Chemical composition of mineral licks used by elephants in Aberdares National Park, Kenya by Peter Mwangi, Antoni Milewski, Geoffrey Wahungu

“…The authors note: 'Sodium preference could be attributed to palatability, clay has a possible medicinal function and also retards leaching of sodium and iodine. …”
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Incorporation of Mean/Maximum Stress Effects in the Multiaxial Racetrack Filter by Marco Antonio Meggiolaro, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Hao Wu

“…Instead, mean/maximum stress effects are modeled in the filter as a function of the current (instantaneous) hydrostatic or normal stress along the multiaxial load path, respectively for invariantbased and critical-plane models. …”
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DCW-YOLO: Road Object Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Driving by Hongge Ren, Fangke Jing, Song Li

“…Finally, the deleterious gradients generated by low-quality examples are reduced using the Wise-IoU v3 bounding box loss function in conjunction with a dynamic non-monotonic focusing mechanism utilizing an anchor box gradient gain assignment strategy. …”
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Bearing fault diagnosis algorithm based on maximum correlated kurtosis feature mode decomposition and compound Gini index by YANG Gang, XU Wuyi, DENG Qin, QIN Limu, WEI Yuqian

“…Secondly, CGI was used as the fitness function for the sand cat swarm optimization (SCSO) algorithm to quickly and accurately obtain the optimal parameter combination of MCKFMD and realize the adaptive decomposition of fault signals. …”
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Studying the Role of Personality Traits on the Evacuation Choice Behavior Pattern in Urban Road Network in Different Severity Scales of Natural Disaster by Fatemeh Mohajeri, Babak Mirbaha

“…By considering these variables as random parameters, the Log Likelihood function and pseudo square (ρ2) of the model increased.…”
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Distinct roles for FOXP3 and FOXP3 CD4 T cells in regulating cellular immunity to uncomplicated and severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. by Michael Walther, David Jeffries, Olivia C Finney, Madi Njie, Augustine Ebonyi, Susanne Deininger, Emma Lawrence, Alfred Ngwa-Amambua, Shamanthi Jayasooriya, Ian H Cheeseman, Natalia Gomez-Escobar, Joseph Okebe, David J Conway, Eleanor M Riley

“…Although no significant differences in Treg numbers or function were observed between the groups, Treg activity during acute disease was inversely correlated with malaria-specific memory responses detectable 28 days later. …”
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Syntactic and semantic variations in negative interrogatives: Contracted vs. uncontracted forms by Khalsiah Khalsiah, Burhanuddin Yasin, Muhammad Yusuf, Fatmawati Fatmawati

“…This research contributes to the understanding of how negative interrogatives function in English, revealing the nuanced ways in which they impact communication and interpretation.…”
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The roles of Cryptochrome-1: the circadian clock as a control point in cancer therapy by Yijia Liu, Yanzhe Huang, Hongliang Luo, Xueqin Lin

“…We propose that its function represents a novel therapeutic target that could pave the way for new cancer treatments. …”
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The Analysis of Validity and Reliability of the Indonesian’s SCARED Instrument Using the Rasch Model by Qadriyyah Qadriyyah, Suprananto Suprananto, Bahrul Hayat

“…The item information function analysis showed that most items had good discriminating power, particularly at moderate anxiety levels. …”
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OPTIMALISASI PERAN DAN FUNGSI TENAGA ADMINISTRASI SEKOLAH (TAS) DALAM PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI SOSIAL by Ricky Yoseptry, Yuyus Wisnurat, Rita Asmara Mukti, Winda Cantika

“… This research aims to optimize the role and function of School Administrative Staff (TAS) in improving social competence through community service programs. …”
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The Analysis of Feasibility of Sale of Public Sports Center in Korea by Sang-Hyun Shin, Seung-Hwan Jang

“…Because of this, it is difficult to maintain its function as a public sports center, and the loss of the national treasury is expected. …”
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Development and Capability Evaluation of a Firebase-Based Pharmacy Inventory System Using COBIT 2019 by Alif Noorachmad Muttaqin, Muhammad Dwi Hary Sandy, Muharman Lubis

“…Pharmacy inventory control systems require proper and timely data management to be able to supply medicines and function as such. The study conceptualized and tested a Firebase-based system of pharmacy inventory control. …”
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Non-state pension funds of religious organisations in Ukraine: Background and factors of influence by Oleksandr Bilash, Tetyana Karabin, Valeriy Patskan

“…Despite the fact that the practice of establishing such funds is not widespread, they deserve more attention from the state, as they fulfil an important social function - the provision of pension for a specific person (whether a believer, a clergyman, or any other person). …”
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Altered GABA Signaling in Early Life Epilepsies by Stephen W. Briggs, Aristea S. Galanopoulou

“…Given the central role of GABAA signaling in brain function and development, perturbation of its physiological role may interfere with neuronal morphology, differentiation, and connectivity, manifesting as cognitive or neurodevelopmental deficits. …”
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A tool for global and regional Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 cross-sensor harmonization by Galen Richardson, Anders Knudby, Koreen Millard, Wenjun Chen

“…Regional harmonization functions generated by LEOHS performed similarly or outperformed existing models in the same areas of interest. …”
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Successful Management Strategies for Lupus Nephritis in the Intensive Care Unit: A Case Series by Achmad Marwan, Bambang Pujo Semedi, Maulydia Maulydia

“…Patients with SLE undergoing immunosuppressive therapy are also at risk of developing infections, which can progress to sepsis and require more intensive care. Treatment of lupus nephritis in ICU generally necessitates intensive care, which includes hemodialysis and sepsis control. …”
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The (in)dependence of alternative splicing and gene duplication. by David Talavera, Christine Vogel, Modesto Orozco, Sarah A Teichmann, Xavier de la Cruz

“…We find that, in general, alternative splicing affects protein sequence and structure in a more drastic way than gene duplication and subsequent divergence. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines in Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation—Rheumatoid Arthritis by Working Group on Setting up Standardization Guidelines of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation, Jie LUO, Peimin LAN, Hanyu CHEN, Xinggang FANG, Zengfeng CHEN, Yuming NIU, Chao ZHANG, Feng GAO, Guohong WEN, Junhua WANG, Su ZHENG, Rui LI, Bao ZHANG, Dongyue LENG, Jiandong WEI, Yong CHEN, Lei JIANG, Rui WANG

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by erosive arthritis, eventually leading to joint deformity and loss of function. To standardize the operating standards of RA for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and better guide clinical practice, the experts group compiled RA clinical practice guidelines for TCM rehabilitation according to the rules of clinical practice guidelines based on the principles of evidence-based medicine combined with expert consensus and argumentation, and clinical evaluation. …”
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deutetrabenazine for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington’s disease by Harshit Gupta, Wil Perkins, Cain Stark, Sathya Kikkeri, Juyeon Kakazu, Adam D. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…Deutetrabenazine is thought to function as an inhibitor of the VMAT2 vesicular monoamine transporter resulting in decreased monoamine release, including dopamine, in the synaptic cleft which has a therapeutic effect in management of chorea. …”
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A Node Deployment Algorithm Based on Van Der Waals Force in Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiangyu Yu, Ninghao Liu, Weipeng Huang, Xin Qian, Tao Zhang

“…An evaluation metric called pair correlation function is introduced here to evaluate the uniformity of the node distribution. …”
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