Evaluating Long-Term Strength and Time to Failure of Sandstone with Different Initial Damage by Rongbin Hou, Yanke Shi, Leige Xu, Jinwei Fu, Kai Zhang

“…The results show that, with the increase in the initial damage, the LTS of rock decreases and the relationship between the initial damage and the LTS of rock can be described as a linear function. Finally, an evaluation method for predicting the creep failure time of rock under a single stress level was proposed. …”
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FECI-RTDETR a Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Infrared Small Target Detector Algorithm Based on RT-DETR by Renzheng Xue, Shijie Hua, Haiqiang Xu

“…This allows the model to better understand the contextual semantics of targets and improves detection accuracy. Finally, the original GIoU loss is replaced with Inner-GIoU loss, using a scaling factor to control the auxiliary enclosing box, which accelerates convergence speed and enhances detection accuracy for small targets. …”
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Performance Improvement in Pile Anchor System for Deep Foundation Excavation Using Electroosmotic Chemical Treatment by Lei Zhang, Bing-Hui Wang, Li-Yan Wang, Li-Ping Jing, Chen Fang, Zhen-Dong Shan

“…In addition, static load tests were conducted on the tested soil to measure the anchoring force. Finally, parametric analyses were performed to investigate effects of several parameters on anchoring force in terms of the ultimate pull-out capacity of the anchor, identifying critical parameters for the field study. …”
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A Literature Review Determinat Factors of Quality of Life in Chronic Kidney Disease patients with Hemodialysis by Ni Wayan Sri Wahyuni, Ni Putu Kamaryati, Made Rismawan, Putu Inge Ruth Suantika

“…A total of 16 eligible articles were finally included in the analysis. Results: From the literature review, it was found that some of the factors studied were demographic factors such as age, gender, education, hemodialysis duration, medication adherence, depression, complications, family support, income, nutritional status, hemoglobin levels, and comorbidities.Conclusion: From the results of the above study, several factors affect the quality of life of hemodialysis patients, namely the duration of hemodialysis, drug compliance, age, gender, education, occupation, gender, family support, nutritional status, depression, hemoglobin levels and comorbidities. …”
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The Effect of Group Training Based on Compassion on Psychological Flexibility and Sleep Quality of Firefighters in Isfahan City by Afsaneh Ebrahimi, Sima Janatian

“…The experimental group participated in compassion-based group training, which consisted of eight sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. Finally, the obtained data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) method in SPSS version 20 software.Results: The statistical findings of the study indicated a significant difference between the subjects' scores in the pre-test and post-test stages (p < 0.05). …”
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Plurilinguisme, diglossie et minorités : le cas de la Suisse by Claudine Brohy

“…These documents are supplemented by documents written by students of the Language Center and the Section for plurilingualism and foreign language teaching of the bilingual University of Fribourg/Freiburg (texts posted in a blog on Swiss-German diglossia by students training to be teachers of German as a second language, language biographies, written papers) which deal with the topics of identity, attitudes, competence and belonging. Finally, the future language challenges and issues of a small country of eight million inhabitants with a considerable inter- and intralinguistic variety is sketched.…”
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Intrinsically Noncombustible Thermosets from Sulfur-Containing Epoxy Resin and Benzoxazines: Evaluation of Thermal and Mechanical Properties by Ya Lyu, Haibo Fan, Liliang Qiu

“…The TBP-fa/EPS copolymer also exhibited excellent flame retardancy in cone calorimeter measurement. Finally, the glass transition temperature of the TBP-fa/EPS copolymer at a ratio of 5 : 5 (w/w) reached as high as 289°C. …”
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Improved Binary Grey Wolf Optimization Approaches for Feature Selection Optimization by Jomana Yousef Khaseeb, Arabi Keshk, Anas Youssef

“…Moreover, the results confirmed the superiority, in most of the datasets, of one of the three approaches over the state-of-the-art approaches. Finally, the results revealed that the best approach in terms of classification accuracy, fitness value, and number of selected features had the highest computational complexity.…”
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Knowledge-driven semantic converting method of multimodal models toward a geospatial perspective by Jianbo Lai, Jun Zhu, Pei Dang, Jianlin Wu, Yukun Guo, Xinyu Yang, Na Li

“…Subsequently, a structural matching template based on knowledge reuse was established, and a knowledge-guided algorithm for multimodal model transformation was designed. Finally, using a suspension bridge as a case study, a prototype system was developed and experimental analysis was conducted. …”
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Assets performance evaluation with the use of returns distribution characteristics by Seyedeh Masoumeh Mirsadeghpour Zoghi, Masoud Sanei, Ghasem Tohidi, Shokoofeh Banihashemi, Navideh Modarresi

“…As the returns on stock are VG distributed, its parameters are simulated by the method of moments estimation, and then the process factors are simulated by the Monte Carlo technique. Finally, the scenarios of returns are obtained, and the assets performance is evaluated.Findings: The correctness of the model is investigated by evaluating the relative efficiency of 7 companies from different industries in Iran Stock market. …”
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Modelling the Transition from Shear-Driven Turbulence to Convective Turbulence in a Vertical Heated Pipe by Shijun Chu, Elena Marensi, Ashley P. Willis

“…This is particularly important when shear turbulence starts to be suppressed at intermediate buoyancy numbers. Finally, at such intermediate buoyancy numbers, we confirm that the decay of localised shear turbulence in the heated pipe flow follows a memoryless process, similar to that in isothermal flow. …”
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Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oils of Two Aromatic Plants Cultivated in Morocco (Cinnamomum cassia and Origanum compactum) by Asmae Chahbi, Saâdiya Nassik, Hamid El Amri, Ahmed Douaik, El Haj El Maadoudi, Mohamed Boukharta, El Mestafa El Hadrami

“…First, we evaluated the sensitivity of the strains of avian Salmonella to the main antibiotics used and then to the chromatographic analysis of the composition of the two essential oils (EO); finally, we proceeded to the in vitro evaluation of the antibacterial activities of these EO (alone and in combination with antibiotics). …”
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BuDDI: Bulk Deconvolution with Domain Invariance to predict cell-type-specific perturbations from bulk. by Natalie R Davidson, Fan Zhang, Casey S Greene

“…Then we validated that BuDDI could accurately predict cell-type-specific perturbation response when no single-cell perturbed profiles were used during training; instead, only bulk samples had both perturbed and non-perturbed observations. Finally, we validated BuDDI on predicting sex-specific differences, an experimental design where it is not possible to have matched samples. …”
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Simulating a travel-related origin of Candida auris in New York–New Jersey by Rita R. Verma, Edward Kiegle, Alexander C. Keyel, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi

“…We tested the hypothesis by simulating introductions to NY-NJ with a Monte Carlo simulation based on travel from South Asia, proportion of US population in NY-NJ, proportion of hospitals in NY-NJ, and finally, proportion of all travelers entering the United States through NY-NJ. …”
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Based on network pharmacology and molecular docking to study the mechanisms of active ingredients of ginseng in the treatment of atopic dermatitis by BU Jialiang, SHEN Lin, MENG Yuan, PIAO Yingshi

“…GO functional enrichment and KEGG pathway analysis were performed on the overlapping targets of active ingredients in ginseng and AD. Finally, the binding ability of active ingredients to TOP4 core targets was verified through molecular docking, and the docking results were visualised. …”
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Instability Mode and Control Technology of Surrounding Rock in Composite Roof Coal Roadway under Multiple Dynamic Pressure Disturbances by Peng Wang, Nong Zhang, Jiaguang Kan, Xingliang Xu, Guangzhen Cui

“…The support scheme was finally applied to the on-site industrial test, and the mine pressure monitoring results showed that the deformation of the roadway surrounding rock was effectively controlled under the new support scheme.…”
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Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Shear Strength of Directly and Indirectly Loaded Flanged Recycled Self-Compacted Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams by Thamer Hussein Amer Alhussein, Jamal Abdul Samad Khudhair

“…The ultimate strength calculated using ACI318-14 and AASHTO LRFD 2012 was on average 38% and 52% lower than the experimental data, respectively, which reflects the conservative nature of this approach. Finally, 3D finite element models were created to investigate the responses of the beams. …”
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Multistage identification method for real-time abnormal events of streaming data by Hao Luo, Kexin Sun, Junlu Wang, Chengfeng Liu, Linlin Ding, Baoyan Song

“…Therefore, this article proposes a strategy based on a variable sliding window to align two waveforms, locating the start point of perceptual disaster wave and template wave by gradually sliding the perceptual window, which can guarantee the accuracy of the matching. Finally, this article proposes a multistage identification mechanism based on the sliding window matching strategy and the characteristics of the waveforms of coal mine disasters, adjusting the early warning level according to the identification extent of the disaster signal, which increases the early warning level gradually with the successful result of the matching of 1/ N size of the template, and the piecewise aggregate approximation method is used to optimize the calculation process. …”
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Frequency Diverse Array for Signal Geofencing in Wireless Communications: Does it Work? by Simone Del Prete, Marina Barbiroli, Franco Fuschini

“…Frequency offset, number of elements and their spacing represent further project parameters. Finally, a preliminary assessment of the multipath effect on the focus task shows that the performance of frequency diverse arrays can be affected by complex propagation conditions and deserve further investigations.…”
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Three decades of research efforts on the uses, conservation, and management of Cola nitida (Vent.): State of knowledge and prospects in Africa by Tokannou Isabelle E.T., Sanogo Souleymane, Houndonougbo Juliano S.H., Salako Kolawolé Valère, Fandohan Adandé Belarmain

“…A total of 280 scientific publications were finally retained for this review. Several studies were focused on the socio-economic importance of the species (n = 139 ~ 50%), nutritional and chemical properties of its organs (n = 48 ~ 17%), improvement of its propagation methods (n = 30 ~ 11%), pest and pesticide control (n = 39 ~ 14%), morphological and genetic diversity (n = 21 ~ 7.5%), its botanical description and ecology (n = 2 ~ 0.7%), and climate change threats on the species (n = 1 ~ 0.3%). …”
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