The relationship between prenatal perfluorine and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and infant neurodevelopment: Modifying effects of DHA revised by Ting-ting Jiang, Lian-man Lei, Xia-yu Zhang, Ya-ling Li, Lu-ming Yan, Zi-shun Lu, Zi-yi Liu, Bo-lin Liu, Lian-jie Dou, An-hui Zhang, Min Yu, Min Zhu, Fei Li, Ji-an Xie, Chao Zhang, Jia-hu Hao

“…Infant neurodevelopment was assessed at 6 and 12 months using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) score. Generalised linear models (GLMs) and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) were used to evaluate the associations between single or mixed PFAS exposure and infant neurodevelopment. …”
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Global Methane Budget 2000–2020 by M. Saunois, A. Martinez, B. Poulter, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, P. A. Raymond, P. Regnier, J. G. Canadell, R. B. Jackson, P. K. Patra, P. K. Patra, P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, E. J. Dlugokencky, X. Lan, X. Lan, G. H. Allen, D. Bastviken, D. J. Beerling, D. A. Belikov, D. R. Blake, S. Castaldi, M. Crippa, B. R. Deemer, F. Dennison, G. Etiope, G. Etiope, N. Gedney, L. Höglund-Isaksson, M. A. Holgerson, P. O. Hopcroft, G. Hugelius, A. Ito, A. K. Jain, R. Janardanan, M. S. Johnson, T. Kleinen, P. B. Krummel, R. Lauerwald, T. Li, X. Liu, K. C. McDonald, J. R. Melton, J. Mühle, J. Müller, F. Murguia-Flores, Y. Niwa, Y. Niwa, S. Noce, S. Pan, R. J. Parker, C. Peng, C. Peng, M. Ramonet, W. J. Riley, G. Rocher-Ros, J. A. Rosentreter, M. Sasakawa, A. Segers, S. J. Smith, S. J. Smith, E. H. Stanley, J. Thanwerdas, J. Thanwerdas, H. Tian, A. Tsuruta, F. N. Tubiello, T. S. Weber, G. R. van der Werf, D. E. J. Worthy, Y. Xi, Y. Yoshida, W. Zhang, W. Zhang, B. Zheng, B. Zheng, Q. Zhu, Q. Zhu, Q. Zhuang

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Investigation on punch force–displacement and thickness changes in the shallow drawing of AA2014 aluminium alloy sheets using finite element simulations by Narender Gorentla, Prasad Nimmagadda Leela, Prakash Kode Jaya, Ramana Vuppala Sesha Narasimha Venkata, Bhavani Koona, Chandra Shekar Kaspa

“…The deep drawing process stands as a pivotal manufacturing method for crafting lightweight and robust automotive components. …”
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Third-Order Sliding Mode Control for Trajectory Tracking of Quadcopters Using Particle Swarm Optimization by Muhammad Rizwan Chughtai, Iftikhar Ahmad, Abdullah Mughees, Muddesar Iqbal, Dhafer Almakhles, Mahmoud Abdelrahim

“…The nonlinear dynamics of the quadcopter are modeled using the Euler–Lagrange approach, followed by a Lyapunov stability analysis to verify the stability of the controller. …”
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The Relationship between Dark Personality Traits and Cyber Aggression with the Mediating Role of Showing off Online in Cyberspace in Adolescents by Hamoun Babaei, Ezzatollah Ahmadi, Rahim Yosefi

“…The tools used in this research included the cyber aggression scale for adolescents by Alvarez Garcia et al., Chu and Farren's self-disclosure scale, and Jonason and Webster's dark personality traits. Pearson correlation method and structural equation modeling were used for data analysis. …”
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Privacy-Aware Table Data Generation by Adversarial Gradient Boosting Decision Tree by Shuai Jiang, Naoto Iwata, Sayaka Kamei, Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam, Yasuhiko Morimoto

“…Experimental evaluations on several datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms representative baseline models regarding statistical similarity and machine learning utility. …”
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Territories -in- between by Alexander Wandl

“…It does so drawing on extensive modelling and spatial analyses of the settlement patterns, systems of built and unbuilt open spaces as well as on demographic and economic location patterns. …”
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Russian Cultural Landscape in the Book of Donbass Military Poetry “The Great Checkpoint” (2023) by Nina S. Ishchenko

“…The paper focuses on the representation of Russian cultural geography in the poetry collection “The Great Checkpoint” by the method of thematic modeling, which combines poems by poets from different regions dedicated to the war in Donbass 2014–2022. …”
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Searching for new physics using high precision absorption spectroscopy; continuum placement uncertainties and the fine structure constant in strong gravity by Chung-Chi Lee, John K. Webb, Darren Dougan, Vladimir A. Dzuba, Victor V. Flambaum, Dinko Milaković

“…We describe the development of a fully automated, objective, and reproducible continuum estimation method. Measurements of the fine structure constant are produced using several continuum models. …”
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The competitiveness of machine-building enterprises: Current state and prospects for development by Samofalova Mariia, Karachyna Natalia, Slobodianyk Anna, Abuselidze George, Khadartsev Oleksandr, Ruban Yuriy

“…The research methodology is based on data from machine-building enterprises in Ukraine (4 years and 38 manufacturers of the industry), processed using statistical analysis and economic and mathematical models to forecast their competitiveness in the short term.…”
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A Systematic Literature Review on Privacy Preservation in VANETs: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions by Esti Rahmawati Agustina, Kalamullah Ramli, Arif Rahman Hakim, Ruki Harwahyu

“…In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review to identify the implementation of pseudonyms in existing privacy preservation schemes via the Kitchenham method. To our knowledge, no study has presented an analysis of the implementation of comprehensive pseudonym life cycles in the last five years. …”
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Parametric evaluation of CO2 laser cutting on kerf geometry and bottom HAZ in 3D-printed ABS plates by Der Oguzhan, Basar Gokhan, Kosunalp Selahattin

“…Among such parameters include the type of plate thickness (1 and 1.5 mm), laser power (85, 92.5, and 100 W), and cutting speed (4, 7, 10 mm/s), while a full factorial design was incorporated for the experiment. The analysis of the effects indicated for certain output quality indicators by means of main effects plots, ANOVA, and regression modeling, has been used to infer how the input parameters have affected these quality indicators. …”
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Integrated optimization and prediction of mechanical properties in FDM printed polyamide/carbon fiber composites using PSI–VIKOR and ANN by Kavimani Vijayananth, Gopal Pudhupalayam Muthukutti, Arulmurugan Raju, Imad Barsoum

“…The effect of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) parameters namely nozzle temperature, infill percentage and printing speed on the impact and tensile strength of samples are investigated by following the Taguchi method. …”
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Dynamic Maternal Gradients Control Timing and Shift-Rates for Drosophila Gap Gene Expression. by Berta Verd, Anton Crombach, Johannes Jaeger

“…We use a newly developed method for the analysis of transient dynamics in non-autonomous (time-variable) systems to understand the regulatory causes of these effects. …”
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Distributed Sensing Enabled Embodied Intelligence for Soft Finger Manipulation by Chukwuemeka Ochieze, Zhen Liu, Ye Sun

“…They have theoretically infinite degrees of freedom (DOFs) and can generate highly nonlinear behaviors, which leads to challenges in accurately modeling and controlling their deformation, compliance, and behaviors. …”
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Attention-Based Batch Normalization for Binary Neural Networks by Shan Gu, Guoyin Zhang, Chengwei Jia, Yanxia Wu

“…Also, we present an ablation study of parameter trade-offs in ABN, as well as an experimental analysis of the effect of ABN on BNNs. Experimental analyses show that our ABN method helps to capture image features, provide additional activation-like functions, and increase the imbalance of the activation distribution, and these features help to improve the performance of BNNs. …”
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Comparative study on the thermal performance of dry and wet radiant floor heating under the characteristics of intermittent energy use by ZHOU Wenjie, ZHU Wentao, ZHU Yide, LI Tao

“…In order to compare and analyze the thermal performance of dry and wet radiant floor heating in intermittent heating mode, the mathematical theoretical analysis models of heat transfer of two types of floor heating were established, and the accuracy of the models was verified by experiment. …”
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Diatom Frustule-Inspired Bridges: A Fusion of Art, Architecture and Mechanical Design by Mukunda Adhikari, Parvez Alam

“…Our initial designs are developed using non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surfaces (Rhino-3D), and selected bridge forms are then modelled using the finite element analysis (FEA) method to ascertain optimal hole sizes and positions (COMSOL Multiphysics) in relation to their fundamental mechanical properties such as tensile and compressive strength and stiffness. …”
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Investigating the Mediating Role of Reflective Identity in the Relationship between Neuroeconomics and Entrepreneurial Decision-Making by Farshid Khajehmahmood, Aleme Keikha, Mehdi Zivdar

“…The present study aims to investigate the mediating role of reflective identity in the relationship between neuroeconomics and entrepreneurial decision-making . The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey based on structural equation modeling in terms of nature and procedure. …”
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MorphoCellSorter is an Andrews plot-based sorting approach to rank microglia according to their morphological features by Sarah Benkeder, Son-Michel Dinh, Paul Marchal, Priscille De Gea, Muriel Thoby-Brisson, Violaine Hubert, Ines Hristovska, Gabriel Pitollat, Kassandre Combet, Laura Cardoit, Bruno Pillot, Christelle Leon, Marlene Wiart, Serge Marthy, Jérôme Honnorat, Olivier Pascual, Jean-Christophe Comte

“…Instead, we propose a new open-source tool, MorphoCellSorter, which assesses microglial morphology by automatically computing morphological criteria, using principal component analysis and Andrews plots to score cells. MorphoCellSorter properly ranked cells from various microglia datasets in mice and rats of different ages, from in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo models, that were acquired using diverse imaging techniques. …”
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