Comprehensive Material Characterization and Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Traditional Masonry Residential Building with Reinforced Concrete Slabs by Basak Boduroglu Yazici, Oguz Uzdil

“…Reinforced concrete began replacing traditional masonry construction in the early 20th century, yet hybrid buildings combining unreinforced masonry (URM) walls with concrete slabs remain prevalent in Istanbul. …”
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ILLIBERAL PEACEBUILDING AND REGIONAL POLITICAL DYNAMICS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA by A. A. TUMOV

“…Thus, peacebuilding practices implemented by the centre sought to stabilise the situation in the region; it resulted in a successful tightening of vertical elite control but at the cost of reducing the inclusiveness of the political system within Kabardino-Balkaria.…”
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Ex vivo microscopic testicular sperm extraction at the time of radical orchiectomy in men with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA): a scoping review by Carlo Giulioni, Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc, Selahittin Cayan

“…In cases where the tumor completely replaces the cancer-bearing testicle, a contralateral micro-TESE may be a viable alternative. …”
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Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Pest Status Monitoring System for Farmland by Xinyu Yuan, Zeshen He, Caojun Huang

“…For overlapping pest detection, EfficientNetv2-S replaces the YOLOv5s backbone and is combined with an Adaptive Feature Pyramid Network (AFPN), achieving 95.72% detection accuracy, 94.04% mAP, and 127 FPS. …”
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An Assessment of GCM Performance at a Regional Scale Using a Score-Based Method by Fangxin Shi, Zhihui Wang, Liang Qi, Rongxu Chen

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Agronomy vs agroecology: should we abandon the pursuit of improving agronomic practices in favour of promoting agroecology? by Theodore M. DeJong

“…The agronomy approach promotes incremental improvements of existing systems, whereas agroecological approaches promote abandoning traditional agronomic systems and replacing them with complex managed, biodiverse, plant communities. …”
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Biodegradable Microplastics: Environmental Fate and Persistence in Comparison to Micro- and Nanoplastics from Traditional, Non-Degradable Polymers by Paolo Costa, Maximilian Lackner

“…Despite promising results under controlled conditions, challenges in standardizing biodegradation assessments and discrepancies between laboratory and real-world scenarios complicate evaluations of the temporal fate and the effects of BMPs. …”
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The concept of psychosocial in contemporary formation by Enas Ghazi Eidan, Sahib Jasim Hasan Al-Bayati

“…The fourth chapter is determined by the results of the research, including: 1- Social chaos and chaos are considered one of the manifestations of social psychology and one of its manifestations that can be clearly traced through the products of contemporary formation, as social disorder and chaos replace monotony, order, and arrangement, and are subject to the will instead of being controlled. …”
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Disrupted host-microbiota crosstalk promotes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease progression by impaired mitophagy by Wenjing Yin, Wenxing Gao, Yuwei Yang, Weili Lin, Wanning Chen, Xinyue Zhu, Ruixin Zhu, Lixin Zhu, Na Jiao

“…Escherichia coli and Actinomyces naeslundii dominated the interaction network in control but were replaced by Sphingomonadales and Sphingomonadaceae in disease stages from NAFL, preceding the transcriptomic tipping point observed in Borderline. …”
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Highly durable and energy‐efficient probabilistic bits based on h‐BN/SnS2 interface for integer factorization by Joon‐Kyu Han, Jun‐Young Park, Shania Rehman, Muhammad Farooq Khan, Moon‐Seok Kim, Sungho Kim

“…To mitigate the static power consumption, we integrated an active switch in series with a p‐bit device, replacing conventional resistors. Furthermore, employing the pulse width as the control variable for probabilistic switching significantly enhances noise immunity. …”
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Energy Absorption of Auxetic Metallic Yield Damper Made of Shape Memory Alloys by Milad Masodi, Ahmad Ganjali, Hamidreza Irani, Aboozar Mirzakhani

“…In the present study, we present a novel shape memory alloy metallic yielding dampers for energy dissipation and damage control in the steel structural members, composed of an auxetic main member and a negative Poisson member that absorbs energy by plastic deformation mechanism. …”
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Use of extruded lupin in feeding young quails by Kasanova Nadiya, Gainullina Munira, Prosvirnikov Dmitry, Tuntsev Denis, Golovkova Ekaterina

“…The first group was fed extruded soybean seeds (control) as a part of mixed fodder, in the diets of the second group soybean was replaced by extruded white lupine seeds equivalent in protein. …”
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Time History Analysis of Frame Structure Systems by State-space Representation Method by Barham H. Ali, Brwa Ahmad Saeed, Twana A. Hussein

“…In this paper, a SSR was formulated to replace differential equation with two coupled first-order linear differential equations. …”
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Tailored Crystallization Dynamics for Efficient and Stable DMSO‐Free Tin Perovskite Solar Cells by Shengnan Zuo, Alexander Tarasov, Lennart Frohloff, Karunanantharajah Prashanthan, Florian Ruske, Mailis Lounasvuori, Chiara Frasca, André Dallmann, Fengshuo Zu, Florian Mathies, Florian Scheler, Noor Titan Putri Hartono, Guixiang Li, Jinzhao Li, Maxim Simmonds, Wenhui Li, Norbert Koch, Steve Albrecht, Meng Li, Eva Unger, Mahmoud Hussein Aldanmasy, Artem Musiienko, Antonio Abate

“…By combining tBP and PDAI, a controllable crystallization rate is achieved as evidenced by in situ photoluminescence (PL) measurement during spin‐coating. …”
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Vision-based sampling implementation in the Chang’e-6 lunar farside sample return mission by Congjia Chen, Xiaoyu Jia, Gao Zhang, Yanhong Zheng, Xiangjin Deng, Yufu Qu

“…A 6D pose estimation pipeline based on point cloud registration provides a robust method for sampler pose measurement, replacing the previous manual fine-tuning process and achieving better accuracy. …”
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Optimization of Preparation Conditions of Extruded Yam Starch-Gallic Acid Complex and Effects of Its Amount on Quality of Cakes by Miaomiao SHI, Zhen ZHANG, Xuena DONG, Ziyang LIU, Yizhe YAN

“…EYS-GA, with a high content of resistant starch, was used to replace varying amounts of wheat flour in cake production. …”
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The Influence of Sedimentation on the Composition of the Lipoaspirate and the Effects on Further Mechanical Processing by Andreas Eigenberger, Oliver Felthaus, Alexander Bartsch, Tom Schimanski, Kirsten Utpatel, Lukas Prantl

“…Additionally, we investigated whether sedimentation followed by vacuum filtration of the aqueous phase could accelerate processing by replacing the initial centrifugation step. Samples with more than 5% remaining aqueous phase show no clearly defined oil phase, preventing any volume reduction. …”
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Risk factors for urinary tract infection and asymptomatic bacteriuria after stroke by Vladimir S Jankovic, Svetlana D Miletic Drakulic, Slobodan M Jankovic, Snezana R Lazarevic, Sandra M Radevic, Ivana P Jovovic

“…Methodology: This retrospective case-control study was conducted in the neurological intensive care unit, in a tertiary healthcare facility, from July 2018 to July 2022. …”
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Antimicrobial effect of Sphilantes acmella on Streptococcus mutans, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans in oral cavity by Tambur Zoran, Avramov Stevan, Aleksić Ema, Joksić Anica, Dimitrijević Uroš, Biočanin Vladimir

“…An alternative substance that can partially or completely replace existing antibacterial agents could be products derived from plants. …”
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The Influence of Laying Hen Rearing Systems and Maintenance Technologies on Egg Quality Parameters: A Review by Andreea-Ionela Zinca, Veronica-Denisa Lungu, Andra Elena Moise, Dumitru Drăgotoiu

“…These technologies include automated systems for feeding and watering, temperature and humidity control in rearing houses, artificial lighting, and the use of food supplements to ensure adequate nutrient intake.…”
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