An Automated Procedure for Assessing Local Reliability Index and Life-Cycle Cost of Alternative Girder Bridge Design Solutions by Ilaria Venanzi, Riccardo Castellani, Laura Ierimonti, Filippo Ubertini

“…The procedure provides the levels of safety locally guaranteed by the selected design solution and the related total life-cycle cost. The method is based on the finite element modeling of the bridge and uses design traffic models as suggested by international technical standards. …”
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Yaş Dostu Mekan Tasarımında Mekan Dizimi "Space Syntax" Yönteminin Kullanım Olanakları by Seadet Özgü Tural

“…Bu çalışma; toplumun çoğalan parçası olan yaşlı bireylerin aktif biçimde yaş alma süreçlerini destekleyecek hizmet ve tasarımlara, peyzaj mimarlığı meslek disiplini bakış açısıyla katkı sağlamak amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. …”
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A Case of Relapsing Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease by Talayeh Rezayat, Matthew B. Carroll, Bryan C. Ramsey, Andria Smith

“…There is no specific treatment for KFD but any treatment is generally directed towards symptomatic relief with antipyretics and anti-inflammatory medications. …”
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Comparison of the effects of nicardipine and remifentanil on surgical visual field and hemodynamic parameters in tympanomastoidectomy cases by Celal Saritoy, Erol Karaaslan, Ahmet Selim Ozkan, Mehmet Tan, Ilham Gulcek

“…The study was planned as a prospective, double-blind, and randomized clinical trial. A total of 64 patients aged between 18 and 65 were included in the study and the patients were randomized into 2 groups: Group N (Nicardipine=32) and Group R (Remifentanil=32). …”
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Nonlinear association between glycated hemoglobin levels and mortality in elderly patients with non-diabetic chronic kidney disease: a national health and nutrition examination sur... by Lihua Huang, Liuliu He, Qingfeng Zeng, Jinjing Huang, Xiaoyan Luo, Qiuming Zhong

“…Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for all-cause and CVD mortality were calculated using weighted Cox proportional hazards and restricted cubic spline models.ResultsAmong the 1,931 participants (mean [SE] age, 73.2 [0.2] years; 61.9% female), over a median follow-up period of 7.6 years, a total of 1,003 deaths were observed, including 412 from CVD. …”
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Observation of Conventional Therapy Combined with PNF Technology to Treat Elbow Joint Dysfunction after Trauma Surgery by Shaoyun SHI, Huiping LU, Guobiao YE, San LI, Jie Liang

“…Total scores of both groups belonged to poor domain. …”
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Autophagy: A New Avenue and Biochemical Mechanisms to Mitigate the Climate Change by Muhammad Abubakkar Azmat, Malaika Zaheer, Muhammad Shaban, Saman Arshad, Muhammad Hasan, Alyan Ashraf, Muhammad Naeem, Aftab Ahmad, Nayla Munawar

“…Autophagy in plants offers a viable way to increase plant resilience to climate change by increasing stress tolerance and nutrient usage efficiency.…”
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Effects of the Wine Cooperative System on Socio-economic Factors and Landscapes in Mountain Areas by Etienne Delay, Marius Chevallier, Eric Rouvellac, Fabio Zottele

“…This model analyses cooperative systems’ impact on socio-economic factors (income inequality and the rate of business failure) and landscapes (percentage of total land as vineyards, particularly in steep areas) of the regions considered. …”
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Practical Implementation of Federated Learning for Detecting Backdoor Attacks in a Next-word Prediction Model by Jimmy K. W. Wong, Ki Ki Chung, Yuen Wing Lo, Chun Yin Lai, Steve W. Y. Mung

“…However, this decentralized approach is susceptible to manipulation by malicious actors who control a subset of participating devices, thereby biasing the model’s outputs on specific topics, such as a presidential election. The proposed detection mechanism aims to identify and exclude devices with anomalous datasets from the training process, thereby mitigating the influence of such attacks. …”
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The determination of knowledge levels related to doping in elite athletes by Hayri Demır, Nevzat Dıncer

“…Asignificant difference was found between sport branches about whether the athletes intend to use doping due tothe fear of losing (X2 = 43.207; p lt; 0.01). …”
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Effect of optimizing sodium substitution formula on the storage quality and shelf life of Oncorhynchus masou caviar by Linggao Liu, An Wang, Chunming Tan, Pinglan Li, Ruiyun Wu

“…Caviar samples were stored at 20, 27, and 34 °C, respectively, and the effect of the new formulation on the quality characteristics of the caviar was systematically evaluated through the determination of microbiological indicators, pH, water activity, total volatile basic nitrogen content and other physicochemical indicators. …”
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Influence of different sizes of concrete and roller compacted concrete on double-K fracture parameters by Liu Chunjiang, Zhang Huabo, Lv Ninghua

“…0/h) on doubleK fracture parameters (initial fracture toughness ini ICK and unstable fracture toughness un ICK ) and its size effects by using fracture test. …”
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Macroanatomic studies on the cervical canal of akkaraman ewe by Memduh Gezici, Emrullah Eken, Cengiz Yıldız, Abdullah Kaya

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Improving village information systems for sustainable development in Karawang Regency, Indonesia by Lina Aryani, Rastri Kusumaningrum, Rastri Kusumaningrum

“…This research aims to examine and analyze the dimensions that affect the implementation and development of village information systems, as one of the village government's tools in realizing Sustainable Development Goals.  …”
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Optimizing the PM2.5 Tradeoffs: The Case of Taiwan by Shihping Kevin Huang, Sin-Yao Chen, Kuei-Lan Chou, Wei Chung Hsu, Kang-Hua Lai, Tung-Hung Chueh, Lopin Kuo, William Lu

“…We propose a LSTM-XGBoost model composing both socioeconomic and geo-meteorological factors together to improve the PM2.5 monitoring system. We forecast the weekly PM2.5 concentrations in five regions in Taiwan based on machine learning training data. …”
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Comparación de perfil lipídico por sexo y edad en una población de equinos en Caldas (Colombia) by J. H. Osorio, Y. E. Quenan, J. A. Castañeda

“…Resultados: las variables de CT, TG, C-HDL, C-LDL y C-VLDL del total de la población de acuerdo a la media y desviación estándar mostraron valores expresados en mg/dl de 100,3 ± 12,89; 45,59 ± 11,95; 62,03 ± 10,88; 27,91 ± 6,48; 9,11 ± 2. …”
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Discovery of a Novel Insecticidal Peptide with a Cystine-Stabilized α-Helix/α-Helix Motif from the Venom of Scorpion <i>Liocheles australasiae</i> by Masahiro Miyashita, Naoya Mitani, Fuki Iwamoto, Mitsuki Hirota, Yoshiaki Nakagawa

“…Since LaIT5 did not show any toxicity against mice, it was concluded that its action is selective for insects.…”
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Pedobarographic Measurements of Rheumatoid Feet Compared with Clinical Parameters by Yasemin YUMUSAKHUYLU, Bilinc DOGRUOZ KARATEKIN, Selin TURAN TURGUT, Afitap ICAGASIOGLU, Esra SELIMOGLU, Sadiye MURAT, Esen KASAPOGLU, Bekir TURGUT

“…Pedobarog-raphic measurements were used to analyze foot loading characteristics. Results: A total of 104 feet of 52 patients with RA was evaluated. …”
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The Contract for the Construction of Ocean Liners MS “Piłsudski” and MS “Batory” of 29 November 1933 by Jarosław Drozd

“…The ceremony of the launching of MS “Batory” took place on 3 July 1935 in Monfalcone, while the consecration of the Polish flag took place on 17 September 1936 in Gdynia. …”
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Extensions of best approximation and coincidence theorems by Sehie Park

“…Let X be a Hausdorff compact space, E a topological vector space on which E* separates points, F:X→2E an upper semicontinuous multifunction with compact acyclic values, and g:X→E a continuous function such that g(X) is convex and g−1(y) is acyclic for each y∈g(X). …”
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