Seismic performance evaluation of mass timber buildings equipped with resilient and conventional friction devices by Ashkan Hashemi, Rajnil Lal

“…Their repairability is also low due to permanent damage in the fasteners and the associated crushing in the wood fibres. …”
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Effect of CNT embedding angle on tensile behavior and dislocation mechanisms in magnesium matrix composites: a molecular dynamics study by Chentong Zhao, Jiming Zhou, Yunfeng Bai, Kang Yun, Lehua Qi

“…The results reveal that CNTs aligned parallel to the tensile loading direction significantly enhance the composite’s tensile strength and stiffness, with the maximum tensile strength of 6.07 GPa and a Young’s modulus of 90.01 GPa at 0° embedding. …”
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Changes in soil quality indicators in response to land use based on a minimum data set by Carlos Bravo-Medina, Danilo Sarabia-Guevara, David Sancho-Aguilera

“…The Ecuadorian Amazon region is permanently subject to deforestation processes and in parallel to the implementation of agricultural, and livestock management systems that can affect soil quality. …”
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Owl Pellet Content Analysis Proves an Effective Technique to Monitor a Population of Threatened Julia Creek Dunnarts (Sminthopsis douglasi) Throughout a Native Rodent Plague by Cameron L. Charley, Emma L. Gray, Andrew M. Baker

“…Owl pellet content analysis offers a low‐cost, non‐invasive alternative to live trapping, as it is generally reflective of prey abundance within the broader small mammal community. …”
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Comparative efficacy of various oral hygiene care methods in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Sachika Yamakita, Takeshi Unoki, Sachi Niiyama, Eri Natsuhori, Junpei Haruna, Tomoki Kuribara

“…Further research is needed to verify these findings as the CINeMA confidence rate was low for each comparison.…”
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The Paradox of Clean Eating: Neuroactive Dysbiosis and Pesticide Residues in Fruit- and Vegetable-Based Diets by Ramona Alina Tomuța, Andrada Florina Moldovan, Loredana Matiș, Lavinia Maris, Timea Claudia Ghitea, Florin Banica

“…However, organophosphates such as chlorpyrifos and diazinon were frequently tested, indicating persistent regulatory concern due to their known neurotoxic potential. A parallel analysis of stool samples revealed significant imbalances in neuroactive gut bacteria, including consistently low levels of <i>Bifidobacterium</i> and <i>Lactobacillus</i> species, and elevated levels of <i>Oscillibacter</i> and <i>Alistipes</i>, which are implicated in modulating GABA and serotonin pathways. …”
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Grain size hardening versus texture softening: Mechanical anisotropy of an AZ31B magnesium alloy processed by equal-channel angular pressing by B. Bohne, S. Fritsch, J. Kollender, M.F.-X. Wagner

“…While the yield strength increases up to 280 MPa in the transverse direction (TD), an opposite trend of low strength and good ductility can be observed for deformation in the extrusion (ED) and normal directions (ND). …”
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Mean Field Initialization of the Annealed Importance Sampling Algorithm for an Efficient Evaluation of the Partition Function Using Restricted Boltzmann Machines by Arnau Prat Pou, Enrique Romero, Jordi Martí, Ferran Mazzanti

“…The nature of AIS allows for an efficient and parallel implementation in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). …”
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Diagnosis of Commutation Failure in a High- Voltage Direct Current Transmission System Based on Fuzzy Entropy Feature Vectors and a PCNN-GRU by Cao Ruirui, Yang Taigang, Li Guohui, Chen Shilong

“…To enhance the diagnostic accuracy of commutation failure in weak receiving-end high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems, this study proposes a novel diagnostic model that integrates Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN)-based fuzzy entropy and a Parallel Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Network (PCNN-GRU). …”
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First reported detection of a winter continental gamma-ray glow in Europe by J. Šlegl, J. Šlegl, Z. Sokol, P. Pešice, R. Langer, I. Strhárský, J. Popová, M. Kákona, M. Kákona, I. Ambrožová, O. Ploc

“…<p>This study presents the first-ever published detection of two parallel winter continental gamma-ray glows in Central Europe, observed during a rare winter thunderstorm on Milešovka hill, Czech Republic. …”
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Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulations of Aerodynamic Variability During Carrier-Based Aircraft Landing with a Domain Precursor Inflow Method by Jiawei Fu, Ruifan Hu, Hong Wang, Ke Xu, Shuling Tian

“…Meanwhile, numerical methods generally exhibit low overall computational efficiency in solving such problems. …”
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Knockout of Apolipoprotein E in rabbit promotes premature intervertebral disc degeneration: A new in vivo model for therapeutic approaches of spinal disc disorders. by Anja Beierfuß, Hermann Dietrich, Christian Kremser, Monika Hunjadi, Andreas Ritsch, Thomas Rülicke, Claudius Thomé, Demissew Shenegelegn Mern

“…Obstruction of the lumbar arteries by atherosclerosis is presumed to promote lumbar disc degeneration and low back pain. APOE-knockout rabbits have recently been shown to generate hyperlipidemia with increased levels of cholesterol and triglycerides that mimic the symptoms of atherosclerosis in humans. …”
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Sensory profile, ferritin and zinc levels in preschool-aged children with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Tuba Çelen Yoldaş, Meral Huri, Hülya Kayıhan, Jale Karakaya, Elif N Özmert

“…The evaluation of zinc level and sensory profile parallel to other strategies can be recommended during the management of ADHD symptoms in preschool children. …”
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The role of selection in shaping diversity of natural M. tuberculosis populations. by Caitlin S Pepperell, Amanda M Casto, Andrew Kitchen, Julie M Granka, Omar E Cornejo, Edward C Holmes, Bruce Birren, James Galagan, Marcus W Feldman

“…Genes involved in transport and metabolism of inorganic ions exhibited very low levels of non-synonymous polymorphism, equivalent to categories under strong purifying selection (essential and translation-associated genes). …”
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Enhancing fieldwork productivity in subsurface characterization: advancements in data acquisition with MASW-DS by Hamdan Hamdan, George Kritikakis, Mahmoud Elsamani, Mahmoud Harb, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Pantelis Soupios

“…Abstract The multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method utilizes low-frequency surface waves to characterize the shallow subsurface layers. …”
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Image skeletonization based on combination of one- and two-sub-iterations models by J. Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…Skeletonization has many variety methods. Iterative parallel algorithms provide high quality skeletons. …”
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HyperSMamba: A Lightweight Mamba for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification by Mengyuan Sun, Liejun Wang, Shaochen Jiang, Shuli Cheng, Lihan Tang

“…Recently, the Mamba architecture has shown outstanding performance in 1D sequence modeling tasks owing to its lightweight linear sequence operations and efficient parallel scanning capabilities. Nevertheless, its application in HSI classification still faces challenges. …”
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Research and Implementation of OFC-Based Multicarrier Sliceable Bandwidth Variable Transponders in Hybrid Laser/Microwave Satellite Networks by Bin Wu, Hao Zhang, Qingchun Zhao

“…The structure of the transponder&#x2019;s internal switching unit is designed, and the principle of generating ultra-flat OFC based on a standalone dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) is analyzed. …”
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A rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on GADF-CWT-GCNN by ZHANG Xiaoli, LUO Xin, LI Min, LIANG Wang, WANG Fangzhen

“…Because of poor model generalization ability and low diagnostic accuracy caused by rolling bearing fault diagnosis in a small sample environment, a novel method based on the Gram angle division field (GADF), the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and the parallel two-dimensional group normalizatio convolutional neural network (P2D-GCNN) for the fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is proposed. …”
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Raman Profile Assessments of Qualifying Variably Graphitized Carbon Materials for Exclusive Industrial Applications by Anant Babu Marahatta

“…Among the samples, the low temperature amorphous AC material is found to exhibit the poorest microstructural graphitic domains and therewith dependent applicative features compared to CBs and is found to possess contrasting configurations of the basic structural units (BSUs) to those of the latter and semigraphite and graphite. …”
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