Fracture Resistance and Stress Distribution Pattern of Different Posts-Core Systems in Immature Teeth: An In Vitro Study and 3D Finite Element Analysis by Shahnaz Khadar, Kishor Sapkale, Pravinkumar G. Patil, Sayed Abrar, Manoj Ramugade, Febel Huda

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the fracture resistance of simulated immature teeth restored with different intraradicular posts and assess their stress distribution pattern using 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Methods. Fracture strength testing using universal testing machine was carried out in simulated immature teeth restored with different intraradicular posts grouped as follows: Group A: teeth not restored with posts served as control group; Group B: Cast metal post (CMP); Group C: Customized Composite Post (CCP); Group D: Fiber post (FP). …”
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The effect of foreign language enjoyment on willingness to communicate among Chinese EFL students: conscientiousness as a mediator by Jin Zhao, Kaining Guan, Yu Feng, Ziqing Liu

“…Therefore, drawing on positive psychology, this study aims to bridge this gap by examining these roles in a mediation model of WTC incorporating FLE and conscientiousness.MethodsTo this end, 244 Chinese EFL undergraduates from two distinct universities participated in an online survey, completing a composite questionnaire of the three constructs. …”
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Data of religious thought and its reflections in modern textile designs by Asaad Ati Halil Saad Al-Moussawi

“…After that, the most important indicators that resulted from the theoretical framework were extracted, as the research procedures were determined within the third chapter by adopting the descriptive method of analysis for the purpose of analyzing the sample models from the original research population, which amounted to (16) design models (Iraqi / Turkish), which were chosen intentionally by ( 25%), as their number reached (4) design shapes distributed according to the country of origin. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Low-Silica X and Copper-Modified Low-Silica X Zeolite Adsorbents for Cyanide Ions Removal From Aqueous Solutions by Leta Dereje Wilessa, Abdi Nemera Emana, Abdisa Jabesa, Workisa Bacha Garuma, Mani Jayakumar

“…For evaluating the equilibrium adsorption isotherm data, the study utilized the Temkin, Freundlich, and Langmuir isotherm models. The findings indicated that adsorption isotherm equilibrium data aligned most closely with the Langmuir (R2 = 0.9975) and the Freundlich (R2 = 0.993) isotherm models. …”
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Correlation of plasma insulin-like factor 6 level with risk of acute aortic syndrome and adverse prognosis by DONG Wang, DONG Wang, WANG Ying, ZHANG Mingle

“…Objective‍　‍To analyze the clinical value of plasma insulin-like factor 6 (INSL6) in predicting the risk of acute aortic syndromes (AAS) and adverse outcomes. Methods‍　‍A retrospective case-control trial was conducted on 194 AAS patients admitted to Department of Cardiovascular Diseases of Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University between April 2021 and June 2023. …”
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Synthesis of magnetic borosilicate zeolite/graphene quantum dots nanocomposites for removal of nitrate and organic pollutants from water by Robab Shahi, Maasoumeh Khatamian

“…The synthesized composites were used for the removal of nitrate, methylene blue (MB), 4-nitrophenol (4-NPh), biological oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) from water and industrial wastewater. …”
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Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Evidence-Based Practice Mentoring Scale into Turkish by Elanur Uludağ, Fadime Ulupınar, Yasemin Erden

“…CFA results indicated a good model fit (χ2/df < 2, RMSEA < 0.08, CFI > 0.90, GFI > 0.90). …”
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Construction and validation of an overconfidence scale in investment decisions by Daniel Fonseca Costa, Cláudia Cardoso Soares, Bruno César de Melo Moreira, Adriano Olímpio Tonelli

“…The average variance extracted was above 0.5, and the composite reliability exceeded 0.7 for all three constructs analyzed. …”
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Plasma Exchange for the Recurrence of Primary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients: A Meta-Analysis by Georgios Vlachopanos, Argyrios Georgalis, Harikleia Gakiopoulou

“…We detected 6 nonrandomized studies with 117 cases enrolled. In a random effects model, the pooled risk ratio for the composite endpoint of partial or complete PR was 0,38 in favour of PLEX (95% CI: 0,23–0,61). …”
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Power and predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores. by Frank Dudbridge

“…Here, the power and predictive accuracy of a polygenic score are derived from a quantitative genetics model as a function of the sizes of the two samples, explained genetic variance, selection thresholds for including a marker in the score, and methods for weighting effect sizes in the score. …”
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Pharmacological inhibition of tyrosine protein-kinase 2 reduces islet inflammation and delays type 1 diabetes onset in miceResearch in context by Farooq Syed, Olivia Ballew, Chih-Chun Lee, Jyoti Rana, Preethi Krishnan, Angela Castela, Staci A. Weaver, Namratha Shivani Chalasani, Sofia F. Thomaidou, Stephane Demine, Garrick Chang, Alexandra Coomans de Brachène, Maria Ines Alvelos, Eugenia Martin Vazquez, Lorella Marselli, Kara Orr, Jamie L. Felton, Jing Liu, John S. Kaddis, Piero Marchetti, Arnaud Zaldumbide, Donalyn Scheuner, Decio L. Eizirik, Carmella Evans-Molina

“…TYK2 missense mutations protect against type 1 diabetes (T1D), and inhibition of TYK2 shows promise in other autoimmune conditions. Methods: We evaluated the effects of specific TYK2 inhibitors (TYK2is) in pre-clinical models of T1D, including human β cells, cadaveric islets, iPSC-derived islets, and mouse models. …”
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Binder formulation and printing performance of zirconia filament feedstocks for material extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing by Fankai Meng, Margherita Beretta, Jozef Vleugels, Frederik Desplentere, Eleonora Ferraris

“…Material Extrusion (MEX) with filament feedstocks, as one of the earliest additive manufacturing technologies to produce polymeric parts, has evolved into a manufacturing approach capable of processing metal and ceramic materials by using composite feedstocks. This research presents a comprehensive study of the effect of each binder constituent (backbone, elastomer, and plasticiser) on the production and printability of zirconia filaments with both analytical and experimental methods. …”
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Soluble ST2 does not change cardiovascular risk prediction compared to cardiac troponin T in kidney transplant candidates. by Mira T Keddis, Ziad El-Zoghby, Bruce Kaplan, Jeffrey W Meeusen, Leslie J Donato, Fernando G Cosio, D Eric Steidley

“…During 28 months (IQR 25.3-30), 7.5% died, 13.0% developed CVE and 19.0% developed the composite outcome. Elevated sST2 was associated with the composite outcome (hazard ratio = 1.76, CI 1.06-2.73, p = 0.029) on univariate analysis but not after adjusting for age, diabetes and cTnT (p = 0.068). sST2 did not change the risk prediction model for composite outcome after including age, diabetes, prior history of CVE and elevated cTnT.…”
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Experimental Evaluation and Thermodynamic Analysis of Magnetic Fe₃O₄@La-Zr-MOFs for Highly Efficient Fluoride and Phosphate Removal by Ziyi Zhang, Xinyun Chen, Yongyi Yu, Wenbin Pan, Ruilai Liu, Jiangyan Song, Jiapeng Hu

“…Herein, to address these issues, Fe₃O₄@La-Zr-MOFs magnetic composites for phosphate and fluoride removal were fabricated by means of the hydrothermal method. …”
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Impact assessment of the performance of rural household’s heads on their perceptions toward environmental sustainability in Baghmalek County by ُSeyedeh Kowsar Mousapour, Amir Naeimi

“…The results of structural equation modeling showed that the values of composite reliability (CR) and extracted mean variance (AVE) calculated for environmental performance components were obtained at optimum level. …”
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Boundary-enhanced dual-stream network for semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images by Xinghua Li, Linglin Xie, Caifeng Wang, Jianhao Miao, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang

“…Compared with 11 state-of-the-art methods, BEDSN exhibits higher-level performance in both quantitative and visual assessments with low model complexity. …”
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Spatiotemporal Multivariate Weather Prediction Network Based on CNN-Transformer by Ruowu Wu, Yandan Liang, Lianlei Lin, Zongwei Zhang

“…After that, in order to ensure that the model has better prediction ability for global and local hotspot areas, we designed a composite loss function based on MSE and SSIM to focus on the global and structural distribution of weather to achieve more accurate multivariate weather prediction. …”
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BLVQE: Blind Laparoscopic Video Quality Evaluator using spatio-temporal interdependency and textural cues by Sria Biswas, Rohini Palanisamy

“…Traditional quality assessment methods typically focus on either spatial or textural features independently, limiting their effectiveness in handling composite distortions like motion blur, noise, defocus blur, uneven illumination, and smoke. …”
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Addressing the Return Visit Challenge in Autonomous Flying Ad Hoc Networks Linked to a Central Station by Ercan Erkalkan, Vedat Topuz, Ali Buldu

“…Our approach introduces a composite valuation function for target prioritization and a mathematical model for task assignment with relay allocation, allowing any UAV to visit various objectives and gain an advantage or incur a cost for each. …”
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Design, synthesis, and optimization of a novel ternary photocatalyst for degradation of cephalexin antibiotic in aqueous solutions by Zeynab Abdeyazdan, Mohammad Rahmati, Arjomand Mehrabani-Zeinabad, Masoud Habibi Zare

“…The influence of amount of catalyst (0.5–1.5 g/L), Cephalexin concentration (5–15 mg/L) and initial pH of the solution (3–9) in on CPX photodegradation was modeled and optimized using central composite design based on response surface methodology. …”
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