Productivity and commercial classification of pitaya in orchard with pollination by Cíntia Gonçalves Sena, Deilson de Almeida Alves, Maria do Céu Monteiro Cruz, Núbia Cassiana Santos, João Esdras Lima, Amanda Gonçalves Guimarães

“…The evaluations were carried out on a total of 20 plants from an orchard in Minas Gerais, Brazil. …”
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The Political Complexity of Regional Electricity Policy Formation by Kyungjin Yoo, Seth Blumsack

“…These voters are identifiable in the tail of the degree distribution of the voting network and are influential in pushing highly contentious rule change proposals towards passage or failure. The method we develop is generalizable to other contexts and provides a new framework for the study of regional electricity policy formation.…”
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The effectiveness of community-wide screening for pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review by Susanna S. van Wyk, Ntombifuthi Blose, Lester Kapanda-Phiri, Mareli Claassens, Taryn Young

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The Factors That Influence The Financial Performance of Islamic Banks by Evi Maulida Yanti, Andi Syahrum, Agussalim M, Denni, Rahmah Yulianti, Boihaki, Ali Abdullah Amer Bin Al-Shaibah

“…Design/methodology/approach: This research is quantitative research using secondary data through financial reports. The total population from 2017 to 2023 is 16 banks. The analytical method used in this research is panel data regression with the help of the Eviews application through the Chow, Hausman and Lagrange tests. …”
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Optimized Production of Biodiesel Using Internet of Things Sensed Temperature with Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization by G. Loganathan, M. Kannan

“…Thus, the proposed optimized biodiesel production is advanced when weighed down with the top-notch methods.…”
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Development of a Gradient HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Determination of Sotalol and Sorbate in Oral Liquid Preparations Using Solid Core Stationary Phase by Ludmila Matysova, Oxana Zahalkova, Sylva Klovrzova, Zdenka Sklubalova, Petr Solich, Lukas Zahalka

“…A sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate solution (pH 2.5; 17.7 mM) was used as the mobile phase buffer. The total analysis time was 4.5 min (+2.5 min for reequilibration). …”
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Spermatozoal Fractalkine Signaling Pathway Is Upregulated in Subclinical Varicocele Patients with Normal Seminogram and Low-Level Leucospermia by Salwa M. Abo El-khair, Mohammad A. Gaballah, Mamdouh M. Abdel-Gawad, Sherif Refaat M. Ismail, Ayman Z. Elsamanoudy

“…Moreover, seminal plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were measured. Results. …”
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Ontologies in bioinformatics and systems biology by N. L. Podkolodnyy, O. A. Podkolodnaya

“…Computer simulation is now becoming a central scientific paradigm of systems biology and the basic tool for the theoretical study and understanding of the complex mechanisms of living systems. …”
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Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase with BB-94 Protects against Caerulein-Induced Pancreatitis via Modulating Neutrophil and Macrophage Activation by Zengkai Wu, Tunike Mulatibieke, Mengya Niu, Bin Li, Juanjuan Dai, Xin Ye, Yan He, Congying Chen, Li Wen, Guoyong Hu

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Subgraph-Indexed Sequential Subdivision for Continuous Subgraph Matching on Dynamic Knowledge Graph by Yunhao Sun, Guanyu Li, Mengmeng Guan, Bo Ning

“…Continuous subgraph matching problem on dynamic graph has become a popular research topic in the field of graph analysis, which has a wide range of applications including information retrieval and community detection. …”
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Automated Volumetric Milling Area Planning for Acoustic Neuroma Surgery via Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization by Sheng Yang, Haowei Li, Peihai Zhang, Wenqing Yan, Zhe Zhao, Hui Ding, Guangzhi Wang

“…The maximum milling area is defined based on constraints from the risk structures and tool dimensions. Deformation fields are used to simplify the volumetric area into limited continuous parameters suitable for optimization. …”
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Uso de Tecnologías de la Comunicación e Información y Tecnoestrés en Estudiantes Paraguayos: su relación con la edad. by Norma Coppari, Laura Bagnoli, Gerónimo Codas, Maureen Montanía, Úrsula Martínez, Heidi López Humada

“…La vida actual en sociedad se encuentra sensiblemente vinculada con el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TICs) en todos sus aspectos. Ello implica tanto beneficios como dificultades a nivel psicológico, asociadas frecuentemente con el uso excesivo de las TICs y el estrés causado por el mismo. …”
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Nature and Origin of Mineralizing Fluids in Hyperextensional Systems: The Case of Cretaceous Mg Metasomatism in the Pyrenees by Benoît Quesnel, Marie-Christine Boiron, Michel Cathelineau, Laurent Truche, Thomas Rigaudier, Gérard Bardoux, Pierre Agrinier, Michel de Saint Blanquat, Emmanuel Masini, Eric C. Gaucher

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Shear Strength of Internal Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints: Intelligent Modeling Approach and Sensitivity Analysis by De-Cheng Feng, Bo Fu

“…To train and test the GBRT model, a total of 86 internal RC joint specimens are collected from the literatures, and four traditional ML models and the MCFT model are also employed as comparisons. …”
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Blackness at the End of the World by Antavius Franklin

“…Ultimately, this paper wants to think with black feminist futurity and Afrofuturist discourse as generative tools to imagine black life beyond the confines of antiblackness, if at all possible. …”
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Mamdani-Type Fuzzy-Based Adaptive Nonhomogeneous Synchronization by J. R. Pulido–Luna, J. A. López–Rentería, N. R. Cazarez–Castro

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HIV-Stigma in Nigeria: Review of Research Studies, Policies, and Programmes by Clifford O. Odimegwu, Joshua O. Akinyemi, Olatunji O. Alabi

“…This was with a view to identify critical areas that research and programmes must address in order to accelerate the progress towards zero (new infections, discrimination, and death) target by year 2030. …”
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Comparison of Classification Algorithms with Wrapper-Based Feature Selection for Predicting Osteoporosis Outcome Based on Genetic Factors in a Taiwanese Women Population by Hsueh-Wei Chang, Yu-Hsien Chiu, Hao-Yun Kao, Cheng-Hong Yang, Wen-Hsien Ho

“…The findings suggest that patients and doctors can use the proposed tool to enhance decision making based on clinical factors such as SNP genotyping data.…”
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Evidence-based cancer care: assessing guideline adherence of multidisciplinary tumor board recommendations for breast and colorectal cancer in a non-academic medical center by Carl-Stephan Leonhardt, Leopold Lanzenberger, Raphael Puehringer, Ulla Klaiber, Irene Hauser, Oliver Strobel, Gerald Prager, Martin Bodingbauer

“…Factors associated with guideline non-adherence were investigated using multivariable ordinal regression. Results In total, 579 patients were included in the final analysis: 486 were female (83.9%) and 93 were male (16.1%), with a median age of 70 years (IQR 60–80). …”
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Suppression of Human Tenon Fibroblast Cell Proliferation by Lentivirus-Mediated VEGF Small Hairpin RNA by Zhongqiu Li, Wen Hua, Xuedong Li, Wei Wang

“…The inhibition of HTF proliferation was monitored according to total cell numbers using ScanArray. Results. Both mRNA and protein levels of VEGF were reduced by lentivirus-mediated VEGF-shRNA, and proliferation of HTF cells was inhibited. …”
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