Analysis the Mechanical Response of Tunnels Under the Action of Vertical Jacking in Shield Construction and Research on Reinforcement by Mingxun Hou, Chunshan Yang, Jiayi Yang, Yuefei Zeng, Zhigang Zhu

“…This research examines the effects of vertical jacking construction on the mechanical behavior of shield tunnels. …”
Get full text

The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency. by David Nora, João Marreiros, Walter Gneisinger, Antonella Pedergnana, Telmo Pereira

“…Efficiency is assessedby the combination of penetration depth (proxy to measure effectiveness) and edge wear (proxy to measure durability). …”
Get full text

Detecting Advanced Persistent Threat Exfiltration With Ensemble Deep Learning Tree Models and Novel Detection Metrics by Xiaojuan Cai, Haibo Zhang, Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Hiroshi Koide

“…The code is open source and available at <uri>https://github.com/cxjuan/EDXGB-for-APT</uri>.…”
Get full text

Themes for evaluating the quality of initiatives to engage patients and family caregivers in decision-making in healthcare systems: a scoping review by Linda C Li, M Elizabeth Snow, Nancy Clark, Maryam Dehnadi, Michelle Lui, Janet McLean, Clayon B Hamilton, Hussein Mamdani, Allison L Kooijman, Vikram Bubber, Tammy Hoefer

“…The themes can be used to investigate the mechanisms through which relevant initiatives are effective and investigate their effectiveness.…”
Get full text

A Systematic Review Uncovering Modifiable Influences on Statin Adherence by Rosenberg J, Lampridou S, Moores A, Garfield S, Wingfield D, Judah G

“…This study combines findings from previous studies to understand why many people do not take statins as prescribed.Common barriers to taking statins included not thinking being at risk of strokes and heart attacks, believing statins are harmful, experiencing side effects and poor communication and trust with healthcare professionals.Common things encouraging statin taking included thinking statins have benefits, having cholesterol levels checked, routines and methods to remember statin intake and having ways of dealing with side effects. …”
Get full text

A person-centred primary care pharmacist-led osteoporosis review for optimising medicines (PHORM): a protocol for the development and co-design of a model consultation intervention by Andrew Sturrock, Robert Horne, Emma Clark, Toby Helliwell, Tracy Finch, Ian Maidment, Zoe Paskins, Shona Haining, Laurna Bullock, Robin Hyde, Meaghan Grabrovaz, Claire Pryor, Louise Statham

“…Poor adherence is complex, relating to combinations of fear of side effects, beliefs about medication being unnecessary, doubts about effectiveness and the burden of medication management. …”
Get full text

Explaining the jurisprudential rule of necessity in Islamic law 1392 by Hadi Aghaei, Mohammad Bhrami Khoshkar, Morteza Chitsazian, Ehsan Shahabi

“…Therefore, given the importance of this issue, the present study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach based on library research to examine the boundaries, criteria, and governing conditions of the necessity principle in the new Islamic Penal Code. This analysis demonstrates that reliance on this principle aligns with the logic and essence of criminal law, facilitating its application in this field far more effectively than in other legal areas, such as civil liability. …”
Get full text

Optimum Design of RC Beams Strengthened with Externally Bonded FRP Using Pattern Search by Noor Mohammed Sheet, Baraa J. M. AL-Eliwi, Rabi M. Najem

“…The design process involved an objective function that represents the cost function of the optimum solution and design variables that define the optimum dimensions of the beam and FRP material, such as beam width, effective beam depth, FRP strip thickness, FRP strips spacing, and FRP strip width, according to the design constraints of the ACI 440-2R-17 code. …”
Get full text

Combining graph neural network and Mamba to capture local and global tissue spatial relationships in whole slide images by Ruiwen Ding, Kha-Dinh Luong, Erika Rodriguez, Ana Cristina Araujo Lemos da Silva, William Hsu

“…Additional experiments showed the impact of different types of node features and different tile sampling strategies on model performance. Code: https://github.com/rina-ding/gat-mamba .…”
Get full text

Comprehensive Micromagnetic Modeling: Practical Techniques, Applications, and Emerging Challenges by Ahmet Bahadir Trabzon, Taichi Goto, Mehmet Cengiz Onbasli

“…Accompanying Jupyter notebook provide the source code for the examples. Finally, the tutorial addresses micromagnetic modeling limitations in capturing quantum effects, multi-domain couplings, and temperature-dependent phenomena. …”
Get full text

Numerical Mixing Index: Definition and Application on Concrete Mixer by Cristian Ferrari, Nicolò Beccati, Luca Magri

“…The illustrated method can be used to predictively calculate the distribution effectiveness of new truck mixer designs before prototyping them and can be applied to other types of mixers. …”
Get full text

PPT-LBS: Privacy-preserving top-k query scheme for outsourced data of location-based services by Yousheng Zhou, Xia Li, Ming Wang, Yuanni Liu

“…Secondly, an efficient and secure index structure is constructed by using a coded quadtree and the bloom filter, so that the cloud server can quickly locate the user’s query region to improve retrieval efficiency. …”
Get full text

The Post-Harmonisation Health and Safety Challenges of Construction Industry Managers by Richard Phelps, Janis Jansz, Ping Chang, Apurna Ghosh

“…To minimise the occurrence of injuries, illnesses and deaths due to work-related causes, it is important to have effective workplace health safety legislation that is known and used. …”
Get full text

Accelerated and Energy-Efficient Galaxy Detection: Integrating Deep Learning with Tensor Methods for Astronomical Imaging by Humberto Farias, Guillermo Damke, Mauricio Solar, Marcelo Jaque Arancibia

“…Furthermore, this research incorporates green code principles, emphasizing reductions in energy consumption and environmental impact in computational astronomy. …”
Get full text

SoK: FHE-Friendly Symmetric Ciphers and Transciphering by Chao Niu, Benqiang Wei, Zhicong Huang, Zhaomin Yang, Cheng Hong, Meiqin Wang, Tao Wei

“…The transciphering technique can effectively address this problem by first encrypting data with a space-efficient symmetric cipher, then converting symmetric ciphertext to FHE ciphertext without decryption. …”
Get full text

Application of machine learning to optimized design of layer structured particles by Hiroki GONOME, Hirotake SATO, Tatsuro HIRAI

“…It was shown that machine learning is effective for optimization design of objects with a large number of parameters.…”
Get full text

Fast and Accurate Identification of Kiwifruit Diseases Using a Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Architecture by Kangchen Liu, Li Li, Xiujun Zhang

“…Among these, ShuffleNet_V2_x0_5 proved to be the most effective model. By incorporating advanced optimization strategies, including the AdamW optimizer and OneCycleLR scheduler, the model demonstrated rapid convergence and robust performance, achieving over 99% accuracy within five epochs, with only 1.37M parameters and 0.04G FLOPs. …”
Get full text

WEB VULNERABILITIES DETECTION USING A HYBRID MODEL OF CNN, GRU AND ATTENTION MECHANISM by Sarbast H. Ali, Arman I. Mohammed, Sarwar MA. Mustafa, Sardar Omar Salih

“…The results show that this combination model is highly effective at recognizing three vulnerability categories and surpasses cutting-edge models that usually specialize in just one type of vulnerability detection. …”
Get full text

Balanced coarse-to-fine federated learning for noisy heterogeneous clients by Longfei Han, Ying Zhai, Yanan Jia, Qiang Cai, Haisheng Li, Xiankai Huang

“…However, heterogeneous clients have different deep neural network structures, and these models have different sensitivity to various noise types, the fixed noise-detection based methods may not be effective for each client. To overcome these challenges, we propose a balanced coarse-to-fine federated learning method to solve noisy heterogeneous clients. …”
Get full text

Informative architectures and citizen participation: a comparative study between the digital platforms Decidim and Rousseauv by Eli Borges Junior, Bruno Madureira Ferreira

“…This was accomplished by analyzing two aspects of the platform: 1) the conception and development of codes; 2) the functions that the platform offers and its interaction with users. …”
Get full text