Optimization of Aeration for Improving Performance of Hospital Wastewater Treatment Plant by Zahra Hezarian, Ehsan Derikvand, Afshin Takdastan

“…Based on the results, EAAS process was efficient in eliminating nitrogen and phosphorus by using the helicoidal pumps of aeration blowers and regulating aeration rate. …”
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Innovation and valuation of Chinese born-global firms. by Ruize Cai, Chenyu Zhang, Yiming Xie, Minho Kim

“…In addition, the determinant factors for a company to adopt the BG mode are total assets, ownership, and the rate of the largest shareholder. Heterogeneity analysis indicates greater impact on private, foreign, and eastern regional firms. …”
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Residential Location Preferences in a Post-Conflict Context: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Assess High-Demand Areas in Kabul New City, Afghanistan by Vineet Chaturvedi, Walter Timo de Vries

“…The model simulates three alternative growth rate scenarios, i.e., ambitious, moderate, and steady. …”
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Drug abuse and drug addiction among students of University of Rajshahi by Faiqua Tahjiba

“…Conclusion: The findings of this research show that the rate of drug addiction among the students of RU was quite alarming. …”
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Treatment motivation in adolescent girls with obesity by A. S. Votineva, Zh. V. Prokhorova, V. M. Polyakov, I. A. Cherevikova

“…The dominant type of treatment motivation in both groups consisted of the following attitudes: achieving symptomatic improvement; receiving a “secondary gain” from the disease; other motivation (passive position).Conclusion. The obtained data from the study of treatment motivation in adolescent girls with obesity can be used to optimize the process of therapy of such patients in a hospital setting.…”
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Development of a Non-Uniform Heat Source Model for Accurate Prediction of Wheel Tread Temperature on Long Downhill Ramps by Jinyu Zhang, Jingxian Ding, Jianyong Zuo

“…This leads to a 40% increase in the temperature gradient variation rate and effectively reproduces the “hot spot” effect. …”
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PharmaLLM: A Medicine Prescriber Chatbot Exploiting Open-Source Large Language Models by Ayesha Azam, Zubaira Naz, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan

“…The learning rate was maintained at 2e-4 for stable adjustments, and a batch size of 12 was chosen to balance computational efficiency and learning effectiveness. …”
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A Bayesian framework for inferring regional and global change from stratigraphic proxy records (StratMC v1.0) by S. Edmonsond, B. Dyer

“…Records of large-scale Earth system change are constructed by piecing together geochemical proxy data from many different stratigraphic sections, each of which may be incomplete, time-uncertain, biased by local processes, and diagenetically altered. …”
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Conservative behavior of δ13C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the Cananéia-Iguape estuarine-lagoon complex (southeastern Brazil) by Christian Millo, Rita Stasevskas Kujawski, Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa, Anna Grizon, Elisa Oudin, Gláucia Bueno Benedetti Berbel, Guillaume Bertrand, Vitor Gonsalez Chiozzini, Elisabete de Santis Braga

“…Here we present the first set of δ13CDIC data from the Cananéia-Iguape Estuarine Complex (São Paulo, Brazil), a changing environment undergoing freshening at a rate of the order of 770 m3  s-1. …”
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Identification of Potential Land Locations for Green Open Space in Cirebon City Center (Case study: Pekalipan, Kesambi, and Kejaksan Districts) by Muhammad Satar, Mohamad Rizalby Yosliansyah, Nurrhisma Yuniar

“…Society cannot ignore the rapid growth of Cirebon city, as evidenced by the population growth rate, which has increased by 2.91% per year compared to the surrounding area. …”
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Fracture Propagation Modes of Lower Cambrian Shale Filled with Different Quartz Contents under Seepage-Stress Coupling by Zhonghu Wu, Shuang Wang, Jun Chen, Huailei Song, Wentao Wang, Ruyue Wang, Hao Liu

“…The results show that the average growth rate of the compressive strength and the fracture proportion for a quartz content of 50% to 65% are 4.22 and 1.15 times higher than those for 35% to 50%, respectively. …”
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Unsupervised post-training learning in spiking neural networks by Reyhaneh Naderi, Arash Rezaei, Mahmood Amiri, Herbert Peremans

“…Moreover, conventional neural networks are first trained on one dataset and subsequently evaluated on unseen data. In this traditional approach, the weights and structure of the model remain fixed once the training step concludes. …”
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Identification of a variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism and characterization of LEF-1 response elements in the promoter of the IDO1 gene. by Marion Soichot, Benjamin Hennart, Alaa Al Saabi, Audrey Leloire, Philippe Froguel, Claire Levy-Marchal, Odile Poulain-Godefroy, Delphine Allorge

“…<h4>Background</h4>Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step of the kynurenine pathway that is an important component of immunomodulatory and neuromodulatory processes. …”
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Adsorption of heavy metals onto food wastes: a review by Wilfrida Nyairo, Joel B. Njewa, Victor O. Shikuku

“…Further, the kinetic studies indicated that the adsorption processes largely followed a pseudo second-order model, showing chemisorption-mediated rate-limiting steps. …”
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Tidal Spin-up of Black Hole Progenitor Stars by Linhao Ma, Jim Fuller

“…Tidal spin-up in lower-mass systems is more efficient, providing an anticorrelation between the mass and spin of the BHs, which could be tested in future gravitational wave data. Nonlinear damping processes are poorly understood but may allow for more efficient tidal spin-up. …”
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Modeled Interdependencies between Intellectual Capital, Circular Economy and Economic Growth in the Context of Bioeconomy by Alexandru-Mircea Nedelea, Marilena Mironiuc, Maria Carmen Huian, Mihaela Bȋrsan, Maria Viorica Bedrule-Grigoruţă

“…The added value created in circular economy responds well to recyclable raw material export, to population employment in circular economy and to municipal waste recycling rate. The productivity of bioeconomy employees positively influences economic growth in the EU-28. …”
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Dual-Mode Method for Generating Adversarial Examples to Attack Deep Neural Networks by Hyun Kwon, Sunghwan Kim

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Functional state of peripheral nerves of lower limbs in patients with deforming knee joint arthrosis by T. K. Verkhozina, E. G. Ippolitova, N. I. Arsentieva, E. S. Tsyslyak

“…Changes in reflex excitability were observed in combination with prolapse of the H-reflex in the majority of patients. The data obtained indicate damage to the roots and spinal motoneurons in L3-L4-L5 and a change in the functional state of the peripheral nerves of the lower limbs, indicating a single pathogenetic mechanism of degenerative processes in the knee and spine.…”
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Two-Phase Globally Coupled Low-Density Parity Check Decoding Aided with Early Termination and Forced Convergence by Kun Zhu, Hongwen Yang

“…The initial variant, ET-1, predicts whether local decoding can be successful according to data characteristics and stop the local decoding iteration that is not expected to be successful in time. …”
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Vaccination against HPV: Theoretical Aspects and Practical Results of Cervical Cancer Prevention by N. V. Zarochentseva, O. I. Trushina, E. G Novikova, I. I. Baranov, P. D. Lopukhov, O. V. Rovinskaya

“…A promising direction for the prevention of squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) is prophylactic vaccination against HPV, the need for which is due to the role of HPV infection in carcinogenesis processes.The aim of this article is to summarize the currently available data on advances in the prevention of precancerous lesions and cervical cancer, primarily through vaccination against HPV infection.Conclusions. …”
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