Decision Optimization of Low-Carbon Dual-Channel Supply Chain of Auto Parts Based on Smart City Architecture by Zheng Liu, Bin Hu, Bangtong Huang, Lingling Lang, Hangxin Guo, Yuanjun Zhao

“…This paper analyzes the optimal decision-making behavior and interaction of suppliers, producers, physical retailers, online retailers, demand markets, and recyclers in the auto parts industry, constructs the economic and environmental objective functions of low-carbon supply chain management, applies variational inequality to analyze the optimal conditions of the whole low-carbon supply chain system, and finally carries out simulation calculation. The research shows that the upstream and downstream auto parts enterprises based on low-carbon competition and cooperation can effectively manage the carbon footprint of the whole supply chain through the sharing of responsibilities and resources among enterprises, so as to reduce the overall carbon emissions of the supply chain system.…”
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AN EXAMINATION OF CONJUGATIONAL SUFFIXES OF PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN FULFULDE by YAHAYA MOHAMMED AHMED

“…Additionally, the investigation exposed -ee, -ataake, -etee-nde, -ataako, and -eego/eeki as suffixes for progressive/continuous. Finally, the study identified -etee-ngu, -eema, and -etee as suffixes for vague and habitual suffixes. …”
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Pain-Related Behavior and Pain Perception Associated with Intraosseous Local Anesthesia (QuickSleeper 5^®) in Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial by Zeyad A. AlRaddadi, Latifa A. AlHowaish, Ayman M. Sulimany

“…Heart rate measurements offered objective insights into patients’ anxiety; finally, the time needed to administer anesthesia was recorded. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nomogram Model for Predicting the Risk of Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction within 1 Year by Yue Hu, Xiaotong Wang, Shengjue Xiao, Chunyan Huan, Huimin Wu, Tao Xu, Minjia Guo, Hong Zhu, Defeng Pan

“…A nomogram was established according to the results of univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Finally, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC), calibration plot, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to validate the nomogram. …”
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The complex social, cultural and psychological drivers of the ‘chemsex’ experiences of men who have sex with men: a systematic review and conceptual thematic synthesis of qualitati... by Edward Mundy, Alexander Carter, Tom Nadarzynski, Christopher Whiteley, Richard O. de Visser, Carrie D. Llewellyn

“…Only nine papers explicitly drew on theoretical frameworks, which were broadly divided into two categories: those which drew on psychological theories, and those that framed chemsex as a social and cultural phenomenon.DiscussionThe results of the thematic synthesis add further understanding of the key characteristics of chemsex as well as some of the complex social and psychological drivers which may shape why people have chemsex. Finally, the review highlights the clinical implications and inherent complexities in providing clinical services for those reporting chemsex and the need for greater application of theory to advance our understanding of chemsex and continue to develop appropriate forms of therapeutic support.Systematic review registrationhttps://osf.io/j6k9r/.…”
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Capturing spatiotemporal variation in salt marsh belowground biomass, a key resilience metric, through geoinformatics by Kyle D. Runion, Deepak R. Mishra, Merryl Alber, Mark A. Lever, Jessica L. O'Connell

“…This reflects both an improvement in predictive performance and an expansion in conditions for potential model application. Finally, we used regression commonality analysis to show that model estimates reflected the spatiotemporal structure of BGB variation observed in field measurements. …”
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A Method for Quantifying Automobile Brake Creep Groan Intensity Based on Friction-Induced Vibration and Noise by Lijun Zhang, Jianfeng Wu, Dejian Meng

“…Analytically, four vibration indexes and four noise indexes are established to evaluate the intensity of creep groan, the validity of which is verified by linear regression analysis. Finally, by combining all effective indexes, multiple linear regression analysis is performed, based on which the mapping relationship between the subjective evaluation of creep groan and effective indexes is obtained. …”
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An experimental analysis of air flow-induced piezoelectric energy harvesting using flexible poly (vinylidene fluoride) nanocomposite films by D. M. Nivedhitha, S. Jeyanthi, B. Rithish, B. G. Sai Charan, S. Ravi, G. Vinayagamurthy, Senthil Muthu Kumar Thiagamani

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Dynamic Task Planning for Multi-Arm Harvesting Robots Under Multiple Constraints Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Feng Xie, Zhengwei Guo, Tao Li, Qingchun Feng, Chunjiang Zhao

“…Second, we introduce a self-attention mechanism and a centralized training and execution strategy in the design and training of our deep reinforcement learning (DRL) model, thereby enhancing the model’s adaptability in dynamic and uncertain environments and improving decision accuracy. Finally, we conduct extensive numerical simulations in static environments; when the harvesting targets are set to 25 and 50, the execution time is reduced by 10.7% and 3.1%, respectively, compared to traditional methods. …”
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Improving Child Oral Health: A Qualitative Study of Dental Service Provision and Enhancement Strategies by Hossein Jabbari Beyrami, Salar Mohammaddokht, Mahsa Zohdi, Milad Baseri

“…Seven sub-themes were found under stewardship and leadership, eight sub-themes emerged under service delivery, seven sub-themes were identified under human resources, one sub-theme was found under facilities and equipment, emphasizing their adequacy and appropriateness, five sub-themes emerged under information recording, highlighting its weaknesses, and finally, five sub-themes were identified under economic issues. …”
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Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression in RAW264.7 Macrophage Cells to Study Phagocytosis by Parsa Kamali, Gregory Fairn

“…This makes phagocytosis experiments easier since more cells can be analyzed per experiment, allowing for population-based measurements where a ~10% transient transfection rate is insufficient. Finally, using the doxycycline-promoter allows for low near endogenous expression of proteins or robust overexpression.…”
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The Impact of Length-Scale Variation When Diagnosing the Standard Deviations of Background Error in a 4D-Var System and Filtering Method Investigation by Xiang Xing, Bainian Liu, Weimin Zhang, Xiaoqun Cao, Hongze Leng

“…In addition, the optimal filtered results from the spatial averaging approach are dependent on model parameters and vertical levels, which is consistent with the variation in the standard deviation field. Finally, the spatial averaging approach is tested on the operational system at the global scale based on the YH4DVAR and the global NWP system, and the results indicate that the spatial averaging approach has positive effects on both analysis and forecast quality.…”
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Cocompetitive Characteristics and Quantitative Design of Engineering Parameters for Coal Gas Predrainage Boreholes by Tong-qiang Xia, Jiao-fei He, Zi-long Li, Xiao-yan Sun, Dun-shuai Sun, Jian-hang Lu, Hao-jie Cui

“…The results show that borehole spacing, seam fracture permeability, and gas adsorption constant have significant effects on the synergistic and competitive effects of gas extraction, while the negative pressure of gas extraction and coal matrix permeability have little effects, but the negative pressure of gas extraction has great effects on gas extraction concentration. Finally, Comsol With Matlab is used to solve the multiconstraint nonlinear optimization problem of gas drainage engineering parameters along coal seam in 18401 working face of Tunlan Coal Mine. …”
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Fall detection method based on spatio-temporal coordinate attention for high-resolution networks by Xiaorui Zhang, Qijian Xie, Wei Sun, Ting Wang

“…Then the long-range relationships and channel correlations among features are captured by cascading and slicing operations. Finally, the key information is effectively highlighted by performing dot-multiplication operations between the feature maps from the horizontal, vertical and temporal directions and the input feature maps. …”
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Numerical Simulation during Short-Shot Water-Assisted Injection Molding Based on the Overflow Cavity for Short-Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polypropylene by Zhong Yu, He-Sheng Liu, Tang-Qing Kuang, Xing-Yuan Huang, Wei Zhang, Zhong-Shi Chen, Kai Zhang

“…It is found that the melt short shot size had the greatest influence on it, followed by water injection pressure, water injection delay time, and finally, melt temperature. With the increase of the melt short shot size, the thickness of the residual wall of the whole main cavity becomes thinner, the orientation of short fiber along the melt flow direction becomes higher, and the degree of fiber orientation changes becomes lower. …”
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The Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Pearson’s Chi-Square and Categorical Dependent Variable Models Analyzed for Domains---Effective Clinical Care and Efficiency/Cost Reductio... by Amrita Shenoy

“…This changed minutely with significantly less process measures (93.75% vs 93.81% \[*P*=.000]) in 2019 versus 2018. Finally, measure types changed minutely but significantly with less process measures (93.81% vs 93.75% \[*P*=.000]) in 2020 versus 2019. …”
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Preface by Susanne Ditlevsen, Petr Lansky

“…We would like to thank the authors for their valuable contributionsand the referees for their priceless effort of reviewing themanuscripts. Finally, we would like to thank Yang Kuangfor supporting us and making this publication possible.…”
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Biomonitoring potential of trace metal accumulation and bioavailability in coral skeletons and reef sediments of Persian Gulf: A comparative study by Seyed Hassan Mousavi, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Seyed Mahmoud Ghasempouri

“…Then freeze-dried sediments and coral powder were ground, sieved (63 μm), digested (using United States Environmental Protection Agency - Method 3050b) and filtered (Whatman No. 42). Finally, trace metals were analyzed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry instrument. …”
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Adaptive Extraction of Oil Painting Texture Features Based on Reaction Diffusion Equation by Qicai Huang

“…The interaction of the two reaction-diffusion equations finally achieves denoising while maintaining the boundaries and textures. …”
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Application of the Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machines in Forest Fire Prediction in the Guangxi Autonomous Region, China by Yudong Li, Zhongke Feng, Shilin Chen, Ziyu Zhao, Fengge Wang

“…They used feature selection and backpropagation neural networks and radial basis SVM to build forest fire prediction models. Finally, the researchers use the accuracy, precision, and area under the characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) and other indicators to evaluate the predictive performance of the two models. …”
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