Application of Wavelet and EEMD Joint Denoising in Nonlinear Ultrasonic Testing of Concrete by Zhichao Nie, Kui Wang, Mingjie Zhao

“…In this experiment, the concrete with the microcrack was tested by linear and nonlinear ultrasonic methods. Based on the variation regularity of the nonlinear ultrasonic coefficient β and velocity v, we can conclude that the nonlinear ultrasonic parameter β is more sensitive to the microcrack in concrete than the traditional wave velocity v. …”
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Investigation of the Relationship between Character Structures and Mental Toughness of High School and University Students Doing Fencing Sports by Ozer Yıldız, İbrahim Bacak

“…Survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, has been used in the study. The sample of the research consisted of 286 active licensed fencing athletes who have competing in the classifications of the Turkish Fencing Federation and studying at high schools and university. …”
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INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR by Anes Hrnjić, Amila Pilav-Velić, Irma Đidelija, Hatidža Jahić

“…The telecommunications sector is a major segment of the services industry and companies´  organizational behavior in terms of innovation is determined by various factors whose number, direction and intensity are not yet clearly defined. …”
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The Relationship Between Pre-School Teacher Candidates' Attitudes Towards Science Teaching and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science by Sumeyye Cakici, Aycan Buldur

“…Pearson Correlation Coefficients were calculated to determine the relationship between participants' attitudes towards science teaching and their self-efficacy regarding science education. …”
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Assessing of Humoral Immunity to SARS-COV-2 in Residents of Orenburg During the Epidemic Period by A. S. Pankov, S. Yu. Nosyreva, I. F. Karimov, A. G. Korneev, S. D. Borisov

“…The most typical humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 has been established, and the age-related characteristics of its formation have been determined. The dependence of the positivity coefficient on the age of the patients was revealed.Conclusions. …”
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Assessment of competitiveness of machine-building enterprise by I.M. Teslenok, E.V. Shirokolobov

“…The article reflects one of the methods of assessing the level of competitiveness of enterprises, namely the construction of competitiveness polygon, according to which the internal and overall level of competitiveness of JSC «Motor Sich» and their comparison with two main competitors – «CFM Int.» аnd «General Electric» is determined. …”
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Photoinduced superlubricity on TiO2 surfaces by Ke Han, Liran Ma, Yu Tian, Jianbin Luo

“…These findings showed one method for achieving superlubricity by introducing a light field that could be further applied to special working conditions.…”
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Digital transformation in the construction industry: Analysing the impact of technological changes on construction processes by Olena Emelianova, Viktoriya Tytok, Kateryna Lavrukhina, Inna Shatrova, Olena Demydova

“…The methods of literature review, experimentation, and abduction were used. …”

Development and validation of an explainable machine learning model for predicting postoperative pulmonary complications after lung cancer surgery: a machine learning studyResearch... by Shaolin Chen, Ting Deng, Qing Yang, Jin Li, Juanyan Shen, Xu Luo, Juan Tang, Xulian Zhang, Jordan Tovera Salvador, Junliang Ma

“…This study aimed to develop and validate an explainable machine learning (ML) model to predict PPCs in patients with LC undergoing surgery. Methods: A risk factor variable pool was determined by meta-analysis and Delphi surveys. …”
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Hydraulic-Mechanical Coupling Model with Dual-Porosity Dual-Permeability for Anisotropy Coal Seams and Its Application in Mine Gas Extraction by Bingjie Huo, Xuedong Jing, Aiping He, Chaojun Fan

“…This pressure gradient is proportional to the anisotropy coefficient at the early stage of extraction and is inversely proportional to the anisotropy coefficient at the later stage. …”
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Combined effect of low dose levels of lead and zinc on bone tissue of rats by E. M. Biletska, N. M. Onul, V. V. Kalinicheva

“…To evaluate the relationship between low doses of zinc and lead, the combined action coefficient and change of combined action effect coefficient were determined. …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of TiO2 Suspension Coating Techniques: A Novel Technique to Achieve Optimal Thickness and Uniformity of Photocatalytic Film by Masoud Rismanchian, Farideh Golbabaei, Yadollah Mortazavi, Gholamhossein Pourtaghi, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Parvin Nassiri

“…The present method for the determination of thickness used in most studies is the analysis of cross-sectional pictures from SEM imaging. …”
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Cryo-electron tomography pipeline for plasma membranes by Willy W. Sun, Dennis J. Michalak, Kem A. Sochacki, Prasanthi Kunamaneni, Marco A. Alfonzo-Méndez, Andreas M. Arnold, Marie-Paule Strub, Jenny E. Hinshaw, Justin W. Taraska

“…Existing sample preparation methods are insufficient at accessing the plasma membrane and its associated proteins. …”
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Investigation, Optimization of Energy Consumption and Yield Modeling of Two Paddy Cultivars with Genetic-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by S. Sharifi, N. Hafezi, M. H. Aghkhani

“…IntroductionEfficient use of energy in paddy production can lower greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard agricultural ecosystems, and promote the growth of sustainable agriculture. …”
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Creation of high-conductive filtration channels in core samples when simulating acid exposure at a filtering unit by K. A. Ravelev, K. A. Vyatkin, P. Yu. Ilyushin

“…The main objectives are to determine the significance of these factors and to establish dependencies reflecting their effect on the efficiency of technologies aimed at stimulating oil inflow.Materials and methods. …”
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Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Cold Storage Panel Production by Emrah Yılmaz

“…Additionally, according to the CED, non-renewable fossil and non-renewable nuclear were determined to be the most affected categories, and the use of galvanized sheet metal and polyurethane were determined to be the most important hot spots in terms of non-renewable and renewable resources. …”
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Crack propagation in micro-chevron-test samples of direct bonded silicon-silicon wafers by K. Vogel, D. Wuensch, A. Shaporin, J. Mehner, D. Billep, M. Wiemer

“…The minimum of the stress intensity coefficient can be determined by a FE-simulation only. …”
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Improved Hybrid Fireworks Algorithm-Based Parameter Optimization in High-Order Sliding Mode Control of Hypersonic Vehicles by Xiaomeng Yin, Xing Wei, Lei Liu, Yongji Wang

“…However, there are few methods for determining suitable HOSMC parameters for an efficacious control of HV, given that the uncertainties are randomly distributed. …”
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Evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence models for temperature downscaling (Study area: Ardabil province) by Mohammad Hossein Jahangir, Seyed Mohammad Ehsan Azimi

“…To this end, three downscaling models such as Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM), least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) were determined for downscaling; and correlation coefficient (CC), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Normalized mean square error (NMSE), Nash-Sutcliffe, Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Taylor diagram were used to evaluate the efficiency of the models.Results and discussion: The results showed that the MLP obtained the best results based on the average of the stations with the values of (CC=0.85), (NMSE=0.63), (NSH=0.73) and (MAE=0.52), and LS-SVM and SDSM are ranked second and third, respectively. …”
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Use of Rapid Qualitative Analysis to Support Collaborative Synergy Within a Community Coalition for Health Equity in Detroit by Hayley S. Thompson, Ten-Niah Kinney, Carrie Leach, Alexandra Sass, Ariel Washington, Rhonda Dailey, Elizabeth Towner, Alyssa Beavers, Rodlescia Sneed, Karen Solomon Edwards, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Arthur Hampton, Zachary Cichon, Afsana Rinky, Joneigh Khaldun

“…Furthermore, by fostering better communication and alignment, RQA is an efficient and effective method to enhance coalition synergy. …”
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