Unified study of viscoelasticity and sound damping in hard and soft amorphous solids by Hideyuki Mizuno, Kuniyasu Saitoh, Yusuke Hara, Atsushi Ikeda

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End-to-End Semantic Leaf Segmentation Framework for Plants Disease Classification by Khalil Khan, Rehan Ullah Khan, Waleed Albattah, Ali Mustafa Qamar

“…As the semantic label is provided by the proposed method for each pixel, the information about how much area of a specific leaf is affected due to a disease is also estimated. We use tomato plant leaves as a test case in our work. We test the proposed CNN-based model on the publicly available database, PlantVillage. …”
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KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USEOF COTTON BUDS IN SAUDI COMMUNITY by Akram Ibrahem Alwasse et al

“… Cotton buds are commonly used for a variety of purposes such as to clean the ears, remove wax, in case of itching in the ear, aural toilet in discharging ears and some time as a habit. …”
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Spectral Steady-State Analysis of Inverters With Temperature-Dependent Losses Using Harmonic Balance by Pelle Weiler, Bas Vermulst, Erik Lemmen, Korneel Wijnands

“…In contrast, iterative methods and simulation tools, which can include temperature dependence, take significantly longer to compute, but yield more precise results. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Locus Reliability of Linear Motion Mechanism by Wu Jiping, He Bing, Hu Weilin

“…First,by using the equidistant curve,the boundary of motion locus is constructed,taking account of the component size tolerance,the error analysis model of structure error and random error for the linear motion mechanism is proposed.The analytical equations for the statistical characteristic value of the motion error are derived by using the linearization method. …”
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Les chrétiens dans l’Orient : l’apport de l’histoire des religions à la coexistence religieuse en Méditerranée by Christian Lochon

“…Today the Middle East is a space of religious violence where the dominating groups install, by law and by the power of social control, the monopoly of religious rites and dogmas. …”
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Influence of transient conditions on thermal comfort evaluations: Field study in university buildings by Keovathana Run, Franck Cévaër, Jean-François Dubé

“…The results revealed that students took less than 10 min to reach a thermally steady state with a mere 0.5 scale points difference in thermal sensation vote between the two states. …”
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The influence of density models on wormhole formation in Finsler–Barthel–Randers geometry by B. R. Yashwanth, S. K. Narasimhamurthy, J. Praveen, Manjunath Malligawad

“…Finsler geometry, as a generalization of Riemannian geometry, allows for the incorporation of anisotropic characteristics, making it a valuable tool in exploring cosmological phenomena. By employing osculating Riemannian space approaches, we develop wormhole models under non-commutative geometry and power-law energy density distributions. …”
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LA PERCEPTION DES DYSFONCTIONNEMENTS DU DÉVELOPPEMENT URBAIN VUE PAR LES HABITANTS DE BATNA (ALGÉRIE) by BENYAHIA LAMIA, DRIDI HADDA, NACEUR FARIDA

“…Inspired by the approach of Veolia Observatory on urban lifestyles, this study is based on a questionnaire conducted among 416 residents of the town. The results of this research have established a real diagnosis of the dysfunctions of the city as seen and experienced by people. …”
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Developing a Low-Cost Safety Improvement Program for Intersections in an Urban Roadway Network: A Case Study by Promothes Saha

“…A safety improvement program was proposed based on this analysis that would cost $81,232 and provide a 5-year crash reduction benefit of more than $15 million preventing approximately 164 total crashes and 61 fatal or injury crashes.…”
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Étude tracéologique des bois de construction du port romain de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) by Frédéric Épaud

“…The numerous closely spaced semi-circular grooves preserved in the mortises suggest a manual machine with a toothed circular disc 0.48 m in diameter with a very rapid movement, characteristic of a circular saw. …”
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Evaluation of Mango Byproduct Extracts as Antioxidant Against Pb-Acetate-Induced Oxidative Stress and Genotoxicity in Mice by Makawy Aida I. El, Ashoush Ihab S., Abd-Elmoneim Omaima M.

“…Two doses of both extracts (50 and 100 mg/kg) were used to evaluate their role against the toxicity of Pb-acetate (500 ppm). Mice given mango extracts with Pb-acetate had significantly lower plasma MDA, AST and ALT and higher glutathione than mice given Pb-acetate alone. …”
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Common Pepper Cultivars for Florida Production by Gene McAvoy

“…McAvoy, is part of the Grower’s IPM Guide for Florida Tomato and Pepper Production. It lists pepper varieties currently popular with Florida growers. …”
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Compactness of quantics tensor train representations of local imaginary-time propagators by Haruto Takahashi, Rihito Sakurai, Hiroshi Shinaoka

“…This paper's findings highlight the critical need for further research on the selection of truncation methods, tolerance levels, and the choice between imaginary-time and imaginary-frequency representations in practical applications.…”
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Impact of water transfer on socioeconomic drought in China: A new approach based on production and consumption by Junlin Qu, Changhai Qin, Jiaxuan Chang, Yong Zhao, Hao Wang, Fan He

“…The transfer of water in physical and virtual form is already more than 30 % of total water consumption. Due to the improvement of water use efficiency, agriculture virtual water flow was reduced to 115.6 Gm3 in 2017, compared with 120.4 Gm3 in 2007. …”
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Career Motivation in the Process of State Regulation of Youth Employment by Natalya Stativka, Anna Batiuk

“…These works reveal the essence of pedagogical education and the peculiarities of human psychological influence, yet fail to define the role of the state as the main social institution which should lay the basis for youth development and encouragement to employment. This renders the topic of the present study relevant. …”
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Fleece qualities of menemen sheep: i. morphologic and physical qualities by Günnur Peşmen, Mehmet Yardımcı

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> This study was carried out on 98 Menemen sheep in a private company established in Karacaören area, Şuhut Town in Afyonkarahisar.<p> <b>Results:</b> The results for greasy fleece weight, post-shearing live weight, clean fleece percentage, fineness, length, elasticity and strength were 1583.78 g, 51.68 kg, 66.78%, 30.91 &#956;m, 36.35 mm, 32.60% and 20.69 cN/tex, respectively in Menemen ewes.…”
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Le Saint-Office face au tribunal de l’opinion. Controverse et réforme de la justice inquisitoriale en Castille au temps de la congrégation de Burgos (1508) by David Kahn

“…With the aim of demonstrating that the setting up and continuing work of the Holy Office were achieved without the support of the Spaniards, and pursuing the topics of the Black Legend, the two fathers of the contemporary historiography of the Inquisition shed light on public opinion that was unfavourably disposed to the Holy Office. …”
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Distribution of fungal agents in the respiratory system of patients with underlying lung diseases; molecular identification and antifungal susceptibility profiles by Parviz Hassanpour, Seyed Jamal Hashemi, Sanam Nami, Roshanak Daie Ghazvini, Behrouz Naghili Hokmabadi, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Kazem Ahmadikia, Zahra Ramezanalipour, Saeid Firouzi Abriz

“…Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study took place from 2023 to 2024, involving 360 patients. …”
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Evaluating the Potential of Commercial Forest Inventory Data to Report on Forest Carbon Stock and Forest Carbon Stock Changes for REDD+ under the UNFCCC by Danae Maniatis, Yadvinder Malhi, Laurent Saint André, Danilo Mollicone, Nicolas Barbier, Sassan Saatchi, Matieu Henry, Laurent Tellier, Mathieu Schwartzenberg, Lee White

“…The data presented originate from five logging companies dispersed over Gabon, totalling 2,240 plots of 0.3 hectares.We distinguish three Forest Types (FTs) in the dataset based on floristic conditions. …”
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