Investigation of the influence of the heterogeneous structure of concrete on its strength by V.M. Volchuk, M.A. Kotov, Ye G. Plakhtii, O.A. Tymoshenko, O.H. Zinkevych

“…The proposed approach can be interpreted as an express method of predicting the strength of concrete mixture, which is implemented without the use of special equipment. It can be used to assess the residual life of concrete structures where full-scale testing is impossible due to damage to the integrity of the structure.…”
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LIoTning: A Peer-Supervised Payment Channel Approach for Secure Micropayments in IoT Ecosystem by Erfan Bahrami, Amir M. Aghapour, Morteza Amini

“…We formally prove the security of the LIoTning protocol in the Universal Composability (UC) framework, analyze its resilience against broadcasting revoked states, collusion, and ransom attacks, and implement the proposed model to evaluate its performance under different scenarios. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of Secondary Precipitation Products through Statistical and Hydrological Modeling in a Mountainous Tropical Basin of India by Kolluru Venkatesh, N. Y. Krakauer, E. Sharifi, H. Ramesh

“…From the extreme flow event analysis, it was observed that CHIRP, TRMM 3B42 v7, Global Precipitation Climatology Centre v7 (GPCC), and APHRODITE datasets captured more peak flow events and hence can be further implemented for extreme event analysis. Overall, we found that TRMM 3B42 v7, CHIRP, and CHIRPS 0.05° datasets performed better than other datasets and can be used for hydrological modeling and climate change studies in similar topographic and climatic watersheds in India.…”
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Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review by X. Chen, J. A. van der Werf, A. Droste, M. Coenders-Gerrits, R. Uijlenhoet

“…Traditionally, the urban thermal environment and water resource management have been studied separately, using urban land-surface models (ULSMs) and urban hydrological models (UHMs). …”
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Detection of Mycotoxin Contamination in Foods Using Artificial Intelligence: A Review by Ashish Aggarwal, Akanksha Mishra, Nazia Tabassum, Young-Mog Kim, Fazlurrahman Khan

“…This review article provides an overview of recent studies on the use of AI methods for the discovery of mycotoxins in food. …”
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Investigating the Determinants of Toxoplasma gondii Prevalence in Meat: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression. by Simone Belluco, Marzia Mancin, Daniele Conficoni, Giulia Simonato, Mario Pietrobelli, Antonia Ricci

“…<h4>Eligibility criteria</h4>Relevant papers should report data from primary studies dealing with the prevalence of T. gondii in meat from livestock species as obtained through direct detection methods. …”
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Genetic and Morphological Evidence From a Group of Rare African Free‐Tailed Bats Reveals a New Subgenus Within Mops by Laura Torrent, Inazio Garin, Joxerra Aihartza, Aline Méndez‐Rodríguez, Esther Abeme Nguema Alene, Javier Juste

“…This underscores the urgent need to prioritise biodiversity studies in the region to fully assess its richness and implement effective conservation measures.…”
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DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE by A. V. Yagoda, N. N. Gladkikh, Т. E. Zangelova

“…Totally, 83 MVP patients studied: 61 males, 22 females; mean age 21,93±4,22 y. o. …”
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Systematic Review of Patients' Perceptions of the Contributing Factors That Led to Falling in Acute Care Hospitals During Their Hospitalisation by Caglayan Yasan, Bianca Rohlje, Jessica Cork, Caroline Cooper‐Blair, Alan Hayes

“…Methods Database and manual searches were undertaken from December 2022 to February 2023, with final analyses completed in August 2023. Three studies with a total of 37 participants were included in the analysis. …”
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Policy-aware Optimization-based Modeling of Autonomous Vehicles&#x2019; Longitudinal Driving Behavior by Hashmatullah Sadid, Constantinos Antoniou

“…Car-following (CF) and lane-changing (LC) models are the backbones of MTMs. Several studies attempt to accurately replicate these behaviors (especially CF behavior) using state-of-the-art modeling methods. …”
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Methods for Designing Technologies of Organic Crop Production by A. M. Zakharov, A. A. Ustroev, E. A. Murzaev, A. D. Komoedov

“…(Research purpose) To conduct theoretical studies aimed at developing methods for designing machine technologies applicable to organic crop production. …”
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Preface by CTA Editorial Board

“…A scientific laboratory “Neutron-diffraction studies of complex oxides” was organized jointly with the Institute for Metal Physics in 1997. …”
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Cholera in Africa: A Climate Change Crisis by Bezawit Kassahun Bekele, Olivier Uwishema, Lydia Daniel Bisetegn, Antonia Moubarak, Mugeniwayesu Charline, Pacifique Sibomana, Chinyere Vivian Patrick Onyeaka

“…Methods A review of current cholera outbreaks in Africa, with particular focus on Sudan and Ethiopia as case studies, examining the relationship between climatic factors and cholera transmission. …”
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Versatile Gyroinclinometer Based on a Single Axis Angular Rate Sensor by Ya. I. Binder, I. A. Khazov

“…The continuous mode of such a GI, studied by solving differential equations, requires holding the input axis of the ARS near the apsidal plane using the same rotating frame.Results. …”
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A fine-tuned convolutional neural network model for accurate Alzheimer’s disease classification by Muhammad Zahid Hussain, Tariq Shahzad, Shahid Mehmood, Kainat Akram, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Arfan Ahmed

“…In this research, we used three different pre-trained CNN based architectures (AlexNet, GoogleNet, and MobileNetV2) each implemented with several solvers (e.g. Adam, Stochastic Gradient Descent or SGD, and Root Mean Square Propagation or RMSprop). …”
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Photobiomodulation therapy at 650 nm enhances osteogenic differentiation of osteoporotic bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells through modulating autophagy by Haotian Li, Wenwen Yang, Biao Zhu, Miao Li, Xinran Zhang

“…The isolation and culture of OP-BMSCs were implemented after the establishment of the OP rat model. …”
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Understanding barriers and facilitators to non-pharmaceutical chronic pain research engagement among people living with chronic pain in the UK: a two-phase mixed-methods approach by Daniel Baker, Kirralise Hansford, Anna E Crossland, Catherine Preston, Kirsten J McKenzie

“…Furthermore, this project provides recommendations for researchers to follow to help increase patient engagement in research studies.…”
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The institution of Tutoring in Health-Preserving: Risk and Sustainability Factors by Z. I. Tyumaseva, I. L. Orehova, V. G. Valeeva, A. A. Salamatov, E. V. Kalugina

“…Leading methodological approaches, when studying future tutors’ readiness for health-preserving activities, were anthropological, personality-oriented and environmental. …”
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Modeling of railway track integrating a shock-absorbing mat at the sleepers-ballast interface using eigenfunctions of displacement by C. A. Moubeke, Adoukatl Chanceu, R. P. Lemanlé Sanga, G. E. Ntamack, S. Charif D’Ouazzane

“…Therefore, many studies have been focused on solutions to attenuate, even cancel vibrations effects on the track and nearby environment. …”
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Section Recommendation of Online Medical Platform Based on Keyword Expansion with Self-Adaptive-Attention-Prompt-BERT-RCNN Modeling by Tianbao Xie, Yuqi Han, Ganglong Duan, Siyu Yang, Shaoyang Zhang, Yongcheng Shao

“…Background: Implementing automatic classification of short texts in online healthcare platforms is crucial to increase the efficiency of their services and improve the user experience. …”
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