Detection of Injury Biomarkers in Sweat of Collegiate Athletes Pre- and Post-Football Season: A Pilot Study by Sarah E. Svirsky, Christopher C. Wood, Olivia Raymond, Peyton McIntyre, Hannah Appleton, Chelsea Wagner, Jessica Gill, Ava M. Puccio

“…Paired and un-paired non-parametric statistical analyses were conducted. Athletes reported little to no concussion injuries from the season and experienced minimal symptoms. …”
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Effect of etching with different hydrofluoric acid concentrations on bond strength between glazed feldspathic ceramic and metal brackets by Cristiane Frantz Arend, André Gundel, Renésio Armindo Grehs, Vilmar Antônio Ferrazzo, Luiz Felipe Valandro

“…Data were statistically analyzed using the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test. One-way ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey’s tests were applied to the contact angle data (p < 0.05). …”
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Shear Strengthening of High-Strength Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams with Openings Using High-Performance Concrete Mortars by Ahmed Hamoda, Mohamed Emara, Mizan Ahmed, Aref A. Abadel

“…The specific design and strengthening strategies employed effectively improve their load-bearing capacity concerning the opening size ratio. Application of the HPC mortars with higher compressive and tensile strength further results in the improvement of their shear performance. …”
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An Opposition-Based Great Wall Construction Metaheuristic Algorithm With Gaussian Mutation for Feature Selection by Farouq Zitouni, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad, Guojiang Xiong, Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Saad Harous

“…Its complexity arises from the vast search space, necessitating the application of metaheuristic methods to efficiently identify optimal feature subsets. …”
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Entrepreneurship education programmes research in Russia: Stakeholder expectations and university practice by А. A. Iashin, A. K. Klyuev, A. P. Bagirova, D. Williams

“…To address the objective of research, descriptive statistics and non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-test were applied.Results. …”
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Study on roof deflection distribution of ultra-long working faces based on matrix displacement method by Youwang XING, Mingzhong LI, Jinhu ZHANG, Ruyu YAN, Jiangbin LIU

“…This study deepens the application of beam models in mining and provides guidance for hydraulic support design in ultra-long working faces.…”
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Reducing impact load on RC-Slabs using Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) by Yosra El-Maghraby, John Wael, Aya Assem, Ahmad E. Khalil

“…Future work will focus on parametric studies involving EPS thickness, EPS density, steel reinforcement ratio, intensity of impact load and concrete material properties to generalize the results for broader applications.…”
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Modeling the Production Process of Lignin Nanoparticles Through Anti-Solvent Precipitation for Properties Prediction by Victor Girard, Laurent Marchal-Heussler, Hubert Chapuis, Nicolas Brosse, Nadia Canilho, Isabelle Ziegler-Devin

“…Despite progress, LNP industrial application faces challenges: (1) reliance on kraft lignin from declining raw biomass processes, (2) sulfur-rich and condensed lignin use, (3) complex lignin macroparticles to LNP conversion, using harmful and toxic solvents, and, above all, (4) lack of control over the LNP production process (i.e., anti-solvent precipitation parameters), resulting in excessive variability in properties. …”
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A pharmacokinetic comparison of three pharmaceutical formulations of nimesulide in healthy volunteers by Jovanović Dušan, Kilibarda Vesna, Todorović Veljko, Potrebić Olivera

“…Concerning the comparable amounts of nimesulide available in the systemic circulation after application of these formulations the one might not expect therapeutic failure after switching the patient from one to another.…”
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Design of Corrugated Airfoil for a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle by Syed Hossein Raza Hamdani, Fatima Tuz Zehra, Muhammad Umer Sohail, Hassan Elahi, Muhammad Rizwan Mughal

“…Using the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 0012 airfoil as a baseline, a parametric study has been conducted for the design parameters of the corrugations. …”
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A Machine Learning Model Integrating Tongue Image Features and Myocardial Injury Markers Predicts Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by Zhou M, Li J, Lim J, Xiao X, Xia Y, Wang Q, Xu Z

“…After sample balancing using the SMOTE method, non-parametric tests revealed significant differences in imaging indicators, some myocardial injury markers, and tongue image parameters between the 2 groups of patients:LDH,MYO,TC_ROOT_R,TC_ROOT_G (P&lt; 0.05); the XGBoost, LightGBM models had the highest predictive power (The AUC values of the verification set &gt; 0.97); the combination of SHAP values revealed the importance of the features and provided a quantitative metric to assess the contribution of each feature to the prediction results, Finally, subgroup analysis was conducted based on specific events of MACE.Conclusion: This study provides insight into the potential application of myocardial injury markers, tongue colour parameters, in the prediction of MACE, and future studies could extend the optimisation of the prediction model and explore its application in other cardiovascular diseases.Keywords: machine learning, coronary heart disease, major adverse cardiovascular events, markers of myocardial injury, tongue image, prediction models…”
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Experimental and Numerical Study on the Compression Behavior of Square Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Stub Columns with Steel Fiber-Reinforced High-Strength Concrete by Hyung-Suk Jung, Baek-Il Bae, Hyun-Ki Choi, Joo-Hong Chung, Chang-Sik Choi, Yun-Cheul Choi

“…Additionally, we performed parametric study using ABAQUS to establish the broad applications of CFT using high-performance materials, with the width-to-thickness ratio as the main parameter. …”
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Design and study of ultra-wideband folded loop antennas by LV Wen-jun, ZHU Hong-bo

“…Design of a novel ultra-wideband folded loop antenna was proposed.It was fed by coplanar waveguide and can be easily integrated with other microwave circuits.By introducing a pentagonal folded loop,the bandwidth of the an-tenna is improved twice than that of conventional folded loop antenna.Parametric study is carried out numerically by us-ing EM simulators.Based on numerical results,the antenna is also studied experimentally.As can be seen,an operation bandwidth of over 4.75:1 is obtained.The presented antenna may be practical for ultra-wideband applications.…”
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Numerical Modeling on the Damage Behavior of Concrete Subjected to Abrasive Waterjet Cutting by Xueqin Hu, Chao Chen, Gang Wang, Jenisha Singh

“…Based on the parametric analysis, two optimized abrasive waterjet configurations are proposed: one tailored for rock fragmentation in tunnel boring machine (TBM) operations; and another for cutting reinforced concrete piles in shield tunneling applications. …”
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Multiple Solutions for Elliptic px,qx-Kirchhoff-Type Potential Systems in Unbounded Domains by Nabil Chems Eddine, Abderrahmane El Hachimi

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Affine Calculus for Constrained Minima of the Kullback–Leibler Divergence by Giovanni Pistone

“…The non-parametric version of Amari’s dually affine Information Geometry provides a practical calculus to perform computations of interest in statistical machine learning. …”
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A model of inflation consistent with Planck 2018 and BICEP/Keck data by Li-Yang Chen, Hongwei Yu, Puxun Wu

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A triple-band metamaterial absorber for gas sensing and refractive index detection through enhanced FOM and Q-factor performance in the THz regime by Md. Murad Kabir Nipun, Md. Jahedul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman

“…The figure of merit (FOM) of the proposed MMA having value of 15.45, 23.82, and 29.87shows progressively higher sensing application and precisely identify small changes in refractive index. …”
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Mapping the future: The current landscape and future directions of evidence-based practice in Saudi radiology departments. by Walaa Alsharif, Faisal Alrehily, Fahad H Alhazmi, Awadia Greeballah, Abdulaziz A Qurashi, Shrooq Aldahery, Adnan Alahmadi, Amirah Alsaedi, Sultan Alshoabi, Khalid M Alshamrani, Awatif M Omer, Raghad Aljuhani

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>To examine the current application of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) among radiology professionals, including radiologists and radiographers, in Saudi Arabia and to identify challenges in order to propose suitable future improvement strategies if it is required.…”
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Article RETRACTED due to manipulation by the authors Analysis of Multiple Intelligence of Elementary Students in Physical Education Lessons in Yogyakarta Indonesia by Ismail Gani, Tomoliyus Tomoliyus, Awan Hariono, Ratko Pavlovic, Arief Darmawan, Abdul Aziz Purnomo Shidiq, Muhammad Imam Rahmatullah

“… The application of learning based on multiple intelligences has implications for collective awareness about diversity, uniqueness and equitable education. …”
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