Enhancements in Hollow Block Technology: Comprehensive Thermal and Mechanical Characterizations by Joseph Dgheim, Kevin Rizk, Yassine Cherif, Emmanuel Antczak, Elias Farah, Nemr El Hajj

“…Key thermal properties—including average thermal resistance (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover accent="true"><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), average thermal conductivity (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover accent="true"><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), and average specific heat (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover accent="true"><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>p</mi></mrow><mo>¯</mo></mover></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>)—were analyzed, while mechanical properties were evaluated via compressive strength tests. …”
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DCE-YOLOv8: Lightweight and Accurate Object Detection for Drone Vision by Jinsu An, Dong Hee Lee, Muhamad Dwisnanto Putro, Byeong Woo Kim

“…Compared to YOLOv8 small, it demonstrates superior performance while maintaining a comparable average inference time. …”
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Cooling of a hot elliptic curved wall by using multiple ternary nano-jets located at different elevations under the combined effects of rotating cylinder and magnetic field in lami... by Fatih Selimefendigil, Nermeen Abdullah, Kaouther Ghachem, Faiza Benabdallah, Badr M. Alshammari, Lioua Kolsi

“…While the average Nu drops by roughly 39% with the maximum AR at Ω=2000, local Nu varies greatly along the hot wall due to differences in the vertical distance of the mid-slot to the side slots. …”
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Economic burden of five common cancers in Iran: a systematic review of cost-of-illness with a focus on healthcare resource utilization by Kamran Irandoust, Vahid Alipour, Jalal Arabloo, Azin Nahvijou, Akram Akbari

“…Breast and colorectal cancer each had 4 studies, while prostate, gastric, and lung cancer each had 3 studies. …”
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Spatio-temporal characterization of precipitation in the Middle and Lower Paraguay Basin based on satellite products and weather station data by R. Villalba, R. Villalba, A. Ferral, J. Baéz, J. Kurita, V. H. Gauto, J. C. Bertoni

“…December is the month with the highest average precipitation, while August records the lowest value. …”
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A Tale of Side Friction Elements in Dhaka City: From Modeling Real Cases to Revealing Impacts Through Event-Based Simulation by Ahmed Mahir Sultan Rumi, Hasan Nahiyan Nobel, A. H. M. Osama Haque, Abu Humayed Azim Fahmid, Tarik Reza Toha, Nouf Alaloula, Najla Abdulrahman Al-Nabhan, Abdulaziz Abdulrahman S. Alnamlah, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam

“…Here, pedestrians exhibit a significantly more negative impact on traffic compared to other side friction elements, making them one of the leading causes of congestion on the streets of Dhaka. Moreover, while non-motorized traffic reduces the network&#x2019;s average speed, it plays a crucial role in maintaining a good flow rate on Dhaka&#x2019;s low-capacity roads.…”
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A multidimensional analysis of older adults wellbeing and health literacy in Alentejo: a cross-sectional study by Rute Sadio, Rute Sadio, Adriana Henriques, Adriana Henriques, Adriana Henriques, Paulo Nogueira, Paulo Nogueira, Paulo Nogueira, Andreia Costa, Andreia Costa, Andreia Costa

“…Health literacy levels were low, with, only 6.4% exhibiting excellent literacy, while 45.0% had problematic or inadequate literacy.DiscussionThe findings suggest that while preserved, significant differences exist between men and women, as well as between rural and urban residents. …”
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Decoding Land Use Conflicts: Spatiotemporal Analysis and Constraint Diagnosis from the Perspectives of Production–Living–Ecological Functions by Yong Liu, Rui Xu, Jixin Yang, Xinpeng Xie, Xufeng Cui

“…Additionally, using a constraint factor diagnosis model, the study analyzed the constraint factors of land use conflicts at the macro level across cities, leading to the following research conclusions: (1) the land use conflicts from the production and living perspectives in the 12 prefecture-level cities of Hubei showed an upward trend from 2010 to 2020, while the land use conflicts from the ecological perspective exhibited a downward trend; (2) during the study period, Wuhan exhibited the highest intensity of land use conflicts from both the production and living perspectives, while Ezhou experienced the highest intensity of land use conflicts from the ecological perspective for most of the study period; (3) the main constraining factors of land use conflicts from the production perspective in the 12 prefecture-level cities of Hubei are population density, average land GDP, and effective irrigation rate. …”
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Comparative analysis of liver cancer burden trends in China and worldwide between 1990 and 2021 by Chunrong Chen, Qianjie Xu, Tao Wang, Yuliang Yuan, Zuhai Hu, Xiaosheng Li, Xiaodong Zheng, Haike Lei

“…Joinpoint regression analysis was used to determine the average annual percentage change (AAPC) in liver cancer burden trends.ResultsIn China, the number of liver cancer cases increased from 96,434 in 1990 to 196,637 in 2021, while the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) decreased. …”
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Surgical Results in Unilateral Superior Oblique Muscle Palsy by Aylin Tenlik, Yaşar Duranoğlu, Hatice Deniz İlhan

“…Difference between the two periods was statistically significant (p<0.001). While the preoperative average vertical deviation was 22 PD in primary position, none of the patients had hyperdeviation postoperatively. …”
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Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse by Megan Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Sarah Graham, Minjoo Kim, Joshua Tucker, Solomon Messing

“…Among the accounts for which we collected posts and comments, posts seeking or offering services were the most frequent, while those reporting potentially suspicious people or activities received the highest average number of comments. …”
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Specific impacts of climate change on the hydrological patterns and land use dynamics in the Arghandab River Basin, Kandahar, Afghanistan by Bashir Ahmad Karimi, Mohammad Aslam Haziq, Athiqullah Hayat

“…The results indicate that from 1981 to 2021, the historic temperature increased by 1.41 ​°C, while average yearly precipitation and runoff decreased by 7.72%. …”
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HMSAM-UNet: A Hierarchical Multi-Scale Attention Module-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Improved CT Image Segmentation by Na Liu, Zhonghua Lu, Wenyong Lian, Min Tian, Chiyue Ma, Lijuan Peng

“…While modern deep learning methods have made significant progress in medical image segmentation, some challenges remain, including accurately capturing features at multiple scales, limited ability to detect critical regions, and susceptibility to noise and background interference. …”
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Surgery for Chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma: 10-year review by Simão Bessa, Noémi Nogueira, Débora Gonçalves, Liliana Costa, Nuno Lousan

“…Regarding tympanoplasties, 21.6% underwent a Portmann type 1 procedure, 41.2% a type 2 and 37.1% a type 3. There was an average pure tone average loss of 0.2 dB for wall-up procedures and 1,1 dB for wall-down with an average improvement of 11.8 dB for atticotomies. …”
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Effects of Sex, Age, and Body Size on Flight Performance of <i>Monochamus alternatus</i> (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a Vector of Pine Wood Nematodes, Using Flight Mills by Jong-Kook Jung, Chayoung Lee, Beomjun Jang, Youngwoo Nam

“…The results showed that females flew an average of 6.65 km, for 59.6 min, while males flew an average of 9.89 km, for 85.8 min. …”
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Representative Sample Size for Estimating Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity via Machine Learning: A Proof‐Of‐Concept Study by Amin Ahmadisharaf, Reza Nematirad, Sadra Sabouri, Yakov Pachepsky, Behzad Ghanbarian

“…For the testing data set, as the number of training sample size increased from 1,600 to 14,392 the average R2 value increased from 0.74 to 0.90, while the average RMSLE value decreased from 1.08 to 0.69. …”
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EFFECT OF PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF FORMALDEHYDE TREATED BARLEY AND WHEAT BRAN AND PROTEIN LEVEL 0N NUTRIENTS DIGESTIBILITY, SOME RUMEN PARAMETERS AND PERFORMANCE OF AWASSI LAMBS. by Sabah A. Shamoon

“…While the second and third rations ( T2 and T3 ) contained 14.5 and 16% protein respectively after been treated 75% of barley and wheat bran with formaldehyde. …”
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MDCT evaluation of dynamic changes in aortic root parameters during the cardiac cycle in patients with aortic regurgitation by Shuai Zhang, Ting Huang, Yun Lu, Xi Guo, Quanliang Shang

“…However, significant differences were observed between late diastole and early diastole (P < 0.05).At the STJ, the area, perimeter, DA, DC, long diameter, short diameter, and average diameter reached their maximum values in late systole, but there were no significant differences compared to early systole or early diastole (P > 0.05), while the difference from late diastole was significant (P < 0.05). …”
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Global mean nitrogen recovery efficiency in croplands can be enhanced by optimal nutrient, crop and soil management practices by Luncheng You, Gerard H. Ros, Yongliang Chen, Qi Shao, Madaline D. Young, Fusuo Zhang, Wim de Vries

“…The predicted increase in NUEr was below average in most high-income regions but above average in middle-income regions.…”
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Economic evaluation of a single use flexible digital ureteroscope: cost analysis by Ahmed Ali, Abdelsalam Abdelfadel, Suhail Kalantan, Amer Azzam, A. Albkri, Waleed Alhozali, Adel Moalwi, Abdulaziz Bakhsh, Sarah Ali, Ali Hassan

“…Results Out of the total cases included in the study, 180 utilized su-fURSs, and 59 utilized re-fURSs with one repair exchange done during the observed study period. The average cost of using a re-fURS was approximately SAR 3668 (USD 975) per case, while the cost of using a su-fURS was approximately SAR 1650 (USD 438) per case. …”
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