Effect of the loss on ignition on the unconfined compressive strength of residual clays from Bogotá-Colombia stabilized with cement by Liliana Carolina Hernández García, Henry A. Colorado Lopera

“…Through multivariate statistical techniques, compressive strength was correlated with the Water/Cement ratio and the Cement/Residue ratio, resulting in a function that facilitates calculation of cement dosage and water content. …”
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Energy Saving in Building Air-Conditioning Systems Based on Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm for Optimizing Cooling Water Temperature by Yiyang Zheng, Yaping Gao, Jianwen Gao

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A Novel Time-Varying P-III Distribution Curve Fitting Model to Estimate Design Floods in Three Gorges Reservoir Operation Period by Yuzuo Xie, Shenglian Guo, Sirui Zhong, Xiaoya Wang, Jing Tian, Zhiming Liang

“…Nevertheless, the construction and operation of upstream reservoirs undermine the assumption of stationarity in the downstream flood data series. …”
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Protocol for assessing regulatory elements in murine heart using an AAV9-based massively parallel reporter assay by Kaiyu Wang, Meng Meng, Minghong Leng, Yanqing Wang, Jie Ni, Haiyun Yuan, Xiaoran Zhang, Yangpo Cao

“…Here, we present a protocol to assess the murine cardiac function of regulatory elements using an adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9)-based massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA). …”
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Fractional order modelling and optimal control of dual active bridge converters by Zengbo Dong, Peng Yang, Qian Li, Mingxiao Zhang, Yujian Chang, Shuohe Wang

“…As the construction of new power systems centred around renewable energy gains traction, the installed capacity of new energy sources has experienced explosive growth. …”
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The Role of Gut Microbiota on Intestinal Fibrosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Traditional Chinese Medicine Intervention by Fang L, Peng H, Tan Z, Deng N, Peng X

“…As fibrosis progresses, it can result in luminal stricture and compromised intestinal function, significantly diminishing patients’ quality of life. …”
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Identification and characterization of gene networks and key genes related to the high-yield production of milk in high-yield cows using meta-analysis of microarray data by Mahdi Rahmatzadeh, Reza Shokri-Gharelo, Morteza Derakhti-Dizaji, Asghar Bazzaz, Bizhan Mahmoudi

“…In this study, we used combination of two statistical methods based on the p-value and effect sized to meta-analysis three datasets followed with construction of weighted gene co-expression network based on the expression matrix of differentially expressed genes identified in meta-analysis to detect major gene modules and hub genes. …”
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Identification of potential drug targets for achalasia from genetic insights: a Mendelian randomization study by Kai Xiong, Hao Fang, Caihong Song, Dilihumaer Tuerxun, Peng Zhang

“…Abstract Background Achalasia (AC) is an esophageal dyskinetic disorder characterized by loss of function of ganglion cells of the intermuscular plexus of the distal esophagus and lower esophageal sphincter. …”
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Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation by Annabelle Aish, Chris Broeckhoven, Valentin Buffa, Tom Challands, Anton Du Plessis, Tom Fletcher, Eberhard Frey, Romain Garrouste, Alexandra Houssaye, Guillaume Lecointre, Valentina Perricone, Luce-Marie Petit, Vikram Shyam, Thomas Speck, Michael Habib

“…Expanding the scope of bioinspiration to the fossil record greatly increases the diversity of potential biological “muses” and provides a means to understand the form, function and origins of current living systems. This extended approach, here termed “palaeo-bioinspiration”, has already been applied to the fields of hydrodynamics, aeromechanics, actuators, protective technology and building construction. …”
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Machine learning-based identification of exosome-related biomarkers and drugs prediction in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Zhengyu Wei, Guoli Wang, Yanghao Hu, Chongchang Zhou, Yuna Zhang, Yi Shen, Yaowen Wang

“…These identified genes underwent functional annotation and pathway enrichment evaluation. …”
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Investigating the potential role of EIF2S2 in OSCC progression through comprehensive bioinformatics analysis and experimental validation by Zhiwen Shao, Tao Dong, Ke Yun, Zhaohui Wang, Yu Wen, Zongli Zhang, Tao Jia

“…Methods We studied the functionality of EIF2S2 through tissue sample analysis, differential expression analysis, single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq), immune scoring, drug sensitivity assessments, and interaction network construction. …”
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Full-scale test of disc cutter rotary cutting in TBM tunnelling: a case study of Mawan granite in Shenzhen, China by Long-Chuan Deng, Xiao-Zhao Li, Wentao Xu, Chi Zhang, Qian-Wei Zhuang, Fu-Qing Li, Qiang Zhou

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A simplified two-plasmid system for orthogonal control of mammalian gene expression using light-activated CRISPR effector by Shruthi S. Garimella, Shiaki A. Minami, Anusha N. Khanchandani, Justin C. Abad Santos, Susannah R. Schaffer, Priya S. Shah

“…Using human HEK293T cells, we optimized the ratio of the two plasmids, measured activation as a function of light intensity, and determined the frequency of the light to activate the maximum fluorescence. …”
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Seasonal Analysis of Planetary Boundary Layer and Turbulence in Warsaw, Poland Through Lidar and LES Simulations by Rayonil G. Carneiro, Maciej Karasewicz, Camilla K. Borges, Lucja Janicka, Dongxiang Wang, Gilberto Fisch, Iwona S. Stachlewska

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Diagnosing urban traffic anomalies by integrating geographic knowledge and tensor theory by Zilong Zhao, Luliang Tang, Chang Ren, Xue Yang, Zihan Kan, Qingquan Li

“…First, we perform filtering and map matching on the trajectory data to obtain the traffic states of urban roads and construct them into a tensor. For traffic anomaly detection, a novel Spatio-Temporal constrained Low-Rank Sparse Tensor (ST-LRST) method is constructed to decompose urban traffic data into normal and anomalous components. …”
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Push cone eletrônico de baixo custo para estudo da resistência mecânica ao desenvolvimento radicular das plantas Low cost electronic push cone for the study of mechanical impedance... by Nelson L. Cappelli, Claudio K. Umezu, Rodrigo F. de Campos

“…The software has the function of controlling the acquisition, storage and processing of the data. …”
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Improved Black-Winged Kite Algorithm with Multi-Strategy Optimization for Identifying <i>Dendrobium huoshanense</i> by Chaochuan Jia, Ting Yang, Maosheng Fu, Yu Liu, Xiancun Zhou, Zhendong Huang, Fang Wang, Wenxia Li

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Long-term deformation behavior and hanger force adjustment scheme of a prestressed concrete continuous rigid-frame arch bridge by Wenshan Gao, Bosen Wang, Jinsong Zhu, Yanlei Wang, Yijun Zhang, Shen Zhou, Jiuxing Zhang

“…This method establishes mathematical relationships between adjustment values, main girder displacements, and hanger forces, followed by treating main girder deflection as a constraint and hanger forces as the objective function to determine the optimal adjustment values through a constrained nonlinear optimization algorithm. …”
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The Distribution Pattern and Spatial Morphological Characteristics of Military Settlements Along the Ming Great Wall in the Hexi Corridor Region by Baolong Jiang, Yuhao Huang, Yile Chen, Jie Lu, Tianfu Yang

“…This study systematically constructed an analytical framework for multi-scale collaborative defense mechanisms, revealing a collaborative defense model of “linear distribution–hierarchical defense–functional coordination”. …”
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Application of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in Spatiotemporal Characterization and Reduced-Order Modeling of Rotor–Stator Interaction Flow Field by Yongkang Lin, Weijian Yang, Hu Wang, Fazhong Wang, Jie Hu, Jianyao Yao

“…Spatial bases are extracted through the first-level POD, and a second-level POD is applied to the first-level coefficients to obtain temporal bases and coefficients that are solely parameter-dependent. A radial basis function (RBF) interpolation is used to establish the mapping between parameters and the second-level coefficients, enabling efficient multi-parameter ROM construction. …”
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