Comparative environmental impacts analysis of technologies for recovering critical metals from copper anode slime: Insights from LCA by Yu Li, Jenny Baker, Yaxi Fang, Haizhou Cao, Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Trystan Watson, Sha Chen, Guangling Zhao

“…The functional unit is 1 kg of copper anode slime. 5 metals are recycled during the process named: cupper (Cu), tellurium (Te), selenium (Se), gold (Au), and silver (Ag). …”
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Development and Evaluation of the Immunogenic Potential of an Unmodified Nucleoside mRNA Vaccine for Herpes Zoster by Shun Zhang, Xiaojie Wang, Tongyi Zhao, Chen Yang, Lulu Huang

“…The optimized mRNA sequences were assessed for protein expression levels in vitro and were subsequently used to develop a vaccine, named Vac07, encapsulated in a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery system. …”
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Traditional games as a tool for improving psychosocial development: a comparative study of structured and progressive learning models by Rekha Ratri Julianti, Adang Suherman, Amung Ma'mun, Dian Budiana, Eka Fitri Novita Sari

“…The instrument in this research was a questionnaire developed by students at the Wesleyan University Graduate School, namely the Class 7 Students' Psychosocial Adjustment Needs Questionnaire, with data analysis techniques using the t-test. …”
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Keratoconus Diagnosis: Validation of a Novel Parameter Set Derived from IOP-Matched Scenario by Dan Lin, Lei Tian, Shu Zhang, Like Wang, Ying Jie, Yongjin Zhou

“…NPS was comprised of three biomechanical parameters, namely, DA Ratio Max 1 mm (DRM1), the first applanation time (AT1), and an energy loading parameter (Eload). …”
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System-Level Digital Twin Modeling for Underwater Wireless IoT Networks by Lei Wang, Lei Yan, Xinbin Li, Song Han

“…These strategies are integrated into a smart contract, namely, the UCB-based Smart Contract with a Security Prediction model and Minimum-Cost Flow (UCB-SCPF) policy. …”
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Evaluation of coloring therapy as an anxiety reduction strategy in the older adults in the community area by Putri Noor Rochmah Ida Ayu Trisno, Cahyaningrum Etika Dewi, Wurdaningsih Tri Kusuma, Syangadah Zulfiati, Mesayu Salma Fadzila

“…The sample consisted of 35 participants aged 60 years and older who met the inclusion criteria, namely the ability to use their upper extremities for activities and no physical or mental disorders that would prevent participation in art therapy. …”
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Uniaxial compressive damage evolution and constitutive modeling of fissure-like rocks under different loading rates based on acoustic emission by Qinyong Wang, Wei Chen, Wenqing Peng, Yuanzeng Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhili Peng

“…Prefabricated fissures reduce these thresholds, thus accelerating the damage process. (3) There is a strong correlation between AE characteristics and stress—strain curves. AE parameters, namely the number of rings, energy, and cumulative energy, go through three stages: calm development, active development, and surge development. …”
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The potential of Sonneratia caseolaris mangrove leaves extract as a bioactive food ingredient using various water extract [version 4; peer review: 2 approved] by Maharani Pertiwi Koentjoro, Bambang Semedi, Ike Listya Anggraeni, Hartati Kartikaningsih, Nur Fitriana

“…LC-HRMS results identified three compounds in all S. caseolaris leaf extracts with antioxidant activity, namely TEMPO, Choline, and Betaine. TEMPO demonstrated a higher antioxidant activity than Choline and Betaine, as indicated by the binding affinity values in the bioinformatics analysis. …”
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Increased DNA Copy Number Variation Mosaicism in Elderly Human Brain by Darine Villela, Claudia K. Suemoto, Renata Leite, Carlos Augusto Pasqualucci, Lea T. Grinberg, Peter Pearson, Carla Rosenberg

“…In two neural tissues isolated from paired postmortem samples (same individuals), we found a significant increase in the frequency of deletions in both brain areas, namely, the frontal cortex and cerebellum. Also, deletions were found to be significantly larger when present only in the cerebellum. …”
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Quantitative Assessment of Deep Gray Matter Susceptibility and Correlation With Cognition in Patients With Liver Cirrhosis by Wenjun Wu, Yu Su, Ziji Qin, Jiamin Kang, Dongqiao Xiang, Dingxi Liu, Chuansheng Zheng, E. Mark Haacke, Lixia Wang

“…The susceptibility value of the left RN was a predictor variable for the DST, MoCA, and visuospatial–executive scores; those of the right CN and left RN were predictor variables for the naming score, and that of the left SN was an independent predictor variable for the language score. …”
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Sustained release of miR-21 carried by mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes from GelMA microspheres inhibits ovarian granulosa cell apoptosis in premature ovarian insufficiency by Xiaofei Zhang, Linzi Ma, Xiaotong Liu, Xingyu Zhou, Ao Wang, Yunhui Lai, Jun Zhang, Ying Li, Shiling Chen

“…Moreover, we successfully developed GelMA hydrogel microspheres for encapsulating Agomir21-Exo through microfluidic technology, named GelMA-Ag21Exo, which had good injectability and significantly enhanced the stability and long-term retention of Agomir21-Exo in mice through sustained release. …”
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Bayesian deep learning applied to diabetic retinopathy with uncertainty quantification by Masoud Muhammed Hassan, Halbast Rashid Ismail

“…The performance of the proposed models was evaluated on two benchmark datasets, namely APTOS 2019 and Messidor-2. Experimental findings demonstrated that the proposed models surpassed other state-of-the-art models, achieving a test accuracy of 94.70 % and 77.00 % for CNN, 94.00 % and 86.00 % for BCNN-VI, and 93.30 % and 81.00 % for BCNN-MC-dropout on the APTOS dataset and Messidor-2 dataset, respectively. …”
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Analyzing Transit Systems Using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) by Generating Spatiotemporal Transit Networks by Diyi Liu, Jing Guo, Yangsong Gu, Meredith King, Lee D. Han, Candace Brakewood

“…In this study, a new tool named <i>GTFS2STN</i> for converting GTFS data into the spatiotemporal networks is introduced. …”
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Effects of soil management strategies based on different principles on soil microbial communities and the outcomes for plant health by Xing Zhou, Qian Zhang, Yuanyuan Yan, Jisong Qu, Jun Zhou, Jun Zhao, Jinbo Zhang, Zucong Cai, Chuanchao Dai, Xinqi Huang

“…Here, we investigated the effects of representative chemical, physical, and biological strategies, namely, chemical fumigation (CF), heat disinfestation (HE), and reductive soil disinfestation (RSD), on soil microbial communities, pathogen invasion, and plant performance. …”
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Advancing the accuracy of tyrosinase inhibitory peptides prediction via a multiview feature fusion strategy by Watshara Shoombuatong, Nalini Schaduangrat, Nutta Homdee, Saeed Ahmed, Pramote Chumnanpuen

“…In this study, we propose an innovative computational approach, named TIPred-MVFF, to accurately predict TIPs using only sequence information. …”
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Variations in Naturalistic Driving Behavior and Visual Perception at the Entrances of Short, Medium, and Long Tunnels by Xinsha Fu, Shijian He, Jintao Du, Xiaofei Wang, Ting Ge

“…This study was undertaken to analyze the differences in driving behavior and visual perception at the entrances of three types of tunnels, namely, short, medium-length, and long tunnels, under naturalistic driving conditions. …”
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Prediction of miRNA-circRNA Associations Based on k-NN Multi-Label with Random Walk Restart on a Heterogeneous Network by Zengqiang Fang, Xiujuan Lei

“…In this study, we adopt an improved random walk computational method, named KRWRMC, to express complicated associations between miRNAs and circRNAs. …”
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Revealing joint evolutions and causal interactions in complex ecohydrological systems by a network-based framework by L. Wang, H. Gu, L. Liu, X. Liang, S. Chen, Y.-P. Xu

“…Different types of network relationships are found – namely, joint evolution with weak causality, joint evolution with high causality, and asynchronous evolution with high causality. …”
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The antibacterial activity of clove Syzygium aromaticum extract and its effects on the survival rate of hybrid grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus ♀ × E. lanceolatus ♂ infected with... by Inem Ode, Sukenda, Widanarni, Dinamella Wahjuningrum, Munti Yuhana, Mia Setiawati

“…Two dose levels of clove powder were used, namely 10 and 15 g kg−1. The control treatments without clove powder supplementation contained positive control (CP) and negative control treatment (CN). …”
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A performance-based generative design framework based on a design grammar for high-rise office towers during early design stage by Liwei Chen, Ye Zhang, Yue Zheng

“…Therefore, targeting the geometric characteristics of high-rise office towers, a systematically developed and universally applicable design grammar, named “Vertex-Based Polygonal Generative Grammar (VPGG)” is proposed. …”
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