A Resting-State Brain Functional Network Study in MDD Based on Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis and the Hierarchical Clustering by Xiaowei Li, Zhuang Jing, Bin Hu, Jing Zhu, Ning Zhong, Mi Li, Zhijie Ding, Jing Yang, Lan Zhang, Lei Feng, Dennis Majoe

“…But, in the present study, the approach of constructing functional connectivity is often biased by the choice of the threshold. Besides, more attention was paid to the number and length of links in brain networks, and the clustering partitioning of nodes was unclear. …”
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Molecular and Transmission Characteristics of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains Among College Students in Beijing, China by Cao X, Li X, Song Z, He P, Zhang R, Teng C, Sun Q, Wang X, Zhao B, Zhang Z, Zhao Y

“…Xiaolong Cao,1,2,* Xinyue Li,1,3,* Zexuan Song,4 Ping He,5 Ruiqing Zhang,1,3 Chong Teng,6 Qian Sun,2 Xue Wang,2 Bing Zhao,3 Zhiguo Zhang,7 Yanlin Zhao3 1National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 102206, People’s Republic of China; 2Outpatient Department, Beijing Changping Institute for Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment, Beijing, 102200, People’s Republic of China; 3National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 102206, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Clinical Laboratory, Children’s Hospital, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, 100020, People’s Republic of China; 5Center for Infection Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China; 6Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Department, Beijing Dongcheng District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 100050, People’s Republic of China; 7Hospital Management Office, Beijing Changping Mental Health Care Hospital, Beijing, 102202, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhiguo Zhang, Beijing Changping Mental Health Care Hospital, Changping District, Beijing, 102202, People’s Republic of China, Email zhgzh8689@126.com Yanlin Zhao, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, People’s Republic of China, Email zhaoyl@chinacdc.cnBackground: College students are a crucial link in curbing the epidemic. …”
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Improving Freedom of Visually Impaired Individuals with Innovative EfficientNet and Unified Spatial-Channel Attention: A Deep Learning-Based Road Surface Detection System by Amit Chaudhary, Prabhat Verma

“…Individuals with visual impairments often encounter substantial challenges navigating outdoor spaces due to their inability to perceive road-surface conditions. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Variability Management for All Farmers: A Cell-Size Approach to Enhance Coffee Yields and Optimize Inputs by Eudocio Rafael Otavio da Silva, Thiago Lima da Silva, Marcelo Chan Fu Wei, Ricardo Augusto de Souza, José Paulo Molin

“…Coffee yield exhibits plant-level variability; however, due to operational issues, especially in smaller operations, the scouting and management of coffee yields are often hindered. Thus, a cell-size approach at the field level is proposed as a simple and efficient solution to overcome these constraints. …”
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Impact of early arterial-phase multidetector CT in blunt spleen injury: a clinical outcomes-oriented study by Yu-Hao Wang, Yu-Tung Wu, Huan-Wu Chen, Yu-San Tee, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chi-Hsun Hsieh

“…Conclusion Dual-phase CT within 24 h of presentation offers no added value over single-phase CT in managing blunt splenic injuries in terms of clinical outcomes.…”
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A Review of Miniature Radio Transmitters for Wildlife Tracking by Sivan Toledo

“…The articles covers the topics of power sources used in such transmitters, including miniature batteries and energy harvesting, techniques for generating the transmitted radio-frequency carrier, techniques for creating short radio pulses and more general on–off schedules, modulation in modern wildlife-tracking transmitters, construction, manufacturing, and tuning techniques, and recent trends in this area. …”
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L’évolution des usages des prépositions en, dans, dedans entre le XVIe et le XXe siècle : approche distributionnelle sur corpus outillé by Denis Vigier

“…Projet=ANR-12-FRAL-0010). We show that the oft-cited analyses of Gougenheim (1970a and b) on the semantic evolution of en and dans during this period are only partially verified. …”
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معاییر الاعتماد فى برامج علوم المکتبات والمعلومات فى ضوء المعاییر الدولیة : دراسة تحلیلیة by د. اسماء صلاح على

“…Academic accreditation systems Contribute to determining the extent towhich educational institutions achieve their goals and identify strengths to bestrengthened and shortcomings to work to overcoming them, Accreditation is ascientific institutional activity directed towards the advancement and upgrading ofeducational institutions and study programs, and it is an effective and influentialtool to ensure the quality of the educational process and its output quality andcontinuity of development, This study aims to shed light on the importance ofacademic accreditation for library and information programs, identify the mostimportant international standards for science libraries and information, and thestudy will focuses on the accreditation standards used in the library andinformation departments in Egypt, and examine the role of the national Authorityfor Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE) in Egypt,Finally, the criteria and stages of program accreditation will be presented.In order to achieve the objectives of the study will depend on the study,descriptive and analytical approach that deals with the collection, information andfacts, analysis and interpretation…”
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Deciphering Metabolic Responses in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients With Different Severity Using 1H NMR-Based Serum Metabolomics by Huan Zhou, Dongdong Sun, Dongmei Wang, Zirui Zhu, Xuelian Hong, Rui Fang, Hua Wang, Minghui Li

“…Moreover, our findings suggest an upregulation of the cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α following TBI, displaying correlations with lactate, 5-aminopentanoate, glucose, and creatinine metabolites. This study offers a novel concept and theoretical framework by leveraging serum metabolites to enhance the objective, rapid and reliable assessment of TBI severity. …”
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A Timely Intervention: Endoscopic Retrieval of a Swallowed Magnetized Activity Watch by Jason S. Radowsky, Joseph S. Lee, Andrew T. Schlussel

“…The accidental ingestion of a foreign object often presents a difficult scenario for the clinician. …”
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Ruggedizing Printed Circuit Boards Using a Wideband Dynamic Absorber by V.C. Ho, A.M. Veprik, V.I. Babitsky

“…This paper addresses a novel approach towards ruggedizing commercial-off-the-shelf PCBs using a miniature wideband dynamic absorber. …”
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Towards Analysis and Optimization of Electrospun PVP (Polyvinylpyrrolidone) Nanofibers by Utkarsh, Hussien Hegab, Muhammad Tariq, Nabeel Ahmed Syed, Ghaus Rizvi, Remon Pop-Iliev

“…The experimental study offers a promising attempt in the open literature to carefully understand the effect of various electrospinning parameters when producing PVP nanofibers.…”
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Unveiling diabetes onset: Optimized XGBoost with Bayesian optimization for enhanced prediction. by Muhammad Rizwan Khurshid, Sadaf Manzoor, Touseef Sadiq, Lal Hussain, Mohammed Shahbaz Khan, Ashit Kumar Dutta

“…While accurately predicting diabetes onset or progression remains challenging due to complex and imbalanced datasets, recent advancements in machine learning offer potential solutions. Traditional prediction models, often limited by default parameters, have been superseded by more sophisticated approaches. …”
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Spectral method for bending analysis of rectangular functionally graded plates by Hammou Amina, Hilali Youssef, Mesmoudi Said, Boujmal Radouane, Askour Omar, Bourihane Oussama

“…This study investigates the bending behavior of functionally graded rectangular plates using the spectral collocation method to offer precise modeling. We apply the First-order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) to accurately capture the effects of shear deformation in our plate behavior models. …”
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Muscle metabolism in response to oxidized fish oil feed in juvenile Nile tilapia by Xinyuan Li, Lili Chen, Hua Wen, Xuan Wang, Di Peng, Jianmin Zhang, Yangyang Liu, Ming Jiang, Lixue Dong, Feng Huang, Juan Tian

“…The OFO diet resulted in a decrease in growth, muscularity, nutritional value of fatty acids in the muscle, and density of myofibers. …”
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Kebijakan Proteksi Anak Jalanan di Kota Yogyakarta Menurut Perspektif Maqasid Syariah by Khoirul Ummatin

“…The problem of street children is a social problem that often occurs in urban areas. We may often meet many children who are on the streets. …”
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La importancia de la fotografía en el surgimiento de focos de producción fílmica regional durante el período silente. Crónica de una relación tardía pero fundamental by Andrea Cuarterolo

“…Con pocos recursos tecnológicos, sin maestros de los que aprender el oficio y con un acceso limitado y tardío al cine de la Capital y del exterior, la fotografía fue para estos realizadores un reservorio de saberes técnicos, estéticos y narrativos que, sin duda, sirvió como base para su precursora producción fílmica.…”
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How I Grow: Months Three and Four by Millie Ferrer, Keith Gouin

“… At this age babies often enjoy splashing in the tub or kicking their feet in the air as they lay on their back. …”
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INFLUENCE OF BEAM HEIGHT-COLUMN WIDTH RATIO ON SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF RC MOMENT RESISTING FRAMES by A. Khalili, F. Nateghi Alahi

“…Secondly, the effect of the cast-in-situ slab in increasing the negative flexural strength of the beam is often underestimated or ignored, leading to the flexural strength of the columns being less than that of the beams. …”
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CohortDiagnostics: Phenotype evaluation across a network of observational data sources using population-level characterization. by Gowtham A Rao, Azza Shoaibi, Rupa Makadia, Jill Hardin, Joel Swerdel, James Weaver, Erica A Voss, Mitchell M Conover, Stephen Fortin, Anthony G Sena, Chris Knoll, Nigel Hughes, James P Gilbert, Clair Blacketer, Alan Andryc, Frank DeFalco, Anthony Molinaro, Jenna Reps, Martijn J Schuemie, Patrick B Ryan

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Diagnostics based on large-scale population-level characterization can offer insights into the misclassification errors of PAs.…”
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