Associations between inactivated COVID-19 vaccination status and timing and fertility and pregnancy outcomes following frozen-thawed embryo transfer: a prospective cohort study by Danmeng Liu, Lijuan Chen, He Cai, Hanying Zhou, Min Wang, Na Li, Xia Xue, Li Tian, Ben W. Mol, Ben W. Mol, Wenhao Shi, Juanzi Shi

“…Information on maternal sociodemographic and health-related factors, COVID-19 vaccination status, the IVF-ET process, and outcomes was collected. Generalized linear models or generalized estimating equation models were used to evaluate the associations between vaccination and fertility and pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Text message intervention delivered from Australian general practices to improve breast cancer survivors’ physical activity and cardiovascular risk factors: protocol for the EMPOWE... by Karice K Hyun, Christine Mitchell, Julie Redfern, Nashid Hafiz, Rebecca Raeside, Brooke Nickel, Carolyn Ee, Jennifer McIntosh, Elisabeth Elder, Raymond J Chan, David Mizrahi, Stephanie R Partridge, Anna C Singleton, Allyson Ruth Todd, Kirsty E Stuart

“…This randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a text message intervention called EMPOWER-SMS-GP in Australian general practices.Methods and analysis Multi-centre single-blind hybrid I RCT (n=678; 1:1 allocation) comparing EMPOWER-SMS-GP (n=339) to usual care (n=339) at 6 months (postintervention), 12, 18 and 24 months (maintenance) and parallel mixed-methods process evaluation using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance framework. …”
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Simulation study of medical isotope production using electron accelerator-driven photoneutron source by ZHANG Zixiong, LI Kaixuan, WEI Qianglin, LIU Yibao, ZHANG Qintuo

“…The approach of this study provides preliminary insights for subsequent separation and purification processes, hence has certain reference value for the development of tools for radioactive isotope production.…”
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Causal AI Recommendation System for Digital Mental Health: Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Analysis by Mathew Varidel, Victor An, Ian B Hickie, Sally Cripps, Roman Marchant, Jan Scott, Jacob J Crouse, Adam Poulsen, Bridianne O'Dea, Sarah McKenna, Frank Iorfino

“…MethodsWe frame the recommendation problem within a Bayesian decision-theoretic framework, whereby a preference ordering of decisions is estimated using the expected utility of outcomes under interventions. The causal processes are assumed to follow a structural causal model, where the posterior distribution of structural causal models is estimated using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. …”
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Impact of coastal currents and eddies on particle dispersion in the Baltic Sea: a Lagrangian approach to marine ecosystems by Saeed Hariri, Germo Väli, H. E. Markus Meier

“…Combining the General Estuarine Transport Model (GETM) and Lagrangian methods, it examines both single and paired particle dynamics, initially deployed in coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, for 2D and 3D simulations. …”
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Effect of High Temperature Steam Sterilization Temperature on Flavor Quality of Tourism Food Gushi Goose Nuggets by Yang YU, Zhou ZHOU, Meng CAO, Junyue HE, Ying ZHOU

“…Based on PLS-DA, 33 characteristic components with variable importance in the projection (VIP>1) were screened, and the discriminant prediction accuracy of the model for the sterilization temperature reached 97.3%. …”
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Cu⁰-Functionalized, ZIF-8-Derived, Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Composites for Efficient Iodine Elimination in Solution by Jiuyu Chen, Chensheng Gao, Jingwen Chen, Fei Liu, Zhiwen Liu

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The cause-effect relationship between synoptic and local wind patterns and PM10 concentrations in the complex-orography urban area of Naples (Italy) by M.A Hernández-Ceballos, M. Rubino, C. Sirignano, E. Chianese, A Riccio

“…A backward trajectory analysis using the HYSPLIT model identified eight dominant synoptic airflow patterns, with nearby, westerly, and northerly flows being the most frequent. …”
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Evaluating the reinforcements efficiency of sawdust and corncob wastes in structural concrete: A comprehensive review by Abiodun Kilani, Ademilade Olubambi, Bolanle Ikotun, Oladipupo Oladejo, Babatunde Famodu

“…The concrete’s rate of water absorption increased by 74% with the inclusion of SD. The ANN model is efficient and possesses good features for CCA and SD – concrete models. …”
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Modular-based psychotherapy (MoBa) versus cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with depression, comorbidities and a history of childhood maltreatment: study protocol fo... by Elisabeth Schramm, Martin Hautzinger, Carolin Jenkner, Moritz Elsaesser, Sabine Herpertz, Hannah Piosczyk

“…Introduction In depression treatment, most patients do not reach response or remission with current psychotherapeutic approaches. …”
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Sequential Bone Repair in Rabbit Sinus Lifts Using Bio-Oss and Hyaluronic Acid–Polynucleotide Gel (Regenfast) by Nozomi Maniwa, Samuel Porfirio Xavier, Sergio Luis Scombatti de Souza, Erick Ricardo Silva, Daniele Botticelli, Kenzo Morinaga, Shunsuke Baba

“…The aim was to evaluate the influence of this novel association on the processes of bone regeneration in maxillary sinus augmentation. …”
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The Development of an Air Suction Precision Seed-Metering Device for Rice Plot Breeding by Wei Qin, Yuwu Li, Cheng Qian, Zhuorong Fan, Daoqing Yan, Guo Zou, Siqian Liu, Zaiman Wang, Ying Zang, Minghua Zhang

“…Firstly, based on morphological analysis and MATLAB image processing, an active contour method was used to construct a suction hole model. …”
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Natural indigo toxicity for aquatic and terrestrial organisms by Natália Oliveira de Farias, Marta Siviero Guilherme Pires, Bruna de Jesus Moreira, Amanda dos Santos, Harold Stanley Freeman, Peppi Toukola, Anjaina Fernandes de Albuquerque, Riikka Räisänen, Gisela de Aragão Umbuzeiro

“…It is practically insoluble in water. Indigo can reach aquatic sediments through wastewater discharges from dyeing processes, terrestrial compartments from the treatment sludges used as biosolids and dyed textiles disposed in landfills. …”
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Occurrence, Sources, and Prioritization of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Drinking Water from Yangtze River Delta, China: Focusing on Emerging PFASs by Zixin Qian, Chao Feng, Yuhang Chen, Yuanjie Lin, Ziwei Liang, Hailei Qian, Jingxian Zhou, Jinjing Ma, Yue Jin, Dasheng Lu, Guoquan Wang, Ping Xiao, Zhijun Zhou

“…In the prioritization and risk assessment process, ten high-concern PFASs had Risk Indexes (RIs) higher than those of ref-PFOA and ref-PFOS, including eight legacy PFASs and two novel PFASs. …”
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Future grid mix impacts on whole-building life cycle assessment by Cameron Holman, Kieren H McCord, Annie Hu, Heather E Dillon, Chrissi A Antonopoulos

“…Results show that clean energy sources will likely continue to increase over time, although the rate of growth varies by model. On average, by 2085, the clean energy penetration of the grid is projected to reach ${\sim}81\%$ and renewable energy is projected to reach ${\sim}71\%$ , although no widespread consensus is reached. …”
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Nitrogen and carbon isotopic relationships in the diet and eye lenses of chub mackerel revealed in a laboratory rearing experiment by Chisato Yoshikawa, Nanako O. Ogawa, Naoto F. Ishikawa, Michio Yoneda, Ryuji Yukami, Shin-ichi Ito, Naohiko Ohkouchi

“…The TDFs for N and C in the mackerel eye lenses were 2.8–3.4‰ and 2.1–2.6‰, respectively. A model simulation revealed that it requires 191 d for the eye lenses in fish that switched diets at 60 d of age to reach the observed TDF for N of 3.1‰, and that the eye lenses of the adults take longer to reach isotopic equilibrium than the eye lenses of actively growing juveniles. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to data-based decision making in Australian early childhood education and care: A qualitative study by Shauna Sherker, Karen Villanueva, Ruth Beatson, Caitlin M. Macmillan, Wan Yi Lee, Olivia Hilton, Carly Molloy, Sharon Goldfeld

“…Barriers spanned issues of capability (knowledge), opportunity (data systems and processes, data quality, data availability, resources) and motivation (data culture, trust, pressure). …”
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The Design and Experiment of a Motion Control System for the Whole-Row Reciprocating Seedling Picking Mechanism of an Automatic Transplanter by Jiawei Shi, Jianping Hu, Wei Liu, Junpeng Lv, Yongwang Jin, Mengjiao Yao, Che Wang

“…The positioning control system was modeled and simulated using the Simulink simulation platform. …”
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Wet granulation method in the technology of 6,8-dimethyl-2-piperidinomethyl-2,3-dihydrothiazolo[2,3-F]xanthine tablets, which increases the detoxifying function of the liver by A. I. Petrakov, V. V. Sheikin, S. V. Krivoshchekov, A. M. Guryev, M. V. Belousov

“…However, during the development process, with an increase in batch volumes of tablet masses, insufficient completeness of loading of the tablet press matrix was revealed. …”
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Gender Classification From Pashto Handwritten Text Images by Khan Sultan, Riaz Ahmad, Siraj Muhammad, Sulaiman Almutairi, Mohammed Abohashrh, Khalil Ullah, Abdallah Namoun, Ibrar Hussain

“…Although SVM, a widely used machine learning model, achieved an accuracy of 61.29%, YOLO8 reached a significantly higher accuracy of 77% in the same data set. …”
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