earthship articulates an holistic and radical discourse about sustainability that incites to break with unsustainable development pathways. …”
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Direito da concorrência e supermercados: como essas plataformas de dois lados podem trazer riscos aos consumidores? by Amanda Athayde

“…Nos termos da teoria da plataforma de dois lados, propõe-se que os supermercados sejam analisados como prestadores de serviços para consumidores finais e para os fornecedores, ressaltando que esses dois grupos distintos dependem do supermercado para o intermédio de transações, o que faz com que existam externalidades indiretas entre os dois grupos e, consequentemente, confere poder de barganha à plataforma. …”
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Study on Health Care Service Standard of Chronic Disease Management Based on Process Reengineering and the Delphi Method by Jing Zhao

“…The coordination coefficient is 0.180~0.356. Finally, after discussion by all parties, more than 40 specific indicators including the size of the new standard have been determined, which provides a great theoretical basis for the establishment of a new type of hospital chronic disease management and nursing service standard in my country. …”
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How do various strategies for returning residues change microbiota modulation: potential implications for soil health by Nan Jiang, Nan Jiang, Zhenhua Chen, Zhenhua Chen, Yi Ren, Shichang Xie, Zimeng Yao, Zimeng Yao, Dongqi Jiang, Yulan Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Lijun Chen, Lijun Chen

“…Moreover, the residue additions resulted in the accumulation of ARGs, while only SC caused an increase in certain pathogens. Finally, through analyzing the correlation network among indices that exhibited active responses to residue additions, potential indicators for functional changes in response to residue additions were identified. …”
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The Role of Environmental Factors on Grammatical Development in French–English Bilinguals Attending a Dual Language Programme in France by Cathy Cohen, Erin Quirk

“…Secondly, exposure showed a stronger relationship with grammatical accuracy in cL2 children; however, only in French, the language in which children made more errors overall. Finally, we found that both 2L1 and cL2 children made gender errors, an early-acquired structure in French. …”
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Model for Predicting Borderline Mental Disorders of Law Enforcement Officers – Participants of Anti-Terrorist Operation by O. V. Zemlianska, P. V. Makarenko

“…The obtained regression coefficients and the values of weighted odds ratios for each of the scales demonstrated that the variables “Dissimulation”, “Negativism”, “Distress and maladjustment”, “Indirect aggression” and “Symptom of hyperactivity” are the most significant indicators of personal qualities that predict the formation of borderline stress disorders of law enforcement officers – participants in the anti-terrorist operation; further significant are “The presence of features of post traumatic stress disorder”, “Resentment”, “Aggravation” and, finally, “Hostility”, “Physical aggression”, “Symptoms of invasion” and “Verbal aggression”. …”
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Mendelian randomization and multiomics comprehensively reveal the causal relationship and potential mechanism between atrial fibrillation and gastric cancer by Zhao Sicheng, Zhao Sicheng, Zhang Jingcheng, Zhang Jingcheng, Zhang Shuo, Zhang Shuo, Lou Jiaheng, Lou Jiaheng, Cai Yan, Cai Yan, Bai Xing, Bai Xing, Jiang Tao, Jiang Tao, Jiang Tao, Zhang Guangji, Zhang Guangji, Zhang Guangji

“…Transcription factor analysis and developmental trajectory analysis reveal the potential role of fibroblasts in GC development. Finally, prognosis analysis and gene mutation analysis using TCGA-STAD data indicate an adverse prognosis associated with the key gene set in GC.ConclusionThis study provides new insights into the association between AF and GC and offers novel clues for understanding its impact on the pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies of GC.…”
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Indoor Deterministic Simulations and Statistical Modeling at Sub-THz Frequencies for Future Wireless Networks by Nektarios Moraitis, Konstantina S. Nikita

“…A faster channel decoherence is observed in NLOS locations. Finally, the temporal and spatial properties of the channel are modeled statistically, delivering its related features that include the ray and cluster decaying rates, the inter-arrival delays, the azimuth and elevation angle-of-arrivals, and the cluster and ray occurrence.…”
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Nonintrusive Industrial Load Identification Combined with Random Forests and Steady-State Waveform by Shuhui Yi, Hongxia Zhu, Junjie Liu, Junnan Li

“…Then, using the high-dimensional data of the steady-state waveform as the sample data, the bootstrap sampling method and the CART algorithm in the random forest algorithm are used to generate multiple decision trees. Finally, the industrial load types are identified by voting multiple decision trees. …”
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Dramatic response of advanced pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma to tislelizumab combined with anlotinib: a case report by Ranran Li, Xiliang Di, Yuan Li, Hao Li, Chonghua Liu

“…Treatment was subsequently interrupted for 1 month due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which then resumed with two additional cycles of tislelizumab and anlotinib. Finally, the patient refused to continue treatment due to the progression of the brain metastasis and economic conditions, despite the stable condition. …”
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A Superposed Epoch Analysis of Auroral Oval Coverage During Substorms Using Deep Learning‐Based Segmentation Models by Jia‐Nan Jiang, Zi‐Ming Zou, Yang Lu, Jia Zhong, Yong Wang, Yu‐Zhang Ma, Bian‐Long Zhao

“…Generally, the coverage decreases slightly before onset, then rapidly increases for tens of minutes after onset, and finally decreases gradually. Moreover, the auroras in different magnetic local time (MLT) sectors exhibit different evolutions in coverage. …”
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Optimization of Fused Deposition Modeling Parameters for Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid Parts Based on Kriging and Cuckoo Search by Yuan Yang, Yiyang Wang, Bowen Xue, Changxu Wang, Bo Yang

“…As an emerging rapid manufacturing technology, 3D printing has been widely applied in numerous fields such as aerospace, shipbuilding, and wind power, by virtue of its advantage in efficiently fabricating components with complex structures and integrated functions. …”
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