Consecuencias sobre la salud y la función respiratoria del tratamiento químico del agua en piscinas cubiertas (Consequences to health and lung function of the chemical treatments o... by Álvaro Fernández-Luna, Pablo Burillo, Leonor Gallardo, Ignacio Ara

“…We made a review of the scientific literature about chemical treatments of water and assessment methods used to detect health effects and respiratory function. Chemical treatments chlorine and bromine generate disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that are harmful to the body, such as chloramines and trihalomethanes (THM). …”
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Generation and verification method of trusted signature seal incorporating handwriting features by Li LI, Shang GAO, Peiliang ZUO, Jiazheng XUAN, Han SONG

“…With the rapid development of electronic communication and internet technology, the digitization of document circulation and processing has become increasingly prevalent.The trend towards greater convenience, flexibility, and diversity in electronic document signing is evident through practices such as online signature collection, remote signature confirmation, and electronic signature authentication.However, the signing and verification processes face challenges related to authenticity, integrity, and more.Instances of unlawful entities intercepting, copying, and forging signature images using low-cost methods to sign documents with false identities, as well as tampering with and forging signature files, are common.The application of electronic signature systems also encounters obstacles such as high costs, limited deployment, lack of universality, and complexities in real-time and consistent verification.To address these risks and challenges and ensure reliable verification in personal document signing processes, a credible method for generating and verifying signature seals that integrate handwriting features was proposed.This method primarily utilized the facial recognition and identity information matching functions of a trusted identity authentication platform.It integrated signature handwriting features and uniquely bound them to the signer's identity for reliable authentication.Accordingly, a signature seal with integrated handwriting features, a verification link for the signed document, and a digital signature QR code were generated.Analysis indicates that the signature seal produced by the proposed method not only serves the purpose of identity verification but also enables the discernment of the authenticity of the signed document.The verification link embedded in the QR code can directly validate the signer's identity, handwriting, and the authenticity and consistency of the signed document through online channels, providing a convenient means for the verification of both electronic and paper documents.The proposed method holds broad application prospects in the fields of electronic document circulation and the verification of the authenticity of electronic and paper documents.…”
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A Comprehensive Review on Next-Generation Modeling and Optimization for Semiconductor Devices by Pratikhya Raut, Deepak Kumar Panda, Amit Kumar Goyal

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Social Advertising in Aspect of Addressee-Addresser Relations by F. E. Abdullayeva, V. A. Kameneva

“…The paper proves that the Chinese social advertising in the aspect of “addressee-addresser relations” performs the function of forming public opinion on socially significant aspects of society, the function of inculturation of the younger generation, encourages students to take responsibility for their studies and civil servants - to their professional duties, draws attention to the problems of relationships in the family both between spouses and between children and their parents, grandparents, encourages young people to take a more responsible attitude to marriage, raising children. …”
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Transcriptome dynamics along with expression analysis of key genes involved in fiber development between Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium darwinii by Allah Ditta, Xiaoyan Cai, Muhammad Shehzad, Sajid Fiaz, Yanchao Xu, Yuqing Hou, Zunaira Anwar, Aqsa Ijaz, Najla B. S. Al-Saud, Fang Liu, Kunbo Wang, Baohua Wang, Baohong Zhang, Ahmed M. Ramadan, Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan, Zhongli Zhou

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Effectiveness of bed nets and media awareness in dengue control: A fuzzy analysis by Shobha Islam, Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Kamrujjaman

“…Among these, transmission rate, mortality rate, and recovery rate are defined as a function of virus load whereas biting rate and vaccinations rate are defined as a function of number of bed net users and media awareness regarding vaccination, respectively. …”
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Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Drought Characteristics and Trivariate Return Period Risks in Western Iran by Behnoush Farokhzadeh, Sepideh Chobeh, Rasool Imani

“…Statistical trend analysis, probability distribution fitting, and copula functions were applied to evaluate the interdependence of drought characteristics and estimate joint return periods.Results: The findings indicate an increasing trend in drought severity, particularly in Hamedan and Saqez, with SSP5-8.5 showing the most extreme conditions. …”
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Sexing the sternal rib end in modern Greeks: A virtual osteometric approach using high-resolution 3D surface models by Ioanna Karagiorgou, Ioanna Anastopoulou, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Elena Kranioti, Konstantinos Moraitis

“…The cross-validated discriminant functions equations for the current sample, produced results ranging between 74.0–82.9% indicating that population-specific formulas produce results of higher accuracy, that are vital in cases of forensic interest.…”
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LPFFNet: Lightweight Prior Feature Fusion Network for SAR Ship Detection by Xiaozhen Ren, Peiyuan Zhou, Xiaqiong Fan, Chengguo Feng, Peng Li

“…In addition, the enhanced ghost convolution (EGConv) is used to generate more reliable gradient information. And finally, the detection performance is improved by focusing on difficult samples through a smooth weighted focus loss function (SWF Loss). …”
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Why Legal Transplants instead of More Adaptation within the Process of Legal Approximation in the Central-Eastern European Member States of the EU and the Candidate Countries? by Mónika Józon

“…It questions, whether could have been feasible other alternative strategic solutions both for the EU and the candidates for achieving a less costly and more effective functional compatibility between the conditionalities of the candidates and the integration mechanisms of the EU? …”
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Residue-Specific Structural and Dynamical Coupling of Protein and Hydration Water Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Shuai Wang, Jun Gao, Xiakun Chu

“…To further uncover their coupling mechanism, we elucidate residue-specific coupled fluctuations between protein residues and hydration water by generating scatter plots. These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying protein–water interactions, offering valuable insights into the role of hydration water in protein stability, dynamics, and function.…”
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qTrustNet Virtual Private Network (VPN): Enhancing Security in the Quantum Era by Hyoungsub Shim, Bongho Kang, Haejung Im, Duhyun Jeon, Seok-Min Kim

“…This paper introduces qTrustNet VPN, a next-generation Virtual Private Network (VPN) designed to enhance security in the quantum era. …”
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UFBP1 Ameliorates Heat Stress-Induced Apoptosis via Mitochondria-Mediated Pathway in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells by Yuan Li, Ran Yu, Shujing Tan, Yunlong Jiang, Longwei Sun, Manman Shen, Chuanjian Zhang, Kunlin Chen, Chengmin Li

“…Besides increasing body temperature and reducing feed intake, heat stress also compromises mammary gland function by inducing apoptosis in bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMECs). …”
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Metagenomic Analyses of Water Samples of Two Urban Freshwaters in Berlin, Germany, Reveal New Highly Diverse Invertebrate Viruses by Roland Zell, Marco Groth, Lukas Selinka, Hans-Christoph Selinka

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A generative adversarial network with multiscale and attention mechanisms for underwater image enhancement by Liquan Zhao, Yuda Li, Tie Zhong

“…In the generative network, we first design a residual convolution module to extract more texture and edge information from underwater images. …”
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Positive selection analyses identify a single WWE domain residue that shapes ZAP into a more potent restriction factor against alphaviruses. by Serina Huang, Juliana Girdner, LeAnn P Nguyen, Carina Sandoval, Oliver I Fregoso, David Enard, Melody M H Li

“…Many of them block a diverse range of viruses, suggesting that their antiviral functions might have been shaped by multiple viral families during evolution. …”
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Neuron Network Modeling of Intensification of Isogumulone Extraction in a Rotary Pulse Generator by Anton V. Shafrai, Elena A. Safonova, Dmitry M. Borodulin, Yana S. Golovacheva, Sergey A. Ratnikov, Wasfie Barsoom Wasef Kerlos

“…The resulting model had the following parameters: two hidden layers, 30 neurons each; neuron activation function – GELU; loss function – MSELoss; learning step – 0.001; optimizer – Adam; L2 regularization at 0.00001; training set of four batches, 16 records each; 9,801 epochs. …”
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Consumer Responses to Generative AI Chatbots Versus Search Engines for Product Evaluation by Soyoung Kim, Randi Priluck

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Style-VT: Style Conditioned Chord Generation by Variational Transformer With Chord Substitution by Kyowon Song, Dongyoung Seo, Junsu Na, Heecheol Yang

“…We also introduce a newly defined chord substitution into the objective function, allowing for greater flexibility in generated chord progressions. …”
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Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change by James A. Orr, Jeremy J. Piggott, Andrew L. Jackson, Jean‐François Arnoldi

“…In a reductionist approach, we may use predictions at the level of individual system components (e.g. species biomass), and combine them to generate predictions for system‐level properties (e.g. ecosystem function). …”
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