Study on Sand-Steel Interface Shear Test Method and Mechanism by Xiaofei Hu, Long Yu, Yunrui Han, Qing Yang

“…However, in the traditional interface shear test (TIST), distribution of shear stresses along contact surface is not uniform due to boundary effects. Thus, average mechanical response of the whole interface measured by TIST cannot be used to evaluate interface friction properties. …”
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Sign-Entropy Regularization for Personalized Federated Learning by Koffka Khan

“…Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets (FEMNIST, Shakespeare, and CIFAR-10) show that SER improves both average and worst-case client accuracy, reduces variance across clients, accelerates convergence, and smooths the local loss surface as measured by Hessian trace and spectral norm. …”
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Influence of glucose as a natural reductant on silver nanoparticles synthesis for decontamination of p-nitrophenol and methylene blue from wastewater by Ayman H. Mansee, Doaa M. Abdelgawad, Amal M. Ebrahim

“…The synthesized Ag°/glucose exhibited a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) peak at 430 nm, with an average particle size ranging from 21 to 31 nm, and a zeta potential recorded as − 16 mV. …”
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Assessment of Peri-Implant Bone Loss in Smokers vs. Non-Smokers: A Prospective Study by Sumit Bhatt, TS Reshma, Jerry Mammen, Deepak Sharma, Varun Raj, Sameer Gupta

“…Titanium implants with identical surface properties were given to each patient. Standardized periapical radiographs were used to quantify marginal bone loss at baseline (implant implantation), six months, and twelve months. …”
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Dependence of the Preload on the Tightening Torque for Hydraulic Plugs by Jurij Hladnik, Franc Majdič, Anže Čelik, Boris Jerman

“…The preload and tightening torque were measured. (1) Although the plug–valve connections had a similar geometry with the same surface roughness of the contacting surfaces, the average overall friction coefficient (uniform thread and underhead friction coefficient) and torque coefficient differed between the two connections in the unlubricated and lubricated conditions by 16% and 18%, respectively. …”
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Electromyography-Based Human-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization to Assist Free Leg Swinging by Salvador Echeveste, Pranav A. Bhounsule

“…Results: Optimization converges within an average of 142 s with a standard deviation of 24 s across all participants. …”
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Defect Detection of Gas Insulation Switch by Infrared Thermography Technology With an Improved Yolo Algorithm by Ma Tianci, Chen Xiangping, Li Bo, Bai Jie

“…Gas-insulated switch-gear (GIS) defects, such as internal bubbles, surface cracks, and high pressure breakdowns, critically threaten power transmission reliability. …”
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The Risk of Escalating Cyberattacks and Financial Fraud During Wartime: The Maturity of The County's Judicial System in Combating Cyber and Financial Crimes by Hanna Yarovenko, Iryna Pozovna, Roman Bylbas

“…The rapid digitalization of financial systems and public services during the war has expanded attack surfaces, with cybercriminals exploiting vulnerabilities in digital banking platforms and cryptocurrency transactions. …”
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Advancing offline magnetic resonance-guided prostate radiotherapy through dedicated imaging and deep learning-based automatic contouring of targets and neurovascular structures by Philipp Schubert, Matthias May, Daniel Höfler, Hans-Peter Fautz, Jana Hutter, Ricarda Merten, Sina Mansoorian, Thomas Weissmann, Lisa Deloch, Miriam Schonath, Nathalia Belmas, Felix Grabenbauer, Benjamin Frey, Udo Gaipl, Bernd-Niklas Axer, Juliane Szkitsak, Michael Uder, Christoph Bert, Rainer Fietkau, Florian Putz

“…DL-generated contours were geometrically evaluated (surface Dice Score [sDSC], mean surface distance [MSD]) and validated by blinded expert review. …”
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Implantation Antimicrobial Prophylaxis In General and Military Field Surgery by V. V. Plechev, M. V. Timerbulatov, I. F. Sufiyarov

“…In addition, the average length of hospital stay was reduced by 21.6% (2.6 days).Conclusion. …”
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Cadmium Bioavailability Based on Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Technique and Conventional Chemical Extraction in High Geological Background Soil Area of Northwestern Zhejiang P... by Chao WU, Binbin SUN, Xiaomeng CHENG, Dong LIU, Yu QIAO, Ling He, Daoming ZENG

“…In comparison to China’s contaminant limit of national food safety standards (GB2762—2017), the over-standard rates of Cd in rice and bok choy are 34% and 10%, respectively. …”
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A generalized machine learning framework to estimate fatigue life across materials with minimal data by Dharun Vadugappatty Srinivasan, Morteza Moradi, Panagiotis Komninos, Dimitrios Zarouchas, Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos

“…The influence of different training strategies based on materials, input features, encoding method, and data standardization on the model performance is explored. …”
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Rational Pharmacological Prophylaxis of Gestation Process Complications in Pregnant Women with Varicose Disease by Markin L., Shatylovytch K.

“…The structural changes and a further decrease in the elasticity of the walls of the venous vessels are systemic, but the most affected are the veins that are least covered by muscles – the surface veins of the lower limbs, rectum, small pelvis, and also the fetoplacental complex. …”
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Characterization of Environmentally Friendly Gadolinium/Boron Flexible Thermal Neutron Absorbing Material by WANG Qi1, 2, 3, GUO Xiaolin2, 3, 4, YIN Jinnan2, 3, 5, WANG Xiaojuan2, 3, 4, YUAN Lin2, 3, 4, WANG Boyu2, 3, 4, FANG Qinglong2, 3, 4, HAN Xiaoxiang2, 3, 4, QIU Tianyi2, 3, 4, LIU Yang2, 3, 4

“…The average thermal neutron areal transmittance of (10%Gd2O3+40%B4C)/SEBS and (30%Gd2O3+40%B4C)/SEBS are 34.34% and 31.60%, with absolute deviations of ±0.5% for all points, standard deviations of 0.33% and 0.26%, and dispersion coefficients of 0.009 6 and 0.008 2. …”

Wearable sensor-based fall detection for elderly care using ensemble machine learning techniques by Ch Gangadhar, P Pavithra Roy, R. Dinesh Kumar, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh, S. Ravikanth, N. Akhila

“…The whole assessment proved the algorithmic learning structure's efficacy. Older people's standard of existence will increase, and accidents will be avoided because of such smart tracking devices.…”
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Age-related structural changes in the myenteric nervous plexus ganglion along the anterior wall of the proximal human duodenum: A morphometric analysis by Mandić Predrag, Leštarević Snežana, Filipović Tatjana, Đukić-Macut Nataša, Šaranović Milena

“…Aging does not induce changes in size and surface of neurons in the ganglia, but it decreases the number of neurons. …”
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A Full-Profile Measurement Method for an Inner Wall with Narrow-Aperture and Large-Cavity Parts Based on Line-Structured Light Rotary Scanning by Zhengwen Li, Changshuai Fang, Xiaodong Zhang

“…Through the repeatability measurement experiment of the spherical cavity parts, the average measurement deviation of the spherical cavity radius was measured to be 6 μm, and the standard deviation was 11.4 μm, which verified the feasibility of the measurement system proposed in this article. …”
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Spatial differentiation and influencing factors of heavy metals in soils of typical counties in Lhasa river basin by Haichuan Lu, Xin Yuan, Cang Gong, Jiufen Liu, Youchang Shi, Xiang Xia

“…Abstract This paper studied the spatial distribution and influencing factors of heavy metals (HMs) such as Cu, Pb, Zn, Cr, Ni, Cd and As in the soil of Linzhou County in the Lhasa River basin. By collecting 504 surface soil samples, using descriptive statistics, Kriging interpolation and geoaccumulation index methods, combined with the geographic detector model, the spatial distribution characteristics of soil HMs content and its interaction with 19 environmental factors were systematically analyzed.The results showed that the content of heavy metals in the soil in this area was generally higher than the background value of soil in Lhasa, especially Cd and As, which showed strong spatial heterogeneity, suggesting the existence of specific pollution sources.Although the average HMs content was lower than the soil pollution risk screening value, the As, Cd, Pb and Zn contents at some sampling points exceeded the standard, indicating a high pollution risk in some local areas.The spatial distribution of HMs was uneven, with high-value areas of Pb, Zn and Cd mainly concentrated in the west, Cu concentrated in the northwest, while high-value areas of Cr and Ni were similar, mainly concentrated in the west and central regions. …”
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Fabrication of Nanostructured Polyamic Acid Membranes for Antimicrobially Enhanced Water Purification by Ibrahim Kimotho, Naumih M. Noah, Mildred Nawiri, Betty Mbatia

“…The wet phase inversion process used produced highly porous, strong, and flexible nPAA membranes, which showed well-dispersed spherical AuNPs and AgNPs whose rough average size was found to be 35 nm and 25 nm, respectively. …”
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SEX CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MICROCIRCULATION IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS AND IN PATIENTS WITH THE FIRST DEGREE ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by V. I. Podzolkov, L. V. Vasil'eva, V. V. Matveev, N. A. Kolesnichenko

“…The microcirculation study was performed with LAKK-02 analyzer on the palmar surface of the third finger of the right hand. The average values of the microcirculation index, the standard deviation of perfusion fluctuations (σ), the variation coefficient of tissue blood flow (Kv) were evaluated. …”
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