Wafer‐Scale Synthesis of Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 Thin Films by Ali Shafiei, Ahmad Fathi Hafshejani, Rehab M. G. Ahmed, Alessio Lamperti, Emanuele Longo, Lorenzo Locatelli, Christian Martella, Alessandro Molle, Graziella Tallarida, Carlo Zucchetti, Claudia Wiemer, Massimo Longo, Roberto Mantovan

“…Furthermore, comprehensive information on the variability of the functional properties of Sb2Te3 thin films with their morphological, chemical, and structural properties, as probed by scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction/reflectivity, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, and energy‐dispersive X‐ray analyses is reported. …”
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Enhancer chip: detecting human copy number variations in regulatory elements. by Marco Savarese, Giulio Piluso, Daniela Orteschi, Giuseppina Di Fruscio, Manuela Dionisi, Francesca del Vecchio Blanco, Annalaura Torella, Teresa Giugliano, Michele Iacomino, Marcella Zollino, Giovanni Neri, Vincenzo Nigro

“…Validation experiments have demonstrated that Enhancer Chip efficiently detects duplications and deletions covering enhancer loci, demonstrating that it is a powerful instrument to detect and characterize copy number variable enhancers.…”
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The operational municipal solid waste management policy focuses on identifying waste generation behavior across multiple levels in mega cities, a case study by Hamed Alimoradiyan, Ahmad Hajinezhad, Hossein Yousefi, Mario Giampietro

“…Abstract The results of an effort to create a thorough framework that efficiently arranges and combines quantitative data characterizing the performance of Urban Waste Management Systems (UWMS) across a range of scales and dimensions are presented in this study. …”
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Optimization of the flow guiding fins configuration and tube arrangements in a shell and tube heat exchanger: coupling response surface methodology and CFD by Xiangmin Shao, Ali Marzban, Farzad Pourfattah, Omid Ali Akbari, Gholamreza Ahmadi, Nafiseh Emami, Soheil Salahshour

“…In both laminar and turbulent flow regimes, the objective functions include the maximum heat transfer and the minimum pressure drop. …”
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Vanadium remediation from polluted wastewater using a novel non-conventional adsorbent by Manar Banwan Hasan, Suha Anwer Ibrahim, Nisreen Mizher Rahmah, Thekra Atta Ibrahim, Alaa Hani Alminshid, Mohammed Nsaif Abbas

“…The obtained results indicated that the vanadium recovery efficiency reached 81 % and was in direct proportion to the pH, agitation speed, and contact time, and inversely with other variables, while adsorption capacity reaching 0.1 mg/g. …”
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The association between age and long-term quality of life after curative treatment for prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study by Reidun Sletten, Ola Berger Christiansen, Line Merethe Oldervoll, Lennart Åstrøm, Håvard Kjesbu Skjellegrind, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Øyvind Kirkevold, Sverre Bergh, Bjørn Henning Grønberg, Siri Rostoft, Asta Bye, Paul Jarle Mork, Marit Slaaen

“…We found no statistically significant independent association between age at treatment and global QoL, PF or side effects, except for sexual function (regression coefficient [RC] −0.77; p < 0.001) and hormonal/vitality (RC 0.30; p = 0.006) function. …”
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Achievement motivation and attitude of medical laboratory assistants to continuing education by K. S. Kichukova, T. G. Taneva

“…The applicability of the results is very clearly visible in the formulated thesis of the necessary change in the educational policy in the country through new forms of continuous education of medical laboratory assistants which would update their achievement motivation and would result in increase in the efficiency of their professional functioning.…”
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A self-powered millifluidic device driven by triboelectric generator for the label-free and real-time detection of DNA hybridization by Tara Ghafouri, Sheida Bagherzadeh‑Nobari, Negin Manavizadeh

“…In line with the heterogeneous genoassay modeling, flow variables are tuned to attain the optimal hybridization efficiency equal to 92%. …”
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On Robustness of the Explanatory Power of Machine Learning Models: Insights From a New Explainable AI Approach Using Sensitivity Analysis by Banamali Panigrahi, Saman Razavi, Lorne E. Doig, Blanchard Cordell, Hoshin V. Gupta, Karsten Liber

“…Unlike many methods for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), this method (a) accounts for complex multi‐variate distributional properties of data, common in environmental systems, (b) offers a global assessment of the input‐output response surface formed by ML, rather than focusing solely on local regions around existing data points, and (c) is scalable and data‐size independent, ensuring computational efficiency with large data sets. We apply this method to a suite of ML models predicting various water quality variables in a pilot‐scale experimental pit lake. …”
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Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Hydroxyapatite-Coated Titanium Implants: Insights into Biocompatibility and Osseointegration by Tayyaba Rafiq, Iqra Amin, Atiq Ur Rehman, Amna Mehwish Ikram, Khurram Anwar, Arsalan Ahmed, Ayesha Ali Khawaja

“…Conclusion: The implant recipients with HA coatings experienced fewer complications and better outcomes in terms of functionality. …”
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Minimally Invasive Surgery in Modern Medicine: A Review of Laparoscopic Techniques, Indications, and Postoperative Outcomes by Maksymilian Czarnota, Martyna Adamowicz, Aleksandra Górniak

“…Elderly and frail patients experienced lower pulmonary morbidity and faster functional return, while paediatric and fertility-preserving gynaecologic procedures maintained safety and sustained quality of life. …”
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Unveiling the corporate governance dynamics: exploring the nexus of board composition, audit committee attributes, foreign ownership, and firm performance in an emerging market by Mohd Arsh, Mohd Shamim Ansari, Gayas Ahmad, Marghoob Enam, Mosab I. Tabash, Mujeeb Saif Mohsen Al-Absy

“…This study investigates the collective impact of key corporate governance variables namely board composition, audit committee characteristics, and foreign ownership on firm performance in an emerging economy, India. …”
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Effect of Solvent and Grain Color on the Biological Activities of Maize Grain by Yolanda Salinas-Moreno, Miguel Ángel Martínez-Ortiz, Eduardo Padilla-Camberos, José Luis Ramírez-Díaz, Alejandro Ledesma-Miramontes, Ivone Alemán de la Torre, Alberto Santillán-Fernández

“…The color of maize grain, ranging from pink to purple, is related to the presence of phenolic compounds whose efficient extraction is affected by the solvent used. …”
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Meristic and morphometric comparison of an undescribed sucker of the Río Culiacán (Catostomus sp.) and Yaqui sucker (Catostomus bernardini) (Catostomidae, Teleostei) from the Sierr... by Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Sergio Sánchez-Gonzáles, Richard L. Mayden, Alejandro Varela-Romero

“…Likewise, the discrimination was associated with the lowest values for predorsal distance, soft posterior ocular margin to occiput, and number of anal rays. The standardized coefficients for canonical variables 1 and 2 accounted 82.6% of the total variation. …”
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Animal welfare and biosecurity correlation in buffalo farm evaluated by ClassyFarm system by Domenico Vecchio

“…The two variables were positively correlated (Spearman’s Rho=0.501; p<0.001). …”
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Enhanced Dung Beetle Optimizer-Optimized KELM for Pile Bearing Capacity Prediction by Bohang Chen, Mingwei Hai, Gaojian Di, Bin Zhou, Qi Zhang, Miao Wang, Yanxiu Guo

“…The model utilizes the pile length, pile diameter, average effective vertical stress, and undrained shear strength as input variables, with the bearing capacity serving as the output variable. …”
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Combined Surfactant and Enzyme-Assisted Extraction of Pectin from Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) Fruits by Anastasia E. Novikova, Liubov N. Skrypnik

“…The hawthorn pectin can be used to develop new functional products.…”
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The balance evaluation systems test (BESTest), mini-BESTest and brief-BESTest as clinical tools to assess balance control across different populations: A reliability generalization... by Ana-Belén Meseguer-Henarejos, Juan-José López-García, José-Antonio López-Pina, Ignacio Martínez-González-Moro, Ángel Martínez-Carrasco

“…In this study, the heterogeneity of reliability coefficients in each instrument is evaluated. If heterogeneity is significant, a moderator analysis is performed to identify the characteristic which explains such variability.…”
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Developing a novel layer network structure for a LSTM model to predict mean monthly river streamflow by Amin Gharehbaghi, Redvan Ghasemlounia, Shahaboddin Daneshvar, Farshad Ahmadi

“…For doing so, to select the most effective parameters on MRSF m , the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC) and Cosine amplitude sensitivity (CAS) as features selection process are carried out for potential meteorological variables in the study area (i.e., average monthly temperature (T m ), evaporation (ET m ), and precipitation (P m )) and target (MRSF m ). …”
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VARIATION OF EMBRYO WEIGHT IN BREEDING ACCESSIONS OF CARROT by A. F. Bukharov, D. N. Baleev, M. I. Ivanova

“…The method of maximum likelihood was used to  reveal correspondences  of  experimental function  of distribution in embryo weight in seed population of accessions studied  and  normal  distribution.  …”
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