Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Aidia densiflora Leaf Extract: Characterisation and Bioactivities by Ainul Hayati Zeheri, Muhammad Taher, Muhammad Taufiq Mohd Jailani, Juliana Md Jaffri, Deny Susanti Darnis, Junaidi Khotib

“…The zeta potential was –35.6 mV, and XRD indicated a face-centred cubic structure with a crystalline size of 6.94 nm. AD-AgNPs showed no antimicrobial activity and low cytotoxicity. …”
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Toward sustainable social change: strategic approaches to smart city development in developing nations by Harish Kumar, Ashulekha Gupta, Rajesh Singh, Anu Sayal

“…The policymakers, officials, service providers, and urban planners would get benefit from the outcomes to plan the right initiatives for improvements in governance structure for the development of the smart cities. …”
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A Vision-Based Single-Sensor Approach for Identification and Localization of Unloading Hoppers by Wuzhen Wang, Tianyu Ji, Qi Xu, Chunyi Su, Guangming Zhang

“…Secondly, an image processing approach combining depth consistency constraint (DCC) and geometric structure constraints is designed to achieve sub-pixel level extraction of key corner points. …”
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Application of the Non-Hermitian Singular Spectrum Analysis to the Exponential Retrieval Problem by D. J. Nicolsky, G. S. Tipenko

“…A component related to the exponential has a regular structure, its phase portrait resembles a unitary circle/arc. …”
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Signal Processing in Passive Radar Systems Using 5G: A Simulation Study by Van Tuan Nguyen, V. M. Kutuzov, E. N. Vorobev

“…The theory of signal processing in semi-active radar, 5G standard and structure, a model of the 5G signal propagation channel, and comparative analysis were used. …”
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Identification and assessment of threats to the financial security system of the state in the field of customs control by O.M. Petruk, Yu.S. Kostishin

“…The monitoring of the state of customs control in the financial security system revealed a significant number of violations of customs legislation, which requires the identification of the relationship of threats to financial security with the structure of the customs control mechanism. These include ineffective regulatory and legal support for customs control; lack of effective planning and forecasting of indicators of customs payments to the state budget by the Ministry of Finance; lack of methods for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of control in the customs sphere; ineffective management decisions of territorial bodies; insufficient information support (incomplete implementation of the automated system of control over the circulation of excisable goods); inefficiency of the customs and fiscal risk management system, low percentage of agreement on the results of inspections of accrued amounts of customs duties; non-compliance with the recommendations of the internal audit department to improve the system of customs control, etc. …”
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Integrated electrospinning and electrospraying for tailoring composite membranes of nanofibers and microbeads for membrane distillation by Michaela Olisha S. Lobregas, Ratthapol Rangkupan, Hsiu-Po Kuo, Chalida Klaysom

“…The simultaneous dual-nozzle fabrication created an intertwined network of nanofibers and microclusters, resulting in a highly porous membrane structure with enhanced flux. The microclusters contributed to increased surface roughness and reduced surface energy, providing excellent liquid entry pressure and wetting resistance. …”
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Control nutritional status score and platelet/lymphocyte ratio relationship with left ventricular hypertrophy in peritoneal dialysispatients by QUAN Yu-di, ZHOU Qiao, FENG Jin-hong, ZHANG Ying

“…Objective Using controlling nutritional status（CONUT） score and platelet to lymphocyte ratio（PLR）,to evaluate the nutritional status and inflammation status of patients with peritoneal dialysis（PD）,and analyze their relationship with left ventricular hypertrophy.Methods The patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis in Department of Nephrology,Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University from January 2019 to May 2020 were enrolled.General patient information and laboratory indicators were collected.Cardiac color Doppler ultrasound was used to assess changes in the patient’s cardiac structure.According to the presence or absence of left ventricular hypertrophy（LVH）,the patients were divided into LVH group and non-LVH group.Each indicator was compared between the two groups,and risk factors of LVH were analyzed by logistic regression method.ROC curve was used to analyze the sensitivity and specificity of PLR and CONUT in diagnosing LVH.Results（1） A total of 82 patients were included,and the incidence of LVH was 40.2%.Systolic blood pressure,uric acid,PLR and CONUT scores of the LVH group were significantly higher than those of the non-LVH group; and Hb,LVEF and Alb were significantly lower than those of the non-LVH group（P<0.05）,with statistical significance.（2） Logistic regression analysis showed that systolic blood pressure,PLR and CONUT score were all risk factors affecting left ventricular hypertrophy.（3）The areas under the curve of LVH ROC curve analysis found that,the areas under the curve of LVH PLR and CONUT score predicted in PD patients were 0.743 and 0.822,respectively,and the combined prediction value was 0.855.Conclusions CONUT score and PLR are associated with LVH in peritoneal dialysis patients,and are the influencing factors of LVH.The combination between CONUT score and PLR is more valuable in predicting LVH in PD patients.…”
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An In Vitro Comparative Study of the Effect of Different Surface Preparation Methods on Shear Bond Strength Between Ivoclar SR Nexco Paste Indirect Composite Resin and Ivoclar Heli... by Elahe Soltanmohamadi Borujeni, Sepehr Sobhani Kazemi

“…Background and purpose: Due to the relatively high cost of cosmetic restorations with indirect composite resins, the time required for their complete replacement, and, in some cases, the need for significant tooth structure removal, repairing these restorations may sometimes be a more appropriate approach. …”
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Design and characterization of multiwall carbon nanotube/polydimethylsiloxane composite MIMO antenna for wearable and vehicular applications by Musa Hussain, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Hijab Zahra, Syed Muzahir Abbas, Samir Salem Al-Bawri, Yong Zhu

“…The proposed antenna is made up of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) working as radiative structure and ground plane while Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is utilized as the substrate. …”
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Which shareholders are interested in the ESG-indicators of the company? by V. V. Karginova-Gubinova

“…The research is based on the data from Yahoo Finance and the website of the Sustainalytics, Inc. company as of the end of 2021.Cluster, variance, regression and correlation analyses were carried out and methods of descriptive statistics were used.Results of this work have revealed the presence of the features of ownership structure of Russian companies in comparison with companies of developed countries. …”
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Maslinic Acid Protects against Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Retinopathy by Activating Nrf2 and Suppressing NF-κB by Nasser A. Alsabaani, Osama M. Osman, Mohamed A. Dallak, Mohamed D. Morsy, Hassan A. Al-Dhibi

“…In addition, MA significantly improved the retina structure by preventing the reduction in the area between the inner and outer limiting membranes (ILM and OLM, respectively) and increasing the number of cells forming the ganglion cell layer (GCL), inner nuclear layer (INL), and outer nuclear layer (ONL). …”
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Psychometric properties of the differentiated process scale of self-forgiveness in Spanish population by Karla Gallo-Giunzioni, María Prieto-Ursúa, Cristina Fernández-Belinchón, Noemy Martín Sanz

“…Exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure: Genuine Self-Forgiveness, Self-Punishment, and Pseudo-Forgiveness. …”
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SELECTING THE DIRECTION FOR TECHNICAL RE-EQUIPMENT OF THE TPP OIL-GAS BLOCKS OF 300 MW CAPACITY IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE EAST-EUROPEAN REGION by V. M. Neuimin

“…Renovation variants for the power blocks of the specified type in the TPPs of Russia can be chosen based on various engineering solutions concluded on the following grounds: mediumand long-term perspectives of their fuel balance structure (natural gas, synthetic gas fuel-oil residual, pulverized coal fuel including clean-coal and coal-benefication production wastes); the demands laid by JSC the JI UES on the participation of power blocks in frequency regulation and node inter-flow; development in the country of the distributed generation and the perspectives associated with it of the reconstructed TPPs installed capacity utilization in corresponding power-grid nodes; the development of related industries of the country’s economy; the speed of mastering the eco-friendly homegrown steam-gas and coal technologies; creation of the competitive national element base of microelectronics.Introduction of foreign steam-gas generators in this country requires development of the repair-and-service maintenance, provokes elevated risks and tangible costs, conduces to level decrease in the energy and national safety of the state. …”
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Principles of creation of the big territorially distributed automated systems by V. A. Tretyakov, G. V. Kulikov, Yu. F. Lukyanets

“…The purpose of these systems is the continuous monitoring of the state of a set of certain objects, the environment of their functioning, the constant assessment of the parameters of objects, the identification of dangerous situations in the behavior of objects and the environment, as well as the development of measures to reduce the level of possible security threats and eliminate dangerous situations.The typical structure of large territorially distributed automated systems includes sources and consumers of information, telecommunication facilities, as well as a center for processing input data and preparing information for consumers. …”
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Simulating infrastructure networks in the Yangtze River Delta (China) using generative urban network models by Liang Dai, Ben Derudder, Xingjian Liu, Lei Ye, Xuejun Duan

“…Based on our results, two wider implications of our research are discussed: (1) it confirms the potential of the proposed method in urban network simulation in that the inclusion of a topological factor alongside geographical factors generates an urban network that better approximates the observed network; (2) it allows exploring the differential extent to which driving forces influence the structure of different urban networks. For instance, in the Yangtze River Delta, transitivity plays a less important role in the Internet-network formation; GDP and boundaries more strongly affect the rail network; and distance decay effects play a more prominent role in the road network.…”
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Promising digital solutions for medical management of patients with oncological diseases by A. A. Zavyalov, D. A. Andreev

“…Malignant neoplasms remain a serious challenge for society, occupying the leading places next to cardiovascular pathology in the structure of causes of death in the vast majority of developed countries of the world. …”
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Unitanony: a fine-grained and practical anonymization framework for better data utility by Shuguang Yuan, Jing Yu, Tengfei Yang, Chi Chen

“…Therefore, we designed a data structure unit to generalize records at low costs and implemented a skipping strategy to execute the algorithm within an acceptable time. …”
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Effect of Basalt Fiber Addition on Static-Dynamic Mechanical Behaviors and Microstructure of Stabilized Soil Compositing Cement and Fly Ash by Ziming Cao, Qinyong Ma, Hongwei Wang

“…With the basalt fiber content of 0.6%, a stable internal space structure produced inside stabilized soil. However, there are many fiber-fiber weak interfaces that appeared inside stabilized soil under the basalt fiber content of 1.2%. …”
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Experimental Study on the Performance of Air Source Heat Pump Water Heater over Wide-range Temperature Conditions by Wang Jijin, Qu Dehu, Ni Long, Yao Yang, Wang Jiagui

“…Vapor compression air source heat pump (VCASHP) systems have been widely applied due to their simple structure and low initial cost. However, there are a series of problems when a VCASHP system is operated for space or water heating in cold regions. …”
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