Bio-deterioration of sweet potato (<i>ipomoea batatas lam</i>) in storage, inoculation-induced quality changes, and control by modified atmosphere by Oyeyipo Olutimilehin Olaitan

“…The four prevalent isolates (Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum Botryodiplodia theobroma and Rhizopus stolonifer) were each used to inoculate other sweet potato samples. …”
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Exploring the economic occupational health, safety, and fatal accidents in high-risk industries by Zhonghong Cao, Tao Zhou, Siyu Miao, Lingfeng Wang, Zhenzhen Wang

“…Notably, the study reveals a negative correlation between GDP and fatal workplace incidents: for every 0.461 trillion CNY increase in GDP, production safety accident deaths decrease by one. Conversely, each safety accident resulted in 1.052 coal mine fatalities and 0.153 cases of occupational disease. …”
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A new species of Hemiphyllodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from western Yunnan, China by Hongxin Zhou, Xiaohan Wang, Liangwei Cui, Dongru Zhang, Ziqi Shen, Xiuyan Li, Shuo Liu, Dingqi Rao

“…The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a significant genetic divergence of greater than 4.8% in the mitochondrial ND2 gene and a combination of the following characters: maximum SVL of 38.5 mm; 10 or 11 chin scales; enlarged postmentals; 6 circumnasal scales; 2 or 3 internasal scales; 8 or 9 supralabial scales; 8 or 9 infralabial scales; 15 or 16 dorsal scales; 9 ventral scales; a manual lamellar formula of 3-4-4-4 and a pedal lamellar formula of 3(4)-4-4-4; 26–28 precloacal and femoral pore-bearing scales contiguous in males; 1–3 cloacal spur on each side; a dark postorbital stripe extending to at least base of neck; dorsolateral light–colored spots on trunk present; dark ventrolateral stripe on trunk present; dark dorsal transverse blotches present; and a dark and brown postsacral mark bearing anteriorly projecting arms.…”
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Vehicle positioning systems in tunnel environments: a review by Suying Jiang, Qiufeng Xu, Wei Wang, Peng Peng, Jiachun Li

“…Then, various vehicle positioning technologies are investigated, the advantages and drawbacks of each technology are illustrated. Thereafter, we discuss some widely used positioning methods in terms of range-based localization method, range-free localization method, multi-sensor fusion localization method, and cooperative positioning (CP) method. …”
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New Record of the Egg-larval Parasitoid, Chelonus formosanus Sonan of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) in the Philippines by Orlando Adona Calcetas, Ravindra Chandra Joshi, Ankita Gupta, Avinjikkattu Parambil Ranjith, Mary Ann Madrid, Joash Fameronag

“…Three adults from the emerged parasitoids, each male and female, were initially preserved and labeled. …”
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Modern concept of bacterial complications at liver cirrhosis by M. S. Zharkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Various methods of prophylaxis, including the use of antibiotics, pre- and probiotics, bile acids can be applied to alter bacterial overgrowth and bacterial translocation. Each of these methods proved its efficacy in scientific studies.…”
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Zaproszeni do królestwa. Ubodzy w Ewangelii św. Łukasza i podejmowane przez nich wybory by Anna Gibek

“…Łukasz prezentuje dwa wzorce ubóstwa: Łazarza (Łk 16, 20–21) i wdowę (Łk 21, 1–4). Na podstawie ich cech można wyprowadzić obraz ubogiego w Ewangelii Łukasza – jest to człowiek całkowicie zależny od Boga, który ma świadomość, że sam z siebie nie ma żadnej mocy, dlatego siebie i swoje życie składa w ręce Najwyższego.…”
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3MT Competition (EUSIPCO2024): A peek into the black box: Insights into the functionality of complex-valued neural networks for multichannel speech enhancement by Annika Briegleb

“…By designing specific training and test scenarios that allow to associate each time frame with certain information, e.g., spatial cues, and using low-cost analysis tools such as clustering, interpretable information can be extracted from the hidden features of the ANN. …”
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Risk Perceptions of Insurance Policyholders in the Gauteng Region of South Africa by Suné Ferreira-Schenk, Zandri Dickason-Koekemoer, Marko Van Deventer

“…The insurance industry’s product range is diverse, and the risk perception of each product differs from that of insurers, especially given the constantly changing market conditions. …”
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ETHERNET TRANSMISSION USING M-ARY PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION TECHNIQUES by APENA WALIU OLALEKAN, OLASUNKANMI OMOWUMI GRACE, SALAKO ANUOLUWAPO

“…Additionally, Hamming code were used to detect and correct errors that are inherent in the design and the efficiency of each level of PAM used was analyzed. …”
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SurvBeNIM: The Beran-Based Neural Importance Model for Explaining Survival Models by Lev V. Utkin, Danila Y. Eremenko, Andrei V. Konstantinov, Vladimir A. Muliukha

“…The first one explains a single instance, and the neural network is trained for each explained instance. According to the second strategy, the neural network only learns once on all instances from the dataset and on all generated instances. …”
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Dziecięce konstrukcje świata w rozmowach z dorosłymi by Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…It is divided into parts entitled: ‘Children search’, ‘Children think’, ‘Children speak’, ‘Children construct’. Each part is packed with children’s hot knowledge, their experience and their ways of understanding the world. …”
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Accurate identification of oxygen desaturation status in COPD by using classifier ensemble. by Yue-Fang Wu, Xin Shu, Shiqi Wang, Xiaojun Xu, Pei-Li Sun

“…In the proposed method, five different features of each data point from the time series of SpO2 and pulse are extracted and then combined to form the discriminative feature of the corresponding data point; then, multiple base classifiers with different balanced training subsets are trained and then integrated by using AdaBoost Algorithm. …”
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Pain at chronic pancreatitis: origin and treatment options by V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin, A. V. Okhlobystin

“…Treatment efficacy in each given case depends on duly establishment and adequate treatment of complications, motivation for abstain of alcohol intake and smoking; strict diet restriction for relapse period, and functional rest for the pancreas.…”
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The biological foundations of fixation: a general theory by Robert A. Dielenberg

“…A literature survey reveals three levels of description: physiological, systemic, and cognitive-behavioral. Examples of each level are provided, followed by a focus on cognitive-behavioral fixations. …”
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Opening tasks, opening minds – a rediscovery of the open-ended approach by Kalina Jastrzębowska

“…The results confirmed that students who are challenged with openended tasks through dialogic teaching not only genuinely engage in their activities, develop a better number sense and flexibility of thinking, but also help each other gain a deeper understanding of new concepts. …”
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Diagnostic classification in toxicologic pathology using attention-guided weak supervision and whole slide image features: a pilot study in rat livers by Philip Zehnder, Jeffrey Feng, Trung Nguyen, Philip Shen, Ruth Sullivan, Reina N. Fuji, Fangyao Hu

“…We also demonstrate how an ensemble of binary classifiers improves interpretability and allows for multiclass classification and the classification of diagnostic regions of interest in each slide. The improved classification performance and higher contrast heatmaps better support toxicologic pathologists’ histopathology analysis and will enable more efficient workflows as they are further refined and integrated into routine use.…”
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Design of Silicide-Strengthened Nb–Si–Cr–(Mo) alloys for additive manufacturing by Alice Perrin, Patxi Fernandez-Zelaia, Chris Ledford, Yan-Ru Lin, Ellen Berry, Ryan Dehoff, Michael Kirka, Ying Yang

“…The weld processing was found to produce fine-grained microstructures in each alloy with fine-scale intermetallics uniformly distributed among a body-centered cubic Nb matrix. …”
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Analysis of the kinematic pattern of free throw by wheelchair basketball athletes: a systematic review. by Hugo Vinícius de Oliveira Silva, Karina Santos Guedes de Sá, José Irineu Gorla, Anselmo Athayde Costa E Silva, Dernival Bertoncello

“…Further studies are necessary to explore the associated patterns for each FC.…”
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Leadership and Management Support to the Procurement Function and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Governmen. by Yesigomwe, Fredrick

“…The study used a descriptive survey design which is both quantitative and qualitative approaches because the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative approaches potentially complement each other. The study targeted 48 employees of Kabale District Local Government. …”
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