Microstructure and Properties of Corrosion-Resistant Steel Produced by CASTRIP by Kai Lei, Long Chen, Hengchang Lu, Xintong Lian, Qingxiao Feng, Hualong Li, Han Dong

“…The CASTRIP process is an innovative method for producing flat rolled low-carbon and low-alloy steel at very thin thicknesses. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Lutein Supplementation on Macular Pigment Optical Density and Macular Function in Pseudophakic Patients by Victor Ephraime V. Paulino, MD, DPBO, Edward C. Uy, MD, DPBO, Sherman O. Valero, MD, FPAO

“…We assessed MPOD, low-luminance deficit (LLD), visual recovery time (VRT) using photostress test, and adverse events. …”
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Experimental Study and Finite Element Analysis on the Seismic Performance of Ancient Architectural Kanchuang Frame with Different Impact Parameters Considered by Junhong Huan, Xiaoyi Zhou, Xiaodong Guo, Wei Wang, Donghui Ma, Yue He

“…To study the seismic performance of ancient timber structures with attached windows and masonry walls,  a low-cycle reciprocating load test was conducted on a 1:2 scaled model of the Kanchuang frame. …”
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Effects of motor control exercise and patient education program in the management of chronic low back pain among community-dwelling adults in rural Nigeria: a study protocol for a... by Aminu A. Ibrahim, Mukadas O. Akindele, Sokunbi O. Ganiyu, Bashir Bello

“…Background: The impact of chronic low back pain (CLBP) is disproportionally higher in rural Nigeria than in urban areas but lack access to rehabilitation. …”
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Assessment of Individual Exposure to Multiple Pollutants (Noise, Particulate Matter, and Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields) Related to Daily Life Microenvironments in the Bru... by Agathe O Salmon, Maryse Ledent, Eva M De Clercq, Bram Vanhoutte, Catherine Bouland

“…Participants wore them for 24 hours on a normal weekday. In parallel, they filled out a microenvironment diary and a questionnaire focusing on socioeconomic data, lifestyle, and perceived exposures. …”
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The effect of abdominal drawing-in manoeuvres and abdominal bracing techniques via telerehabilitation on lumbar repositioning error in seated sedentary participants with chronic lo... by Pongsatorn Saiklang, Thiwaphon Chatprem, Parvinee Saiklang, Rungthip Puntumetakul, Gillian Yeowell

“…To investigate the effects of two LSE techniques, ADIM and AB, delivered via telerehabilitation on lumbar repositioning error (LRPE), numeric rating scale, and transversus abdominis muscle performance in seated sedentary participants with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and LI. Methods The study used a parallel-group, randomised controlled trial design. …”
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Interventions to improve water supply and quality, sanitation and handwashing facilities in healthcare facilities, and their effect on healthcare-associated infections in low-incom... by Benedetta Allegranzi, Julie Watson, Lauren D'Mello-Guyett, Erin Flynn, Jane Falconer, Joanna Esteves-Mills, Alain Prual, Paul Hunter, Maggie Montgomery, Oliver Cumming

“…Patients in healthcare facilities (HCFs) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are most at risk. …”
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Mobile-Based Platform With a Low-Calorie Dietary Intervention Involving Prepackaged Food for Weight Loss for People With Overweight and Obesity in China: Half-Year Follow-Up Result... by Xi Wang, Suyuan Wang, Lingyu Zhong, Chenghui Zhang, Yanhong Guo, Mingxia Li, Li Zhao, Shuming Ji, Junjie Pan, Yunhong Wu

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Low sensitivity of the fourth‐generation antigen/antibody HIV rapid diagnostic test Determine™ HIV Early Detect for detection of acute HIV infection at the point of care in rural E... by Iza Ciglenecki, Nombuso Ntshalintshali, Esther Mukooza, Skinner Lekelem, Mpumelelo Mavimbela, Sindisiwe Dlamini, Lenhle Dube, Nomvuyo Mabuza, Melat Haile, Tom Ellman, Antonio Flores, Olivia Keiser, Sindy Matse, Roberto de laTour, Alexandra Calmy, Bernhard Kerschberger

“…Determine™ HIV Early Detect was performed by HTS counsellors in parallel with routine HIV testing using a finger‐prick blood sample. …”
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Efficient Chinese-Malay Speech-Text Translation via Layer-Freezing Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models by Xiao Liang, Yen-Min Jasmina Khaw, Soung-Yue Liew, Tien-Ping Tan, Donghong Qin

“…Using our newly constructed Chinese-Malay parallel corpus, our approach improves BLEU scores from 1.86 to 9.30 (+7.44 points) compared to existing Chinese-Malay speech translation systems. …”
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A wideband balun‐LNA employing symmetrical CCC technique and balanced outputs by Razieh Eskandari, Afshin Ebrahimi, Hasan Faraji Baghtash

“…Abstract The conventional active CG‐CS balun low‐noise amplifiers (LNAs) with asymmetric outputs exploit a relatively weak output balance, limited IIP2, and high power consumption. …”
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Patient navigation in German emergency care (NODE). Study protocol of a multi-center mixed-methods trial by Daniela Krüger, Maria Altendorf, Felix Holzinger, Cornelia Wäscher, Hanna Winkler, Martin Möckel, Christoph Heintze, Judith Stumm, Konrad Schmidt, Konrad Schmidt, Anna Slagman

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Mechanism of effective depth enhancement and broadband sound absorption optimization in nested resonators with multiple cross-sections by Yiming Zhao, Zichao Guo, Jie Ye, Zhendong Li, Kexin Zeng, Xinying Lu, Zhonggang Wang

“…This research provides a basic optimization strategy for improving broadband low-frequency sound absorption in nested resonators.…”
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The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis care and infection control measures in anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinics in low- and middle-income countries: a mu... by Marcel Yotebieng, Lukas Fenner, Haruka Uemura, Jacqueline Huwa, Ellen Brazier, Marie Ballif, Oliver Ezechi, Anchalee Avihingsanon, Denna Michael, Jonathan Euvrard, Guy Muula, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, Lameck Diero, Brian Otaalo, Eric Komena, Nicolas Banholzer, Lisa Perrig, Dominique Mahambu Nsonde, Sarah Obatsa, Patricia Lelo, Patrice Gouéssé, Idiovino Rafael, Richard Ramdé, I Ketut Agus Somia

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High-Resolution Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Mach Reflection Structures in Detonation Waves in Low-Pressure H2–O2–Ar Mixtures: A Summary of Results Obtained with the Adapti... by Ralf Deiterding

“…A ghost fluid approach is integrated into the method to allow for embedded geometrically complex boundaries. Large-scale parallel simulations of unstable detonation structures of Chapman-Jouguet detonations in low-pressure hydrogen-oxygen-argon mixtures demonstrate the efficiency of the described techniques in practice. …”
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REFRACTIVE INDEX DETERMINATION FOR A PLANE DIELECTRIC LAYER USING THE MEASUREMENTS OF TRANSMITTED BEAM INTENSITY by V. M. Serdyuk, J. A. Titovitsky

“…It uses intensity measurements for two polarizations of transmitting electromagnetic beam and does not take into consideration phase relationships and phase parameters of testing field at unknown thickness of a layer.For this purpose, the layer transmission energy coefficients for two linear polarizations of an electromagnetic beam, orthogonal and parallel to the plane of incidence, are studied to be dependent on the layer thickness and its refractive index. …”
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Rapid Laser Ranging Method for Compact LiDAR Systems by Jiahui Guo, Bo Gao, Xiaojun Liu, Junya Wang, Zheng You

“…It employs a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) coherent detection scheme to minimize the required measurement integration time, while also addressing key challenges encountered by existing rapid coherent ranging methods in compact systems—namely, device fabrication difficulties, the complexity of parallel Doppler frequency shift (DFS) decoupling, and endpoint effect elimination—through low-depth pseudo-random phase modulation (LD-PRPM). …”
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Deepfake Detection Method Integrating Multiple Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques by ZHANG Yiwen, CAI Manchun, CHEN Yonghao, ZHU Yi, YAO Lifeng

“…Initially, it employs the low-rank adaptation (LoRA) method for fine-tuning the self-attention module parameters of the pretrained model. …”
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Transformer-Based Amharic-to-English Machine Translation With Character Embedding and Combined Regularization Techniques by Surafiel Habib Asefa, Yaregal Assabie

“…The primary challenges include the scarcity of parallel data, which increases the risk of overfitting and limits the model’s ability to generalize effectively, and the complex morphology of Amharic, which further complicates learning patterns in translation tasks. …”
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Advances in machine transliteration methods, limitations, challenges, applications and future directions by A’la Syauqi, Aji Prasetya Wibawa

“…Statistical techniques demonstrate robustness yet depend heavily on the availability of parallel corpora. Machine learning models leverage neural architectures to achieve high accuracy but are constrained by data scarcity for low-resource languages. …”
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