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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A multi-objective bilevel optimisation evolutionary algorithm with dual populations lower-level search by Weizhong Wang, Hai-Lin Liu, Hongjian Shi

“…In multi-objective bilevel optimisation problems, the upper-level performance of different lower-level optimal solutions may be very different, even though they belong to the same lower-level problem. …”
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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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Modelling of Energy Management Strategies in a PV-Based Renewable Energy Community with Electric Vehicles by Shoaib Ahmed, Amjad Ali, Sikandar Abdul Qadir, Domenico Ramunno, Antonio D’Angola

“…Following the EMS, it is also suggested that the number of EVs to be charged should be evaluated in light of energy-sharing incentives. Numerical results have been reported for different seasons, showing the possibility for the owners of EVs to charge their vehicles within the community to optimize self-consumption and shared energy.…”
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Simulation study on enhanced heat transfer of annular inner rib tube in geothermal coaxial heat transfer wellbore by Longfei Dong, Yanping Xin, Xiao Wu, Rui Zhang

“…The comprehensive performance evaluation factor (η) reveals that while the fan-shaped inner ribbed tube performs optimally at a rib height of 12 mm, η declines linearly with increasing rib width. …”
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The development of an explanatory model for voluntary medical male circumcision in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Celenkosini T. Nxumalo, Gugu G. Mchunu

“…Methods: A qualitative theory-generative phenomenographic study design was used to analyse the qualitative differences in primary healthcare stakeholders’ experiences, understanding and conceptions of VMMC in KZN, South Africa. …”
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Comparison of wind farm control strategies under realistic offshore wind conditions: turbine quantities of interest by J. A. Frederik, E. Simley, K. A. Brown, G. R. Yalla, L. C. Cheung, P. A. Fleming

“…The precursors are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the control methods. …”
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Development of a new VMAT QA framework for Mobius3D using control-point specific EPID images by JaeHyun Seok, JaeHyun Seok, JaeHyun Seok, Hojin Kim, Min Cheol Han, Jihun Kim, Kwangwoo Park, Hyeonjeong Cho, Hyeonjeong Cho, Hyeonjeong Cho, Dohyeon Yoo, Jin Sung Kim, Jin Sung Kim, Jin Sung Kim

“…Consequently, average GPR for 18 patients evaluated using Mobius3D reached 95.2% ± 3.7%%, based on 3% dose difference and 3mm distance-to-agreement criterion. …”
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Enhancing patient-centered information on implant dentistry through prompt engineering: a comparison of four large language models by John Rong Hao Tay, John Rong Hao Tay, Dian Yi Chow, Yi Rong Ivan Lim, Ethan Ng, Ethan Ng

“…However, the quality of responses based on varying prompt designs has not been evaluated. As dental implant treatment is widely performed, this study aimed to investigate the influence of prompt design on GPT performance in answering commonly asked questions related to dental implants.Materials and methodsThirty commonly asked questions about implant dentistry – covering patient selection, associated risks, peri-implant disease symptoms, treatment for missing teeth, prevention, and prognosis – were posed to four different GPT models with different prompt designs. …”
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