Numerical simulation study on the influence of coal rock fracture morphology on seepage capacity by SHI Leiting, ZHAO Qiming, REN Zhenyu, ZHU Shijie, ZHU Shanshan

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Randomised controlled trial comparing two group-based exercise programmes (team sport vs circuit training) on men’s health: study protocol by Henry T Blake, Brad J Stenner, Jonathan David Buckley, Alyson J Crozier

“…This study aims to compare the effects of team sport participation and group circuit training on physical activity levels and health in insufficiently active middle-aged men.Methods and analysis In this parallel randomised controlled trial, n=128 men aged 35–54 years will complete a 12-week team sport or group circuit exercise programme. …”
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Management of acromioclavicular joint disease by manual therapy versus corticosteroid injections: the protocol of a non-inferiority study by Grégoire Cormier, Lucie Auzanneau, Lucie Planche, Alexia Michaut

“…Various medical and non-medical treatment strategies are available for acromioclavicular joint disease but it is difficult to conduct a comparative evaluation of these treatments. The few studies dealing with the medical management of the disease have conducted no comparative assessment of drug therapies, physiotherapy, joint manipulation and corticosteroid injections. …”
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Using an Alternative Model in Social Studies Course: Harezmi Education Model by Mustafa Şeker, Ali Yılmaz, Ahmet Tokmak

“…Qualitative data were collected with student interview forms, self-evaluation forms and Harezmi student activity diaries. …”
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Ultra-low extracorporeal volume microfluidic leukapheresis is safe and effective in a rat model by Mubasher Iqbal, Alexandra L. McLennan, Anton Mukhamedshin, Mai T. P. Dinh, Qisheng Liu, Jacob J. Junco, Arvind Mohan, Poyyapakkam R. Srivaths, Karen R. Rabin, Thomas P. Fogarty, Sean C. Gifford, Sergey S. Shevkoplyas, Fong W. Lam

“…Multiplexed devices connected in parallel allowed for faster, clinically relevant flow rates in vitro with no difference in leukocyte collection efficiency. …”
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FSSA: A Fully Serial and Mixed-Precision Systolic Array for Vision Transformer Acceleration on Edge by Iraj Moghaddasi, Byeong-Gyu Nam

“…These results highlight the significance of FSSA, outperforming the bit-parallel baseline in computational efficiency without compromising accuracy.…”
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Magnesium-L-threonate improves sleep quality and daytime functioning in adults with self-reported sleep problems: A randomized controlled trial by Heather A. Hausenblas, Tarah Lynch, Stephanie Hooper, Aahana Shrestha, Doug Rosendale, Jennifer Gu

“…Patients/methods: Eighty 35–55-year-olds with self-assessed sleep problems participated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm study, taking 1 g/day of MgT or placebo for 21 days. …”
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A Two-Stream Deep Learning Framework for Robust Coral Reef Health Classification: Insights and Interpretability by Arslan Abdul Ghaffar, Gyu Sang Choi

“…The framework uniquely incorporates two parallel processing streams: one dedicated to analyzing the structural aspects of coral imagery and another focused on capturing color variations, both critical for accurate health assessment. …”
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Photoplethysmogram (PPG)-Based Biometric Identification Using 2D Signal Transformation and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Yuanyuan Xu, Zhi Wang, Xiaochang Liu

“…Compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, the proposed model demonstrates significant improvements across all evaluation metrics, highlighting its significance in terms of network architecture and performance.…”
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Multi-physics coupled simulation and experimental investigation of alternating stray current corrosion of buried gas pipeline adjacent to rail transit system by Chengtao Wang, Shaoyi Xu, Wei Li, Yuqiao Wang, Guanyi Shen, Shuchen Wang

“…Proposed numerical method based on coupled multi-physics in this paper are in good agreement with experimental results under different influencing factors. A novel evaluation index was proposed to assess the corrosion risk within different zones on the pipeline surface. …”
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Mini Bubble Columns for Miniaturizing Scale‐Down by Moritz Wild, Ralf Takors

“…Scale‐down simulators have emerged as indispensable tools in this endeavor, enabling the evaluation of potential hosts’ adaptability to the dynamic conditions encountered in large‐scale fermenters. …”
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Full Information Numerical Simulation of Two-Dimensional Steady Ground Temperature Field by Fan Jiang, Shikun Dai, Ying Zhang, Hongjun Tian

“…An efficient and precise numerical simulation method of geothermal field is of great significance for the exploitation, evaluation, and sustainable development of geothermal resources. …”
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A Remote Sensing Semantic Self-Supervised Segmentation Model Integrating Local Sensitivity and Global Invariance by Buxun Zhang, Xiaoyan Guo, Sen Yang

“…To fully exploit the self-supervised signals from the original image, a parallel self-supervised signal generation module is introduced, updating the network from three perspectives: masked image reconstruction, semantic slot matching contrast, and global view alignment. …”
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GrotUNet: a novel leaf segmentation method by Hongfei Deng, Hongfei Deng, Bin Wen, Bin Wen, Cheng Gu, Yingjie Fan

“…Compared with UNet++, GrotUNet improves the key evaluation metrics (SBD) by 0.57%, 0.30%, and 0.27%, respectively.…”
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Super-resolution for electron microscope scanning images of shale via spatial-spectral domain attention network by Junqi Chen, Lijuan Jia, Jinchuan Zhang, Yilong Feng

“…The evaluation of adsorption states and shale gas content in shale fractures and pores relies on the analysis of these fractures and pores. …”
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Comparison of microbiome community structure and dynamics during anaerobic digestion of different renewable solid wastes by Nicoletta Favale, Stefania Costa, Daniela Summa, Silvia Sabbioni, Elisabetta Mamolini, Elena Tamburini, Chiara Scapoli

“…To this end, cereal grains and grape pomace biomasses were analysed in parallel in an experimental AD bench-scale system to define and compare their metagenomic profiles for different experimental time intervals. …”
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A METHOD OF INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF LIVER FIBROSIS DEGREE: A COMPARISON OF THE OPTICAL METHOD FOR THE STUDY OF RED BLOOD CELLS AND INDIRECT ELASTOGRAPHY OF THE LIVER by M. V. Kruchinina, S. A. Kurilovich, A. A. Gromov, V. M. Generalov, A. S. Safatov, G. A. Buryk, G. V. Shuvalov

“…The evaluation of dynamics of changes of the degree of fibrosis during antiviral therapy is more accurate by the method  of indirect elastometry, and the method of dielectrophoresis  is preferable in the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. …”
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Design and Experimentation of a Low-Damage Combined Full-Feeding Peanut Picking Device by Jinming Zheng, Shuqi Shang, Ning Zhang, Yao Wu, Xiaochan Wang, Nan Xu

“…The optimal configuration was determined to be flat pin teeth installed with parallel axial forward bending with a tip fillet radius of 6 mm, and a concave screen composed of right round steel + straight round steel with front sparse and rear dense type. …”
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Assessment of the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Incomes and Adaptation of the Population of the Region To It: Statistical Approach by N. D. Kremlev, I. A. Drozdova

“…To determine the directions of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incomes of the population of the region, the method of analytical groupings (stochastically deterministic relationships), as well as the method of comparing parallel series, the index method and interregional data evaluation analysis were used.The results of the study: the use of a statistical approach to assess and determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the real incomes of the population allowed us to determine the features of the spread of the disease in the regions of the Ural Federal District. …”
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POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH DRUG RESISTANT TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY WITH DIFFERENT ICTAL PROPAGATION PATTERNS IN SCALP EEG by Nermin Görkem Şirin İnan, Bedia Samancı, Ebru Yılmaz, Ayşen Zehra Gökyiğit, Betül Baykan, Rabia Candan Gürses, Nerses Bebek

“…Objective: In presurgical evaluation, positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose-F18 (FDG-PET) is an important tool in identifying epileptogenic area. …”
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