Human Cardiac Fibroblast Number and Activation State Modulate Electromechanical Function of hiPSC-Cardiomyocytes in Engineered Myocardium by Cassady E. Rupert, Tae Yun Kim, Bum-Rak Choi, Kareen L. K. Coulombe

“…The current study evaluates the functional effects of coculturing adult human cardiac fibroblasts (hCFs) in 3D engineered tissues on excitation and contraction with the goal of recapitulating healthy, nonarrhythmogenic myocardium in vitro. …”
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Influence of Degree of Compaction on Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of a Compacted Completely Decomposed Granite by Rui Chen, Runqiang Tan, Zhongkui Chen, Yang Ping, Zhen Mei

“…It is suggested that these models could be improved to capture UPFs at higher suctions than AEV by considering suction-induced volume contraction.…”
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Preferential Water Infiltration Path in a Slow-Moving Clayey Earthslide Evidenced by Cross-Correlation of Hydrometeorological Time Series (Charlaix Landslide, French Western Alps) by Grégory Bièvre, Agnès Joseph, Catherine Bertrand

“…On the contrary, the water table located above the shear surface has a very contrasting behaviour between summer (mainly drainage) and winter (behaviour similar to the phreatic water table with storage of water during a few weeks). …”
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Information on dental prostheses use and bone resorption in older adults by Emily Sarahy Santana Moya, Danna Sharick Tello Nazareno, Jaime Fernando Armijos Moreta, Silvia Marisol Gavilánez Villamarín

“…More than half have dental prostheses. 50 % prefer to use fixed prostheses as the best option in the absence of a dental piece and 75 % recognize the importance of tooth brushing to avoid contracting any disease. The seventh part considered that for oral hygiene it was only necessary to use toothpaste and a brush. …”
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Integration of predictive and computational intelligent techniques: A hybrid optimization mechanism for PMSM dynamics reinforcement by Shaswat Chirantan, Bibhuti Bhusan Pati

“…Our SNN-MPC model is contrasted with state-of-the-art genetic algorithm (GA) and ant colony optimization (ACO) methods through a comprehensive simulation analysis. …”
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Effect of Lower Limb Muscle Fatigue on Fall Risk for Transfemoral Amputee: A Pilot Study by Mohd Khairuddin Mohd Safee, Noor Azuan Abu Osman

“…Muscle fatigue is a decline in muscle maximum force during contraction and can influence the fall risk among people. …”
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On selection of foxes for enhanced aggressiveness and its correlated implications by L. N. Trut, A. V. Kharlamova, A. V. Vladimirova, Yu. E. Herbeck

“…The parallelism of correlated changes in the selection in contrasting directions is illustrated by the examples of some physiological and morphological traits. …”
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Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review. by Kristina Bakke Aakerblom, Ottar Ness

“…Studies describing PSW´s involvement in co-production and co-creation will be contrasted and compared. Knowledge about PSW´s involvement in co-production and co-creation is vital for understanding and further developing these interactive processes with PSW´s. …”
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Co-expression of glutamatergic and autism-related genes in the hippocampus of male mice with disturbances of social behavior by I. L. Kovalenko, A. G. Galyamina, D. A. Smagin, N. N. Kudryavtseva

“…To form groups of animals with contrasting behaviors, a model of sensory contact (chronic social stress) was used. …”
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IEEE 802.15.7-Compliant Full Duplex Visible Light Communication: Interference Analysis and Experimentation by Stefano Caputo, Stefano Ricci, Lorenzo Mucchi

“…This article presents a thorough investigation into the contrasting dynamics of full-duplex and half-duplex communication within the framework of visible light communication (VLC) networks compliant with the IEEE 802.15.7 standard. …”
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Comprehensive Environmental Monitoring System for Industrial and Mining Enterprises Using Multimodal Deep Learning and CLIP Model by Shuqin Wang, Na Cheng, Yan Hu

“…Addressing the challenges of limited accuracy in anomaly detection within comprehensive environmental monitoring of industrial and mining enterprises, and the constraints posed by singular data modalities, this study proposes an integration of a multimodal Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model. …”
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Ventricular Depolarization Abnormalities and Their Role in Cardiac Risk Stratification — A Narrative Review by Maarten Blondeel, Tomas Robyns, Rik Willems, Bert Vandenberk

“…Ventricular depolarization refers to the electrical activation and subsequent contraction of the ventricles, visible as the QRS complex on a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). …”
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Wem gehört die Interkulturalität? Über das Verhältnis von linguistischen Teildisziplinen und Kulturforschung by Csaba Földes

“…Furthermore, the disciplinary positioning and the disposition of the content differ as well: CL and LC exhibit a distinctly cognitive orientation, while IL is based on a contrastive-linguistic and cultural science foundation. …”
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Adaptive potential of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) varieties of Azerbaijan by Kh. N. Rustamov, Z. I. Akparov, M. A. Abbasov

“…The experiments were carried out in the foothills of Mountainous Shirvan under unsecured non-irrigation at Gobustan Experiment Station of the Research Institute of Crop Husbandry. In 2012–2014, contrasting in weather conditions, levels and structure of yield were analyzed. …”
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China’s Perceptions of Russia during the Ukraine Conflict by Srikanth Kondapalli

“…It argues that in conjunction with China's economic contraction resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian military operation has prompted China to seriously contemplate how to safeguard its national interests, particularly with regard to Taiwan and its strategic objectives of attaining a prominent global position. …”
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Development of Hybrid Intrusion Detection System Leveraging Ensemble Stacked Feature Selectors and Learning Classifiers to Mitigate the DoS Attacks by P. Mamatha, S. Balaji, S. Sai Anuraghav

“…All the trials in this framework were accompanied utilizing CICDDoS-2019 datasets and contrasted with the other similar models. The validation boundaries such as accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, and F1-score are used to evaluate the proposed framework. …”
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Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis in Determining Factors Associated with Socioeconomic Status of Household in Tepi Town, Southwest Ethiopia by Mesfin Esayas Lelisho, Abebe Argaw Wogi, Seid Ali Tareke

“…The ordinal logistic regression models were evaluated and contrasted for proper accounting of ordinal form. In addition, to come up with a better model, we compared fitted ordinal logistic models with the likelihood-ratio test and AIC criteria. …”
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Plant root carbon inputs drive methane production in tropical peatlands by N. T. Girkin, A. Siegenthaler, O. Lopez, A. Stott, N. Ostle, V. Gauci, S. Sjögersten

“…Here, we examined the role of root inputs in regulating CH4 production inferred from soil emissions using a combination of in situ tree girdling, in situ13C natural abundance labelling via stem injections, and a 13CO2 labelling of transplanted plants of two contrasting plant functional types, a broadleaved evergreen tree, and a canopy palm. …”
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A Proposed Keyword Taxonomy for Operations Management Research by Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Julien Maheut, Pilar I. Vidal-Carreras

“…The three authors employed an iterative process to define and validate the first-level terms, contrasting them with sources such as Gass & Fu (2013), Helms (2006), and the APICS thesaurus. …”
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The art of non-verbal communication in perlocutionary giftedness by Adam Świątek

“…In 2015, Świątek suggested a contrasting approach to both concepts and combined them to investigate the role of individual differences responsible for one’s verbal perlocutionary giftedness. …”
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