Advancing Sustainable Road Construction with Multiple Regression Analysis, Regression Tree Models, and Case-Based Reasoning for Environmental Load and Cost Estimation by Joon-Soo Kim

“…The construction industry, particularly in road projects, faces pressing challenges related to environmental sustainability and cost management. …”
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Functional brain networks develop from a "local to distributed" organization. by Damien A Fair, Alexander L Cohen, Jonathan D Power, Nico U F Dosenbach, Jessica A Church, Francis M Miezin, Bradley L Schlaggar, Steven E Petersen

“…These observations suggest that early school age children and adults both have relatively efficient systems that may solve similar information processing problems in divergent ways.…”
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Effects of biochar combined with the application of plant ash and effective microorganisms on the soil in the vegetable facility by Minhan Sun, Shuanxi Fan, Nan Zhang

“…This research focuses on exploring the impacts of biochar, plant ash, and Effective Microorganisms (EM) on the physical, chemical properties, and nutrient levels of facility-agriculture soil, aiming to find a novel and efficient solution to address the soil-related issues. …”
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The role of phenolic OH groups of flavonoid compounds with H-bond formation ability to suppress amyloid mature fibrils by destabilizing β-sheet conformation of monomeric Aβ17-42. by Sahar Andarzi Gargari, Abolfazl Barzegar, Alireza Tarinejad

“…As a result, polyphenols are more efficient in destabilizing β-sheet structures of peptide. …”
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Using motion‐detection cameras to monitor foraging behaviour of individual butterflies by Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Owen W. McMillan, Stephen Montgomery

“…We demonstrate that camera traps efficiently capture individual flower visitation over multiple times and locations and use our experiments to describe some features of their spatial and temporal foraging patterns. …”
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Flowpath Partitioning Controls Chemical Weathering Fluxes in the Tropics by William J. Larsen, Mark A. Torres, María Chapela Lara, Carla López Lloreda, William H. McDowell

“…To estimate the response of the LCZO to climatic change, we compare Fyw‐Q behavior between sites that experience different mean annual precipitation amounts. Intriguingly, we find that climatically driven changes in flowpath partitioning reconcile watershed fluxes with regolith‐based studies. …”
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Observer of changes in the forest of the shortest paths on dynamic graphs of transport networks by N. V. Khajynova, M. P. Revotjuk, L. Y. Shilin

“…The proposed version of the construction of the search procedure is based on the mechanisms existing in database management systems for creating different relational representations of the physical data model. …”
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Drivers for a pandemic due to avian influenza and options for One Health mitigation measures by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Angeliki Melidou, Theresa Enkirch, Katriina Willgert, Cornelia Adlhoch, Erik Alm, Favelle Lamb, Stefano Marangon, Isabella Monne, Jan Arend Stegeman, Roxane Delacourt, Francesca Baldinelli, Alessandro Broglia

“…Some intrinsic drivers are related to virus characteristics or host susceptibility. …”
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Study on the insulation performance of C5F10O gas mixture in cold climates by Runlong Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Zhilei Xu, Keliang Dong, Jinfeng Zheng, Shicheng Feng, Zhaolin Zhou, Hui Zhu

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Investigating the role of foreign aid, FDI, and remittance on the public health of selected South Asian countries by Md. Atik Hasan, Shabikunnahar Suborna, Afrida Jinnurain Urbee

“…For this reason, the present study examined the effects of different globalization-related factors (remittances, foreign direct investment, foreign aid) and health spending from 2000 to 2020 on the quality of healthcare in six South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. …”
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RESEARCHING FACTORS OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES OF AGRARIAN BUSINESS OF UKRAINE UNDER GLOBALIZATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY by Vadim Sidorov, Vitalina Babenko, Michael Bondarenko

“…The main approaches to modelling systems related to IА management are either descriptive or insufficiently formalized, and suggest virtual experimenting with IA management, avoiding the possibility of assessing the impact and consequences of different management options in the long view, minimizing IA risks when making managerial decisions. …”
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Screening for Sarcopenia (Physical Frailty) in the COVID-19 Era by Amira Mohammed Ali, Hiroshi Kunugi

“…Sarcopenia is an age-related disorder that increases hospitalization, dependencies, and mortality in older adults. …”
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An enhanced BERT model with improved local feature extraction and long-range dependency capture in promoter prediction for hearing loss by Jing Sun, Yangfan Huang, Jiale Fu, Li Teng, Xiao Liu, Xiaohua Luo

“…The CNN module is able to capture local regulatory features, while the BiLSTM module can effectively model long-distance dependencies, enabling efficient integration of global and local features of promoter sequences. …”
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Demographic stratification of Type 2 diabetes and comorbidities in district healthcare in KwaZulu-Natal by Lauren Chetty, Nalini Govender, Ganesan M. Govender, Poovendhree Reddy

“…Conclusion: The prevalence of T2DM and comorbidities differed by demographic factors, such as sex, ethnicity and age. …”
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Deep Oxidative Desulfurization Utilizing Hybrid Keggin Catalyst with 1-methyl-3-octyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate by Yasmeen Mundher, Hussein Q Hussein, Ban A. Al-Tabbakh

“…In this work, a Keggin-type catalyst TBAPW11O39, model diesel,  Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and 1- methy l-3-octyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate (OMIM(PF6)) were tested under different reaction conditions. The sulfur compound dibenzothiophene (DBT) in model diesel was captured in ionic liquid (IL) and then oxidized to produce related sulfones with H2O2 as an oxidant using TBAPW11O39, in a batch reactor. …”
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Selection and Identification of a Model of Elasto-Viscoplasticity of the Filled Fluorocomposite according to Free and Constrained Compression Tests by D. S. Petukhov, A. A. Adamov, I. E. Keller

“…The results of the constrained compression tests made it possible to separate the elastic relationship of volumetric deformations and average stresses from the constitutive relations. The data of free compression cycles at different strain rates were used to determine the material constants of the model. …”
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Hybrid transformer-CNN and LSTM model for lung disease segmentation and classification by Syed Mohammed Shafi, Sathiya Kumar Chinnappan

“…This issue alarms us to take control measures related to early diagnostics, accurate treatment procedures, etc. …”
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AHP-Guided Stacked Ensemble Modeling for Student Engagement Level Prediction in Online Education by Jingjing Fu, Linjie Luo, Zhifeng Zhong, Jiaming Qin

“…The proposed method consists of three key steps: first, data preprocessing to prepare and refine a set of indicators related to the level of student engagement in online education environments. …”
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Exosomes in neurodegenerative diseases: Therapeutic potential and modification methods by Hongli Chen, Na Li, Yuanhao Cai, Chunyan Ma, Yutong Ye, Xinyu Shi, Jun Guo, Zhibo Han, Yi Liu, Xunbin Wei

“…Recent studies have demonstrated that exosomes derived from different cell types may exert therapeutic effects by regulating the expression of various inflammatory cytokines, mRNAs, and disease-related proteins, thereby halting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases and exhibiting beneficial effects. …”
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Developing an internationally-applicable service specification for continence care: systematic review, evidence synthesis and expert consensus. by Adrian S Wagg, Diane K Newman, Kai Leichsenring, Paul van Houten

“…<h4>Method</h4>Evidence was obtained from a systematic and grey literature review of published randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies reporting efficacy of continence service design at the level of the community dwelling patient with either bladder or bowel incontinence, governmental reports and policy frameworks supplemented by data from 47 semi-structured interviews with clinicians, patients, patient-representatives and policy experts from four geographies broadly representative of different healthcare systems.<h4>Results</h4>A number of themes related to current and potential future organisation of continence care were identified from the data. …”
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