Dynamics of a Stage Structure Pest Control Model with Impulsive Effects at Different Fixed Time by Bing Liu, Ying Duan, Yinghui Gao

“…We also present a pest management strategy in which the pest population is kept under the economic threshold level (ETL) when the pest population is uniformly permanent. …”
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Application value of different frailty assessment tools in older patients undergoing major abdominal surgery by Junli You, Xuepiao Chen, Yu Rong, Sining Pan, Tianxiao Liu, Yubo Xie

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Investigating the general effects of different types of toluene exposure on the health of workers: an integrative review of the literature by Ahmed Mohsen Abbas El-Hagrasy, Ramadan Hani Karrout, Alexa Lulu Mcguinness, Tarek Ziyad Assaf Mousa Albutain, Dana Khalifa, Fatema Mohamed Hasan Ali Khalil, Eman Tawash, Maryam Alaradi

“…Notable exclusion criteria were non-human studies, pregnant women, paediatric and geriatric populations, and studies addressing toluene abuse and not occupational exposure.Data extraction and synthesis 27 studies met the eligibility criteria and were appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Data were systematically extracted, guiding the synthesis of various themes, namely acute exposure effects, chronic exposure effects, short-term effects, long-term effects, low-dose effects, high-dose effects and reversible versus irreversible effects.Results The review demonstrated that occupational toluene exposure impacts health differently depending on the nature and context of the exposure. …”
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Clinical-functional peculiarities of stable angina of different functional classes considering myocardial infarction in an anamnesis by V. K. Tashchuk, Al Salama Muhamed Vasek, T. М. Amelina, I. O. Makoviichuk, O. P. Dinova

“…To study clinical-functional peculiarities of stable angina pectoris (SAP) of different functional classes (FC) with post-infarction and diffuse cardiosclerosis. …”
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Response Patterns of Vegetation Phenology along Urban-Rural Gradients in Urban Areas of Different Sizes by Xue Luo, Yuqing Zhang, Dongqi Sun

“…The results showed that the following: (1) the iterative extraction of urban built-up areas using the threshold method based on nighttime light data combined with the definition of urban built-up areas had high accuracy. (2) Additionally, we found that the start of the growing season (SOS) in Liaoning Province occurred between day 100 and day 180, while the end of the growing season (EOS) occurred between days 260 and 330. …”
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Presence and detection methods of pseudo-periods in GNSS coordinate time series by Kaichun Yang, Hua Chen, Zhao Li, Jian Wang, Xin Ding, Weiping Jiang

“…Based on this observation, we proposed the AIC_diff (Akaike Information Criterion Difference) pseudo-period detection method with the threshold as −5, indicating that the signal is more likely to be a pseudo-period, if the AIC_diff exceeds −5. …”
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Evaluation of Image Segmentation Methods for In Situ Quality Assessment in Additive Manufacturing by Tushar Saini, Panos S. Shiakolas, Christopher McMurrough

“…This research evaluated five image segmentation methods (simple thresholding, adaptive thresholding, Sobel edge detector, Canny edge detector, and watershed transform) on the same platform for their effectiveness in isolating and identifying features in 3D-printed layers under different contrast conditions for in situ quality assessment. …”
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Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Growth and Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Resistance in Different Strains of Penaeus vannamei by Guixian HUANG, Xupeng LI, Jiteng TIAN, Sheng LUAN, Jie KONG, Baoxiang CAO, Ning LIU, Kun LUO, Jian TAN, Jiawang CAO, Ping DAI, Baolong CHEN, Guangfeng QIANG, Mianyu LIU, Yang LIU, Hongjie WANG, Xuehui LIU, Juan SUI, Xianhong MENG

“…The heritability estimates of survival time and half-lethal survival rate were 0.374± 0.096 and 0.257±0.048, respectively, indicating a moderate level of genetic heritability, and all significantly different from 0 (P < 0.01). The genetic correlation between weight and AHPND resistance traits (survival time and half-lethal survival rate) in both strains showed a low positive correlation (0.061–0.235), and no significant difference was observed from 0 (P > 0.05). …”
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Research on Quantitative Safety Risk Assessment Methods at Vehicle Controllability Level by Lei He, Zichong Li, Xuezhu Yang, Yuanle Zhou, Zikun Qu, Zhiqiang Ren

“…The model is applied in multiple simulation scenarios to assess vehicle controllability under different conditions. Additionally, the safety boundaries of motor torque are determined at varying speeds, providing insights into critical thresholds beyond which the vehicle&#x2019;s controllability may be compromised. …”
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Scientific Opinion on Norovirus (NoV) in oysters: methods, limits and control options by EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)

“…Abstract NoV is highly infectious, and there is no threshold infectivity limit for NoV detected by PCR. …”
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Reliability of hemodynamic parameters measured by bioimpedance cardiography at different intensities during incremental exercise testing by Raphael Schoch, Jonathan Wagner, Max Niemeyer, Fabienne Bruggisser, Denis Infanger, Justin Carrard, Benedikt Gasser, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Raphael Knaier

“…BackgroundBioimpedance cardiography offers a non-invasive and time-efficient method to measure hemodynamic parameters. Previous studies only investigated its reliability under steady-state conditions and at maximum load but not at ventilatory thresholds (VTs). …”
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Sex differences in the prediction of metabolic abnormalities via body mass index in an Eastern Chinese population by Yingjie Gao, Kaimeng Jin, Jin Chen, Ben Chen, Yan Guo, Jin Lu

“…ObjectiveBody mass index (BMI) is important for predicting the occurrence of metabolic abnormality, but sex differences exist. We aimed to investigate potential sex differences in the predictive value of BMI for metabolic abnormality and to calculate the optimal BMI cut-offs for predicting metabolic abnormality for each sex.MethodsParticipants (n = 4,623) who attended a health check-up centre continuously in Eastern China between January 2022 and December 2023 were evaluated for metabolic abnormalities. …”
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Division Method and Seepage Law of Seepage Channels in a Tight Reservoir by Zhenkai Wu, Feifei Fang, Xizhe Li, Hanmin Xiao, Xuewei Liu, Yuan Rao, Yang Li, Jie Wang, Yongcheng Luo, Zhi Li

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The short-term effects of different cold spell definitions on asthma outpatient visits in Lanzhou, China by Jianjun Wu, Xizhuoma Zha, Xuelin Ren, Boxi Feng, Ying Zhang, Linghong Wang, Xingmin Wei, Yahui Xie, Jia Zhang, Jie Lu

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Identifying Canopy Snow in Subalpine Forests: A Comparative Study of Methods by Natasha Harvey, Sean P. Burns, Keith N. Musselman, Holly Barnard, Peter D. Blanken

“…All methods provided insight into the process of interception in a subalpine forest but presented challenges, including differing flux footprints of the above‐ and below‐canopy eddy covariance measurements and the inability of red‐green‐blue imagery to monitor snow interception at night, during sunrise, and during sunset.…”
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LiDAR-based edge extraction method for underground belt conveyors by HUANG Chenxuan, CHANG Jian, WANG Lei

“…Laboratory tests showed that, even when the surface of the belt conveyor had a 100% water distribution and saturated thickness, the edge extraction accuracy was no less than 88%. Overall, this method outperforms the latitude and longitude extremum search method, the curvature threshold method based on KDTree/OcTree, and the adjacent point angle threshold method based on KDTree/OcTree, with an average computation time of only 36 ms, meeting the real-time inspection needs of underground environments.…”
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Fiscal Sustainability of Local Governments in the Visegrad Group Countries by Tomasz Uryszek

“…Objective: The main goal of the article is to assess the level of fiscal sustainability at the local government level in the Visegrad Group (V4) economies. Research Design & Methods: Two different methods of fiscal sustainability measures were used in the article to verify whether the local government deficit is sustainable: estimations of the no-Ponzi conditions, and calculations of the threshold primary balance. …”
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Effects of Artificial Cyanobacterial Crust on Soil Wind Erosion Control in Arid Regions by Huang Minghui, Zhao Yunge, Gao Liqian

“…[Results] Cyanobacterial crusts of different coverages could be formed under outdoor conditions by inoculating the soil with cyanobacteria liquid having different inoculum amounts. …”
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The Role of Lung Ultrasound Scan in Different Heart Failure Scenarios: Current Applications and Lacks of Evidences by Alessandro Campora, Matteo Beltrami, Anita Di Renzo, Alessia Petrini, Alberto Palazzuoli

“…However, optimizing the utilization of LUS remains a challenge, as standardized imaging protocols and B-line thresholds may vary across different clinical scenarios and HF phenotypes. …”
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ROTOR FAULT FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD USING MVMD AND IEDPE (MT) by WU YaoChun, GUO XiaoBo, DU ShaoHua, JU Hai, ZHAO Yan, WU Jie, JIA XiaoFeng

“…Compared with MVMD+PE, EMD+IEDPE, and EEMD+IEDPE, the results show that the fault features extracted by the proposed method are more effective in characterizing significant differences between rotor fault states, allowing more accurate recognition of fault categories.…”
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