Distribution Property of Shear Strength Parameters of Q2 and Q3 Loess in Northwest China and Its Application in Reliability Analysis of Natural and Filled Slopes by Xueyan Wang, Yi-li Yuan, Changming Hu, Yuan Mei

“…On the contrary, influence of the variability of c on the reliability index of the fill slope is generally greater than that of φ, which is related to the structural and uniformity of the soil. Finally, relation between slope height and minimum gradient coefficient is linear when the failure probability of fill slope is less than 10%. …”
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Somatic symptoms among young adults: an observational study examining the roles of trauma type and psychological distress by Lauren A. Perez, Yvette Z. Szabo

“…Data were first analyzed using linear regression, followed by structural equation modeling to estimate indirect effects, with bootstrapping used to generate confidence intervals. …”
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Pension expenditures and old-age poverty in OECD countries by María del Carmen Ramos-Herrera, Simón Sosvilla-Rivero

“…These results hold across various sensitivity analyses testing for structural breaks and heterogeneous relationships in the baseline empirical model and for the possibility of multiple thresholds in the threshold model. …”
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Socioeconomic status and lifestyle as factors of multimorbidity among older adults in China: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey by Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Xiaoxiao Hu, Huimin Cui, Huimin Cui, Yuxin Zhao, Yuxin Zhao, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Peng Sun, Peng Sun, Jianjun Yang, Jianjun Yang

“…SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) were used to interpret model outputs.ResultsXGBoost achieved the best predictive performance (AUC = 0.788 on the test set), outperforming both linear and non-linear models across most evaluation metrics. …”
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Amperometric sensing of prostate cancer biomarker (Sarcosine) using HiPIMS deposited nickel nitride films-decorated zinc oxide nanorod heterostructures by Nishchal Pardhi, Wei-Chun Cheng, Sheng-Chi Chen, Hui Sun, Mani Govindasamy

“…The fabricated heterostructure has been characterized using XRD, XPS, FESEM, and TEM analysis to determine the phase structure, chemical state of elements, surface morphology, and microstructure, respectively. …”
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Experiment on physical and mechanical properties of tomato seedling pot for automatic vegetable transplanter by Liang Xifeng, Cai Yangyang, Wang Yongwei

“…However, automatic vegetable transplanter needs integrated knowledge and technology, the research on which should also combine the structural design with the physical and mechanical properties of vegetable seedling pot. …”
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Concrete Dam Deformation Prediction Model Based on Attention Mechanism and Deep Learning by ZHANG Hongrui, CAO Xin, JIANG Chao, ZU Anjun, XU Mingxiang

“…Due to long-term exposure to complex and variable environmental conditions, concrete dam's structural safety faces numerous challenges. Traditional statistical methods based on hydrostatic-season-time (HST) theory, while having clear physical meanings and being easy to implement, are limited by their inherent linear assumptions, resulting in constrained prediction accuracy. …”
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End-to-End Stroke Imaging Analysis Using Effective Connectivity and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence by Wojciech Ciezobka, Joan Falco-Roget, Cemal Koba, Alessandro Crimi

“…Neuroimaging data, with their rich structural and functional information, provide a fertile ground for biomarker discovery. …”
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Association of maternal lipid levels with birth weight and cord blood insulin: a Bayesian network analysis by Naveed Sattar, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Jinhua Lu, Xiu Qiu, Huimin Xia, Jingya Wang, Malcolm James Price, Kar Keung Cheng, Yashu Kuang, Songying Shen, Jianrong He, Marta Pittavino, G.Neil Thomas

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Identification of serum C4BPA as a potential diagnostic marker of right ventricular remodelling via proteomic analysis by Xuenan Wang, Cheng Yu, Meiling Li, Huiling Cai, Yongjian Yang, Cong Lan

“…Abstract Aims Right ventricular (RV) remodelling, a progressive condition characterized by maladaptive cardiac structural and functional changes, primarily results from prolonged pressure overload in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). …”
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Effects of temperature and nutrition stress on Anopheles stephensi, an Indian urban malaria vector by Chaitali Ghosh, Naveen Kumar, Soumya Mogaveerthi, Sanjay Lamba, Chethan Kumar Ramanjini, Soumya Gopal Joshi, Priyanka Chandran, Sampath Kumar, Sunita Swain

“…Ovarian polytene chromosomes of the three stressed lines were analysed to check the structural differences on the chromosomal arms for adaptation due to stress conditions. …”
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Separation of humidity, strain rate and temperature effect on the orientation dependent micromechanical properties of cortical ovine bone by Christian Minnert, Cinzia Peruzzi, Tatiana Kochetkova, Jérémie Bérard, Christopher Dreimol, Stefan Remund, Beat Neuenschwander, Johann Michler, Jakob Schwiedrzik

“…Bone is a hierarchically structured composite material, the basic building blocks are type I collagen, hydroxyapatite and water. …”
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The effect of conservation agriculture technologies adoption on food production and security in Northern Malawi: evidence from Mzimba district by George N. Chidimbah Munthali, George N. Chidimbah Munthali, He Puming, Lazarus Obed Livingstone Banda, Peter Stephen Donald Ngulube, Gama Rivas Daru, Thokozani Mzumara, Moses M. N. Chitete, Zondiwe Mabilabo Jere

“…Data was collected using structured questionnaires. The data were entered in SPSS version 27. …”
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Neural signals, machine learning, and the future of inner speech recognition by Adiba Tabassum Chowdhury, Ahmed Hassanein, Aous N. Al Shibli, Youssuf Khanafer, Mohannad Natheef AbuHaweeleh, Shona Pedersen, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…Building on prior literature, this work synthesizes and organizes existing ISR methodologies within a structured mathematical framework, reviews cognitive models of inner speech, and presents a detailed comparative analysis of existing ML approaches, thereby offering new insights into advancing the field.…”
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SIGNETS: Neural Network Architectures for m-QAM Soft Demodulation by Aravind R. Voggu, Kanish R, Nishith Akula, Lohitaksh Maruvada, Takanori Shimizu, Madhav Rao

“…A practical Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation that achieves 2.52 Million bits per second throughput while maintaining 99.55% demodulation accuracy through structured pruning and quantization-aware training is presented. …”
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Investigation on the interaction force measurement between bubble and particle in flotation based on resistance strain cantilever beam by Xibing REN, Lijuan SUN, Qinshan LIU, Yulong CHENG, Xiahui GUI, Yaowen XING

“…The flotation micro-force testing system offers simple and robust structure, high sensitivity, and cost-effective manufacturing, which promise broad applications in the basic research field of flotation interface interaction.…”
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Exploring cultural competence knowledge, skills, and comfort among male nursing students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Kholoud Alharbi, Safiya Salem Bakarman, Naji Alqahtani, Adel Bashatah, Wajid Syed

“…Data was collected using structured, pre-validated 47-item questionnaires and analyzed using the statistical package for social science version 27. …”
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Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Crop Diversification Among Smallholder Farmers in Bergville, South Africa by Busisiwe Vilakazi, Alfred O. Odindo, Mutondwa M. Phophi, Paramu L. Mafongoya

“…A two-stage sampling procedure was employed to elicit data from 161 farmers solely specializing in crop production. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data, analyzed using descriptive statistics. …”
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Investigation of standardized ileal amino acid digestibility of rice protein meal in sexed broilers by Muhammad A Iqbal, Tanveer Ahmad, Muhammad S Ahmad, Usama Aftab, Nasir Mukhtar

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the standardized ileal amino acid (AA) digestibility of RPM produced from two distinct rice varieties in sexed broiler chickens, with or without the inclusion of a commercial protease enzyme. Treatments were structured in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial arrangement, including two sources of RPM (Basmati and IRI), sex (male and female), and protease levels (0 and 500 units per ton of feed). …”
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Nonlinear Fluctuations in the Cryptocurrency Market: The Modern Approaches to Analysis and Forecasting by Kochorba Valeriia Yu.

“…The work has practical significance for investors, traders and analysts, providing structured information about market functioning features and tools for its analysis. …”
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