Current Situation Analysis and Evaluation of Appropriate Performance Indicators with Web Based Calculation Tool for Water and Sewerage Administrations by Cansu Bozkurt, Mahmut Fırat, Abdullah Ateş

“…In order to reduce and control the water loss rate and to improve the system performance, the most appropriate indicators and processes are determined by considering the current situation and targets of the administrations. …”
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Factors contributing to neonatal mortality in a tertiary center in south West Bank: A single-center retrospective cohort study. by Ahmad Abu Sharkh, Farah Ighneimat, Yazan F Khdour, Noor Y Aladam, Inad Nawajaa, Alaa Al Janazerah, Insaf Najajrah, Beesan Maraqa

“…An institutional-based cohort study was conducted on 606 neonates admitted "transferred from other hospitals" to the NICU at PRCS Hospital from 2019 to 2024. Data were collected from the hospital's electronic registry, capturing clinical parameters and potential risk factors. …”
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EXPLORING THE KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION IN THE ADOPTION OF ICT IN SITE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA by Aghaegbuna OZUMBA, Winston SHAKANTU

“…With the use of a snowball effect, a response sample rate of approximately 80%, based on an effective sample population, was utilised for the research. …”
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Study on Properties of Magnesium Oxychloride Cement Solidified Soil by Haoyu Wang, Jinbao Zhang, Xiaohui Yan, Rui Xiong

“…Matlab simulation found that when the MgO content is 5.5% to 6% and the ratio of raw materials MgO, MgCl2, and H2O is 2.45 : 1 : 14 to 6.3 : 1 : 14, the performance of MOC solidified soil is excellent. Fitting UCS data, it is found that MOC solidified soil has early strength characteristics. …”
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Decay of eddies at the South-West Indian Ridge by Jonathan Durgadoo, Isabelle Ansorge, Beverly de Cuevas, Johann Lutjeharms, Andrew Coward

“…The effectiveness of this process is dependent on the rate of decay of the eddies. …”
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Radiomic‐based biomarkers: Transforming age and body composition metrics into personalized age‐informed indices by Radin Alikhani, Steven R. Horbal, Amy E. Rothberg, Manjunath P. Pai

“…Abstract Chronological age has been the standard for quantifying the aging process. While it is simple to quantify it cannot fully discern the biological variability of aging between individuals. …”
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Midwives’ competence in interpretation of the intrapartum cardiotocograph at public hospitals in Gauteng: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods study by Sanele Lukhele, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, Rodwell Gundo

“…During phase one, 122 midwives in Johannesburg and Tshwane District filled in self-administered questionnaires, and during phase two, 30 midwives took part in semi-structured qualitative interviews. The data from both phases was analyzed separately and then integrated using the Pillar Integration Process. …”
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Validation of real-time aging simulation of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) using accelerated aging in accordance with ASTM F1980 by Natalie Krug, Chaimae Chettouh, Jan-Christoph Zarges, Hans-Peter Heim

“…This discrepancy is substantiated by experimental data, including mechanical, thermal, and chemical analyses. …”
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Dynamic topology adaptability of adaptive multimodal transmission strategy based on environment perception in multi-hop routing of 5G vehicle network by Shengxia Tan, Xianshuang Zong, Feng Xiao

“…Then, graph sample and aggregation (GraphSAGE) is used to process the network topology and extract node and edge features of the data. …”
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Effect of paraquat-induced oxidative stress on gene expression and aging of the filamentous ascomycete Podospora anserina by Matthias Wiemer, Heinz D. Osiewacz

“…Aging of biological systems is influenced by various factors, conditions and processes. Among others, processes allowing organisms to deal with various types of stress are of key importance. …”
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Failure Management Overview in Optical Networks by Sergio Cruzes

“…The key ML techniques discussed include network kriging (NK) for performance estimation and failure localization, support vector machine (SVM) for classification tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for signal analysis and soft failure identification, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) for synthetic data generation and soft failure detection. It also explores the application of artificial neural networks (ANNs), autoencoders (AEs), Gaussian process (GP), long short-term memory (LSTM), and gated recurrent units (GRUs) in optical networks. …”
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Characterization, identification and life prediction of acoustic emission signals of tensile damage for HSR gearbox housing material by Ai Yibo, Zhang Yuanyuan, Cui Hao, Zhang Weidong

“…Findings – The results show that the growth rate of the logarithmic hit count of AE signals and that of logarithmic amplitude can well characterize the stage of the material tensile process, and the WSVM method can improve the classification accuracy of the imbalanced data to above 94%. …”
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A knowledge graph based remanufacturing equipment resource modeling method. [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Yuyao Guo, Lei Wang, Xuhui Xia, Binyuan Zhang, Xinlan Liu

“…Based on the top-down knowledge graph construction process, the RMER semantic association information of the ontology pattern and data layers was extracted and integrated to construct the RMER knowledge graph. …”
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Rift basins of the late phanerozoic of Africa: regional patterns and conceptual development aspects by V. M. Usova

“…In this regime, the magmatic basins of completed development were replaced by amagmatic basins of both tectonic types. (3) The migration of rifting from the end of the Paleozoic in the south and the Triassic in the west to the Late Cenozoic between Africa and Arabia was accompanied by a reduction in time intervals and an increase in the rate of deflection of the basins created by this process.   …”
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Automated Evaluation Method for Risk Behaviors of Quay Crane Operators at Ports Using Virtual Reality by Mengjie He, Yujie Zhang, Yi Liu, Yang Shen, Chao Mi

“…Based on the collected data, a DQN-based benchmark model reflecting the operational behaviors and decision-making processes of skilled operators has been developed. …”
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Research on fusion generation algorithm of visual communication and product design based on AIGC technology by Guoying Chen, Xiaofeng Lan, Kai Liu, Can Cheng

“…The current field of visual communication and product design is faced with some problems, such as low efficiency of creative inspiration acquisition, cumbersome design process and difficult to meet personalized needs. …”
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Urban Land Subsidence Characteristics and Their Relationship with Locations Liable to Waterlogging Based on SBAS-InSAR by LIU Huanyu, WU Zhen, YU Huanghao, CHEN Guangcheng, XIAO Yang, LI Kuang, LI Binquan

“…The results show that: ① the average subsidence rate in Nansha District is 1.363 mm/a, and the subsidence area is mainly located in the river bank, construction area, and reclamation area. …”
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Design and Improvement of Routing Protocol for Field Observation Instrument Networking Based on LEACH Protocol by Jiuyuan Huo, Xingyue Deng, Hamzah Murad Mohammed Al-Neshmi

“…The residual energy and the rechargeable energy of nodes are added in the process of cluster head (CH) election to reduce the risk of premature death of CHs and shortened network life cycle caused by the selection of nodes with less energy as CH. (2) In the process of cluster forming, the distance from CH to the base station (BS) and the residual energy of CH is considered when setting the cluster radius, to reasonably plan the cluster size and alleviate the “hot spot” problem. …”
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Modern aspects of allohernioplasty of postoperative ventral hernias (a literature review) by O. O. Vorovskyi

“…This problem was considered solved by the use of prosthetic mesh that became the standard of surgical approach in hernia repair since a recurrence rate was reduced to 20 %. However, the results of histological examination and body biological responses to an implant showed chronic inflammatory processes due to use of prosthetic material, especially polypropylene, causing purulent-inflammatory complications and intraperitoneal adhesion in 20.0–45.8 %. …”
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Convolutional Neural Networks to Facilitate the Continuous Recognition of Arabic Speech with Independent Speakers by Sally A. Sayed, Rania Ahmed Abdel Azeem Abul Seoud, Howida Y. Abdel Naby

“…Speech is one of the simplest ways to convey a message in a basic context, and ASR refers to the ability of machines to process and accept speech data from humans with the greatest degree of accuracy. …”
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