Electro-Elastic Instability and Turbulence in Electro-osmotic Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids: Current Status and Future Directions by Chandi Sasmal

“…This viscoelastic behavior, which arises due to the stretching and relaxation phenomena of polymer molecules, leads to complex flow dynamics that are starkly different from those seen in simple Newtonian fluids under the same conditions. …”
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Cerebral oxygenation during submaximal and peak exercise for sedentary adults with and without down syndrome by Pieter-Henk Boer

“…V̇O2 peak determination was performed with a standardised incremental treadmill protocol and the ventilatory threshold (VT) and respiratory compensation point (RCP) were determined.ResultsThere were no significant differences for V˙O2 between 80%VT, VT, RCP and V˙O2 peak, as well as VT/ V˙O2 peak and RCP/ V˙O2 peak between DS and non-DS groups (p > 0.05). …”
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Backward erosion piping mechanism in dike foundations with and without landside blanket layers: numerical simulation of size effects by Qiuling Yao, Xiping Yan, Zebin Wu, Huiqing Hao, Meihong Ma, Meihong Ma

“…The objective is to understand how different model dimensions affect the hydraulic gradients and piping behavior in dike systems.MethodsNumerical simulations were performed using the finite element method (FEM), where the dike foundation was modeled in 3D and seepage flow was simulated under various hydraulic gradients. …”
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Effectiveness of Manipulative Therapy on Neck Pain, Function and Disability. A Systematic Review by Nan Xu, Elif Nur Surucu

“…Methods. Studies between 2012 - April 2022 were selected to investigate the effectiveness of manipulative therapy on neck pain, function and disability. …”
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Association between alcohol drinking frequency and depression among adults in the United States: a cross-sectional study by Peng Qi, Mengjie Huang, Haiyan Zhu

“…This study aims to explore the association between alcohol drinking frequency and depression. Methods This study collected NHANES data from 2009 to 2016, involving 17,466 participants. …”
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A Comparison of the Ligation Torque Expression of a Ribbonwise Bracket–Archwire Combination and a Conventional Combination: A Primary Study by Bin Lin, Feifei Jiang, Jie Chen, Jiaxing Liang

“…The ribbonwise brackets produced moments that could reach a threshold of 5 Nmm more quickly as the angle was increased. …”
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On the Standardization of Approximate Entropy: Multidimensional Approximate Entropy Index Evaluated on Short-Term HRV Time Series by Juan Bolea, Raquel Bailón, Esther Pueyo

“…This is in contrast to the results obtained for approximate entropies computed with a fixed similarity threshold, which presented inconsistent results for different embedding dimensions. …”
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Measurement of Earmuffs Attenuation at High Audible Frequencies by Emil KOZŁOWSKI, Rafał MŁYŃSKI

“…The measurements were conducted with a real ear at threshold (REAT) method with participation of subjects. …”
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Attention activation network for bearing fault diagnosis under various noise environments by Yu Zhang, Lianlei Lin, Junkai Wang, Wei Zhang, Sheng Gao, Zongwei Zhang

“…However, bearings often operate in noisy environments, especially during failures, which poses a challenge to most current deep learning methods that assume noise-free data. Therefore, this paper designs a Multi-Location Multi-Scale Multi-Level Information Attention Activation Network (MLSCA-CW) with excellent performance in different kinds of strong noise environments by combining soft threshold, self-activation, and self-attention mechanisms. …”
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Lameness Recognition of Dairy Cows Based on Compensation Behaviour Analysis by Swing and Posture Features from Top View Depth Image by Ruihong Zhang, Kaixuan Zhao, Jiangtao Ji, Jinjin Wang

“…The threshold method reached a recall rate of 93.02% for sound cows. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Grass Pollen Dynamics in Urban and Rural Ireland: Identifying Key Sources and Optimizing Prediction Models by Moisés Martínez-Bracero, Andrés M. Vélez-Pereira, Emma Markey, Jerry Hourihane Clancy, Roland Sarda-Estève, David J. O’Connor

“…The results showed that Carlow had higher pollen concentrations but shorter seasons than Dublin. The Swedish threshold method was the most accurate for Ireland, with the Wicklow Mountains identified as a significant pollen source. …”
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Towards high-quality development: The complex role of environmental regulation. by Jie Li, Xuguang Wang

“…Notably, the positive influence of environmental regulation on high-quality economic development is already evident at lower intensities, yet becomes markedly more pronounced when the regulatory intensity reaches or exceeds a certain threshold. Additionally, the paper delves into the heterogeneous impacts of environmental regulation on high-quality economic development across regions with differing pollution levels. …”
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Small-molecule CGRP antagonist atogepant does not affect cortical spreading depression susceptibility in rats by Xuyan Jin, Andreia Morais, Yuichi Sasaki, Qingling Zhai, Pradeep Banerjee, Andrea Harriott, Cenk Ayata

“…We investigated whether the efficacy of atogepant in migraine is mediated by CSD suppression. Method We used Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 28 males, 28 females) to determine the electrical stimulation intensity threshold for CSD induction and the frequency of CSDs induced by continuous topical 1 M KCl application sequentially in the same animal, using intracortical glass microelectrodes under isoflurane anesthesia and full systemic physiological monitoring, including arterial blood pressure and blood gases. …”
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Characterizing Extreme Geomagnetic Storms Using Extreme Value Analysis: A Discussion on the Representativeness of Short Data Sets by G. Bernoux, V. Maget

“…To do so, dedicated statistical methods from the so‐called extreme value analysis (EVA) field have been developed. …”
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Data-Driven Health Status Assessment of Fire Protection IoT Devices in Converter Stations by Yubiao Huang, Tao Sun, Yifeng Cheng, Jiaqing Zhang, Zhibing Yang, Tan Yang

“…For validity assessment, a transformer-based time series reconstruction method is used, and anomaly thresholds are determined using the peaks over threshold (POT) approach from extreme value theory. …”
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Ecological networks construction and optimization in the Longdong Loess Plateau: The advantages of self-organizing map and complex networks by Xueyu Huang, Lina Xiu, Zhixiang Lu, Jiahui Wang

“…In this study, a self-organizing map (SOM) model was utilized to optimize the ecological sources identification in the Longdong Loess Plateau. We used this method to identify different types of ecological sources. …”
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Sparsity adaptive channel estimation algorithm based on compressive sensing for massive MIMO systems by Li-jun GE, Hui GUO, Yue LI, Lan ZHAO

“…A sparsity-adaptive channel estimation algorithm based on compressive sensing was proposed for massive MIMO systems when the number of channel multi-paths was unknown.By exploiting the joint sparsity characteristics of the sub-channels，the proposed block sparsity adaptive matching pursuit (BSAMP) algorithm first selected atoms by setting a threshold and finding the position of the maximum backward difference，which reduces the energy dispersion caused by the non-orthogonality of the observation matrix and improves the performance of the algorithm.Then a regularization method was utilized to improve the stability of the algorithm.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm recovers the channel state information accurately and shows a high computational efficiency.…”
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Sports Orthopedics by Schulz SVW, Enders K, Rolser N, Steinacker JM, Laszlo R

“…Aim of the study was to compare different HR measurement methods during treadmill performance diagnostics.Methods: 76 athletes (28.614.7 years, 38% female) performed a treadmill lactate threshold test. …”
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Immediate Effects of the Mandibular Muscle Energy Technique in Adults with Chronic Temporomandibular Disorder by Antonio Márquez-Vera, Luis Polo-Ferrero, Ana Silvia Puente-González, Roberto Méndez-Sánchez, José Antonio Blanco-Rueda

“…The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of a specific manual therapy technique (the mandibular muscle energy technique) in adults with temporomandibular disorders. Methods: A randomized, parallel clinical trial was conducted, and 31 participants were recruited into an experimental group and 30 were recruited into a control group in order to analyze its effects on outcomes such as pain, pain threshold to pressure, mandibular mobility, and kinesiophobia. …”
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Prediction of aerobic and anaerobic capacity from lactate relative change during isocapnic buffering phase in elite athletes by روح الله نیکویی, محسن حسن لی

“…During the incremental test Breath-by-breath measurement of respiratory gas was performed and during the last 30 seconds of each 3-minute stage, blood samples were collected for lactate measurement. Lactate threshold (LT) and respiratory compensatory threshold (RCT) were defined as abrupt increase in blood lactate concentration in lactate - workload and abrupt increase in CO2 respiratory equivalent. …”
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