A Cloud Model-Based Evaluation of Renovation Decisions for Old Urban Communities from the Perspective of Resilience—A Case Study of a Community in Nanjing, China by Xisheng Li, Xiang Zhang, Jiaying Zhang

“…In order to standardize the retrofit evaluation index system, enhance the guidance of renovation decision plans for community renewal practices, and consider the randomness of evaluation indicators and the visualization of evaluation results, this paper proposes a method for evaluating the potential of old-urban-community renovation from the perspective of resilience. …”
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Physicochemical characterization of oxisol subjected to succession culture by Adryel K. O. A. Laurindo, Alex O. Smaniotto, Lucas M. de Morais, Thiago L. Silva, Darly G. de Sena Júnior, Simério C. S. Cruz

“…The subplots were the following sampled soil layers: 0-5, 5-10, and 10-20 cm. The physicochemical attributes of these three soil layers were evaluated. …”
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Patient and wearable device authentication utilizing attribute-based credentials and permissioned blockchains in smart homes by Solomon Hopewell Kembo, Patience Mpofu, Saulo Jacques, Nevil Chitiyo, Brighton Mukorera

“…Findings – While the privacy-by-design architecture enhances data privacy through edge and fog computing architecture, there is a need to provide an additional privacy layer that limits the amount of data that patients disclose. …”
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Demonstration of accurate ID-VG characteristics modeling in SiC mosfets using separated artificial neural networks with small training dataset by Manopat Chankla, Bang-Ren Chen, Shivendra Kumar Singh, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Wen-Jay Lee, Nan-Yow Chen, Songphol Kanjanachuchai, Tian-Li Wu

“…To address this problem, we developed a method that involves using two ANNs, one each for the ON- and OFF-states. A transition layer is also used to model the transition between the ON- and OFF-states. …”
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The effect of pore structure on the erosion resistance of air plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings on finite element simulation by Y. Wang, S. Y. Cui, Q. M. Yu, G. Cheng, X. F. Li, Q. Y. Li, J. Yan, X. Zhao

“…This damage is directly linked to the microscale pores randomly distributed within the TBCs, impacting their erosion resistance. …”
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Investigations on effectiveness of wheat and rice straw mulches on moisture retention in potato crop ( Solanum tuberosum L.) by LALIT GOEL, Vijay Shankar, R. K. Sharma

“…Conclusion Wheat straw mulch is more effective than rice straw mulch for shallow rooted crops like potato, due to better moisture absorption and retention in upper soil layer.…”
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Secrecy Capacity and Efficiency Outage Analysis of Cooperative PHY-Secure Wireless Systems and Secrecy Capacity-Based RIS Design by Tarun Jain, Sainath Bitragunta, Ashutosh Bhatia

“…Physical layer (PHY) security (PLS) leverages the inherent randomness of wireless fading channels to provide enhanced secrecy capacity. …”
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Low-Frequency Admittance of Capacitor with Working Substance “Insulator–Partially Disordered Semiconductor– Insulator” by N. A. Poklonski, I. I. Anikeev, S. A. Vyrko

“…The purpose of this work is to calculate the low-frequency admittance of a capacitor with the working substance “insulator–crystalline semiconductor with point t-defects in charge states (−1), (0) and (+1)–insulator”. A layer of a partially disordered semiconductor with a thickness of 150 μm is separated from the metal plates of the capacitor by insulating layers of polyimide with a thickness of 3 μm. …”
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Near-wall dynamics of single cavitation bubbles imaged by total internal reflection fluorescence by Fangyi Wang, Jonas Kühlmann, Sebastian A. Kaiser

“…This study introduces total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) as a method for investigating the dynamics of a single laser-induced cavitation bubble in water within a thin layer near a solid surface. TIRF, supported by a planar waveguide, was employed to image cavitation bubble collapses near the liquid–solid interface at 50 thousand frames per second (kfps). …”
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Soil fertility and yield of ‘Paluma’ guava fertilized with phosphorus, cattle manure, and boron by Gaudêncio P. dos Santos, Walter E. Pereira, Rosiane de L. S. de Lima, José F. de Brito Neto, Bruno de O. Dias, Thiago J. Dias

“…The pH decreased with phosphorus doses without cattle manure and in the treatment with boron in the 20-40 cm layer. The cation exchange capacity increased with the application of phosphorus doses associated with manure and decreased in both soil layers with boron. …”
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Nitrogen Residual Effect of Winter Cover Crops on Maize in Uruguay: Conventional and Isotopic Evaluation by Cristina Mori Alvez, Carlos Perdomo Varela, Amabelia del Pino Machado

“…The experimental design was a randomized block with split plots, where CCs were applied to main plots and N rates (0 and 100 kg ha⁻¹) to subplots. …”
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Study the Effects of Formaldehyde and Xylene Vapor on Lung and Testicular Tissue with Sperm Morphology of Adult Albino Rats by Trefa F. Ismail, Galawezh O. Othman, Naznaz H. Othman, Ban A. Hassan

“…Fifteen adult male rats were used in this study; the rats were divided randomly into three groups (A, B, and C). Group (A) comprises the control group, whereas the rats in the Group (B) were exposed to 10% formaldehyde vapor and the rats from Group (C) were exposed to xylene vapor for 4 h/day for 5 days/week for 1 month. …”
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Whitening Effect of Juglans regia Dry Husk Extract on Primary and Permanent Teeth by Ola Hameed Turki, Zainab Juma Jafar

“…Stains from these ingredients could stay in the porous enamel layer. Traditional whitening chemicals have some side effects, the most common of which is tooth sensitivity and mild or moderate gingival irritation. …”
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ShadowFPN-YOLO: A Real-Time NMS-Free Detector for Remote Sensing Ship Detection by Xiao Yang, Ahmad Sufril Azlan Mohamed, Chuanchuan Wang

“…Furthermore, the backbone network integrates generalized efficient layer aggregation network with reparameterized cross stage partial modules to further enhance performance. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of Push-Out Bond Strength in Three Different Post Systems by Tara Kamal Talib Bajlan, Raid Fahim Salman

“…According to the kind of post system and cement utilized (n=10), the specimens were separated randomly into six groups. Zirconium oxide post, customized glass fiber post, and glass fiber post were used. …”
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In vitro reduction in Enterococcus faecalis count following root canal preparation with Neolix and XP shaper rotary files by Mina Mehrjouei, Somayeh Teimoori, Majid Mirmohammadkhani, Seyed Majed Mortazavi, Maryam Khorasanchi

“…All teeth were primarily instrumented with #20 K-file and #2 and #3 Gates-Glidden drills. The smear layer was removed using 17% ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and 5.25% sodium hypochlorite. …”
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Root growth responses to water and nitrogen inputs drive maize economic income and water-nitrogen productivity by Bo Jing, Wenjuan Shi

“…To investigate the effects of water and nitrogen management on maize economic income, root growth, and water-nitrogen productivity, a two-year field experiment was conducted in Northwest China using a two-factor randomized complete block design. The treatments comprised three irrigation amounts [60 % (W1), 80 % (W2), and 100 % of the crop potential evapotranspiration (W3)] and five nitrogen application rates [0 (N0), 80 (N1), 160 (N2), 240 (N3), and 320 kg ha–1 (N4)]. …”
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Cord Blood Platelet-Rich Plasma in Cesarean Section Wound Management by Amornrat Thanachaiviwat, Sutham Suthaporn, Patana Teng-umnuay

“…Cord blood PRP was applied to the subcutaneous layer and the surgical wound immediately following the cesarean section. …”
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Formal modeling of a causal consistent distributed system and verification of its history via model checking using colored Petri net by Khalid Amjed Mohammed Alsaegg, Saeid Pashazadeh, Mina Zolfy Lighvan

“…Various consistency models for replicated distributed systems (DSs) have been developed and are usually implemented in the middleware layer. Causal consistency (CC) is a widely used consistency model appropriate for distributed applications like discussion groups and forums. …”
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Wood ash as a vegetative-growth promoter in soils with subsurface compaction by Edna M. Bonfim-Silva, Tulio Martinez-Santos, Tonny J. A. da Silva, Rackel D. de S. Alves, Everton A. R. Pinheiro, Thiago F. Duarte

“…Safflower plants (Carthamus tinctorius), a rotational crop with a deep taproot system, were grown in clay soil fertilized with different doses of ash and with induced levels of compaction in the subsurface layer. The experiment was conducted in a randomized block design, under a 4 × 5 factorial scheme, composed of four doses of wood ash (8.0, 16.0, 24.0, and 32.0 g dm-3) and five levels of soil bulk density (1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.8 kg dm-3), with four replicates. …”
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