Damage detection in structural health monitoring using hybrid convolution neural network and recurrent neural network by Dung Bui-Ngoc, Hieu Nguyen-Tran, Lan Nguyen-Ngoc, Hoa Tran-Ngoc, Thanh Bui-Tien, Hung Tran-Viet

“…This proposed method which combines two types of features -spatial and temporal- helps to increase discrimination ability when being compared with the one that contains deep features only. …”
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Principal Component Analysis and Bacterial Foraging Optimization for Credit Scoring by Jennifer Arjun, Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo, Edi Surya Negara, Usman Ependi

“…Information technology in the current era is developing very quickly. Information systems themselves are found in various aspects of life, such as health, law, education and finance. …”
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Joint response of coal permeability and wettability to changes in organic matter induced by oxidation treatment by Baoxin ZHANG, Xuehai FU, Fanhua Bill ZENG, Ze DENG, Zhaobiao YANG, Junqiang KANG, Chaochao DUAN

“…The “high-quality” coal with significantly high permeability enhancement and decreased/smaller increased hydrophilicity after oxidation apparently obtains higher benefits under similar conditions. …”
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Production of TNF-alpha, IL-12(p40) and IL-17 can discriminate between active TB disease and latent infection in a West African cohort. by Jayne S Sutherland, Bouke C de Jong, David J Jeffries, Ifedayo M Adetifa, Martin O C Ota

“…Our results provide further insight into the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and may enhance the specificity of the currently available diagnostic tests, particularly for diagnosis of active TB.…”
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Requests for physician-assisted suicide in German general practice: frequency, content, and motives– a qualitative analysis of GPs’ experiences by Luise Farr, Juliane Poeck, Claudia Bozzaro, Jutta Bleidorn

“…Methods We conducted 19 guideline-based interviews with GPs currently or formerly practicing in Germany (study period: 03/22–12/22). …”
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Epidemiological Informing of the Population in Cities: Models and Their Application by Vasiliy Osipov, Marina Osipova, Sergey Kuleshov, Alexandra Zaytseva, Aleksey Aksenov

“… With an increase of population density and contacts between people, the emergence of new biological viruses, the threat of various epidemics is growing. …”
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Mixed-methods assessment of health and mental health characteristics and barriers to healthcare for Ebola survivors in Beni, Butembo and Katwa health zones of the Democratic Republ... by Lynn Lieberman Lawry, Nancy Stroupe Kannappan, Covadonga Canteli, William Clemmer

“…Trouble sleeping and anger were the strongest predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety and suicide attempts with 3-fold to 16-fold increases in the odds of these disorders. There was a 71% decrease in the odds of MDD if current substance abuse (aOR 0.29; 95% CI 0.13 to 0.67; p<0.01) was reported.Conclusions Specialised mental health services were limited. …”
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Development and characterization of in‐situ nickel aluminide reinforced Al‐Si matrix composites by stir casting by A. Saiyathibrahim, Vijaykumar S. Jatti, P. Dhanapal, Dhanesh G. Mohan

“…Wear resistance was found to be increased with the evolution of in‐situ reinforcements inside the matrix, whereas an increase in applied load resulted in a higher wear rate. …”
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Vibration energy harvesting by ferrofluids in external magnetic fields by Michal Rajnak, Juraj Kurimsky, Katarina Paulovicova, Jana Tothova, Jozef Kiraly, Roman Cimbala

“…The vial is excited by a laboratory shaker and the induced voltage in a nearby coil is measured under increasing and decreasing shaking rates. Five ferrofluid samples are involved in the study, yielding the dependence of the electromotive force on the ferrofluid magnetization of saturation. …”
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Interventions to improve media coverage of medical research: a codesigned feasibility and acceptability study with Australian journalists by Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten J McCaffery, Loai Albarqouni, Tessa Copp, Thomas Dakin, Liam Mannix

“…This study aimed to codesign and assess the feasibility of a multicomponent training intervention for journalists in Australia.Design A small pragmatic feasibility study using a pre- and postdesign.Setting 90 min online workshop.Participants Eight journalists currently working in Australia, recruited through the study’s journalist advisor and existing contacts of the researchers.Intervention The training intervention covered a range of topics, including study designs, conflicts of interest, misleading medical statistics, population screening and overdiagnosis. …”
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Wettability’s Challenge to High-Voltage Insulators: Polyurethane as Preventive Coating by Touqeer Ahmad Raza, Muhammad Kamran, Syed Ahtisham Mehmood Shah, Muhammad Mehran Bashir

“…Abrupt rises and spikes were observed on the plots for the electric field and current density distribution, indicating distortion; however, the distortion kept on decreasing with the increase in the contact angle. …”
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Tasks of practical content as a means of qualitative mathematical training of education seekers by Bilichenko Roman, Konareva Svitlana, Tkachenko Maryna, Traktynska Viktoriia

“…Article contains an analysis of the reasons for the decrease in the motivation of students in the study of mathematics and methods for solving this problem. …”
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The Link between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Crohn’s Disease, Klebsiella, and Starch Consumption by Taha Rashid, Clyde Wilson, Alan Ebringer

“…Hence, a decrease of starch-containing products in the daily dietary intake could have a beneficial therapeutic effect on the disease especially when used in conjunction with the currently available medical therapies in the treatment of patients with AS and CD.…”
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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Adult Mental Health by Saja Al Barak

“… # Aim The purpose of the current study was to assess and synthesise current quantitative research on the global impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and isolation restrictions on adult mental wellbeing. …”
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Impact of Majorana fermions on the Kondo state in the carbon nanotube quantum dot by D Krychowski

“…Furthermore, we have shown that the device coupled with three Majorana fermions (3TSC) achieves a quantized conductance 5/2( e ^2 / h ), preserves the U ^⋆ (1) charge symmetry at the electron-hole symmetry point and manifests the increase in nonlinear current and shot noise due to the entanglement in octuplets with opposite charge-leaking states.…”
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Risk scores for choledocholithiasis perform poorly in patients with hemolytic diseases: a PEDI database report by Jennifer Thompson, Wenly Ruan, Douglas S. Fishman, Matthew Giefer, Kyung Mo Kim, Mercedes Martinez, Luigi Dall'Oglio, Valerio Balassone, Filippo Torroni, Paola De Angelis, Simona Faraci, Cynthia Tsai, Michael Wilsey, Racha Khalaf, Petar Mamula, Quin Liu, Yuhua Zheng, Bradley A. Barth, Bradley A. Barth, David Michael Troendle, David Michael Troendle

“…Patients with hemolytic diseases are at increased risk for gallstone-related complications. …”
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The bacterial microbiome in spider beetles and deathwatch beetles by Austin Hendricks, T. Keith Philips, Tobias Engl, Rüdiger (Rudy) Plarre, Vincent G. Martinson

“…ABSTRACT The beetle family Ptinidae contains a number of economically important pests, such as the cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne, the drugstore beetle Stegobium paniceum, and the diverse spider beetles. …”
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Early Detection of the Marathon Wall to Improve Pacing Strategies in Recreational Marathoners by Mohamad-Medhi El Dandachi, Veronique Billat, Florent Palacin, Vincent Vigneron

“…The individual marathon optimal pacing sparring the runner to hit the “wall” after 2 h of running remain unclear. In the current study we examined to what extent Deep neural Network contributes to identify the individual optimal pacing training a Variational Auto Encoder (VAE) with a small dataset of nine runners. …”
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Exploring the Impression of Irrigation Management Techniques on Crop Harvests and Water Habit Efficiency by Hussein Layth, Ramadan Ghazi Mohamad, Prakash Akula

“…The future scheme contains the enactment of a WUE procedure to estimate and associate the presentation of these irrigation methods. …”
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Simplified Design Procedure for RC Ribbed Slabs in Fire Based on Experimental and Numerical Thermal Analysis by Fabrício Longhi Bolina, Arthur S. Henn, Bruno Dal Lago

“…Ribbed slabs are a solution for increasing the bending capacity while reducing the total concrete consumption and the dead weight compared to conventional reinforced concrete slabs. …”
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