THE EFFECTS OF TEST SPECIMEN SHAPE TOLERANCES ON DETERMINING THE MECHANICAL AND ENERGY DISSIPATION PROPERTIES OF LIMESTONE ROCK by Nataša Štambuk Cvitanović, Boris Kavur, Ivan Vrkljan, Predrag Miščević

“…Today’s specimen acceptance criteria (allowable R/P/O) are based on scarce research data from the 1970s that mostly relate to UCS without considering the rock strength category (worst case scenario). …”
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Analysis of crop virtual water flow at dual scales in yellow river basin based on the SWAT model by Jing Liu, Tiantian Zi, Lan Wang, Xinchun Cao

“…Areas with positive water saving benefits accounted for approximately 70% of YRB, especially in the northeastern part of the middle reaches of the YRB, while negative water saving benefits were mostly found in the southern middle and lower reaches. …”
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Association of air quality parameters and socio-demographic towards the human health in India using regression analysis by Stephen Chellakan, Muhammad Abrar Ul Haq, Farheen Akram, Gazi Md Nurul Islam, Vinodh Natarajan

“…The results indicate that the solid fuel users who used a kitchen without a partition wall were mostly affected by air-related diseases compared to other fuel users. …”
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The Observance of Patient Rights in the Emergency Departments of Hospitals in Golestan Province, Iran by Asieh Soleimani, Zahra Kashaninia, Shima Haghani

“…Results The majority of nurses were 25-35 years old, male, married, and local residents with 4-6 years of work experience. The clients were mostly 25-35 years old, female, married, and local residents with moderate economic status. …”
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Nurse stress and patient safety in the ICU: physician-led observational mixed-methods study by Manju Mathew, Anjum John, Reshma Vazhakkalayil Ramachandran

“…Institutional leadership’s commitment to implement patient safety culture and improve nurses’ work environment is important. …”
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A LINEAR MOTORIZED SOFT ROBOTICS EXO-MUSCULAR (SMER) GLOVE by Nastaran Reza Nazar Zadeh, Jennifer Dela Cruz, Mohammad Tabibi

“…Soft robotics exoskeleton systems can interface and be controlled with brain signals and the neurofeedback concept, mostly known as Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), making them suitable for patients with various motor impairments and recovery stages. …”
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Energy renovation of Swedish single-family houses—a survey of barriers, drivers, and green loans by Pardis Niknafs, Gustav Holmqvist, Patrik Thollander, Patrik Rohdin

“…Moreover, the homeowner’s perception of green loans is important, as one piece of the puzzle in how to finance these implementations. Swedish single-family houses account for 40% of residential energy use and 45% of heated area, and they are mostly privately owned. …”
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Cooking Workshop for Preventing Malnutrition in the Elderly: Participants’ Social Roles, Expectations and Related Effects on Food Habits by Julie Mayer

“…The minority of participants, mostly men, declared not knowing how to cook and saw an interest in learning this skill at some determining point in their life cycle. …”
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Bereavement support guidelines for caregivers in palliative care: a scoping review by Alexandra Coelho, Alexandra Coelho, Sara Albuquerque, David Dias Neto

“…Quality appraisal of guidelines was conducted using the AGREE II instrument.ResultsOf the 1,489 references identified, 20 documents were included, mostly governmental or institutional norms and clinical guidelines from gray literature. …”
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Examination of French Secondary School History-Geography Teaching Programmes by Ahmet Tokmak, İlyas Kara, Mehmet Aydın

“…With this in mind, it was aimed to examine the History-Geography Course Curriculum being implemented in secondary schools in France. The research is a qualitative study and document analysis method was used. …”
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Compaction-Aware Flash Memory Remapping for Key–Value Stores by Jialin Wang, Zhen Yang, Yi Fan, Yajuan Du

“…To address this issue, recent proposals have mostly focused on redesigning the structure of LSM trees. …”
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Revisiting Weimar Film Reviewers’ Sentiments: Integrating Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models by Isadora Campregher Paiva, Josephine Diecke

“…Film reviews are an obvious area for the application of sentiment analysis, but while this is common in the field of computer science, it has been mostly absent in film studies. Film scholars have quite rightly been skeptical of such techniques due to their inability to grasp nuanced critical texts. …”
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Plastic Detectives Are Watching Us: Citizen Science Towards Alternative Single-Use-Plastic-Related Behaviour by Aleksandra Krawczyk, Brenda Olivos Salas, Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak

“…It combines an inventory of CS actions targeting SUP with a self-designed and implemented CS project. Unlike the predominantly technical focus of existing initiatives, our ‘Plastic Detective’ project was designed to collect behavioural data related to SUP use. …”
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Genomic characterization of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Infantis isolated from chicken meat using Illumina and MinION sequencing in Korea by Tae-Min La, Sang Won Lee

“…Multiple antibiotic resistance genes, including aac(3)-IVa, aac(6’)-Iaa, ant(3’’)-Ia, aph(3’)-Ia, aph(4)-Ia, blaCTX-M-65, dfrA14, floR, sul1 and tetA, were detected and mostly located on pESI-like plasmid. Phylogenetic analysis showed distinct clustering patterns of Korean isolates, suggesting multiple introductions into Korea. …”
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Systemic organoprotection with inhaled nitric oxide (literature review) by I. A. Mandel, A. G. Yavorovsky, M. A. Vyzhigina, P. V. Nogtev, E. Yu. Khalikova, D. S. Kozlova, A. V. Bayrashevskaya, K. A. Temirova, T. A. Demura, E. N. Zolotova

“…There are very few studies in abdominal and other non-cardiac surgery and they are mostly experimental. This review describes possible ways of implementing the organоprotective effect of NO, however, the exact mechanism remains not fully understood. …”
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Climate Influence on Leaf Appearance and Ligustroflavone and Rhoifolin Compounds of <i>Turpinia arguta</i> (Lindl.) Seem. from Different Chinese Habitats by Hongli Ji, Junhuo Cai, Chao Chen, Xiaomin Song, Yun Luo, Jinbao Yu, Yang Zhang, Xiuhua Tao

“…Samples of <i>T. arguta</i> were collected from 40 different habitats mostly located in Jiangxi Province, and leaf appearance traits and dry matter yield were analyzed. …”
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Conservation crisis? Status of jaguars Panthera onca in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica by Erik R. Olson, Yunyi Shen, Parker J. Matzinger, Evelyn Tatiana Solano Mora, Guido Saborío-R., Alejandro Azofeifa

“…To examine this, we implemented long-term camera-trap monitoring throughout Corcovado National Park during 2015–2021. …”
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Enhancing glaucoma diagnosis: Generative adversarial networks in synthesized imagery and classification with pretrained MobileNetV2 by I. Govindharaj, D. Santhakumar, K. Pugazharasi, S. Ravichandran, R. Vijaya Prabhu, J. Raja

“…The disease affects the optic nerve and represents the principle reasons of irreversible vision loss, mostly asymptomatic and uncontrolled. Consequently, early and accurate diagnosis is critical to prevent or reduce its effect, however, conventional diagnostic techniques often fail to provide concrete results. …”
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Factors associated with prescription of modern antidiabetics in newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes. a real-world data study in a Spanish region by Irantzu Bengoa-Urrengoechea, Irantzu Bengoa-Urrengoechea, Isabel Aguilar-Palacio, Isabel Aguilar-Palacio, Isabel Aguilar-Palacio, María José Rabanaque, María José Rabanaque, María José Rabanaque, María Jesús Lallana, María Jesús Lallana, Adriana Gamba Cabezas, Sara Malo, Sara Malo, Sara Malo

“…Knowledge of these factors is essential for implementing and improving equitable and person-centered approaches.…”
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Limited Impact of Drone Transport of Blood on Platelet Activation by Nico Callewaert, Inge Pareyn, Tessa Acke, Brian Desplinter, Kyana Van de Pitte, Joke Van Vooren, Mathieu De Meyer, Ellen Seeldraeyers, Frank Peeters, Simon F De Meyer, Karen Vanhoorelbeke, Claudia Tersteeg

“…However, before this can be implemented, sufficient evidence that drone transportation is not affecting clinical outcomes is needed. …”
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