Study on Strength and Microstructure of Cement-Based Materials Containing Combination Mineral Admixtures by Meijuan Rao, Jianpeng Wei, Zhiyang Gao, Wei Zhou, Qiaoling Li, Shuhua Liu

“…Also, the produced C-S-H gel made the structure more compact, which improved the structure’s strength.…”
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COPING IN SOCCER ATHLETES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Adson Alves da Silva, Gabriel Lucas Morais Freire, Leonardo de Sousa Fortes, José Fernando Vila Nova de Moraes, Rodrigo Gustavo da Silva Carvalho, José Roberto Andrade do Nascimento Junior

“…ABSTRACT Objective: Review the studies that investigated coping in soccer. Methods: A systemic search was carried out in the following databases: Pubmed, Web of Science, Scielo, Scopus, PsychINFO and SPORTDiscus. …”
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Noninvasive Urinary Biomarkers for Obesity-Related Metabolic Diseases: Diagnostic Applications and Future Directions by Shumin Zhan, Xuelian Zhou, Junfen Fu

“…Consequently, there is a growing need for noninvasive, easily accessible biomarkers, especially those found in urine, to enable more accurate, sensitive, and patient-friendly diagnostic methods. …”
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UAV Target Segmentation Based on Depse Unet++ Modeling by Zhaoqi Hou, Yiqing Gu, Zhen Zheng, Yueqiang Li, Haojie Li

“…Additionally, the specific contributions of each technical component to the model’s performance were confirmed through ablation studies, ensuring the method’s validity and reliability. Overall, the Depse Unet++ model offers a more effective tool for target recognition and semantic segmentation for UAVs operating in complex battlefield scenarios.…”
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Innovative strategies for carbon dioxide retention in the curing process of precast plain mass concrete elements by Scurtu Ioan Nicolae, Mircea Călin Grigore Radu, Mircea Andreea Terezia, Toader Tudor-Panfil, Lăzărescu Adrian Victor, Hegyi Andreea

“…The research findings suggest that the carbonation process can significantly improve the mechanical performance of these precast elements, making them more durable and efficient. Critical parameters, such as water content, sample size, environmental pressure, and temperature, considerably influence the efficiency of carbon dioxide capture. …”
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To Be or Not to Be? 教職召喚與專業認同對藝術大學師資生生涯決策自我效能、結果期待及生涯希望感的調節效果分析 To Be or Not to Be? An Analysis of the Moderating Effects of Teaching Calling and Professional Identity on Career De... by 陳嘉成 Chia-Cheng Chen, 洪兆祥 Chao-Hsiang Hung, 鄧鈞文 Chun-Wen Teng, 劉孟芳 Meng-Fang Liu

“…A total of 482 responses were collected through online surveys, with 475 valid samples (98.54% validity rate). The sample comprised 79.2% female and 20.8% male students. …”
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Can Preterm Labour Be Predicted in Low Risk Pregnancies? Role of Clinical, Sonographic, and Biochemical Markers by Reva Tripathi, Shakun Tyagi, Nilanchali Singh, Yedla Manikya Mala, Chanchal Singh, Preena Bhalla, Siddhartha Ramji

“…This is a prospective nested cohort study conducted over a period of 3 years. 2644 women were recruited, out of which final analysis was done for 1884 women. Methods. Cervicovaginal and blood samples were collected for all recruited women. …”
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Chemical Composition and Quality Characteristics of Wheat Bread Supplemented with Leafy Vegetable Powders by T. V. Odunlade, A. A. Famuwagun, K. A. Taiwo, S. O. Gbadamosi, D. J. Oyedele, O. C. Adebooye

“…The bread samples were assayed for proximate composition, mineral composition, physical, sensory, and antioxidant properties using standard methods. …”
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Analyzing Coaches' Skills: A Survey of Table Tennis Coaches in Riau Province and DIY Province, Indonesia by Ali Mandan, Syahriadi, Trisnar Adi Prabowo

“…Therefore, the sample of table tennis athletes involved was 70 athletes (44 boys and 26 girls). …”
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Computational fluid dynamics and machine learning integration for evaluating solar thermal collector efficiency -Based parameter analysis by Xiaoyu Hu, Lanting Guo, Jiyuan Wang, Yang Liu

“…The study identifies a critical transition at 100–300 samples where error rates drop sharply, with optimal performance requiring more than 600 samples. …”
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Validity and utility of instruments for screening of depression in women attending antenatal clinics in Blantyre district in Malawi by G. Chorwe-Sungania, J. Chipps

“…Methods: This was a sensitivity analysis study using a sub-sample of 97 pregnant women drawn from a cross-sectional study (sample size = 480) that was screening for depression in eight antenatal clinics. …”
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Strategic resilience: Exploring diversification's impact on R&D investment during economic crises by Thi Bao Chau Nguyen, Quoc Nghi Nguyen

“…Specifically, we examine how the sudden changes in the macroeconomic environment impact research and development (R&D) investment decisions in diversified firms compared to stand-alone firms during the crisis. Methods: This study uses a panel sample of US firms from 2004 to 2009, which includes the crisis years (2007–2009). …”
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Clinico-mycological Study of Dermatophytosis and Their Antifungal Susceptibility, A Hospital Based Study by Manish Bhakta Pradhan, Vikash Paudel

“…Potassium hydroxide positivity was seen in 228 samples (65.3%) and culture positivity was found in 202 samples (57.9%). …”
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Correlation between Follicular Fluid Fatty Acids and Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA in Women Undergoing Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injections by Zainab M. Alawad, Hanan L. Al-Omary

“…Follicular fluid samples were obtained during oocyte pick-up. The samples were assessed for fatty acids, utilizing gas chromatography, and for relatively cell-free mitochondrial DNA, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used. …”
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Influence of pre-processing criteria on analysis of accelerometry-based physical activity. by Bing Han, Lilian Perez, Deborah A Cohen, Rachana Seelam, Kathryn P Derose

“…Many pre-processing criteria may influence PA outcomes and the processed sample, impacting results in subsequent statistical analyses.…”
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ImagTIDS: an internet of things intrusion detection framework utilizing GADF imaging encoding and improved Transformer by Peng Wang, Yafei Song, Xiaodan Wang, Xiangke Guo, Qian Xiang

“…Furthermore, due to the serious class imbalance problem in IoT intrusion detection, we utilize Focal Loss to dynamically scale the model gradient and adaptively reduce the weights of simple samples to focus on hard-to-classify classes. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of the proposed method on the publicly available IoT intrusion detection datasets ToN_IoT and DS2OS, and the experimental results show that the proposed method achieves superior detection performance and higher robustness on class imbalance datasets compared to other remarkable methods.…”
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A solar powered portable potentiostat for environmental monitoring by Matthew McCole, Martin Bradley, Margaret McCaul, Denis McCrudden

“…Using the Infineon CY8CKIT-059 and IoT technology enabled remote data acquisition and transmission allowing more frequent and continuous monitoring than traditional methods. …”
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Prevalence of tuberculosis, HIV and respiratory symptoms in two Zambian communities: implications for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV. by Helen Ayles, Albertus Schaap, Amos Nota, Charalambos Sismanidis, Ruth Tembwe, Petra De Haas, Monde Muyoyeta, Nulda Beyers, Peter Godfrey-Faussett for the ZAMSTAR Study Team

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>8044 adults were sampled from 2 sub-districts (wards) in Lusaka province, Zambia. …”
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Contamination of food with residues of antibiotics in the sulphonamide class, risk can be avoided by Carmen Lidia Chitescu, Anca Nicolau

“…The recovery for spiked chicken muscle with 50–150 μg/kg ranged more than 70%. The relative standard deviation (Reds) of the sulfonamides for six measurementsat 50 go/kg, 100 μg /kg and 150 μg /kg was less then 15%.The applicability of the method to the analysis of chicken muscle tissue was demonstrated.…”
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Thioflavin-T: application as a neuronal body and nucleolar stain and the blue light photo enhancement effect by Jin-Hong Min, Heela Sarlus, Sho Oasa, Robert A. Harris

“…Furthermore, we show that THT could potentially be used as a an alternative to the use of fluorescent reporters or other more costly RNA binding compounds in the study of nucleolar dynamics owing to its ability to clearly stain nucleoli in live cells. …”
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