Methodology for Determining the Effective Thickness of the Cemented Layer of Steel by S. G. Sandomirski, A. L. Val’ko, S. P. Rudenko

“…The article substantiates that approximation of hardness change from the distance h to the product surface will allow to obtain a more reliable dependence of hardness change in the investigated area when making hardness measurements in a wider range of distance h. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with neonatal mortality at the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Northern Uganda by Nicholas Aguma, Steven Ekak, Lambert Emetu, Samson Ojok, Peter Akera

“…Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Northern Uganda. Method The study collected quantitative data through retrospective descriptive review of records of 423 systematically sampled neonates admitted to the NICU between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023. …”
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Effects of Furrow Corn Straw Mulch on Soil Erosion and Organic Carbon Loss in Sloping Farmland in the Black Soil Region by Haiou Shen, Hongli Li, Hang Liu, Jialong Wu, Chunli Li, Yushi Liang

“…However, it is still not clear which corn straw return method is more suitable for the Chinese black soil region with cold characteristics. …”
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Dyeing of synthetic fiber-based wool blended fabrics in supercritical carbon dioxide by Abdalla A. Mousa, Fatma A. Mohamed, Saadia A. Abd El-Megied, Yehya A. Youssef

“…Also, SC-CO2 dyeing has a notable influence on a*, b* and C* values of the dyed PET, N and W/PET fabrics and showed that the uptake of the VS reactive disperse dye and their appearance colors are higher and more saturated than the aqueous dyed samples. The levelling and fastness properties of all dyed fabrics in SC-CO2 medium are similar to those obtained in the aqueous medium. …”
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Effective coverage of curative child health services in Ethiopia: analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey and Service Provision Assessment survey by Lenka Benova, Anteneh Asefa, Alemnesh H Mirkuzie, Tsegaye Gebremedhin Haile

“…Thus, we estimated the effective coverage of curative child health services in Ethiopia.Design We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of data from the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and the 2014 Ethiopia Service Provision Assessment Plus (SPA+) survey.Setting Nationally representative household and facility surveys.Participants and outcomes We included a sample of 2096 children under 5 years old (from DHS) who had symptoms of one or more common childhood illnesses (diarrhoea, fever and acute respiratory infection) and estimated the percentage of sick children who were taken to a health facility (crude coverage). …”
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Advanced montane bird monitoring using self-supervised learning and transformer on passive acoustic data by Yu-Cheng Wei, Wei-Lun Chen, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Sheng-Shan Lu, Ming-Tang Shiao

“…Compared to the three state-of-the-art models based on transfer learning from ImageNet, the proposed method demonstrated improvements in overall recognition performance, with even more significant gains for tail-end species. …”
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Model Development for Estimating Sub-Daily Urban Air Temperature Patterns in China Using Land Surface Temperature and Auxiliary Data from 2013 to 2023 by Yuchen Guo, János Unger, Tamás Gál

“…Finally, two samples of Tair patterns in Beijing and the Pearl River Delta region were effectively estimated. …”
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Accurate and affordable multi-cancer early detection and localization via plasma cfDNA multi-omic profiling by Pin Cui, Weihuang He, Mingji Feng, Hanming Lai

“…Interpretation: To further explore the potential of our method for MCED, we are recruiting more than 2000 plasma samples from a retrospective cohort covering 12 common cancers in China, including cancers in lung, liver, colon, gastric, pancreas, esophagus, breast, cervix, kidney, nasopharyngeal, bile duct, and gallbladder. …”
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Novel candidate genes may be possible predisposing factors revealed by whole exome sequencing in familial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Narjes Forouzanfar, Ancha Baranova, Saman Milanizadeh, Alireza Heravi-Moussavi, Amir Jebelli, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadegan

“…Its metastatic properties portend poor prognosis and high rate of recurrence. A more advanced method to identify new molecular biomarkers predicting disease prognosis can be whole exome sequencing. …”
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What Kind of Rural Digital Configurations Contribute to High County-Level Economic Growth? A Study Conducted in China’s Digital Village Pilot Counties by Guojie Xie, Yu Tian, Lijuan Huang, Muyun Li, John Blenkinsopp

“…To address this issue, this study applies the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method, guided by systems thinking and ecological systems theory. …”
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Knowledge and practice of iodine salt utilization and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Ejigu Girma, Habtamu Molla Ayele, Elzabeth Seyoum, Getachew Weldeyohannes

“…BackgroundGlobally, iodized salt deficiency affects more than 2.2 billion people, and the effect is severe in pregnant women. …”
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Empathy among medical students: is there a relation with quality of life and burnout? by Helena B M S Paro, Paulo S P Silveira, Bruno Perotta, Silmar Gannam, Sylvia C Enns, Renata R B Giaxa, Rosuita F Bonito, Mílton A Martins, Patricia Z Tempski

“…<h4>Background</h4>We aimed to assess medical students' empathy and its associations with gender, stage of medical school, quality of life and burnout.<h4>Method</h4>A cross-sectional, multi-centric (22 medical schools) study that employed online, validated, self-reported questionnaires on empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index), quality of life (The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment) and burnout (the Maslach Burnout Inventory) in a random sample of medical students.…”
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Evaluation and Analysis of Citizens' Sense of Security in Urban Spaces (Case study: Zartoshtian neighborhood of Kerman) by Zahra Rezaei Stebregh, Hossein Zabihi, Reza Ahmadian

“…Also, with the results obtained from the Friedman test, it was found that the access index with a total average of 1/65 is in the worst condition compared to other research indices, which means that this index is more important than other research indices at the Zoroastrian neighborhood level. …”
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ASSESSING THE RESULTS OF TRAINING IN DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGE OF HIGH AND DEEP TECH by Oleg Kaminsky, Julia Yereshko, Sergii Kyrychenko, Maryna Duchenko

“…In addition, we are seeing a shift in the basic skills needed in science, research and development, engineering, IT, management, entrepreneurship, and more. These skills are transformed in accordance with the technological restructuring of productive forces, at the same time, educational activity is characterized by some lag in its development. …”
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Soft tissue attachment of human gingival fibroblasts to titanium dioxide nanotubes compared to commercially pure titanium and its alloys: a systematic review by Sara Baraka, Anu Sam, Marta Krysmann, Neil Cook, Waqar Ahmed, Fadi Barrak

“…It is postulated that the nanotopography of the TNTs provide cells with a biomimetic environment, allowing HGFs to form more focal adhesion (FA) attachment sites at the tubule edges. …”
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Oxidation Resistance of NiCrAlY Coating Prepared by Arc Ion Plating by Bo YU, Xiao-peng CHANG

“…Based on the arc ion plating process, and Ni-base superalloy GH4133 for aero-engines blades, coating the surface with NiCrAlY coating, after heat treatment, high temperature oxidation resistance test, at a constant temperature of 920 ℃, continuous oxidation test for 192 h, the micro-morphology, microstructure and oxidation process of the samples were analyzed by SEM, XRD, and EDS. The results: 1) NiCrAlY coating has a high density, there are many fine particles distributed on the surface of the coating, the surface is smooth, no micropores, pits and other defects, the coating and the matrix material formed a close bonding state; 2) after heat treatment, the particles on NiCrAlY coating surface are arranged more closely, the coating changed from NiAl phase to Ni3Al phase, which improved the high temperature oxidation resistance of the coating; 3) during the initial stage of high temperature oxidation, a uniform and dense protective layer of Cr2O3 was formed on the surface of the coating, which effectively prevented the oxygen from diffusing into the inner of the coating, thus greatly improving the anti-oxidation performance; 4) during the oxidation process, the interdiffusion of Cr occurs at the interface between the coating and the substrate, mainly in the form of Cr element diffusing from the coating to the substrate. …”
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Regulation of Positive and Negative Emotions: The Turkish Adaptation Study of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) by Derya Akbaş, Yasemin Kahya

“…., 2018) into Turkish and to examine the scale’s psychometric properties. The study sample consists of 461 participants, of whom 77.4% are female and 22.3% male with a mean age of 21.49 years old. …”
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Prevalence and Risk of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Sindhu Toomukuntla, Chandra Vamshi Vemula, Mamidipalli Sai Spoorthy, Syed Ahmed Zaki, Sai Krishna Tikka

“…Fifteen studies consisting of a total sample of 9,768,028 (T1DM: 435,553; non-T1DM controls: 9,332,475) were included. …”
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Preserving phytochemical properties and antioxidant and enzymes activities in raspberry fruits with Satureja sahendica essential oil nanoemulsion: A strategy for enhancing raspberr... by Shirin Rahmanzadeh-Ishkeh, Habib Shirzad, Zahra Tofighi, Mohammad Fattahi, Youbert Ghosta

“…Generally, a concentration of 300 μL L−1 of nanoemulsion was more effective in providing a longer storage life with acceptable external and internal qualities in raspberry fruit.…”
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Noise classification in three-level quantum networks by Machine Learning by Shreyasi Mukherjee, Dario Penna, Fabio Cirinnà, Mauro Paternostro, Elisabetta Paladino, Giuseppe Falci, Luigi Giannelli

“…Three non-Markovian (quasi-static correlated, anti-correlated and uncorrelated) and Markovian noises are classified with more than 99% accuracy. On the contrary, correlations of Markovian noise cannot be discriminated with our method. …”
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