Thermal Development, Mortality, and Fertility of an Apulian Strain of <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> at Different Temperatures by Nuray Baser, Luca Rossini, Gianfranco Anfora, Kürşat Mustafa Temel, Stefania Gualano, Emanuele Garone, Franco Santoro

“…The life cycle of each specimen was individually tracked from the egg to the death of the adults, considering the larval stages distinction as well. Besides development and mortality, egg production over temperature has been recorded. …”
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Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Post-COVID-19 Patient from Peru by Linda Ponce-Rosas, Jose Gonzales-Zamora, Nelson Diaz-Reyes, Oliver Alarco-Cadillo, Jorge Alave-Rosas

“…Mucormycosis has been reported increasingly in patients affected by COVID-19, especially in India where the first cases were described. …”
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Factors to Improve the Management of Hepatitis C in Drug Users: An Observational Study in an Addiction Centre by Joseph Moussalli, Helene Delaquaize, Dominique Boubilley, Jean Pierre Lhomme, Jules Merleau Ponty, David Sabot, Anne Kerever, Marc Valleur, Thierry Poynard

“…A total of 586 patients were seen between 2002 and 2004. The majority, 417 patients, were HCV positive and of these patients 337 were tested positive for HCV RNA. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It draws on purposefully selected, recorded audio poetic compositions of Adeṕ ọ̀jù produced between 1974 and 2012 in order to yield a comprehensive view of his poetics. …”
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Spreading the load: mobile information and communications technologies and their effect on information overload by D.K. Allan, M. Shoard

“…The case site was West Yorkshire Police Force in the UK where BlackBerry handhelds were being used by senior officers. …”
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The Evaluation of Impact of Cable Power Lines on the Environment by M. A. Korotkevich, S. N. Azarov

“…To evaluate the environmental impact of electrical cable materials, an approach has been developed that takes into account not only the toxicity of the materials but also their volumetric content in the cable. …”
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Humour effects in South African advertising by Shahida Cassim, Ennis Ennis Barr Pepper iii

“…The humour taxonomy is used to categorise a sample of advertisements appearing on South African television between 1994 and 1996. The content analysis is measured for its advertising effects by correlating the types with the noting and liking scores of South African audiences. …”
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Support Vector Machine – Recursive Feature Elimination for Feature Selection on Multi-omics Lung Cancer Data by Nuraina Syaza Azman, Azurah A Samah, Ji Tong Lin, Hairudin Abdul Majid, Zuraini Ali Shah, Nies Hui Wen, Chan Weng Howe

“…The SDAE and VAE models built with these feature subsets achieve the best classification results. …”
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The impact of nano-infused phase change materials and blossom-shaped fins on thermal energy storage by Hassan Waqas, Mohib Hussain, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal, N. Ameer Ahammad, Ibrahim E. Elseesy

“…The study evaluates the efficacy of the tube heat exchanger by examining multiple physical characteristics, including the number of fins, height, and the interaction between fin pin and height, using ANSYS Fluent and the finite volume approach. …”
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Exercise Therapy for Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Superior Efficacy of Activity Monitors over Pedometers by Masaaki Miyauchi, Masao Toyoda, Noriko Kaneyama, Han Miyatake, Eitaro Tanaka, Moritsugu Kimura, Tomoya Umezono, Masafumi Fukagawa

“…A significant difference in the decrease in HbA1c level was observed between the two groups at 2 months. The results suggest that the use of activity level monitor that displays information on exercise intensity, in addition to the number of steps, is useful in exercise therapy as it enhances the concept of exercise therapy and promotes lowering of HbA1c in diabetic patients.…”
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Influence of Pore Structure on Compressive Strength of Cement Mortar by Haitao Zhao, Qi Xiao, Donghui Huang, Shiping Zhang

“…Finally, the extended Bhattacharjee model was built to examine the relationship between compressive strength and pore structure.…”
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5G MEC system security capability deployment scheme by Yunyi LIU, Jianmin ZHANG, Xiaoli FENG, Liwei ZHANG

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A robust approach for the determination of Gurson model parameters by R. Sepe, G. Lamanna, F. Caputo

“…It must be pointed out that, even if the statistical character of some of the many physical parameters involved in the said model has been put in evidence, no serious attempt has been made insofar to link the corresponding statistic to the experimental and macroscopic results, as for example crack initiation time, material toughness, residual strength of the cracked component (R-Curve), and so on. …”
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Development of a Solar-Powered Incubator for Poultry Eggs by Joseph Abutu, Mainigi Umar, James Wamayi Midala, Abdulkarim Muhammad Odeh, Garkuwa Haruna, Christian Ike, Sunday Albert Lawal

“…Also, there was consistent temperature and relative humidity readings throughout the incubation period with the temperature and relative humidity falling between 37.1-38.0°C and 50.6-56% respectively. The study also showed that the incubation process was conducted with diligence, leading to favorable outcomes (67% fertility and 75% hatchability) for embryo development and hatching success. …”
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Population aging, technological innovation and industrial differentiation by Chunhua Li, Chunhua Li, Zhangqing Chen, Wangchun Wu, Bin Gao, Lingfeng Zou

“…Is there a connection between population aging, technological innovation, and industrial differentiation? …”
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Study and Analysis of Barriers for Implementation of Industry 4.0 Technologies Using Spherical Fuzzy TOPSIS Method by Akshay Kumar, Chimata Murli Krishna

“…Drivers are proposed to minimize the effect of barriers, and a relationship between barriers and drivers has been established using data collected from a questionnaire survey for the manufacturing industry in India. …”
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Prediction of mass and radii of anisotropic polytropic compact objects with Buchdahl-I metric by S. A. Mardan, A. Zahra, Muhammad Bilal Riaz, Rubab Manzoor, Adnan Malik

“…We observe that our model fulfills all of the requirements for being a physically realistic model.…”
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L’adaptation aux risques d’inondation façonnée par les métiers de la ville by Mathilde Gralepois, Sofia Guevara

“…In addition, adaptation policy is shaped by competition between urban planning professionals. These are forced to reposition themselves either by diversifying their skills or by seeking to hyperspecialize within urban project dynamics. …”
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Characterizing Flow and Structure of Diabetic Retinal Neovascularization after Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: A Pilot Study by Christof Haensli, Katrin Fasler, Daniel Barthelmes, Sandrine A. Zweifel

“…In two fellow eyes, NV recurrence could be observed before the onset of vitreous bleeding in one. Conclusion. …”
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Application of Pedrail Powered Support on Strata Control in Short-Wall Coal Mining by Jingong Ma, Yongcheng Ding, Hongwei Zhang

“…The results suggest that the rated working resistance of PP support satisfies the requirement for use, and the roof of the branch lane behind the cutting roof line does not collapse, which ensures the safety of short-wall mining. …”
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