A Novel Generalization of Strong Probabilistic $b$-Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theorems by Youssef Achtoun, Abderrahim Mbarki, Ismail Tahiri, Mohammed Lamarti Sefian

“…We also demonstrate some of its fundamental topological properties and provide examples. …”
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Fresh-cut watermelon: postharvest physiology, technology, and opportunities for quality improvement by Ebenezer Quandoh, Karin Albornoz

“…Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) fruit is widely consumed for its sweetness, flavor, nutrition and health-promoting properties. …”
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Censorship of Pacifist Movements through Religious Arguments by Bill Bolin

“…Virtually every war in recent US and UK history has had its corresponding anti-war protests, and there is no record of a peace movement actively stopping an impending military action at inception, although evidence exists that peace movements have affected martial policy after the initial stages of a military action. …”
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The Role of Using Motorized Diamond Burr Polisher Instrument in Minimizing the Recurrent Rate of Pterygium Excision by Sakar Abdulkarim Nidhamalddin

“…Motorized diamond burr is a safe instrument for polishing the cornea during pterygium excision, it is easy to handle, low price, need lesser operative time, its effect on recurrence postoperatively is significant and beside it leaves lesser corneal scar and early visual recovery postoperatively.    …”
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Bioaccessibility of phenolic compounds from a wheat beer enriched with alginate-encapsulated wine industry by-product by Anna Carolyna Goulart Vieira, Genilton Alves da Silva, Renata Valeriano Tonon, Gizele Cardoso Fontes Sant’Ana, Maria Helena Miguez da Rocha Leão, Daniel Perrone, Priscilla Filomena Fonseca Amaral

“…The phenolic profile of the craft beer was not altered after the immersion of the beads for 60 days, maintaining its six free phenolic compounds (gallic, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic, 4-hydroxybenzoic, 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic, ferulic, and salicylic acids). …”
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Local Binary and Multiclass SVMs Trained on a Quantum Annealer by Enrico Zardini, Amer Delilbasic, Enrico Blanzieri, Gabriele Cavallaro, Davide Pastorello

“…The results have shown the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed approach, but also its practical applicability in a real-world large-scale scenario.…”
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Antologizando a Nação: antologias literárias brasileiras, identidade e ideologia no Estado Novo (1937-1945) by Paula Candido Zambelli

“…This new entity, characterized by a strong intratextuality, forms a sort of anthological mosaic cemented by the discourse of the nation, thus revealing more about its own time than about a past it pretends to illustrate.…”
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Maternal exposure to ambient temperature and risk of preterm birth in Chengdu, China, from 2017 to 2020: a cohort study by Qiqi Huang, Xiong-Fei Pan, Shijiao Yan, Zhonghan Sun, Yuwei Lai, Yixiang Ye, Jiaying Yuan, Chuanzhu Lv, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song

“…Compared to the general population, pregnant women and fetuses are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of extreme temperatures and are associated with the occurrence of adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth (PTB). However, its risk of preterm birth is currently uncertain. …”
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Integrating attention mechanism and boundary detection for building segmentation from remote sensing images by Ping Liu, Yu Gao, Xiangtian Zheng, Hesong Wang, Yimeng Zhao, Xinru Wu, Zehao Lu, Zhichuan Yue, Yuting Xie, Shufeng Hao

“…Experimental results show that the proposed model AMBDNet achieves high-performance metrics, including a recall rate of 0.9046, an IoU of 0.7797, and a pixel accuracy of 0.9140 on high-resolution remote sensing images, demonstrating its robustness and effectiveness in precise building segmentation. …”
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Performance-Based Seismic Fragility and Risk Assessment of Five-Span Continuous Rigid Frame Bridges by Fangwen Wu, Jingwen Zhou, Yangyang Zhao, Guangqian Wang, Wenlong Tang, Jianfei Luo, Usama Ibrahim, Yuanying Meng

“…Therefore, in order to assess bridges serviceability, it is important to master their damage mechanism and to analyze its probability of occurrence under a given seismic action. …”
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Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy and AFM Analysis of CIGSe Thin Film Solar Cells by Nima E. Gorji, Ugo Reggiani, Leonardo Sandrolini

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Hybrid Materials Based on Carbon Nanotubes and Tetra- and Octa-Halogen-Substituted Zinc Phthalocyanines: Sensor Response Toward Ammonia from the Quantum-Chemical Point of View by Pavel Krasnov, Victoria Ivanova, Darya Klyamer, Dmitry Bonegardt, Aleksandr Fedorov, Tamara Basova

“…The study showed that the electrical conductivity of these materials and its changes in the case of interaction with ammonia molecules depend on the position of the impurity band formed by the orbitals of macrocycle atoms relative to the forbidden energy gap of the hybrids. …”
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A Melatonin Treatment Delays Postharvest Senescence, Maintains Quality, Reduces Chilling Injury, and Regulates Antioxidant Metabolism in Mango Fruit by Renu Bhardwaj, Sunil Pareek, Saravanan Mani, J. Abraham Domínguez-Avila, Gustavo A. González-Aguilar

“…Effects of this treatment were due to its effectiveness in reducing metabolic activity, specifically, respiration rate and ethylene production, resulting in higher firmness, titratable acidity, and ascorbic acid content and lower weight loss, total soluble solids, pH, and total soluble solid : acidity ratio. …”
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A Guide for Volunteer Organizations to Assess Risk by Matthew Benge

“…Risk management is a tool that many volunteer organizations and volunteer leaders should consider when thinking of the safety and protection of their organization and its volunteers. This new 4-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication provides a brief guide to the risk management model. …”
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The study of Postmodern Language Components in the Story "Passing again through the Same Streets" by Bijan Najdi by Abdollah Hasanzadeh mirali, Ghazaleh Heidari Abkenar

“…For this purpose, first; postmodernism and the main components of its fiction such as short circuit, metanarrative, ontological content, grand narrative collapse, and … are represented, replying on critical criticism theory in this field such as, David Lodge, Peter Shia, and Barry Louis, and then the existence of each components is proved with samples from stories. …”
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Digital Twin-Based Real-Time Monitoring System for Safety of Multiple Laptops in Working Environment by Minh Long Hoang, Nicola Delmonte

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The widely used Ucp1-Cre transgene elicits complex developmental and metabolic phenotypes by Manasi Suchit Halurkar, Oto Inoue, Archana Singh, Rajib Mukherjee, Meghana Ginugu, Christopher Ahn, Christian Louis Bonatto Paese, Molly Duszynski, Samantha A. Brugmann, Hee-Woong Lim, Joan Sanchez-Gurmaches

“…Abstract Bacterial artificial chromosome transgenic models, including most Cre-recombinases, enable potent interrogation of gene function in vivo but require rigorous validation as limitations emerge. Due to its high relevance to metabolic studies, we perform comprehensive analysis of the Ucp1-Cre Evdr line which is widely used for brown fat research. …”
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Finite-Time Cluster Synchronization of Fractional-Order Complex-Valued Neural Networks Based on Memristor with Optimized Control Parameters by Qi Chang, Rui Wang, Yongqing Yang

“…A controller is designed with a complex-valued sign function to achieve FTCS using a non-decomposition approach, which eliminates the need to separate the complex-valued system into its real and imaginary components. By applying fractional-order stability theory, some conditions are derived for FTCS based on the proposed controller. …”
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ASOCIACIONES ENTRE EL TEMPERAMENTO Y LA REGULACIÓN DEL CORTISOL EN PREESCOLARES DE HOGARES POBRES by María Soledad Segretin, Lucía M. Prats, Sebastián J. Lipina

“…Asimismo, se identificaron asociaciones específicas entre los valores de regulación del cortisol y un conjunto de 12 ítems del cuestionario de temperamento, en su mayoría correspondientes a la dimensión afectividad negativa. …”
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Theoretical model of homogenized piezoelectric materials with small non-collinear periodic cracks by Jean-Marie Nianga, Driss Marhabi

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