Investigation on structure stability and damage mechanism of cemented paste backfill under the coupling effect of water-static load by Zhiyi Liu, Deqing Gan, Haikuan Sun, Zhenlin Xue, Youzhi Zhang

“…Cemented paste backfill (CPB) is easy to withstand the coupling effect of the mining operation equipment's crushing, water immersion, forming all kinds of intrinsic or extrinsic defects affecting its load-bearing capacity. In this paper, the initial immersion age and immersion time were used as variables, the damage and uniaxial compression characteristics of CPB under the coupling effect of water-static load were explored. …”
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Determining the variations of monthly wet and dry regimes using Angot index in Ardabil Province by Raoof Mostafazadeh, Roghayeh Asiabi-hir, Seyed Saied Nabavi

“…Precipitation amount is the most important climatic variables that its spatiotemporal variability has a great influence on water resources availability along with the effects of climate change. …”
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Analysis on the current situation of nursing undergraduates' innovation ability based on nursing basic experiment course after epidemic situation (疫情后基于《护理学基础实验》课程的护理本科生创新能力的现状分析)... by ZHANG Ying (张莹), LI Chunxiang (李春香), YAO Yihao (姚一浩), LI Zhaofan (李兆帆), WEN Shubo (温书博), CHEN Wenbo (陈文博)

“…Objective To investigate the current situation of innovation ability of nursing undergraduates after the epidemic situation and analyze its influencing factors. Methods A total of 164 undergraduate nursing students of 2019 grade were investigated by using the innovation ability questionnaire. …”
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Exploring the Psychological Side of Fentanyl: A Scoping Review to Disclose the Psychosocial Dimensions of Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl Users by Pasquale Caponnetto, Sergio Triscari, Graziella Chiara Prezzavento, Giorgia Farrugio, Chiara Farrauto, Simona Lanzafame, Giulia Schilirò, Eleonora Uccelli, Noemi Maria Vitale, Abdulnaser Fakhrou, Karim Nagi, Carmen Concerto

“…The majority of clinical studies on fentanyl have focused on its medical and biological aspects, particularly its addictive properties. …”
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Decision-Making Factors Among Dentists for Using Dental Magnifying Loupes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alghilan MA, AlShehri A, Almeshrafi A, Alrumi A, Aldibasi O

“…This study aimed to investigate factors influencing the usage and selection of DMLs among dentists and determine the self-reported musculoskeletal pain and perception regarding DMLs usage.Methods: A validated self-reported questionnaire of 19 items assessing participant’s characteristics and DMLs usage was distributed to individuals who fit the inclusion criteria: practicing general dentists/dental intern and resident/specialized dentist in various dental specialties. …”
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Two-phase Agrawal hybrid nanofluid flow for thermal and solutal transport fluxes induced by a permeable stretching/shrinking disk by Hatem Gasmi, Muhammad Waqas, Umair Khan, Aurang Zaib, Anuar Ishak, Imtiaz Khan, Ali Elrashidi, Mohammed Zakarya

“…Extensive research has been undertaken to explore its fundamental thermophysical properties specifically viscosity and as well as thermal conductivity. …”
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江苏省六种鸟类新纪录 by 叶琳, 高国富, 周敏军, 钱庆其, 陈成, 苏圣博, 卢亚萍, 王永祥, 张曼玲, 郑炜, 包浩然

“…报道6种江苏省鸟类分布新纪录，分别为蓝鹀（<italic>Emberiza siemsseni</italic>）、岩燕（<italic>Ptyonoprogne rupestris</italic>）、斑尾鹃鸠（<italic>Macropygia unchall</italic>）、穗䳭（<italic>Oenanthe oenanthe</italic>）、褐胸鹟（<italic>Muscicapa muttui</italic>）以及长尾山椒鸟（<italic>Pericrocotus ethologus</italic>）。…”
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Evaluating Human Factors in TFM Sizing Accuracy: Statistical Findings from a Round-Robin Programme (Part 2) by Mariana Burrowes M. Guimarães, Edward Ginzel, Gabriela Ribeiro Pereira, Cesar Giron Camerini, Cesar Giron Camerini

“…CIVA simulation software is well known for its ability to reproduce ultrasonic results; however, software simulation cannot fully represent the human factors of uncertainty. …”
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Mechanistic Insights into the Inhibition of Colorectal Cancer by BuShenFang through Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Expression and Wnt/β-catenin Pathway Regulation by Khang Wen Goh, Jie Ji, Hiu Ching Phang, Xian Gu, Rajesh Sreedharan Nair, Xiaohui Wei, Mohammed Tahir Ansari, Kai Bin Liew

“…In conclusion, BSF exerts anti-CRC effects by modulating the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, suggesting its potential as a complementary therapeutic agent in CRC treatment. …”
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A Delphi Study of Socio-Cognitive Predictors of Career Choice Behavior in the Construction Industry in South Africa by Mariam Akinlolu, Theo C. Haupt

“…Adopting the Socio-Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as the study’s conceptual framework, a two-round iteration was performed to obtain the opinion of 14 experts actively involved in the South African construction industry. …”
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Approximation of the soil particle-size distribution curve using a NURBS curve by Adéla Marie Marhoul, Tomáš Herza, Josef Kozák, Jaroslava Janků, Jan Jehlička, Luboš Borůvka, Karel Němeček, Miroslav Jetmar, Petr Polák

“…The NURBS curve was used for smooth (depending on the degree of the curve used) and as tight as possible approximation of the arranged control points, the connecting lines of which forms a convex envelope for its individual parts. The NURBS approximation curve is therefore determined by the ordered control points and their connecting lines, the weights of these points, the degree of the curve and the nodal vector of parametrization. …”
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Structural Safety Analysis Based on Seismic Service Conditions for Butterfly Valves in a Nuclear Power Plant by Sang-Uk Han, Dae-Gyun Ahn, Myeong-Gon Lee, Kwon-Hee Lee, Seung-Ho Han

“…These values were lower than the allowable strength of the materials used for manufacturing the butterfly valve, and, therefore, its structural safety met the KEPIC MFA requirements.…”
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Investigation & analysis of Electrical Discharge Machining on Titanium Diboride Ceramic material with various Electrode materials and dielectric fluids by Karthik S, Sivakumar Annamalai

“…Titanium Diboride is a highly used material in aerospace industry due of its remarkable longevity. Its strength poses a problem to traditional machining methods. …”
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Towards fifth generation universities of medical sciences by Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Parvaneh Isfahani

“…The mission and vision of universities should be redefined according to the emerging challenges of society and the needs of its various stakeholders.…”
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Analysis of quantitative trait loci and candidate gene exploration associated with cold tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) during the seedling stage by Sumin Jo, Seong-Gyu Jang, Sais-Beul Lee, Ji-Yoon Lee, Jun-Hyeon Cho, Ju-Won Kang, Yeongho Kwon, So-Myeong Lee, Dong-Soo Park, Soon-Wook Kwon, Jong-Hee Lee

“…Among the candidate genes, Os10g0409400 was significantly expressed in the cold-tolerant japonica parent Milyang352 under cold stress, indicating its role in conferring cold tolerance. These findings offer valuable insights into the genetic mechanisms of cold tolerance and highlight qCTS1022/23 as a potential target for marker-assisted selection in rice breeding programs to enhance cold tolerance.…”
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An Orlicz-Besov Poincaré Inequality via John Domains by Hongyan Sun

“…This extends the known criteria for bounded domains supporting Sobolev-Poincaré inequality and its fractional analogue.…”
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Ozone as Janus: this controversial gas can be either toxic or medically useful by Velio Bocci

“…Ozone is an intrinsically toxic gas and its hazardous employment has led to a poor consideration of ozone therapy. …”
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Contextualising the findings - the Orkney social pedagogy evaluation by Evelyn Vrouwenfelder

“…A key aspect of the article is the link between the methodology of the course and its subsequent outcomes.…”

Unraveling the Genetic Heartbeat: Decoding Cardiac Involvement in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Valeria Novelli, Francesco Canonico, Renzo Laborante, Martina Manzoni, Alessandra Arcudi, Giulio Pompilio, Eugenio Mercuri, Giuseppe Patti, Domenico D’Amario

“…Identifying the genetic background, in addition to DMD disease-causing variants, is one of the unmet needs in understanding the cardiac disease’s pathogenetic mechanisms and its prognostic implications. The clinical scenario is made even more intricate by the difficulty in predicting the onset and progression of cardiomyopathy, as no clear genotype/phenotype correspondence has been found thus far. …”
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On the Null Space Property of lq-Minimization for 0<q≤1 in Compressed Sensing by Yi Gao, Jigen Peng, Shigang Yue, Yuan Zhao

“…Consequently, reconstruction results for the lq-minimization can be derived easily under the NSP condition and its equivalent form. Finally, the lq NSP is extended to the lq-synthesis modeling and the mixed l2/lq-minimization, which deals with the dictionary-based sparse signals and the block sparse signals, respectively.…”
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