Investigating the tensile cracking mechanisms of rock masses containing random fissures from the perspective of meshless numerical method by Jinyu Chen, Yi Sun, Yi Sun, Wei Li, Bufan Zhang, Shuyang Yu

“…The traditional SPH smooth kernel function is re-written, a parameter к that can represent particle failure is introduced, the Mohr-Coulomb criterion is combined to judge particle failure, and the control equations are updated to simulate the progressive failure processes of particles. …”
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Machine learning models for reinjury risk prediction using cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) data: optimizing athlete recovery by Arezoo Abasi, Ahmad Nazari, Azar Moezy, Seyed Ali Fatemi Aghda

“…Abstract Background Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) provides detailed insights into athletes’ cardiovascular and pulmonary function, making it a valuable tool in assessing recovery and injury risks. …”
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Mixed pastures and biological efficiency in buffalo production systems: determinants for a sustainable livestock by Juan Pablo Uzcátegui-Varela, Martha Gloribet Ceballos Ramírez

“…The analysis of biological systems is characterized by the use of basic calculations during the production process that define the complex dynamics of natural capital, which is directly managed by human activities with a simplification and selection of biodiversity to support ecosystem function while generating products of agri-food interest. …”
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Chromosome-scale genome assembly and annotation of two geographically distinct strains of malaria vector Anopheles albimanus by Dieunel Derilus, Gareth D. Weedall, Michael W. Vandewege, Dhwani Batra, Mili Sheth, Lori A. Rowe, Ananias A. Escalante, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil

“…TE analyses indicated more repetitive content was captured in the long read assemblies. …”
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Optimized Nitrogen Foam Flooding System for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Development and Field Test in Mu146 Block Medium-High Permeability Reservoir, China by Jia-Yang Luo, Zhen-Jun Wang, Xin-Yuan Zou, Quan Xu, Bo Dong, Song-Kai Li, Zhu-Feng Wang, Jie-Rui Liu, Xian-Feng Wang, Xiao-Hu Xue

“…The validity period of the NSSNFHF field test is more than 12 months. The technology demonstrates dual functionality in conformance control and enhanced recovery, effectively improving both oil productivity and ultimate recovery factors.…”
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Integrated Co-extraction Protocol for Transcriptomic and 1H NMR Metabolomic Analysis of Multi-species Biofilms by Anaïs Séguéla, Oriane Della-Negra, Roselyne Gautier, Jérôme Hamelin, Kim Milferstedt, Rémi Servien, Marie-Ange Teste, Cécile Canlet

“…Multi-omics approaches and, notably, the combination of metabolomics and transcriptomic analyses are required for understanding the functional changes and adaptation of microorganisms to different physico-chemical and environmental conditions. …”
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Lambda-PFLOTRAN 1.0: a workflow for incorporating organic matter chemistry informed by ultra high resolution mass spectrometry into biogeochemical modeling by K. A. Muller, P. Jiang, G. Hammond, T. Ahmadullah, H.-S. Song, R. Kukkadapu, N. Ward, M. Bowe, R. K. Chu, Q. Zhao, V. A. Garayburu-Caruso, A. Roebuck, X. Chen

“…A slightly more complex second test case fits multiple lambda formulation and soil organic matter release parameters to temporal greenhouse gas generation measured during a soil incubation. …”
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Assessment of the level of state regulation of the effectiveness of the region's export potential by O.V., M.R.

“…It is noted that the use of global marketing methods requires extensive research on the selection, justification and use of generalized indicators of foreign economic development of regions and their export potential. …”
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Residual vulnerabilities to power side channel attacks of lightweight ciphers cryptography competition finalists by Aurelien T. Mozipo, John M. Acken

“…For five ciphers, an attack methodology as well as the leakage function needed to perform correlation power analysis (CPA) is proposed. …”
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The Effects of Landmark Salience on Drivers’ Spatial Cognition and Takeover Performance in Autonomous Driving Scenarios by Xianyun Liu, Yongdong Zhou, Yunhong Zhang

“…Results indicated that salient landmarks generally enhance spatial cognition; the effects of visual and structural salience differ in scope and function in autonomous driving scenarios. …”
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CNN-SENet: a GNSS-R ocean wind speed retrieval model integrating CNN and SENet attention mechanism by Yimin Xia, Dongliang Guan, Zhiling Zhou

“…However, the standard CNN models assign equal weight to all features, overlooking the more relevant ones, which reduces training efficiency and accuracy. …”
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Gut Akkermansia enhances liver protection and facilitates copper removal during D-penicillamine treatment in a Wilson’s disease model by Xi Huang, Yanqi Jin, Tianyuan Wang, Danting Fu, Jindi Ma, Xiaopeng Yu, Yingfeng Lu, Jingyuan Song, Yu Chen, Ren Yan, Yimin Zhang

“…The results of gene function prediction analysis indicated that the altered gut microbial function by DPA and Akk is primarily linked to energy generation/utilization, amino acid, fatty acid, lipid, and nucleic acid metabolisms. …”
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Concomitant Entanglement and Control Criticality Driven by Collective Measurements by Thomas Iadecola, Justin H. Wilson, J.H. Pixley

“…They can support two types of nonequilibrium quantum phase transitions: measurement-induced transitions between volume- and area-law-entangled steady states and control-induced transitions where the system falls into an absorbing state or, more generally, an orbit visiting several absorbing states. …”
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La comparaison en tant que principe scientifique by Ernst Mach

“…Analogies have heuristic power and are not just an illustrative function. Since any description involves such theoretical elements, it is necessarily more than a “simple” description. …”
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Distinct mechanisms of inadequate erythropoiesis induced by tumor necrosis factor alpha or malarial pigment. by Abigail A Lamikanra, Alison T Merryweather-Clarke, Alex J Tipping, David J Roberts

“…This study confirms that hemozoin induces cellular stress on erythroblasts that is additional to and distinct from responses to inflammatory cytokines and identifies new genes that may be involved in the pathogenesis of severe malarial anemia. More generally the respective transcription profiles highlight the varied mechanisms through which erythropoiesis may be disrupted during infectious disease.…”
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Modeling formamide denaturation of probe-target hybrids for improved microarray probe design in microbial diagnostics. by L Safak Yilmaz, Alexander Loy, Erik S Wright, Michael Wagner, Daniel R Noguera

“…Application of high-density microarrays to the diagnostic analysis of microbial communities is challenged by the optimization of oligonucleotide probe sensitivity and specificity, as it is generally unfeasible to experimentally test thousands of probes. …”
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Clinical characteristics of gastroesophageal reflux disease in adolescents with diabetic cardiac autonomic neuropathy by Sergey Evgen'evich Kostyakov, Irina Leonidovna Alimova

“…08:00) periods to eliminate the influence of exogenous factors (such as eating, physical activity and change of body position) on the oesophageal kinetic function. Results. Pathological gastroesophageal reflux occurred more frequently in Group 1 (78.5%) than in Group 2 (36.8%; p=0.018). …”
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Analysis of rare coding variants in 470,000 exome-sequenced subjects characterises contributions to risk of type 2 diabetes. by David Curtis

“…<h4>Results</h4>No novel genes were identified as exome wide significant. Rare loss of function (LOF) variants in GCK exerted a very large effect on T2D risk but more common (though still very rare) nonsynonymous variants classified as probably damaging by PolyPhen on average approximately doubled risk. …”
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Homogenization of the Probability Distribution of Climatic Time Series: A Novel Algorithm by Peter Domonkos

“…This bias removal is generally more successful for long-term trends and annual means than for monthly and daily values. …”
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ASSISTITO, SUPPORTATO O GENERATO DALL’IA: UNA TASSONOMIA ISPIRATA DALLA CAPTOLOGIA PER L’USO DELL’INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE NELLA DIDATTICA by Martin Ruskov

“…AI-assisted, AI-supported or AI-generated: A captology-inspired taxonomy for the use of artificial intelligence in education More than 25 years ago, B.J Fogg founded the research on persuasive technology, or captology for short. …”
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