Experimental study of elastic and strength properties of adhesives by Oleksii Vambol, Fedir Gagauz, Sergiy Kurennov, Kostiantyn Barakhov, Alla Garbuz

“…A significant advantage of adhesive bonding over traditional joining methods (such as welding, riveting, or bolting) is its capacity to facilitate the manufacturing of large-scale integrated structures. The development of mathematical models and analytical methods for analyzing the strength and designing adhesive joints is crucial for improving and advancing adhesive bonding technology in engineering practice. …”
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Territorialisation transfrontalière entre Brazzaville et Kinshasa : des ressources marchandes à la frontière ressource by Clémence Auzary

“…A “topological” rather than “topographic” approach to power allows understanding the coexistence of central and marginal power structures within the same urban space. The paradox of territorialization arises from the spatially differentiated exercise of state power, creating spaces where the border is more or less tangible, exploitable, and leads to an alternative territorialization surpassing the limit between neighboring sovereignties. …”
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Gender Differences in Decision-making and Leadership: Evidence from Armenia by Diana Minasyan, Gayane Tovmasyan

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Implementing value-based healthcare: a scoping review of key elements, outcomes, and challenges for sustainable healthcare systems by Hanan Khalil, Mary Ameen, Charles Davies, Chaojie Liu

“…While VBHC shows promise in improving healthcare efficiency and quality, challenges remain in aligning financial and operational structures to fully support this paradigm shift.…”
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Optimal Alternative Fuel Selection for Dual-Fuel Ships Under FuelEU Maritime Regulations: Environmental and Economic Assessment by Cong Wang, Zhongxiu Peng, Jianming Yang, Niyu Zhang, Ke Li, Xuesong Li

“…In contrast, e-fuels retain long-term cost advantages, ultimately driving a sector-wide transition toward e-fuel-dominated energy structures by 2050. Their superior environmental performance and regulatory compatibility emerge as the core drivers of the maritime energy transition.…”
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Deformable Feature Fusion and Accurate Anchors Prediction for Lightweight SAR Ship Detector Based on Dynamic Hierarchical Model Pruning by Yue Guo, Shiqi Chen, Ronghui Zhan, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang

“…Finally, a magnitude-based dynamic hierarchical pruning algorithm is introduced to dynamically prune parameters across various network structures, thereby reducing the model’s parameters. …”
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PREDICTION INTERVALS IN MACHINE LEARNING: RESIDUAL BOOTSTRAP AND QUANTILE REGRESSION FOR CASH FLOW ANALYSIS by Wa Ode Rahmalia Safitri, Farit Mochamad Afendi, Budi Susetyo

“…Using transaction data from Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the research analyzes both office and e-channel transactions with different lag structures based on Granger Causality tests. Model performance was evaluated using RMSLE, MAE, and MAPE metrics, with RMSLE chosen as primary due to its ability to handle skewed distributions. …”
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Evaluating baculovirus as a vector for human prostate cancer gene therapy. by Stephanie L Swift, Guillermo C Rivera, Vincent Dussupt, Regina M Leadley, Lucy C Hudson, Corrina Ma de Ridder, Robert Kraaij, Julie E Burns, Norman J Maitland, Lindsay J Georgopoulos

“…BV was able to penetrate through three-dimensional structures, including in vitro spheroids and in vivo orthotopic xenografts. …”
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COMPRESSED FLANGES OF ARCHED STEEL THIN-WALLED COLD-ROLLED PROFILED SHEETS: DETERMINATION OF RESIDUAL STRESSES by S. A. Makeev, V. A. Gorkovenko, E. A. Seitov, L. F. Rahuba

“…At present, the researchers do not take into account the residual technological stresses of the longitudinal bending when designing structures from thin-walled longitudinally bent rolled trapezoidal sections. …”
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Technology and equipment for friction stir preweld edge preparation by Y. G. Lyudmirsky, А. N. Soloviev, М. V. Soltovets, R. R. Kotlyshev, I. V. Mironov, А. V. Kramskoy

“…It will reduce the metal consumption of structures and ensure the bearing capacity of welded joints not lower than similar characteristics of the base metal. …”
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Autofluorescence Imaging of Parathyroid and Thyroid Under Visible and Near-IR Light Excitation by Zhenguo Wu, Sam M. Wiseman, Haishan Zeng

“…Identifying parathyroid glands during surgery is challenging and time-consuming due to their small size (3–5 mm) and camouflaged appearance in the background of the thyroid, lymph nodes, fat, and other neck structures. For the gland itself, it is also important to differentiate abnormal ones from normal ones. …”
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MRI machine learning model predicts nerve root sedimentation in lumbar stenosis: a prospective study by Qing Wang, Xianping Luo, Deng Li, Yi Zhai, Caiyun Ying

“…The RF model constructed using these features—designated as SedSign8—exhibited superior performance in predicting the risk of SedSign, with robust metrics across all evaluation dimensions: precision of 84.4%, recall of 73.6%, F1 score of 78.6%, accuracy of 83.6%, and an AUC of 0.901.ConclusionOlder patients, along with a greater degree of stenosis and changes in the dural sac and surrounding tissue structures, were identified as the main pathophysiological basis for the occurrence of the SedSign in LSS.…”
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Clinical classification of brow ptosis by Daniel Sundfeld Spiga Real, Rodrigo Pacheco Reis, Roney Gonçalves Fechini Feitosa, Elvio Bueno Garcia, Masako Ferreira

“…INTRODUCTION: The study of the eyebrow is a great challenge for plastic surgery because of its complex relationship with facial structures. The present study aims to describe a clinical classification of brow ptosis. …”
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Mechanistic insights into the effects of Tris-2-butoxyethyl phosphate on multiple cancers using network toxicology and molecular docking by Hongting Lu, Pengyu Huang, Bingqi Huang, Dongming He, Xinhuai Ou, Zhanyu Xu, Shikang Li

“…Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses were then performed to characterize the biological functions and pathways involved Three-dimensional structures of the core target proteins were retrieved from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), optimized using PyMOL (version 3.0.3), and subjected to molecular docking with AutoDock Vina to assess their binding affinities with TBEP. …”
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Decolonising knowledge practices in biosecurity: Developing a reflective toolkit for more inclusive, equitable and respectful research by Susanna Finlay‐Smits, Maria Blanca Ayala, Will Allen, Andrea Grant, Alison Greenaway, Sara MacBride‐Stewart, Liz O'Brien, Katja‐Soana Ehler

“…Abstract Context: Aotearoa New Zealand's biosecurity system, shaped by colonial and bureaucratic structures, tends to prioritise competition and financial management over environmental outcomes and community involvement. …”
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The optimal mix proportion design method of similar transparent materials in soft soil foundation by Peng Xie, Zhaojie Li, Congcong Li, Haijia Wen, Zurun Yue, Haitao Zhu, Zhanfeng Fan, Xipeng Geng, Huchen Duan

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Understanding why and how youth-friendly health services improve viral load suppression among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Nigeria: realist evaluation with quali... by Okikiolu Badejo, Prosper Okonkwo, Edwin Wouters, Sara Van Belle, Christiana Nöstlinger, Marie Laga, Plang Jwanle

“…We used qualitative information to explore how and why viral load suppression was attained across different settings and quantitative data to describe patterns and associations between youth-friendly structures and processes of care, care retention and viral load suppression. …”
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Development and temporal evaluation of sex-specific models to predict 4-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk based on age and neighbourhood characteristics in South Lim... by Anke Bruninx, Lianne Ippel, Rob Willems, Andre Dekker, Iñigo Bermejo

“…Using the evaluation data sets, we compared two model types, subdistribution and cause-specific hazard models, and eight model structures. Discrimination was assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). …”
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Genome-wide identification of APX genes in flax (Linum usitatissimum) and functional characterization of LuAPX12 in osmotic and salinity stress responses by Yuan-Dong Li, Rong Ma, Yu-Xi Zheng, Li-Qiong Xie

“…Results This study identified 12 APX genes in flax and analyzed their evolutionary relationships, motif compositions, gene structures, and cis-acting elements, while also predicting potential protein-protein interactions with 226 members of the AP2 family. …”
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Folate-based binuclear Mn(II) chelates with 2,2’-bipyridine/1,10-phenanthroline as targeted anticancer agents for colon cancer cells by Mona S. Ragab, Marwa H. Soliman, Marwa M. Sharaky, Abdelrahman Saad, Mohamed R. Shehata, Mohamed M. Shoukry, Mohamed A. Ragheb

“…Further, the results from density functional theory (DFT) computations support well the suggested structures, which indicate the development of distorted octahedral geometries around each Mn(II) center for both binuclear complexes. …”
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