System Reliability Analysis of Slope Stability of Earth Rock Dams Based on Finite Element Strength Reduction Method by Huibao Huang, Junchi Zhu, Zhenyu Wu, Jiankang Chen, Jichen Tian

“…An elastoplastic finite element model simulates dam construction and impoundment, identifying potential slip pathways. Each pathway, treated as a parallel system of shear-failed elements, is analyzed via the response surface method to derive explicit limit state functions. …”
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Vaccination as a Game: Behavioural Dynamics, Network Effects, and Policy Levers—A Comprehensive Review by Pedro H. T. Schimit, Abimael R. Sergio, Marco A. R. Fontoura

“…Classical epidemic models treat vaccine uptake as an exogenous parameter, yet real-world coverage emerges from strategic choices made by individuals facing uncertain risks. …”
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A weighted difference loss approach for enhancing multi-label classification by Qiong Hu, Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad, Azreen Bin Azman, Nurul Amelina Nasharuddin

“…Abstract Conventional multi-label classification methods often fail to capture the dynamic relationships and relative intensity shifts between labels, treating them as independent entities. This limitation is particularly detrimental in tasks like sentiment analysis where emotions co-occur in nuanced proportions. …”
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Learning Ordinality in Semantic Segmentation by Ricardo P. M. Cruz, Rafael Cristino, Jaime S. Cardoso

“…This paper introduces novel methods for spatial ordinal segmentation that explicitly incorporate these inter-class dependencies. …”
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Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication among older patients in a primary care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Thailand: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Thareerat Ananchaisarp, Panya Chamroonkiadtikun, Kittipon Kodchakrai, Tanaboon Saeung, Thitiwut Charatcharungkiat, Patnaree Leelarujijaroen, Nopason Sae-Tang, Nanapat Kumkiem, Wipada Kanhin, Haran Sintateeyakorn, Kasidintorn Watcharajiranich

“…Therefore, physicians should prescribe medications with caution, and various explicit criteria can be used as screening tools to prevent PIM prescriptions.…”
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Unknown issues of digitalizing the tax domain by Dimitrijević Marina

“…The crucial question is whether taxpayers will accept this state of affairs with complete confidence in tax authorities or with an explicit prior request for a more detailed explanation of the effect of digital-technological changes, as a condition for accepting the remodelling of traditional tax relations and avoiding potential misunderstandings, uncertainties and problems.…”
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Role of electrode materials in resistive switching mechanisms of oxide-based memristors for enhanced neuromorphic computing: A comprehensive study by Armin Gooran-Shoorakchaly, Sarah Sharif, Yaser M. Banad

“…This study extends the state-of-the-art TaOx-based memristors by explicitly coupling electrode-dependent thermal conductivity to the electrical-thermal solver and by treating drift, diffusion, and Soret flux on equal footing. …”
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Transitioning to residency: a qualitative study exploring residents’ perspectives on strategies for adapting to residency by Gerbrich Galema, Jasperina Brouwer, Tineke Bouwkamp-Timmer, Debbie A. D. C. Jaarsma, Götz J. K. G. Wietasch, Robbert R. J. Duvivier

“…Collective-individual: whether the residents felt they were treated as a group or as individuals. Formal-informal: whether the introduction period was formal, structured and explicit, or implicit and unstructured. …”
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Chemical stability of orthodontic adhesives based on polymer network depending on external environment’s pH by Dorota Kuśmierczyk, Jadwiga Turło, Piotr Podsadni, Konrad Malkiewicz

“…Samples of polymerized orthodontic adhesives were treated with (high-performance liquid chromatography) HPLC-grade water solutions of phosphate-citrate buffer with pH values respectively: 4, 5, 6 and 7 at 36 °C. …”
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Early inflammatory response following elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: A comparison between endovascular procedure and conventional, open surgery by Marjanović Ivan, Jevtić Miodrag, Mišović Sidor, Vojvodić Danilo, Zoranović Uroš, Rusović Siniša, Šarac Momir, Stanojević Ivan

“…Until the late XX century, surgical reconstruction implied explicit, open repair (OR) of AAA, which was accompanied by a significant morbidity and mortality of the treated patients. …”
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Understanding the Impact of Employee Investigations on Those Who Lead Them: A Case Study from NHS Wales by Andrew Jonathan Cooper, Doris Anita Behrens, Sophie Elizabeth Jones, Adrian Neal, Aled Jones, Walter Hyll

“…Finally, policies and processes should acknowledge the harm they may cause and explicitly provide strategies for harm reduction, such as treating formal investigations as a measure of ‘last resort’.…”
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First opinion practice electronic health records are a useful source of descriptions of medication errors by Eirini Petrou, Eirini Petrou, Heather Davies, Heather Davies, Maria Aoun, Alan D. Radford, David Singleton, David Singleton, Peter-John M. Noble, David R. Killick

“…Research has so far focussed on survey work and errors spontaneously reported to third parties, such as professional indemnity providers.AimDetermine if MedEs can be successfully identified in first opinion electronic health records (EHRs).AnimalsEHRs pertaining to animals treated in UK first opinion practice.Materials and methodsRegular expressions (REGEX) were designed (with assistance from a domain expert) to identify explicit reference to MedEs in the SAVSNET EHR dataset. …”
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Artificial intelligence of things for sustainable smart city brain and digital twin systems: Pioneering Environmental synergies between real-time management and predictive planning by Simon Elias Bibri, Jeffrey Huang

“…To the best of our knowledge, research on the explicit fusion of UB's real-time analytics—enabled through stream processing—with UDT's predictive analytics—driven by simulation modeling—is scant, if not absent. …”
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Community-Based Efforts to Reduce Violence: A Scoping Review on the Implementation of Cure Violence by Sara Solomon MPH, RD, Caterina G. Roman PhD, Melissa Davey-Rothwell PhD, MPH, Ruth Abaya MD, MPH, Daniel Webster ScD, MPH, Shannon Frattorolli PhD, MPH

“…While 62% of studies incorporated IS elements, only one explicitly mentioned using an IS framework. We identified 42 implementation strategies across 6 categories: hiring and retention, training, violence interruption and detection, identifying and treating high-risk individuals, changing community norms, and general implementation and sustainability. …”
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Decision Making about Localized Esophageal Cancer Treatment: An Observational Study on Variation in Clinicians’ Communication Behavior by L. F. van de Water, G. C. Scholten, I. Henselmans, J. Heisterkamp, P. M. Jeene, F. F. B. M. Heesakkers, K. J. Neelis, B. R. Klarenbeek, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, J. W. van den Berg, J. Buijsen, E. D. Geijsen, H. W. M. van Laarhoven, E. M. A. Smets

“…They discussed 0 to 11 different side effects and complications, from a total of 28. While some HCPs explicitly presented a choice, many used various implicit forms of suggesting a choice and either implicitly or explicitly marked their own preferences for treatment. …”
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Fuzzy SETS: acknowledging multiple membership of elements within social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) theory by Yolanda C. Lin, Alex J. Webster, Caroline E. Scruggs, Rebecca J. Bixby, Daniel Cadol, Laura J. Crossey, Patria de Lancer Julnes, Kun Huang, Atlin Johnson, Melinda Morgan, Anjali Mulchandani, Asa B. Stone, Mark C. Stone

“…We introduce the conceptual framework of Fuzzy SETS, drawing on mathematical fuzzy set theory and SETS literature. By treating these categories as “fuzzy,” or being capable of multiple memberships, we investigate how the conceptual framework of fuzzy SETS can facilitate convergent, collaborative research across multiple disciplines and epistemologies by explicitly acknowledging and visualizing differences and similarities in perception of a given SETS. …”
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Voxel-Wise Brain Graphs From Diffusion MRI: Intrinsic Eigenspace Dimensionality and Application to Functional MRI by Hamid Behjat, Anjali Tarun, David Abramian, Martin Larsson, Dimitri Van De Ville

“…<italic>Goal:</italic> Structural brain graphs are conventionally limited to defining nodes as gray matter regions from an atlas, with edges reflecting the density of axonal projections between pairs of nodes. Here we explicitly model the entire set of voxels within a brain mask as nodes of high-resolution, subject-specific graphs. …”
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Using patient-reported outcomes in clinical studies for cardiovascular diseases of Traditional Chinese medicine worldwide: a cross-sectional study by Hao Liu, Xinmiao Guan, Yuanyuan Lin, Minjing Luo, Changhao Liang, Xinyue Zhang, Hongguo Rong, Yutong Fei

“…The outcome types, whether PRO measures (PROMs) explicitly mentioned, study design, clinical study phases,age, gender, and geographic region were analyzed. …”
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Dupilumab for Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Primary Nasal Polyps: a Case Report and Literature Review by Deng M, Fu R, Lv M, Feng Y

“…The CT score was 20. The patient explicitly refused functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and was treated with dupilumab. …”
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Predictive modeling for the adsorptive and photocatalytic removal of phenolic contaminants from water using artificial neural networks by Shahzar Hafeez, Ayesha Ishaq, Azeem Intisar, Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Imran Din, Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Rizwan Tariq, Muhammad Amin Abid

“…This study overviews their employment and application for optimization and modeling of removal processes and explicitly discusses the important input and output parameters necessary for better performance of the system. …”
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