Laboratory-based x-ray phase contrast microscopy system for targeting in unstained soft-tissue samples by Michela Esposito, Nicole Schieber, Alessandro Olivo, Yannick Schwab, Marco Endrizzi

“…Its potential for soft-tissue microscopy is demonstrated on two biological specimens and benchmarked against gold-standard synchrotron data. …”
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Modeling and Application of Pedestrian Safety Conflict Index at Signalized Intersections by Wei Cheng, Ning Zhang, Wei Li, Jianfeng Xi

“…Traffic conflict between turning vehicles and pedestrians is the leading cause of pedestrian fatalities at signalized intersections. …”
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Composition of plastic waste discarded by households and its management approaches by B. Gwada, G. Ogendi, S.M. Makindi, S. Trott

“…Among the emerging environmental issues within Sub-Saharan Africa is the haphazard disposal of plastic waste, some of which end up downstream in the marine environment leading to negative effects. Notably there have been cases of humpback whales getting entangled in ‘ghost’ fishing nets, and endangered turtles ingesting plastic wastes in Watamu beach in Kenya. …”
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TESLA GPUs versus MPI with OpenMP for the Forward Modeling of Gravity and Gravity Gradient of Large Prisms Ensemble by Carlos Couder-Castañeda, Carlos Ortiz-Alemán, Mauricio Gabriel Orozco-del-Castillo, Mauricio Nava-Flores

“…The design and implementation created are the main contributions of this work, because the parallelization scheme implemented is not trivial. …”
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Noise Reduction for Modal Parameter Identification of the Measured FRFs Using the Modal Peak-Based Hankel-SVD Method by Tianxu Zhu, Chaoping Zang, Gengbei Zhang

“…Firstly, the measured FRF signal is transferred to the impulse response function (IRF), and the Hankel-SVD method that works better in the time domain rather than in the frequency domain is further applied for the decomposition of component signals. …”
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The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Particularly proliferous in the areas of metaphilosophy and the history of philosophy, PWL has also been applied to a wide variety of knowledge domains beyond the academic world. …”
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Chemically Activated Carbons from Olive Stones — Peculiarities of Pore Structure and Interpretation of Nitrogen Adsorption Data by M.A. Hourieh, M.N. Alaya, F. El-Sejariah, A.M. Youssef

“…The t-method and the α S -method are complementary to each other and would seem to give confident values because they are based on standard reference non-porous materials. …”
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Thank god I was taken into care by Jenny Molloy

“…The day I finally walked into a police station in East London, and surrendered my will and my life to the hands of Social Services was the end of one life and the beginning of another.…”

Peripheral Blood NMLR Can Predict 5-Year All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Li Y, Ge S, Liu J, Li R, Zhang R, Wang J, Pan J, Zhang Q, Zhang J, Zhang M

“…Multivariable COX hazard regression and restricted cubic spline model were used to assess the relationship between the NMLR and 5-year all-cause mortality of patients with COPD.Results: The NMLR values of non-surviving patients with COPD were significantly increased compared to the survivors [3.88 (2.53– 7.17) vs 2.95 (2.08– 4.89), P=0.000]. …”
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Limb Pain as Unusual Presentation of a Parietal Intraparenchymal Bleeding Associated with Crack Cocaine Use: A Case Report by Alan Lucerna, James Espinosa, Taimur Zaman, Risha Hertz, Douglas Stranges

“…Acute central pain is mainly associated with parietal, thalamic, and brainstem lesions. It has been proposed that acute limb pain from a parietal lobe stroke is due to the disconnection of the parietal cortex from the thalamus secondary to the interruption of the pathways between the hemisphere and thalamus/basal ganglia.…”
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Hubungan Status Gizi Bayi dengan Pemberian ASI Ekslusif, Tingkat Pendidikan Ibu dan Status Ekonomi Keluarga di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Padang Pasir by Aisyah Nilakesuma, Yusri Dianne Jurnalis, Selfi Renita Rusjdi

“…Bayi yang mendapat ASI ekslusif 80% berstatus gizi normal. Menurut tingkat pendidikan ibu, didapatkan 82,9% bayi berstatus gizi normal memiliki ibu berpendidikan tinggi. …”
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A SuperLearner-based pipeline for the development of DNA methylation-derived predictors of phenotypic traits. by Dennis Khodasevich, Nina Holland, Lars van der Laan, Andres Cardenas

“…We used correlation coefficients and median absolute error to assess fit between predicted and observed measures, as well as agreement between duplicates. …”
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High School English Language Learners’ Experiences and Perceptions of Independent Online Content-Based Instruction by Kent Lee, Marilyn Abbott

“…An applied thematic analysis of their responses revealed several benefits and a few challenges that provide insights for the development and improvement of independent online content-based learning for high school ELLs. …”
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Environmental impact assessment of alternative technologies for production of biofuels from spent coffee grounds by Wilberforce Kisiga, Manimagalay Chetty, Sudesh Rathilal

“…Abstract In the strategy to combat climate change that has been caused by the world's overdependence on fossil fuels, current research is focusing on the decarbonisation of the energy sector through the production of renewable cleaner energy, such as biofuels. …”
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Assessment of Spoilage Microbiota of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) during Storage by 16S rDNA Sequencing by Guangqing Du, Yuanming Gai, Hui Zhou, Shaoping Fu, Dawei Zhang

“…The spoilage abilities of bacteria belonging to the Pseudomonas and Shewanells genera were analyzed. …”
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Study on Variation of Surface Runoff and Soil Moisture Content in the Subgrade of Permeable Pavement Structure by Lijun Hou, Yuan Wang, Fengchun Shen, Ming Lei, Xiang Wang, Xiaochong Zhao, Shuling Gao, Abdullah Alhaj

“…The effect of rainfall intensity on the surface runoff, the relation between the subgrade soil moisture content changes, and the influence of initial soil water content on rain infiltration rate are studied. …”
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Recalculating national occurrence of microplastics in China’s freshwater by Dongyu Xu, Bo Gao

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MODERNA I POSTMODERNA TUMAČENJA JAVNE SFERE by Milena Pešić

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Mechanically doped aluminum materials with peculiar physical and mechanical characteristics by F. G. Lovshenko, G. F. Lovshenko

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Mesenchymal stromal cells promote the formation of lung cancer organoids via Kindlin-2 by Zhilin Sui, Xianxian Wu, Jiaxin Wang, ShihJye Tan, Chao Zhao, Zhentao Yu, Chuanyue Wu, Xiaoxiao Wang, Ling Guo

“…RNA sequencing was used to analyze the differences in gene expression profiles between LCOs co-cultured with fibroblast and paracancerous organoids (POs). …”
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