Experimental Investigation on Damage Characteristics and Early Warning of Frozen Coal under Uniaxial Compression by Xiang Sun, Bin Liu, Qi Dong, Feng Shi

“…The test results showed that the compressive strength of the frozen coal samples decreased significantly, and the strength of the saturated frozen coal samples was the lowest; more acoustic emissions were generated at the initial loading stage. …”
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Behavioral Analysis of EEG Signals in Loss-Gain Decision-Making Experiments by Jiaquan Shen, Ningzhong Liu, Deguang Li, Binbin Zhang

“…The experimental results show that the EEG generated after behavioral decision due to loss is more intense than that generated by gain in the medial frontal cortex (MFC). …”
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The Role of Inflammation in Diabetes: Current Concepts and Future Perspectives by Sotirios Tsalamandris, Alexios S Antonopoulos, Evangelos Oikonomou, George-Aggelos Papamikroulis, Georgia Vogiatzi, Spyridon Papaioannou, Spyros Deftereos, Dimitris Tousoulis

“…The role of obesity, adipose tissue, gut microbiota and pancreatic beta cell function in diabetes are under intensive scrutiny with several clinical trials to have been completed while more are in development. …”
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A POSSIBILISTIC APPROACH TO CALCULATING THE INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN FOR INVESTMENT PROJECTS WITH FUZZY CASH FLOWS by E. S. Volkova, V. B. Gisin

“…The existence and applicability of the IRR may be guaranteed by rather general conditions, e.g. those of Norstrom theorem. …”
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Optimum Design of Fibre Orientation in Composite Laminate Plates for Out-Plane Stresses by Rasoul Khandan, Siamak Noroozi, Philip Sewell, John Vinney, Mehran Koohgilani

“…However, the methodologies utilised in these studies cannot be used for general analysis of such problems. In this research, an extra term is added to the optimisation penalty function in order to consider the transverse shear effect. …”
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Analyse d'une formation plurilingue à distance : actions et interactions by Jean-Jacques Quintin, Monica Masperi

“…Galanet" learning schemes assemble large groups of students (from one to two hundred in general) who are geographically located in different universities and committed to completing common tasks the final objective of which is to create a quadrilingual press file publication online.The present study will be developed along two complementary axes:1. a quantitative analysis of the messages posted on the forum page of the platform for each session.2. a qualitative analysis of sample interventions generated in one of these sessions.On the one hand, the quantitative approach will allow for the highlighting of certain salient features of the e-learning experience as a whole, including how sessions function and their impact on both students and tutors.On the other hand, the qualitative approach will allow to examine and understand more fully the discursive practices elicited by the learning scenario and the plurilinguistic dimension of the forum exchanges.…”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…Notably, the detection accuracy of the YOLOv5s model increased from 79.7% to 93.8%, representing a considerable enhancement in both generalization ability and robustness. This improvement also effectively reduced the rates of false positives and false negatives, resulting in more stable and reliable performance in rice disease detection tasks.ConclusionsThe rice leaf disease image generation method based on the improved CycleGAN model, as proposed in this study, effectively transforms images of healthy leaves into those depicting disease symptoms. …”
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Echocardiography in the Evaluation of the Right Heart by Angelos Tsipis, Evdokia Petropoulou

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VISUALIZATION AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF SMALL OBJECTS IN A LENS ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE WITH A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY by S. A. Titov, A. N. Bogachenkov

“…On the basis of the paraxial approximation it was found that the recorded spatio-temporal signal of the microscope ultrasonic array can be treated as an estimation of the scattering function of visualized objects. It was theoretically established that the scattering functions of the observed inhomogeneities can be used for the interpretation of the generated acoustic images. …”
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Development of Dynamic Impact Factor Expressions for Skewed Composite Concrete-Steel Slab-On-Girder Bridges by Iman Mohseni, Amin Ashin, Won Choi, Junsuk Kang

“…This paper presents a method for determining more realistic dynamic impact factors for skewed composite slab-on-girder bridges under AASHTO LRFD truck loading. …”
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No evidence for cardiac dysfunction in Kif6 mutant mice. by Abdul Hameed, Ellen Bennett, Barbara Ciani, Loes P C Hoebers, Roy Milner, Allan Lawrie, Sheila E Francis, Andrew J Grierson

“…We sought to investigate the impact of a deleterious KIF6 mutation on cardiac function in mice. Kif6 mutant mice were generated and verified. …”
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THE FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Mihaela Iuliana DUMITRU, Diana Elena BRINZA

“…The totality of these actions is more and more extensive, given that the access to the Community financial support is currently facilitated, as a result of the particular conditions generated by the pandemic. …”
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Exploring cognitive strategies in human-AI interaction: ChatGPT's role in creative tasks by Jelle Boers, Terra Etty, Martine Baars, Kim van Boekhoven

“…This study investigated the cognitive strategies employed by dyads when utilizing ChatGPT's examples to generate ideas in creative tasks. Fourteen university students generated ideas for both function-first and form-first creative tasks in interaction with ChatGPT. …”
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Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer by Guixin Wang, Shuo Wang, Wenbin Song, Chenglu Lu, Zhaohui Chen, Long He, Xiaoning Wang, Yizeng Wang, Cangchang Shi, Zhaoyi Liu, Yue Yu, Xin Wang, Yao Tian, Yingxi Li

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An intelligent prediction method of gas concentration in coal mines based onimproved TCN-TimeGAN by Qingsong HU, Shuo ZHENG, Shiyin LI, Yanjing SUN

“…The experiment results show that the data generated by the proposed model can cover the original data distribution more comprehensively, and the mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) of the results predicted from the generated data by the improved model are much smaller than those of the comparison model, and the prediction can be stable and accurate in all time periods.…”
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Gas Exchange and Mechanical Properties of the Lung in Miners with Severe Concomitant Injury by V. V. Moroz, Yu. A. Churlyaev, V. N Kiselev, P. G Sitnikov, L. Yu. Redkokasha

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Ship local path planning method based on three-dimensional potential field model by Qunpeng WANG, Longhao LI, Hongxu GUAN, Jialun LIU, Jianzhe CAI, Zhengrong SHA, Jinshui ZHANG

“…Objectives To make local path planning algorithms more consistent with the maneuvering characteristics of ships, thereby generating safer and more reliable reference paths, this paper proposes a three-dimensional potential field modeling method. …”
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New Travelling Wave Solutions for Sine-Gordon Equation by Yunchuan Sun

“…We propose a method to deal with the general sine-Gordon equation. Several new exact travelling wave solutions with the form of JacobiAmplitude function are derived for the general sine-Gordon equation by using some reasonable transformation. …”
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Research on acoustic emission characteristics and mechanical properties of shale under uniaxial and conventional triaxial compression by Wenjie Wu, Chee-Ming Chan, Xiaopeng Su, Yilei Gu, Mingqing Liu, Weijia Shao

“…In the residual stage, the AE signals generated under low confining pressure are more than those under high confining pressure. …”
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A Parameter-tunable Triangular Norm with Monotonic Genes by WU Lunhua, ZHAO Hui, WANG Yue

“… In order to study the optimization of Zadeh operator, a definition of parameter-tunable triangular norm with monotonic genes is given.First, we defined a kind of triangular norm Fλin the general sense generated by monotone functions using elementary operations, and then a definition of triangular conorm Gλin the general sense is given by using duality.This type of definition unifies the optimal Zadeh operator proposed by some authors.Next, this definition is applied to generate a new pair of triangular norms. …”
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