A Simple Model for Elastic-Plastic Contact of Granular Geomaterials by Jian Wang, Qimin Li, Changwei Yang, Yidan Huang, Caizhi Zhou

“…Within the given range of material properties, those four parameters can be quickly accessed by interpolating the data appended or by regression functions supplied. …”
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Biocompatibility of Styrene-butadiene Copolymer-modified Calcium Phosphate and Mineral Trioxide Aggregate : A Comparative Histological Study by Hala B. Kaka, Raid F. Salman

“…One can conclude that the new formulation of CPC considered biocompatible, which rises the success rate of endodontic treatment.…”
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Removal of arsenic from liquid blister copper during remelting in an induction vacuum furnace by Łabaj J., Blacha L., Smalcerz A., Chmiela B.

“…The kinetic analysis indicated that the arsenic evaporation rate was controlled by the combination of both liquid and gas-phase mass transfer only at a pressure of 8 Pa.…”
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Improving older people’s experiences and safety at transitions of care: the PACT mixed-methods study including RCT by Jenni Murray, Ruth Baxter, Jane O’Hara, Laura Sheard, Catherine Hewitt, Natasha Hardicre, Charles Vincent, Eirini Oikonomou, Gerry Richardson, Rosie Shannon, Kalpita Baird, Stephen Brealey, Robbie Foy, Laura Mandefield, Sarah Hampton, Ed Breckin, Lubena Mirza, Alfredo Palacios, Sally Moore, Jayne Marran, Jacqui Elliot, Jane Schofield, Alison Cracknell, Beth Woods, Sarah Cockayne, Thomas Mills, Yvonne Birks, Olivia Joseph, Rebecca Lawton

“…Work package 5: Primary outcome data were collected for 90% of participants. Follow-up questionnaire response rates were lower than anticipated (75% vs. 85%). …”
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Pain intensity and stress indicators after cemented total knee replacement with epidural application of morphine: prospective randomized study by S. V. Sokolov, V. A. Glushchenko

“…The hemodynamics of the patients, the volume of intraoperative blood loss, and infusion therapy were homogeneous due to the carefully developed surgical procedure, had no significant differences and were not taken into account when publishing the data. The level of glycemia and cortisol in venous blood on the day of surgery (1 hour before surgery and 4 hours after surgery), age, and pain intensity on a numerical rating scale (NRS) were studied. …”
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Experimental study on the synchronization mechanism and trigger characteristic density of vertical evacuation in crowds by Longmei Zhang, Xin Wu, Huali Lin, Man Zhang, Yonghong Liu

“…After the experiment, the video footage is imported into the TRACKER system to extract the coordinates of pedestrian step movements, after which the experimental data undergo calculations and visual analysis. The research findings indicate the following: Firstly, when the crowd coordinates trigger the synchronization mechanism, this behavior remains stable as long as pedestrian speed and direction are unchanged; Secondly, the variation in footstep speed over time is not directly related to the footstep synchronization rate of the crowd; Lastly, this study calculated the characteristic density value most likely to trigger the synchronization mechanism during vertical evacuation. …”
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Electromagnetic induction heating of polymer nanocomposites: a computational study on design parameters by Taha Najam, Suhail Hyder Vattathurvalappil, Mahmoodul Haq, Abrar H. Baluch

“…Numerical predictions were validated against experimental data at four Fe3O4 weight concentrations, demonstrating strong agreement and confirming a positive correlation between nanoparticle content and heating rate. …”
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Enhancement for heat pipe using different configurations: Review study by Ola Talal Mayoof, Nabil J. Yasin, Ayad Abdullah

“… The majority of the energy utilized in systems is transformed into heat energy, making the world's constantly rising rate of energy consumption one of the most significant challenges of our day. …”
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Leveraging AHP and transfer learning in machine learning for improved prediction of infectious disease outbreaks by Reham Abdallah, Sayed Abdelgaber, Hanan Ali Sayed

“…The result reveals that the ensemble model is particularly effective, achieving the highest accuracy rate of 96.80% and an AUC of 0.9197 for predicting Zika outbreaks. …”
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Kinetics of Adsorption of Ferrous Ion onto Acid Activated Carbon from Zea Mays Dust by P. K. Baskaran, B. R. Venkatraman, S. Arivoli

“…The adsorption followed first order reaction equation and the rate is mainly controlled by intraparticle diffusion. …”
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Impact of Social Networks on Entrepreneurial Innovation and Business Performance in SMEs by Binh Le, Ngoc Tien Nguyen

“…A 1% increase in social networks was associated with an increase of 2.8 percentage points in incremental product innovation and 1.5 percentage points in process innovation. The more extensive social networks also helped enterprises perform their business better by increasing their real revenue, real profit, and rate of return on assets. …”
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Thermal Hazard Study on the Synthesis of 3-Amino-4-nitrofurazan by Liping Chen, Jiayu Lyu, Juan Zhou, Meiling Liu, Zichao Guo, Wanghua Chen

“…Kinetic parameters were derived using a five-step reaction model based on heat generation rate data. Findings indicate that the fourth reaction step, responsible for ANF formation, demonstrated the highest heat release at 599.9 kJ·mol-1 with an activation energy of 93.0 kJ·mol -1. …”
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Projected demographic profile of people living with HIV in Australia: planning for an older generation. by James Jansson, David P Wilson

“…Processes that were simulated include progression to AIDS, mortality and internal migration.…”
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DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN D-8 COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF THE CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX (CPI) AS A MODERATING VARIABLE by Agitsna Alya Rizqa, Muhammad Ghafur Wibowo

“…Elevated economic growth and high export values imply that investors might resort to bribery to expand their global market share and enhance production processes to satisfy high demand. The stability of the exchange rate mirrors technological advancements, creating a corruption-free virtuous cycle that fosters increased investment. …”
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A Self-Consistent Model for Thermal Oxidation of Silicon at Low Oxide Thickness by Gerald Gerlach, Karl Maser

“…The oxidant flux has been revealed to be carried by non-Fickian flux processes depending on sites being able to lodge dopants (oxidants), the so-called DOCC-sites, as well as on the dopant jump rate.…”
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Defense scheme for the world state based attack in Ethereum by Zhen GAO, Dongbin ZHANG, Xiao TIAN

“…Ethereum is taken as the representative platform of the second generation of blockchain system.Ethereum can support development of different distributed applications by running smart contracts.Local database is used to store the account state (named world state) for efficient validation of transactions, and the state root is stored in the block header to guarantee the integrity of the state.However, some researches revealed that the local database could be easily tempered with, and attackers can issue illegal transactions based on the modified account state to obtain illegitimate benefits.This world-state based security problem was introduced, and the preconditions for attack were analyzed.Compared with the two common security threats under the PoW (proof of work) consensus, it was found that when the attacker controls the same mining computing power, the world-state based attack brought higher risk, and the success rate approached 100%.In order to deal with this threat, a practical scheme for attack detection and defense was proposed accordingly.The secondary verification and data recovery process were added to the Ethereum source code.The feasibility and complexity of the proposed scheme was evaluated with single-machine multi-threading experiments.The proposed scheme improves Ethereum’s tolerance to malicious tampering of account state, and is applicable to other blockchain platforms applying local database for transaction validation, such as Hyperledger Fabric.In addition, the time and computational overhead brought by the proposed scheme are not prominent, so it has good applicability and induces acceptable impact on the performance of original system.…”
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Implementing Expected Credit Loss in the Iranian Banking Industry by Samine Feyzollah, Ahmad Badri

“…We designed a questionnaire with 46 questions and sent them to four groups include: "banks", "bank auditors", "regulatory bodies" and "academic experts and researchers". The questionnaire’s rate of return was 90% and data were analyzed using fuzzy logic. …”
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SILK TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: TRENDS IN THE PERIOD 2010-2019 by Agatha POPESCU

“…The paper analyzed in the EU silk export, import and trade balance in the period 2010-2019 pointing out the main tendencies and the role and position of the major "actors" in silk commercial transactions. The data provided by International Trade Center were processed using the fixed basis index, descriptive statistics, average annual growth rate, and trend method based on regression models. …”
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Evaluating Grayware Characteristics and Risks by Zhongqiang Chen, Zhanyan Liang, Yuan Zhang, Zhongrong Chen

“…The features used in learning models are selected with information gain and the high dimensionality of feature space is reduced by word stemming and stopword removal process. The grayware categorizations on diversified features reveal that grayware typically attempts to improve its penetration rate by resorting to multiple installation mechanisms and reduced code footprints. …”
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A Simplistic Regression-Based Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Tool-Work Interface Temperature by Utkarsh ., Saumya KUMAR, Saaransh KUMAR, G. Uday KIRAN, Arkadeb MUKHOPADHYAY, Manik BARMAN

“…Further, the genetic algorithm predicts an optimal combination of parameters, which is 82.542 m/min cutting speed, 0.276 mm/rev feed rate and 0.2 mm depth.…”
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