The New ‘Golden Age’ of Dentistry: A Highly Desirable Profession with Unprecedented Global Opportunities in Industry Settings by Artemiz Seif, Christian R. Jarry, Amélie Michèle Chauvel

“…With this, the dental profession’s perspective on how to best serve the entire patient journey must also expand to explore unprecedented opportunities to unobstruct another layer of critical choke points and unlock further value in global oral health. …”
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Riverbed Surface Settlement Patterns Induced by Pipe Jacking Construction in River-Crossing Sections by SHENG Song-tao, AN Zi-yue, ZHOU Hong-yun, LIU Jie

“…[Results] (1) Characteristics of soil stress distribution: During the pipe jacking process, the stress in the soil around the pipe exhibited a near “M”-shaped distribution, with the minimum stress at the pipe axis and the stress on both sides increasing first and then decreasing. …”
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Response of Water-Sediment Structure to Three-dimensional Baroclinic Effects in Yangtze River Estuary by ZHU Xian-bo, LU Chuan-teng, LUO Xiao-feng, ZHANG Gong-jin

“…[Conclusion] (1) Salinity is the sole key factor driving the baroclinic effects in the North Passage of the Yangtze River Estuary, and for the first time, the detailed influence patterns of baroclinic effects on layered flow velocities and vertical structure of suspended sediment content in the North Passage are systematically revealed.(2) The baroclinic effects substantially restructure the vertical momentum distribution in the North Passage by altering the vertical pressure gradient, manifesting as enhanced flood-tide dynamics and weakened ebb-tide dynamics in the bottom layer. …”
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Effect of Phosphoric Acid on the Properties of Sodium Bentonite and Its Mechanism by Jiandi Liu, Yanzhi Meng, Yuze Zhang, Xiangyu Ji, Zhenhua Zheng, Luyan Wang, Wenjuan Guo, Meishan Pei

“…The zeta potential of bentonite decreased with H₃PO₄ addition, reflecting a reduction in the double electric layer thickness due to hydrogen ion exchange with metal cations. …”
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Petrogenesis of paleocene flood basalt sequence and interlayered sedimentary successions in the Mannar Basin – Offshore Sri Lanka (Northern Equatorial margin of the Indian Ocean) by S. Karunarathne, P.L. Dharmapriya, W.M.H.M. Wijesinghe, M. Hellers, A.U. Wijenayake, H.M.T.G.A. Pitawala, E.K.C.W. Kularathna

“…Exploration for hydrocarbons has uncovered igneous sequences distributed throughout the basin's sedimentary sequences. …”
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Daytime Equatorial Spread F‐Like Irregularities Detected by HF Doppler Receiver and Digisonde by B. Olugbon, E. O. Oyeyemi, A. Kascheyev, A. B. Rabiu, A. A. Obafaye, O. O. Odeyemi, A. O. Adewale

“…The characteristics of the second event suggest that horizontal stratifications in plasma density distribution at the reflecting ionospheric layer were responsible for the spread F traces in the ionograms. …”
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Multifunctional Janus-Structured Polytetrafluoroethylene-Carbon Nanotube-Fe3O4/MXene Membranes for Enhanced EMI Shielding and Thermal Management by Runze Shao, Guilong Wang, Jialong Chai, Jun Lin, Guoqun Zhao, Zhihui Zeng, Guizhen Wang

“…Thanks to the strategic distribution of the MXene conductive reflection layer and the silk-like FCFe electromagnetic wave’s absorption layer, the membranes achieve robust electromagnetic interference shielding and effective antireflection through the absorption-reflection-reabsorption mechanism. …”
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Compact efficient polarizers for relativistic electron beams by Kun Xue, Yue Cao, Feng Wan, Zhong-Peng Li, Qian Zhao, Si-Man Liu, Xin-Yu Liu, Li-Xiang Hu, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Feng Xu, Yousef I. Salamin, Tong-Pu Yu, Jian-Xing Li

“…Moreover, the double-layer target setup enhances the plasma field and induces a plasma bubble that focuses the polarized beam and reshapes its polarization distribution. …”
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A 3D Clinical Face Phenotype Space of Genetic Syndromes Using a Triplet-Based Singular Geometric Autoencoder by Soha S. Mahdi, Eduarda Caldeira, Harold Matthews, Michiel Vanneste, Nele Nauwelaers, Meng Yuan, Giorgos Bouritsas, Gareth S. Baynam, Peter Hammond, Richard Spritz, Ophir D. Klein, Michael Bronstein, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Hilde Peeters, Peter Claes

“…Experiments are designed to illustrate the following properties of CFPSs that can aid clinicians in narrowing down their search space: a CFPS can 1) classify syndromes accurately, 2) generalize to novel syndromes, and 3) preserve the relatedness of genetic diseases, meaning that clusters of phenotypically similar disorders reflect functional relationships between genes. The proposed model consists of three main components: an encoder based on GDL optimizing distances between groups of individuals in the CFPS, a decoder enhancing classification by reconstructing faces, and a singular value decomposition layer maintaining orthogonality and optimal variance distribution across dimensions. …”
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Polarization-adjustable color reflector based on Fano resonance by Junyang Zhu, Qi Wang, Ruimei Zeng, Yiqun Zhou, Ruijin Hong, Dawei Zhang

“…By adjusting the thickness of the silicon (Si) dielectric layer, reflection colors can vary widely from magenta to green. …”
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Study of the spatiotemporal evolution of the stress, deformation and creep characteristics of pillars in solid potash mines by Luwei Zhang, Gaofeng Ren, Yongxiang Ge, Congrui Zhang, Xin Wang

“…This model accurately reflects the axial symmetric deformation mode and radial asymmetric deformation mode. …”
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Ground-penetrating radar as a tool for determining the interface between temperate and cold ice, and snow depth: a case study for Hurd-Johnsons glaciers, Livingston Island, Antarct... by Unai Letamendia, Francisco Navarro, Beatriz Benjumea

“…Based on the different permittivities of snow and ice, we determined the thickness distribution of the end-of winter snow cover and of the cold ice layer. …”
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Enhancing the Brightness of Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes by Multilayer Heterostructures by Na Qiao, Zhi-Hui Chen, Yi-Biao Yang, Shao-Ding Liu, Yun-Cai Wang, Han Ye

“…Electric field distributes mostly in the superficial layer. The proposed structure provides highly multiband reflection covering the emission peaks of QDs in LEDs; hence, it can eventually enhance QDs' fluorescence and enhance the brightness of QD-LEDs. …”
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ACO-NM hybrid optimization calculation method for transit time of oxygen activation logging in CO2 injection profile by WANG Zhengyan, CHEN Meng, YANG Guofeng, LIU Guoquan, PEI Yang, CHEN Qiang

“…Accurate monitoring and evaluation of CO2 uptake across different layers are essential for guiding the optimization and adjustment of oil and gas reservoir development schemes. …”
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Geoacoustic Digital Model for the Sea of Japan Shelf (Peter the Great Bay) by Aleksandr Samchenko, Grigory Dolgikh, Igor Yaroshchuk, Roman Korotchenko, Alexandra Kosheleva

“…The model consists of four relief layers, a foundation and three layers of bottom sediments, and also contains the velocities of longitudinal waves in rocks and statistical characteristics of the sound velocity distribution in the water layer for three seasons. …”
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Design and Experimental Operation of a Swing-Arm Orchard Sprayer by Zhongyi Yu, Mingtian Geng, Keyao Zhao, Xiangsen Meng, Hongtu Zhang, Xiongkui He

“…Through the integration of innovative structural design and intelligent control technology, a vertical droplet distribution test was carried out, and the optimal working distance of the spray was determined to be 1 m; the nozzle angle for the upper layer was 45°, that for the lower layer was 15°, and the optimal speed of the swing-arm motor was 75 r/min. …”
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Boundary Collisions of Slow Atoms with Two-dimensional Hexagonal Structure by A.S. Dolgov, M.S. Cherednichenko

“…It is shown that location of target atoms, specified by the structure geometry, define the distribution of impact parameters and energy transfer which strongly differs from the distribution of random location of targets. …”
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Integrated Geologic Modeling of Fault-Block Reservoir: A Case Study of Ss Oil Field by Zhipeng Xiao, Zhang Wei, Zhengyin Tang, Jianqing Guo, Ruijuan Geng, Tuobing Gou

“…This method improves the accuracy and precision of the model by reflecting the reservoir’s heterogeneity and the oil-water distribution. …”
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Online Characterization of Internal Stress in Aluminum Alloys During Laser-Directed Energy Deposition by Yi Lu, Jian Dong, Wenbo Li, Chen Wang, Rongqi Shen, Di Jiang, Yang Yi, Bin Wu, Guifang Sun, Yongkang Zhang

“…The results show that the DeeplabV3+ segmentation network accurately extracted deposition-layer contours and shrinkage information. Furthermore, DCM and thermal–mechanical coupling simulations showed good consistency in residual stress distribution, with all results falling within the experimental error range. …”
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About the structure of the Kama-Kinel trough system by E. N. Gorozhanina, V. M. Gorozhanin, D. E. Zagranovskaya, O. A. Zakharova

“…The deposits of the middle shelf (ramp), gently sinking into the side of the pool, where the layered accumulated precipitation are presented by bioclastic and intraclastic (lumpy) limestones and carbonate breccia, formed under the influence of storms. …”
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