The washback of the abolition of the national examination in Indonesia by Ifan Rikhza Auladi

“…It was then found that the establishment of SBA replacing NE obtains positive responses from the teachers as it is perceived more reliable with objectives of the English curriculum, which attempts to elevate students' high order thinking skills. …”
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Elevating Clinical Semantics: Contrastive Pre-Training Beyond Cross-Entropy in Discharge Summaries by Svetlana Kim, Yuchae Jung

“…We propose Contrastive Representations Pre-Training (CRPT) to address this gap, replacing the conventional Next Sentence Prediction task’s cross-entropy loss with contrastive loss and incorporating whole-word masking to capture multi-token domain-specific terms better. …”
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Noninvasive assessment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by Gajanan A Rodge, Mahesh Kumar Goenka

“…Noninvasive tests may not completely replace liver biopsy, but it may help to avoid it where probability of fibrosis is low.…”
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A systematic literature review on the role of artificial intelligence in citizen science by Germain Abdul-Rahman, Andrej Zwitter, Noman Haleem

“…Our findings illustrate ML techniques, including deep learning, clustering algorithms, and convolutional neural networks, boost data annotation, classification, and validation in applications across various disciplines. …”
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Effects of Perforated Plates on Shock Structure Alteration for NACA0012 Cascade Configurations by Mihnea Gall, Oana Dumitrescu, Valeriu Drăgan, Daniel-Eugeniu Crunțeanu

“…This research sheds light on the behavior of perforated plates as passive flow control techniques applied to NACA0012 airfoils in cascade configurations. …”
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Study on the Effect of Oxidative Jet and Vortex Structure in Fluidic Throat Combined with Thrust Vector Control by Dongfeng Yan, Yi Xiao, Lu Ye, Ganchao Zhao, Liang Wang

“…Concerning flow details, the trailing lower vortex replaces the trailing major vortex to become the highest magnitude vortex when the momentum flux ratio is small.…”
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Investigating muscle protein synthesis using deuterium oxide: The impact of dietary protein interventions across the lifespan by Matthew S. Brook

“…Much of our current understanding of protein intake, specifically its quantity, quality and distribution, comes from stable isotope‐labelled amino acid methods. These techniques, however, are limited by time constraints and controlled settings, providing only brief snapshots of MPS dynamics. …”
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Satmikarana with Triphala Churna: A Pilot Single-arm Interventional Study for Tobacco (Masheri) De-addiction by Nitesh Raghunath Joshi, Bhakti Bhau Mehta

“…Traditional de-addiction techniques frequently entail a sudden stop, which causes withdrawal symptoms that make long-term recovery more difficult. …”
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Effective Utilization of Synthesized FeS2 for Improving Output Performance of Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell by Moganapriya Chinnasamy, Rajasekar Rathanasamy, Santhosh Sivaraj, Gobinath Velu Kaliyannan, Manivasakan Palanisamy, Samir Kumar Pal, Md. Elias Uddin

“…Solar cells are capable of converting light energy into electrical energy and can completely replace the utilization of fossil fuel energy resources. …”
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Chemistry, Safety, and Challenges of the Use of Organic Acids and Their Derivative Salts in Meat Preservation by Olfa Ben Braïek, Slim Smaoui

“…Meat industries are constantly facing new waves of changes in the consumer’s nutritional trends, food safety, and quality requirements and legislations leading to an increase in interest for meat biopreservation to respond to all of these modern socioeconomic demands. Hence, to replace synthetic and/or expensive additives, new technologies in preserving meat products from microbial contamination have been established. …”
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Revisiting India’s Neighborhood First Policy in the Context of Growing US China Engagement in Nepal by Dron Prasad Lamichhane

“…This study uses qualitative, exploratory research techniques to analyze the geopolitical relation and diplomacy.…”
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Use of trichloroacetic acid for closure of lesion by extensors in lobules of ears by Juliana Gulelmo Staut, Diego Ovalle Torres, Juliano Pereira, André Coewlho Nepomuceno, Carina Padua, Fernando Giovanetti Morano, Rodrigo Pinto Gimenez

“…There are multiple techniques with mobilization of local flaps in an attempt to close and return to the natural shape of the lobe. …”
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GRAPHIC NOVEL TRANSLATION: SEMIOTIC AND MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE by Anna V. Khodorenko.

“…On the one hand, extralinguistic objects engraved in pictures of the graphic novel may present the reason for the translation technique of addition, and on the other hand the absence of some details in the pictures may justify the translation technique of omission. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Nephrology: Clinical Applications and Challenges by Prabhat Singh, Lokesh Goyal, Deobrat C. Mallick, Salim R. Surani, Nayanjyoti Kaushik, Deepak Chandramohan, Prathap K. Simhadri

“…However, nephrology has lagged in adopting and incorporating machine learning techniques. Nephrology is well positioned to capitalize on the benefits of AI. …”
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Bloch Surface Wave Assisted Structured Illumination Microscopy for Sub-100 nm Resolution by Weijie Kong, Changtao Wang, Mingbo Pu, Xiaoliang Ma, Xiong Li, Xiangang Luo

“…In this paper, we propose an alternative SIM assisted by Bloch surface wave (BSW). Through replacing the conventional laser interference fringes with sub-diffraction BSW counterparts with higher spatial frequency, the imaging resolution of SIM could be enhanced greatly and the super-resolution imaging capability down to 80 nm could be achieved. …”
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Engineering Nanostructure, Interface, and Prelithiation of Advanced Silicon-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes by Zaohong Zhang, Kai Zhang, Ying Li, Zibiao Li, Chuan Wu, Jia Hong Pan

“…Silicon (Si) has emerged as a leading candidate to replace traditional graphite anodes in the next generation of high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries, owing to its exceptionally high theoretical capacity, favorable working voltage, natural abundance, and environmental friendliness. …”
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Business Models and Advanced Additive Manufacturing strategies for better sustainability by Fabrizia Devito, Giacomo Copani, Angelo Natalicchio, Abdul Hai Alami, Fulvio Lavecchia, Abdul-Ghani Olabi, Michele Dassisti

“…While AM is not positioned to entirely replace traditional manufacturing processes, organizations can leverage its integration with these processes to catalyze business model innovation. …”
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HSI Reconstruction: A Spectral Transformer With Tensor Decomposition and Dynamic Convolution by Le Sun, Xihan Ma, Xinyu Wang, Qiao Chen, Zebin Wu

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Bistable variable stiffness laminates - novel manufacturing and modeling strategies by P.M. Anilkumar, A. Haldar, G. Clancy, S. Scheffler, B.N. Rao, P.M. Weaver, R. Rolfes

“…The production of VS laminates requires the use of advanced manufacturing techniques that enable the precise placement of composite tape modules in the specified orientations. …”
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Coating of Hemp Fibres with Hydrophobic Compounds Extracted from Pine Bark by Robert Abbel, Regis Risani, Maxime Nourtier, Lloyd Donaldson, Christel Brunschwig, Claire Mayer-Laigle, James H. Bridson, Armin Thumm, Alan Dickson, Rachel Murray, Jessica Harris, Johnny Beaugrand, Stefan Hill

“…Applying coatings of paraffins and other synthetic waxes is a common approach to impart hydrophobic properties to fibres and thus control their surface characteristics. Replacing these fossil-based products with alternatives derived from renewable resources can contribute to humankind’s transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. …”
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