Dissimilar Resistance Welding of NiTi Microwires for High-Performance SMA Bundle Actuators by Dominik Scholtes, Ralf-Kilian Zäh, Benedikt Faupel, Stefan Seelecke, Paul Motzki

“…The welding process benefits from low costs, easy-to-control parameters and good automation potential. …”
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Dosimetric tests of an extrapolation chamber in standard computed tomography beams by Maysa Costa Castro, Natália Fiorini da Silva, Linda Viola Ehlin Caldas

“…An extrapolation chamber is a parallel-plate ionization chamber that allows the variation of its sensitive air volume. …”
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Structural and Optical Anomalies in Thin Films Grown in a Magnetic Field by Electron‐Assisted Vacuum Deposition of PTFE by Viachaslau Ksianzou, Claus Villringer, Kostyantyn Grytsenko, Demyd Pekur, Petro Lytvyn, Mykola Sopinskyy, Iryna Lebedyeva, Agata Niemczyk, Jolanta Baranowska

“…Abstract Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) films are deposited in parallel and perpendicular magnetic fields (MF) by electron‐enhanced vacuum deposition (EVD) and EVD + low‐temperature plasma (LTP) methods. …”
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Estudos preliminares de Adsorventes Lenhocelulósicos para a Remoção de Cefalosporinas by Luísa Cruz-Lopes, Rodrigo Araújo, Ana Lopes, Morgana Macena, Bruno Esteves

“…This study intends to demonstrate the feasibility of using lignocellulosic low-cost materials in the removal of pollutants, valorizing waste from other industries, and reducing the associated environmental impact. …”
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Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Mechanism for Dynamic Edge Computing Scenarios Based on Graph Reinforcement Learning by Yuze Zhang, Geming Xia, Chaodong Yu, Hongcheng Li, Hongfeng Li

“…With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and edge nodes, edge computing has taken on much of the real-time data processing and low-latency response tasks which were previously managed by cloud computing. …”
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Protein Kinase A Activation Promotes Cancer Cell Resistance to Glucose Starvation and Anoikis. by Roberta Palorini, Giuseppina Votta, Yuri Pirola, Humberto De Vitto, Sara De Palma, Cristina Airoldi, Michele Vasso, Francesca Ricciardiello, Pietro Paolo Lombardi, Claudia Cirulli, Raffaella Rizzi, Francesco Nicotra, Karsten Hiller, Cecilia Gelfi, Lilia Alberghina, Ferdinando Chiaradonna

“…Several studies showed that glycolytic cells are susceptible to cell death when subjected to low glucose availability or to lack of glucose. …”
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Barriers and Enablers to Physical Activity Participation Among Women in Underserved Communities: A Mixed-Methods Study by Jude Ominyi, Andrew Clifton

“…Using a mixed-methods convergent parallel design, data were collected from 112 women recruited through local PA and weight loss programmes. …”
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Exploring the potential location of future earthquakes in Harrat Lunayyir, Western Saudi Arabia by Ali Abdelfattah, Chokri Jallouli, Hassan Alzahrani, Saleh Qaysi, Mohammed Fnais, Abdullah Al-Amri

“…Gravity modelling highlighted crustal heterogeneities with low-density areas corresponding to the seismic activity zone and high-density regions in the surrounding vicinity. …”
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A promising biological model of gestational diabetes mellitus with specific impairments of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in rats by K. S. Kachalov, A. S. Solomina, A. V. Rodina, A. D. Durnev

“…In this case, there is a marked violation of glucose tolerance, an increase in the levels of glucose, total cholesterol, triacylglycerides and low-density lipoproteins in the blood serum. A pronounced embryoletal effect was observed with tyloxapol at a dose of 400 mg/kg. …”
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Performance Comparison of PV Module Configurations in a Fixed-Load P2H System Considering Regional and Seasonal Solar Irradiance in Korea by Cheol-Woong Choi, Kuk-Tai Chang, Gi-Tae Park, Seung-Hoon Lee, Su-Youn Jeong, Yun-Soo Kang, Jae-Sub Ko, Dae-Kyong Kim

“…Through both simulations and experimental analyses using a P2H testbed, two configurations, namely 6S (6Series) and 3S2P (3Series-2Parallel), were compared under varying irradiance levels. …”
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Talocalcaneal Coalition with Os Sustentaculum-Hovering the Anomalous Bridge: A Case Report by Garima Varshney, Preetham Patavardhan, Rahul Dev

“…Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) shows signal changes parallel to the parent bone in cases of osseous coalition. …”
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A novel method for accelerating surgical wound healing in rabbits by collagen extraction from carp (Cyprinus carpio) fish skin by Shahbaa Kh. Al-Taee

“…The extracted collagen was characterized by low viscosity, transparency, and a watery consistency; the functional groups of collagens were detected using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. …”
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Sustainable synthesis of nano-crystalline and heterostructural Zr MOF@Bentonite composite, as a novel adsorbent for methylene blue adsorption by Fatma M. Dardir, Ezzat A. Ahmed

“…Abstract Creating high-performance materials that are abundant in nature is an important area of current research to satisfy the growing need for sustainable, high-availability, low-cost functional adsorbents for industrial pollution removal systems. …”
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Improving the Fast Fourier Transform for Space and Edge Computing Applications with an Efficient In-Place Method by Christoforos Vasilakis, Alexandros Tsagkaropoulos, Ioannis Koutoulas, Dionysios Reisis

“…First, we present the advantages of organizing the single memory bank of processors to store two (2) FFT elements in each memory address and provide parallel load and store of each FFT pair of data. Second, we optimize the floating point (FP) and block floating point (BFP) configurations to improve the FFT Signal-to-Noise (SNR) performance and the resource utilization. …”
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A mixed methods study to evaluate participatory mapping for rural water safety planning in western Kenya. by Joseph Okotto-Okotto, Weiyu Yu, Emmah Kwoba, Samuel M Thumbi, Lorna Grace Okotto, Peggy Wanza, Diogo Trajano Gomes da Silva, Jim Wright

“…However, its uptake remains low in rural areas. Participatory mapping, the process of map creation for resource management by local communities, has yet to be used for rural water safety planning. …”
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Snow Cover Extraction from Landsat 8 OLI Based on Deep Learning with Cross-Scale Edge-Aware and Attention Mechanism by Zehao Yu, Hanying Gong, Shiqiang Zhang, Wei Wang

“…Meanwhile, parallel channel and spatial attention mechanisms are introduced in the model encoding stage to adaptively enhance the model’s attention to key features and improve the efficiency of utilizing global semantic information. …”
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Comparing effectiveness of adding prolonged trimetazidine or isosorbide dinitrate to beta-adrenoblocker therapy in stable angina patients by M. G. Glezer, M. V. Novikova, I. V. Kiseleva, R. T. Saigitov

“…Two participants dropped out of ID group, due to low medication tolerability (n=2), and myocardial infarction development (n=1). …”
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MEMS-Based Vibration Acquisition for Modal Parameter Identification of Substation Frame by Ruochen Qiang, Ming Sheng, Dongxu Su, Yachen Wang, Xianghong Liu, Qing Sun

“…During the test, the proposed MEMS-based vibration acquisition method was conducted in parallel with traditional ultra-low-frequency vibration acquisition methods to validate the accuracy of the MEMS data. …”
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Doping in Martial Arts: How Is It Managed? by Agung Nugroho, Arko Jatmiko Wicaksono, Hary Widodo, Santosa Budiharjo, Djoko Pekik Irianto, Rustamaji Rustamaji, Lismadiana Lismadiana

“…Methods: A convergent parallel mixed-methods design was employed. Twenty-one national-level martial arts athletes were selected using purposive sampling. …”
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A hybrid approach to financial big data analysis using extended ensemble learning and optimized spark streaming by Muhammad Babar

“…The system is designed for distributed and parallel execution, leveraging Spark’s map-reduce capabilities for high-throughput, low-latency data handling. …”
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