18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Large-Vessel Vasculitis During Active and Inactive Disease Stages Is Associated with the Metabolic Profil... by Dimitris Anastasios Palamidas, Georgios Kalykakis, Dimitra Benaki, Loukas Chatzis, Ourania D. Argyropoulou, Panagiota Palla, Antonia Kollia, Pavlos Kafouris, Marinos Metaxas, Andreas V. Goules, Emmanuel Mikros, Konstantinos Kambas, Constantinos D. Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios G. Tzioufas

“…These preliminary results could pave the way for more extensive studies integrating serum metabolomic parameters with PET/CT imaging data to extract sensitive composite disease indexes useful for everyday clinical practice.…”
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Assessment of Novel Boron-doped Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles Loaded Alginate Hydrogel in Dogs by Marwa Samir Naga, Elbadawy A. Kamoun, Maha Abdel Moaty, Ahmed Zaki Ghareeb, Mona Mohy El Din, Samia Soliman Abdel Rehim Omar

“…The tested materials were positioned on the radicular pulp and finally covered with resin composite restorations. One dog was sacrificed after 2, 4, and 8 weeks. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Crack Penetration Rate on Strength Properties of Expansive Soil by HU Bo, WANG Shuai, SUN Hui, GENG Hong-bin, WANG Qing, ZHOU Hong-jun

“…During the tests, interface strength parameters between the geomembrane and the soil were obtained through direct shear interface friction tests. …”
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Real-Time ConvNext-Based U-Net with Feature Infusion for Egg Microcrack Detection by Chenbo Shi, Yuejia Li, Xin Jiang, Wenxin Sun, Changsheng Zhu, Yuanzheng Mo, Shaojia Yan, Chun Zhang

“…By introducing large convolution kernels and depth-wise separable convolution from ConvNext, the model significantly reduces network parameters compared to the original U-Net. Additionally, a composite loss function is devised to address class imbalance issues. …”
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing as a prognosis‐assessing tool in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by C. Rozados daConceicao, A. Krannich, V. Zach, R. Pinto, A. Deichl, A. Feuerstein, L. Schleussner, F. Edelmann

“…We investigated whether the parameters obtained from cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) correlated with the prognosis of these patients. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effect of Long-Term Water Injection on Micropore Structure of Ultralow Permeability Sandstone Reservoir by Shiyuan Qu, Hanqiao Jiang, Junjian Li, Lin Zhao, Changhui Wu

“…The relative changes of the parameters for the unimodal core were much smaller than those for the bimodal core. …”
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A numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer in water-based hybrid nanofluid flow containing copper and alumina nanoparticles over an extending sheet by Yasmin Humaira, Bossly Rawan, Alduais Fuad S., Al-Bossly Afrah, Saeed Anwar

“…Based on the current findings, it can be concluded that a higher magnetic factor increases the skin friction force, but higher micropolar parameters and micro-gyration constraints decrease the skin friction force. …”
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Enhanced bioconversion of kitchen food waste into aquaculture feed using a mixed culture of Bacillus licheniformis and Yarrowia lipolytica by Yun Li, Hui Zhu, Fei Zhou, YuZhong Zheng, Yiyan Zhang, Yinhua Zheng

“…A mixed-strain fermentation approach was employed, with process parameters optimized through central composite designs to maximize soluble protein yield. …”
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Impact of Ovarian Suspensory Ligament Rupture on Surgical Stress in Elective Ovariohysterectomy in Bitches by Pauline Silva dos Santos, Victor Mendes de Oliveira, Keli Cristina Corbellini Oltramari, Vitória Santos Guimarães, Sarah Fernandes, Carla Eduarda dos Santos Ferreira, Agatha Costa Malinski, Vinícius Cardoso de Oliveira, Jéssica Corrêa, Izabelle Moutinho, Dalila Moter Benvegnú, Camila Dalmolin, Gabrielle Coelho Freitas, Fabíola Dalmolin

“…Pain was assessed over 24 h post-surgery using the Visual Analogue Scale and the Short Form of the Glasgow Composite Measure Pain Scale. The physical parameters, complete blood count, glucose levels, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and neutrophil oxidative and phagocytic functions were evaluated pre-surgery and at 6, 12, 24, and 48 h, as well as 10 days after. …”
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Mapping cation-eutaxy ternary with a phenomenological model by Jongbum Won, Taeyoung Kim, Minwoo Lee, Daniel W. Davies, Giyeok Lee, Aron Walsh, Aloysius Soon, Jong-Young Kim, Wooyoung Shim

“…Existing approaches often struggle to integrate these parameters into a unified framework, particularly for cation-eutaxy ABX ternary systems, where subtle compositional and bonding interactions govern the dimensionality and stability of III‒V networks. …”
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Pulsed laser-assisted direct fabrication of MoxW1-xS2 alloy-based flexible strain sensors with superior performance for high-temperature applications by Kexin Wang, Hanxin Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, Yingzhe Li, Yilin Zhou, Manzhang Xu, Weiwei Li, Lu Zheng, Xuewen Wang, Wei Huang

“…A pulsed laser is introduced to directly synthesize MoxW1-xS2 patterns with controllable compositions and physical parameters, enabling the realization of flexible sensors without photolithography or transfer procedures. …”
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In situ electrochemical generated metal hydroxides as coagulants for optimization of sulfamethoxazole removal by Omid Paknia, Mohammad Hassan Moshafi, Faeze Ashkar, Maryam Dolatabadi, Saeid Ahmadzadeh

“…Abstract In this study, the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole (SMX) removal was investigated and optimized using the electrocoagulation process (ECP). The effective parameters including initial SMX concentration, current density, solution pH, reaction time, type and concentration of supporting electrolytes, and types of electrodes (Fe/Fe, Al/Al, Cu/Cu, and Zn/Zn), on the treatment process were investigated. …”
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Accelerated life cycle tests of catenary supports of railways by A. A. Tsar’Kov, P. G. Tyurnin, D. V. Tartynskiy, V. V. Ivakin

“…In addition to the existing supports on the railways there are new types, such as supports, manufactured using composite materials. To confirm their reliability and performance in terms of rail transport it is necessary to carry out complex tests. …”
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Optimization of dark chocolate formulation with roasted coriander cake as cocoa substitute by Javad Cheragheshahi, Ali Mohamadi Sani, Elham Mahdian, Sharareh Mohseni, Zahra Nazari

“…In the first phase, Coriander cake, a by-product of extracting oil from coriander seeds, was roasted at 165 °C respectively for 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 min, and physicochemical characteristics (pH, aw, and color parameters), compositional properties, and total phenolic content were examined and compared to cocoa powder. …”
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Flexural Assessment of Blast-Damaged RC Beams Retrofitted with CFRP Sheet and Steel Fiber by Jin-Young Lee, Hyun-Oh Shin, Kyung-Hwan Min, Young-Soo Yoon

“…The test parameters included shear reinforcement (amount and spacing), steel fiber content (0, 1.0 vol%), and retrofitting with CFRP sheets. …”
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Designing the sustainable broken case manual order picking operation in the finished goods warehouse of the frozen processed seafood industry by Arachaphon Thairach, Sirirat Suwatcharachaitiwong, Sivasit Wittayasilp, Laksiri Treeranurat, Panupong Vichitkunakorn, Nikorn Sirivongpaisal

“…Significant factors, including batch picking and fixed storage assignment, yielding a composite desirability function of 0.2953, having target settings of 80% for both labour and rack utilisation, and a total picking time of 25 minutes, were determined for the optimum configuration parameters. …”
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Modeling and optimization of a solar adsorption cooling system under weather conditions in Algeria by Mohammed Benramdane, Adenane Ghrici, Zakaria Sari Hassoun, Mohammed El Amine Chikh

“…The present work evaluates the influence of the operating parameters, the solar collector location and the working pair type on the performance of a solar adsorption refrigeration system. …”
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Design and Test of a Bionic Auxiliary Soil-Crushing Device for Strip-Tillage Machines by Kui Zhang, Yong-Ying Zhang, Xinliang Zhao, Yun Zhao, Xin Feng, Qi Wang, Jinwu Wang

“…Specifically, we conducted a theoretical analysis of the soil-crushing blade to identify the key structural parameters affecting operational performance, along with their optimal value ranges. …”
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Performance of Stud Clusters in Precast Bridge Decks by Chang-Su Shim, Dong-Wook Kim, Mai Xuan Nhat

“…A new design approach to clustered stud shear connection in composite bridges with precast decks is required to accommodate highly concentrated shear force in small area. …”
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Homogeneity Equation for the Effective Elastic Properties of Heterogenous Rocks Developed From Machine Learning by E. Maalouf, H. Kareem, H. Chebli

“…By training a single‐layer neural network, an accurate homogeneity equation is derived, relating effective elastic properties to dimensionless inclusion parameters. This approach to obtain a homogeneity equation has applications in rock mechanics, geophysics, and composite materials.…”
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