Non-coaxial plasticity of similar weakly cemented soft rock under directional shear stress path by Jiashun Liu, Zhiyong Zheng, Hui Zhou, Kaixin Zhu, Yang Wang, Ni Zhou, Siyu Wang, Mengyao Sun

“…And a new method for non-coaxial stress rate is proposed which can express the plastic strain increment directions. …”
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Is there a peer effect on corporate ESG performance? Evidence from China’s capital market by Longsheng Xi, Hongjie Bian, Xingyu Wang

“…The results show that: (i) There is an industry and regional peer effect on the ESG performance of enterprises, where the average ESG performance of other enterprises in the same industry and region, except for the focus enterprise, significantly affects the ESG performance of the focus enterprise.This core conclusion still holds true after robustness tests such as instrumental variable method, propensity score matching method, and first-order difference method to eliminate endogeneity issues, replace key measurement indicators, and control for macro factors. …”
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P-BERT: Toward Long Sequence Modeling by Enabling Language Representation With Prefix Sequence Compression, Soft Position Embedding, and Data Augmentation for Patent Relevance Asse... by Fei Wang, Xingchen Shi, Dongsheng Wang, Yinxia Lou

“…The characteristics of P-BERT lie in a prefix sequence compression method, a soft position embedding method and a data augmentation method. …”
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Stress, lipid profile and inflammatory responses to flunixin meglumine administration in surgical and non-surgical castration in donkeys by Hamidreza Alipour-Khairkhah, Saeed Azizi, Siamak Asri-Rezaei

“…It was concluded that non-surgical method, compared to the surgical method, was accompanied by more inflammation, stress, and pain; therefore, the surgical method could be suggested as a preferred technique for the castration of donkeys. …”
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Large-scale-aware data augmentation for reduced-order models of high-dimensional flows by Philipp Teutsch, Mohammad Sharifi Ghazijahani, Florian Heyder, Christian Cierpka, Jörg Schumacher, Patrick Mäder

“…Furthermore, we skip augmentations that are more detrimental to the model performance. We evaluate our method for three datasets, two from numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection flows and one from laboratory experiment for the flow past an array of cylinders. …”
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Shrinking Cities of the Russian Arctic: Public Discourse of Vorkuta Residents on the Place Identity and the Reasons for Population Outflow by Elena V. Nedoseka, Ekaterina N. Sharova, Veronika A. Lisova

“…The methodological basis of the work was the method of qualitative text analysis. The narrative analysis method was chosen as the main method of analyzing qualitative data. …”
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Efficient Adaptive Robust Aerodynamic Design Optimization Considering Uncertain Inflow Variations for a Diffusion Airfoil Across All Operating Incidences by Zhengtao Guo, Lei Bao, Chaolong Li, Xianzhong Gao, Wuli Chu

“…To account for the impact of inlet flow fluctuations on performance in blade design optimization, an efficient multi-objective adaptive robust aerodynamic design optimization (ARADO) method is proposed. The optimization method employs a novel sparse polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) and the advanced noisy Gaussian process regression (NGPR) technique is used to establish an initial stochastic surrogate model (SSM) containing statistical moments of aerodynamic performance. …”
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Different preferences for wine communication by Sandro Sillani, Alessandra Miccoli, Federico Nassivera

“…This study aimed at verifying the presence of variations in the reactions of different types of audiences to certain communication tools for wine. Five samples of audiences were compared: wine professionals, organic produce specialists, wine tourists, and two samples of general tourists. …”
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Mechanical and Water Absorption Characterization of Mango Seed Shell/Epoxy Composite for Low Load Carrying Structures by K. Mohan Kumar, Venkatesh Naik, Sunil S. Waddar, N. Santhosh, Vijayanand Kaup, H. V. Harish

“…The present work deals with the characterization of mango seed shell fiber reinforced epoxy composites by using hand layup method by varying the volume composition of the mango seed shell from 0 vol. % to 60 vol. % (M-0 to M-60). …”
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PALEONTOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE ECHINODERMS IN THE QOM FORMATION (CENTRAL IRAN) by Moghadam Iraj Maghfouri, Khaksar Keyvan

“…To classify these samples, classical and up-to-date methods were used.…”
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Expanding the scale and scope of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole of the Americas: Merging rocky intertidal biodiversity surveys with environmental DNA and... by Gonzalo Bravo, Gregorio Bigatti, Mariana Lozada, Luke Thompson, Juan Livore, María Mendez, Lorena Arribas, Lino Bigatti, Tyler Christian, Erasmo Macaya, Edgardo Londoño-Cruz, Nicolas Moity, Juan Cruz-Motta, Augusto Flores, Gabriela Vélez-Rubio, Maria Palomo, Cesar Cordeiro, Franciane Pellizzari, Maritza Cárdenas-Calle, La Daana Kanhai, Ivonne Vivar Linares, Patricia Gil-Kodaka, Linsey Martinez, Pablo Sugliano, Agostina Trigo, Juan Zottola, Dulce Blanco, Matias Tricase, Nadia Bravo, Mariana Degrati, Camila Tavano Formigo, Frank Muller-Karger, Enrique Montes

“…The workshop highlighted the potential of simple, replicable methods to support long-term monitoring, and emphasized the value of shared protocols, tools, and open data for building a more connected and resilient regional observation network.…”
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Nasopharyngeal Carriage, Serotype Distribution, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> Among PCV13-Vaccinated and -Unvaccinated Children in Iran by Fatemeh Ashrafian, Mona Sadat Larijani, Saiedeh Haji Maghsoudi, Delaram Doroud, Alireza Fahimzad, Zahra Pournasiri, Elham Jafari, Masoumeh Parzadeh, Sara Abdollahi, Elham Haj Agha Gholizadeh Khiavi, Anahita Bavand, Morvarid Shafiei, Mahdi Rohani, Amitis Ramezani

“…<i>S. pneumoniae</i> was identified through a combination of culture methods and biochemical tests, confirmed by real-time PCR. …”
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Exploring Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists Usage Among Non‐Diabetic Healthcare Providers: A Cross‐Sectional Multi‐Country Study by Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, Hana J. Abukhadijah, Vidusha Karavadi, Ibrahim Aqtam, Anas Ibraheem, Prakash Palanivelu, Mahmoud A. Khedr, Abdulkarim O. Agga, Obaid Ur Rehman, Eeshal Fatima, Mohammad A. Abu Asal, Rana Abutaima, Marwa M. Shaban, Mostafa Shaban, Muna Barakat, Nasser M. Aldosari, Albara M. Alomari, Adham A. Aljariri, Nabeel F. Al‐Lobaney, Mutaz I. Othman, Ahmad A. Abujaber, Kholoud Bastaki

“…Convenience sampling was employed, statistical analyses were performed using STATA 17. …”
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Normative Database of Spatiotemporal Gait Metrics Across Age Groups: An Observational Case–Control Study by Lianne Mobbs, Vinuja Fernando, R. Dineth Fonseka, Pragadesh Natarajan, Monish Maharaj, Ralph J. Mobbs

“…By doing so, we aim to enhance the clinical utility of gait analysis in diagnosing and managing health conditions. Methods: We conducted an observational case–control study involving 313 healthy participants. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Types of Deprivation and Social Tolerance among Citizens of Tehran by Negar Firouzeh, Khadijeh Safiri

“…Ultimately, this could influence the propensity for misbehavior or violence.  Materials & MethodsTo achieve this, we analyzed and synthesized various theories on deprivation and tolerance, focusing particularly on comprehensive and multidimensional frameworks proposed by theorists, such as Parsons, Bourdieu, Maslow, Inglehart, and Chalabi. …”
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Comparison of nanopore with illumina whole genome assemblies of the Epstein-Barr virus in Burkitt lymphoma by Isaac E. Kim, Abebe A. Fola, Enrique Puig, Titus Kipkemboi Maina, Sin Ting Hui, Hongyu Ma, Kaleb Zuckerman, Eddy O. Agwati, Alec Leonetti, Rebecca Crudale, Micah A. Luftig, Ann M. Moormann, Cliff Oduor, Jeffrey A. Bailey

“…The assemblies showed high concordance (99.61% similarity) to available Illumina-based assemblies. The improved method and assembly pipeline will allow for better understanding of EBV variation in relation to BL and is applicable more broadly for translational research studies, especially useful for laboratories in Africa where eBL is most widespread.…”
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Dominant Trends of Housing Market Development: Financing and Affordability by Svitlana Ianchuk

“…The methods of crosscountry statistical, graphical, and analytical analysis using the Excel 2010 software package for the sample from 25 European countries for 2011-2020 (limited data in 2019-2020 due to the availability of information on open information portals of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and European Union Statistical Office) were applied to determine dominant trends of housing market development, to analyse the dynamics of house prices, and financing social and affordable housing. …”
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Occurrence and risk of human infection and antimicrobial susceptibilities of escherichia coli isolates from beef sold for human consumption in Jos metropolis, Plateau state Nigeria... by Yohanna Iliya, Jacob Kwada Paghi Kwaga, Grace Sabo Kia, Yakubu Gunya Dogonyaro Dashe, Godwin Ojonugwa Agada, Muhammad Shakir Balogun, Charles Michael Akatobi

“…We determined the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibilities of Escherichia coli (E. coli) isolates from beef and assessed beef seller's practices and awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from Jos metropolis, Plateau State, Nigeria. Methods: We recruited 114 beef sellers and collected beef samples for the study. …”
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Potential of Indole-3-Carbinol compounds from broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) as natural aromatase blockers: In silico prediction and in vivo studies by Reski Amalia, Takashi Ohama, Ishwar Singh Parhar, Claude Mona Airin, Hiroshi Sato, Agung Budiyanto, Pudji Astuti

“…Male Sprague Dawley rats were used to measure CYP19 levels, and blood samples were analyzed using the ELISA method. Results: I3C meets the criteria as a drug candidate, binding to CYP19, CYP1A1, and CYP1B1 at the active site with similar poses and good affinities of -5.8, -7.8, and -8.2, respectively. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…Another approach is more typological.The method proposed in this book is influenced by the gap coding proposed by Thiele (1993), but applied at individual level. …”
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