Dissecting the urban footprint of unplanned settlements shaping macroinvertebrate communities in Wuye River, Abuja, Nigeria by Francis O. Arimoro, Jacob James, Eunice O. Ikayaja, Fulbert A. G. J. Assie, Augustine O. Edegbene, Unique N. Keke

“…Abstract Urbanization poses a significant threat to river ecosystems, causing widespread degradation of river health. …”
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A case study on the stability of a big underground powerhouse cavern cut by an interlayer shear zone in the China Baihetan hydropower plant by Lifang Zou, Guotao Meng, Jiayao Wu, Wei Fu, Weijiang Chu, Weiya Xu

“…Particularly, in the detail design stage, mechanical parameters of the shear zone were carefully determined through laboratory experiments and site tests. …”
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Design and Applications of High Force Generation in 3D-Printed Pneumatic Artificial Muscles by Jae Hyeong Park, Seungweon Jeon, Young Jin Gong, Jimin Yoon, Dongsu Shin, Hyeon-Woong Seo, Bo Geun Kim, Ja Choon Koo, Hyungpil Moon, Rodrigue Hugo, Hyouk Ryeol Choi

“…Increasing the force generation and scalability of soft pneumatic actuators poses significant challenges in robotics applications, especially where high load capacities and precise control are required. …”
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Physiological Responses of Juvenile Bullfrogs (<i>Aquarana catesbeiana</i>) to Salinity Stress by Xiaoting Zheng, Xueying Liang, Qiuyu Chen, Jingyi Xie, Hongbiao Dong, Jinlong Yang, Jiasong Zhang

“…However, salinity stress due to environmental changes and habitat salinization poses a significant challenge for both wild and farmed bullfrogs. …”
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A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Permafrost Stability Assessment by Polina Pilyugina, Timofey Chernikov, Maria Smirnova, Alexey Zaytsev, Alexander Bulkin, Evgeny Burnaev, Ilya S. Belalov, Nazar Sotiriadi, Albert Efimov, Yury Maximov, Oleg Anisimov

“…Although simpler models with fewer input parameters offer convenience, they generally lack accuracy. …”
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Magnetic Field Amplification during Stellar Collisions between Low-mass Stars by Taeho Ryu, Alison Sills, Ruediger Pakmor, Selma de Mink, Robert Mathieu

“…In the collisional formation scenario, excessive angular momentum in the collision product poses a challenge, as the consequent significant mass loss during transition to a stable state leads to a star with too low of a mass to be a blue straggler, unless it spins down efficiently. …”
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Ion irradiation introduced high-density core-shell structured nanoprecipitates in FeCrNi by Yizhou Qian, Xiaolei Ma, Kangkang Wen, Siyu Chen, Yiheng Chen, Yugang Wang, Tongde Shen, Gang Sha, Chenxu Wang

“…This synthesis method overcomes traditional limitations posed by thermodynamic constraints and grain boundary (GB) agglomeration, providing a potential pathway for the precise tailoring of microstructures. …”
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Influence of Compressive Strength and Steel-Tube Thickness on Axial Compression Performance of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete-Filled Stainless-Steel Tube Columns Containing Coarse... by Wenrui Li, Mengqi Zhu, Guo Li, Yang Hu, Bei Wang, Yongfei Cao, Wenting He, Haiyang Li, Zhaopeng Tang, Yingda Zhang

“…With the increasing use of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) structures, exposed steel tubes are highly susceptible to corrosion, posing potential safety hazards. This study innovatively proposes the use of stainless-steel tubes instead of traditional carbon-steel ones and introduces coarse aggregates into ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), forming a coarse aggregate-incorporated ultra-high-performance concrete-filled stainless-steel tube (CA-UFSST). …”
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Behavioural responses of common dolphins to naval sonar by Brandon L. Southall, John W. Durban, John Calambokidis, Caroline Casey, James A. Fahlbusch, Holly Fearnbach, Kiirsten R. Flynn, Selene Fregosi, Ari S. Friedlaender, Samantha G. M. Leander, Fleur Visser

“…Changes in subgroup movement and aggregation parameters were commonly detected during different phases of MFAS CEEs but not control CEEs. …”
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ANN-QSAR, Molecular Docking, ADMET Predictions, and Molecular Dynamics Studies of Isothiazole Derivatives to Design New and Selective Inhibitors of HCV Polymerase NS5B by Maroua Fattouche, Salah Belaidi, Oussama Abchir, Walid Al-Shaar, Khaled Younes, Muneerah Mogren Al-Mogren, Samir Chtita, Fatima Soualmia, Majdi Hochlaf

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> RNA polymerase (NS5B), serves as a crucial target for pharmaceutical interventions aimed at combating the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which poses significant health challenges worldwide. The present research endeavors to explore and implement a variety of advanced molecular modeling techniques that aim to create and identify innovative and highly effective inhibitors that specifically target the RNA polymerase enzyme. …”
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DeLA: An extremely faster network with decoupled local aggregation for large scale point cloud learning by Weikang Yang, Xinghao Lu, Binjie Chen, Chenlu Lin, Xueye Bao, Weiquan Liu, Yu Zang, Junyu Xu, Cheng Wang

“…With advances in data collection technology, the volume of recent remote sensing point cloud datasets has grown significantly, posing substantial challenges for point cloud deep learning, particularly in neighborhood aggregation operations. …”
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Single spike mutation differentiating XBB.1 and XBB.1.5 enhances SARS-CoV-2 cell-to-cell transmission and facilitates serum-mediated enhancement by Elena Criscuolo, Benedetta Giuliani, Matteo Castelli, Mattia Cavallaro, Sofia Sisti, Roberto Burioni, Davide Ferrari, Nicasio Mancini, Massimo Locatelli, Nicola Clementi, Nicola Clementi

“…IntroductionThe ongoing emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants poses significant challenges to existing therapeutics. …”
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Dermal bioaccessibility and health risk assessment associated with mining production of metals (Pb-Zn-Ag) and critical raw materials (Sb-W) in the Iberian Peninsula by Inmaculada Ferri-Moreno, Iker Martínez-del-Pozo, Pablo Huertas, Pablo Higueras, José Ignacio Barquero-Peralbo, José María Esbrí, Mari Luz García-Lorenzo

“…Methodologies used to obtain Dermal Average Dose (DAD) showed that the use of generic parameters and the exclusion of bioaccessibility data underestimates results for non-carcinogenic assessment. …”
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Investigation of the mechanism for the one-step synthesis of nano-cerium oxide via green electrolysis of cerium chloride by Ying-Qi Li, Xue-Qiang Gong, Ao-Yang Sha, Jiaxin Pan, Chui-Dai Lan, Ting-An Zhang

“…The investigation focused on the process parameters, including CeCl3 concentration, current density, and electrolysis temperature. …”
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MAH-YOLO: an enhanced YOLOv8n framework for loess landslide detection with multi-attention mechanisms by Yuan Liang, Zhe Chen, Zhengbo Yu, Zhong Wang, Qingyun Ji, Ziqiong He, Dongsheng Zhong, Zhongchang Sun, Huadong Guo

“…The Loess Plateau, with its fragile ecological environment and frequent landslides, poses severe risks to both ecological safety and human life. …”
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Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNAs and <i>BRCA1</i> in Breast Cancer Pathogenesis: Neighboring Companions or Nemeses? by Olalekan Olatunde Fadebi, Thabiso Victor Miya, Richard Khanyile, Zodwa Dlamini, Rahaba Marima

“…The tendency of breast cancer patients to develop metastases poses significant challenges in clinical management. …”
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First-line endocrine therapy combined with CDK 4/6 inhibitor in disseminated carcinomatosis of bone marrow (DCBM) luminal breast cancer: a case report by Eko Adhi Pangarsa, Putri Dwi Astuti, Daniel Rizky, Kevin Tandarto, Budi Setiawan, Andreas Agung Winarno, Damai Santosa, Catharina Suharti

“…Abstract Background Metastatic breast cancer especially in disseminated carcinomatosis of bone marrow (DCBM) poses a life-threatening risk, often requiring systemic chemotherapy. …”
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Lifelong Whole Slide Image Analysis: Online Vision-Language Adaptation and Past-to-Present Gradient Distillation by Doanh C. Bui, Hoai Luan Pham, Vu Trung Duong Le, Tuan Hai Vu, Van Duy Tran, Khang Nguyen, Yasuhiko Nakashima

“…However, the rapid growth of computational tasks involving WSIs poses significant challenges. Given that WSIs are gigapixels in size, they present difficulties in terms of storage, processing, and model training. …”
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Diverging effects of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on immunosenescence and inflammageing in rheumatoid arthritis... by Tobias Schwarz, Giovanni Almanzar, Sebastian Völkl, Martin Feuchtenberger, Johannes Leierer, Christian Schmidt, Frank Deininger, Hans-Peter Tony, Marc Schmalzing, Martina Prelog

“…Premature immunosenescence is thought to be pathogenetically relevant in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), either by posing a risk factor for its development, or by advancing the rheumatic disease as a result of excess antigenic and inflammatory stimulation. …”
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Emergence and N metabolism of Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. seedlings in soil contaminated by nickel by Gabriela S. RAQUETI, Tassia Caroline FERREIRA, Maiara Luzia G. OLIVIO, Fabio A.A. MORAIS, Aline Renee COSCIONE, Liliane S. CAMARGOS

“… Heavy metals such as nickel (Ni) can lead to bioaccumulation, affecting entire ecosystems and posing significant risks to various life forms, including plants. …”
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