Some Rare Earth Elements Analysis by Microwave Plasma Torch Coupled with the Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry by Xiaohong Xiong, Tao Jiang, Wenhao Qi, Jun Zuo, Meiling Yang, Qiang Fei, Saijin Xiao, Aimin Yu, Zhiqiang Zhu, Huanwen Chen

“…A single REE analysis can be completed within 2~3 minutes with the relative standard deviation ranging between 2.4% and 21.2% (six repeated measurements) for the 5 experimental runs. Moreover, the recovery rates of these REEs are between the range of 97.6%–122.1%. …”
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The Kenya Surgical Capacity Study: An Audit of Surgical Equipment/Infrastructure in Level 4 Public Hospitals by Sara Chaker, Jaymie Ang Henry, Ya-Ching Hung, Mariam Saad, Elizabeth Slater, SriGita Krishna Madiraju, Patrick Mwai, Pankaj Jani, Kevin Lan, Peter Nthumba

“…Over 80% of the facilities had running water in maternity wards (83.1%). Sterilization equipment was present in about half of the facilities (range: 42.6–68.3%). …”
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Clinical Manifest X-Linked Recessive Adrenoleukodystrophy in a Female by Gyda Hlin Skuladottir Jack, Karolina Malm-Willadsen, Anja Frederiksen, Dorte Glintborg, Marianne Andersen

“…The present report describes a 35-year-old female who experienced a feeling of heaviness in the upper and lower limbs, pain in both knees, and difficulty climbing stairs, running, and jumping. Clinical examination revealed decreased sensitivity in the feet, particularly to touch. …”
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Increasing Robustness by Reallocating the Margins in the Timetable by Lingyun Meng, Malik Muneeb Abid, Xinguo Jiang, Afaq Khattak, Muhammad Babar Khan

“…The paper presents a model and heuristic technique to find the better position for the limited amount of time margins (headway buffers and running time supplements) in a train timetable. The aim of reallocating the time margins is to adjust an existing timetable to minimize the sum of train delays at the event of the operational disturbances. …”
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PERCEPTION AND SATISFACTION AMONG OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA by Christnalter Bunsu, Noor Dayana Abd Halim

“… In Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) programme has been around quite recently and many things need to be discovered to improve it. The programme is running well and was already offered before the pandemic outbreak. …”
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Hydrogen sulfide removal from biogas using chemical absorption technique in packed column reactors by M.B. Kulkarni, P.M. Ghanegaonkar

“…Several techniques available for removal of hydrogen sulfide from biogas are out of the reach for common end users due to lack of knowledge, higher running costs, and insufficient operational skills. …”
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Performance Comparison of Two Gene Set Analysis Methods for Genome-wide Association Study Results: GSA-SNP vs i-GSEA4GWAS by Ji-sun Kwon, Jihye Kim, Dougu Nam, Sangsoo Kim

“…We compared the performance of two different GSA implementations that accept GWAS p-values of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or gene-by-gene summaries thereof, GSA-SNP and i-GSEA4GWAS, under the same settings of inputs and parameters. GSA runs were made with two sets of p-values from a Korean type 2 diabetes mellitus GWAS study: 259,188 and 1,152,947 SNPs of the original and imputed genotype datasets, respectively. …”
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Biosynthesis of the Essential Fatty Acid Oxidation Cofactor Carnitine Is Stimulated in Heart and Liver after a Single Bout of Exercise in Mice by Tom L. Broderick, Frank A. Cusimano, Chelsea Carlson, Jeganathan Ramesh Babu

“…Free carnitine (FC) in plasma was assayed using acetyltransferase and [14C]acetyl-CoA in Swiss Webster mice after 1 hour of moderate-intensity treadmill running or 4 hours and 8 hours into recovery. Liver and heart were removed under the same conditions for measurement of carnitine biosynthesis enzymes (liver butyrobetaine hydroxylase, γ-BBH; heart trimethyllysine dioxygenase, TMLD), organic cation transporter-2 (OCTN2, carnitine transporter), and liver peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARα, transcription factor for γ-BBH and OCTN2 synthesis). …”
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An improved DeepLabv3 + railway track extraction algorithm based on densely connected and attention mechanisms by Yanbin Weng, Jie Yang, Changfan Zhang, Jing He, Cheng Peng, Lin Jia, Hui Xiang

“…Compared to classical semantic segmentation networks such as U-Net and DeepLabv3 + , DA-DeepLabv3 + achieves higher extraction accuracy and shorter running time.…”
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Analysis of graphene coatings on various metallic/oxide crystal/composite material substrates using machine learning for enhanced solar thermal energy conversion by Khaled Aliqab, Dhruvik Agravat, Shobhit K. Patel, Ammar Armghan, Naim Ben Ali, Meshari Alsharari

“…Thus, the data collection time is greatly reduced using ML compared to running simulations which have a step size of about 8 h per change. …”
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A congestion prediction method based on trajectory mining algorithm by Liu Dongjiang, Li Leixiao, Li Jie

“…Besides, for each road, the proposed method tries to count the number of vehicles that will pass through the specific road at next time step by predicting next location for all the running vehicles based on their trajectories. If the vehicle number of a road surpasses the threshold of this road, it will be predicted as congested road. …”
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Seismic Response Characteristics of Stabilizing Pile Based on Elastic-Plastic Analysis by Honglue Qu, Ying Liu, Hao Luo, Huanguo Hu, Qindi Hu

“…Finally, the plastic zone runs through the whole section, resulting in the performance loss of the pile. …”
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Vibration Response Analysis of Simply Supported Box Girder Bridge-Maglev Train in Accelerated Test of Changsha Maglev Express by Xiao Liang, Tianyong Jiang, Yue Hong, Jiabing Zhang, Mai Jiang, Zeyin Wang

“…Field tests were carried out to explore the dynamic response of maglev vehicle running on the bridge. Firstly, the dynamic characteristics of the bridge under the action of medium-low speed maglev train at different speeds were analyzed, and the vibration response of vehicle and bridge was studied at the design speed of 60∼130 km/h. …”
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Participatory Development of Demand-Driven Curriculum for Career-Ready E-Extension Services in Nigeria by Olanike Deji, Solomon Adesoji, Banji Adisa, Abiodun Agboola, Adedayo Ajayi, Dorcas Alabi, Julius Ayinde, Olajide Filusi, Toyin Ojo, Oladimeji Oladele, Aanuoluwapo Opayinka

“…The major perceived advantages of e-extension were reduced risk, time and cost effectiveness while infrastructural and human challenges were the perceived challenges that could possibly hinder the smooth running of e extension.…”
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A high speed processor for elliptic curve cryptography over NIST prime field by Xianghong Hu, Xueming Li, Xin Zheng, Yuan Liu, Xiaoming Xiong

“…To keep multiplication running in non‐idle status and executing in parallel with other modular operations, the operation scheduling of point addition and point doubling has been re‐designed and optimized based on an effective segmentation and pipeline strategy. …”
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Reliability Evaluation for LTE Based CBTC Train Ground Communication Systems by Shuo Wang, Li Zhu, Kun Xu, Lin Zhang, Xuan Wang

“…However, because of the high running speed of the train in urban rail transit, WLAN technology cannot fully satisfy the information transmission under the condition of train operation at a high speed. …”
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Quantifying the Volume of Particulate Matter at Bus Stations by Branislav ŠARKAN, Michal LOMAN, Ondrej STOPKA, Jacek CABAN, Arkadiusz MAŁEK

“…The research purpose is to monitor particle emissions at the bus station in the city of Žilina (Slovakia), amassing data on exhaust emissions released from buses at the station premises. As moving or running-engine vehicles incessantly produce atmospheric emissions, we measure air quality during peak hours at the bus station. …”
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Design and Analysis of Helical Cone Coil Heat Exchanger for Low Grade Heat Recovery by Ajay Hundiwale, Lokpriya Gaikwad, Sandeep Joshi

“…These coils feature a secondary fluid flow running in planes parallel to the primary flow within their helical structure. …”
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An Outcome Overview of Housing Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Mataram City Post Lombok Earthquake Disaster by Ni Nyoman Kencanawati, Buan Anshari, Eko Pradjoko, Rini Srikus Saptaningtyas, Teti Handayani

“…The relationship between the central and local governments was conducive to running the process effectively and according to the timeline. …”
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Performance Analysis: AI-based VIST Audio Player by Microsoft Speech API by Ribwar Bakhtyar Ibrahim

“…VIST audio player creates runtime subtitles of the audio files running on it; the player is responsible for speech to text conversion in real-time. …”
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