Low cost carriers and tourism destinations development: case study of Oporto, Portugal by Vânia Costa, Cláudia Almeida

“…Over the last decade, LCC at Oporto (OPO) airport have boosted their traffic volume by approximately 260%. …”
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An Analysis of Chinese Transport Infrastructure Loans and Investment in ICT in Nigeria by Innocent .A. Ocholi, Nnamdi .S. Okonkwo

“…It is against this backdrop that the paper concludes that the Chinese infrastructure loans and ICT investments are potential debt traps foisted on Nigeria with grave negative implications for the future. …”
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TRADE POLICY AND PERFORMANCE OF EXPORT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES by Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, Maiga, Issaka Hamadi

“…It is recommended that there should be urgent need to diversify the economy away from single commodity oil; given the uncertainties in the world oil market, adopt policies that ensure greater market access for the country’s manufacture exports as well as boosting their competitiveness at the international market. …”
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Mortality Risk Prediction in Patients With Antimelanoma Differentiation–Associated, Gene 5 Antibody–Positive, Dermatomyositis–Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Algorithm Develo... by Hui Li, Ruyi Zou, Hongxia Xin, Ping He, Bin Xi, Yaqiong Tian, Qi Zhao, Xin Yan, Xiaohua Qiu, Yujuan Gao, Yin Liu, Min Cao, Bi Chen, Qian Han, Juan Chen, Guochun Wang, Hourong Cai

“…Six ML algorithms (Extreme Gradient Boosting [XGBoost], logistic regression (LR), Light Gradient Boosting Machine [LightGBM], random forest [RF], support vector machine [SVM], and k-nearest neighbor [KNN]) were applied to construct and evaluate the model. …”
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The Benefits of Using a Small Caliber Ureteroscope in Evaluation and Management of Urethral Stricture by Walid Shahrour, Pankaj Joshi, Craig B. Hunter, Vikram S. Batra, Hazem Elmansy, Sandesh Surana, Sanjay Kulkarni

“…If the penile stricture was near obliterative (smaller than 4.5 Fr caliber), a two-staged procedure is elected to be performed. …”
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One Step Ahead Prediction of Ozone Concentration for Determination of Outdoor Air Quality Level by Ercan Avşar, Waleed Mahmood

“…The utilized machine learning methods are multilayer perception (MLP), Support Vector Regression (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Random Forests (RF), Gradient Boosting (GB), and Elastic Net (EN). After the predictions made by these models, the predicted values were further processed to be classified into one of the six air quality levels defined by United States Environmental Protection Agency. …”
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Implantable Ultrasound‐Powered MXene/PVA Hydrogel‐Based Generator for Treatment of Glioblastoma by Xiaoping Hu, Ziyi Qiu, Yilin Yang, Ting Xu, Kai Sheng, Weicheng Lu, Jingdun Xie, Bingzhe Xu

“…The implantable UP‐MPH‐TTD is wirelessly ultrasound‐powered, small‐sized, lightweight, and simply structured, significantly boosting therapeutic efficiency and reducing restrictions on patient movement. …”
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Targeting SRSF1 improves cancer immunotherapy by dually acting on CD8+T and tumor cells by Gui-Qi Zhu, Zheng Tang, Tian-Hao Chu, Biao Wang, Shi-Ping Chen, Chen-Yang Tao, Jia-Liang Cai, Rui Yang, Wei-Feng Qu, Yi Wang, Qian-Fu Zhao, Run Huang, Meng-Xin Tian, Yuan Fang, Jun Gao, Xiao-Ling Wu, Jian Zhou, Wei-Ren Liu, Zhi Dai, Ying-Hong Shi, Jia Fan

“…The small-molecule inhibitor TN2008 targets SRSF1, boosting antitumor immune responses and improving immunotherapy effectiveness in mouse models. …”
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Kamishibai dan Propaganda Jepang di Jawa pada Masa Perang Asia Timur Raya by Gema Budiarto, Dewi Yuliati, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…The findings of this research reveal that kamishibai, originally a Japanese performing art, was utilized by the Japanese military occupation government in Java to disseminate certain messages, particularly those aimed at boosting morale and spirit. The themes depicted in kamishibai stories often focused on efforts to uplift people's morale, glorify the Japanese Empire, foster anti-Western sentiment, and promote labor efforts.…”
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Enhancing Cementitious Materials: A Detailed Review of Bentonite’s Role in Optimizing Concrete Performance by Zakaria Mekhnache, Tewfik Ali-Dahmane, Zine-El-Abidine Kameche, Ivan Alhama-Manteca, Ahmed Sofiane Benosman, Sidi-Mohammed Aissa-Mamoune

“…When added to cement mixtures, bentonite improves essential properties like decreasing permeability, enhancing workability, and boosting chemical resistance. Its pozzolanic activity aids in long-term strength development, making it valuable for standard and specialized applications, including geotechnical engineering and waste containment. …”
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C-SHAP: A Hybrid Method for Fast and Efficient Interpretability by Golshid Ranjbaran, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider

“…To address this, we introduce C-SHAP (Clustering-Boosted SHAP), a hybrid method that combines SHAP with K-means clustering to reduce execution times significantly while preserving interpretability. …”
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Improved Chicken Reproduction and Yield of Improved Poultry from Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles Coated in Jimma Horro Area of Kellem Wollega Zone, Ethiopia by Soressa Shuma Abdisa, Jule Leta Tesfaye, Abel Saka, Abdisa Abraham, N. Nagaprasad, Lamessa Gudata, Krishnaraj Ramaswamy

“…In the existence of sunlight as well as moistness, the titanium dioxide rusts and abolishes microorganisms (bacteria). …”
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Acetyl-CoA synthesis in the skin is a key determinant of systemic lipid homeostasis by Phuong T.T. Nguyen, Mia Shiue, Nina Kuprasertkul, Pedro Costa-Pinheiro, Luke T. Izzo, Laura V. Pinheiro, Hayley A. Affronti, Gabriel Gugiu, Shivani Ghaisas, Joyce Y. Liu, Jordan C. Harris, Charles W. Bradley, John T. Seykora, Xiaolu Yang, Taku Kambayashi, Clementina Mesaros, Brian C. Capell, Kathryn E. Wellen

“…Dietary fat supplementation further boosts sebum production and partially rescues both the lipoatrophy and the aberrant skin phenotypes. …”
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A data envelopment analysis approach for evaluating high-speed freight transportation efficiency by Paulo Chenrrim, Susana Relvas

“…We found that increasing train speed can increase the overall efficiency score of the Decision-Making Units (DMUs) by 21 percentage points compared to a scenario without this input, thus boosting the technical efficiency of freight railway companies. …”
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A Study on the Impact of Watershed Compensation Policies on Green Technology Innovation Ecosystems by Mo Li, Jianhua Zhu, Hua Dong

“…The research reveals the following findings: (1) The introduction of the watershed compensation policy markedly boosts the development of green technology innovation ecosystems in the pilot cities, and this finding remains consistent following a series of robustness checks. (2) An analysis of the mechanisms indicates that the watershed compensation policy exerts its impact on the advancement of green technology innovation ecosystems through a reduction in carbon emission intensity and the enhancement of wastewater treatment efficiency. (3) The influence of the watershed compensation policy on green technology innovation ecosystems varies according to the level of public financial expenditure and labor productivity. …”
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Oscillating Mindfully: Using Machine Learning to Characterize Systems-Level Electrophysiological Activity During Focused Attention Meditation by Noga Aviad, Oz Moskovich, Ophir Orenstein, Etam Benger, Arnaud Delorme, Amit Bernstein

“…Methods: Thus, to reveal the complex systemic neuroelectrophysiology of meditation, we applied a machine learning extreme gradient boosting classification algorithm and 4 complementary feature importance methods to extract systemic electroencephalography features characterizing mindful states from electroencephalography recorded during a focused attention meditation and a control mind-wandering state among 26 experienced meditators. …”
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Vertical Shear Instability in Thermally Stratified Protoplanetary Disks. I. A Linear Stability Analysis by Han-Gyeol Yun, Woong-Tae Kim, Jaehan Bae, Cheongho Han

“…Thermal stratification enhances the growth rates of both surface and body modes and boosts VSI-driven radial kinetic energy relative to vertical energy. …”
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Prediction of Mg Alloy Corrosion Based on Machine Learning Models by Zhenxin Lu, Shujing Si, Keying He, Yang Ren, Shuo Li, Shuman Zhang, Yi Fu, Qi Jia, Heng Bo Jiang, Haiying Song, Mailing Hao

“…We compared four machine learning algorithms: random forest (RF), multiple linear regression (MLR), support vector machine regression (SVR), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost). The RF algorithm offered the most accurate predictions than the other three machine learning algorithms. …”
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Does the Intensity of IGG4 Immunostaining Have a Correlation with the Clinical Presentation of Riedel’s Thyroiditis? by C. A. Simões, M. R. Tavares, N. M. M. Andrade, T. M. Uehara, R. A. Dedivitis, C. R. Cernea

“…Riedel’s thyroiditis (RT) represents one type of IgG4-related thyroid disease (IgG4RTD) and the diagnosis involves quantitative immunohistochemistry showing dense lymphoplasmacellular inflammatory infiltrate consisting of IgG4-positive plasma cells with storiform fibrosis and obliterative phlebitis. We report a case of RT with progressive enlargement of the anterior neck, severe dysphagia, odynophagia, and dyspnea. …”
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Adoptive cell transfer of piezo-activated macrophage rescues immunosuppressed rodents from life-threating bacterial infections by Xiaoyi Liu, Wenxiu Xu, Junkun Feng, Ying Wang, Kai Li, Yi Chen, Wenjun Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Shaohua Ge, Jianhua Li

“…Catalytic antibacterial nanoparticles that generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) are emerging, as a promising therapeutic approach in treating bacterial infection by boosting the innate immune defenses. However, the interaction between innate immune cells and these catalytic nanoparticles remains poorly understood. …”
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