Assessing aquifer vulnerability to seawater intrusion and impact of land use changes using GALDIT model in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh by Mohidar Hossain, Abu Jafor Mia, Md Jakir Hossain, Rina Akter, Dhiman Kumer Roy

“…The aim of this study is to assess groundwater vulnerability in Bangladesh's southwestern coastal districts and evaluate the impact of land use changes on seawater intrusion. …”
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Ryegrass straw and wood shavings as bulking agents on swine slurry coâcomposting: a case study in Southern Brazil by Luana Goulart Sardá, Martha Mayumi Higarashi, Paulo Armando Victória De Oliveira, Jucinei José Comin

“…Therefore, this manuscript describes a case study carried in Southern Brazil, region that houses 56% of Countryâs swine herd, and where ryegrass is a common winter cover crop. Method A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of increasing shares of ryegrass straw in the bulking agent of swine slurry co-composting, as follow: wood shaving (W), ryegrass straw (S) and blends (W/S=50/50 and 30/70). …”
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Criminological classification of robots: risk-based approach by I. R. Begishev

“…The methodology includes a formal logical method, systematic approach, formal legal interpretation of legal acts and academic literature, SWOT analysis. …”
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Developing lightweight structural concrete with enhanced thermal and durability properties through nano-silica and expanded polystyrene integration by Sabry A. Ahmed, Esraa Ebrahem, Ahmed A. M. El-Amir, M. S. El-Feky

“…The thermal performance of the concrete mixtures was systematically evaluated using the advanced transient plane source method, providing insights into thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and volumetric heat capacity. …”
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Women's Knowledge And Attitude About Osteoporosis At Kayseri Melikgazi Health Group Headship’s - Original Investigation by Rıza Çıtıl, Murat Özdemir, Serpil Poyrazoğlu, Elçin Balcı, Mualla Aykut, Yusuf Öztürk

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate women’s knowledge and attitude about osteoporosis. …”
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Intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy for pleural infections: Outcomes from a cohort study by Glenn Khai Wern Yong, Jonathan Jia Jun Wong, Xiaoe Zhang, Carmen Pei Sze Tan, Xiao Na Wang, Poh Seo Quek, Kim Hoong Yap

“…We sought to determine the factors affecting treatment success in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore and evaluate the efficacy of lower doses of IPFT. Method: A retrospective analysis of patients with pleural infections treated with IPFT between July 2016 and November 2023 was performed. …”
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NMD-FusionNet: a multimodal fusion-based medical imaging-assisted diagnostic model for liver cancer by Qing Ye, Minghao Luo, Jing Zhou, Chunlei Cheng, Lin Peng, Jia Wu

“…The framework includes a three-stage pipeline: first, a refined non-local means filtering algorithm is employed for pre-screening, discarding over 80% of non-diagnostic images using adaptive thresholding; second, a multimodal image fusion method integrates multi-phase, multi-source liver cancer image data through multi-scale decomposition and precise fusion rules to reduce noise and motion artifacts; third, a dual-path DconnNet segmentation network is constructed, incorporating a directional excitation module in the encoder and a spatial awareness unit in the decoder, guided by a boundary-constrained loss function to enhance segmentation accuracy. …”
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Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer Application on Growth, Vegetation Indices, and Ammonia Volatilization in Korean Radish (<i>Raphanus sativus</i> L.) by TaeSeon Eom, TaeWan Kim, SungYung Yoo

“…Aboveground and belowground biomass were evaluated to measure growth response. The dynamic chamber method was used to collect ammonia volatilized from the cultivation area, and the vegetation index analysis was conducted to assess the effects of nitrogen fertilizer treatment. …”
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Functional characterization of antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of whole lemon pulp and depectinized lemon pulp as circular by-products in animal nutrition by Cristina Spedale, Sara Frazzini, Luciana Rossi, Matteo Dell'Anno, Vincenzo Chiofalo

“…Acetone (70 %, v/v), methanol (50 %, v/v), and water were used as extraction solvents before testing antioxidant capacity using the 2,2′-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) radical cation decolourisation assay and evaluating O138 Escherichia coli inhibitory activity through the microdilution method, monitoring bacterial growth spectrophotometrically. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of antimicrobial resistance patterns of Staphylococcus spp. and E. coli in rodents and shrews at human-animal interfaces in Chattogram, Bangladesh. by Md Aftabuddin Rumi, Pronesh Dutta, Monjurul Islam, Md Abu Sayeed, Md Kaisar Rahman, Md Helal Uddin, Shariful Islam, Ricardo J Soares Magalhaes, Jonathan H Epstein, Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan, Ariful Islam

“…They may serve as a potential source of the transmission of AMR bacterial infections to humans and domestic animals, despite not directly consuming antibiotics. …”
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ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Judith ter Schure, Peter Grünwald

“…So ALL-IN meta-analysis can be applied retrospectively as well as prospectively, to evaluate the evidence once or sequentially. Because the intention of the analysis does not change the validity of the results, the results of the analysis can change the intentions (‘optional stopping’ and ‘optional continuation’ based on the results so far). …”
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The impact of electronic commerce adoption on the performance of microenterprises: Do technological context, organizational context, and external environment matter? by Suyanto Suyanto, Arvin Winatha, Olivia Tanaya

“…Electronic commerce is gaining importance as a hub for product sourcing, helping businesses earn a competitive edge, and connecting with consumers. …”
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The mediating role of social support and resilience in the relationship between social identity and mental health among international students by Melisa Parlak, Daniel Michelson, Matthew J. Easterbrook

“…Interventions could reframe this identity as a source of strength for international students. …”
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Research on the driving mechanisms of ecosystem services in the alpine canyon areas of Southwest China by Jiahui Jiang, Jian Hou, Chen Zeng, Haobo Feng, Yufan Zhu

“…The Alpine Canyon Area of Southwest China represents a region of ecological and cultural significance, where multi-ethnic communities rely heavily on ecosystem services for sustenance, including food, water, and other vital resources. To systematically evaluate these dependencies, this study utilized multi-source datasets to quantify the spatiotemporal patterns of four key ecosystem services in the region: carbon sequestration food supply (FS), water yield (WY), and soil conservation (SR). …”
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Enhancing agricultural waste bioconversion by Black Soldier Fly larvae through wheat bran supplementation by Zahra Raeiszadeh, Kamal Ahmadi, Mahdieh Asadi

“…Method: Various agricultural and food wastes were used as diets for BSF larvae and analyzed for their chemical composition. …”
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Phytochemical Isolation and Antimicrobial, Thrombolytic, Anti-inflammatory, Analgesic, and Antidiarrheal Activities from the Shell of Commonly Available Blanco: Multifaceted Role... by Md. Jamal Hossain, Md. Abdus Samadd, Mst. Nusrat Zahan Urmi, Mst. Farzana Yeasmin Reshmi, Md. Shohel Hossen, Mohammad A. Rashid

“…The present findings indicate that C. reticulata is a rich source of polymethoxyflavones, demonstrating potential efficacy against microbial infections, thrombosis, inflammation, pain, and diarrhea. …”
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PIC2O-Sim: A physics-inspired causality-aware dynamic convolutional neural operator for ultra-fast photonic device time-domain simulation by Pingchuan Ma, Haoyu Yang, Zhengqi Gao, Duane S. Boning, Jiaqi Gu

“…Multiple key techniques have been introduced to mitigate iterative error accumulation while maintaining efficiency advantages during autoregressive field prediction. Extensive evaluations on three challenging photonic device simulation tasks have shown the superiority of our PIC2O-Sim method, showing 51.2% lower roll-out prediction error, 23.5 times fewer parameters than state-of-the-art neural operators, providing 133–310× or 31–89× higher simulation speed than an open-source single-process or eight-process parallel FDTD numerical solver.…”
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Meliponini Geopropolis Extracts Induce ROS Production and Death in <i>Leishmania amazonensis</i> Promastigotes and Axenic Amastigotes In Vitro by Kamila M. Sette, Andreza R. Garcia, Luzineide W. Tinoco, Anderson S. Pinheiro, Igor A. Rodrigues

“…These results highlight geopropolis extracts as a source of substances with anti-<i>L. amazonensis</i> activity capable of inducing oxidative stress on the parasite.…”
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Impact of Interacting Parameters on Dark Matter in an Interacting Dark Energy Model by Himanshu Chaudhary, Ritika Nagpal, S. K. J. Pacif, G. Mustafa

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Embracing open innovation in hospitality management: Leveraging AI-driven dynamic scheduling systems for complex resource optimization and enhanced guest satisfaction by Rapeepan Pitakaso, Paulina Golinska-Dawson, Peerawat Luesak, Thanatkij Srichok, Surajet Khonjun

“…In response, this study develops and evaluates a novel platform for dynamic room cleaning and resource allocation, guided by open innovation principles and complexity theory. …”
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