Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Alert-Based Remote Monitoring–First Care for Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices: Semistructured Interview Study Within the Veterans... by Allison Kratka, Thomas L Rotering, Scott Munson, Merritt H Raitt, Mary A Whooley, Sanket S Dhruva

“…Two authors familiarized themselves with the dataset and generated separate codebooks based on the interview guides and inductively coded notes. …”
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The effects of prolonged prone positioning on response and prognosis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study by Yuhang Yan, Junying Bao, Shumin Cai, Xiangning Zhong, Bingxuan Geng, Jingyi Liang, Zhiya Deng, Zhongqing Chen, Zaisheng Qin, HongBin Hu, Zhenhua Zeng

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves were generated to compare 28-day mortality, with log-rank tests analyzing differences. …”
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Provincial inequalities in life cycle carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants from electric vehicles in China by Dingding Hu, Kaile Zhou, Rong Hu, Jingna Yang

“…Abstract It is still unclear whether emissions reductions from electric vehicles can be achieved across different regions from a lifecycle perspective. Here we use the life cycle assessment model and Quasi Input-Output model to evaluate the carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants of internal combustion engine vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles in different provinces of China, with the provincial electricity consumption data and the sales data of electric vehicles. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment of Solid Waste Management in Düzce Province within the Scope of Türkiye’s Decarbonization Policies by Kadriye Elif Maçin

“…Using the life cycle assessment, the effects of different electricity mixes were compared. The annual waste generation in Düzce was defined as the functional unit, and the ReCiPe-2016 method was employed to analyze eight impact categories across seven different scenarios. …”
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Enhancing Battery Pack Cooling Efficiency Through Graphite-Integrated Hybrid-Battery Thermal Management Systems by Amin Rahmani, Mahdieh Dibaj, Mohammad Akrami

“…The impact of battery pack configurations on heat generation is analyzed, and five different porous materials are tested for their cooling performance. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Thermal Stratification in Locally Heated Residential Spaces by Víctor Tuninetti, Bastián Ales, Tomás Mora Chandía

“…While localized heating enhances comfort near the heat source, it generates vertical temperature disparities exceeding acceptable comfort thresholds at greater distances. …”
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COT-TT vaccine attenuates induction and expression of cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization in rats: a dose-response study by Sasana Barbosa-Mendez, Alberto Salazar-Juárez

“…The study used cocaine-induced locomotor activity testing to evaluate the cocaine-psychomotor effects.ResultsThe COC-TT vaccine could generate high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies. …”
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BCAMP: A Behavior-Controllable Motion Control Method Based on Adversarial Motion Priors for Quadruped Robot by Yuzeng Peng, Zhaoyang Cai, Lei Zhang, Xiaohui Wang

“…To obtain stable trajectory data for various motions, optimal control methods are used to generate dynamic trajectories with whole-body dynamic constraints. …”
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Alzheimer's disease recognition via long-range state space model using multi-modal brain images by Ziyin Ren, Meng Zhou, Sadia Shakil, Raymond Kai-Yu Tong

“…The FF-LSSM model is optimized and evaluated using brain images of subjects from the ADNI dataset. …”
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Response of Water-Sediment Structure to Three-dimensional Baroclinic Effects in Yangtze River Estuary by ZHU Xian-bo, LU Chuan-teng, LUO Xiao-feng, ZHANG Gong-jin

“…The revealed detailed response characteristics of flow velocity and sediment content (layered, tidal-phase-specific, and spatially heterogeneous) offer theoretical and practical value for improving the prediction model for the siltation of deep-water channels in the Yangtze River Estuary, optimizing the dredging strategies for channel maintenance, and understanding the morphological evolution of estuaries. …”
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Improved Road Extraction Models through Semi-Supervised Learning with ACCT by Hao Yu, Shihong Du, Zhenshan Tan, Xiuyuan Zhang, Zhijiang Li

“…In this paper, our focus diverges from the typical quest to pinpoint the optimal road extraction model or evaluate generalization prowess across models. …”
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Impact of Price-Responsive Load and Renewables in an Emission-Aware Power Systems by Boming Liu, Jin Dong, Byungkwon Park, Jianming Lian, Teja Kuruganti

“…The proposed simulation framework utilizes a modified optimal power flow formulation that considers the carbon cost in addition to the fuel cost of generations. …”
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Plot‐level satellite imagery can substitute for UAVs in assessing maize phenotypes across multistate field trials by Nikee Shrestha, Anirudha Powadi, Jensina Davis, Timilehin T. Ayanlade, Huyu Liu, Michael C. Tross, Ramesh K. Mathivanan, Jordan Bares, Lina Lopez‐Corona, Jonathan Turkus, Lisa Coffey, Talukder Zaki Jubery, Yufeng Ge, Soumik Sarkar, James C. Schnable, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Patrick S. Schnable

“…Here, we generated, described, and evaluated over 20,000 plot‐level images of over 80 hybrid maize varieties grown across the US corn belt under various management practices collected from (near simultaneous) satellite and drone (synonym UAVs, UASs) flights integrated with ground truth yield measurement. …”
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Causes of baseflow variation in an inland river watershed of Northwest China by Mengwei Song, Hailong Liu, Quanlong Wu, Aminjon Gulakhmadov, Firdavs Shaimuradov

“…New hydrological insights for the region: The results demonstrate that the Eckhardt filtering method provides optimal performance for comparative evaluation of baseflow separation in the watershed. …”
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The transition from conformal to advanced radiotherapy techniques in the treatment planning of gynecological cancer patients by Petrović Borislava, Ivanov Olivera, Marjanović Milana, Ličina Jelena, Gencel Ivan, Golubovac Nemanja

“…The coverage of planning target volume (PTV) and doses to OARs were recorded. PTV margins were evaluated for both techniques according to the Van Herk formula. …”
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The Platform trial In COVID-19 vaccine priming and BOOsting (PICOBOO) booster vaccination substudy protocol by McLeod C, Dymock M, Flanagan KL, Plebanski M, Marshall H, Marsh J, Estcourt MJ, Ramsay J, Wadia U, Williams PCM, Tjiam MC, Blyth C, Subbarao K, Nicholson S, Faust S.N., Thornton RB, Mckenzie A, Snelling T, Richmond P

“…Discussion PICOBOO is an adaptive platform trial evaluating different COVID-19 booster vaccination strategies to generate evidence to inform immunisation practice and policy. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Pressure Drops in Single-Phase Flow Through Channels of Brazed Plate Heat Exchangers with Dimpled Corrugated Plates by Lorenzo Giunti, Francesco Giacomelli, Urban Močnik, Giacomo Villi, Adriano Milazzo, Lorenzo Talluri

“…Comprehensive sensitivity analyses were conducted to evaluate the influence of different parameters and identify the optimal settings for obtaining reliable results. …”
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Spatial spillover effects of swine insurance policy on swine production efficiency in China by Jingyue Feng, Wenbo Zhang, Lin Wang, Bo Hu, Fengjie Xie

“…China’s swine insurance policy serves as a key institutional mechanism for strengthening risk mitigation and resilience, rigorously evaluation of the policy’s impact on swine production efficiency is essential for optimizing agricultural insurance mechanisms and advancing sustainability in the swine industry.MethodsThis study treats the pilot implementation of the swine insurance policy as a quasi-natural experiment, drawing on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces over the years from 2005 to 2021, it employs a spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model and a mediation effect model to empirically examine the impact of the swine insurance policy on swine production efficiency.ResultsThe results reveal that the swine insurance policy significantly improves swine production efficiency in the implementing provinces and generates substantial spatial spillover effects, the boundary of spatial effect decay is 250 km. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Three-dimensional Soil Slopes Considering Spatial Variability of Soil Parameters by Wan Yukuai, Zhou Yuqi, Shao Linlan, Wang Yuke, Zhang Fei

“…ObjectiveThree-dimensional (3D) slope reliability analysis encounters two primary challenges: (1) the stochastic modeling of soil properties involves intricate spatial variability, necessitating extensive data processing and imposing prohibitive computational burdens; and (2) brute-force trial-and-error methods for locating critical failure surfaces are computationally inefficient, impeding real-world implementation despite the imperative for precise stability evaluations in civil infrastructure. To address these limitations, this study employs the covariance matrix decomposition method to generate 3D lognormal random fields for soil parameters, enabling efficient modeling of spatial variability. …”
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Exergy-Based Sustainability Assessment of Gold Mining in Colombia: A Comparative Analysis of Open-Pit and Alluvial Mining by Natalia A. Cano-Londoño, Javier Ordoñez-Loza, Héctor I. Velásquez, Heriberto Cabezas

“…Thermodynamic methods such as exergy analysis enable the evaluation of environmental load (environmental impacts) by quantifying entropy generation and exergy destruction associated with using renewable and non-renewable resources throughout a production system. …”
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